Mark Young Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Canada Area

Okotoks, Alberta

•Lead the IT initiative at Western Feedlots, including mapping out technologies and IT direction•Strategize about the company’s information and technology needs with the CEO and CFO while reporting to the CEO•In collaboration with the CFO, designed and managed a 4 year multi-million dollar project with a 3 year development life cycle •Designed a flexible and dynamic core for individual animal management to enable science based decision making based off of any individual attribute… Show more •Lead the IT initiative at Western Feedlots, including mapping out technologies and IT direction•Strategize about the company’s information and technology needs with the CEO and CFO while reporting to the CEO•In collaboration with the CFO, designed and managed a 4 year multi-million dollar project with a 3 year development life cycle •Designed a flexible and dynamic core for individual animal management to enable science based decision making based off of any individual attribute •In collaboration with the CFO, designed a flexible accounting system which included no integration, no balancing, and no posting which freed up accounting resources to take on other administration activities•Write requirement documentation, design documentation, and UML diagrams•Comply with government funding requirements•Trained three of our software engineers to project manage offshore teams•Grew onsite IT department from 3 to 10 with very little turnover•Grew offshore team from 0 to 13 and have now reduced the team to 6 for maintenance development•Manage onsite and offshore teams through team foundation server, Skype, and onsite SCRUM sessions•Present to potential clients on the benefits and functionality of the ERP project•Use a mixture of waterfall and agile project management methods•Project Management of the overall ERP project and 14 of the 35 projects under it•Re-engineer processes through process mapping, addressing bottlenecks and streamlining the process•Keep the projects sponsors up to date on project issues, statuses, budgets, schedules of milestones, risks, and constraints through progress reports and GANTT charts•Managed Western’s continued progress while in the 3 year development cycle of the ERP project Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

• Designed and taught a week long course onsite which entailed programming in Visual Basic on SQL Server with Access reports• Implemented SourceSafe and taught clients how to maintain their source code through Interdev, Visual Basic, and through SourceSafe directly• Supported and developed added functionality to Feedback, which uses Visual Basic on SQL Server across 12 servers and 11 feedlot locations.• Created a commodity pricing application that allowed pricing changes centrally… Show more • Designed and taught a week long course onsite which entailed programming in Visual Basic on SQL Server with Access reports• Implemented SourceSafe and taught clients how to maintain their source code through Interdev, Visual Basic, and through SourceSafe directly• Supported and developed added functionality to Feedback, which uses Visual Basic on SQL Server across 12 servers and 11 feedlot locations.• Created a commodity pricing application that allowed pricing changes centrally that would update prices to all of the other servers when applicable• Changed reporting code structure to allow greater flexibility for dynamic reporting Show less

Okotoks, Alberta

• My responsibilities include all of the stages in the systems development lifecycle• Developed application to buy and sell commodities, track commissions, and track freight online using ASP.NET on SQL server• Developed upgrades and added functionality to Feedback, which is a large feedlot client-server information system. Western Feedlots uses Feedback across 5 servers and has 800 tables in each Feedback database. The servers communicate to each other through… Show more • My responsibilities include all of the stages in the systems development lifecycle• Developed application to buy and sell commodities, track commissions, and track freight online using ASP.NET on SQL server• Developed upgrades and added functionality to Feedback, which is a large feedlot client-server information system. Western Feedlots uses Feedback across 5 servers and has 800 tables in each Feedback database. The servers communicate to each other through replication.• Provided support to Feedback on support issues that were too complicated for their support group to handle• Analyzed, designed and developed an accounting interfacing program using stored procedures and replication in SQL Server which broke down information in Feedback to GL codes that was then integrated into a custom accounting program• Developed an invoicing preview to allow balancing of commodities, head inventory, and billings before committing to an invoicing run Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

• Supported and developed a visual basic scanning program that interfaced with Documentum• Supervised a programmer and a systems administrator• Scripted a Documentum reorganization• Resurrected an unused multi-year development web project that interfaced with Documentum and updated it to be more user-friendly and effective. It was re-rolled out and was used readily when the contract was finished• Managed Documentum and Server upgrades

Calgary, Canada Area

• Hired, trained, and managed two in-house developers• Developed upgrades and added functionality to a client-server application called Feedback• Developed accounting functionality for auditing, history tracking, and financial analysis• Provided business solutions through stored procedures in SQL server• Requirements gathering and estimating on new projects• Stabilized replication by creating a custom replication program to solve the snapshot issue when you have multiple… Show more • Hired, trained, and managed two in-house developers• Developed upgrades and added functionality to a client-server application called Feedback• Developed accounting functionality for auditing, history tracking, and financial analysis• Provided business solutions through stored procedures in SQL server• Requirements gathering and estimating on new projects• Stabilized replication by creating a custom replication program to solve the snapshot issue when you have multiple servers replicating to a single central server• Maintained ASP code for an online registration system• Maintained and enhanced an accounting school’s client-server application that used Access on SQL server• Managed a team of three developers for support and upgrades to their school management system• Hired and trained new developers for a client so they could become self sufficient in maintaining their IT needs• Created a future map for development for the accounting school client• Optimized SQL code which resulted in significantly speeding up business processes• Worked with Western Feedlots Ltd. And Certified General Accountants Association of Canada Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

• Made enhancements to a drilling construction Access application to maintain integrity in a changing environment• Developed Access application to assist heavy oil engineers in cost analysis and estimates of drilling construction projects• Developed and maintained critical corporate Intranet application to ensure file retention compliance with government regulations using Livewire and Oracle• Created application using Access and Oracle to assess the environmental concerns of… Show more • Made enhancements to a drilling construction Access application to maintain integrity in a changing environment• Developed Access application to assist heavy oil engineers in cost analysis and estimates of drilling construction projects• Developed and maintained critical corporate Intranet application to ensure file retention compliance with government regulations using Livewire and Oracle• Created application using Access and Oracle to assess the environmental concerns of pipelines crossing rivers • Developed and maintained Lotus Notes Domino template to help engineers and geologists find locations of various well sites• Developed and maintained Access application to update file retention information• Programmed Perl script to update an interactive web form• Maintained corporate data in FileNet• Interfaced Visual Basic applications with FileNet• Created web pages to support Livewire applications • Evaluated Lotus Notes Domino for its appropriateness to distribute data to the field • Consulted with clients to obtain system requirements and provide regular progress reports to ensure final needs were met • Integrated a new reclamation form and report for drilling construction application in adherence to government regulations• Developed new install routines to ensure simplicity during upgrades Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

• Developed critical billing system tailored for psychology practices• Incorporated different functionality including accounting, patient information, and insurance policies• System implemented using MS Access• Maintained high level of interaction with client to include new system functionality

Calgary, Canada Area

• Developed various accounting/benefits modules for company custom inventory tracking applications• Created invoices and custom reports in FoxPro for a membership management application• Provided technical software customer support • Reverse engineered and migrated existing client data to IRM standard data models• System administration and maintenance for Internet search engine application• Webpage development and maintenance

Computer Technology, Information Technology

8 Month CO-OP term with AMOCO/BP, Financial Accounting, Structured Programming 1, Technical Communications, Computer Fundamentals.

Business Intelligence Certification, Business Intelligence

• BI requirements gathering using BABOK and Kimball methodologies • BI reporting solutions using SSRS • OLAP solutions using SQL Analysis.