Night IT professional position Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 1503
Desired Job Location: Houston, Texas	Date Posted: 11/30/2004
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: December 1, 2004
Desired Wage: open
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience	Willing to Travel: No
Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors	Willing to Relocate: No

Objective:
Looking for a evening or graveyard shift IT professional position. I would like to continue my education and be available for my family during the day.

Possible positions could include but are not limited to: Computer Operator, Oracle DBA, teaching evening classes, support staff, remote computer monitoring, evening shift supervisor

Experience:
2003-Present Business/IT Consulting and Sales, Houston, TX
• Provide business and IT consulting, sales and services –
• Projects include system administration, database consulting, sales and services, business development and software sales and IT forensics.
• Provider of innovative sales/marketing programs designed to increase sales and market share. Develop client contacts with executives of oil, gas and power trading industries. Spearheaded development and growth of company's products/services working on a 1:1 basis with president. Performed in-depth needs assessment. Perform analysis and documentation of business process. Prioritize business requests. Provide cost saving business solutions.
1999-2003 BMC Software, Houston, TX
• Act as focal point for all customer/prospect activity, liaison between business areas and IT, within the ERP application management program. Includes customer interface, development and marketing interaction, interpreting technical issues, and customer communications.
• Teamed with account managers to developed strategies for selling products to all levels of customer organization – CEO, CFO, CIO, line management and individual users. Customer presentations, demonstrations, Proof of Concept installations and knowledge transfer. Averaged over 2 million in revenue per year for one product alone.
• Developed marketing and sales material. Planned and participated in trade shows. Created requirements and specifications for new and current products
• Developed procedures for monitoring Oracle Apps compliance. Educated and mentored junior software consultants and partners.
• Manage various projects and develop customer relationships. Promote the use of best practice methods in project management, systems development, quality assurance, IT general controls and risk management.
• Participate in due diligence initiatives of various software products. Gather customer requirements, analyze business functions, make recommendations and respond to customer RFP process.

1986-1999 Schlumberger, Houston, TX
Computing Center Operations Manager
• Supervise computer operators in 24x7 operations. Transitioned remote job site to networked computer center. Supervised offshore communications network. Consolidated two computing centers. Designed, specified and implemented Client Computing Center at major oil company.
Client Training & Education
• Teach “hands-on” operating system and database training classes to Schlumberger employees and customers. Developed key internal training initiatives. Developed customized training workshops and materials. Worked with outside vendors to develop a training specifically designed for Schlumberger applications of vendor products.
• Implemented online strategy for using interactive multimedia education products, in client/server environment, improving delivery and access.
Customer Installation Engineer
• Installed applications on client systems and trained client on basic setup and usage. Specified client systems. Trained junior engineers.
Customer Support Engineer
• Customer Support Engineer – Developed patch administration for applications and OS. Client phone support of OS and applications. Internal support for OS and applications.
Product Marketing Engineer

• Setup and maintained multiple workstations for trade shows and client demonstrations. Installed and maintain Oracle databases for product applications. Create marketing web server and created content.

Education:
EDUCATION
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Computer Science

Affiliations:
PROFFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
President, Houston User Group for Sun, 1997 to 2004
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1999 to 2004, Member

Skills:
TECHNICAL SKILLS
MS Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook
Oracle products: Oracle DBA; Oracle Apps,
Operating Systems: NT, UNIX, Linux
EDUCATION
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Computer Science
Solution Selling Boot Camp, Mike Bosworth Associates

High Tech Sales Boot Camp, Sandler Sales Institute
LICENSES & CERTIFICATES

Oracle E-Business Suite Sales Champion, Oracle

Oracle E-Business Suite Technical Champion, Oracle

Oracle 8 Certified Database Administrator, Oracle OCP

Patrol Certified and Patrol Certified Examiner, BMC Software

General Lines Agent; Life, Accident, Health and HMO

Additional Information:
My background in the IT industry is well rounded with an understanding of how things work and how to take the IT applications to the next step.

• I have developed and designed large hardware and software projects which required project management and required working as team.

• While at BMC Software, I interfaced with all levels of different companies’ personnel; from all the CxO’s to the direct infrastructure systems and application staff. My experience and knowledge includes working with Oracle databases and all the ERP environments.

• I worked for several years at Schlumberger and have experience with the petroleum industry and have experience managing outsourced services. I, myself was an outsourced service over the past year while waiting for the IT business environment to improve.

• While at Schlumberger, I supervised operations staff in several 24x7 computing centers. I was also involved in the Gulf of Mexico offshore transmission (phone and microwave) system prior to satellites and including satellite transmissions which came later.

• My ability to keep up-to-date with the IT industry includes involvement in the local Oracle, Sybase and Sun user groups. I am also involved with other IT industry groups and network with many people within the IT industry.

• Although, I have not discussed my security knowledge in detail, it goes without saying that I am aware and have implemented system and network environment security audits and systems lock downs.

• The company data and protecting that information has become more crucial than ever before. Privacy and corporate security can only be maintained by do diligence, innovation and team involvement in the solution.

Reference:
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