Carol A. White

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over seventeen years of diversified experience in Project Management, Software Engineering, programming,

design, development, testing and implementation of applications and production support.

• Over twelve years experience working on Financial Systems, specifically using Oracle Financials

(upgrades/installations/customizations up/to Oracle 11i application/9i database/6i toolset versions). Worked

extensively on Oracle Financial Modules (General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivables (AR), Accounts

Payables (AP), Fixed Assets (FA), Purchasing (PO) projects customized in-house).

• Extensive experience in application development, specifically in the area of Oracle forms, libraries, reports and

data conversions; Unix Shell Scripting; experience in the full suite of Oracle Tools including Forms 6i,

Reports 6i, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader.

• Experience working with the Application Object Library (AOL) and System Administrator activities (restarting

managers, for example). Provided technical documentation of different lifecycle deliverables.

• Extensive experience in writing stored procedures, triggers and very strong in PL/SQL. Knowledge of DBA

activities as Performance Tuning, Backup and Recovery.

• Many years experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of Projects.

• Experience in addressing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance deficiencies.

• U.S. Naval Intelligence Security Clearance.

• OAUG Presenter, October, 2001 Conference. Paper entitled, "How to Programmatically Redesign Chart of

Accounts".

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Languages: C, PL/SQL, SQL, Unix Shell, FourGen, CICS, COBOL, Natural, Oracle Applications 11i (General

Ledger, Account Payables, Account Receivables, Fixed Assets, Purchasing, Inventory and Work Flow (limited))

Database Oracle 9i/8i, and Informix

Operating Systems: UNIX, Ms-DOS, IBM RS6000 AIX, DEC VAX/VMS, Sun Spark Systems, Hewlett Packard,

IBM UDB DB2

Software: Oracle Developer Product Suite (Forms 2.5 – 6i, Reports 3.0 - 4.5/6i), FourGen Software, Erwin 4.1,

Microsoft Visio Reporting Tools, Discoverer 4i, Business Objects 6.0, Oracle Reports Source Control PVCS,

SCCS, RCS, Markview's Imaging Software - integrated and customized to interact with Oracle Financials.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manager of Data Management, Auto and Home Group August 2007-December 2008

MetLife Corporation, Warwick, RI

• Responsibilities included the management of projects, associates (DBA’s, Data Architects) and ensuring the

day to day operations of MetLife business processes. Team consisted of Data Architects, who created DDL

and maintained Erwin Data Models, for the implementation of source updates in support of the business to the

various databases.

• Responsible for the management of Database Administrators who supported, maintained, implemented/applied

source updates. Architectural platforms(some) included mainframe, Data Warehouse (STAR schema), Oracle

DBMS(AIX RISC servers), IBM UDB DB2, data modeling performed utilizing Erwin.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Continued)

• Additional projects included the migration of data to new AIX server with Oracle 10G installation, Imaging

backup/recovery methodology(strategy reviewed for potential data loss), application of DBMS/application

patches in support of business, retirement of machines and consolidation of DBMS and applications onto

single instances in order to address ISLA.

• Cost Reduction initiatives (cost savings approximately $500K through tuning alone(fetch), buffer pool changes,

database reorgs.

• Data Architect projects included data model creation and maintenance; design, creation and upgrades to

existing structures in support of business rules; creation of DDL, assurance of data integrity through the use of

constraints, assurance of model integrity across environments (development, QA, production), and ongoing

support of DBA activities. Resources included Offshore Support module, in support of DBA maintenance

model.

• Administrative responsibilities included performance reviews, staff and project management and project

implementation of business requirements in support of the Auto and Home business.

Manager of IT Finance, Princess Cruises October 1997-January 2007

Valencia, CA

• Responsible for providing IT solutions to address business requirements of the Finance Department.

• Projects ranged from automating manual processes to designing new applications residing on an IBM RS6000

running AIX 5.x 64-bit PAR-RISC.

• Specific projects which I programmed/designed/implemented included the programmatic redesign of the Chart

of Accounts from 7 segments to 6 segments; creation of a process to automate Oracle’s Intercompany

Accounting process; descriptive flexfield functionality circumventing Oracle’s standard descriptive flexfield

process; customization(s) to simulate Oracle Projects without installing the module and creation of a global

Paymaster application, integrated within Oracle Financials.

• Projects managed included forms, customizations, upgrade/installation of Markview’s Imaging Software; and

the management of custom software as applicable to a globalization project in which to consolidate multiple

Oracle instances into a single instance, worldwide.

• The globalization project was a collaborative effort of all companies (Carnival Corporation) with a

consolidation and streamlining of business processes(Worldwide – some locations included Australia,

Germany, England, etc); all bundled into a single, functional Finance application.

• Administrative responsibilities included staff assignment, project alignment, projected costs and budgeting.

Oracle Consultant, Princess Cruises March 1997-October 1997

Los Angeles, CA

• Provided technical assistance, support to staff in the initial implementation of Oracle Financials.

• A six month contract to install and provide support (programming, analysis, functional, forms/reports)

in preparation for upcoming installation.

• Programs were written using Unix scripting for an IBM RS6000 AIX machine to automate processes,

transfer data from legacy to core machine, conversion scripts, invocation scripts, compile forms, run

reports and write conversion programs.

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Programmer/Analyst, Bechtel Corporation June 1995-February 1997

Las Vegas, NV

• Oracle Consultant, initially, hired to provide technical support for Oracle reporting and processes (platform -

DEC-VAX). Hired as a full time programmer analyst and continued with support to automate business

processes and resolve production issues.

Project Leader, MetLife Corporation March 1994-June 1995

Bellevue, WA

• Responsible for support and maintenance of Oracle Financial's product, residing on an HP 9000 series HP-UX

platform.

• Projects included installation of Oracle Financial's, upgrades to the 10.7 release, application of patches and the

creation of new financial reports and customization to existing software.

• Installation of Oracle upgrades to system were initiated and applied by myself, utilizing Oracle scripts.

• UNIX scripts were written to automate manual business processes, customize software, address Oracle

application issues.

• Addressed business requirements through the use of new interfaces from legacy systems into Oracle Financials,

the creation of new reports and through the use of customizations and design of applications integrated into the

Oracle Financials product. Applications specifically responsible for included General Ledger, Accounts

Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets.

Senior Programmer/Analyst, Motorola Corporation February 1992-March 1994

Phoenix, AZ

• Worked with FourGen/Informix/Oracle/C.

• Developed applications using FourGen and Oracle's tool suite. Applications supported included Order Entry,

Sales, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Fixed Assets.

• Worked on Oracle Customizations as related to assigned applications.

• Instrumental in the design of a Marketing tool to perform "what if's" on sales data; streamlining the analysis

process, and utilizing business intelligence built into an Oracle Application.

Manager/Technical Leader, Department Of Revenue October 1990-February 1992

Phoenix, AZ

• Manager of Database Design Team and Technical Lead for the Sales, Audit and Accounts Receivable systems.

Projects included the conversion of the Department of Revenue's integrated Property Tax System to ADABAS.

Worked with COBOL, CICS, Natural, Adabase and data modeling tools. Highlights included decreasing the IT

monthly close process; streamlining and increasing efficiency of batch processes; increasing performance of

batch and online processes; creation of new applications and reports; reducing the inefficiency and increasing

the accuracy of data perused by the user.

Programmer, Boeing Computer Services November 1988-March 1989

Renton, WA

• Programmer utilizing 'C' language in support of window based application(s).

Cryptologist, United States Navy January 1983-June 1986

Yokusuka, Japan

• Worked on sensitive and classified government material within the realm of Special Intelligence for the

SPINTCOM messaging center.

B.S., Zoology, U/Mass Amherst, Amherst, MA, January, 1983.

EDUCATION

CERTIFICATIONS Cryptologist Certification, US Navy, Cryptology ‘A' School, 1984.

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