Scott Rethorst Email & Phone Number

United States

Remote

• Developed new functionality that added a new work flow to the client’s instance of Meridium (now GE APM) using VB.NET and the GE APM Visual Studio plugin

Findlay, Ohio

• Technical lead for integrating a recently purchased large refinery’s instance of GE APM with the Marathon’s existing instance of GE APM with responsibilities for data mapping, migration and functionality gap analysis• Project Manager to integrate the Reliability Application space for a small refinery while coordinating with other IT personnel and business personnel at the site throughout the transition process• Support custom interfaces for Functional Locations, Equipment, Work Orders and Notifications between GE APM and SAP using VB.NET, C# and GE APM Visual Studio plugin• Redesigned how custom GE APM interface processed records to reduce occurrences of reprocessing records that was crashing the application when more than a couple thousand records were sent over a 10 minute time period• Lead technical support for GE APM Calibration Manager Module along with general support duties for other modules troubleshooting Windows and Citrix issues• Trained over 30 users in GE APM Calibration Module• Formally mentored 1 co-op and informally mentored 5 others to help set goals and tasks for their terms• Primary support and developer for C#, SAP PI, and VB.NET interfaces between SmartPlant Instrumentation application, SAP and GE APM• Primary support for Plant Condition Management System application including converting backend of the database from Oracle to SQL and migrating out of a 3rd party TSA environment• Project Manager for converting Plant Condition Management System application to GE APM including responsibilities mapping of data objects, coordinating efforts with refinery personnel to fill existing data gaps and managing 2 other IT personnel on the project

Findlay, Oh

• Collaborated with refinery personnel in the Maintenance and Reliability groups in support of various applications, fixing issues with applications and websites written in VB.NET and C#• Collaborating with a team of IT Developers, Analysts, and Integrators to plan and execute a successful migration of IT solutions to a new data center• Led a project to upgrade handheld devices, used at one of the refineries, and brought them in line with current standards• Upgraded and tested multiple Windows XP applications to work in Windows 7• Integrated recently purchased refinery into the Marathon application environment in both technical and lead roles on various parts of the project