Larry Neal

Email: abo46z@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** *** **** ****

City: Aubrey

State: TX

Zip: 76227

Country: USA

Phone: 816-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 80

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LARRY NEAL

4339 New Hope Road ~ Aubrey, Texas 76227

816-***-**** abo46z@r.postjobfree.com

Information Technology Professional

Hands-on IT Professional with over 20 years of experience that spans Quality Assurance, Production Operations, Application Architecture, Application Design, and Database Management. Practical experience in planning, directing, and managing the daily operations and activities for teams in monitoring services, application development, and database management. Have demonstrated the ability to manage multiple projects and objectives with competing priorities. Communicate complex issues in both oral and written form in terms clearly understood by technical and non-technical audiences. Participate in the development of budgets, forecasts and short/long-term strategic planning activities

With additional experience in:

Automated Testing Manual Testing

Test Design/Creation Cross-Functional Team Management

Production Operations Management

Tools: Linux/Unix, Oracle RAC 10g, 11g, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2008, HP Quality Center, Oracle Application Test Suite, Informatica, TestLink, TestManager, JAVA, IIS, .Net

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall, Integration, White-Box, UAT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Landis/Gyr (Paige Technologies), Lenexa, Kansas 2011 - present

QA Analyst/Tester

* Designed, created, and executed test scripts for multiple projects across the L+G application suite.

* Provided integration installation and support for production installs.

* Provided database support for the Test environments.

* Manage Test environments for builds and day-to-day operation.

Waddell & Reed (Paige Technologies), Shawnee Mission, Kansas 2010 - 2011

Senior QA Analyst

* Designed, created, and executed automated test scripts for Oracle EBS applications.

* Installed and supported Commissions application which included Linux and Informatica.

* Provide mentoring and guidance to other QA team members.

* Manage Test environments for builds and day-to-day operation.

Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas 2008 - 2010

Supervisor HP Openview Production Operations

* Plan, manage, direct, and assign resources for the team.

* Established metrics for specific measurability in order to determine number of success/failures of production applications.

* Plan, direct and manage the daily operations and activities for the Monitoring team.

* Ensure day-to-day goals are met, along with setting long term direction.

Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas 2007 - 2008

Supervisor PeopleSoft Human Resources

* Responsible for managing Production Support staff for Human Resources PeopleSoft

Application.

* Responsible for day-to-day performance, provide team goals, and production resolution.

Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas 2005 - 2007

Build Architect/Testing Environment Operations

* Responsible for integration, development, and deployment of large scale, multi-platform, multi-vendor information systems.

* Exhibit leadership and interpersonal skills to build collaborative, credible relationships with all organizations including global customers.

* Responsible for designing system configuration for all testing environments.

* Provide recommendations for software upgrades/updates.

Midwest Consultant Group, Overland Park, Kansas 2004 - 2005

Senior Project Manager

* Developed, coordinated, and maintained Project Plans for several IT projects involving the Local Division separation from Sprint.

* Project Manager for medium to large infrastructure projects. Gather Business requirements,

assign resources, develop detailed project plans, provide status of projects to Executive Level Management.

Information Technology Group, Overland Park, Kansas 2003 - 2004

Database Management Supervisor

* Directed team of 15+ DBAs to manage 24x7 business-critical production databases and applications, ensuring performance and achieving tuning goals with negligible down time.

* Provided and executed time and resource forecasting and planning for the DBA team on a weekly and monthly basis.

* Resolved complex business issues with expert technical understanding and sound methodologies for meeting enterprise requirements.

SPRINT, Overland Park, Kansas 1995 - 2003

Technical Specialist (1999 - 2003)

* Oversaw technology selections for business critical applications, overseeing requests for information, negotiations and vendor statements of work and deliverable timelines.

* Collaborated to expand CRM infrastructure working directly with Marketing to incorporate Data Warehouse, customer modeling, CRM data and campaign execution and reporting.

* Managed technical architecture, operations, deployment and change management, supporting over 40 applications and 13 call centers with 2600 sales and service representatives.

* Ensured software and hardware procurement and acquisitions were aligned with strategic business technology direction.

* Directed the service delivery and performance of business critical IT systems including Consumer Sales, Campaign Management and Business Performance Reporting.

* Active member of Sprint`s Technology Steering Committee

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

* UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, 1977 - 1981

Platoon Honor Man Award

Honorable Discharge

EDUCATION

PENN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Kansas City, Missouri

Studies in Technology, 1988

COMPUTER TASK GROUP TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, Buffalo, New York

Studies in Technology, 1987 - 1988

MAPLE WOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Kansas City, Missouri

General Studies, 1982 - 1983

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