Gregory Vincent
** ******* **. ( Medford, MA ****5 ( 781-***-****, Cell 781-***-****
****.*******@*****.***
Rochade Administration and Implementation Specialist
Objective
To obtain a position as a Rochade Administrator with a progressive and
forward thinking company, that can leverage my background with Metadata,
Tool integration, Enterprise Class software systems, and Rochade.
Professional Summary
Deep experience with metadata and Rochade, specializing in partnering with
clients and management, to ensure customer satisfaction. Experienced
business analyst, focusing on client's mission and software solutions to
achieve that end.
Selected Rochade History
Technical Support Engineer, Allen Systems Group (ASG), Westford, MA
For 10 years led all support, training and QA activities for Rochade
Metadata Repository and related components for all OS (Linux, Unix,
Windows, MVS, OS.390)
. Played key role in development of support services, enabling expansion
into diverse product lines.
. Corporate lead for rescuing critical prospective accounts.
. Primary coordinator with Development Labs and ticket escalation (Level
III).
. Exclusive support manager for all Bus and Scanner products.
. Maintained 98.5% customer satisfaction rating. Highest of all product
lines at ASG.
Metadata Administrator, Capital One, Richmond, VA
Installed, designed, implemented and maintained the metadata environment
for Capital One Financial Services. Integrated disparate metadata sources,
primarily Ab Initio, Oracle, Teradata and DB2, also including ERWin/Model
Mart and in-house developed PeopleSoft applications.
. Sole Metadata Engineer for the Data Stewardship team and over 700 end
users.
. Maintained the entire repository environment across multiple Unix,
Windows, Oracle, Teradata and Web servers, and Windows 2000, XP and Vista
clients
. Recommended and implemented inter-operable SOA service standards for
development and tool integration.
. Exclusive interface between Capital One and vendor support, development
and professional services.
Metadata Architect, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, CT
Installed, designed and fully implemented Metadata Repository, Rochade,
from the ground up, for Development, Staging and Production environments.
This included Buses and Scanners for 5 target software environments,
(Corporate Modeler, ERWin, Oracle, Informatica and Business Objects), plus
two Pfizer applications for Application Management and Software
Configuration.
. Brought Meta Repository into production at Pfizer in 3 months.
. Exclusive Repository Technical Support Engineer, for Modeling, DBMS
(Oracle), BI and ETL user teams.
. Highest user satisfaction record of any application in the Enterprise
Informatics domain.
. Contractor Exemplary Performance Award, Pfizer Enterprise Informatics.
Having brought Rochade to Production, was singularly responsible for
managing Metadata Projects, including the gathering of metadata artifacts
from tool and source matter experts, loading the data, linking the models,
and then performing metadata analysis as follows:
. Eagles View - High level view demonstrating complexity and problem
areas.
. String Searching - For e.g., show all objects that contain
"project*code" in name or contents
. Impact Analysis - Demonstrate the impact of change across the entire
environment
. Gap Analysis - Highlight missing models, designs and objects
. Overlap Analysis - Identify redundant efforts.
. Architecture Overview - Identify where Business and Technical
Architectures are not aligned.
EDUCATION
Berklee College of Music - Boston, MA
Rhode Island College - Providence, RI
Officer, Knights of Columbus
Chronological resume available upon request