Debra Graves
About Debra Graves
Debra Graves is a Systems Support Manager at Emburse Chrome River, specializing in expense management and integrations within the higher education sector. She has extensive experience in financial systems analysis and relational database management, with a career spanning over two decades in various roles across multiple organizations.
Current Role at Emburse Chrome River
Debra Graves serves as the Systems Support Manager at Emburse Chrome River, focusing on Expense, Higher Education, Invoice, and Integrations. She has held this position since 2019, contributing to the company's technical support and systems management efforts in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Additionally, she has been the Lead Applications Systems Support Analyst since 2018, providing expertise in application support and systems integration.
Previous Experience in Financial Systems
Debra Graves has extensive experience in financial systems roles. She worked as a Financial Analyst in Cash Management and Treasury at Paramount Pictures from 1993 to 2000. Following this, she served as a Cash Accounting Manager at CKE Restaurants, Inc. for six months in 2000. Her role as a Financial Systems Analyst at Creative Financial Staffing lasted from 2013 to 2014, where she collaborated with Momentum Management in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Education and Expertise
Debra Graves holds a Master of Information Systems with a focus on Management Information Systems and Services from the University of Phoenix, completed between 2017 and 2019. She also earned a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from the same institution from 2015 to 2017. Additionally, she studied Political Science and Government at Tuskegee University. Her technical expertise includes relational database management systems, Business Objects Data Universe, and Web Intelligence.
Technical Skills and Tools
Debra Graves possesses strong technical skills in various programming languages, including Java, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, Python, and C++. She is proficient in using tools such as Jira, Kibana, Zendesk, and Salesforce for technical support and project management. Her experience includes providing technical support from discovery to go-live for international offices, demonstrating her capability in managing complex systems and integrations.
Career Progression and Roles
Throughout her career, Debra Graves has held multiple roles that showcase her expertise in systems support and financial analysis. She worked as an Elite Systems Administrator at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP for two months in 2015 and as a Financial Systems Specialist at Latham & Watkins from 2005 to 2012. Additionally, she served as a META - Level 2 Technical Support Analyst at Thomson Reuters from 2002 to 2005, accumulating over ten years of experience with Elite Enterprise and related technologies.