Craig Cruise

Current

• PeopleSoft Administrator at Payless Shoesource WorldWide
• PeopleSoft Administrator at Collective Brands Inc

Past

• PeopleSoft Administrator at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City
• Senior PeopleSoft Consultant at RiverPoint
• Lead PeopleSoft EPM Consultant at Apex IT

• Senior PeopleSoft Consultant at Arinso
• Software Engineer III at Sprint

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Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City

Connections

30 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Craig Cruise’s Summary

Creative technical professional with progressive experience in the planning, design, implementation, operations and management of technical infrastructures to meet corporate business objectives. Experienced in environment configuration management, client server technology, midrange support, database management, software engineering, network administration, and technical consulting. Goal oriented leader adept at motivating teams and driving creativity to achieve optimal results. Track record in directing the completion of large-scale projects on schedule and within budget. Talented communicator skilled at interfacing with upper management, sales and marketing to guide technical strategy and direction. Solid leadership, interpersonal, problem solving and organizational abilities.

Craig Cruise’s Specialties:

PeopleSoft (Tools 7.5, 8,0, 8,4, 8.48/9, Application Engine 8.4, Server Administration 8.4, PIA, EPM Data Warehouse 8.x) / UNIX, Windows
BEA (Tuxedo Administration, Weblogic Application Server 5.x, 6.x, 8.x)
IBM WebSphere 5.1/6.1
SQL Server 2000, Oracle/SQL, Tuxedo, Wise, Winbatch, HTML/XML

Craig Cruise’s Experience

• PeopleSoft Administrator

  Payless Shoesource WorldWide

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• PeopleSoft Administrator

  Collective Brands Inc

  (Retail industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• PeopleSoft Administrator

  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

  October 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 8 months)

• Senior PeopleSoft Consultant

  RiverPoint

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 4 months)

  FerrellGas - August 2004 to July 2005
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of KC - August 2005 to October 2006

• Lead PeopleSoft EPM Consultant

  Apex IT

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2004 — August 2004 (5 months)

  Lead PeopleSoft EPM Consultant at Jack Henry & Associates.

• Senior PeopleSoft Consultant

  Arinso

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ARIN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2003 — March 2004 (9 months)

  Member of PeopleSoft HRMS, EPM 8.8 implementation team contracted to provide proof of concept to Office Depot client.

• Software Engineer III

  Sprint

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; S; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1999 — July 2003 (4 years)

  Led software engineering team through the development of cost effective, high quality object oriented software to support the PeopleSoft EPM Infrastructure. Manage project from concept through design, specification, testing and implementation. Provide weekly and monthly status reports to management. Developed “Level of Effort” documents for clients. Assist in the day to day support of applications and resolve operational issues.

Craig Cruise’s Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City

  Bachelor , Gerontology , 1988 — 1995