Chris Blain, Itil Email & Phone Number

South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Permanent full-time role. details to follow

• on contract to Obsidian Energy - March 2018 - May 2019:
• Continue managing HRIS System, Develop custom reports in new Tools BI space, assist HR with other aspects of reporting.
• Continue cleaning up and simplifying Oracle environment, an additional ~200 GB of data, ~2000 schemas, and 3 more database instances removed – resulting in direct savings of $4500 / month, and further reduction in.
• Decommissioned data warehouse to save on licensing costs on next Oracle renewal.
• Primary source for the entire company for any custom data requests, extracts or custom reports.
• Providing technical assistance to the land department for all custom MS Access databases and other tools to assist with maintaining their land data.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Formerly Penn West. Company Changed Names June 26, 2017
• Managed all technical aspects of the HR and Payroll systems, including system performance, data health and performing audit activities. Prepared business case, participated in RFP and vendor scoring/selection for new.
• Continued cleaning up and simplifying Oracle environment, an additional ~200 GB of data, ~2000 schemas, and 3 more database instances removed – resulting in direct savings of $4500 / month, and further reduction in.
• Relocated Visage/Verdazo to new Oracle shared server, continued repointing and testing interfaces in preparation for decommissioning of data warehouse.
• Primary source for the entire company for any custom data requests, extracts or custom reports.
• Providing technical assistance to the land department for all custom MS Access databases and other tools to assist with maintaining their land data. Provide ad-hoc data pulls and custom reports.

Calgary

• Major contributor to simplification program, reviewing software and licensing/maintenance agreements. Software review resulted in savings of over $4.5 MM /year (including the $1 MM /year from GeoScout removal thanks to.
• Systems analyst responsible for revieing changes and testing integrations after upgrades to major systems like Qbyte FM, Mosaic, AFE Navigator and Synergy reporting.
• Managed all technical aspects of the HR and Payroll systems, including monitoring system performance, data health and performing audit activities. Created, maintained and enhanced all custom reports, data extractions.
• Implemented a new Oil Marketing software application (Egistix). Responsible to perform version upgrades, system maintenance, diagnostics and troubleshooting. Prepared technical support documentation, and testing.
• Created and maintained documentation and diagrams for all corporate reporting, application interfaces, and custom built applications. Provided support for all custom applications and custom queries and reports, and.
• Initiated a program for more standardized Master Data Management (MDM) and Reporting strategy.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Designed, built, tested, troubleshot and maintained Masterwell. A program to link Well information from over 9 systems together, to enhance and maintain data continuity and consistency. Prepared user and technical.
• Redesigned process for generating Maps of corporate hierarchy (geographical field, etc. boundaries). Went to ArcGIS using python, reduced time to draw maps from 2-3 weeks to <8 hours, and removed Geoscout in the.
• Enhanced process for managing “People Data”. Getting Employee data from the HR system in Sql Server, contractor data from our custom database in Oracle, and active directory information to automatically manage changes.
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring other IS/IT support staff.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Reverse engineered an internal Qbyte FM process to generate Corporate Hierarchy Summary data. Made a copy of the program logic, updated and enhanced the design, programmed and tested the solution. This reduced the time.
• Designed and implemented a historical financial database model, to house all transactional data from acquisitions, and join to our Qbyte FM data for reporting.
• Extracted, Translated and loaded data for 7 acquisitions into the historical model over the life cycle of this database.
• Designed and implemented a solution for Double-blind entry of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) information into Qbyte FM to meet Sarbanes Auxley (SOX) audit requirements.
• Developed a solution for maintaining up-to-date listing of Bank and Branch information in Qbyte FM.
• Documented, identified and reviewed deficiencies in vendor and contract management systems. Designed, developed, tested and implemented one solution for each and later integrated the databases and systems.

• Website design
• Database design
• Custom software Development
• Prepared quotes and ordered equipment based upon client requirements.
• Managed the upgrade and/or replacement of older technologies, including estimation, implementation planning, and resource allocation.
• Initiated IT Strategic Planning for multiple clients to review current IT infrastructure, target infrastructure and identify and prioritize projects to arrive at target structure.

Calgary, Alberta

• Provided remote and on site IT support for numerous users at over 7 client locations.
• Led the IT Support Team, responsible for resource allocation, client relations, task tracking and planning.
• Managed the upgrade and/or replacement of older technologies, including estimation, implementation planning, and resource allocation.
• Initiated IT Strategic Planning for multiple clients to review current IT infrastructure, target infrastructure and identify and prioritize projects to arrive at target structure.
• Followed through on Strategic Plans for multiple clients to develop and implement 3 year IT budgets.
• Provided complete IT infrastructure planning and implementation for several Oil & Gas start-up companies.

Calgary, Alberta

• Electrical Tracking System (ASP.NET with SQL Server Database):
• Led design and development team
• Designed and built SQL Server database
• Designed and built complex reporting strategy - delivering reports to users in PDF format
• Managed project including resource and task scheduling; client communications; change requests and progress reporting; as well as front-line client support
• Designed and built generic file transfer utility used to upload and download reportsGas Plant Allocation Software (Delphi with an Oracle Database):

2 Yr Diploma, Information Technology - Software Development

Activities and Societies: SafewalkDiploma in Computer Technology - Information Systems Stream

High School

Activities and Societies: Drama, Theatre Arts, TV Studio and broadcasting, Music, Computers