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I changed our focus to customer support and increased quality of IT operations.West Virginia Department of environmental protection Collects data from applicants for permits, Permits, Inspections, Land Reclamation, Stream and Air Monitoring, Low flying aircraft and drones. This information is in our databases and mapped on our GIS platforms.Management: Strategic Planning and Management • Needs Analysis • Contracts for Software Development • Organizational Improvement • Staff Utilization • Staff Augmentation • Staff Development • Staff Retention • Staff RecruitmentSecurity: NIST Framework 800-37 and 800-53 •Application Security • Application Hardening • Identification Proofing, President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order.Client Service: Steering Committee • IT Quality, Security and Privacy Committee • Disaster Recovery • Customer Focus Mentoring and Training: New Developers • New Server Administrators • New Oracle Database Administrators • New Purchasing Agents • New Managers • New Users● Lead 3 section managers (App Dev, GIS, and Datacenter), while managing day-to-day duties, including formulating budget proposals, upgrading, and purchasing equipment, and supervising IT-related projects and project managers.● Provide technical direction to the department incorporating all ongoing projects while overseeing the mission priority setting in accordance with department policies and procedures.● Support DEP’s mission statement regarding inclusiveness, quality, security, and privacy by using custom application support to deliver internal, intra agency, applications and public reporting maps and documents.● Oversee 30 full-time employees while managing 850 internal customers along with 220K external industry customers and the public with full accountability of an annual budget of $10M.● Recruit student developers to augment staff and provide opportunities to young developers

Saved the day.When the IRIS project at DEP became questioned by Senior Management I was asked to step in and lead the project. The project was to implement Tempo, a product produced and customized by CGI environmental. However, there was a large gap between what DEP could afford and what DEP needed. Thus, due to projected cost overruns the project was restarted as many separate projects without CGI corporation. The Goals were redefined and based on existing systems to lower costs and achieve desired quality and make systems able to be audited.

I solved performance problems and increased database scale.I have an OCP certification for Oracle 11g, 10g, 9i and 8i. I was the DBA for DEP, which maintains numerous Oracle databases for numerous database applications. I work closely with application developers and provide general database support. I was also Storage Area Network Admin with IBM DS4400 and DS4800 and Cisco and Brocade and Qlogic swiches, and Server Admin for a number of windows application and web servers.● Administered and maintained several Oracle databases for 30 database applications in close coordination with application developers.● Provided proactive support to all team members while highlighting industry best practices securing margin for improvement opportunities and maintaining compliance with established SOPs.● Oversaw security, performance, and availability of Oracle 11g databases and windows middle-tier and web servers.

Over several years I have succeeded at many jobs and projects.West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) | Electronic Permitting Project Leader and DBA (8/2002-8/2004) West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) | Office of Air Quality (6/1996-10/2000) West Virginia State College | Programmer/Analyst Financial Aid Department (6/1994-6/1996) West Virginia University | Lab Instructor Microprocessor Interfacing (1/1994-5/1994) Self-employed | Software Design Consultant (many US customers)