Senior IT Leader

JERRY WHITAKER 813-***-****

East Lansing, MI, USA 48823 *********@*******.***

IT PROFESSIONAL

Experienced in Business Intelligence, leadership, mentoring, Big Data, SQL Server, QA testing, SAP, project management, Microsoft infrastructure, software development, and enterprise implementations

Possesses strong hardware knowledge and experience

Confident, yet humble, with the ability to quickly learn new areas and achieve success quickly

Self-motivated, flexible, and works easily with others toward goals for success of the team

Blockchain: Ethereum Solidity training – self initiated, Udacity Blockchain Engineer training

Former IT Director in the late 1990’s. Azure Architect Technologies training

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

SAP Certified Associate IS-OIL

ITIL Foundation 2011 Certified

SKILLS

Project management, mentoring, team lead experience

Blockchain – Solidity programming for Ethereum

Experience in public education, pharmaceutical, healthcare, dental, financial, software, hardware, internet advertising, oil and gas, and retail supermarket verticals

Experience with various SAP modules: IS-OIL, MM, FICO

Strong scripting and software deployment skills and experience

Ability to quickly learn new systems or technologies by leveraging past consulting engagements

Senior consulting in customer-facing situations

Strong infrastructure engineer with extensive experience in large scale enterprise (800+ locations) design, upgrades, testing, configuration, and implementations

SQL SERVER

SQL Server DBA in development, QA, and production environments

SSIS/SSAS/SSRS

Supported 800+ SQL Server installations

Excel at SQL Server maintenance and production DBA duties, including backup and disaster recovery planning

TECHNOLOGIES

Azure Cloud training, Blockchain, Ethereum, Solidity, Hadoop, Kuali, JIRA, MS Project, Agile, SAP R3 ECC 6.0, SAP IS-OIL, HPM, TSW, SAP SCM, SAP MM, SAP FICO, SAS, ITIL, HPQC 11.0, Rational ClearQuest, Requisite Pro, QA, CRM, AR, AP, PR, GL, WSS, MOSS, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, SQL Server, Sharepoint, FACETS, ICD10, HIPAA, Zadall, Powershell, MCSE, MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Project, Crystal Reports, SMS, IIS, IBM Websphere, Lotus Notes, Windows Server, AIX, Solaris, HPUX, VMWare ESX, Vsphere, NetBackup, EAI, PBX, IVR, Java, C, Prologue, C#, PERL, VBScript, T-SQL,TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, SSH

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Company: Targit US, Tampa, Florida, USA

Industry: Software/Business Intelligence

Position: Senior BI Consultant

Tenure: March 2017 – present

BI Consulting – Customer-facing

ETL/Data Modeling/BI Frontend development

Dashboard analytics

Company: Independent, Tampa, Florida, USA

Industry: Financial/Retail/Software

Position: Independent IT Consultant

Tenure: October 2015 – March 2017

Performed SQL Server installations, maintenance, and upgrades

Established QA methodology, test plans, test cases

Executed manual testing of complex software systems

Hadoop/Big Data/Scala

Company: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Industry: Public Education

Position: Integration Manager

Tenure: July 2014 – October 2015

Established Project Management Office methodology with guiding principles/guidelines/annual planning

Managed high visibility eProcurement project and Finance and Data Services projects

Incorporated ITIL service approach within methodology

Company: IBM, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Industry: Healthcare, Telecom

Position: SAP Test Lead

Tenure: July 2012 – July 2014

Gathered business requirements

Created and executed detailed test scripts to test the functionality of different areas

Performed system and integration testing using HPQC 11.0

Company: Delta Dental/Renaissance, Okemos, Michigan, USA

Industry: Dental

Position: SQL DBA Consultant

Tenure: January 2012 – July 2012

Performed SQL 2000, 2005, 2008R2 upgrades and migrations along with SQL patching

Created SSRS reporting and created SSIS ETL packages

Created custom SQL jobs for database maintenance through TSQL scripting

Developed custom TSQL stored procedures: DB maintenance: check integrity, update statistics, backups

Company: Independent, Tampa, Florida, USA

Industry: Energy/Retail/Financial

Position: Independent IT Consultant

Period: July 2007 – January 2012

Performed Windows server enterprise upgrades and SQL Server installations, maintenance, and upgrades

Created QA methodology, test plans, test cases

SAP upgrades, testing, configuration, and implementations with Data migrations to SAP systems

EDUCATION

Azure Architect Technologies AZ 300

Cryptocurrency

Blockchain – Ethereum Ecosystem/Solidity

Bitcoin – Bitcoin Core

Udacity Blockchain Engineer training

Hadoop 101, Spark, Scala, Hive

SAP USA – SAP Oil & Gas Supply Chain Planning and Execution Certification

SAP USA – SAP MM/FICO

USA – ITIL Foundation Certified

Microsoft USA – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Microsoft USA – Microsoft Business Intelligence – SQL Server SSIS, SSAS, SSRS

Microsoft USA – Sharepoint

IBM USA – IBM Certified Specialist – Middleware

Previously Real Estate licensed

Real Estate Investing – Essentials

Real Estate Investing - Advanced

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

MS Entrepreneurship in Applied Technology

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

BS Computer Science – Minors AstroGeology/Electrical Engineering

Artificial Intelligence/Natural Language Understanding

Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI

AS Digital Electronics Engineering

INTERESTS

Cryptocurrencies, College Sports, Real Estate, Bridge, Financial Markets, International Travel

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