Chris Gougler Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas, Texas

Reported to the CTO of Real Estate, responsible for managing SOX level 1 enterprise environments (development, stage and production) for MS SQL Server and Oracle databases for all of North Americas Real Estate applications. Project manager for the enterprise data warehouse used for BI and compliance reporting. Member of the enterprise architecture team which lead the strategic direction of the technology foundation with the organization and design of applications.• Established and managed the database environments to pass SOX level 1 compliance and government regulations• Controlled and cut costs by 120K per year by changing DBA support model• Delivered development blueprint for enterprise applications to follow • Created enterprise data warehouse model used by applications, BI reporting and corporate data • Managed data archival and application shutdown process

Dallas, Texas

Managed a team of 15 offshore developers supporting multiple applications within Real Estate asset management group. Managed the full SDLC process, overall design lead and application owner. • Chairperson of the user council, responsible for prioritizing requests and gathering requirements for enhancements to the applications, reports and interfaces • Created policies and procedures to bring applications up to SOX level 1 standards and ensure future compliance• Improved ETL process of critical data from overnight 8-hour job to near real time

Dallas, Texas

As the lead developer, I oversaw the design, development and maintenance of the various systems supporting asset management group. Worked closely with management, users and development team gathering enhancement requests and managing ongoing application maintenance. Responsible for the underlying architecture, assigning tasks and mentoring team members both on and offshore and reporting to management status and ensuring project was meeting requirements and timeframes. • Led efforts to enhance and update the asset management system from client server application to web application• Established business intelligence reporting environment that delivered asset management data to senior leaders

Dallas, Texas

Maintained and developed new modules for their systems supporting asset management with a focus on Visual Basic and Oracle/SQL Server/MS Access development. • Managed architecture and rewrite of enterprise asset management application from MS Access database to client server application• Delivered global asset management system to 8 countries in Europe and Asia

Dallas, Texas

Consultant working with Visual Basic, Oracle, MS Access applications doing maintenance and new enhancements to client applications.

Create new systems meeting the needs of user specifications and enhancing existing applications to improve efficiency for the credit card processing industry utilizing Visual Basic 4.0-5.0 in conjunction with ODBC/Oracle database. Major Accomplishments:Participated in the design of a corporate customer profile database that is the central repository for all information pertaining to present and past customers.Enhanced merchant application process to improve efficiency, from 300 applications per day to 4800 applications per day, resulting in faster setup for the merchant.Key player in the conversion of an acquired company to convert process to our system.

Determine PC automation needs for the Revenue Accounting Department. Implement solutions using Visual Basic 3.0, Access, Paradox/PAL, COBOL and EasyTrieve. Create ad hoc reports and programs for management and end users.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

High School, General Studies