Richard Heim

Current

ETL Architect at AMD
Senior Developer at Cobb Information Systems

Past

Back Office Application Manager at QuickArrow (Acquired by NetSuite)
Technical Services Manager at QuickArrow
Senior Database Developer at QuickArrow

ETL Developer (Contracted) at Texas Education Agency
Project Lead at Cobb Information Systems
Developer (Contracted) at Dell Computer Corp
ETL Developer (Contracted) at University of Texas System
Consultant at Tier Technologies
Programming Consultant (Contracted) at Akzo Nobel Coatings
Programmer/Analyst at Jefferson County Board of Elections
Head Supervisor (North Computer Center) at University of Louisville
Supervisor (Terminal Deployment Group) at University of Louisville

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Education

University of Louisville
Watterson College

Recommended

7 people have recommended Richard

Connections

237 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Richard Heim’s Summary

It's all about the data. The best business application in the world is essentially useless if you can't access and report on the data it ultimately collects. For over 15 years my focus has been specifically on data, starting out building data entry, screen scraping and imaging applications in COBOL on an AS/400 platform, up through end-to-end design and implementation of DB2, Oracle & MS SQL Server Data Warehouses, and most things in between. Data is the lifeblood of any system and I do transfusions, bypasses, angioplasty, boosting, and sometimes open-heart surgery.

Richard Heim’s Specialties:

Data Conversion/Migration projects,
Data Warehouse ETL/ELT,
Business Intelligence / Analytics,
Application Integration,
Web Services,
SOAP & XML,
SQL & MDX,
Database Modeling,
Reporting

Richard Heim’s Experience

ETL Architect

AMD

(Public Company; AMD; Semiconductors industry)

December 2009 — Present (2 months)

Contracted to AMD as ETL Architect/Developer for a Vistaar implementation pulling from SQL Server 2008 and pushing into Oracle 11g.
Senior Developer

Cobb Information Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 2009 — Present (3 months)
Back Office Application Manager

QuickArrow (Acquired by NetSuite)

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — July 2009 (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.
Technical Services Manager

QuickArrow

(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.
Senior Database Developer

QuickArrow

(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.
ETL Developer (Contracted)

Texas Education Agency

(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.
Project Lead

Cobb Information Systems

(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.
Developer (Contracted)

Dell Computer Corp

(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.
ETL Developer (Contracted)

University of Texas System

(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.
Consultant

Tier Technologies

(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.
Programming Consultant (Contracted)

Akzo Nobel Coatings

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADR; Chemicals industry)

August 1997 — May 1998 (10 months)

COBOL, VB & Access programmer.
Programmer/Analyst

Jefferson County Board of Elections

(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.
Head Supervisor (North Computer Center)

University of Louisville

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 1990 — January 1991 (1 year 1 month)
Supervisor (Terminal Deployment Group)

University of Louisville

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 1989 — January 1990 (1 year 1 month)

Richard Heim’s Education

University of Louisville

Engineering, English, Information Sciences 1985 — 1991

Activities and Societies:

Triangle Fraternity, ACM
Watterson College

1980 — 1980