SUMMARY:

30 years “Big Picture”, holistic, client centric, and strategic expertise in technology and business. Intuitive, innovative, dynamic, creative and highly analytical. Translating client needs into innovative solutions that increase productivity, quality and profitability. Usually at the forefront of Significant Industry Technologies and Market Shifts, across Major Industries and Domains.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• General and Executive management at global companies
• Up to Tens of Millions in annual revenues and cost reduction.
• Business Growth / Strategic Planning / ROI
• Liaison, Facilitator, Coordinator and Strategic Communications
• Selection and Mentoring of professionals and other staff
• Achieving objectives, quality results and goals on time.
• Sr. IT Professional, knowledge and skills in numerous technologies*
• All Level Trusted Advisor
• Architecture Design, Analysis, Assessments, Estimation, Implementation
• SOW's, DOU's, SLA's
• Contract Negotiations and deal making
• RFI / RFS / RFP Proposal Writing
• Passion for clients, ensuring their success and satisfaction
• Flexible, adaptable to rapidly changing needs, scopes, priorities
• Leadership through creativity, innovation, intuitive and analytical thinking
• Drive to continuously improve and stay at the forefront of progress
• Personal Integrity
• Entrepreneurial background / Inventive / Brainstorming / Collaborative
• Wide spectrum of industry and technical experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• A / B Testing
• Accounting Software
• Active Directory
• Activeworks
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Agile
• AIX
• Ajax
• AMANDA
• Ancestry.com
• Analytics
• Android
• Ansible
• ANT
• Apache
• API
• AppScan
• Apple
• Apple IOS
• AppScan
• Architecture
• AWK
• AWS Compute (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda)
• AWS S3
• AWS Cloudfront
• AWS Cloudwatch
• AWS RDS
• AWS Service Catalog
• Azure
• BASH
• Big Data
• Biztalk
• BPM / ODM
• BMC
• Build Management
• Business Intelligence
• C
• C++
• C#
• Caldera
• Cast Iron
• Chef
• Cisco
• CISSP (Training)
• Citrix
• Citrix Xen
• CRM
• Commerce
• Configuration Management
• Consolidations
• Contact Managers
• Containers
• Cloud
• Cloud Foundry
• Cloud Orchestrator
• Cloudant
• CloudFormation
• Clustering
• CMMI
• COBOL
• Compliance
• CSS
• Dashboards
• Data Center
• Data Center Migrations
• Data Cleaning
• Data Loads
• Data Migration
• Data Manipulation
• Data Validation
• Data Warehouse
• Databases
• Datapower
• Datastage
• DB2
• DBA
• DB Architecture
• DB Modeling
• DB Storage
• DB Tools
• DSS
• Debian
• Design
• DevOps
• Digital Experience DX
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
• DKIM
• Docker
• Eclipse
• Eclipse IDE
• Eclipse Neon
• EDI
• Email
• EMC
• EMR
• Encryption
• Enterprise
• EPIC
• ER Studio
• ER Win
• ErLang
• ESB
• ESQL
• ESX
• ESXi
• Ethical Hacking
• ETL
• Firewalls
• FORTRAN
• Frameworks
• Garden (CPI)
• Gap Analysis
• Gateways
• Git
• Github
• Gradle
• Gradlew
• Gravitant
• Great Plains Accounting
• GNU
• Go / GoLang
• Google Docs
• GxP
• Hadoop
• Hibernate
• High Availability (HA)
• HIPPA
• Hootsuite
• Confidential Quality Center
• Confidential Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Confidential Loadrunner
• Confidential Servicegaurd
• Confidential LVM
• Confidential UX
• HTML
• HTML 5
• HTTP HTTPS
• Hyperion
• IaaS
• Confidential AIX
• Confidential Cloud
• Confidential Connections
• Confidential Notes
• Confidential Products (All)
• Confidential Rational
• Confidential Sametime
• Confidential Verse
• Confidential Websphere
• Confidential WAS
• Confidential WAS LIBERTY
• Confidential WAS ND
• Confidential WATSON
• IIB ( Confidential Integration Bus)
• IIS
• Infrastructure
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Informix
• Informix DBA
• Informix SQL
• Informix 4GL
• Informatica
• Integrations
• Internet of Things
• IaaS
• IOS
• IoT
• IT
• Iterative
• ITIL
• ITSM
• J2EE
• Java
• Javascript
• Jenkins
• JBOSS
• JCL
• JDBC
• JMS
• JSON
• Juniper Networks
• Jython
• Kernel Tuning
• KVM
• LAMP
• LDAP
• Linux
• Load Balancing
• LoadRunner
• LogMeIn
• Lync
• Macola Accounting
• Magic Cobol
• Make
• Maven
• Maximo
• Megatron
• MDM
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Great Plains)
• Microsoft Office 365 (O365)
• Microsoft Windows (All)
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Sharepoint
• Microsoft Visio
• Middleware
• Migrations
• Mobile
• Mobile Devices
• MongoDB
• Move Packages
• MQ
• MQTT
• Mulesoft
• MVS
• MySQL
• Nagios
• NAT
• .Net
• Netweaver
• Network Analyzers
• Network Architecture
• Network Wireless Infrastructure
• Networking
• New Relic
• NoSQL
• NSLookup
• NSX
• Office 365
• ODBC
• OLAP
• OLTP
• Orchestration
• Open Source
• OpenStack
• Open Suse
• Operating Systems
• Oracle
• Oracle RDBMS
• Oracle Virtual Box
• Oracle Weblogic
• OSPF
• PaaS
• Peoplesoft
• Performance Management
• Performance Monitoring
• Performance Testing
• Performance Tuning
• Perl
• PHP
• Ping
• PL/SQL PLSQL
• Portal
• Powershell
• Progress
• Puppet
• Pure Application
• Pure App
• Pure Systems
• Pure Patterns
• Putty
• Python
• QoS
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• R
• Rackspace
• Rails
• R
• Rational
• RealWorld Accounting
• Red Hat
• Red Hat JBOSS
• Red Hat Linux
• Redshift
• Remedy and other ticketing systems
• REST
• Route53
• RDBMS
• RDP
• RDS
• Relational Databases
• Routers
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails (ROR)
• RUP
• RHEL
• RSA
• S3
• SaaS
• Sablime
• Salesforce (SFDC)
• SAN
• SAP
• Sarbanes - Oxley Compliance
• SAS
• SDN
• Security sed
• SEM
• SEO
• Sharepoint
• Shell
• Shell Scripting
• Skillsoft
• Skype
• SNS
• SOA
• SOAP
• Social Media
• SOX
• SLAs
• SPF
• Splunk
• Spring / Spring-boot
• SPSS
• SQL
• SQS
• Storage Architecture
• Softlayer
• Solaris
• Sun Solaris
• Switches
• T-SQL
• Tableau
• TCP/IP
• Telnet
• Toad
• TOGAF
• Tomcat
• Traceroute
• Transformation
• Vagrant
• Virtual Box
• Virtualization
• VMware
• Ubuntu
• UML
• Unix (All)
• Unix Shell Scripting
• UX
• Veritas
• Visio
• Visual Basic
• Visual Studio
• VMWare
• VPC
• VPN
• VPN Tunnels
• VSphere
• Vulnerability Assessments
• Vulnerability Testing
• Vulnerability Scans
• Warden (CPI)
• WAS LIBERTY
• WAS Traditional (ND)
• Waterfall
• WATSON
• Web Services
• WebEx
• Weblogic
• Webmethods
• Websphere
• Websphere Application Server (Liberty, CoreWebsphere MQ
• Windows (All)
• Winrunner
• Workflows
• XaaS
• Xen
• Xml zLinux
• Z/OS zSystems

CAREER HISTORY:

Confidential

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Understand / Assess client's needs and business goals, and competitive landscape. Applying broad industry knowledge, often in layers of abstraction, leveraging appropriate business elements, and information technology to provide; insights, trusted advice, and solutions to address those needs.
• Thereby influencing strategic direction of the business area.
• Worked with client personnel and executives to identify functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Subsequently working with and leading others as the primary facilitator in the identification, justification and design of the client's solution utilizing effective verbal, written and presentation skills which could be conveyed to all levels of audiences.
• Created / Delivered compelling collateral, documents, demos, proof of technology, and educational Labs
• Performed due diligence to gain a thorough understanding of client’s organization
• Conducted client discovery sessions aimed at cost savings / revenue generating strategies
• Set the foundation for successful steady state execution and expectations to yield high customer satisfaction, traveling to clients as necessary.
• Taking initiative to own accounts and issues and driving team toward common goal of winning business
• Understanding Confidential Full Portfolio at a high level and sharing that expertise across peers
• Marketing activities: Targeted Contact, Social Media, Regional and National Events
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions with client account teams
• Guided clients and teams toward best practices, mentoring less experienced peers, clients and 3 rd parties.
• Partnered with all teams to insure client satisfaction
• Monitored / Analyzed / Supported / Escalated PMR status to ensure Client Satisfaction and deployment success
• Activated Indianapolis Middleware User Group 300+ members, Leader / Liaison
• Architect, Design, Advise and Support Cloud Solutions (Private, Public (including AWS, Azure, Google), Hybrid) / Delivery Teams for Clients acting as their trusted advisor
• Provide technical advice and counsel that will ensured the successful execution of;
• Creativity, Innovation and simplification in all areas and activities.
• Knowledge of and skilled with numerous infrastructure and underlying and competing technologies
• Competitive Cloud Expertise - Knowledge of and Hands on experience with major Cloud vendors to support clients in various stages of cloud adoption - see *Key Technical Knowledge and Skills Experience
• Confidential CAMSS (Cloud, Analytics, Mobile (IoT), Social, Security) Certified
• Cloud Services: Secure Cloud Solutions ( Private, Community, Hybrid, Public)
• Platform Services(PaaS): BlueMix, PureApp, Cloud Foundry / OpenStack
• Middleware / Integration / IoT: WebSphere / WAS, DataPower, IIB, Cast Iron, API tools, MQ / MQTT
• DevOps: Cloud Orchestrator, Urban Code, Rational, various client DevOps stacks
• Infrastructure Services(IaaS): Softlayer, SmartCloud, ITSM
• Mobile App: Mobile First, Digital Experience
• Process Services: Smarter Process(BPM/ODM)
• SaaS / XaaS: CloudMatrix, Gravitant
• Cloud Video / Storage Services: Ustream, ClearLeap, Itasca, Aspera
• Systems: Confidential Power Systems, Confidential Storage (SAN) Solutions, Pure Systems, Appliances (Netezza)

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Sr. IT Infrastructure and Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client's business goals, tech requirements and/or competitive landscape providing insights
• Architect design, Advising and Supporting solution / delivery teams for Clients acting as their trusted advisor mainly for project solutions using; Cloud Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Applications and DB’s / Microsoft Office 365 / Sharepoint / Lync / Windows / Microsoft Azure
• Competitive Cloud Expertise - Knowledge and Hands on experience with all major Cloud vendors, OpenStack and Numerous underlying technologies to support clients in various stages of cloud adoption - see *Key Technical Experience Areas Appendix
• Maintained up to date knowledge / expertise of Microsoft Azure and AWS, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS offerings and comparative strengths and weaknesses, Business / Industry trends and evolution, Public Cloud
• Knowledge of GxP / FDA / ISO / Global Governance, Standards and Compliance
• Advised on the differences between Traditional On Premises or Private Cloud, vs Hybrid / Public models utilizing Azure / AWS or other Cloud, emerging technologies and their relevance to the business.
• On Premises / Data Center migrations to Cloud.
• Knowledge of Active Directory concepts.
• Created and maintained project plans, associated cost metrics, determined and coordinated appropriate resources / allocations, delivering regular reports to the Clients.
• Created and managed QA / Test process and milestones for cloud private / hybrid migrations, customer feedback, go live criteria
• Ensured meeting of Service Level Agreements (SLA's), successful project completion hand off and created / revised Statements of Work (SOW).
• Conducted independent analytical assessments of processes, performance, usability, risks from the business perspective.
• Principal Software Engineer for Global Pharmaceutical Serialization Core Barcode / QR Databases, Servers and Tracking Systems.
• Supported Windows Server / AD Federation and Identity Management / SQL / SQL Studio / Apache / PHP app stack
• Support global distribution center location issues, Root Cause Analysis
• Deployed Azure service offerings including: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Mobile Services, Messaging / API's, Basic networking; sub-nets, DNS, DHCP, NATs, firewalls and VPN’s, Cloud Storage, Monitoring, Scaling, Disaster Recover / High Availability, Policies.
• Full Environment SDLC, Change Control, Data Extractions / Loads (ETL), Integrations and Testing.
• Virtualization, Hyper-V virtualization, MS PowerShell and Linux Bash scripting .

Confidential

Sr. IT Infrastructure and Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Re-Architected RMIS multi-level and custom cloud service offering and evolved it, i ncluding substantive evaluation and selection of the software and hardware components of the infrastructure solutions, into the more flexible and robust IMI cloud service offering, generating Confidential significant revenues and simultaneous cost reductions
• Architecture Design or Facilitate Architecture Design, documented client Infrastructure / Transition / Transformation / Migration Solutions, mission critical details, analysis, recommend improvements, risk mitigations, and process simplification / improvements
• Created and maintained Integrated Architecture Solution Documents to provide a basis for each client transition within the Confidential teams and with the Customer. Reviewing software and hardware requirements required to develop detailed specifications. Lead and align the tower Architects to the contracted solution and to deliver all technical documentation in a timely fashion
• Worked across technical tower teams to identify and correct delivery gaps in the solutions and/or cost cases that could impact the delivery of the technical solutions. While also overcoming any technical roadblocks and the ability to deliver on time and on or under budget as solutions evolved / deployed. Continuously vigilant to alert the executive and financial team immediately about technical or other issues that could impact the scope, schedule, service level agreements or cost of the client transition / transformation, which could ultimately cause variances in the contracted solution or revenue streams.
• Provide technical advice and counsel that will ensured the successful execution of;
• Architected, Documented and Facilitated Confidential tool migrations for Remote Managed Infrastructure offering, i.e. ; CMI to GACDW, eESM / Manage Now to ISM / Maximo, Fusion to TEM, TEC / TelAlert to Tivoli NetCool / Omnibus
• Created and Maintained and CEQ catalogs, listing details of all servers (1,000's) in various Data Centers
• Architecture Design and Knowledge of Network Infrastructure, Servers, Applications, Non-application Software (i.e. OS's, VM's, Monitoring), Storage, Middleware, Data Centers, HA (High Availability) / DR (Disaster Recovery), services provided, locations, Contacts, Security and other proprietary details to run Client's Business Applications.
• Worked with Confidential Technical Teams / T ower Architects to Define, Select, Design, Provision and Deploy A rchitecture of all components for Integrated Solutions and Remote Managed Infrastructure Service Offerings, while ensuring and meeting auditable Compliance Requirements as well as Client / Confidential Standards across global geographies, while also remaining consistent with the contracted solution scope / SLA's / SOW's / DOU's and / or to resolve issues therein, during all phases of transition:
• Confidential Network Architecture / Engineering teams, Confidential Telecommunications teams for Network connectivity Solutions, Multiple Complex Firewalls, DMZ’s and Network configurations, Network documentation, Vulnerability Checks, Provision VPNs/VPN Tunnels, SDN, Access and Configurations
• Confidential Global System Administrators (ITS, GTS, etc) for Environment Healthchecks, Monitoring and Resource balancing, CIRATS
• Projects using Confidential Management Tools i.e. ; CMI / GACDW, eESM /Manage Now, ISM / MAXIMO - Envision, GNM, MAD, and SYSREG
• Confidential Infrastructure Monitoring Tools i.e. ; SRM, Fusion / TEM, Parity, Confidential System Director, ITM / ITCAM Tivoli, SAM-T, Nagios, TAD and Netview and Monitoring Tools for Data Center Integrated Infrastructure i.e. Pure Systems, midrange Vmware (ESX, ESXI), Wintel, Unix/Linux and Citrix Xen servers.
• Storage (SAN, NAS, etc)
• Confidential Notification routing tools and Confidential Data Center Management tools
• Security / Compliance (ISEC / MSS) and Vulnerability Assessments
• Management Reporting Analytics (GSMRT, COGNOS)
• Inventory / Client Management Database Migrations, Development, Planning, Execution
• Created and Maintained Architecture Design Documents / Artifacts in Confidential AAIS Architecture repository.
• Validated Architecture Design Documents and Artifacts, ensuring necessary reviews and required approvals.
• Structure pricing / billing strategies and monthly variances with financial team
• Communicate with stakeholders on status
• Knowledge of networks and data communication technology and protocols, such as;
• Knowledge of IPSec, VPN based technologies, IPv4 subnetting, NAT and administration
• Knowledge of cabling and wiring infrastructure
• Knowledge of power and cooling provisioning for all equipment
• Knowledge of Security, LDAP, Active Directory, Group Policy, and domain architecture
• Liaison and Facilitator of Confidential internal clients or providers and towers / teams including; ITS, GTS, SCE Cloud, SCCD, RMIS / IMI, SMBDI (Infrastructure Networking), MMIO2, SBDIC - Small Business Desktop Infrastructure Cloud
• Support / Facilitate with 3rd party vendors; i.e. Rackspace
• Knowledge Transfer and Mentoring
• Confidential Connections Owner / Editor for all aspects of service offering
• Managed or Facilitated with all towers / teams and PM's responsible for Service Delivery Life Cycle from Sales / Pre-Sales to Pre-Boarding to Boarding / Transition / Transformation / Migration to Steady State to Decommission. Global Virtual Cross Matrixed Tower / Team environment(hundreds of people in towers / teams supporting all accounts)
• Managed or Facilitated with towers / teams, i.e. those:
• Performing vulnerability and analytical assessments of processes, performance, usability, risks & product/project lifecycles
• Creating and managing shared infrastructures, administration tools and tool dashboards
• Implementing solutions / Administrators, Production and Post-production support for mainly Confidential Cloud Services and Virtual Machine and Geographically Diverse Data Center Environments.
• Improved SLA Performance from 70% to 100%
• Achieved 40% annual growth while dramatically reducing costs
• Management of teams responsible for operational troubleshooting in numerous client production environments
• Coordinated project negotiations while motivating and mentoring resources in support of timeline and project deliverables.
• Kept projects on track, built consensus amongst stakeholders to deliver improved results
• Successfully migrated entire service offering offshore
• Understand / Assess client's needs and business goals, and competitive landscape. Applying broad industry knowledge, often in layers of abstraction, leveraging appropriate business elements, and information technology to provide; insights, trusted advice, and solutions to address those needs.
• Worked with client personnel and executives to identify functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Subsequently working with and leading others as the primary facilitator in the identification, justification and design of the client's solution utilizing effective verbal, written and presentation skills which could be conveyed to all levels of audiences.
• Set the foundation for successful steady state execution and expectations to yield high customer satisfaction, traveling to clients as necessary
• Worked with client sales teams to seek out and support solutions for new business opportunities
• Created / Modified / Maintained Sales Configurators and various Collateral
• Facilitated discussions for service offering details including customizations
• Created / Reviewed / Modified SOW's, DOU's, SLA's

Confidential, Reno, NV / Cincinnati, OH

Sr. IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Interactive Digital, Video and Print Magazine Publishing (Circulations over 50,000)
• Digital Advertising/Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Email campaigns, Blogs
• Architected cloud native digital marketing solutions, financial applications, e-commerce, mobility and platforms using AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.)
• All phases of project life cycle - analysis, design, development, data-driven approaches, testing, implementation, and post-production support. Including SFDC / Salesforce.com implementation & cloud migrations.
• Cloud Architecture and implementation, SalesForce (SFDC) implementation
• Conducted independent analytical assessments of processes, performance, usability, risks and product/project lifecycle.
• Branding and Funnel strategies in conjunction with direct customer interaction and channel sales.
• Created demand strategies and tactics that combined product, analytics and marketing expertise.
• Event Planning and Hosting of numerous speakers and vendors
• Project lifecycle management, planning, execution, monitoring, m anaging KPI's, and resource balancing, in a virtual matrix Cloud environment.
• Communicated with stakeholders on project status, recommending project/process improvements and risk mitigation.
• Kept projects on track making every deadline, built consensus amongst stakeholders to deliver quality results utilizing a variety of tools and resources. Bridging business objectives, technology and optimizing user experience by providing guidance during the lifecycle from design through to implementation/delivery/post-delivery.
• Created rule-changing strategies that resulted in quantitative improvements in customer acquisition, retention, upsell and cross sell
• Contract and sales negotiations while motivating and mentoring resources in support of timeline and project deliverables / production schedules.

Confidential

General Manager, Sr. Consultant, IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Supported Sales Globally, primarily over 100 Sales Reps / CRM's in North America
• Expert level knowledge of All Mercury Interactive Tools / Confidential QA Software Testing and Test Management Suite; Quality Center, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Winrunner, LoadRunner, BPO, IT Governance (Kintana), QA Processes and Methodologies, Industry Best Practices, CMMI Levels
• Created Sales Collateral, Demos, Product and Client Roadmaps, Training Manuals, Presentations
• Consulted, Advised, Built and Supported Client Engagements
• Highly developed consultative approach, solutioning with an ability to advise and communicate with diverse stakeholders.
• Created solution for lead generation for Top Fortune companies by building a best shore outbound call center.

Sr. IT Infrastructure and Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gap analysis, risk identification, value to business prioritization, risk assessment, opportunity qualification
• Responsible for validating/endorsing the technical solution for Engagements. Worked with delivery managers to assure that solution design can be properly delivered within time allotted.
• Principal Leader in developing and substantiating solutions for clients, including analyzing critical drivers and risks.
• Unique and comprehensive industry knowledge in multiple key industry Information Technology (IT) domains both internal and external to Confidential .
• Worked with clients to develop their high level IT strategy
• Integrated various solutions to create unique and innovative solutions for the customer.
• Credible stakeholder / all level transformation advisor.
• Conducted Independent Assessments for end to end IT Infrastructure Migration, SDLC, Virtualization, processes, methodologies and strategies.
• Recruited and interviewed internal and external candidates for various roles and client engagements.
• Mentored and guided Sr. IT professional s on their career path or for specific roles and projects.
• Managed various Global Projects and aspects of projects while implementing strategic improvements.
• Director Level SDLC and end to end QA process, Architecting / Creating Centers of Excellence for several
• Intercompany liaison between divisions and companies Confidential +EDS+MphasiS
• Architecture, Analysis, Design, Production Support, Simplification, Optimization, Documentation, Training and Mentoring/Communications for Applications/Environments; Oracle 9i Web applications (IT Governance, Financial, and Transactional), VB, Java, .Net, and mobile devices. Web Server environments; IIS / Windows 2000, Weblogic, Websphere (WAS), Apache Tomcat, Unix.
• Oracle PL/SQL Development (full SDLC), Creating Schemas, Views, Stored procedures, Triggers, Reports and Integration optimization with applications; IT Governance (Demand Management, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Time Management, Resource Management, Deployment Management) to meet SLA’s(Service Level Agreements), Financial (Institutional Investment Portfolio Mgmt; Securities/Commodities Trading, Bonds, Derivatives), and Transactional(Dispatching, routing, OE)
• Consulting of Software Development, Established CMMI baseline, Creation of Testing Centers of Excellence(COE’s); Automated QA and Load/Performance Testing/Tuning/Scaling, QA/Testing Management Software implementation, QA and Testing Process Improvement/Simplification, Software(SW) / Hardware(HW) Architecture and Infrastructure, including mobile devices and Infrastructure for SDLC and outsourced IT projects.
• Liaison between outsourced vendors, management and multiple internal teams.

Confidential

Senior Consultant - IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Software and Hardware Architecture ensuring adherence to project and corporate standards;
• Conducted Design reviews, coordinated efforts of other central support ordinations (Development teams, DBA’s, Server Administrators) and maintain work flow documents,
• Support of Oracle and SQL Server Integrations to Confidential mainframe and other applications via Activeworks, Biztalk, Tuxedo and other middleware. Very significant Process Automation.
• Administration, Integration and mentoring of QA, Performance Automation and monitoring tools.
• Oracle PL/SQL Development and Performance Tuning, Creating Schemas, Views, Stored procedures, Triggers, performing refreshes, data conversions and code optimization.
• Vendor management and integration of Mercury tools, Web based multi-tiered Oracle applications for up to 10,000 simultaneous users; Customer Choice (Internet/Extranet), SkillSoft: Skillport (HR Intranet), Complaint Tracker (Internet), iPower using Plumtree( Corporate Extranet/Intranet) portal, eHR (Peoplesoft ) Maintain Development, Test and Production environments. Communicating between management or appropriate teams.
• Designed, Recommend and/or made system, database and code changes.
• Application Support & Administration in all environments; development, test, production, while maintaining a customer solution focus.
• Building business cases and developing strategies for innovation and proactive improvement.
• Negotiated Vendor contracts and user licenses.
• Administration of Mercury Interactive's Test Director and MS SQL databases; Web based Testing and defect management software for company wide development projects. Install and configure software and tools.
• Business Technology Optimization utilizing Mercury’s full suite of tools and other tools.
• Created and maintained capacity plans based on data from system monitoring
• Configuration Management using (PVCS/Changeman) to Build and Deploy software to environments; create/maintain build scripts used to compile code and align DB schema changes with the code. Responsible for the build of the source code and direct communication with team leads. Maintain the Change Management environment;
• Provided knowledge required to support implementation and ongoing support of applications.
• Supported Environments/Tools : Quest Toad, Mercury Interactive Loadrunner 7.5, WinRunner 7.5, Mercury Interactive Test Director, Merant/Serena PVCS/Changeman, Hummingbird Exceed, Peoplesoft 8 and 8.4, New Energy RTO, Oracle 8.1.6.3, Oracle SQL* PLUS, Oracle PL/SQL, MS Biztalk, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS IE, MS SQL Sever, MS IIS, MS MTS, MS Windows NT, MS Windows 2000, Netopia Timbuktu Pro 32, BMC Patrol, UNIX, DBA Support of Oracle and SQL Server, DB support of DB2 Databases. Large OLTP applications ~300GB DB’s.
• Over 3 years; Designed and rolled-out process initiatives that created tens of millions of dollars in incremental value
• Quadrupled the number of software development releases annually. Led the strategic conversion from linear to parallel release development and peak performance work culture, increasing developer productivity by over 400%
• Slashed licensing costs, accelerated and simplified access, data retrieval and the software development cycle…upgraded and migrated 200 databases across multiple platforms to a single platform and single database engine supporting global telecommunications infrastructure
• Liaison (sole point of contact for 5 applications) communicating with Production Support, System Administrators, Engineers, Developers, Architects, High level management, Network Support, and other principals.
• Procurement, Licensing Administration and Vendor Management for 3rd party software.
• Management and resource planning for several teams
• Created requirements, designs, conducted reviews and managed initiatives
• Sr. Developer/Architect/DBA INFORMIX, SQL, ESQL/C, 4GL. Oracle 8/8i PL/SQL. High volume OLTP and DSS development, test and production (100's of DB's Confidential /UX) environments; Schemas, Views, Stored procedures, Triggers, privileges, data refreshes, conversions and integrations. 24x7 production support, performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting of DB’s and apps.
• Unix System kernel tuning and administration. DB Archiving and restoration.
• Migration of hundreds of Development, Test and production DB's and environments to new common platforms from diverse platforms and versions.
• System analysis, design, troubleshooting. Software installation and configuration.
• System Architecture Planning, Management, & Admin; SAP, Distributed Objects, CORBA, Multi-tiered processing, redundant systems, DB integration (Oracle, DB2) Persistence, Visibroker, & Orbix.
• Project Leader directing System Administrators domestic and international.
• Application Administration for ALL Domestic and International Call Routing, with numerous complex inbound and outbound integrations, in all environments (from Development to Production)
• Writing emergency procedures and providing production support for new releases.
• Created parallel development concept; multiple versions of DB’s, applications and environments
• Shell programming/Scripting, Process Automation
• Creation of Web based/linked technical documentation and detailed online status
• Confidential LVM and M/C Serviceguard Cluster High Availability, Virtual Environments implementation team
• Principal of Signaling Network Architecture team. (routing of ALL calls domestic and global)
• Principal of Security team, Conducting Security Sweeps, Developing Security Strategies
• Architecture, Management and Admin of complex High Availability Multi-tiered environments

Confidential

Sr. Architect/DBA

Responsibilities:

• Management and resource planning for several teams
• Created requirements, designs, conducted reviews and managed initiatives
• Created and built multi-million dollar computer consulting company with 100% equity.
• Services and products specializing in UNIX, LAN/WAN networking and Relational Database (RDBMS) applications; mainly creation and support of; Financial applications in several industry domains, Financial / Investment industry clients, automation of existing business process, Accounting, Financial and billing systems, client relationship management, implementation/customization of / integration to Modular Accounting Systems.
• Program Management/Vendor Integration.
• Design and implementation of networks (LAN/WAN).
• Commercial and Vertical software including training.
• Custom application development / programming/DBA INFORMIX RDBMS and SQL.
• System administration and end-user technical support.
• Support of UNIX, AIX, Novell Netware and Windows.
• Data communications, remote computing, EDI and Internet.
• System analysis, design, integration and troubleshooting.
• Business and Financial Consulting.
• SW and HW architecture, integration and implementation.
• $50 million in annual sales managing up to 33 Consultants
• Personally responsible for over $ 6,000,000 in sales
• Recruited, Trained, and managed all consulting staff
• Solved significant rapid growth issues and interfaced with Confidential
• Key in Development of company Unix Multiuser system / INFORMIX RDBMS
• Wrote Procedural manuals, Training manuals, and RDBMS Documentation
• Instituted QC procedures to reduce order fulfillment issues

Confidential, Westlake Village, CA

Quality Control Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Engineering, Research and Development of High Tech Prototypes.
• Instituted Statistical Process Control(SPC) on manufacturing line.
• Increased Quality Assurance Levels from 70% to 99.999% error free.
• Programmed Coordinate measuring equipment.
• PCB and PCBA inspection, HD and Tape Head testing
• Construction and utilization of custom testing fixtures. and prototypes
• Utilized and Trained others in use of complex precision scientific equipment, including:
• Comparators, Indicators, Gauges, Calipers, Micrometers, Pneumatic test equip, Hardness testers,