Dean Thompson Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Direct InComm Financial Services engagements to ensure cross-functional access to systems. Responsible for directing the implementation of the strategic vision of the company's financial systems, leveraging the Oracle R12 EBS application system. Develop strategies for improving system usability. Liaise with vendors or consultants on utilizing ERP integration methodologies to map business processes to ERP modules. Engaged with business to provide technical and functional direction for InComm's financial information systems. Ascertain functional requirements relevant to initiating complex installations of ERP technologies to meet interdepartmental needs. Responsibility includes ensuring SLAs are met, capture and monitor metrics to ensure financial systems are at their optimal performance. Direct global team consisting of Developers, Analysts, DBA's, Architects and Project Managers

Served as an advisor by participating in and identifying new blockchain applications. Delivered thought leadership relating to blockchain projects and ideas. Implemented and utilized Kanban framework to accomplish project related tasks.• Installed and prototyped MVP Blockchain technology• Analyzed and implemented blockchain database technology stack (BigchainDB, MongoDB and Tendermint) to deliver Byzantine fault-tolerant blockchain database.• Installed and configured NoSQL databases - Cassandra and MongoDB.• Installed and configured Hadoop• Installed and configure VMware ESXi hypervisor• Deployed and patched Linux virtual servers

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Oversaw and architected middleware infrastructure, software and resources for deployments, 24/7 service level management, capacity management, and staff development. Manage customer relationships with business units to ensure deployment, configuration, administration, security (patching & hardening), and support of Middleware systems technology include PKI SSL certificates, WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTPP Server and Tomcat servers hosted on Linux and Solaris servers. Support Project Management (Agile and Waterfall) in a consultative capacity. Recruited and developed a high-performance team of professionals. • Provided L1 / L2 application support for revenue generating international applications utilizing ServiceNow, Jira and LeanKit platforms. Automated application deployments and patching using Rundeck.• Delivered technical support for customers, sales and decision solutions teams. Issue resolution coordination from start to finish, and engagement of IT support teams.• Managed source code and packaging enablement processes.• One Equifax Award recipient for Managerial Excellence.• Product Owner IT Asset Management – Release management function• Produced conceptual designs and cost estimates for infrastructure solutions.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Engage with business units to elicit requirements, specifications and project scope. Directed team members to produce conceptual designs and cost estimates for infrastructure solutions, adhering to defined architecture standards. Responsible for the delivery of detailed designs and build instructions. Support Project Management in a consultative capacity during project implementation. Develop and implement strategy and execution plan for server consolidation and virtualization. Research and test midrange products and tools to maintain currency and enhance functionality.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Adjunct Faculty

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Developed and implemented IT solutions to improve performance, efficiency, and capability in DevOps environment. Engaged senior executives to define business needs and align IT strategy with broader goals of growth and profitability. Drove enterprise-wide initiatives, steering work from requirements analysis to completion. Diligently managed resources and vendor relationships. Orchestrated the efforts of cross-functional teams of DBAs, Reliability Engineers, Applications Administrators of Siebel, Oracle Financials and Middleware on a global scale; established common strategy and navigated different languages and cultures to align diverse onshore and offshore staff behind clear goals for complex, large-scale projects.• Designed and implemented an HP enterprise-wide management solution for an end-to-end monitoring of IoT systems; delivered event deduplication capabilities to streamline monitoring and notification, reduced Mean Time to Repair (MTTR). Implemented and utilized Tableau for IT operations analytics reporting.• Provided leadership on large-scale data center migration for ERP and Mongo, MySQL and Oracle Databases, GoldenGate, E-business, Siebel and Fusion Middleware which led to improved application performance, database and system uptime.• Designed data architecture for IoT over-the-air updates. • Defined priorities and oversaw efficient execution for a group of high-visibility projects with a combined $20M in value, equipping Verizon Telematics (IoT) with best-in-class technical capabilities.• Reviewed effectiveness of existing vendor partnerships and negotiated new agreements to save costs. • Delivered Oracle Data Guard solution for Siebel and Oracle e-business applications and cloning strategy.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Established strategy and oversaw implementation of database standards, controls and procedures. Performed production support and administrative activities for Oracle Application R12. Performed cloning, configuration, and patching of Oracle e-Business suite R12 on IBM AIX operating system. • Introduced best practices throughout application lifecycle environments, naming conventions, and processes and policy administration.• Designed and implemented backup and recovery procedure across Watershed Management database systems using RMAN.• Implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.5 to provide central database monitoring and management of application systems, including Oracle E-Business suite.

New York, Ny, Us

Led 15-member team across the U.S., U.K, France and Jordan in the delivery of innovative IT solutions. Teamed up with executive- level decision-makers to determine business needs and translated into technical solutions. Directed multiple, simultaneous projects over $6M. Provided leadership and framework to actively identify needs and respond to critical issues. Managed risk assessment, issue resolution and change management initiatives. Trained, mentored and oversaw team of 4 Application Database Administration providing optimal support to 25 Oracle production and development environments across Linux, Windows and OpenVMS platforms with databases up to 1.5 Terabyte. Created routines that utilized NetApp cloning methodology. Coded scripts using Python and PL / SQL routines which utilized Oracle analytic functions and windowing aggregate functions. Administered Oracle Single Sign-On process. • Deployed a BMC workload automation solution, including an enterprise-wide job scheduling system.• Took over struggling project and re-architected MicroStrategy BI and ETL framework, minimizing data capture and load time from 24 to 6 hours; reduced ETL processing time 75% with enhanced visibility into customer purchasing patterns and regional sales data, and enabled advanced analytics capabilities.• Implemented Oracle ERP instances in North America and Europe, completely replacing legacy systems while automating supply chain, self-service and time tracking operations. Performed installation, cloning, • Configuration and patching of Oracle E-business suite 11.5.10 on Redhat Linux operating system. Multi-language E-business suite roll-out included I-procurement, I-expense, OTL, Supply Chain, Financials, Hyperion and Human Resource. • Directed the design of database architecture to support a mission-critical system. Oversaw Oracle Forms and reports implementation, single sign-on solution, and middle-tier environment set up.

Designed, expanded, and optimized Oracle environment supporting mission-critical marketing analytics applications for CRM Application Solutions Provider.* Optimized 40 development and production database environments supporting over 1TB of data.

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Planned, designed, and oversaw delivery of Oracle RDBMS solutions at client sites throughout the Eastern U.S.

London, United Kingdom , Gb

Mba, Information Systems (With Honors), Information Technology

Bs, Information Science, York College (With Honors), Information Systems