Summary

Proven technology professional with extensive experience performing multiple aspects of system administration and reporting. Experience in COTs product installation, configuration, monitoring and security as well as report and OLAP cube development. Successfully migrated reporting tools under tight deadline that resulted in significant savings in licensing fees.

ExpertiseTechnical Support, BI System Administration, System/Process Documentation, Performance Monitoring/Reporting, BI Reporting Server Security, Report Creation/Administration, ETL Process Design/Implementation, BI Reporting System Migration, Transact SQL, UNIX shell scripting, test plan design

SoftwareIBM Cognos Series 7 Version 5, TIBCO Jasper Reports, Oracle Sun Solaris 10 shell scripting and utilities, Sybase Interactive SQL, Jasper OLAP Workbench, PuTTY, IBM ClearCase, Borland StarTeam, Apache ANT, Apache HTTPD Server, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Jaspersoft ETL/Talend Open Studio, Microfocus Cobol, SQL, HTML 4, JavaScript, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft Office

Security ClearanceTop Secret security clearance from US Department of Defense maintained 2003 – 2015; renewed 2015.

Professional Experience

EDS (Electronic Data Systems)/HP (Hewlett-Packard) – Dublin, OHApril 1998 – Present

Information Services Developer II (Apr 2003 – Present) ­– Joint Personnel Adjudication System

·               Maintained a Top Secret Security Clearance with Department of Defense

·               Migrated reporting system from IBM Cognos BI to TIBCO Jasper Reports (open source), resulting in a savings of tens of thousands of dollars per year in licensing costs.

·               Created process to deliver key reporting performance indicators to management; this provided proactive issue discovery and management.

·               Interacted with different development, support and management organizations: Java Development Team, Requirements Team, Data Quality Team and Production Support Team, in order to deliver completed projects in a timely manner.

·               Upgraded COTS products as required, including Red Hat Jboss EAP; TIBCO JasperReports Libraries and Apache HTTPD Server. Automated maintenance tasks to reduce tie/effort/cost.

·               Designed and implemented a data warehouse, including schema design, index design and ETL process consisting of UNIX shell scripts, Transact-SQL code and Sybase stored procedures.

·               Designed and wrote test plans, designed and coded test data.

·               Deployed COTS products to production, deployed reports and OLAP cubes, maintained application security, assisted/led troubleshooting sessions during production issues and performed system maintenance as required.

Information Services Developer II (Oct 1999 – Apr 2003) ­– Defense Property Accounting System

·               Transformed dozens of site data files to common input file format and processed them for errors prior to loading to production. Original input files came in many formats, including dbf files (dBase3 export), text files, Excel workbooks, Microsoft Access databases and other formats.

·               Led a team of Federal civilian employees and contractors in the redesign of the project web site

·               Designed and implemented a training class tracking application in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). I maintained the project web site and integrated student surveys, student class signup, and trainer training report into the web site.

·               Utilized VBA to extract student survey data from a Microsoft Access database, aggregate the data and insert it into a Microsoft Word document to be sent periodically to management.

Information Services Developer I (Jun 1999 – Oct 2003) ­– Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Internal Project

·               Migrated site staff to Windows NT

·               Maintained and updated process documentation, enabling new team members to be more productive, sooner.

Information Services Developer I (Jun 1998 – Jun 1999) ­– Johnson & Johnson Contracting

·               IBM MVS Mainframe project

·               Analyzed Telon and EasyTrieve programs and converted them to COBOL II; tested programs

·               Created Design Documents for a sales report.

·               Created two COBOL II programs to produce a transaction file and one to create a sales report.

·               Created JCL to run COBOL programs.

·               Created Test Plans and Test Cases to verify correct functioning of programs.

·               Performed Unit and System testing on several programs.

·               Led and participated in peer reviews of JCL, COBOL and Test Plans/Test Cases.

·               Utilized COBOL II, and JCL

Information Services Developer I (Apr 1998 – Jun 1998) ­– Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Training

·               Successfully completed 10-week intensive EDS training

·               Areas of training: Cobol, JCL, DB2 SQL, Structured Program Design

Research and Development Chemist (May 1981 – Mar 1998) ­

·               Sherex Chemical Co./Witco Corp. Performed complex mathematical functions, synthesized new products, formulated hard surface cleaners, configured standard lab PCs, performed product demonstrations for sales team, monitored pilot plant production of my products, conducted customer technical visits, attended trade shows.

·               Akzo Chemicals, Inc. Performed complex mathematical functions, synthesized new products, maintained lab PC, created pilot plant procedures, performed product demonstrations for sales team.

·               Keil Chemical Company. Synthesized and tested fuel additives and extreme pressure lubricants.

·               Oakite Chemicals Inc. Chemical sales.

EDUCATION

          Bachelor of Science – Chemistry:

         Benedictine University, Lisle, IL

            (Formerly Illinois Benedictine College)