Took a hiatus from business travel and full-time consulting work to engage in other pursuits, including assisting in the administration of a family business, making music, enjoying the great outdoors. Occasional business and IT consulting engagements.

Professional bassist as a parallel career for many years. Experience with a variety of genres including but not limited to Rock, Blues, R&B.

Project Manager for Oracle's Utilities Global Business Unit - Consulting Services. Successfully managed large and complex Oracle enterprise system implementations for major utilities in the US and Canada. Provided sales support and managed various post-production support services engagements and teams.

Manager in the Professional Services Organization (PSO) leading team of up to 25 technical project leads, technical consultants, designers, developers, and Oracle and SQL Server DBAs responsible for modifying, installing, implementing, upgrading, maintaining and supporting Oracle/UNIX and Oracle/Windows based CIS, Asset Management, and Field Service Systems for clients in the utilities, manufacturing and technical services industries. Responsibilities included leading technical projects and… Show more Manager in the Professional Services Organization (PSO) leading team of up to 25 technical project leads, technical consultants, designers, developers, and Oracle and SQL Server DBAs responsible for modifying, installing, implementing, upgrading, maintaining and supporting Oracle/UNIX and Oracle/Windows based CIS, Asset Management, and Field Service Systems for clients in the utilities, manufacturing and technical services industries. Responsibilities included leading technical projects and troubleshooting “SWAT” teams; managing internal development projects; and interfacing with all levels of internal and client organizations, project teams, and product development groups. Responsible for the CIS Upgrade practice, providing sales support, IT budgeting for PSO, and establishing and managing the Systems Engineer Services practice. Show less

Professional Services Resource Manager for a team of up to 25 technical project leads, technical consultants and Oracle DBAs. Responsibilities included attaining individual and group utilization and revenue goals; scheduling, assigning and supervising employees’ work; approving time and expenses; hiring, developing and retaining employees. Provided management oversight of technical projects and troubleshooting teams; interfaced with internal and client project teams, and internal product… Show more Professional Services Resource Manager for a team of up to 25 technical project leads, technical consultants and Oracle DBAs. Responsibilities included attaining individual and group utilization and revenue goals; scheduling, assigning and supervising employees’ work; approving time and expenses; hiring, developing and retaining employees. Provided management oversight of technical projects and troubleshooting teams; interfaced with internal and client project teams, and internal product development group. Oversaw the CIS Upgrade practice; provided sales support; managed internal application development projects. In addition to permanent employees, worked with services vendors and managed up to 24 concurrent offshore, near shore and local contract resources as needed. Show less