Owner/lead Actuate/birt/maximo Consultant/lead Architect/lead Instructor Resume
Conway, AR
SUMMARY:
- Over 25 years of successful experience in all phases of software development and systems support from report development, programming, systems design, consulting and to project, line, department and corporate management.
- 10+ years of BIRT Report Development and customization experience
- 15+ years of Actuate Report Development and customization experience
- One of the highest - rated instructors and consultants for Actuate (Open Text) Corporation
- IT Manager/team leader/project manager for multi-million dollar projects
- Wrote own manual for custom Actuate Report Designer and Advanced Report
- Designer courses
- Designed/implemented/evaluated relational and flat file database and web systems for energy, financial, insurance and communications companies
- Exceptional written/oral communication and human relations skills
- Experienced technical report developer and consultant
- Fast starter, enthusiastic professional
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Programming skills in the following languages: iHub, Actuate BIRT, Actuate One, Actuate e.Report Designer Pro, Eclipse BIRT Report Designer, iServer, Active Portal, iPortal, Information Console, ReportCast, Requester API, e.Spreadsheet, Actuate Query, Information Object Designer, IDAPI, eAnalysis, Analytics. Actuate Basic (3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11 ), Siebel/Actuate reports - version 6/7.0.4, Maximo/Actuate reports - versions 5, 6 and 7, TrueComp/Actuate report development basics - version 5, Actuate/Murex report development basics, Business Objects/Crystal Reports, JSP, JAVA, J2EE, VISUAL BASIC (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0), ACCESS VBA (2.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP), ASSEMBLY, SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, C, C++, EZTRIEVE, EZTRIEVE +, PL/1, FORTRAN, PASCAL, PROLOG, PERL, BASIC, HTML, DHTML, XML, SOAP, SAS, system extension utilities, e.g., SORT, Fileaid. Operating systems, data management software, and editors/library systems: Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, ME, XP, Vista, 7, UNIX (AIX, Sun Solaris), DOS, MVS, VM, CICS, VSAM, Relationbase, MS SQL Server, MySQL, SYBASE, ORACLE, DB2, MS Access,TSO/ISPF, CMS, Panvalet
Hardware: All IBM 360, 370, 43xx, and 30xx mainframes IBM compatible PC's, Apple, Macintosh PC's LAN (TCP/IP protocol) workstations/environment AS400 VAX 11/780, CYBER, Z100, Z248 (Minis)
Packaged Applications: BIRT, Actuate, BIRT iHub, Actuate iServer, Actuate One, Actuate BIRT, Eclipse BIRT, Maximo, Siebel, Apache Tomcat Application Server, BIRT on Demand, Websphere Application Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, Cold Fusion, Crystal Reports, MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS FrontPage, MS Project, DacEasy, PCAnywhere, iCat Commerce, DreamWeaver, CyberCash Cash Register, ABC Flowcharter, many others.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential (Conway, AR)
Owner/Lead Actuate/BIRT/Maximo Consultant/Lead Architect/Lead Instructor
Responsibilities:
- Confidential Support IRAS Reporting team with creating new and modifying current BIRT reports as well as converting older Actuate ERD Pro reports to BIRT. Conversion from 11Sp4 iServer to new iHub3. Working extensively on creating customized dynamic crosstab reports for the RISK team in iHub3 to work with the Interactive Viewer and BIRT Analyzer. Providing Architecture analysis and support to ensure top performance of reporting environment.
- NWEA Support Reporting team in ETL downloads to Reporting database, JAVA coding, BIRT Report development and performance tuning. Assisting in migrating BIRT reports from scripted datasets and Hibernate queries, to use PostgreSQL queries directly from BIRT reports to improve performance.
- Confidential .Com Create new and modify existing Actuate One (11SP3) BIRT Spreadsheet Designs and assist with Actuate One iServer administration.
Confidential
Asset, Purchasing, Inventory, PM, Work Order, Plans, Labor
Responsibilities:
- Direct the everyday operations of Confidential Consulting, leading up to 5 programming and consultants in all aspects of software implementations. Provide consulting, report development, programming and for Actuate customer projects as well as other web and client\server projects both in the US and abroad.
- MAXIMO/BIRT and Maximo/Actuate trainer for versions 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1 and 7.5.
- Maximo Reporting and Actuate Consultant for various clients in all Maximo versions from 5.2 to 7.5.
- SMS Corporation, Trinidad and Tobago Electric Company, Genesis Solutions (various remote or onsite weekly assignments from ) - Maximo 7.5 Consulting and BIRT report development, modification, SQL scripting and report administration and set-up. Trained users on report creation, customization and import/set-up.
Confidential (Pleasanton, CA)
IT Manager/Lead Actuate Consultant/Lead Architect/Lead Instructor
Responsibilities:
- Direct the everyday operations of the Actuate Department, leading a team of up to 12 programming and consultants in all aspects of software implementations. Handle all issues regarding department, team and customer management. Provided consulting, report development, programming and for Actuate customer projects as well as other web and client\server projects both in the US and abroad.
- Technical consultant and lead report developer and programmer for major Actuate v.8.1 to v.9.2 upgrade for fortune 500 financial services company ( ). Created various custom systems for automation of iServer processes, including backups, archiving, and admin log file creation and reporting. Created new custom Actuate reports, upgraded existing reports, improved iServer system processing times by customizing system configuration settings. Improved report run-times by rewriting complex reports more efficiently, reducing run-times by as much as 30 hours. Customized front end of Actuate using JSP. Utilized the Actuate Server Integration Technology Toolkit, using JAVA, J2EE, JSP and SOAP commands to automate report scheduling, archiving, server backups, report execution and client notification via e-mail.
- Maximo/Actuate trainer for versions 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and 7.
- Maximo/Actuate Consultant for CB Richard Ellis (Jan-Dec 2007). Supported upgrade from Maximo 5 to Maximo 6.1 implementation. Converted Maximo/Actuate reports and custom reports to new version. Configured, customized and performed performance tuning of Maximo 6.1 server and Actuate iServer. Performed Maximo/Actuate to report developers and documented Maximo architecture for business team.
- Project Manager and lead report developer for major Actuate 7.2 implementation for major human resources support company. ( ). Lead team of Actuate consultants through system and report design, development, testing, implementation and evaluation. Created Project plan, design specifications, Standard Operating Procedures and Testing plans for project.
Confidential
Senior Project Manager/Senior Programmer/IS Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Directed the business development effort to form two new programming units for Software Innovators: an Access and Visual Basic programming and consulting group and an Internet electronic commerce group. Senior Project Manager and Senior Programmer for this team of programming professionals designing, coding and implementing MS Access (2.0/95/97/2000 ) and Visual Basic (4.0/5.0/6.0) programs and systems, MS SQL Server databases, Internet commerce applications and database WEB enablement systems utilized in energy, utility, communications, health care, manufacturing, management, military, government, legal and financial institutions all across the United States and Overseas.
Confidential (Conway, AR)
First Line Manager (Team Leader)
Responsibilities:
- Led team to design and implement a 68 million record customer database combining database files from all the Prudential's business units, saving the Prudential over 7 million dollars in internal implementation costs. Led team to design, build and maintain a 200 million individual prospect database for direct marketing campaigns, and a client/server decision support system (SYBASE) marketers to utilize for customer analysis and selection. Acxiom's first Software Engineer to become a team leader. Grew account from $400,000 to $1,500,000 in annual revenue for Acxiom. Developed Visual Basic 3.0 and Access 2.0 front ends for account management systems.
- Led team to design/implement/update four customer databases (Relationbase) for Union Fidelity's affinity card direct marketing and telemarketing campaigns. Led/designed/built Visual Basic 3.0 GUI front end to an Access 2.0 database for Union Fidelity to monitor netmail/telemarketing and response information returned from vendors. Provided all application and database programming for account.
- Led startup team to design/implement a 2 million record, 10 percent test customer database (Relationbase) for customer to use for analysis. Used a high powered work team made up of cross business unit associates to successfully deliver a fully functional relational database in less than half the normal build time. Developed Visual Basic 3.0 and Access 2.0 account management systems.
- Led project to build a 200 million record combined customer and prospect database. (flat file and Relationbase). Wrote scoring algorithm for models to apply credit card scores across prospect portion of database to be used by Prudential Bank for their direct mail credit card campaigns. Developed Visual Basic 3.0 and Access 2.0 systems.
- Designed/implemented a customized direct mail and response tracking system for the Frito-Lay/MCI campaign to provide mail shop with the prospective customer information in varied formats for specialized, segmented marketing campaigns.
- Wrote application and database programs to build a customer database for Mercantile to analyze their customers' account status.
- Wrote and modified programs to provide multiple customers with the ability to quickly analyze their databases and get database segment counts.
- Progressed from Second Lieutenant to Captain. Rotational duties to European and Asian theaters each year, flying missions to England, Scotland, Germany, Italy, Spain, PortugalGreece and Turkey. Multiple missions flown to Central and South American theatersincluding missions to Honduras, Panama, and Bolivia. Secondary duties included updating and maintaining computer systems (Z100 and Z248) for base headquarters.