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Scott Afb, Illinois, United States

Ustranscom, Scott Afb, Il

Enterprise Integration Lab, United States Transportation Command, Scott AFB – Provides a robust and secure software engineering environment supporting Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise capabilities.Applied system engineering, database engineering, integration, project management, and troubleshooting skills and experience in support of end-to-end development operations in the Enterprise Integration Lab (EIL).Provided leadership to teams in applying agile principles to streamline development and deployment of capabilities in a highly secure, virtualized, air-gapped environment.

Ustranscom, Scott Afb, Illinois

Mentored development, database, integration, and system administration teams, assisting with technical issues (tuning, performance, troubleshooting, etc.), managing the internal private cloud running VMware, and identifying opportunities for Continual Service Improvement (CSI).

Ustranscom, Scott Afb, Illinoios

Ensured Information Assurance (IA) control objective conditions were met per Mission Assurance Category (MAC), Certification and Accreditation (CA), confidentiality levels, DIACAP, RMF, and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements.Assisted teams with developing plan of action and milestones (POAM) and recommended actions to program CM and IA teams to address cybersecurity issues identified during scans.Provided system and software engineering support to the PMO for the Analysis of Mobility Platform (AMP), Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST), Transporation Vizualizer (TransViz), Defense Personal Property System (DPS), Transportation Operational Personal Property Standard System (TOPS), and Transcom Regulating and Command & Control Evaluation System (TRAC2ES).

O'Fallon, Illinois

Lockheed Martin, Center for Innovation, O’Fallon, IL – Global Transportation Network program integrating 28 transportation and distribution systems and more than 130 commercial transportation operators in support of planning, tracking and decision making for military customers.Administered the Global Transportation Network (GTN) and Data Quality (DQ) Oracle 10g RAC/Sybase System 12 RDBMS on Sun Solaris.Analyzed, designed, developed, and implemented database schemas, data marts, and data warehouses for the Integrated Data Environment and GTN Convergence program Managed technical teams responsible for the installation, configuration, and administration of clustered Oracle 10g RAC systems using Automated Storage Management (ASM) running on Sun Solaris 10 cluster.Technical lead responsible for deployment of replacement systems for an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) archival system at a secondary off-site repository for disaster recovery and high availability.Deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as the GTN system liaison in the CENTCOM Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (CDDOC) assisting Fusion Center leadership with analysis, research, development, and identification of operational improvements.Designed and implemented RDBMS and system architectures for virtualized internal proprietary programs in support of the Advanced Technologies for the 21st Century (AT21) programs.

Greater St. Louis Area

Worked with executive management to transfer operations after acquisition by Centocor which planned to continue use of the facility to increase clinical material production for products in its pipeline.

Greater St. Louis Area

St. Louis Biomedical Manufacturing Facility – Manufactured ReFacto Antihemophilic Factor used to treat people with hemophilia A.Managed the database, UNIX, application development and engineering support teams, responsible for all aspects of a multi-million dollar, high availability data center at the companies St. Louis manufacturing facility.Reviewed and authorized validation, compliance, qualification and standard operating procedures to meet all current healthcare regulatory expectations using Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP) guidelines.Coordinated and allocated information department resources for engineering, production and quality managers to establish project plans, identify system requirements and evaluate vendor solutions.Member of the Executive Integrated Oversight Team (IOT) responsible for review and approval of site projects, scope modifications and budget allocation requests.

Greater St. Louis Area

Information Technology and Consulting Company, St. Louis, MO – Strategically partners to provide flexible, scalable, cost-effective, efficient, and productive information technology solutions as well as technology staff augmentation in the St. Louis area.(Nestlé Purina – Manufacturer of animal feed, food and pet food headquartered in St. Louis, MO.)Administered, monitored, captured statistics, and implemented performance tuning on production systems in Oracle 7/8 on HP/UX.Administered, installed, configured, testing and production databases in SQL Server 7 running Windows 2000.(Eveready Battery Company – Manufacturer of batteries headquartered in St. Louis, MO.)Designed, developed logical models, and deployed physical models and star schemas using ERWin/ERX for data marts and warehouses storing point-of-sale data in Oracle and SQL Server.Led technical teams to install, configure, and deploy a corporate-wide monitoring system using BMC Patrol.Performed RDBMS evaluation and testing in a laboratory to identify, improve, and maximize software and hardware performance for Oracle and SQL Server running on Unix and Windows systems.Administered, monitored, and supported the production Oracle/SAP RDBMS.(Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. – Financial services firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO.)Facilitated interviews, identified and deciphered business rules and requirements, designed, built, deployed, and transformed logical models to physical RDBMS objects and relationships.Managed, administered, monitored, tuned, hardware and software for development, system test, and production databases in Oracle 7 on Sun Microsystems 1000 and 4000 servers running Solaris.Designed, developed, and maintained DBA utility programs to enhance database management using Oracle’s Pro*C/C++.Captured metrics, charted, and forecasted resource usage and requirements to create capacity plans.

Greater St. Louis Area

Information Technology Consulting Firm, St. Louis, MO – Provides project management, programmer analyst, systems analyst, and technical specialist talent.(Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated, St. Louis, MO – Revenue Management Department)Provided database, engineering, and resource administration skills in support of systems and applications used for marketing, pricing, and promoting beer products at the local, regional, and national sales level.(Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated, St. Louis, MO – Talent and Traffic Department)Administrated, analyzed, configured, and tuned Oracle 7 RDBMS on RS/6000 servers running AIX.Developed server-side applications using Oracle’s Pro*C/C++.

Greater St. Louis Area

A global retail conglomerate headquartered in St. Louis, MO.Managed the procurement, installation, configuration, deployment, and monitoring of data centers for two 450,000 square foot apparel and distribution centers using IBM’s Netview Distribution Manager/2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase System 10, Oracle 7, Novell Netware, IBM OS/2 LAN Server, and Lotus Notes server and systems.Led technical, issue resolution, and decision making teams during feasibility, requirements, and design phases of client/server architectures and systems.

Houston, Texas Area

An information technology consulting firm headquartered in Houston, TX.(Union Pacific Technologies, St. Louis, MO)Designed, developed, tested, deployed client-server applications and database models, trained client developers in using the PowerBuilder IDE, MicroFocus COBOL, ERWin/ERX, IEF Composer, and administered Oracle 7 RDBMS on Unix.(BSG Time and Billing System, Houston, TX)Provided database design, installation, configuration, implementation, performance tuning, monitoring, upgrading, and system troubleshooting for all internal Oracle-based projects on Novell Netware and Unix.(Data Genera/Trilogy, Boston, MA)Trained, installed, designed, developed, and deployed Trilogy’s SalesBuilder bundler engine using object oriented and artificial intelligence concepts to properly configure software and hardware product offerings.Administered, and supported client application running Oracle 6 RDBMS on DG/UX.(BSG MIS Group, Houston, TX)Authored an enterprise-wide disaster recovery plan and implemented internally and externally to customers, to include acquisition, installation, configuration, and support of software and hardware resources.

Houston, Texas Area

A software, hardware, and network consulting company specializing in custom systems for the medical and petroleum industries. Novell Gold Authorized Reseller. Headquartered in Houston, TX.Sold, installed, administered, and provided on-site and remote support to client workstations, networks, software, hardware, and systems running Novell Netware.Designed, developed, tested, and deployed single-user and client-server applications using Clipper.

Greater St. Louis Area

A global retail conglomerate headquartered in St. Louis, MO.Designed, created, and maintained report and on-line screen applications using C, Sybase SQL, and Polytron Version Control System (PVCS) in an IBM OS/2 environment.Developed and revised logical and physical data flow diagrams for the distribution center carousel and conveyor systems.

Fort Leanord Wood, Mo (Basic Training)

United States ARMY, Specialist 4, Combat Medical And Psychiatric Specialist (91B/91F). Stationed in Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. 97th General Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany. Walter Reed AMC, Washington D.C.