Work history

Bank of America August 2005 to the present
Manager-Systems Engineering

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How would you describe your time at Bank of America?

* Manage IT technical projects (with budgets exceeding $2 million) and resources including project managers, application developers and database development/software testing teams.
* Portfolio and Vendor Management for Global Finance, Global Human Resources & Enterprise Information Analytics
applications including Hyperion Business Intelligence (BI). Implemented Center of Excellence (CoE) across portfolio. Achieved department resource growth of 75%.
* Conducted ERP implementation analysis/planning. Conducted resource planning/strategy/staffing and provide E2E software testing services and governance for Global Oracle HRMS Implementation. Led Tools Evaluation for SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization (TAO). Developed Testing Strategy for SAP Implementation. Staffed technical resources for SAP implementation.
* Implemented Data Validation Strategy to ceritfy Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) processes for Data Warehouse.
* Developed automation strategy to reduce cost, improve quality and increase speed to market. Achieved Q1 Cost Saves of > $55K.
* Technical Project Manager leading cross-functional teams for data and operating system migration of Financial Reporting System and Financial Data Warehouse from Unix Tru64 platform to HPUX Superdome.
* Utilize Six Sigma for technical project delivery. Responsible for budgeting, scheduling, estimating, forecast accuracy, recruitment, and metric collection for ROI. Estimate and control portfolio/project costs. Determine budget/schedule impacts. Monitor and control portfolio/project risks. Communicate status and risks to portfolio/project stakeholders.
* Managed critical server implementation of a new production failover server. Managed cross-functional teams on server maintenance projects. Streamlined activities to eliminate need for additional outage, contributing to business partner satisfaction by minimizing system downtime.
* Managed software testing and configuration management across multiple applications for Oracle project budgeted at $1,345,000.
* Performed scope analysis and cost estimate of database upgrade from Oracle 9i to 10g; analysis for Global Workload Manager implementation.
* Recipient of 4 corporate Medallion Awards recognizing successful project delivery for on time/on budget delivery and outstanding customer service.
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Vertex May 2004 to June 2005
Lead Oracle Developer/DBA

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Lead Developer/DBA supporting multiple product releases in a deadline-oriented environment.
* Managed and configured database servers and instances; created, managed, and populated databases; performed database backups and restores; cloned databases; created and managed database objects (ie,
tablespaces, tables, constraints, triggers, stored procedures, and indexes); and installed Oracle patch sets and ole db providers. Utilized Oracle import/export utilities. Utilized data migration tools such as DTS and SQLWays to transfer data between Oracle and SQLServer.
* Monitored system performance and user sessions. Analyzed tables/indexes for cost-based optimization and row migration detection. Tuned Oracle code using explain plan and Oracle-supplied package dbms_profile. Researched and delivered presentation to developers on Oracle tuning using dbms_profile.
* Converted SQL Server code to Oracle for C+ applications and provide knowledge transfer to application developers. Used ref cursors and object relational features to extend PL/SQL. Troubleshot complex code issues for applications in multi-user environment. Created Microsoft UDLs (Universal Data Links).
* Enforced change management policies; utilized MKS for source code control. Maintained data model using Rational Rose.
* Performed research and analysis for implementation of 10g.
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Alcoa July 2002 to May 2004
Sr. Consultant/Oracle Applications Conversion Lead

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Project Manager of Oracle Application Conversion projects; Directed virtual team of IT conversion personnel on large-scale, multi-org, global implementation of Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM). All sites completed on-time/ahead of schedule. Developed tool for projecting resource needs and estimated load time based on data volumes.
* Performed global conversions, including enhancing scope to include foreign countries/languages, identifying architecture/ftp requirements, customizing application setups such as flexfields and lookup codes, migrating??code to??remote servers, loading category translations, and tracking/resolving??global conversion-related issues.
* Implemented solutions for conversion issues in accordance with corporate Enterprise Business Solution standards. Resolved database performance issues on global systems. Developed tool for tracking/reporting issues and change requests.
* Developed/implemented conversion process/code improvements that resulted in 80% productivity increase.
* Authored/presented total conversion process to Alcoa domestic and international IT audience, including deployment strategy, conversion methodology, code development/enhancement process and framework.
* Performed functional setups, including: enabling eAM organizations, defining lookups, areas, WIP, departments, resources, legacy assets, and categories, and converting assets, activities, asset activity associations, routings, bill of materials (BOMs), meters, and preventative maintenance data.
* Developed conversion programs for asset/maintenance BOMs and prevalidation programs for eAM data, emphasizing reusability of code.
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Progress Energy May 2000 to October 2001
Sr. Oracle Financials Applications Leader

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* Technical lead directing Oracle Financials (GL/AP, Project Accounting) development/production support team
* Designed, developed, implemented and supported Oracle Financials applications, Developer 2000 forms/reports, custom PL/SQL programs and interfaces, and Unix shell scripts in accordance
with business rules.
* Perform stakeholder management. Primary interface between management, clients, and core technical staff.
* Created Oracle AIM documentation including MD060s, MD070s, and TE040s.
* Setup flexfields and value sets, registered applications, concurrent programs and forms, and created request sets. Customized application privileges, defined request groups and responsibilities, set profile options, created document sequences. Managed concurrent managers, implemented system alerts, and tuned system performance.
* Performed change management, utilized source code control software and data migration tools. Approved/migrated all code objects for the team to various database environments.
* Trained legacy developers in Oracle RDBMS technology, PL/SQL standards and best practices, and Oracle Financials functionality.
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UPMC Health Plan February 1998 to August 1999
Lead Database Programmer/Analyst

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How would you describe your time at UPMC Health Plan?

Technical lead on key Oracle projects in a fast-paced startup environment. Obtained functional/technical requirements for custom Oracle programs.

Education

Project Management Institute (PMI) January 2008 to September 2008
Project Management

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Achieved PMP Certification
temple university September 1985 to May 1989
English

How would you describe your time at temple university?

28 additional credits in Computer Science
61.5 additional credits in Project Management

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