Michael R. Schlager

763 Abbott Road, Buffalo, N.Y. 14220 (716) 238-6303

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Information Technology ~ Business Intelligence ~ Systems Management

As a distinguished, versatile Information Technology professional, Mr. Schlager has many years of IT leadership

experience in systems management, architecture, databases, networking technologies, E-Commerce and packaged

software implementations. Mr. Schlagers’ experiences are with a select group of clients, including the Fortune

100/500 companies within the U.S. and Canada.

Business Intelligence Director

Logistics and Transportation Management

Vendor Relationship Management

Global/International IT Delivery

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Professional Experience

Electronic Commerce Strategy and Development

Technology Architecture and Systems Integration

Cost Benefit Analysis

Capital Expenditure Funding, Proposals, Justification

State of the Art Software Development

Baillie Lumber Co. LLP – July 2006 – Present, Hamburg New York

Information Systems Manager

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). To facilitate Baillie’s executive reporting

requirements, Mr. Schlager was the lead architect who developed physical, logical, and presentation layer data

model in Star Schema’s to model to Baillie’s unique lumber industry requirements. Functioning for 10 years

as the lead architect responsible for building in-house systems. Business subject areas include executive,

finance, sales, transportation and GL/accounting. The primary/sole architect responsible for all levels of

extracting, transforming and loading (ETL). Worked directly with company ownership, controller, IT director

and all levels of senior management. Systems are deployed on an Oracle Fusion Middleware environment

running on a Windows Server. The OBIEE client, used for BI Administration and modeling, is run on

Windows. Created separate Oracle databases to support the BI product. Installed and maintained in a Red Hat

Linux environment. Identified as a best in class by the Oracle Corporation. Gave OBIEE presentation to

Oracle Users Group in Rochester, N.Y. office. Baillie Lumber is the premiere world-wide hardwood lumber

company, exporting lumber to over 75 countries around the globe.

Oracle Transportation Management system (OTM). Conducted a vendor analysis, then selected Oracle’s

OTM system (formerly G-Log), now call Oracle Logistics. Created an installed a three tier architecture system

on Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic and Oracle database servers. Responsible for all Linux administration,

installations and upgrades to the product. Operated as the lead database administrator (DBA) for the product.

Baillie exports via Ocean, TL, LTL, VAN, Multi-Stop and Intermodal Modes of Transportation. Baillie works

with over 500 trucking lines and all the major Ocean steamship lines to ship product. The OTM Logistics

package is a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Softshare middleware.

from legacy AS/400 ERP system to OTM in an XML format. Data was sent via HTML transport to a

Tomcat servlet running on the OTM system.

Salesforce CRM system. Business objective was to create a 360 degree view of the customer for our sales

representatives. Selected Salesforce as the vendor for implementation. Created data integration feed from

our internal system to Salesforce.com Cloud environment (SFDC). Installed Jitterbit software, which was

used to map internal data entities to SFDC objects. Created a document integration feed to send internal

PDF documents via a Base64Encoding format, to SFDC for presentation on the cloud application.

Salesforce is the industry leader in CRM software.

Technology upgrades. Introduced company to storage attached network (SAN) storage.

Installed Softshare software, (now titled Liaison). Move sales order information

Installed Equalogic

SAN storage. Introduced blade server technology. Installed IBM HS22 blade servers, which were capable

of running both Linux and Windows OS. Created SAN boot to allow for failover and redundancy.

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Computer Task Group – July 2005 – July 2006, Buffalo New York

Consultant

Principal consultant, data architect and technical project lead in the development of a web-based tool for the

Health Care industry.

FedEx Trade Networks - 2001 – May 2005, Buffalo New York

Senior Manager, Information Technology

Senior manager. Business development and supervision of the FTN’s International Freight Forwarding, ECommerce,

Financial Development, Web Development, Unix Systems and Web Administration staff. FTN

operates as an NVOCC in Ocean operations, all well as FedEx Air. Business model is both import and export.

MQ Series System’s Administration, seven years plus experience. Pioneered the companies messaging

infrastructure using IBM’s MQ Series. MQ integration was setup internally on Sun Solaris, DEC/Alpha, IBM

AS/400 and IBM ES/9000 MVS systems. Multiple external MQ interfaces were established with U.S.

Custom’s, FedEx’s internal messaging backbone and large customers, such as Delphi Automotive, in Mexico.

Established backup/restore facilities on Unix platform. Day to day administration of Queue’s, Channel’s and

trigger monitor’s using the NT version of MQ version 5.3. Established Veritas Cluster agent to handle system

fail-over of MQ service application group to disparate backup/fail-over system.

Managed the rewrite of the companies Web site. Code base was deployed, on-time, within budget, over

several months in standard JAVA/J2EE compliant, cost-free software. Also developed the initial Java code to

send data to U.S. Custom’s using a server side Java application to send/receive data in real-time.

Capital projects. The renovation/upgrades to systems hardware and software in each of the respective groups.

Migration of Sterling Commerce EDI Gentran NT system to state-of-the-art hardware and software systems.

Migration of the International Freight Forwarding system to state-of-the-art Citrix and Unix operating

environment. Replacement of Unix Sun Enterprise Database Systems. Upgrade of Solaris O/S on sixty

operating systems. Several EMC upgrades to support 13 terabyte SAN storage environment. Upgrades to

production, test and development Oracle databases to version to 9i or 8i as required.

Re-architecture of the Web hardware environment. Deployment on standard Apache Web Servers, Tomcat 5.0

Application servers and Nortel hardware load balancing units.

Oracle high performance database deployment on high-end enterprise class Sun Solaris servers. Critical

databases deployed in Veritas Highly available (VCS) cluster environment, with in-the-box hardware

redundancy, and high availability fail-over capability to disparate systems.

Tape backup facilities. ADIC automated/unattended robotic units.

Excellent working relationships with external vendors and their local account representatives. Excellent

working relationship with FedEx national account representatives from the major hardware and software

vendors. Managed relationships with key vendors, consultants, licensees and affiliates.

Technical project lead in the consolidation of three disparate billing and accounting systems, all running on

different platforms, into one unified and centralized packaged financial system, Coda Financials, running on a

single platform.

Primary company interface between the FedEx Trade Networks and the Department of Homeland Security for

all Automated Export System communications.

Computer Task Group, Consultant 1987 - 2001

Tower Group - Customs Brokerage, Data Warehouse/Financial Implementation, Buffalo New York

Technical leadership in the implementation of a Global Transportation logistical management software

package, Trax, in an Oracle/Progress AIX environment.

Procured and deployed the initial Unix systems in an IBM mainframe shop.

Established the initial production Oracle databases in the AIX/Unix environment.

Development of transformation processes, which combined three legacy platforms into a Data Warehousing

environment.

Establishment of DBA roles and responsibilities on an Oracle/AIX platform.

Establishment of backup/recovery processes, development of Unix administrative scripts, production processes,

translation of logical data structures into physical database objects.

Implementation of Coda Financial Accounting software in an Oracle AIX environment.

Recruited, managed and retained various staff roles, including DBA, Unix administrators, and Oracle

developers.

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Bryant & Stratton - Collegiate Institute, Administration System, Buffalo New York

Technical consultant in a migration from an IBM mid-range environment to a client server platform

using Windows NT networking OS with Oracle 7.x database server and Smalltalk Visual Works 2.5

development environment on the client.

Network design, data modeling, database design, database administration and network administration.

Responsible for performance tuning within SmallTalk application and Oracle database server.

Deployment of wide-area network to six disparate locations.

Implementation of SNA Server, Remote Access Server, Microsoft Exchange, Enterprise and Oracle

Enterprise. NT networking configuration of DCHP Server, WINS Server and TCP/IP throughout the

enterprise, including replication.

Project management, planning, database administration, software selection, budgeting, analysis and design.

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Education

CANISIUS COLLEGE, Buffalo, New York

B.A. Computer Science

Additional

FedEx Leadership Management

Oracle OTM Certified

Oracle International User Group Member

OTM Special Interest Group Member

FedEx Legal Management

Oracle Education Center

CTG Education Center

Dofasco Training Center

INGRES Training Center

Bryant and Stratton Business Institute

PROGRAMMING

C, SmallTalk, Fortran, Pascal, SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, Java, Unix Scripting

HARDWARE

Intel, Digital/Alpha, SUN 220, 420, E6500, E4900, E890, E490, IBM RS/6000 AIX, HS22, Cisco

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Linux, Solaris, AIX, All UNIX, All Windows platforms

DATABASES

Oracle 11.x, 10.x, 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, Oracle Tools TOAD, INGRES, Postgres, Relational Database

MIDDLEWARE

IBM MQ Series, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Liaison Middleware, Jitterbit Cloud Middleware

DESKTOP

Microsoft Office Product Suite, Visio, Access, Excel, Word & Project

Lotus Notes, TOAD

OTHER

Spiceworks, Liquid Planner project management

References furnished upon request.

8/2015

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