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Audubon, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Architects and designs end-to-end solutions. Collaborates with a broad cross section of business Stakeholders including staff across the organization, consultants, and contractors. Works with both staff outside of Information Technology for SaaS based solutions utilizing a buy approach for basic business capabilities. Works with product owners and agile teams when the solution requires a custom developed solution or integration with a buy solution. Collaborates with Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering staff when architecting solutions.Key Contributions:- Led the Business Intelligence tool selection process. While being the solution architect, also filled the role of project manager for the effort.- Essential participant in the creation of the enterprise’s Cloud Strategy including Cloud Provider selection- Essential participant in an enterprise wide discovery and interview process to identify strengths, weaknesses, concerns, and desires of key stakeholders regarding the enterprise's data.- Essential participant in a Data Strategy and Maturity Assessment- Member of the Data Governance CCoE acting as a Data Coach- Defined a reference architecture and solution patterns used by the enterprises Data and Analytics group to design and implement the organization’s first customer facing dashboard. - Presently leading the effort to clarify the enterprise’s future state data architecture and design via defining domains, data journeys, and data contracts.- Led the effort to evaluate and adopt AWS DMS as a means to extract the organization's data from ORACLE databases and load it into the AWS Data Lake House landing zone.- Led a project to decrease effort and cycle time regarding the organization's grant submission process. The effort involved a product search. Filled the roles of solution architect, project manager and business analyst. The capabilities provided by the product have been reused in a dozen other processes at the organization.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Managed a team of staff, including contractors, consultants, DBAs, Middleware Administrators, and Windows Administrators to effectively support various server-based tools: Oracle RDBMS, MS SQL Server, Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS application servers, Apache & OHS web servers, Informatica, and MicroStrategy. Coordinated and managed integration of custom applications used to support the company’s business. Handled all HR functions including recruitment, performance planning, employee feedback, and evaluations.Key Contributions:- Spearheaded process ownership for IT functions, including monthly maintenance and application deployment processes.- Initiated and led the breakdown of IT Infrastructure into logical business platforms, separating services and servers into specific subsets based on customers’ specific needs.- Liaised with both infrastructure managers and application architects to effectively halt architecture sprawl and enhance stability, uptime, and security.- Implemented key platforms that became the underpinning of current IT architecture, resulting in improved security and service levels.- Influenced cross-functional groups to garner consensus for project initiatives.- Provided exceptional support to business functions, including organizational specific units, Finance, and Human Resources, with custom application system interfaces and Oracle ERP upgrade. - Authored Application Deployment SOP and instrumental in patching and change control SOPs.- Managed vendors, including hosting services, and tracked licensing/support subscriptions for all products.- Complete capital and operational budget responsibility, including monitoring and managing line items, while overseeing licensing, purchasing, and consulting and contracting fees.- Led recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding for permanent staff, staff augmentation, and project-specific contractors and consultants.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Supported evolution of work processes, contributing to database structure changes and infrastructure stability. Used business requirements to define logical models and translate them into physical models for the business domains of registration, test accommodations, score reporting, and document requests.Key Contributions:- Assisted in developing efficient means for one application DBA, to replace another on a permanent or temporary basis.- Presented regularly at an internal Application DBA technology SIG.- Mentored Application DBAs and defined naming standards for database objects.- Performed all non-application based production data loading for business areas.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Supported development functions and served as the lead developer on a number of projects including the conversion of an application system comprised of sub-systems for registration, problem letter processing, billing interface, and document request processing.Key Contributions:- Instrumental in coding 90% of applications for a time-budgeting application system (PLAN).- Liaised with end-users to enhance applications, through use of global parameters/re-useable code, allowing different end-users to manipulate information specific to their needs; and saving development and maintenance time.- Key contributor to a set of applications for special test accommodation request processing and approval, as well as item development and exam composition.

Worked exclusively at DuPont Enterprise Engineering Associates as a software engineer as part of a team developing a Treasury Management System. Developed and unit tested applications. Participated in Rapid Application Development (RAD) session with the customer. Provided technical review and guidance to the team documentation specialist.Key Contributions:- Designed, coded, tested, implemented, and supported a Treasury Management System utilizing ORACLE 5.1b for MS-DOS- Performed analysis and design using the RIPP methodology, a data driven methodology- Developed both the logical and physical databases design- Created numerous on-line screens utilizing SQL*FORMs along with many report and batch functions utilizing SQL*PLUS, RPT, and the DOS batch language.- Sized and partitioned the production database- Enhanced the security subsystem- Developed both the archival subsystem and file transfer subsystem- Worked closely with the training and documentation group to verify the user documentation

Maintained and developed applications supporting pharmaceutical production and laboratory business functions. Refined and Implemented user requirements. Provided both technical and user documentation for the applications.Key Contributions:- Designed, coded, tested, implemented, and supported software written to identify trends in chemical test results - Designed and managed a lab data analysis system which utilized SAS under MVS- Interfaced Pascal code with graphic subroutines written in FORTRAN to produce a device independent graphing routine- Performed a conversion from ADRS2 under VM to Digital CODASYL DBMS- Performed training and created all documentation for the systems developed

Computer Science, Accounting And Business/Management

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