Ben Taylor Email & Phone Number

Irving, Texas, United States

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Responsible for software quality testing for a modern, unified upstream and midstream oil & gas ERP suite. The enterprise application consisted of a multi-million-line code base with more than 100 unique code release.
• Conducted manual regression, functional/non-functional, and exploratory testing.
• Collaborated with product support and development teams to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Developed SQL queries to analyze and validate test results.
• Managed dozens of virtual environments the QA team used for testing.
• Assisted with the implementation of the Zephyr Squad test case management add-on for Jira and maintenance of the repository consisting of nearly 5,000 test cases.Software Quality Testing: Manual Testing, Regression.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Led the implementation of mabl (cloud SaaS test automation platform) and assisted in the development of scrum practices and automated test development standards and best practices for the automation team.
• Planned and executed the proof of concept and later implementation of the Xray test case management add-on for Jira. Migrated test case data from TestRail and mabl to Xray/Jira.Technology/Tools: mabl, JavaScript.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Software Quality Testing: Manual Testing, Regression Testing, Functional/Non-Functional Testing, Test Case Development, Test Execution, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

Fort Worth, TX

• Provided on-call support for the division order application ecosystem including interfaces to the financial, revenue accounting, land, production and reserves forecasting, well master, and downtime monitoring systems..
• Served as partner application integration coordinator and technical lead for the project to retrofit the division order system and interfaces to integrate with the new SAP S/4HANA Financial (FI) and Production Revenue.
• Served as project manager and technical lead for the design, development, and implementation of the division order system including a custom data broker with interfaces to the financial and revenue accounting system to.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for the practice's information technology systems, infrastructure, and services.
• Identify and implement information management, compliance, security and business process improvements.
• Assist in the coordination of client services, processing new business and account transfers, and handling matters related to compliance and trading.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Member of the Information Services leadership team.
• Advised the director in the areas of strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, process improvement, budget forecasting and management, IT policies and procedures, and technology roadmaps.
• Established and implemented IT governance practices and methodologies including business case/financial analysis processes and project portfolio management and reporting.
• Coordinated strategy planning and monitored alignment of project portfolio to strategy.
• Developed enterprise IT budget management, performance monitoring, and forecasting processes.
• Project management, architecture planning, and infrastructure management for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) projects.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Developed and led a team of IT client support professionals responsible for enterprise Help Desk support, desktop computing support, wireless device support, and field technical support services.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Assisted in the coordination of client services, processing new business and account transfers, and handling compliance and trading issues.
• Identified business process improvement opportunities and supported the practice’s information technology systems.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• (ConocoPhillips Company acquired Burlington Resources Inc. on March 31, 2006)
• Managed and directed the activities of a technical team responsible for supporting heritage enterprise business applications, web, portal, and collaboration technology.
• The team was responsible for ongoing production systems support and integration/migration project support during the 18-month systems integration project.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• (ConocoPhillips Company acquired Burlington Resources Inc. on March 31, 2006)
• Managed and directed the activities of a technical team responsible for supporting enterprise business applications, web, portal, and collaboration technology. Supported applications included field data gathering and.
• Responsible for strategic/tactical planning, annual budget forecasting and management, and personnel performance management.
• Coordinated annual enterprise application strategy reviews with line-of-business application owners and developed business cases/financial analyses for technology enhancement projects.
• Served as a member of the Enterprise Architecture committee that was responsible for establishing enterprise technology standards and practices, and for reviewing the annual enterprise technology project portfolio to.
• Managed the successful enterprise implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server/Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and conversion from Plumtree Portal.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Performed enterprise business process improvement assessments and E-Business/web project management including the annual redesign of the BR-Inc.com Internet site and the global and divisional intranet websites.
• Developed and standardized the E-Business project management methodology.
• Served as project manager for the enterprise electronic invoicing assessment project. During the nine-month assessment, the enterprise invoice review and approval processes were documented, requirements were documented.
• Served as project manager and designer for the development of a web-based application that provided employee directory/enterprise skills locator services. The application enabled employees who worked in.
• Designed and planned the implementation of an enterprise identity management system. Project included schema/directory tree design and planning for integration of Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), PeopleSoft HR, Active.

• Managed information technology department that provided student, faculty, and staff computing, telecommunications, and media services support for the University. Supervised 13 staff members and 20 student technology.
• Responsible for ensuring that institutional objectives were supported by the information technology infrastructure and services; coordination of institution-wide strategic technology planning initiatives; establishing.
• Adviser to the senior management, President, and Board of Trustees on strategic technology initiatives.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Assisted the Director in the planning and execution of major projects and supervised nine computing, telecommunications, and media services staff members and 25 student technology assistants.
• Served as project manager during the design and installation of a campus-wide multimode fiber optic and half-inch coaxial cable infrastructure. Developed the specification document and the RFP for a turnkey.
• Developed the design and specification documents for a Category 5 Ethernet data and coaxial video cabling system installed in 19 multi-story buildings campus-wide. Served as site supervisor and project manager during.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Performed DEC VAX/VMS system administration and operations support including network and database user account creation/maintenance, data security/access control, developing DCL command procedures, and coordinating DEC.
• Performed DEC VAX/Pathworks LAN support including network administration; installation, configuration, and support of all network nodes; and Category 3/5 10Base-T Ethernet cable installation.
• Provided SCT technical support for the Alumni/Development Database System including application/database upgrades and maintenance release installations, batch processing job streams, and ad hoc database queries.
• Functioned as network administrator for Windows NT servers in three building LANs and provided PC hardware, software, and peripheral support for 100-plus users.
• Supervised operational support for Data General MV/10000 mainframe.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Provided system administration and operations support for Data General MV/10000 mainframe, DEC VAX 4000/300 minicomputer, and Windows NT Server.
• Performed network administration, database administration, and documentation for the SCT IA Plus information management system.
• Developed ad hoc database queries utilizing the IBI FOCUS hierarchical database and reporting language in support of end-user data analysis requirements.
• Installed, configured, and maintained a 100-plus-node Ethernet network including Wintel and Macintosh PCs; DEC VT430 CRT terminals; and laser, dot matrix, and line printers utilizing the DEC Pathworks, AppleTalk.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Served as project manager for the implementation of a comprehensive information management system (SCT Alumni/Development System) for the Office of University Advancement. Converted biographic/demographic and giving.