Information Technology Quality

Seeking leadership position in Information Technology.

MANAGEMENT STYLE

Be in front and lead, hands-on, by example.

Be behind and lead through team empowerment.

Focus on quality. When correctly executed, focus on quality cost less to develop and much less to maintain and operate.

Results:

100% success.

Motivated teams.

Quality solutions delivery under budget and under schedule.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Leader for Software/Hardware Engineers and Quality Assurance (QA) resources in the Unites States and internationally, using agile and waterfall methodologies.

Built a high performing team via sound mentorship in culturally challenging environment and developed training programs around my methods. One attendee called the training one of the best in his 30 years of attending training. My team increased productivity over 300%.

Extensive experience in systems design, development and software full lifecycle through positions from Developer, Solutions Architect, QA management, and VP of Information Technology and engineering. Greatest strengths are in the delivery of high quality near zero failure software, built on best practices and flexible design. Some software at Chase Bank ran for eight years without a single failure.

Authored the book, “Common Software Development Mistakes made by Managers and Developers”. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/144*******.

Received LYONDELL PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY’s Epic Award for software user friendliness and quality. Software was for chemical plant automation with statistically driven machine learning automatic controls.

Built Exxon Chemicals PRICE MASTER for the propylene and ethylene units that allowed the company to dominate the industry in sales volume.

BUSINESS ANALYST and PROJECT MANAGEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS SUMMARY

Performed business analysis of over 2,000 requirements for toll road software (requirements gathering, user stories and story points and Use Cases).

Managed three major multi-million dollar projects and over 100 total projects.

Completed 20% under budget through effective bidding and negotiation.

Built teams that continuously improved up to 300%.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS

People

Talent acquisition,

Training

Mentorship,

Directing,

Work Prioritization

Empowerment, Performance Evaluation

Team Building

Operations

Negotiations,

Vendor Management

Budgeting and financial management

Business Analysis, Forecasting,

Time and Cost Estimating.

Controlling, Quality Assurance,

Documentation, Stake holder engagements

Assets

Hardware, Software, and Network management

Fail over Strategy,

Disaster Preparedness

IT Strategy

IT TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages

C#

JAVA, JavaScript, HTML5, AngularJS

VB, C++, Delphi

SSL shell, Unix scripts, SCADA-Protocols

Platforms

.Net

Java J2EE, J2SE

iOS & Android (QA)

Windows Workflow and Rules Engine

Databases

MSSQL

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Data Warehouse

Tools

SSMS, Visual Studio, Crystal Report, SVN

NetBeans, Eclipse, TOAD, SQL Developer

JBOSS, TOMCAT, Cloud Computing (AWS)

Microsoft Project, Visio, JIRA, Tableau, Firebug, Protractor

Others

Schlumberger Avoset

Network and Server installation

Modern UI, Machine learning, Saas, TeamCity

Linux, Unix, virtualization (server and storage)

EXPERIENCE

Transcore Jun 2015 – Dec 2016

QA Management Lead

Reported to VP, Director of Software.

Established QA group from scratch, including recruitment and training.

Improved quality 90% - established process to capture test suites, test cases and test results using Agile methodology and mentored QA team members. The process enabled the capture of over 9,000 defects, which were remediated. Prior QA efforts in the organization revealed only 1/10th the number of defects for similar scoped projects resulting in discontented customers.

Established culture for developers to write unit tests to proactively detect defects before QA handoff.

Identified and used test automation tool for AngularJS framework.

Wrote code to accelerate development efforts when the development team was short handed.

Complex system (“Single Page” responsive Web Application, AngularJS, C#, Oracle, MSSQL, Tableau, Teamcity, Agile, Configurations using Windows Workflow and Rules Engine, XML, Data Warehouse, SVN, JIRA).

Riverman Technologies Jun 2008 – Jun 2015

Vice President, Director of IT and Engineering

Manage information technology of the company including forty software and automation engineers and QA Team, deploying solutions for Shell, Chevron, Agip and other companies for a national SCADA, a multimillion-dollar project. Decrease cost 60% per installation, increased productivity over 300% and reduced support calls 90%.

Hands on coding when necessary.

Negotiated supplier contracts for VMonitor’s SCADA enterprise software, satellite service providers and other systems.

Created long and short term IT Budgets.

Managed projects, including financial, human resources and stakeholders.

Developed an Employee Empowerment training program that enabled engineers to achieve the above listed results. This training program was requested by other companies. One attendee called the training one of the best in his 30 years of attending training.

Represented the company in the Senate’s inquiry into the SCADA project delays caused by Shell. See my role in a newspaper article: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/nass-investigates-oil-and-gas-production/

Managed deployment of a multimillion dollar “Schlumberger Avoset” for a government contract; this contract included other software developments with 100 IT professionals.

Managed the installation of a 200 workstation network with 100 terabyte of online RAID storage; completed 20% under budget through effective bidding and negotiation.

Mixed Agile and Traditional environment

JPMorgan Chase Apr 1996 – Jun 2008

Manager/Architect/Lead Developer

Managed, designed, built and supported over 15 enterprise applications.

Some of these applications had no failure in eight years, thereby reducing support cost by 90%.

Designed the Oracle or MSSQL databases in all projects.

Expertise in designing and building Database models to accommodate changes in business rules without need to restructure. This reduced maintenance cost and change requests by 50%.

Sample Applications: DB Alerter (.Net, C#), Lockbox Automated Reporting System (JAVA J2EE), Simsort (JAVA), ChaseLink (VB), ChemLink (Delphi), Controlled Disbursement System (J2EE), UNIX applications.

Reviewed codes of other developers.

Tracked project statuses and related documentation using MS Project.

Involved in candidate interviewing and team selection.

Identified and guided resolution of critical support issues during production verification.

Most systems had failover and disaster recovery built in.

Part of disaster recovery planning team and participated in annual disaster recovery simulations.

State of New York – Tax Processing

JPMorgan Chase won the contract to process New York State taxes plus accounts receivables. Hundreds of different tax forms and schedules were sent directly to the bank instead of the state. The bank then processed the forms, captured the images and deposited the checks in the State’s account.

Additionally, the software implemented banking regulations and over 500 tax rule/regulations.

Designed the Oracle databases including inter process communication.

Developed the security, tax output, state reporting, B2B communication and other major modules, with complex business rules

Modified back end processes to complete in 15 minutes instead of 9 hours by using PLSQL instead of SQL.

Complex System (VB, Oracle, UNIX, Waterfall, SSL Digital Signature, SSH and tunneling through DMZ).

Various IT consulting (HP, Exxon Chemicals, Lyondell) Jan 1993- Jan 1996

EDUCATION

Texas A & M University

B.S. Natural Gas Engineering Cum Laude Graduate

CMM Level 2 Training

Certified Scrum Master - 612579

PMP – in view

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