Project Lead/Principle Systems Engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

Successful at Combining Managerial, Technical, Analytical, and Communication Expertise to Define and Articulate Business and Technical Requirements and to Design and Implement Solutions.
An accomplished project lead and consultant with experience in all System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases.
Hands on experience with project management, business case analysis, analysis of alternatives, acquisition, functional and system requirements development, enterprise and system architecture development, software design, development and testing, system implementation, and production support support for complex multi - platform systems.
Have performed at both system and enterprise level.

EXPERTISE INCLUDES:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Lead/Principle Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Plan, coordinate, schedule, monitor and issue resolution associated with implementing changes to the system.
Provide direction and oversight of development and test staff.
Utilize Microsoft Project for project management tool. All releases have been completed within schedule and budget.
Develop Technical Cost Proposals (TCP) which includes design, cost and schedule for implementing new or enhanced requirements.
Develop project schedules using MS Project.
Provide oversight of system architecture and implementation of requirements, to include code walkthroughs.
Mentor team with learning technology and system life cycle.
System and database administration of Unix/Oracle and Windows/DB2 servers, to include applying patches and ensuring operability.
Administer IBM Rational ClearCase configuration tool and Oracle Application Server.
Communicate issues, risks and status to client.

Chief Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed and validated Enterprise level requirements for Confidential Payment Systems based on Confidential Business Enterprise Architecture, Confidential and Federal Regulations and Laws. Participated in gap analyses between the enterprise requirements and the requirements defined for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system under implementation.
Although technical, recognized by the customer as a Subject Matter Expert of the Accounts Payable/Entitlement processes.
Developed Enterprise Business Process Models related to Accounts Payable / Entitlement functionality for the Confidential Enterprise Architecture.
Developed tools to capture, track and report requirements and gap analysis.

Project Manager/Chief Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provided project management and technical support to Program Management Office for a database conversion project from a hierarchical database to IBM DB2, assisting in planning and contractor oversight.
Developed high level requirements, Feasibility Study, Strategy Plan, Business Case Analysis, Economic Analysis and Transition Plan to consolidate workload from four major systems into a single system.
Developed Analysis of Alternatives and Integrated Test Plans for database conversion project.
Composed white papers to communicate and explain various risks and issues associated with the project.
Developed system interface diagram detailing over 150 systems involved in the contract entitlement process, providing a unique enterprise level view.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed the Contract Modification interface to receive and process Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) X.12 860 standard record sets and convert them into transactions for Oracle Financial ERP software and a data warehouse, using Oracle Database and PL/SQL
The interface was complex due to the incoming records being a complete overlay of the contract, and the ERP system requiring only the changes (e.g. add, change, delete).
The EDI transactions consist of contract header records, section header records and detail. The interface performed a complete comparison of the incoming contract and constructed change transactions.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Business Process-Reengineering (BPR) Specialist in support of requirement definition for new enterprise finance and accounting system.
Developed various process and data models, the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) and the Operational Requirements Document (ORD).

Project Manager/Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Technical Lead for the Full SDLC from requirements gathering to production support of a Workflow and Imaging system still in use today by 2000+ users.
Provided direction, oversight and mentoring of development staff.
Utilized Microsoft Project to schedule, resource and track project activities.
The EDM system replaced a significantly manual process that used hard copy for routing, with a highly automated process.
Supported testing and training activities, to include one on one assistance for the users during initial implementation.
Also supported production environment through monitoring and problem resolution.
Technical components include Wang OPEN/image and OPEN/workflow, Oracle Developer 2000, HP-UX, Visual Basic and ANSI C.
Developed the system architecture that provided the mechanism for integrating the commercial imaging and workflow products, Microsoft Office, mainframe applications and other custom built applications. This architecture further provided for automated transactions processing.
Developed prototypes to assist in requirement definition with user community, providing visualization of the new technology being introduced.
Designed and developed the client application that provided a single user environment for processing Contract Entitlement transactions by interfacing with commercial imaging and workflow products, Microsoft Office and custom built applications.