Project Management

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NAME: Mike Ryder

ADDRESS: La Perdiz Ct

CITY: San Rafael

STATE/PROVINCE: CA

ZIP/POSTAL CODE: 94903

COUNTRY: USA

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PHONE: 415-***-****

CANDIDATE ID: 103039

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EDUCATION: Bachelor Degree

EXPERIENCE: 5

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MIKE RYDER

120 La Perdiz Ct

San Rafael, CA 94903

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Web: www.mryder.com

Objective: A project based vocation that enables me to use data architecture and project

management skills in decision support environments

Current Employment

August 1999

to presentTechnical Architect

Nextera Interactive, San Francisco, CA

Nextera Interactive is a national e-commerce consulting company offering clients web-

enabled solutions combining web strategy and internet-based software and solutions.

During my time with Nextera I have taken active roles in data architecture, database

design, application architecture, data modeling, database application development, project

planning and management, facilitating client and collegial knowledge transfer, and data

quality initiatives.

Projects include:

- Banc of America Securities: Development and implementation of securities research

publishing system for London implementation.

Responsibilities as technical leader included database (Oracle) creation, development and

management; client communication; project management, and supervision of development team.

Technologies: Oracle DBMS, ErWin, DBArtisan, RapidSql, PERL, Visual Basic, MSProject.

- Robertson Stephens: Implementation of a securities research database and publishing

system.

Responsibilities as data architect included database development and management, data

quality assurance and data migration control.

Technologies: Sybase DBMS, ErWin, DBArtisan, Factset, FTP, Java, Visual Basic.

- Unext: Production of requirements to support on-line education initiative.

Responsibilities included data gathering and distillation and production of use case

documents.

Technologies: Visio, Netmeeting.

- Thomas Weisel Partners: Development of a research publishing system.

Responsibilities included database development and metadata management

Technologies: Oracle, DBArtisan, ErWin.

- Hambrecht and Quest: Data rationalization.

Responsibilities included merging data from disparate internal company data sources to

act as a feed for a Seibel implementation.

Technologies: Sybase, Access, Seibel.

- NeXML: Development of an XML based project specification system.

Responsibilities included the application of XML concepts to development.

Technologies: XML, HTML, Rational Rose.

Employment History

January 1998

to August 1999Professional Consultant

- Information Management

Computer Associates

(formerly Platinum Technology, inc.), Chicago, IL.

Platinum Technology was a leading international software development and professional

services organization. The company had several consulting practices including Application

Lifecycle, Network Infrastructure, Y2K and Information Management.

During my time within the Information Management practice my activities included:

- data modeling both as a strategic and project enabling technique

- high-level analysis of business systems and project environments

- analysis of data warehouse environments

- project management

- enablement of representative enterprise-wide data architectures

- formulating fixed bid and variable cost proposals

- facilitating knowledge transfer to both clients and colleagues

- communication and team facilitation

Projects included:

- General Motors: Production of a divisional data warehouse strategy study.

Responsibilities included meeting facilitation, data source analysis (quantitative and

qualitative), and document management

Technologies: MS Project, Visio, ERWin.

- Cargill Investment Services: Definition and production of a reporting/warehouse

commodities trading database from transactional database sources.

Responsibilities included project definition and management, client communication,

project racking, development management, database creation, maintenance and management,

and quality control.

Technologies: SQL Server, Infopump, DecisionBase, ErWin, MS Project.

- AmSouth Bank:: Production of a data warehouse strategy.

Responsibilities included interviewing and meeting facilitation, document preparation.

Technologies: ErWin, Visio, Word, Excell, Powerpoint.

- Safeway Supermarkets: Production of a retail data warehouse involving migrating legacy

data from disparate proprietary systems.

Responsibilities included project management, client facilitation, data modeling,

database specification and design.

Technologies: lnformix, ErWin, Infopump, InfoBeacon, Project.

April 1997

to January 1998Consultant Data Administrator

Allstate Insurance

Chicago, IL

As a data administrator contracting to Allstate Insurance I was responsible for

constructing and maintaining enterprise logical and physical data models. Additional

duties involved offering data administration support for functional project teams.

January 1993

to January 1997Lecturer

Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

During my four years as an Information Systems Lecturer my duties included: lecturing to

groups of up to 250 people using original material prepared and delivered with information

technology, mentoring and tutoring in both internal and extramural modes, curriculum

design and preparation, and professional research.

My main research and teaching interests were in the areas of: data modeling, database

systems, CASE technology, enterprise-wide modeling and data integration. My teaching

responsibilities ranged from: high level overview of the information systems discipline,

in-depth study of systems analysis and design, courses concerning data modeling

techniques, process modeling techniques, database concepts and end-user computing.

In addition to teaching and research activities I considered it important to foster

significant exposure within the business community. I achieved this in two ways:

- by developing and maintaining a number of systems development contracts for small and

mid-size organizations.

- by consulting in data architecture at strategic and tactical levels with organizations

such as: Inland Revenue Department of New Zealand, WestPac Banking Corporation.

November 1992

to December 1996Free-lance Contractor

I secured several small system development contracts and with a small team, I developed

systems from initial contact with a client to roll out and maintenance. These included:

- administration systems designed to track and mange project status and budgets

- time costing system to track time and materials expenses against projects

- automated, self-paced teaching tool to facilitate distance learning of database

concepts

- user-definable end use database for the New Zealand energy market that permitted ad-hoc

querying of aggregated data by non-technical executives. These systems used Relational

Database Management Systems and Fourth Generation Languages with GUI interfaces. Contracts

were delivered by forming teams of up to four partners or subcontractors.

January 1987

- March 1990Operations Manager

Foodtown Supermarkets, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Responsible for the quality and management of Foodtown's operations.

- managed 150 full-time and part-time employees.

- managed the transition (training and culture change) to a computerized system.

- recruited and retained appropriate quantity of staff.

- established and monitored quality standards, including service levels and training.

- budgeted for wage and consumables expenses.

Skills & Experience

In the course of my work in consulting, contracting, teaching and research I have gained

extensive experience in many business environments. These environments have utilized a

broad range of technologies and software running under Windows2000, WindowsNT, LINUX, DOS,

UNIX, Win 95, Macintosh and OS/2. These include:

- Database: MS SQL Server 6.5, 7.0, Sybase, Oracle 7, Oracle8.x, Paradox, Access,

dBaseIV, Ingres, MySQL, Postgres, and Object-Oriented Database

- CASE: ERWin, Bachman GroundWorks, Oracle CASE, Infomodeler, Cayenne Reports, ER/Studio

IEW, DEFT, TeamWork, Excelerator, S-designor, and Visible Analyst, Power Designer

- Database and Data warehouse tools: DecisionBase, Platinum Repository, InfoPump,

InfoReports, DB Artisan

- Project Management: MS Project, working toward PMI certification.

- Languages: SQL, PERL, PAL, COBOL, VisualBasic, Java, XML and HTML

- Methodologies: Information Engineering (James Martin), SSADM, Yourdon, Soft Systems and

Object Oriented Methodologies

- Techniques: Entity Relationship Modeling, Conceptual Data Modeling, Object-Role

Modeling, Data Warehousing, Relational Database Design, Enterprise Modeling, and NIAM-

Conceptual Schema Design Procedure

EDUCATION

Massey University,

Palmerston North, New Zealand (1989 - 1996)

Master of Business Studies

with Distinction (Information Systems)

Thesis Title: Facilitating Evolution in Relational Database Design: A procedure to

evaluate and refine novice data designers' schemata.

Bachelor of Business Studies

with First Class Honors (Information Systems)

Studies emphasized data modeling and CASE.

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