Professional Summary

Over 16 years of relevant experience in enterprise application integration working in large Chemical Manufacturing/Commodities and Energy companies in the Information Technologies group. My experience, collaboration skills, and technical knowledge allowed me to successfully lead the Application Design group on global integration of incredibly complex applications for mergers, acquisitions, divestiture and insourcing for the Production Manufacturing and Engineering portfolio.

• Root Cause Analysis
• Software/Application Packaging
• Real-time Systems for Manufacturing
• SCADA, HMI, MES Stakeholder Management
• Automation
• Disaster Recovery
• SOX Compliance Testing

• Software Rationalization
• Application Architecture
• Vendor Selection

Confidential,IT/ADS/AO Senior II Applications Design/Implementation 03/2007 – Present

• Portfolio lead on Production Manufacturing and Engineering applications.
• Technical lead working with various IT and business groups to ensure software project/enhancements schedule is met on time and on budget.
• Successfully insourced/integrated Basell’s applications during LyondellBasell merger. Duties included gathering requirements, software rationalization, develop architecture design, server requisition, testing, deploy/integration, client acceptance, and cutover to production.
• Act as a backup for Senior Manager on change management approvals.
• Mentoring Technologists in PM&E portfolio to ensure the supportability of all the applications in the portfolio.
• Report and document root cause for all business critical system outages.
• Create/maintain design, installation/configuration procedure, security standard, migration, disaster recovery, and roadmap documents for all business critical applications in PM&E portfolio to ensure supportability.
• Considered SME on PM&E applications assisting in vendor selection and license agreement contracts.
• Design/Implement/Manage over 25 IP21 Data Historians on business network as part of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) with the following integration points. Below are just few of the integration points among many application accessing IP21 data on the business network.
• SAP – production consumption to SAP via script on IP21àFTPshareàSAP Interchange Server à Biztalk àSAP.
• Advisor – retrieves data from IP21 server via IP21 system DSN. Tank management application processes advisor data then send the update tag data back to IP21 server.
• LIMS - Lab data is collected periodically from Sample Manager and then imported (FTP) to the IP.21 database via scripts running on the IP21 server.
• Key performance indicator uptime achieved 99.99 percent uptime past 3 years for all applications in the portfolio.

Confidential,Senior Application Design/Implementation 06/2005 – 03/2007

• Implementation/Design Lead working closely with Business, Functional, and Development teams to Implement BizTalk, Web farm, Content and SharePoint servers for the Enterprise Application Integration team ensuring high availability/optimized performance.
• Designed, implemented HP Business Availability Center to monitor and test web applications via Vugen scheduled scripts to ensure supportability of web applications.
• Configured BAC to write an event on the web/application servers, trigger alerts and automate scheduled reports on application performance for optimization.
• Expert in LoadRunner and TestDirector utilizing Vugen scripts for quality assurance testing.
• Technical escalation for the EAI group.

Confidential,Senior Technology Analyst 07/1999 – 06/2005

• Developed and maintained unattended installation processes and imaging tools for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 deployment.
• Maintained processes for software deployment for the enterprise of over 6000 clients by using group policy objects and SMS.
• Developed and maintained core applications for the enterprise.
• Subject matter expert on group polices and SMS deployments.
• Coordinated rollout strategies with other technology groups to ensure the success of many major projects.
• Consistently demonstrated superior work skills and actively strived to meet goals for the infrastructure team.

Confidential,Senior Technology Analyst (Consultant RHI) 07/1998 – 07/1999

• Enforced standards and procedures for software packaging and deployment.
• Provided consultation and resolution for software deployment and packaging problems.
• Designed and participated in system testing and quality assurance reviews.
• Lead the packaging team to complete the Y2K software upgrade project successfully without an incident.
• Packaging lead for Equistar Lyondell Chemicals - Arco merger integration project completed successfully.
• Worked closely with the Business groups to gather requirements to achieve the project goals including software rationalization in a timely manner.
• Windows NT4 rollout project for Equistar Lyondell Chemicals –Oxy Chemicals merger.
• Lead the software package team in compiling over one hundred different application packages three weeks ahead of schedule. Due to the success of our packaging team, five other packaging groups were able to utilize the completed packages saving considerable time reducing overall project cost. Received Iron Man and Most Valuable Player awards.

Confidential, Technical Analyst/ Imaging Specialist 08/1996 – 07/1998

• Successfully designed/scheduled/completed SAP training rollout which consisted of over 500 computers in an NT4.0 domain infrastructure.
• Created, designed and maintained the imaging process for the enterprise, utilizing ghost/batch processes greatly reducing OS build/deployment time.
• Maintained image server/build process/procedures for all desktops and servers in the enterprise.
• Evaluations technical lead on hardware and software for the entire enterprise.
• 24 hour on call technical support for the executives.

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

Operating Systems/Servers Expert
MS DOS 5.0/5.0a/6.0/6.01/6.2/6.22; Windows 3.0/3.1/95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
Windows NT 3.10/3.5/3.51/4.0 Windows Server 2000 / 2003 / 2008 R2 Standard Edition
BizTalk Server 2004 / 2006 / 2006 R2 / 2009
SharePoint Server 2003 / 2007
OSI PI Server 3.4.380 Infoplus.21 Ver. 2004.1 / 2004.2 / 2006.5 / 7.3 /DMC Simulation server, ADSA, AFW, PIMS, SLM (virtualized dongle-less token license manager)