CAREER OBJECTIVES:

ETL and EAI architecture of data movement into and out of data warehouses and the infrastructure and process integration necessary to support such activities across a multi - faceted enterprise. This presents data movement as a service to the enterprise.

SUMMARY:

• Provide technical leadership for IT operations and infrastructure across an organization. Leverage my skills and expertise in system administration, daily operations, and application development with implementation. Research new and extend existing technology providing cost savings, implement and enhance business goals, improve ongoing operations, and provide a flexible and extensible foundation on which to easily implement future initiatives.
• Self-starter with integration skills; Health Level 7 (HL7) messaging; enterprise application integration (EAI); extract-transform-load (ETL); MQ Series, hub and spoke architecture, integration broker; leverage data warehouse, database, system, and network skills; experience with large, system manufacturers and distributed system operations, including heterogeneous connectivity; integrated approach to PCs, midranges, and mainframes; build and lead teams responsible for constructing complex, iterative infrastructure solutions; large strategic development projects; multi-disciplinary teams; strong mentor; structured approach to full life-cycle projects, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit compliance, multiple skills in service-oriented-architecture (SOA).
• These two loosely coupled systems support redesigned patient care. Communication with the Electronic Medical Records (EMR, also known as EHR) system is through a Health Level 7 (HL7) message broker (Interfaceware / Iguana and Chameleon). Duties include analysis, technical design, engineering, deployment, maintenance, system reliability integrations. Lead alignment of integrations and systems supporting business goals and operations.
• Engage with business units, understanding and meeting their goals and objectives. Recommend, through consultation, meeting these goals and furthering efforts of the business. Plan, direct, manage, and monitor projects. Continually improve processes. Respond to needs and requests of upstream and downstream stakeholders. Drive for successful results; make things happen. Convey a bias for action, a sense of urgency. Move assignments toward closure. Foster positive organizational results by balancing mission priorities and effective application of business practices. Understand organizational stability requirements. Consider component interrelationship in the "big picture." Apply scientific method when investigating and analyzing issues. Identify root causes and draw appropriate conclusions. Use data, logic, and critical thinking to make sound decisions while paying attention to the details.
• Previous jobs include 24×7 data warehouse, ETL, Siebel employee load, data correction utilities, test data privacy, production access restriction (PAR), upgrades, support. Interface with vendors and internal architecture to provide robust solutions. Integration of two Fortune 100 company's data. Tool selection, architecture, design, and implementation. Data warehouse integration into a SAP-centric environment. Standards, procedures, change management, and quality assurance. ETL using DataStage (IBM Information on Demand) and custom software. Oracle and SAP BW data warehouses. Chaired Center of Excellence (CoE) providing standards, best practices, knowledge sharing, and enterprise-wise solutions. Structured and documented activities for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit compliance.
• Other projects included identity management (IM) including provisioning from an LDAP repository, research on PKI security solutions, self-service security, common data extracts, portals, MQSeries, Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), and enterprise system management (ESM) including alerts. Additional experience in CRM, ERP and timekeeping solutions. Experience with Oracle, SAP, DB2, DB400, UDB, Sybase, Siebel, and custom written databases.
• Architecture experiences have considerable depth. Have developed database system code, application programming interfaces, middleware, and high-level application user interfaces. Have programmed systems software (communications) for large vendors. Another area of expertise is communications configuration, coding, and support.
• Additionally, computing abilities have great breadth. System and communications skills complement data architecture talents. Deal with developers as easily as senior management. Mentor peers, team, and organization. Combine large disparate components to create integrated, value focused, solutions. Understand the relationships between data, systems, and networks. Leverage technical excellence to provide quality business solutions.
• Throughout career, have been involved in all phases of software development and system management. Have experience in project management, architecture, operations analysis, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, change management, package selection and implementation, support, and documentation.
• Data movement across the enterprise, including into and out of enterprise data warehouses; leverage pre­vious phases in mid-range systems and networks and systems; provide in­frastructure, and process integra­tion to project teams; define and implement standards and best prac­tices; HL7 messaging for EHR healthcare solution; asynchronous messag­ing for P2P and B2B dis­tributed AS2 solutions; activities and influ­ence span platforms, projects and technolo­gies across the business; integrate disparate applications on heterogeneous platforms; chair of DataStage Center of Excellence (CoE); identity management (IM) with provisioning; use distributed systems and object-oriented techniques; mentor and in­structor; utilize project leadership and technical knowledge to resolve pressing computing concerns; internal consultant; analyze needs and provide value focused solutions; solid relation­ships with customers, vendors, and partners; great depth and breadth of technical expertise.
• Mid-range systems solutions implementations, particularly IBM AS/400 and HP-UX; leveraged skills and knowledge of networks and systems; system migrations and relocations; internal and external consult­ant; large project implementation and support; team and project leadership; analyzed procedures and method­ologies; pro­vided systems, LAN, WAN, data, integration, migration, and architectural solutions.
• Acquired understanding of communication protocols and net­work management; customer support; microcode and non-microcode programming; cus­tom projects; testing and quality assurance; network de­sign and configuration; network alerts and messages; system and network performance tuning and mod­eling; heterogene­ous connectivity; machine and system level programming; machine interface and APIs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Senior Integration Architect

Confidential, Twin Cities, MN

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, technical design, engineering, deployment, maintenance, system reliability integrations for organization. Lead alignment of integrations and systems supporting business goals and operations. Seek, demonstrate, and share integration knowledge.
• Implement a large installation of an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system and an adjacent Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. These two systems are loosely coupled to support the patient care design including integration with vendors. Communication with the Electronic Medical Records (EMR, also known as EHR) system is through a Health Level 7 (HL7) message broker.
• Engage with business units, understanding and meeting their goals and objectives. Recommend, through consultation, meeting these goals and furthering efforts of the business. Plan, direct, manage, and monitor projects. Continually improve processes. Respond to needs and requests of upstream and downstream stakeholders. Drive for successful results; make things happen. Convey a bias for action, a sense of urgency. Move assignments toward closure. Foster positive organizational results by balancing mission priorities and effective application of business practices. Understand organizational stability requirements.
• Consider component interrelationship in the "big picture." Apply scientific method when investigating and analyzing issues.
• Identify root causes and draw appropriate conclusions. Use data, logic, and critical thinking to make sound decisions while paying attention to the details.

Confidential, MN

Senior Application Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior ETL consultant supporting multiple environments in a 24×7 available data warehouse.
• Data transport for legacy, transactional systems into enterprise data ware­houses.
• Worked with architects, developers and project management providing data movement as an enterprise service.
• Designed, infrastructure, automation, process improvement.
• DataStage ad­ministration for large, multi-team data movement endeavors.
• Projects included test data privacy, production access restriction, employee load to Siebel, data warehouse loads to DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, product and project and system upgrades, production support.

Confidential, Springdale, AR

Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Large integration effort to merge two Fortune 100 company's data and processing envi­ronments.
• Simultaneous ERP and data warehouse implementation.
• Data warehouse and architecture focusing on process improvement, software engineering, product evaluation, and mentor. Custom software for warehouse, transport, and transportation between leg­acy systems, SAP, and warehouse, including data conversion.
• Product steward for entire DataStage (IBM Information on Demand) suite. Leader of the Center of Excellence (CoE), focus­ing on product documentation, implementation techniques, and underlying software engineering process improvements. Provide infrastructure for use of MetaStage to build a metadata repository.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Principal Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Architect

Responsibilities:

• As the senior architect with this grocery wholesale distributor, was a technical project lead for enterprise-wide solutions.
• Projects included business-to-business EDI over the internet using AS/2, identity management including provisioning enabling self-service security, common data extract and transformation using hub and spoke architecture, full software development life cycle leveraging reuse and reliability.
• Specific use of MQ Series, Mercator, MQSI, SAP, DB2, and custom written software.
• Special concentration on enterprise cost savings and reduced time to implementation.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Senior Staff, Data Movement Architect

Responsibilities:

• As a Data Movement Architect with this consumer finance company, was a technology services Senior Staff member.
• Worked in the system architecture group.
• Designed physical and logical databases and data movement strategy for a large data warehousing initiative.
• Built hardware and software technical infrastructure including programming interfaces, system analysis, and standards and definitions.
• Used distributed system tech­niques and object-oriented technologies.
• Exploited parallel and distributed processing.
• Used logical and physical data models to implement Websphere and MQSeries message queuing.
• This middleware enabled the enterprises application integration (EAI) using data exchange methods.
• To accomplish these tasks, leveraged database, system, and net­work experiences.

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on many assignments as a Senior Consultant.
• Leveraged project leadership skills and technical knowledge to resolve clients pressing computing concerns.
• Wrote letters of understanding (LOUs) garnering additional engagements.
• Analyzed customers procedures and methodologies advising them on ways to improve.
• Worked with data, systems, PCs, LANs, and WANs delivering value focus to clients.
• Utilized skills in pro­ject leadership, data architecture, network design, system analysis, platform integration, heterogeneous connectivity, operations analysis, and database analysis.

Confidential, Itasca, IL

Senior Database Analyst

Responsibilities:

• examined a large, vendor-built database. From the files and programs source code, created a detailed entity relationship diagram (ERD).
• Used a data modeling tool, ERwin, to reverse engineer the ERD.
• Determined relationships ERwin did not create using Hawkeye and source code analysis.
• In addition, led the Quality Assurance groups efforts to improve their test databases, including test and development methodology improvements and software tool evaluation.
• Worked closely with the clients database analysts using SQL, queries, and query management. installed Client Access and ImagePlus on NT workstations for this pharmaceutical company.
• Configured and tested standalone and scanning workstations and printers.
• Worked closely with IBM support to resolve issues.
• Documented procedures so the customers staff could continue this work.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Senior Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a tape management database and improved the customers laser printing, microfiche, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Provided detailed analysis and documentation of key operations procedures.
• Offered improvements and solutions to existing problems.
• Led the entire operations team, involving them for their training and acceptance.
• Moved data, applications, and user profiles.
• Configured sessions to a remote mainframe over a frame-relay network.
• Also configured PC communication to the upgraded system using TCP/IP.
• Taught the clients staff how to use and configure this.
• Also configured local and remote TCP/IP printers using the double queuing technique.
• For other partners, upgraded their operating systems, applied cumulative fix packages, and performed system tuning.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

NCR consultant

Responsibilities:

• upgraded this marketing firms operating system two releases.
• Delinked the upgrade steps after determining the original operating system had a corrupt index.
• Each upgrade proceeded smoothly.
• Completed this task ahead of schedule.
• Worked on communications configurations for this restaurant supplies distributor as a Confidential consultant.
• Documented system procedures and changes.
• Wrote utilities to aid system and data management.
• Examined system performance noting problem areas and making improvements.
• Also worked with the clients LAN group to configure and add workstations and printers.