EXPERIENCE
Inter@ctive
Technologies, Inc. - President
Mar. 1998 to Present
Formed corporation to provide full service
hardware, software, and consulting to businesses as well as individuals.
Duties include consulting, accounting, marketing, and financing. Setup and
maintain internal Computer/Communications technologies. Working with banks and
major vendors to establish credit. Acquired office space for showroom,
computer assembly, and training.
Client 1st
Corporation – President Jan. 1998 to Present
Independent Consultant – Sole
Proprietor May 1996 to Dec. 1997
Provide Data Warehousing and Decision Support
experience to major Telecommunications companies as well as hardware and
software vendors serving the Telecommunications industry. Projects include
demonstration development, data modeling, query tool selection, use of
hierarchical storage systems, and vendor software evaluation. (Sprint, Unisys,
WorldCom, US West)
Provide a wide range of consulting service for
small to medium sized businesses from all industries, enabling them to better
utilize their Information Technology investments for day to day business
processes. Services include hardware, operating systems, and application
selection, configuration, and maintenance, development of inter/intra-nets,
and planning for future business growth. (Badger Meter, Castleton Properties,
Enlow Ford Tractor, OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, Associated
Planned and implemented the successful startup
of Gorilla Internet, a local Internet Service Provider. Duties included
selection and implementation of hardware (CPU, modems, disks, NICs, routers,
CSU/DSUs…) and software (Operating systems, email, news, web servers,
backup, administrative tools…). Participate in on-going upgrade and
administration issues as well as on-site network installation and
configuration.
UNISYS - Director Solution Development
Jan.1996 to July 1996
Created and managed the Data Discovery and
Demonstration Center. Duties included the creation of demonstration databases
and queries using various databases and front-end tools. Demonstrations are
telecommunications industry related and can be access by remote dial up by the
Sales and Marketing teams. Data discovery and data mining is accomplished
using samples of actual customer data, which is evaluated and the findings are
presented to the customer.
1/95 to 12/95 - Program Marketing Manager,
responsible for vertical marketing programs concerning Decision Support and
Data Warehousing for the telecommunications industry. Duties included
technical program management, business discovery and analysis, Independent
Software Vendor product evaluation, and responding to RFIs and RFPs. Acted as
a technical resource for Customers, management, and peers regarding
telecommunications industry Decision Support requirements, logical business
modeling, and applicability of software tools. These tools were developed for
uses such as Executive Information Systems, end-user query, data mining,
multi-dimensional analysis, and Geographic Information Systems. Hands-on
experience with Oracle Parallel and Redbrick databases running on Unisys' Open
Parallel Unisys Server and SMP platforms as well as a number of software
packages such as the Information Discovery Suite, Business Objects, Andyne GQL,
MapInfo, and Brio Query.
WilTel - Staff Analyst Oct. 1993 to Jan.
1995
Responsible for gathering user input and
creating Business Requirements documents which serve as the basis for system
development staff to create new or enhance existing applications which provide
systematic solutions to business needs and problems. Involved in the Analysis
and creation of Business Requirement documents, which cover business functions
such as Order Administration, Billing, Provisioning, Trouble Reporting, Asset
Management, and Network Management. Member of internal re-engineering team
established to focus on frame relay service delivery. Member of the ATM
Implementation Team, responsible for project managing the integration of
WilTel's ATM NMS to the Administrative Business Systems. Member of the Object
Oriented Business Analysis team, focused on the migration of WilTel's network
and inventory systems to object oriented application development technologies.
SPRINT - Sr. Project Manager Aug. 1988
to Oct. 1993
Responsible for project management of
systematic solutions to time consuming and/or labor intensive business
processes in the Access Management group. Duties include acting as a liaison
between users and system developers, developing and presenting requirements,
development of ad hoc reports using QMF, SAS, COBOL, PAS/2, Q+E, Foxpro, and
Access to act as prototypes for incorporation into the Access Management
Decision Support System.
12/92 to 8/93 - Sr. Engineer, member of the New
Business Ventures group representing I/S Network Management and Administrative
Applications providing scope and level of effort documents for Senior
Management to evaluate the impact of new ventures.
Program Manager, responsible for project
management and planning functions of the Transmission Optimization Program.
Duties include facilitating planning meetings, determining sizing, benefits,
and scope, producing regular status reports, maintaining an issue log, and
preparing management presentations. Maintain a high level of awareness
concerning the telecommunication industry's direction, particularly in the
area of transmission network technologies.
11/90 to 12/92 - Sr. Engineer, responsible for
definition and analysis of technical business requirements for incorporation
into the Sprint Facility Management System(FMS) using the IE-STRADIS
development methodology. Project management of every phase of the development
life cycle including requirements gathering, program coding, acceptance
testing, documentation completion and application delivery. Projects include
DCMS 1/0 and 3/3 FMS interfaces, DCS 3/3 and 3/1 database support in FMS,
preliminary requirements for SONET capable equipment databasing and facility
assignment. Creation of SAS reports for Network groups external to FMS
development, as well as SAS reports utilized for decision support and database
reconciliation.
9/89 to 11/90 - Engineer III, acted as subject
matter expert for Network Facility Design and Implementation in the
development of Facility Management System enhancements. Participated in
development of Project NOTE by interfacing with I/S and Network Administrative
System Development to define the business requirements of the system.
Supervised west region design engineers, tasked with citypair and IMT circuit
design in FMS. Developed decision support reports for management using SAS,
Dbase/Clipper, S1032, and Ramis II.
8/88 to 9/89 - Analyst III, responsible for DS1
and DS3 citypair design for the east region. Developed automated DS1/DS3
citypair design program to increase citypair design productivity and accuracy.
Created ad hoc management reports from provisioning systems to track network
diversity and compliance with the transmission routing plan.
TRANSGLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Nov. 1983 to
Aug. 1988
Contract Engineer for Sprint in Reston, Va.,
tasked with ad hoc report generation and database maintenance. Supervised
field technicians removing facilities from Sprint's analog network. Contract
Installer GTE/US Sprint in Cooksville, Md., duties included installation,
test, and turn-up of transmission facilities and equipment. Designed and
maintained on-site equipment and facility database.
EDUCATION
National Institute of Technology Cross Lanes,
WV Graduation Date: October, 1983
Degree: Associates in Electronics Technology
GPA: 3.9
TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
Microsoft Certified System Engineer(MCSE),
Microsoft Certified Professional Plus Internet(MCP+I), Microsoft Certified
Solution Provider. Attended courses including Object Oriented Analysis and
Design, Internet Usage, Introduction to ATM, SNMP Basics, Intro. to UNIX,
Intro. to IE-STRADIS, Intro. To ADW, Process Modeling, Data Modeling, PM with
ADW, DM with ADW, CRUD Process Modeling (Wm. Smith), Data Modeling (Wm.
Smith), Sprint Management Assessment Center and Facilitative Leadership, as
well as participation in National Communications Forum 1992 and the Western
Communications Forum 1994.
