Frank Shaw

Solution Lead
Frank Shaw
HOME BASE
Atlanta
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • Alithya

  • Baycare Health Systems
  • PSCU Financial Services

ALMA MATER
  • University of Florida, Bachelor of Science, Accounting

HOME BASE
Atlanta
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • Alithya

  • Baycare Health Systems
  • PSCU Financial Services

ALMA MATER
  • University of Florida, Bachelor of Science, Accounting

Frank is Solution Lead with over 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and delivering solutions across a variety of industries using Oracle EPM technologies, data integrations, and automation scripting.

Prior to joining Accordion, Frank worked with a large variety of businesses and clients to help design, implement, and deliver forecasting, budgeting, and reporting solutions. His role on projects has covered a broad range of roles. In addition to the core skillset of implementing Oracle Planning and Essbase applications, he has also been involved in technical and functional designs, data integration, and process automations. His client experience includes working with healthcare, insurance, financial services, tourism, retail sales, entertainment, and banking companies.

Frank has used a variety of technologies in addition to his core competency of Planning and Essbase. He has developed robust Excel-based solutions that include VBA scripting, automation processes using PowerShell, data integration solutions using both Cloud Data Management and FDMEE.

For a large global financial services company, he implemented a constant currency application that provided analysis for local, functional, and reporting currencies to support reporting and provide visibility to how much of their variances were due to currency fluctuations. For a banking company, he was responsible for designing and implementing an actual, forecast, and budget solution for their income statement and balance sheet, that included balancing, intercompany allocations, account allocations, overhead allocations and workforce planning.

Frank graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Accounting.

Something you should know
  • Grew up in Illinois, but while in college, he visited a friend in Florida in the middle of winter, and decided that's where he wanted to be instead. He transferred to the University of Florida and never looked back
  • Implemented smart home technology into his home using Home Assistant, which has helped cultivate the very useful skill of learing to decipher technical jargon for open-source code from forums written by people who know how to code but don't know how to document
  • Having not watched a lot of movies growing up, he is currently working on going back and watching as many movies as he can, mostly based on recommendations from friends and colleagues on their favorite movies
Noteworthy
  • Oracle Planning Certified Consultant