Information Technology Quality Assurance
Resume:
Steve Thorsen
Senior Application Engineer
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linkedin.com/stevethorsen
Expert
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2 - Contributor Relations and Campus Community, Recruiting & Admissions, Financial Aid, Student Financials, Student Record’s & Academic Advising,
HCM and FSCM
PeopleTools 8.57,
Banner, Banner Based COBOL
Enterprise Resource Planning
Data Center Migration
Data Disaster Recovery
Quality Assurance
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Competitive Market Analysis
Optimizing ROI and KPI
Web Development HTML/CSS, Microsoft Office Suite 365 and Project, JIRA, Confluence, SQL, SQRW, NetExpress, PS COBOL, Stored Statements, JAVA, PASCAL, C, C++, Python, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, LINUX
OS COBOL, VS COBOL II, LE/370 COBOL, Command level CICS and SQL (Toad, Oracle Developer), 360/370 Assembler, XEROX (HFDL) CA-Scheduler, UCC1 and XPEDITER/Batch
Education
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology: Colorado State University
Liberal Arts, Information Technology: Pierce College
Professional
25+ years’ experience in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Business Operations, Software Development as well as Functional Analyst with a proven track record of consistent revenue growth, team mentorship, and people development.
Experience
Director Student Information Systems
San Diego State University (March 2020 – March 2023)
- Associate Responsible for Bolt-On’s from other campuses and ensured there integrity.
- Oversaw the implementation of Campus Solutions from Legacy application.
- Performed analytical skills to enable the ability that allow users to observe and to develop resolutions
- Applied COBOL skills to rewrite to newer technologies
- Integrated with College Board, Ellucian, Transactcampus, Certicheck, and Pearson
Developer/Tech Lead
Higher Education LLC (August 2018 – March 2020)
- Providing Campus Solutions customers with Business and Tech Solutions
- Provided analysis that allowed brainstorming and experienced possible solutions
- Test Lead University of Massachusetts, 9.2 Upgrade – on time and under budget
- Managed three other team members (Admissions & Recruiting, Student Financials, and Student Records & Academic Advising)
- Implemented both JIRA and Confluence to provide seamless analytics of test floor
Senior Developer – Functional Analyst/Director of Development
Oracle (January 2005 – August 2018)
- Developer for Student Financial Planning (SFP/Vocado)
- Developed and oversaw Financial Aid for Campus Solutions
- Introduced PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) promoting selective adaptation for the customer
- Designed and Developed Campus Solutions 9.2 Prospect/Application Test score process. Utilizing Constituent Transaction Management process (CTM) as well as New User Registration (NUR)
- Developed and maintained File Parser process
- Pragmatic, analytical support for COBOL to rewrite to latest skillset
- Maintained SEVIS, Admissions Application and Recruiting functionality
- Frequent speaker at Higher Education Users Group (HEUG)
- Knowledgeable with POP Select/Update
- Knowledgeable abbot Entity Registration ID
- Awarded stock options for collaborative team leadership
Senior Developer/Manger/Director
PeopleSoft (April 1995 – January 2005)
- Analyzed and developed core functionality within the PeopleSoft Campus Community, Recruiting & Admissions, Financial Aid, Student Financials, Student Record’s & Academic Advising and Contributor Relations applications
- Knowledgeable about Object Oriented Programming and Application Packages
- Was part of the team that replaced Lotus Notes with in-house Informational/Change/Enhancement (ICE)
- I was part of the team that evaluated and implemented PeopleSoft’s change management system
- Taught PeopleSoft COBOL
- Provide COBOL skills to rewrite to newer technologies
- Managed $2.5M yearly budget
- Founded the Release Engineering Team, establishing policies and procedures within Campus Solutions and HCM divisions
- Managed a global team of 14 developers to ensure deliverables
- Oversaw international development team to support derivative code lines, Implemented an infrastructure to development
- Project Manager the Australia/New Zealand 7.6 to 8.9 upgrade
- Original Author of INASBLD.exe. Later productized for LINUX customers
- Developed and created: INAS interface INAS Federal simulation, Outbound ISIR processes, Student Budgets, Award Authorization, and Award Disbursements (Authorization, Disbursements)
- Productionized Application Web Services (AWS) and Service Oriented Learning Application (SOLA) or (PIA_OLA)
- Listed as a ‘Company Maker’ by Dave Duffield CEO of PeopleSoft/WorkDay
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