Byron Thomas Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Hired to review, evaluate and recommend modification / adjustments to current business model• Installed time keeping software to replace manual process.• Configured and installed mobile app used for tracking and delivery confirmation• Created employee, policy and procedures manual• Recommended monthly invoice review instead of quarterly

• Subject matter expert for change / risk management for multiple business critical and key financial enterprise applications within the Fuels Portfolio (application, database, middleware, network). Technical liaison between lines of business, vendors, audit, and internal resources (Database and Infrastructure services)• Responsible for release planning, coordination, and deployment as well as leading disaster recovery activities for application environments including planning… Show more • Subject matter expert for change / risk management for multiple business critical and key financial enterprise applications within the Fuels Portfolio (application, database, middleware, network). Technical liaison between lines of business, vendors, audit, and internal resources (Database and Infrastructure services)• Responsible for release planning, coordination, and deployment as well as leading disaster recovery activities for application environments including planning, coordination, and implementation of bi-annual (DR) audits and disaster recovery exercises on production systems.• Assisted with development of strategic plans to migrate DR infrastructure from Birmingham to Atlanta as an added measure of business assurance and other required DR readiness initiatives.• Level 3 support for several Web Logic hosted Java-based applications including commodity accounting systems processing $4B in transactions annually.• Developed and maintained high level technical diagrams and documentation to aid partnering groups (Database and Infrastructure services).• Responsible for the planning and coordination of the migration of a number of SQL Server instance upgrades. Show less

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Responsible for supporting both the fuel management and railcar maintenance and tracking application environments (Web logic 10.3 / Oracle 11g/12c based)• Led a team responsible for determining cause and effect of system performance issues during UA testing phase of application development. Results gathered led to the migration from UNIX to Windows based servers for the Web Logic application layer.• Created instruction manuals for new users and provided level 1 and 2 client support… Show more • Responsible for supporting both the fuel management and railcar maintenance and tracking application environments (Web logic 10.3 / Oracle 11g/12c based)• Led a team responsible for determining cause and effect of system performance issues during UA testing phase of application development. Results gathered led to the migration from UNIX to Windows based servers for the Web Logic application layer.• Created instruction manuals for new users and provided level 1 and 2 client support documentation for the system.• Coordinated several generations of application and database environment migrations to include Windows desktop XP/7/10, SQL Server 2003–2008R2, Oracle 8-12c, and Windows Server. Show less

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Responsible for planning, procurement, deployment, and administration of scalable Enterprise level systems for the UNIX Midrange systems group. • Responsible for effective and concise communication with the Risk Management, Wealth Management, Corporate, and Learning Management System (LMS) to ensure projects come in on schedule and budget conscious. • IT Infrastructure data center and applications support in 24x7 mission-critical environment.• Multi-Architecture platform UNIX… Show more • Responsible for planning, procurement, deployment, and administration of scalable Enterprise level systems for the UNIX Midrange systems group. • Responsible for effective and concise communication with the Risk Management, Wealth Management, Corporate, and Learning Management System (LMS) to ensure projects come in on schedule and budget conscious. • IT Infrastructure data center and applications support in 24x7 mission-critical environment.• Multi-Architecture platform UNIX expert – Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. • Broad knowledge in performance hierarchy principles, performance analysis, low latency, throughput, kernel tunings, TCP/IP and advanced systems architecture in distributed networking environments. Show less

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Designed graphical interfaces and implemented code for a production level System Control and Data Acquisition systems written in Visual Basic 6.0 utilizing Active Data Object technologies, Oracle 8.0, SQL Server 2000 RDMS, stored procedures and ODBC database connectivity methodologies.• Performed system development/ administration of the SCADA system as part of a team responsible for production operations support on a 24/7 basis. Systems were a mixture of UNIX/C and Windows NT/2000 with… Show more • Designed graphical interfaces and implemented code for a production level System Control and Data Acquisition systems written in Visual Basic 6.0 utilizing Active Data Object technologies, Oracle 8.0, SQL Server 2000 RDMS, stored procedures and ODBC database connectivity methodologies.• Performed system development/ administration of the SCADA system as part of a team responsible for production operations support on a 24/7 basis. Systems were a mixture of UNIX/C and Windows NT/2000 with Sybase DBMS.• Developed and implemented project plan to migrate a year’s worth of real-time data from current SCADA system to the historical system using a combination of Visual Basic 6.0 VB script and PERL. Show less

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Responsible for implementing automated change management software on a variety of Midrange platforms within the bank. Provided technical leadership on complex projects including a new production installation using CA Harvest. Developed installation scripts in support of vendor software requirements for the various hardware platforms.