Albert J. Terronez
Enterprise System Management / Database Management
Resource plan / Budget / Review / Mentor / Workload prioritization /
Business engagement / Architecture Design / Operational support / Technical
strategy / Operational Support
IT Senior Manager/Director proven ability to lead, self-motivated, goal-
oriented, strategically plan, budget, manage architectural guidelines, set
strategy with effective communication to deliver quality infrastructure
projects maximizing operational performance and providing a competitive
edge.
Implemented Data Administration Services defining strategy for logical to
physical database creation, master business model, minimization of data
stores, database upgrade strategy through three to five roadmap plans.
Implemented Open Enterprise System Monitoring defining strategy of Business
Service Management (Asset Tracking, Change and Incident) for major
healthcare provider utilizing BMC Patrol, CA NSM and HP.
Experienced manager to tactically plan with strategies, minimize design and
project gaps, emphasize requirement ownership, resource plan, SDLC (agile
waterfall) phases, release/version management, proactively plan operational
support with SLAs and KPI metric utilization, ITIL standards, vendor
management, identify system design responsibilities, provide architecture
review, proactive problem management and succession planning/development
improving deliverables of managed infrastructure teams on and off
shore/outsourced.
. Department standardization: Translated business requirements with process
mapping to establish Data Administration (modeling, acquisition, and
warehousing) and Enterprise Database Management teams while implementing
standards for design, maintenance, process improvement, operational
procedures, high availability and quality control.
. Improve reliability, system performance and cost reductions with 17 years
of combined technical management in MF and Open systems, budgeting,
resource plans, and standardization.
. Communicate and present business needs with technical requirements in a
business or senior management perspective.
. Technical mentoring management style to develop self supporting teams for
mission critical support areas while establishing standard processes,
performance metrics, structured change management, incident tracing and
succession development and planning for operational support and
escalation.
Northern Illinois University, BS Finance
Selected Achievements & Skills
> Successfully led the technical implementation of Enterprise System
Management projects. I was recruited to lead the technical projects and
improved operational monitoring and mean time to repair on three separate
successful projects resulting in quantifiable cost savings.
> Department standardization. I utilized business requirements with process
mapping to originate Data Administration, Data Warehouse, Data Mart and
Enterprise Database Management teams implementing standard design,
maintenance and operational procedures to reduce development and
operational costs.
> Skills: Strong verbal communication and written skills. Highly
personable with history of interactively working with technicians,
business, senior management and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Maintain currency with infrastructure technologies regarding storage (SAN
and NAS), platforms (AIX, HP, Solaris, global/local, Windows, VMware and
desktop/workstation), networks (zones, VLANs, firewalls and IPs), RDBMS
(Oracle-OEM, SQL Server [IIS, SSRS, SSIS], DB2-MF, Sybase and Informix),
Oracle Golden Gate, incident management, ticket management and
operational procedures. Experience with SAP CRM/SD, JDE, EDI and Oracle
Financials with knowledge of Siebel CRM and PeopleSoft. I am a hands-on
people manager prioritizing career development for team members. Strong
knowledge of the MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,, Project) for
project justification, budgeting, team resource management, HIPAA/SOX
Compliance and master data management concepts. Familiar with SaaS, ITSM,
ITIL, Six Sigma concepts and white belt trained.
Albert J. Terronez
Career Overview
Coventry Health Care 2011 - Feb 2014
SQL Database Manager,
Established a SQL Server Database team that ingrained process definition
and standardization. The team of 10 included organizational expansion
centrally supporting enterprise-wide clients and highly available
databases.
. Managed a team of 10 partnering with application teams to
establish a database service support model.
. Led interactive discussions with DBA teams to identify a base of
proactive monitoring standard metrics.
. Managed daily activities of the team for clinical application databases
with monitoring/integration, project, operational production support,
golden gate replication and standardized core delivery process support.
Horace Mann, Springfield, IL - Data Center Manager
2010 - 2011
Technology lead for Enterprise Event Monitoring project managing the first
and Second Shift Operations.
. Define, prepare and manage the Operations department through automation
change on open and Mainframe systems.
Hewitt Associates, Lincolnshire, IL - Systems Management Manager 2008
- 2010
Technology lead for Enterprise Event Monitoring project implementing a BMC,
EMC and CA integrated solution while managing a team of 9, on and off shore
members. This utilized the product's highest level of security. Related
products include Wily (Web Sphere, JAVA, .NET, and .net monitoring),
TM/ART, Silk Central, Patrol, BEM/SIM, Atrium, SMARTs, and Proactive Net
integrated with Active Directory, LDAP, IIS, LAN/WAN, SharePoint and
Tomcat.
. Improved team's delivery quality working with off-shore team members in
a Matrix organization.
. Successfully implemented new agent monitoring technologies for the ESM
project.
Cardinal Health, McGaw Park, IL 2004 - 2007
Tools & Automation Manager, 2005 - 2007
Independently marketed the Enterprise Monitoring (EM) concepts, established
the EM department leveraging existing software and automation, strategic
planning to reduce the associated costs of outages and managed a team of 8.
Related products include SAP Netweaver, NSM R11, Job Management, Openview
PI and Openview Operations supporting Sarbanes Oxley EM, VPN Remote
support, ITSM, ITIL, six sigma white belt, Cohesion and specialized IOQ
testing.
. Fostered ownership and solution acceptance with interactive management
and business partner communication.
. Managed vendor relations with mix of software products while establishing
a standardized service model.
ERP / Database Manager, 2004 - 2005
Stabilized a JDE/CNC support team with process standardization and
established the Enterprise Oracle / SQL Server Database Support team of 5
to centrally support clients across the country. Defined and met business
SLAs working interactively with management and business partners.
. Improved service delivery performance with enterprise database
management standards. Defined service metrics.
Grainger, Niles, IL 1993 - 2003
SAP Basis / Command Center Manager, 1999 - 2003
Promoted and established the Enterprise System Monitoring department
leveraging software and automation to reduce technical outages, associated
costs, and the meantime to repair with a team of 5 for open and Mainframe
systems.
. Technical mentoring to create a self-supporting team implementing and
supporting ESM spanning 450 servers.
. Achieved a zero unplanned outage goal by leading the Oracle/UNIX
efforts of a successful SAP upgrade.
. Met target SLAs by increasing the Oracle database up time to 99% for
mission critical 1.6 TB SAP database instance.
Database Services Manager, 1993 - 1999
Managed a team of 8 Database Administrators and established a Data
Services team of 4 supporting packaged and in-house developed application
databases across mainframe, data warehouse and open platforms. Reduced
the first pass yield of the interactive project development process by
improving the cross functional communications.
. Led the department migration from mainframe databases and adoption of
client server databases.
. Reduced development costs and time by establishing the Data
Administration discipline, defining a strategy for Data Modeling, and
process modeling application development with database design.
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