MICHAEL B. GREAR

**** * ***** ** 402-***-****

(H)

Omaha NE 68124 abhuck@r.postjobfree.com

402-***-**** (M)

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Senior Database Architect/Business Analyst - Worked as a liaison among

stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate and document

requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information

systems. Inquisitive and able to efficiently reach an understanding of

complex tasks while using this understanding to produce project artifacts

that satisfy project objectives. Extensive experience understanding the

business needs of the corporation and creating data architectures to meet

them. Taking a practical approach to solve problems that is based on

theoretical insights.

. First person to be certified as a Relational Data Base Administrator

by the Relational Institute founded by Codd and Date

. Holds 4 patents on data structures for financial services and the

functionality they enable

. 18 additional data structure oriented patent applications currently

pending

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FIRST DATA CORPORATION, Omaha, NE 1994-

12/2010

First Data is a global technology and payments processing leader, serving

more than 6 million merchant locations, thousands of card issuers and

millions of consumers worldwide.

Chief Information Architect - Developed and maintained an Enterprise

Logical Data Model that provides a high level view of the fundamental data

and business relationships between FDC, its clients, and the products and

services that FDC provides or administers. This involved translating the

business knowledge and requirements (captured from interactions with

clients, industry experts, and internal business product owners) into a

stable, flexible, and scalable enterprise data structures.

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. Oversaw the adoption of relational technologies for the Company

. Over a 5 year period developed and supported the Enterprise Logical

Data Model (ELDM) that is used to guide the implementation of new

products and changes to existing ones that included:

o $50 million muti-year project to convert the legacy

tape/VSAM based core processing system to utilize DB2 and

the structures within the ELDM

o Consulting with Data Architects from 20 of First Data's

largest Clients (Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, First USA,

etc) on an ongoing basis to ensure current and future

product needs were covered in the ELDM

o Rated as surpassing competitors when reviewed by 5 top

technology consultants for integrity and completeness

. Created and lead a 65+ member Enterprise Information Management

division that was responsible for:

o Profiling the business rules contained in existing legacy

applications and data stores

o Setting meta-data standards for the company

o Creating project oriented logical and physical data models

based on the ELDM for OLTP products, BI and Data

warehousing solutions

o Developing transition plans to account for legacy data and

business rules

o Creating a Data Access Service to provide message based

optimized access to the physical designs insuring

independence between the application and the data stores it

needs

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Chief Information Architect, continued

. Consulted with business units and DBAs regarding the importance of

preserving the business rules depicted in the logical models within

the physical data structures that were created.

. Established a Master Data Management (MDM) program for the

corporation.

. Established a Data Governance Board that included product owners and

data stewards across the corporation including the establishment of a

set of enterprise wide Principles, Assumptions, and Constraints for

data management.

. Utilized majority of data modeling tools (Power Designer, ERwin,

Designer 2000)

ACI WORLDWIDE, INC. Omaha, NE 1988-1994

ACI Worldwide powers electronic payments for financial institutions,

retailers and processors around the world with the broadest, most

integrated suite of electronic payment software in the market. Trusted

globally based on unrivalled understanding of payments and related

processes.

Systems Consultant - Performed Logical Data Base Design, Physical Data Base

Design, SQL Query Optimization and implementation expertise for Relational

Databases on various projects.

. EWP (Electronic White Pages) used by RBOC in 14 states

. California Motor Vehicles Registration/Op License System

. Check authorization system utilized by large retailers

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Mathematics/Computer Science

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

DAMA International

DAMA - Nebraska

DAMA - Iowa

CA Erwin Modeling

Maximum Data Modeling

Association of Information Technology Professionals

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