Jeffrey A. Ploetz

Jeffrey A. Ploetz

CIO at VRSurgeon Inc.

Albany, New York Area

Current
Past
  • CTO at VRSurgeon Inc.
  • Oracle Developer / DBA at Various
  • Technical Director at LTI

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Education
  • Union College
  • State University of New York at Buffalo
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Summary

Mr. Ploetz is a Technology Leader with 20+ years Project Management expertise in a wide variety of business applications. Jeff thinks outside of the box, allowing him to drive software quality and productivity in large organizations with complex requirements.

Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Specialties:

* Six Sigma, Software Project Mangement
* Acquisition Integration / GAP analysis of Engineering Applications.
* Datawarehouse Teradata; OLTP; Architectural design specializing in Artemis, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2.

Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Experience

  • CIO

    VRSurgeon Inc.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year )

    Aligning Technology direction to support multi generational product planning. Expand pipeline and product diversity to leverage new and existing Intellectual Property. Currently focused in PHR @ www.WorldMedCard.com and Reislaufer's Clinical trials technologies across the electronic medical record systems spectrum. http://www.reislaufer.com/site/managementteam.html

  • Engineering PGM Leader

    GE

    (Public Company; GE; Financial Services industry)

    2007 — Present (2 years )

    Functional Engineering Configuration Management Integration Leader for Thermal, Renewable & Infrastructure product lines. Focus areas in product life cycle, digitized records, BoM and serialized parts for after market Services execution.

    Construction of Teradata Warehouse Appliance for single stop collection of 100+ enterprise transactional applications.

  • CTO

    VRSurgeon Inc.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    2003 — 2008 (5 years )

    Officer of Technology: Strategic alignment of capital, personnel & technical assets to deliver ROI and secure company Intellectual Property. Product Development: Project Management, Application architecture and design of collaborative medical products.

  • Oracle Developer / DBA

    Various

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1987 — September 2007 (20 years )

    Consultant for various Gov't Agencies & Private enterprises. Architect of DataMarts/Warehouse. ETL from legacy systems in ERP, G/L, AP, AR and other strategic vendor program systems for back end of Retail and Engineering businesses.

  • Technical Director

    LTI

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2001 — 2006 (5 years )

    Integration Consulting, including business gap analysis. Specific projects supporting Health Care, Engineering and Project Management (PMP based role)

  • Principle Consultant

    Keane Inc.

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; KEA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1998 — May 2001 (3 years )

    Project Manager, Datawarehouse Architect, Design Requirements for Large enterprise application development & integrations with both Private and Public Organizations.

  • Sr. Principle Consultant

    Oracle Corp.

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

  • Engagment Manager

    KeyBank

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; KEY; Banking industry)

    May 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 4 months)

    Engagment Manger for Nationwide Banking initiatives. Lead for Testing and Implementation of $MM project rolling up 16 Project Managers and 250+ software developers. Delivered project ontime with minimal defects, maintaining online transactions (ATM, etc) during cutover to common accounting and Y2K changes.

  • CSSO Oracle & Artemis

    Lockheed Martin (KAPL)

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

    November 1995 — May 1997 (1 year 7 months)

    As Computer Site Security Officer for all database applications responsible for daily and annual DOE audits; product suite maintainence & upgrade recommendations for all instances of UNIX, SGI and VM platforms. Led COE for Oracle & Artemis DBA team.

  • Project Management / Engineering

    General Electric

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 1990 — November 1995 (5 years 10 months)

    Delivered Enterprise resource scheduling tool via custom Artemis engine.
    Integration with MRP [COPICS] allows 100% automation of shop planning & loading. This provides 3,000+ Engineering & Drafting users with daily work schedule and forecasts.

    Tight integration and teamwork with GM's of Generator,Steam and Gas Turbine product line. Team lead for special project with DOD project that achieved 7000.2 CSS/C certification in 1992.

  • Sr. Programmer Analyst

    NYS Dorm Authority www.dasny.org/dasny

    (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1987 — 1990 (3 years )

    Project / Construction Mangement. Designed framwork for custom applications prior to the existance of Oracle ERP. DBA and programming in Forms 2.x & v5.1 Oracle.

  • Project Managment Consultant

    Metier / Artemis International

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 1986 — November 1987 (1 year 8 months)

    Comprehensive Project Management, Bill of Material & Maintenance Apps at various industries across North America. Kodak, US Army, Navy, Airforce & DOD CSPEC 7000.2 certifications. Avco Lycoming, Port Authority of NYNJ, AT&T, Pharmecutical, Construction and design firms.

  • West Valley Nuclear Services, Software Developer

    Westinghouse Electric Company

    (Public Company; Oil & Energy industry)

    May 1985 — October 1985 (6 months)

    Gather business requirement, design, code, and implemented management system for Facilities Engineering Department using the Artemis Management Information System.

Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Education

  • Union College

    mba , business , 2007 — 2010 (expected)

    www.spoke.com/profiles/JeffPloetz

  • State University of New York at Buffalo

    BS , Mathematics / Computer Science , 1982 — 1986

    Self Employed, Work Study, Funded 100% of education independently.

    Activities and Societies:
    1983-86: Manager/Photo Editor "The Spectrum" Student Paper http://spectrum.buffalo.edu
    1986: Photo Editor "Prodigal Sun" Arts Magazine, http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/prodsun/index.html

Additional Information

Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Websites:

Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Interests:

PHRs, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, EMR,HIMSS, CPM, Engineering, Database Architecture, Family, Soccer, Basketball, Photography, Faith, Rock-n-Roll

Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Groups:

Venture Business & Corporate Relations; Project Management Institute (PMI);
Capital District Oracle Users Group (CDOUG);
Recruiter: / Placement of Java Technicians;
Advisor: Junior Achievement Company Program http://www.ja.org/programs/programs_high_overview.shtml ;
COACH: Odyssey of the Mind: Coach www.odysseyofthemind.com

  •    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
  •    Club ex-Oracle.org
  •    Agile Project Management
  •    Executive Suite
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    American Red Cross
  •    Open HealthCare
  •    Configuration management
  •    Business Intelligence
  •    GE (General Electric)
  •    Link2Europe
  •    International Network of Social-Eco Entrepreneurs
  •    theMeatBall / GE Alumni
  •    Facebook.com
  •    Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
  •    Worldwide Association of Professional Dreamers
  •    OpenNetworker.com
  •    Professional and Amateur Mentoring Group
  •    The Enterprise Architecture Network
  •    Project Manager Networking Group
  •    Lean Six Sigma
  •    Healthcare Technology Alliance
  •    Database
  •    Leadership Think Tank
  •    Health Informatics Technology (HIT)
  •    Linked DBA
  •    University at Buffalo Alumni Association
  •    TDWI's Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Discussion Group
  •    Healthcare Analytics and Informatics, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Informatics
  •    Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) Experts
  •    Six Sigma Champions
  •    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
  •    Master Data Management Interest Group
  •    The Job Board (Find A Job, Post a Job)
  •    Medical software
  •    DWBI, Data Governance, CPM, Dashboard & Scorecarding
  •    Project Management Expert™
  •    Teradata Experts
  •    Health 2.0
  •    Grafton Executive Search Recruiting and Career Network
  •    Metier / Artemis Alumni Association
  •    Albany, NY Professionals
  •    NHINWatch
  •    Computer Science & Engineering Alumni - University at Buffalo (SUNY)
  •    The Crumple It Up Innovation Network
  •    nextHospital - for visionary hospital leaders
  •    Consumer eHealth

Jeffrey A. Ploetz’s Honors:

Presenter / Speaker @ AUA conferences 1990 / 91

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