dedicated response team

Jeff Wainwright: A New Jersey native of Irish descent, Jeff was a Hyperion client years before joining Hyperion in 1993. As the former Hyperion Vice President of Development for Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), and Hyperion Enterprise, Jeff founded Skehana Systems in 2002 using his 30 years of EPM experience to help clients select and implement the appropriate solution for their consolidation, reporting and planning needs. After HFM revolutionized the CFO’s desktop, Jeff moved into the Hyperion partner community, founded Skehana and still retains the initial founding client 11 years later!

William Escobar: As a Hyperion-certified consultant, Bill has 20+ years of EPM accounting experience specializing in intercompany, currency translation, SEC reporting, budgeting & planning, and financial reporting. He has bast experience in financial statement consolidations and specializes in HFM and FDM. As a past employee of Hyperion and their partners, Bill has participated in over 20 HFM implementations at various domestic and international clients and is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Jane Kozuch: Southern California based former, longtime, Hyperion Solutions employee and an HFM Senior Solutions Architect with over 75 implementations at over 150 Hyperion clients. Jane has deep experience in designing, implementing, troubleshooting HFM and is an expert at advanced consolidation logic. She is a past Hyperion Solutions Readiness Manager meaning that many of the original HFM expert consultants in the marketplace today received their initial training from Jane! Clients love her!

Beth Hale: San Francisco-based, past Hyperion Solutions employee, Beth is Skehana’s Director of Emerging Markets. She is an accomplished and integrity-driven Hyperion Enterprise, Hyperion Essbase and MicroStrategy professional offering over 20 years of business success in project management, consulting, and technical training for Business Intelligence applications and financial reporting and analysis tools. Beth manages partner relations and has participated in Tagetik implementations as a Tagetik CPM Application Consultant.

Audrey Wong: Southern California-based and an ex-Hyperion employee as well, Audrey has a 26-year career of designing, developing, and implementing the Hyperion EPM suite of products. She is a HFM and Enterprise expert and has also been the Project Manager for Fortune 100 companies which included implementations of multiple Hyperion/Oracle EPM products and multi-country rollouts. Audrey has participated in Tagetik implementations as a Project Manager and Lead Consultant.

Pete Puskas: Austin, Texas-based, Senior IT/Infrastructure Director who has extensive experience with designing and implementing Hyperion product suites, and a strong technical foundation of hardware, software, networking, security and troubleshooting expertise. Pete has excelled at migrating from pre-System 9 to System 9 and 11.x and System 9.x to versions up to and including 11.1.2.x, and delivers highly customized environments using non-standard technologies.

Rapinder K. S. Dutta – Rapinder has over 20 years of professional experience in consulting, industry, and audit. For 15 years she has been in the end-to-end EPM/CPM implementation space with a focus on OneStream and Hyperion technologies. She has worked with clients to solve problems and create capabilities managing functional and technical teams to ensure successful project delivery and completion.

Robin Morash, CPA – Robin Morash is a functional solutions architect with ten plus years of EPM software consulting experience. He also has ten years of Fortune 500 experience as a Senior Business Systems Manager including several software implementations, and five years of OneStream consulting. Robin has helped implement OneStream for eight clients. Most implementations required SQL data integration and Dashboards. He was the Solutions Architect for two of these clients.

Abhishek Tatineni – Abhishek is a Certified Senior EPM Consultant with an MBA Degree and certifications in Hyperion Planning and DRM. He has over 12+ years of experience in various EPM modules including OneStream, Oracle PBCS, EPBCS, EDMCS, NSPB, Hyperion Planning, HFM, DRM, and FDMEE across various industry verticals like Banking, Retail, Technology and Manufacturing domains.

Tim Foley – With more than 20 years of corporate financial management experience coupled with 12 years of EPM consulting experience, Tim has experienced the frustrations encountered by accounting and finance professionals: the endless close cycles; the inability to access data quickly and to analyze results in a meaningful way; the fragmented systems and ongoing reconciliations; the over-reliance on Excel spreadsheets and associated internal control concerns. In each of his financial management roles, Tim sought to utilize the latest technology to address these issues. He initiated and led EPM/CPM implementations to address the problems, including inadequate access to data, poor data quality, and speed and flexibility. Implementations include OneStream XF Planning, Hyperion Enterprise, Essbase, Planning and MS BI360.

Hetal Shah – With an MBA from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, Hetal has become an accomplished Senior Architect on HFM, FCCS and FDM. Hetal has a proven ability to work with Hyperion clients to anticipate their unique consolidation and reporting requirements and potential roadblocks. Hetal is experienced in the creation of customized HFM and FCCS solutions and most recently led two full cycle FCCS implementations from assessing the organizations’ true needs to implementing an efficient lasting solution.

Blanca Bailey – Blanca is an accomplished and innovative EPM professional with over 20 years of experience supporting various departments including Finance and HR. Her experience includes application design and development, project management, client management, client support, database design, data analysis and integration, business analysis, documentation, training, mentoring and report writing. Blanca is an energetic leader with a passion for people development and has a proven ability to effectively lead and work in a global environment.

Caleb Taylor – Caleb is a financial professional with the proven ability to develop financial systems to conduct deep statistical analyses to gain financial and operational efficiencies. He has substantial career expertise in delivering solution-based reporting. He is a strategic leader with technical expertise, providing the best practices in financial close processes and the best practices in technical environment implementation and maintenance. Caleb has been relied upon for precision problem-solving and data analysis while utilizing cross-functional team communication skills to align technical requirements with business management goal.

Casey Knollmeyer – Casey Knollmeyer is an Agile Scrum certified project manager with eight-plus years working with Fortune 100 companies to implement various EPM software solutions. She has held various roles within multiple software implementations including project management, design requirement documentation, user acceptance testing and end-user training for consolidation & planning. Casey was the lead project manager and administrator of two HFM applications including managing the onboarding of 50+ end users across multiple subsidiaries. She has a strong background in all aspects of general ledger accounting. This has allowed her to expertly navigate the role of project manager, bridging the gap between core technology team members and business side end users.

Qiniso Siphesihle Dubazana – Qiniso has extensive experience in the EPM ecosystem. Beginning with Oracle in Consolidation & Planning & then moving into the ONESTREAM space. His experience consists of 3 full-cycle OneStream implementations & he has worked in a variety of different industries worldwide.