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Full Information Technology Life-cycle Experience (25 years total experience)• Enterprise perspective of applications, data, and infrastructure• Strategic planning and development of concept of operations.• Baseline functionality assessment including reverse/re-engineering when needed.• Needs/requirements assessment.• Architecture development and detailed design of all system components.• Application development, testing and deployment.• Business Process Analysis and Re-engineering.• Developed operating policy and procedures to support new business process deployment.• Operation and maintenance.Geospatial Data (15 years total experience)• Geospatial data experience with data generation (field surveying) and acquisition (aerial photography) through end use. • Experience with a broad range of Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) GIS and CADD application software (.e.g. ESRI, GeoMedia, AutoDesk, and Bentley).• GIS design, development, and deployment; especially in ESRI development environments• Deployed vendor neutral geospatial data solutions that mixed CADD and GIS data and various COTS application software.• Contributed to the Spatial Data Standard Facility Infrastructure and Environment (SDSFIE).• Contributed to the Building Information Modeling (BIM).Oracle (20 years total experience)• DBA (experience not current).• Development of application interfaces (experience not current).• Data model development.• Performance tuning.• PL SQL/SQL.• Oracle Spatial with ArcSDE.Quality Assurance/Quality Control (25 years total experience)• Performed contractor oversight of many large system deployment efforts.• Monitored progress and specification adherence of application development and data conversion.• Developed final government acceptance testing protocols.• Reviewed all design documentation.• Interacted during all prototype developments.• Reviewed technical data.Specialties: Deployment of very large geospatial data based information solutions and development of suitable standards to facilitate deployments of solutions of this scope. Committed open source and architecture advocate.• Geospatial solutions for geographically dispersed, multi-organizational user communities• Top-down - strategic planning, needs assessment, and document baseline• Bottom-up - specific applications, and on-site technical/management support

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