SUMMARY

• Degreed professional wif thirty - four years of Information Systems experience in the payments, automotive, financial and agricultural industries.
• Strong leadership & management skills, systems analysis and design skills; excellent organizational and communication abilities in both verbal and written form.
• Possesses a dedication and willingness to go the extra mile to exceed every customer’s needs

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: ORACLE (SQL, PL/SQL, FORMS, DBA), DB2 (SQL, PL/SQL, DBA), IBM MDM Suite, Ataccama MDM/RDM Suite, Oracle Financials, COBOL, FOCUS, GENTRAN, SQL, PASCAL, BASIC, MACRO-11, FORTRAN, Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)

Hardware: SUN (Solaris and Linux), IBM (AIX), DEC VAX and ALPHA, IBM PC and compatibles, AS/400, PDP-11

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

IT Manager, Enterprise Data and Reporting

Confidential, Cordova, TN

Responsibilities:

• Led Master Data Management (MDM) improvements for the enterprise; implemented the addition of Data Governance and Data Quality
• Completed thorough analysis of current IBM MDM implementation and reviewed other vendor MDM products, resulting in both a strategic management recommendation and a tactical simplified MDM solution; met immediate reporting needs
• Completed vendor pilot of Ataccama MDM and RDM (Reference Data Management) solutions in 8 week period resulting in a recommendation to senior management to move forward wif the product
• Partnered wif Data Governance manager to incorporate governance and quality in new initiatives insuring data was profiled and valid values documented
• Led a 7 member MDM team & managed a 3 member ad-hoc reporting team; generated financial reporting for new initiatives and analysis
• Implemented agile development methodology for tactical MDM work utilizing 2 week sprints allowing visibility and reprioritization of work
• Teamed on Hadoop Data Lake roll-out mapping and extracting data providing additional data sources for ad-hoc queries

Director IT/Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, Cordova, TN

Responsibilities:

• Over a thirteen year period, designed, built and maintained customer service, boarding, risk management, and reporting web applications for internal and external use
• Applications interfaced to settlement, authorization, equipment deployment and reporting systems; possesses strong database (Oracle and DB2) and scripting (PL/SQL and Unix shells) skills
• Led large, complex debit routing compliance project in response to Dodd-Frank Act/Durbin Amendment. User interface project was delivered on time, on budget and met all business requirements
• Actively managed enhancement/maintenance of applications employing both a production support team and a development team; production support performed using incident management system and development performed using systemic requirements, design documents and release schedules
• Hired and managed contract workforce of 10, including forecasting and budgeting providing visibility of work backlog
• Supported internal and external audit and compliance requests
• Implemented weekly code management/deployment, including Sarbanes-Oxley controls and audits

Project Leader/Business Process Specialist

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Directed the analysis and design of new systems, consultation on enhancements to existing systems, & supervised/trained programming staff; managed database administration duties and the project leader for multiple concurrent projects
• Led the development of largest in-house software package ever created at Diesel ReCon; in a three year period managed the design, specifications, coding and testing; hired and managed 4 contract programming staff & trained and managed an in-house staff of 3
• Represented Diesel ReCon on the Cummins corporate Best Practices team; defined the distribution channel requirements, writing functional and technical specifications and managed development work
• Selected to represent Diesel ReCon on the Cummins corporate Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Reengineering teams integrating Oracle Financials wif current Diesel ReCon distribution software
• Provided design expertise to EDI transaction; set development/bar-coding system development for warehouse functionality
• Facilitated three company-wide training sessions utilizing training and corporate facilitation certifications from Stephen Covey's, 7 Habits of Highly TEMPEffective People

Manager, Technical Support / Project Manager/ Programmer

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Advanced from Technical Support Programmer to Manager, Technical Support wifin 12 month period by demonstrating leadership in program development and project delivery
• Managed technical programming staff; coordinated programmer efforts to meet software requirements for 80 financial institutions
• Hired and trained 4 programmers; facilitated the rewrite of credit union software from PDP-11 BASIC to VAX PASCAL
• Designed, coded, tested and documented payroll processing module, reporting module and funds transfer module expanding the features available for sale to credit unions