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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Primary database developer in development team redesigning medical records system. Research and determine how to modernize the data flow in legacy SQL Server system. Modifying stored procedures, constraints, and other database objects. Meet regularly with customer to design front-end screens and reports. Work in agile software development cycle. Manage technical writing overseeing the rewriting of the help section and the standard operating procedures. Provide big picture guidance to team and… Show more Primary database developer in development team redesigning medical records system. Research and determine how to modernize the data flow in legacy SQL Server system. Modifying stored procedures, constraints, and other database objects. Meet regularly with customer to design front-end screens and reports. Work in agile software development cycle. Manage technical writing overseeing the rewriting of the help section and the standard operating procedures. Provide big picture guidance to team and address team's concerns regarding duties, pace of work, deliverables. Collaborate with developers on sprint planning and goals. Manage project using Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket as well as GitLabs suite. Provides technical writing for CACI on the Defense Health Readiness Engineering Support (DHRES) portfolio of programs to include HIV Management System (HMS). Critical partner and team member to the government in delivering advanced C4ISR capabilities, systems integration and open architecture across multiple domains as technical writer. HMS web platforms provides the end users real time information about service members' medical readiness. Show less

New Orleans

Run full service web development and technology services company. Develop web sites, marketing materials, digital media products for non profits and small businesses. Provide consulting services to companies about data management and online software and tools.

Greater New Orleans Area

Created and executed test plans in support of Oracle database migration applications. Reviewed user application system requirements documentation; designs, defines and documents unit and application test plans. Transformed test plans into test scripts and executes those scripts. Participated in all phases of risk management assessment and software/hardware development. Responsible for ensuring proper execution of test scripts and documentation of test results in test logs or defect tracking… Show more Created and executed test plans in support of Oracle database migration applications. Reviewed user application system requirements documentation; designs, defines and documents unit and application test plans. Transformed test plans into test scripts and executes those scripts. Participated in all phases of risk management assessment and software/hardware development. Responsible for ensuring proper execution of test scripts and documentation of test results in test logs or defect tracking systems. Show less

Greater New Orleans Area

Managed the Oracle-based student records system, Ellucian Banner with focus on the Financial Aid product for the university. Provided support for custom Oracle packages, version upgrades, customer operational support, overall architectural design of data flow through the system. Designed/supported an architecture that grouped students into sets in order to determine if they had delivered required financial aid documents; wrote Oracle functions/procedures/packages in support of these sets… Show more Managed the Oracle-based student records system, Ellucian Banner with focus on the Financial Aid product for the university. Provided support for custom Oracle packages, version upgrades, customer operational support, overall architectural design of data flow through the system. Designed/supported an architecture that grouped students into sets in order to determine if they had delivered required financial aid documents; wrote Oracle functions/procedures/packages in support of these sets. Managed the nightly production process that moves students from set to set using approximately 300 scheduled jobs. Wrote modifications using PL/SQL to Oracle objects (tables, functions, packages) to fix defects and improve the implementation of Banner to best support the financial aid process. Supported Appworx file movement/scheduling software. Researched patches and upgrades and keep the release schedule on track for the Financial Aid annual cycle. Served as a leader in change in corporate culture to adopt agile methodologies and collaboration. To this end, wrote and circulated online documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer. Ran agile scrum meetings and facilitate adoption of agile processes across the team. Worked closely with web development team, reporting team, dba team, data warehouse team on day-to-day production issues to promote cross training, team-building, and culture change. Kept a high level view of IT mission to improve student experience. Show less

Greater New Orleans Area

Managed the Oracle-based student records system, Ellucian Banner with focus on the Financial Aid product for the university. Provided support for custom Oracle packages, version upgrades, customer operational support, overall architectural design of data flow through the system. Designed/supported an architecture that grouped students into sets in order to determine if they had delivered required financial aid documents; wrote Oracle functions/procedures/packages in support of these sets… Show more Managed the Oracle-based student records system, Ellucian Banner with focus on the Financial Aid product for the university. Provided support for custom Oracle packages, version upgrades, customer operational support, overall architectural design of data flow through the system. Designed/supported an architecture that grouped students into sets in order to determine if they had delivered required financial aid documents; wrote Oracle functions/procedures/packages in support of these sets. Managed the nightly production process that moves students from set to set using approximately 300 scheduled jobs. Wrote modifications using PL/SQL to Oracle objects (tables, functions, packages) to fix defects and improve the implementation of Banner to best support the financial aid process. Supported Appworx file movement/scheduling software. Researched patches and upgrades and keep the release schedule on track for the Financial Aid annual cycle. Served as a leader in change in corporate culture to adopt agile methodologies and collaboration. To this end, wrote and circulated online documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer. Ran agile scrum meetings and facilitate adoption of agile processes across the team. Worked closely with web development team, reporting team, dba team, data warehouse team on day-to-day production issues to promote cross training, team-building, and culture change. Kept a high level view of IT mission to improve student experience. Show less

New Orleans

Manage and supports the Trust & Asset Management department’s information systems in order to support required business services. Work directly with primary vendors for the Trust accounting and other systems to manage, compile, store, report, and secure customer account data as well as analyze, research, and solve system related problems. Manage system security user profiles, contingency implementations, and end user service requirements. Manage and develop databases and programs to support in… Show more Manage and supports the Trust & Asset Management department’s information systems in order to support required business services. Work directly with primary vendors for the Trust accounting and other systems to manage, compile, store, report, and secure customer account data as well as analyze, research, and solve system related problems. Manage system security user profiles, contingency implementations, and end user service requirements. Manage and develop databases and programs to support in house developed platforms. Assist management with analyzing business system’s needs, development and implementation of solutions, as well as training and maintaining continuity of deliverables to user base. Manage mission critical accounting systems for the Trust and Asset Management business lines by working directly with primary vendors and supporting personnel in every aspect of day-to-day system usage. Manage system security user profiles to ensure user integrity and authentication. Set up new Trust & Asset Management systems users, effect user access changes, maintain user profile logs and files for audit documentation, and performing periodic user access security reviews. Manage system production schedules and activities in accordance with vendor guidelines and procedures to insure continuity of service to both internal and external clients. Establish and maintain Trust accounting system codes and addresses impacts to processing, production, reporting, and other integrated platforms. Analyze vendor release documentation in order to determine impact to process and user base. Develop and communicate plans to implement release enhancements with related managers and assist in coordination, training, and roll out of new features. Develop and design solutions or reports by writing programs and using report writing and database software. Prepare and maintain design documentation. Manage software updates. Service users with problem resolution and application troubleshooting. Show less

New Orleans, Louisiana

Design, maintain, enhance relational databases. Analyzes and determine information needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage requirements, and data output and reporting capabilities. Develop data modeling. Responsible for data acquisition, access analysis, and design/archive/recovery/load strategy design and implementation. Coordinate new data development ensuring consistency and integration with existing data warehouse structure. Review business requests for… Show more Design, maintain, enhance relational databases. Analyzes and determine information needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage requirements, and data output and reporting capabilities. Develop data modeling. Responsible for data acquisition, access analysis, and design/archive/recovery/load strategy design and implementation. Coordinate new data development ensuring consistency and integration with existing data warehouse structure. Review business requests for data and data usage. Participate in continuous improvement efforts in enhancing performance and providing increased functionality. Design data structures to accommodate database production, storage, maintenance, and accessibility. Develop screens and queries. Test designed applications. Provide technical support and guidance to users. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designed, maintained Oracle relational database to store comprehensive information about members of Congress, bills, laws, committees, candidates for media company. Provided data modeling in Oracle for new features. Wrote Oracle PL/SQL to create new objects, triggers, and users. Managed the migration of data from one Oracle instance to another after company merger. Analyzed company needs and provided architectural designs to support new features--i.e., adding committee hearings. Reviews… Show more Designed, maintained Oracle relational database to store comprehensive information about members of Congress, bills, laws, committees, candidates for media company. Provided data modeling in Oracle for new features. Wrote Oracle PL/SQL to create new objects, triggers, and users. Managed the migration of data from one Oracle instance to another after company merger. Analyzed company needs and provided architectural designs to support new features--i.e., adding committee hearings. Reviews business needs for data and data usage. Provided structure to gather new data sources. Designed data structures to accommodate database production, storage, maintenance, and accessibility. Wrote SQL queries to support research from business and editorial teams. Designed web-based screens for data entry in concert with new backend fields, providing data validation requirements. Oversaw data integrity for the company's Oracle database content, including the following: troubleshoot problems with publishing process from database to production web environment. Added Oracle fields/tables/users/triggers to the system to allow for new content needs. Redesign/architect internal content management system using web-based forms and current technology platform (prior to that, users used MS Access). Translated stakeholder needs into requirements and communicate features effectively to engineers. Design ETL processes to migrate/sync data across database instances. Liaised with stakeholders from technology, editorial, QA, business, and executive teams to brainstorm/document/troubleshoot technology solutions to company data storage delivery systems--i.e, added data integrity monitors to tools to alert editors of potential data integrity problems. Solved chronic problems with data integrity by adding monitors, wowing management and staff with error-free election coverage in 2012. Show less

Manage editorial news operations of daily news Web site, including home page, breaking news, daily news, archiving, special sections.Liason to the newsroom staffs of news partners, The Times-Picayune and ABC26.Train print and online staff into expansion into multimedia features.Cover breaking news events and features with reporting and photography.Develop innovative online/broadcast features with broadcast partners which incorporate online polls, live updates, and blogs into… Show more Manage editorial news operations of daily news Web site, including home page, breaking news, daily news, archiving, special sections.Liason to the newsroom staffs of news partners, The Times-Picayune and ABC26.Train print and online staff into expansion into multimedia features.Cover breaking news events and features with reporting and photography.Develop innovative online/broadcast features with broadcast partners which incorporate online polls, live updates, and blogs into television coverageHurricane Katrina: Maintained operations of NOLA.com in 24-hour news mode. Show less

Based upon the success of the IT department at Advance Internet, moved to the sister company CondéNet to provide leadership during merger of CondeNet and Advance Internet’s IT departments. Managed the conversion of Condenet’s four major websites to Linux platform with Oracle relational database architecture following agile project management process. Led major redesign of Conde Nast Traveler magazine’s sister website, Concierge.com, in Linux/Oracle. Managed Style.com ecommerce store with… Show more Based upon the success of the IT department at Advance Internet, moved to the sister company CondéNet to provide leadership during merger of CondeNet and Advance Internet’s IT departments. Managed the conversion of Condenet’s four major websites to Linux platform with Oracle relational database architecture following agile project management process. Led major redesign of Conde Nast Traveler magazine’s sister website, Concierge.com, in Linux/Oracle. Managed Style.com ecommerce store with partner Neiman Marcus. Managed development of new features in Oracle-based recipe database website Epicurious.com, including projects to convert recipe ingredients to metric system, adjust quantities, add to “My Recipes” personalized folder. Coordinated frontend and backend changes across teams, managed releases to Production. Managed staff of four programmers, two database administrators, and five project managers. Show less

In startup environment for media company consisting of 28 major newspapers in 10 major markets, fleshed out a centralized IT department and corporate IT hub for affiliate companies. Managed projects and served as lead developer on several Oracle applications, including OregonLive sports scores database, Advertiser database. newspaper classifieds applications, daily news online publishing. Extensive use of Oracle/Linux with PL/SQL and Unix shell scripts to support and troubleshoot. Provided… Show more In startup environment for media company consisting of 28 major newspapers in 10 major markets, fleshed out a centralized IT department and corporate IT hub for affiliate companies. Managed projects and served as lead developer on several Oracle applications, including OregonLive sports scores database, Advertiser database. newspaper classifieds applications, daily news online publishing. Extensive use of Oracle/Linux with PL/SQL and Unix shell scripts to support and troubleshoot. Provided broad support from brainstorming ideas to defining features to writing specifications to serving as lead developer to managing people and defining roles. Exported ten to twenty Oracle applications to affiliate companies in this timeframe. Defined policies, and standards for programming and release of software in collaboration with team. Facilitated congenial environment focused on collaboration and communication with online documentation. Created and implemented project-development process for Advance Internet and ten affiliate companies. Built Oracle-based online project-management tools for company intranet. Released several major applications to automate and improve site performance and traffic. Managed staff of twelve technical coordinators, technical writer in application development. Show less