Project Manager Management

CHRIS LURIX, PMP

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SYNOPSIS: Project Management Professional (PMP®) with over seventeen years experience in software development and project management.

COMPUTER

SKILLS: Management tools:

MS Project 2000, ScrumMaster, Agile, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, PowerPoint

Application Development:

PowerBuilder version 12, Delphi 2000, C++, VBA, Pascal, Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle Developer/2000, Oracle Forms 6i, Oracle Reports 6i, PFC, InfoMaker, Visual Basic 6.x, WinRunner, PVCS, Lotus Notes, Visual SourceSafe, Crystal Reports, SQLWindows, COBOL

RDBMS:

Oracle 11, SQL Server 2005, Sybase

Database Tools/Concepts:

PL/SQL, Embarcadero DBArtisian, TOAD, UML, SQL, SQL*Plus, Database Stored Procedures and Triggers, Erwin, SQL Talk, Quest

Operating Environments:

Windows 2000, Windows NT, Window XP, UNIX, DOS

Internet/Intranet:

JDeveloper, JBuilder, Java, Javascript, HTML, ASP, EJB, XML

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT:

5/11 to Present GenOn Energy Houston, TX

Lead Technical Analyst

Custom develop an application for risk and derivatives accounting to comply with the summary of statement number 157. This statement defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and expands disclosures about fair value measurements.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the deployment of a custom developed application following Sarbanes Oxley controls

• Data analysis and mapping in support of energy trading operations

• Assist in developing workflows and business processes to meet the goals of the energy trading business units

• Address questions on data aspects of the energy trading operations and processes

• Identify and troubleshoot issues relating to data between energy trading systems

04/10 to 5/11 BP - Integrated Supply and Trading (IST) Houston, TX

Application Specialist

Manage all custom development for major enhancements to the power trading/risk management system. Integrate a derivative pricing and risk management system designed to evaluate exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives into the power trading system, and perform as the team’s ScrumMaster while using agile methodology for software development.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and assign work efforts accordingly to optimize the onshore/offshore support resources

• Manage data integration between various energy trading systems

• Facilitate the identification of new solutions to support the business

• Educate the business users in new processes to ensure that maximum benefits are achieved from the solutions implemented

• Coordinate testing with QA resources to ensure business requirements are met.

• Data analysis and mapping in support of energy trading operations

10/06 to 4/10 RRI Energy/Reliant Energy Houston, TX

IT Project Management/Senior Lead Analyst

Manage the custom development of an interface to the Epsilon product that monitors wholesale/retail energy marketing to ensure contract pricing/volume/accounting compliance. Custom develop a solution for RRI’s derivatives accounting to comply with the summary of statements number 157 and 161. These statements defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and expands disclosures about fair value measurements.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the deployment of custom developed application enhancements

• Data analysis and mapping in support of energy trading operations

• Assist in developing workflows and business processes to meet the goals of the energy trading business units

• Address questions on data aspects of the energy trading operations and processes

• Identify and troubleshoot issues relating to data between energy trading systems

11/05 to 10/06 Baylor College of Medicine - Department of Molecular/Human Genetics Houston, TX

Contract - Project Manager

Responsible for managing the effort to consolidate Baylor College of Medicine’s multiple Paradox database environment to a single SQL Server 2000 database.

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built the database for the billing of research samples

• Data analysis/modeling

• Extract transform load existing data

• Served as an expert on application development for existing or new applications

• Consult with research doctors and technical staff to design, develop and implement system enhancements.

• Determine the system’s user demand and conceptual needs

• Perform requirement analysis

• Prepare code specifications and test plans

• Code, test, and debug software and database enhancements

10/02 to 11/05 Sungard Energy Systems Houston, TX

Project Manager/Senior Developer

Responsible for technically supporting and leading the development for energy based software product for fifteen Fortune 500 clients. The software product enables gas producers, marketers, pipelines, and LDCs to efficiently manage their integrated natural gas operations, including purchases and sales, transportation, settlement, invoicing, and accounting.

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built an EDI interface for the submission of nominations using XML

• Knowledge of NAESB contract provisions

• Determine the system’s user demand and conceptual needs

• Perform requirement analysis

• Consult with clients and technical staff to design, develop and implement system enhancements.

• Support product sales staff and implementation consultants

• Prepare code specifications and test plans.

• Data analysis/modeling

• Maintain over fifteen sub-system areas of the application (Counter parties, Contracts, Pipelines/Stations, Nominations, Deals, etc.)

• Code, test, and debug software enhancements

5/01 to 7/02 El Paso Corporation Houston, TX

Senior Analyst IT

Responsible for leading the development of an interface that would capture data from a corporate intranet application and populate a down-stream third party application utilized by the Trading, Accounting and Contracts department. Technically support/develop applications used in the wholesale marketing of natural gas for El Paso's Merchant Energy division.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison between users and technical staff to design, develop and implement system requirements.

• Worked on defining the solution architecture to be performed using Tibco

• Map business requirements to technology needs

• Develop Functional/Detailed Design documents

• Perform analysis/design for several customized applications

• Ad-Hoc SQL client reporting development

• Code, test, and implement enhanced software

3/00 to 1/01 Kana Software/Silknet Software Dallas, TX

Senior Professional Services Consultant

Assisted clients in creating and improving business processes then mapping those business processes to Kana’s products. Led the creation of functional/design specifications for custom CRM/eRM (enterprise Relationship Management) business solutions to empower clients to know and serve their customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the gathering of business requirements utilizing Use Cases

• Perform Gap analysis

• Map business requirements to technology needs

• Develop Functional/Detailed Design documents

• Lead data analysis/modeling

• Analyze the client’s business to determine the current and future needs

• Manage client expectations and scope creep.

7/98 to 8/99 Oracle Corporation, Financial Applications Division Houston, TX

Project Leader for Oracle’s Strategic Enterprise Management team.

Development of an internationally used WEB based financial product for Oracle 11i release that will enable executives to manage their business activities and not the symptoms, costs. The system is based on the principles of Activity Based Costing/Activity Based Management. The information will allow executives to manage a company’s activities for dramatically improved competitiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Assign individual tasks

• Determine the system’s user demand and conceptual needs

• Perform requirement analysis

• Data conversion, data analysis and data modeling

• Develop and maintain several PL/SQL forms and reports

11/96 to 7/98 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Management Consulting Services Houston, TX

Consultant Level III

PROJECT LEADER - Development of enhancements to an Activity Based Costing/Activity Based Management system for Fortune 100 companies. Users had to utilize a cumbersome multiple step/multiple window process to map and reallocate their business’s costs for a particular period. The team re-engineered and simplified the mapping and redistributing process to a single window. The new window took advantage of displaying the system information in a tree hierarchy format utilizing drag-drop technology for ease of use. The project was on time and under budget.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a 12 plus team in an over $1M revenue project

• Manage application support for over 15 clients

• Manage projects using MS Project

• Enforce development/coding standards

• Architect the Object Oriented structure for the application.

5/94 to 11/96 Grant Thornton LLP, Management Consulting Services St. Louis, MO

Senior Consultant

PROJECT LEADER - PowerBuilder customization application

National Insurance Corporation - Led a 10 plus team composed of both clients and consultants. Arranged and managed team meetings to discover the needed requirements of the system. Exceeded client expectations in the delivery of a system that met all of their current and growing needs, under time and under cost. The project was on time and under budget.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a ten plus member team

• Manage projects using MS Project

• Assign Tasks and responsibilities

• Attend meetings with the CIO and management to ensure that expectations are being met

• Prototype, develop, test and deploy the application

• Prepare and conduct employee evaluations

• Establish Development Standards

EDUCATION: University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business

MBA, May 2013(expected)

Global Energy Management

GPA 4.0

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Business Administration, May 1994

Major: Management Information Systems

GPA 3.4

TRAINING: Completed specialized training in Project Management, Leadership, Methodology, Client/server and n-tier architecture systems, Java Programming for Oracle Developers, Designer/Developer 2000, Novell Netware and LAN Administration, Erwin and Relational Data Modeling, Object Oriented Programming, SQLBase, Gupta - SQLWindows and PowerBuilder Development Tools, Dun & Bradstreet's Financial & Accounting Software.

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