George O. Wise, Jr.
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Value Offered to the Organization …
Autonomous, technical and customer-focused leader with an impressive 20+ year track record of driving results and exceeding expectations. A master in technical and business project management, meeting critical deadlines despite multiple competing priorities. Highly respected and valued as a vital member of a number of teams working for Fortune 500 companies.
business areas of expertise
Credit card systems Pharmaceutical Human Resources Material Management Cellular Phone Networks Telephone Networks Commodity Brokerage Banking Over The Counter Trading Payroll Accounting Sales and Commissions Profit and Loss Stock Option Credit Bureau Link Billing and Collections Sales Trade Marketing Financial Systems Vehicle Manufacturing Automotive Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle Programs Warranty Claims Systems Airline Systems & Operations Travel Frequent Flyer Programs Medicare Telecommunications Retail Insurance Incentive Sales International Revenue
technical areas of expertise
Apache Hadoop HDFS YARN Hbase Solar Hive Pig Latin ElasticSearch Apache-Flume Putty UNIX AGILE SCRUM KANBAN JAVA Servicenow ITSM Citrix IMS DB2 MS Office RMF/SMF CICS SAS TSO QUICKREF SQL COGNOS Informatica Cloud Windows Visual Basic Crystal MS-Office MS-Access Oracle ODBC MYSQL PL/SQL QMF SPUFI Ezytrieve Xpeditor File-aid QMF COBOL II Intellij Sourcetree Eclipse CA Test Case Optimizer Selenium Linux BMC JCL Control-M IDAA Stored procs IBM Data Studio VSAM Toad Varicent/IBM ICM Cognos 5/6.0/7/8X
Professional Experience
American Express Phoenix, AZ 2006 - Present
Sr. Engineer
Main point of contact for driving the technical Agile Scrum/Kanban/Waterfall process for revenue generated in the Japan Market and Sales Compensation for USA, Canada, Europe and Latin America.
Accomplishments
Developer of Incentive Sales Performance Management package / IBM ICM Cognos
Ingested Multi-Platform data into Cornerstone Big Data
Developed HIVE and PIG scripts to transform big data to a cloud platform DB2 SQL Server DB
Earned distinction as the technical “go-to person” for application changes as well as production challenges
Sr. Engineer transforming 250 Mainframe DB2 databases using Informatica cloud to DB2 SQL Server
Sr. Engineer converting Java/Cobol/DB2 compensation system to a IBM/ICM cloud solution
Sr. Engineer planning, designing, coding and implementing new features for the Japan Market
Sr. Engineer successfully piloted and installed (IDAA) IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator saving 500K
Service Delivery Manager technically onboarding over 50 teams to a sandbox test environment
Key Contributions
Managed multiple technical team members on shore and off shore
Hands on application tuning, performance and DBA support
Responsible for Infrastructure testing, training and leadership
Disaster Recovery testing lead
Trained over 500 technicians to use an Cloud ITSM Incident/Problem/Change Management system
USAIRWAYS Phoenix, AZ (2005 – 2006)
Lead Programmer Analyst
Lead Programmer for the America West and US Airways airline merger. Helped merge critical flight systems and frequent flyer mile program.
Accomplishments
Merged flight systems to reduce overall business cost
Merged critical Frequent Flyer mileage program
Key Contributions
Designed, coded and tested applications using COBOL, DB2, IMS/VS and Oracle for Airline applications
Responsible for IMS and DB2 Database Administrator activities
Created Databases, Tables, JCL and Procedures and provided support 24 by 7
Created business and technical program specifications
Responsible for quality assurance testing and production migration
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BMW – North America NJ (2001 - 2005)
Lead Programmer Analyst/Data Base Administrator
Collaborated with senior leadership and multiple car dealerships to design, develop and implement the first Certified Used Car program
Accomplishments
Created an automobile parts data warehouse in order to track defects and usage
Created a Visual Basic system using Citrix to deploy the Certified Used Car program to multiple dealer locations
Created shared web reporting using Cognos.
Key Contributions
Performed programming and Data Administrator activities to support DB2 and Oracle deployments
Coordinated meetings with Sr. VP’s across multiple dealerships
Performed show and tell sessions for senior leadership
Pfizer/Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical NJ (1997 - 2001)
Lead Programmer Analyst
Lead technical developer for Pharmaceutical, Sales and Marketing applications
Accomplishments
Participated in the merging of common application systems
Created Databases, Tables, JCL and Procedures and provided support 24 by 7
Created business and technical program specifications
Responsible for quality assurance testing and production migration
Key Contributions
Performed leadership and programming activities to support Oracle deployments
Lead and trained a team of technical resources
Merrill Lynch NY (1993 - 1997)
Lead Programmer Analyst
Lead technical developer for Trading, Brokerage, Commodity, and Financial applications
Accomplishments
Developed a profitable stock trading application
Designed and developed a stock agent payroll application
Developed a system to replace manual buy/sell stock trade orders
Key Contributions
Created business and technical design documents
Lead technical teams and reviewed code
Created detailed cross system implementation plans
EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science NYC, NY
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL Certified)
ITSM Incident, Problem, Change Management Certified
Year-up Program mentor
Lead teams of up to 20 technical resources