Summary

Decisive, visionary technology professional with over fifteen years' experience specializing in leadership in complex environments developing and implementing PeopleSoftApplications along with supportingenterprise architecture design, databases and subsystems. Experience asVice President, Senior Consultant,Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer focusing on Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Architecture, Systems Integration, Systems Evaluation, Network and Telecommunications, Disaster Recovery, Contract Negotiations, Mergers Acquisitions, and Data Security. Industry experience includes Hospitality, Healthcare, Retail and Stock Exchanges Confidential .Reputation for strong leadership, exceptional teamwork development and for collaboration with business partners, consulting partners and IT staff.

Technology Skills

• Hardware: IBM Mainframe, IBM AIX and Linux Servers, HP HP/UX and Linux Servers, SUN Enterprise Servers, Tandem, DEC, Stratus, Cisco switches, Nortel switches, EMC 3930, 8830, VNX 7500 SAS 600 GB 15k RPM SAN
• Operating Systems: OS/390, UNIX HP/UX, AIX, Solaris, Sun OS, Digital UNIX , Windows Enterprise Edition large Data Center Servers , Oracle's Linux and various other distributions of Linux including Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu
• Applications: Tuxedo, COBOL, JCL, Oracle 9i Release 2 Application Server including Portal, Wireless and Mail Server, AutoSys, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10, 11R1, 11R2, 12cR2 Cloud Control , Oracle Application Server, WebLogic, Oracle's SOA Suite, IBM's Rational Platform, Tibco
• Database Platforms: Oracle 7.x, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10, 11gR2 Oracle 11gR2, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase
• PeopleSoft: Financials 9.1, 8.9, 8.4, 8.0 SP2, 7.5 HCM / Payroll 9.1, 9.0,8.3, 8.0, 7.5 PeopleTools 8.16 8.52, COBOL, SQR, Portal, Tuxedo, Application Server, Process Scheduler, Component Interface, Asset Management, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Benefits, Payroll, PeopleSoft Internet Architecture, Translation Hubs
• Methodologies: Agile, System Development Methodology, Lean Six Sigma

Professional Experience

Confidential

IT Executive Sponsor and Enterprise Architect

• Confidential System transformation named Confidential.
• Confidential was the largest BackOffice project in Confidential and consisted of a General Ledger Code Block transformation, PeopleSoft Finance 8.9 Instance consolidation from two PeopleSoft Finance 8.9 Instances to one Confidential PeopleSoft Financial 9.1 Instance, PeopleSoft HCM upgrade from 8.9 to 9.1, implementing Hyperion Financial Management 11.1.2.2 and Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.2, implementation of Oracle's SOA 11g
• Architecture Framework used to replace legacy PeopleSoft Interfaces, inject Currency Rates into Hyperion HFM and creation of the first Enterprise Class Data Marts using Oracle's BI Application Suite, MicroStrategy for Executive Dashboards and Mobility and Informatica for ETL.
• Responsible for a PeopleSoft platform reimplementation which involved migrating Confidential PeopleSoft Financial Instances and PeopleSoft HCM from a SQL Server Windows environment to a Linux and Oracle platform.
• In addition the aforementioned application projects Confidential to outsource their Data Center to first IBM and then Dell.
• This aforementioned project was budgeted at 150 million. Responsibility for negotiating large enterprise contracts - Oracle Applications and Database Products and Support, Oracle Consulting Services, MicroStrategy, Informatica and various Consulting Agreements.
• Continued with previous position as AutoNation Rental Corporation was acquired by Confidential.
• Responsible for PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft HCM, Kronos, Hyperion Financial Management as well as various ancillary applications in terms of development, production support, Enterprise Architecture, change management, DBAs, etc.
• Completed a major reimplementation of PeopleSoft Financials 7.02 to PeopleSoft 8.9, Hyperion Enterprise Upgrade, and several PeopleSoft HCM upgrades including PeopleTools on platforms ranging from Linux Oracle RAC based databases, HP Itanium Blades, HP SuperDomes, Oracle 11g and PeopleTools 8.49.
• Completed a separate PeopleSoft Upgrade of Enterprise Car Rental's Financials 8.3 environment to PeopleSoft 9.0, PeopleTools 8.49 and Oracle 11g. I served as the resident PeopleSoft Enterprise Architect specializing in Oracle Cluster Databases for Perot Systems Corporation.

Confidential

Technical Consultant/Architect

• Responsible for providing technical support for PeopleSoft 8.0 SP1 HRMS, Confidential Timekeeper Central System, PeopleSoft Financials 7.02 and planning future upgrades.
• Migrated Kronos application to an IBM HACMP Cluster consisting of two IBM p660 RS6000 AIX Serves connected to an EMC 3930 Storage Array to provide high availability for the Confidential Timekeeper Central System.
• Other responsibilities include planning and implementing Confidential Oracle migration from 7.3.4 to 8.1.7 Release Kronos Release 3.4, installation of Confidential Scheduler Product Suite including importing data from the Internal Revenue Management System into Confidential for producing Schedules, design review and support for upgrading existing and new interfaces to import/export data between PeopleSoft and Kronos,. Presently, planning the upgrade and migration of the PeopleSoft Financial systems from 7.02 to 8.x, to a new EMC Storage Array and new HP/UX UNIX Servers.

Confidential

Technical Architect/DBA Consultant

• Technical Architect/DBA Consultant for Production Support for a Healthcare Provider Confidential
• Provided Oracle, Informix and application architecture expertise. Responsible for capacity planning, tuning, backup and recovery support for several enterprise class applications running on IBM S80 RS/6000 AIX Servers.

Confidential

Technical Architect/DBA Consultant

• Provided Oracle, Informix and application architecture expertise. Responsible for capacity planning, tuning, backup and recovery support for several enterprise class applications running on IBM S80 RS/6000 AIX Servers.

Confidential

Technical Architect / Consultant

• Responsible for PeopleSoft 8.3 HRMS and Financials 8.4 Architecture and Implementation of HRMS, Financials, and Portals on an IBM S/390 running DB2. Provided support to PeopleSoft during initial installation on the S/390. Served as Architect for assessment, requirements, design, and implementation phases. Responsible for PeopleSoft Internet Architecture including network design and implementation to handle load balancing, transparent Web and Application Server failovers and redundant NT and MVS network connections.

Confidential

Technical Architect/Consultant

• Responsible for PeopleSoft Oracle Database architecture, performance tuning, PeopleTools upgrade, PeopleSoft Maintenance upgrades, implementation of patches, upgrades and overall design architecture for PeopleSoft Financials.

Confidential

Technical Architecture

• Management of employees and consultants on large-scale project Primary focus centered on implementation of PeopleSoft Financials and HRMS followed by Repair Order/Purchasing architecture for Confidential.
• Responsible for all hardware, applications, interfaces and database architecture for the Corporate, Retail and Rental Divisions.
• Responsible for Capacity Planning, Performance and Tuning methodologies and practices using a variety of tools including Confidential product. Responsible for PeopleSoft Batch Architecture implementation for HRMS/Payroll, Financials and external/internal feeds to AutoNation's Trading Partners using Confidential Global Network. Implemented Batch Processing using Platinum's AutoSys scheduling product integrated with custom COBOL programs enabling failure detection and restart capabilities.
• Implemented custom interface to transfer data to and from Confidential Time and Attendance product into PeopleSoft.

Confidential

Director - Technical Architect

Responsible for the following:

• Development and support staff of 16 people including Database Administrators, OpenView and NetView Programmers and Support Staff System Administrators for HP's HP/UX UNIX Operating System, Sun's UNIX Operating systems including SUN OS and Solaris, DEC's VMS, Digital UNIX, IBM Mainframes using DB/2 and MQM.
• Development, design and implementation of Confidential initial Internet Web presence and the development of their vast Intranet Web sites that span the Confidential Metropolitan area. These projects use HTML, SGML, Microsoft's Visual Basic, Visual Basic, Visual J and Visual C and also used Rational's ClearCase source control on the Windows NT platform for software code control and distribution to the Client/Server Windows NT and UNIX platforms.
• Developing applications and network solutions using IBM's AIX, HP's HP/UX and Windows NT beginning with the first beta releases of Windows 3.1 up until the latest beta and production versions of Windows NT/2000.
• Active participant in the outsourcing process by providing technical expertise in initially defining the communications infrastructure and implementing the communications protocols and applications for various Financial Services firms and International Stock Exchanges.