Gerald A. Provost

Voorhees, NJ 08043

gerald.provost@cotrantech.com

Phone: 8

RESULTS ORIENTED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL

SUMMARY:

• Results oriented information technology professional with solid industry experience related to Business and Information systems strategy planning, Distributed Database Management Systems, Data Marts & Data Warehouse Architecture, Information Architecture - (analysis, interaction/integration, taxonomy, process flow, prototyping), Enterprise application software integration, Enterprise application software performance tuning, Enterprise data management, integration & governance frameworks - (Quality, Entitlement & Virtualization), Integration of technology architecture with evolving business models, Business Process Modeling / Automation-(Integration of people, processes & systems), Healthcare Information Systems & Tele-Medicine Application Architecture, Asset Management - RFID enabled Application Software Systems/Solutions, Biometric enabled Application Software Systems/Solutions, Oracle & PeopleSoft Applications implementation, Program/Project Management, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Network and Unified Communication Systems Architecture.
• My expertise as an Information Technology and IP-Telephony consultant has been utilized by US and International corporations that provide services and solution in the following market/business sectors: accounting, finance, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, petrochemical - oil & gas, publishing, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications, transportation/logistics and travel related services.
• Managed teams of software engineers/developers who have developed, implemented and supported; Data Marts and Data Warehouses, Distributed DBMS - Repository/Server Systems, Database Replication - (Oracle Advanced/Multi-Master Replication), Enterprise Document/Knowledge Management Systems, Financial Application Software Systems, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) - Frameworks, Biometric Enabled Application Software Systems, Asset Management - RFID Enabled Application Software Systems, IP-Telephony - Unified communications systems, Tele-medicine/Tele-health systems, Healthcare Information Systems, IP-based video surveillance systems and Electronic Voter Registration/Balloting Systems.
• Enterprise Analytics, Reporting & Information Delivery Engines: Solutions that provided for the delivery of near real-time data and information to corporate decision makers. This architecture incorporates next generation database management systems, data & application integration, virtualization, Business Intelligence, Reporting Engine, Analytics engines, data harmonization and globalization engines. It integrates data from multiple providers/sources (Cloud and on-premises data sources) into a readily available environment that is capable of effecting “user-empowered “ real and or near real-time information delivery reporting and analytics with minimal cost, rapid deployment, high ROI and lower OPEX. Organizations are able to do in days what now take weeks/months to accomplish with other solutions (e.g. traditional ETL solutions).
• Enterprise Application / Data Integration Framework: This framework leverages a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) which enables business systems to act on data with no regard to the source and location of the needed data sets. Its implementation: (a) Minimize the impact of changes in technology and middleware. (b) Decouple business systems to reduce the effect of changes in one business system to others. (c) Support a single logical image of global/enterprise data regardless of how and where data are physically stored. (d) Allow programmers to concentrate on business problems rather than middleware complexities. (e) Provide a flexible and consistent programming interface that enables the delivery services such as On-line transactions, On-line non-transactional Store and Forward, Publish & Subscribe, Broadcast/Event Notification and Batch etc.
• Data Warehouse / BI Architecture: Architect for multi-terabytes data warehouses that enabled select Pharmaceutical, Distribution & Logistics, Financial and Travel Related Services organizations to leverage their data into manageable assets that deliver near real-time, actionable information to employees, managers, and business partners. Task included but were not limited; Data & Middleware Architecture - (Virtual Data Management), Architecture Assessment and strategy development,Software & Tools Selection and Implementation - (ETL, OLAP, ROLAP, WOLAP, BI), Data Governance - (Business and Transformation Rules, Data Quality and Cleansing), Meta data Architecture, Executive/Management Dashboard Development and Implementation, Change Control/Management procedures.
• Application Development & Business Process Platform and Toolkit: Enterprise-wide, browser-based, application development & business process platform and toolkit with the capability to support multiplesolutions for data-sensitive and regulated markets. This framework has caused for the development of a suite of Healthcare Applications/Solutions to include: (Incident Manager Solution, Claims Manager, Root Cause Analysis, Legal Matter Manager, Peer Review Manager, Infection Control Manager, Performance Improvement Manager, Employee Health Manager, Compliance Manager and Contract Manager).
• Distributed Database Architecture: Repeatable, Consistent, and Scalable distributed Oracle database architecture that exploits commodity hardware systems networked to provide high levels of scalability and reliability. This design utilizes standard hardware configurations utilizing Intel chip architectures and Linux operating systems. It is capable of supporting large-scale oracle databases which are used to provide shared database hosting as well as handling ultra-large database applications. In addition to providing large scale and expandable performance, the design provided for high levels of availability and continuity of operations utilizing database - aware technologies to include: Oracle Grid Architecture - Oracle Coherence, Oracle (Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Data Guard (DG) and Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM)). The design addressed a set of requirements that is intended to support mission critical data of 10TB plus, 10K plus I/O operations per second and over 5K concurrent connections.
• Systems / Application Profiling & Governance Architecture: Robust framework that facilitates the mapping, categorization and tagging of information within operational systems to improve information findability and accessibility, The definition of views into corporate information assets to address inconsistencies in meaning, terminology and format without impacting the function of information assets, The alignment of information assets to architectures and patterns, The creation of an enterprise registries (Data Flow, Entity & Attribute Semantic Maps, Architecture & Patterns, designation and Life Cycle Management Classification) that supports projects their architecture and implementation decisions and the virtualization, harmonization & globalization of enterprise data. The resultants - (System content semantic mapping specifications, Canonical model candidates, Virtual Data Management (VDM) Candidates, MDM Candidates, Domain ontology specifications, Domain specific implementation specifications, Content Life Cycle Management)
• Tele-Health/Tele-Medicine Solution: HIPAA compliant, Cloud based Tele-Medicine Solution that enable primary care physicians to wavelet compress, forward encrypt, display and transmit via the Internet/Secure VPN dermatological images integrated with reports and annotations to a centralized location for consultation and interpretation by a board certified dermatologist. This application incorporates HL7 (Health Level 7 Standards, a tele-medicine compliant browser plug-in capable of transforming a standard browser equipped computer into a tele-medicine compliant workstation. This application enables a clinician to easily assemble a consultation, including demographics, images, video, audio, studies and scanned documents. This browser plug-in controls cameras, scanners, and other data acquisition devices directly, eliminating the need for additional programs. These features along with Internet-based services - web-based chat, email, and discussion groups - help foster communications and collaboration between dermatologists and their affiliated primary care physicians. Supported by this application, a dermatologist is able to provide affiliated primary care physicians with Dermatological consultation services regardless of their geography.
• IP-Telephony / Confidential: Redundant IP-Telephony network, utilizing cutting-edge IP technology capable of riding on some of the world's premier internet backbones. A robust, state-of-the-art cloud based architecture that guarantees reliable, inexpensive communications (voice, email, SMS, Video) to any point on the globe. Based on this infrastructure, organizations such as Confidential ( http://www. Confidential .com) is able to provide a wide catalog of value-added IP-Telephony products and Unified Communications Services.The implementation includes software solutionsthat enables the clustering of multiple Soft switches / PBX systems for reliability and speed, the association of trunks to multiple providers, the delivery and management of services to include the integration of real-time communication services such as Instant Messaging (IM), Presence Information, Telephony, Video Conferencing, Call Control and Speech Control with non-real-time communication services such as; (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax).
• K-12 School Management Software Suite: Cloud based solution that is designed to deliver and provide the key functionalities that are necessary to meet the emerging and evolving al information management and delivery market. This solution provides the following key functions: Student Demographic Management, Student Mobility, Student Grade/Attendance/Scheduling, Student Assessment, Student Misconduct, Student Program Management, Student Special, Free/Reduced Lunch Management, Teacher/Principal Performance Management, and Teacher .
• EPC compliant RFID enabled Asset Management Appliance: This appliance features centralized management and control, intelligent inventory sensing and reporting elements (TAGSYS RFID Reader and Integrated Antenna/Shelves, Integrated Touch Screen Monitor, State - of - the-Art inventory management/tracking and security software (SureCountTM) capable of determining counterfeit products along with who removed or replaced what and when.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Systems, Libraries, Frameworks, Appliances, Standards & Tools: Fiorano - (SOA, ESB, MQ - Data / Applications Integration Engine), IBM WebSphere (Application Server, Message Broker, Process Server, MQ), Expressor (integrator, repository, processor), iDASHBOARD, Qlikview, Pentaho BI Suite, Pinnacle Suite - (SIS, Gradebook, Insight, Aspire), MicroStrategy, Jaspersoft BI Suite, Infobright, Cognos, Crystal Report, Holos, Confidential -Intelligent Warehouse - (HPIW), nQuire - Oracle/Siebel Analytics, Trillium-(Data Profiling / Governance Software Suite), Tableau Analytics, AXURE RP Pro - Prototyping tool, IBM Tivoli - (Identity Manager), InfoSphere Guardium, Talend (data integration, management, profiling and governance solutions), CorVu, Business Objects, InfoPump, EDA/SQL, ENCINA, TSISoft-Mercator, AutoSYS, Rouge Wave (Tools.h++ & DBTools), Precise Software-(Inspect, Interpoint, Indepth), UML - Rational Rose, Intersystems CACHE, HIPAA, DICOM, CANDA, Alpharel-(AlphaVIEW,AlphaSCAN,AlphaQC,AlphaDX), ODMS Development Engine, Adobe(Dreamweaver, Fireworks), Blackberry Application Dev, AEPSystems/Netilla, APPC, OSF-DCE, HL/7, SOAP, SYMIX, COINS, OpenEMR, OpenVISTA, Peminic - WEBAgent and HIS Solution Suite, Microsoft .NET framework, Java/J2EE framework, Alfresco (Document Management, WCM, Collaboration), DHTML Tools, ERWin, Embarcadero (Architecture & Modeling suite), Oracle Designer, Oracle Coherence, Serena (SBM,SSM, Requirements Mgr., Development Mgr. & Release Mgr., TeamTrack), ActiveVOS (BPMS/BPEL Engine), Queplix (data integration & management solutions), PeopleTools, PeopleCode, Web Services related frameworks (UDICo-TierBroker, SOAP, CXF), XAWARE - (SOA Data Integration engine), LongJump - (SaaS enabler), SharePoint (2007, 2010), Varonis - Data Governance Suite, SEI CMMI Framework, ITIL, TOGAF, BPEL, BPMN.

Operating Systems & Networks: Linux, UNIX (Coherent, BSD, SYS V), SUN Solaris, VOS, Confidential MCP, Confidential OS1100, Novell Netware (All Versions) VAX/VMS, RSX-11M, OS/2, CTOS, DECNET, TN3270, LU6.2, Microsoft Windows XX

Programming Languages & Web/Universal Client Development Tools: C#, C++, XML, AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript), XPATH, WSDL, PHP, HTML, JAVA, CGI/Perl, SQR, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, MS-Web Platform, MS-Visual Studio, Visual C++, Visual C#, Eclipse, Pascal, Fortran, Forth, Progress DML, COBOL, ALGOL, VX/REXX.

Database Management Systems & Related Tools: ORACLE (V6.x - Oracle11g), Oracle (Advanced/Multi-Master Replication), Oracle11g - (Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Data Guard (DG), Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM)), Oracle (GoldenGate), Oracle Coherence, PROGRESS RDBMS, MySQL, Express, Visual FoxPro, Oracle RDB, DB2, Informix, MS-SQLServer, PostgresSQL.

IP - Telephony: 3GPP and xDSL Architectures, QoS, Fixed & Mobile VoIP Architectures, SIP, H323, MGCP, RTSP, NAT Traversal, PPPoX, 802.1X, DHCP, Media Codec (g711x,g729, etl), VoIP NOC (Design & Configuration), Cellular Bridging, SIP Messaging & Security

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Voorhees, NJ

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting services and solutions related to: Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Application Software Development, Program & Project Management, Risk and Vendor management, Enterprise data management, integration & governance frameworks - (Quality, Entitlement & Virtualization), Distributed Database Design, Data Marts & Data Warehouse Development and Implementation, Business and Information Technology Strategy Planning, Enterprise Software Performance Engineering - (including PeopleSoft HR, Oracle Financials and eCommerce Applications), Building of competent software development teams capable of meeting technology and business demands, Application software integration, HIPAA compliant tele-health/Tele-medicine systems, Biometric enabled application software systems & solution, Asset Management - RFID enabled application software systems & solutions

Confidential

Director - LAN/WAN Technologies

Responsibilities:

• Computer System Integration Confidential - Managed software and network engineering teams that designed, developed & Implemented Accounting and Manufacturing Information Systems.

Confidential

Sr. Manufacturing Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Mainframe Computer Manufacturer/Systems Integrator - Developed software testing tools used in the secondary testing of Confidential A-Series computer systems

Confidential

Sr. Systems Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Computer Software Engineering & Consulting firm - Developed real-time process control systems, multi-tasking operating systems and application software systems.