Data Masseur
Austin, Texas Area
Data Masseur
Austin, Texas Area
Early in my IT career I focused first on custom data-centric application development, later moving on to specialize in data warehousing, data migration, application integrations and data manipulation. A large portion of my time as a consultant was spent as a troubleshooter or doing "clean up" work, coming in to fix things once a project had gone wrong. I have management and team lead experience on projects of varying scopes and areas dealing with integrations, data warehousing ETL and web development.
Data Conversion/Migration projects,
Data Warehouse ETL/ELT,
Business Intelligence / Analytics,
Application Integration,
Web Services,
SOAP & XML,
SQL & MDX,
Database Modeling,
Reporting
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Design & develop back office applications & web sites for use by support and operations teams to facilitate monitoring and daily maintenance and support of the QuickArrow application and it's customers using SQLServer 2005, SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, C#, ASP.NET and HTML.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 3 months)
As Technical Services Manager, I directed the Integration and Custom Reporting teams for a SaaS PSA solution. The primary tool set included Pervasive (Data Junction) Data Integrator, SOAP Web Services, XML/XSLT, SQLServer 2000 & DTS, Excel, java, .net and BizTalk 2006.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 3 months)
I was originally brought in as an ETL Architect for a consolidated data store reporting project involving DTS, SQL Server 2000 & java, later serving as a more traditional development DBA.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — March 2005 (5 years 3 months)
Development Lead or consultant on a number of SQL, ASP, DTS, VB, Oracle, DB2 & Access projects developed either in house or on-site through contract for companies such as Dell, Texas Education Agency, Seton Healthcare, Landmark Graphics, TXU, University of Texas System, and others. This position often called for full life cycle involvement and ownership from requirements gathering and proposal through delivery and support.
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)
September 2001 — March 2005 (3 years 7 months)
Contracted twice with TEA in 2001/2 and later again in 2004/5 as an Ascential Datastage and DB2 developer for their TPEIR datawarehouse.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)
March 2000 — January 2004 (3 years 11 months)
Contacted to Dell 5 times during a 4 year span, working on several diverse projects dealing with VB, DTS, ASP, SQLServer, MSMQ, Oracle, XML, Access & dotNET.
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
October 2000 — March 2001 (6 months)
Contracted with UTSystem to do ETL development for the initial stage of their Common Data Warehouse initiative.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TIER; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 8 months)
Created a Database centered Lifecycle Project Management System to track all facets of project management from Requirements Gathering to Testing.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADR; Chemicals industry)
August 1997 — May 1998 (10 months)
COBOL, VB & Access programmer.
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)
May 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 4 months)
One man IT staff performing development & maintenance duties for a varied environment including AS/400, Query/400, OS/2, VB, COBOL, BASIC/400, SCO Unix, IBM 3270, REXX, Token Ring, GIS, Novell, and proprietary voting equipment.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1990 — January 1991 (1 year 1 month)
Supervisor over student hardware and software support staff.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1989 — January 1990 (1 year 1 month)
Installed, repaired & upgraded PCs and terminals throughout University campuses.
Engineering, English, Information Sciences 1985 — 1991
1980 — 1980
data warehousing, data migration and manipulation, SQL development, reporting systems, application integration, web services, SaaS, film