Manager Project

Duane Kraushaar

**** ******* *****, ********, ******, IA 51555

402-***-**** * ***********@*****.***

Objective To obtain a leadership role and leverage my strong

technical and leadership background to drive

improvements for the company.

Profile

Middle and front-line IT management experience.

Extensive experience with Oracle Applications and

Database

Solid hand-on experience with Sun Solaris and Windows

Server and underlying hardware. Exposure to AIX with

Oracle Application Suite and Peoplesoft HRIS on both HP

and Sun platforms.

Development and application design background on

mainframe, open systems, and pc platforms.

Extensive experience at reviewing 3rd party

applications for hosting strategy and sizing.

Proficient with Microsoft Office suite including Visio

and Project.

Employer Hidden aKres Enterprises, Inc: Missouri Valley, IA &

Omaha, NE

June 2009 to Current

Co-Owner/President. Own/Lease commercial property and

own/operate EZ4U Professional Cleaning Services

providing commercial and residential cleaning services.

Manage lease, commercial and carpet services; handle

all financial aspects.

This career choice is not meeting our expectations and

will be sold once I find the right opportunity to

return to IT work.

Employer Unemployed: July 2008 to June 2009. During this time I

was focused on finding IT role in Omaha metro area to

allow my son to complete high school.

Employer First Data, Omaha, NE

May 1983 to June 2008

Roles, titles, business units/company names have

changed over time.

Laid off in June 2008. Not performance related

IT Experience Business System Architect - Corporate 2006-2008

Provided project architecture to multiple large

projects including hosting direction, sizing, and IT

capital costs.

Architecture planning and costing for major billing

system upgrade/migration from native Sun/Solaris to

Linux on Dell/VMware.

Research and recommendation for usage of IT

technologies.

Collaborated on funding request to establish shared

corporate VMware pools to improve software leverage in

addition to hardware.

Collaborated on Oracle SOA implementation for internal

and external integrations.

Delivered large financial application pilot as

technical lead to finance department representing not

only architecture but our development and systems teams

as well.

Developed prototype web services integration using

python scripts and web services to capture information

from SQL*Server and post to wiki.

Duane Kraushaar *402-***-**** * ***********@*****.***

Director Technical Services - Corporate 2002-2006

Managed direct and indirect staff of over 20 IT

professionals including Unix and Windows System

Administrators; Oracle and SQL*Server DBAs.

Managed budget for hardware/software support and

capital improvements in addition to the budget for my

own department.

Developed, tracked, and reported application, system,

and process level metrics for managing department.

Provided project architecture to multiple large

projects including hosting direction, sizing, and IT

capital costs. Including Peoplesoft HRIS upgrade and

migration to new hardware.

Developed initial virtualization strategy for corporate

systems.

Justified and personally implemented low cost wiki tool

to aid documentation and collaboration across teams.

Sarbanes-Oxley and other control audit support/issue

resolution.

Manager Technical Services - Card/Corporate 1995-2002

Grew from hands on manager with 3 direct reports to

over 10 with a separate DBA manager before role scope

increased to corporate role above.

Provided leadership for applications DBAs for

consolidation of core financial application platforms.

Provided leadership for application DBA and System

Administrators and some hands-on technical support for

domestic purchasing application.

Supported Oracle applications upgrade from 9.4.2 to

10.x for Y2K including related database, OS, and

hardware upgrades.

Oracle archive log performance scripting & I/O

performance optimization.

Additional IT Lead/Oracle Applications DBA - Card Business Unit

Roles 1993-1995

Unix Application Programmer - Call Interactive BU

1992-1993

Senior Technical Development Consultant - Call

Interactive BU 1989-1991

Lead Developer/Sr Systems Analyst - Government Services

BU 1987-1989

Sr Systems Analyst/Programmer - Teleservices BU

1983-1987

Education BS Information Systems, Kansas State University, May

1983

References Ross Hayward - Former employee under my management

Rich Brennan - Former manager during my time as

Director

Ken Filippini - Management peer under Rich Brennan

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