Summary

 

• Exceptional track record delivering complex solutions on high visibility projects, with tight deadlines, across a variety of industries and geographies.
• Successfully managed all technical deliverables for over a dozen package installations and custom application releases in North America and Europe.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with diverse clients, vendors, offshore development teams and internal support staffs while keeping an eye on the bottom line.

 

Broad range of technical architecture and project leadership experiences in distributed, Internet and IBM mainframe environments.

• Distributed experience includes: ERP packages (PeopleSoft Financials, PeopleSoft HR and Payroll, Oracle 11i Financials and HRMS, Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Forms, Edocs e-presentment package), Vertex tax packages on Unix and PC platforms, Control-M Scheduling, Local Area, Unix Servers (Sun/Solaris, HP, AIX platforms), iMart Sales Audit system, Programming (SQR, PeopleCode, MicroFocus COBOL, PL/SQL), Desktop/Workflow Tools (MS Office Suite), Databases (Oracle 9i and 8i, Informix 7.23).
• Internet experience includes the PeopleSoft 8 Internet Architecture model (AIX, Sun and NT OS, Oracle 8 and SQL Server 7, IIS and Weblogic web servers), Oracle 11i Financials and HRMS architecture, web design and development (Intranets, Internet), technical design and direction of BRiStudio.com, MichaelHolderer.com, and home office networking.
• Mainframe experience includes: IBM 390 MVS environment including MVS on-line, batch processing and job control (VSAM COBOL, COBOL 370, COBOL II, PACBASE, JCL, IMS, CICS, ALC, ISPF, TSO, CMS).
• Other technical: digital photography, editing video in digital format, creation of DVDs for EDS sales/trade show presentations (Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Encore).

 

Professional Experience

 

Michaels Stores, Inc., Irving, TX

October 2001 to present

 

Oracle Financials 11.5.10 Implementation

§         Extensively involved in 9-month evaluation process. Did extensive research into the TCO of current PeopleSoft 7.5 installation (licensing, support, and enhancement). Involved in all executive-level evaluation sessions (directors, comptroller, treasurer, CFO, Strategic Planning).

§         Fully engaged in twice-daily conference calls with Bangalore, India-based coding team.  Coordinated AP coding, testing and conversion with offshore developers, on-site consultants and Michaels testers and users.

§         Worked with Oracle Consulting to create the technical design and architecture documentation for the project.  Design includes networking, load balancing, and instance planning during conversion and at go-live.

§         Teamed with user functional leads and Oracle Consulting business analysts to convert 7 years of purchasing data, sales audit data, and fixed asset data from legacy PeopleSoft system.

§         Coordinated a parallel, IT-wide Identity Management and customer-data security initiative with the ongoing Oracle Financials implementation.

 

PeopleSoft 7.5 Support and Enhancement

§         Successfully implemented a major GL and AP data archive effort (2 years of data/40 million journal and ledger rows).  Pared GL data down by half.  Net result was improved performance in online response time and a nightly batch runtime reduction of 2 hours.  Was awarded “Employee of the Month, July 2002” due to success of this project.

§         Successfully converted legacy Software 2000 financial data into PeopleSoft.  Created reports and panels for Tax group to use for IRS audits.  This allowed decommissioning a legacy AS/400 system, saving $10,000 per month in maintenance costs.

§         Lead technical person for movement of 1-terabyte Financials database from IBM SSA and Shark storage to EMC array.  Coordinated with technical team, users, DBA and EMC project lead on timelines and responsibilities.

§         Led the effort to scrub all inbound interface data and electronically alert users to error conditions. Eliminated 10 - 15 calls per month for bad EDI and XML data. With only a maximum 3 hour buffer in the nightly cycle, this has lessened risk of impacting system availability in the morning.

§         Coordinated efforts with DBAs, technical team members and users to tune custom and delivered processes (includes voucher edit, journal edit and post, custom 3-way matching).  Team effort resulted in reducing nightly batch from 9 hours to 4 hours.

 

Oracle HRMS/PeopleSoft 8.4 HRMS product evaluation and implementation

§         As senior member of the ERP team, I was extensively involved in vendor presentations and research into product specs during 2-month selection and evaluation process. Voting member of package selection committee

 

Leadership

§         Coordinated with 8 external systems, DBA group and UNIX team in a Sales Audit server consolidation project.

§         Participate in weekly project status meeting with CIO, VP of Systems Development, directors, managers and team leads.

§         Completed project to allow Michaels Stores and Aaron Brothers subsidiary to demonstrate corporate compliance with the Patriot Act (OFAC).  Reported to the VP of Loss Prevention during this two-month project where I assisted in selecting an outsourcer (Ciant Corp.) and coordinated data extractions by the HR and Financials teams.  For the second and third year audits, I again helped select an outsourcer (GIS) and coordinated the data extractions across business units.

§         Was selected by VP of Systems Development to represent Michaels Stores at the 2003 NOREX conference in Scottsdale, AZ (roundtable forum of 150 people representing 50+ companies). Submitted a discussion topic relating to the “SEC101” PeopleSoft enhancement for the AM module which addresses extra depreciation a company may take on certain assets

 

 

EDS E.Solutions, Plano, TX

July 1998 to October 2001

 

Waste Management Inc.

§         Presented EDS’ success stories, architecture models and implementation methodologies to Waste Management IT executives.  Teamed with EDS Houston sales group to present high-level solution white paper to win continued business for PeopleSoft Financials, CRM and CIS products.

 

Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority

§         Installed PeopleSoft 8 Financials, HR and Essbase demo systems with full Internet client access for Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) in preparation for a PeopleSoft 7 to 8 upgrade.   Platform is NT/Oracle 8 with Weblogic and IIS 4 web servers.  SLGA has 50 central office users with 80 retail stores accessing via dial-up. 

 

edocs Online Presentment Project

§         Selected to be the lead consulting architect for this new business area. Working with edocs Corporation to deliver a presentment solution for first major EDS edocs account, Tyco/ADT.  

 

Principal Consultant Architect PeopleSoft 8 Financials implementation, National Association of Insurance commissioners (NAIC).

§         NAIC required a strategy to roll 7 disparate PC/Access-based systems into a Unix/Oracle PeopleSoft 8 system and guidance in keeping development environments up and running.

 

Consultant Architect and Oracle/Informix DBA for Seminole County Public Schools

§         Led team of 4 technical support specialists in the successful upgrade of PeopleSoft Financials for Education and Government version 6.0 to 7.5. Project involved an eleventh hour migration from a poorly performing Informix database to Oracle.

§         Assisted customer in reapplying dozens of customizations at minimal cost. Client was a public entity with severely constrained budgets.

§         CIO agreed to be an EDS reference account.

 

Consultant and Technical Support for Textron PeopleSoft HR.

§         Provide technical direction to major business-unit/system consolidation project. Met with director of IS to establish expectations and requirements

§         Assisted with custom interfaces to an Oracle Manufacturing implementation

§         Coordinated client, EDS E.Solutions, EDS US & Canada I.Solutions groups and third-party consultants.

 

Participated in RFP for J.C. Penney PeopleSoft HR upgrade

§         Tasked with designing the strategy for migrating, in an 18-month window, a heavily customized HR system to release 7.5 and integrating all Eckerd Drugstore HR data into system

 

§         Consultant to EDS Europe Carrefour Hypermarket Account

Spent 2 months providing PeopleSoft architecture and infrastructure design consulting to EDS Europe’s major Carrefour account. 

 

Consultant to EDS Oracle Financials Group for State of California RFP

§         Participated in EDS’ RFP to the State of California for major Oracle Financials implementation. Assisted with the development of a data conversion strategy for migrating 30 years of mainframe-based data

 

 

MCI Systemhouse     (purchased by EDS Feb. 1999)

July 1998 to February 1999

 

Lead Technical Architect and Oracle DBA for H&R Block PeopleSoft Financials

§         Led team of 4 people assisting customer technical staff at a major account with a troubled installation (two HP 9000’s supporting 4,500 employees). Responsible for project direction, managing customer expectations, milestones, cost and change management. Project had high visibility, tight timeline and involved extensive and tactful contacts with technical and functional staffs at customer site and within EDS.

§         Built a lab environment (sandbox RS/6000 running Oracle 8.0.5), which permitted the rapid prototyping of the customer’s platform configuration to propose credible solution options.

 

Technical Architect and Oracle DBA - Cummins Utility Supply and Crow Holdings

§         Teamed with sales and consulting managers to determine customer requirements, specify project scope and produce cost estimates. Cummins, $1.5m, Crow $500k.

§         Directed all data conversion and loading activities. Largest team consisted of four Systemhouse and five client-selected consultants   Was responsible for building, maintaining and tuning 10 database instances, as well as upgrades to the base PeopleSoft software and installation of third-party tax software (Vertex). Coordinated PeopleSoft, Systemhouse/EDS and Vertex technical staff to resolve a potentially show-stopping bug in the Vertex-PeopleSoft-NT interface.

 

Perot Systems Corporation, Dallas, TX

September 1996 to July 1998

 

Technical Leader for PeopleSoft General Ledger - Perot Systems

§         Led a 4-person team managing the General Ledger and Accounts Payable functions for the company. Responsibilities included planning and installing upgrades, enhancing performance, customizations and documentation. Supported worldwide user base of 200 Financial and HR Perot personnel.

 

Technical Consultant PeopleSoft General Ledger -Swiss Bank, London England

§         Supported 50 Financial and HR users at Perot’s flagship European customer site, Swiss Bank in the UK. Included 4-month on-site assignment in London.

 

 

EDS Corporation, Plano, TX

July 1991 to September 1996

 

Systems Engineer GMAC ‘Future Systems’ Project in Dayton, Ohio

§         Progressed from a new-hire to technical leader for Banking, Check Processing, Escheat, and Account Inquiry and Change functions supporting 1,500 users in 225 US and Canadian GMAC branches. Participated in 8 major system releases. As tech lead, responsible for all batch and online processes, reports, and electronic feeds to and from external banking systems. Interacted extensively with EDS account managers, client management and operations personnel at 19 US and Canadian banks. Negotiated project requirements, scope and cost. Mentored three other junior team members.

 

 

Education

 

University of Notre Dame May 1991

Bachelor of Arts in Management Information Systems