Senior ASP web developer client side front end or CMS developer.

BS degree.

10+ years solid corporate hands-on experience with ASP, JSP, SQL Server, Content Management Systems – Red Dot and Interwoven, HTML, JavaScript, VB Script, DHTML, CSS, and Photoshop.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Looking to broaden his knowledge base and skill set in a position that will provide an opportunity for business problem solution and professional growth.

Content Management Systems: Red Dot, Interwoven

Languages: ASP, JSP, JavaScript,VB Script, HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, Visual Basic, C++

DATAbases: SQL Server, DB2, Oracle

Software:Visual Studio IBM RAD6, Rational Clear Case, Red Dot, Interwoven, Homesite, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, IIS, SQL Server

Most recently as Chief Development Officer and Sr. EVP Software Product Line at SIMtone Corporation, Kurt defined the platform and using innovative approaches developed, packaged and delivered SIMtone’s comprehensive cloud computing network and services software platform for service providers (Telcos) within 9 months from the platform inception. This SIMtone platform dynamically provides brokered, authenticated, secure, encrypted and automatically provisioned connections from stateless zero-client and thin-client terminals to virtual desktop and real desktops and services.

Prior to SIMtone, Kurt served as EVP Marketing & Development and subsequently as CEO at ASPEED Software, a high performance computing software additive used by top Wall Street firms for Risk and Pricing applications to parallelize computationally intensive financial applications. ASPEED was acquired by SIMtone. Prior to ASPEED, Kurt was EVP Application Performance Management at Precise Software (PRSE) acquired by VERITAS (VRTS) where he drove software and professional services sales in the US and Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand). Prior to Precise Kurt was CEO and Founder eBSure, Inc., a Web user experience metrics software monitor provider that was acquired by Precise.

Prior to eBSure, Kurt drove consumer, web, server, network, mainframe, file and DATA base security software products through three consecutive M&As, beginning at AbirtNet, Ltd. As AbirNet CEO, Kurt introduced a novel intrusion detection product, SessionWall, and drove worldwide growth until the company was acquired by MEMCO (MEMCF), a UNIX server protection, access control and SSO software provider. Within two months of the acquisition by MEMCO, Platinum Technology (PLAT) and MEMCO signed a definitive agreement this resulted in Kurt becoming CEO of MEMCO US and acting GM for Platinum Security Product line directing a team of 455 MEMCO and Platinum folks, driving the security software revenue growth to $150M over the transition period. Upon completion of the MEMCO and Platinum merger, Computer Associates (CA) acquired Platinum. Kurt managed the transition and became the CA SVP Security Product line merging the combined companies’ 50 security software products under the “eTrust” brand with a $1B revenue target, achieving $250M in the first quarter of roll out.

Additional Experience

VP Product Management and Marketing, NetManage (NETM) an Internet applications pioneer

CEO / President, SYZYGY Communications an Internet multi-media streaming company VP Product Management and Marketing, Phaser Systems an IBM mainframe LAN integration company

Multiple positions at IBM:

Director, New Business Development and Venture Group

Systems Architect

VM Program Director

Complex Systems Consultant

DATA Center Services Manager (IT)

Systems Engineer

Financial Services and Business Systems Manager Diagnostic Engineer

Network Services Architecture, Design and Control Manager

Education

M.S. Managing Technology, American University, Washington, DC

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Kurt is a frequent speaker at cloud computing, grid computing, performance and security forums and has published three books on integrating and applying distributed systems as well as numerous articles and numerous papers, and articles bulletins on service level planning and management.

Results-Driven Technical Manager with extensive systems analysis and development, project management and leadership experience.

Proven success in leading major and complex systems efforts and projects. Significant IBM mainframe and distributed computing large project development.

Expertise includes working abroad, managing globally dispersed teams, strategic and tactical project planning, budgeting and multiple project coordination throughout all phases of the system development lifecycle.

Business Domain Experience

Group, Annuities and Individual Life Insurance • Property and Liability Insurance • Mutual Funds • Retail

Software, Language and DATA Management Expertise

MS Project • MS Visio • MS PowerPoint • MS Excel • MS Access • MS Front Page • MS Visual Basic • MS SharePoint • MS Word • WIKI • COBOL • DB2 • QMF • SPUFI • CICS • TELON • VSAM • JCL • TSO • CA-7 • STROBE • ENDEVOR • PL/1 • File Aid • XPEDITER • EZTRIEVE • IMS-DLI • UNIX • Shell Script • Oracle • PL/SQL • Decision Suite (DATA Warehousing) • RPG • PASCAL

Accomplishments include

Information Technology Team Manager

Delivered excellent customer service as the “face to the customer” throughout multiple team management assignments as a mainframe and distributed system owner; earning seven Star Awards. Reduced ongoing application support costs by 33% by combining or relocating work functions.

Project Manager

Completed the Variable Annuity Hedging (Phase II) effort, a $600K project, on-time and more than $100K under budget; enabling the company to hedge variable annuity product risks.

Established the India Service Center Individual Mainframe Production Support team, this team was hailed as the most successful and productive of the teams (client name confidential) first established in India.

Completed a Boston University Graduate Project Management Course 1Q2010 with a 4.0 GPA.

Analysis and Development

Increased reserving accuracy and eliminated time-consuming monthly manual efforts by automating the interface between the Transcend variable annuity administrative system and the Triton actuarial reserving system, providing all account and sub-account DATA required to calculate reserves.

Re-engineered the VA batch cycle, increasing online availability and reducing system resource usage by a third and run time by more than 50% for CPU and storage costs savings of more than $10K/year.

Director of Information Systems at a Fortune 200 company in St. Petersburg, FL., the VP and CIO at (company confidential) in Tampa,FL., and the VP and CIO at (company confidential), where he built all the PMO processes: requirements definition, technical documentation, test processes, change management, governance, prioritization scenarios and criteria to enable project alignment with strategic objectives, project and program review processes, etc. Also at (Fortune 200 company), he directed the development of the first Strategic Information Systems Plan, which became the corporate-wide model.

Built the first PMO at (Fortune 200 company) as IT Manager and PMO for a $4 billion business unit. The PMO consisted of 55 consultants and project managers to define requirements for large aerospace programs. While at (company confidential), he was sent overseas to Turkey where he lived for a year and supervised in-country project managers, technical personnel and administrative staff. He was also sent to Seoul, Korea to put final touches on and present a systems plan to and for the (client confidential).

While at another Fortune 200 company, he managed all the IT and PM requirements for four business units which represented approximately $2B dollars revenue from Military/Defense clients and commercial clients.

Has led and managed staff throughout the U.S., in Turkey, the U.K., India, Malaysia, China, Hungary, Scotland, Brazil and Mexico. His experience in India was with (company confidential) as VP of Software Development and PMO. The company outsourced software development and DATA base administration client services to India and he led that project, including revision of all PM and service delivery processes.

A proven information technology architect and leader with big-picture experience and executive presence, able to combine process engineering and information technology expertise in high technology, business services and manufacturing enterprises in multiple locations at home and abroad.

Experience starting up new functions or getting lagging functions refocused and has led the implementation of innovative solutions to solve business problems by applying vision, business sense, and experience to turn strategy into practice.

A senior-level technologist, with almost 15 years experience in the fields of Business Intelligence and DATA Analysis.

Eperience spans multiple DATAbase systems and business verticals, with the constant motivation to deliver well-conceived intelligent solutions for internal and external clients.

Has been responsible for DATA flow from source systems through ETL processes into target DATAbases, and out to enduser reporting tools and other applications.

Has managed teams of up to 5 direct reports while being a customer facing hands-on resource for SQL, ETL, and BI development and analysis.

Technology tools

MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform

Microsoft Business Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Some Cognos and BusinessObjects

Ascential/IBM DATAStage

Informatica

Sagent ETL

Strong analytical SQL analysis.

Some UNIX shell scripting

Oracle 9i

SQL Server (through 2008)

TeraDATA

DB2 DATAbases

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Quark Xpress, and Adobe Photoshop.

An experienced and accomplished Information Technology professional with almost 20 years of effective application development and system deployment experience.

Strong technical and functional expertise with Oracle Hyperion technologies including Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Enterprise (through version 6.x), Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial DATA Quality Management (FDM) including prior releases and the more current versions System 9 and System 11 Fusion Edition.

Highly experienced in all phases of the application development life cycle including requirements gathering, development, testing and deployment.

Broad technical background which also includes various Microsoft technologies such as Visual Basic, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access and other core development, DATAbase and infrastructural technologies.

Very strong written and verbal communication skills successfully leveraged in project documentation and end-user training scenarios.

A highly motivated proactive self-starter with strong inter-personal and organizational skills.

Hyperion software includes

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) 4.x/Hyperion System 9/System 11 Financial Management Consolidation System, Hyperion Enterprise versions 1.8 to 6.x, Hyperion Reporting including Web integration and reporting products, Hyperion Studio, Hyperion Workspace, Hyperion Analyzer/Hyperion Analytic Services for the Web, Hyperion Retrieve/SmartView, and Hyperion Shared Services central security components. Oracle/Hyperion FDM DATA Collection and Transformation product suite for remote/field location DATA collection, validation and submission.

Planning, architecting, designing, deploying, and supporting innovative technology solutions.

Highly accomplished technology professional with 15 more year track record of innovation and success.

A hands-on leader with strong technical acumen, skilled in conceptualizing, architecting, developing and delivery of technology solutions to capture competitive advantage and position start-up and high-growth organization for advanced growth.

Strength in partnering with business, customers, management and teams to define needs, evaluate risks, and strategize the rollout of innovative products, systems, tools, DATAbases, and infrastructure to meet evolving business, market and customer demands.

Natural communicator and team leader with proven ability to motivate, energize and lead to success. MBA Degree in Technology Development; MS Degree in Computer Science.

Effective IT leader of Business Intelligence applications, conscientious and detailed oriented, with deep experience in three industries.

MBA

Past roles: Manager, BI Applications; Manager Information & Analysis Systems; Manager Enterprise & Information Architecture; Director Business Analysis; Director Business Analysis Information Systems; Senior Business Analyst.

Worked with business unit executives and functional leaders to guide conception and define requirements, design approach, and manage development of executive level BI/decision support applications, with global scope and implementation.

Recognized by peers and managers for setting appropriate strategic direction and driving performance toward established goals. Core competencies include:

DATA Warehousing

SAP Business Intelligence

Requirements formulation at all levels

Process Improvement

Six Sigma DMAIC Model

Facilitating JAD Sessions

Setting Strategic Direction

Project Management

Process Re-engineering

Team Building

Planning and Budgeting

IT Governance

An Essbase application development professional with fourteen years of full-cycle financial systems development in software, hardware, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, telecom & semiconductor industries; twelve years of financial analysis, forecasting and reporting experience, and a strong understanding of accounting practices.

Award winning hands-on team leader with proven results in process improvement in conjunction with creating optimized applications to produce timely, accurate, organized information, from the straightforward to the highly complex.

Technical Skills

Oracle Essbase (OLAP software, Versions 3.1 through 11.1.1.3) on Unix and Windows platforms, Complex Essbase calc scripting for custom applications, Esscmd Language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Basic, Lotus Approach Relational DATAbases, Financial & Variance Analysis, Project and Program management, ETL from Oracle, Peoplesoft and SQL Server

Primary experience has been working with accounting and reporting systems in the commercial real estate investment management or commercial mortgage segments of the financial services industry.

Positions include: IT Manager – Sales & Marketing DATA WAREHOUSE Program; Project Manager/Business Analyst; Project Manager - Servicing & Reporting; DATA Quality Analyst, and more.

Technology tools include: MS Office 2007/Vista (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Business Objects XI R2, Remedy, TIDAL Enterprise Scheduler, Actuate, Informatica PowerCenter, ServiceNow, BEA Weblogic, TOAD, CA Autosys, CA Clarity, Open Workbench, GENTRAN, SQL 7.0, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Outlook, WebTrends, Lotus (Notes, 1-2-3, Word Pro), Paradox, Impromptu, Brio, Crystal Reports, McCracken Strategy, Yardi Voyager

Positions include: Manager of Financial DATA Intelligence, Essbase Systems Administrator & Developer, and Manager of Finance & MIS.

Oracle certified Hyperion Essbase Developer. Ten years experience in financial, operational, and statistical analysis. Five years hands-on experience in Hyperion development including Essbase, Planning and HFM.

Seven years experience developing reports in Financial Reporting, Smartview and the Excel Add-In.Proven project manager on multi person team Hyperion projects. Consistently delivered on-time and on-budget.

Managed 20+ person department.Experienced Technical Trainer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS Oracle Hyperion including Essbase, Planning, Hyperion Financial Management, Shared Services, Analytic Administration, Web Analysis, Strategic Finance, Crystal Ball and Financial Reporting. Advanced knowledge of Cognos and Business Objects. Experienced statistician using SAS and SPSS.

Fairly strong FP&A background, and experienced Hyperion Planning administrator.

Roles include: Financial Analyst, Budgets & Financial Reporting; Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A; Senior Accountant, and more.

JDEdwards World, Hyperion Planning 9.3, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, Hyperion Essbase 9.1.3, Administrator: DATA loads, test scripts, snapshots, consolidation, security setup, exception Process, etc.

B.S. in Finance

A detail oriented, analytical Hyperion developer/ administrator, with excellent interpersonal skills and over 6 years of successful banking and accounting experience in a corporate environment, using various accounting and analysis softwares.

In-depth knowledge of systems operations, business intelligence, analysis of strategic markets, and problem resolution, in order to meet daily and monthly deadlines.

While developing an accounting skill set, a technological background was simultaneously acquired, including over six years of technical consulting experience involving UNIX scripting, network/hardware/software troubleshooting, and part-time network/ multidimensional DATAbase administration and development.

Hyperion Essbase/ Financial Reporting/ Web Analysis/SmartView/Planning Administration and Development, Business rules/ Calc Scripts/ Maxl/Esscmd

SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Basic, Linux/UNIX, and Microsoft Windows

Senior BI Analyst / Business Analyst / Process Management Analyst.

7 years experience in the effective design and deployment of BI, DATA warehousing, and business process reengineering projects (multiple industries, global companies).

Expertise in the use of SDLC. Skilled BA with ability to determine business requirements, requirements analysis, and translate to technical specifications.

Excellent communicator and team player. Expertise in customer experience, process improvement and business analytics. Strong technical background in BI solutions.

Hyperion, Cognos, Informatica, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Crystal Reports, Windows, Mac (more). Masters in Information Systems.

Results-oriented IT professional with expertise in Information Systems Administration. In addition to 5 years COGNOS products expertise, has 20 years full project lifecycle development experience including requirements, analysis, design, coding, testing, configuration, implementation, and release management.

Successful and equally comfortable as a Developer, Project Lead, and Systems Analyst.

Responsibilities have required heavy client interface as well as working with development teams both onshore and offshore.

• Exceptional combination of project leadership and technical experience.

• Raise productivity levels by complex problem solving methodologies and innovative solutions.

• Proven ability to build strong relationships with staff and clients using negotiation talent, persuasion and demonstrated commitment.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

COGNOS BI 8 Products Experience

Report Studio Versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4: Dashboard and Scorecard Development, List Reports, Cross Tab Reports, Drill Through Parameter Driven Reports, Interactive Prompting, Prompt Pages, Merged Queries (Unions, Joins, Master/Detail). Framework Manager Versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4: Designing MetaDATA Models Transformer Versions 8.3, 8.4: Designing OLAP Models and Building Cubes Query Studio Versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4: Ad-Hoc Reporting and DATA investigation.

DATA Modeling

Perform Dimensional Modeling for both Relational and DMR models utilizing Star Schemas.

Set up the metaDATA models using Framework Manager and build DATA cubes using BI Transformer.

Other Mid Range Software Experience

DB2 Command Center, Advanced Query Tool/DB2, Toad/Oracle, Perl, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports

Mainframe Software Experience

Cobol II, CICS, Ramis, Focus, SAS, Fortran, MVS-JCL, Endeavor, Librarian, SCLM, SPUFI/QMF, File Aid

DATAbases

DB2, VSAM, Oracle Operating Systems MVS/TSO, AIX/UNIX, Windows

Hyperion developer and administrator (about 5 years with the Hyperion tools). Hyperion Essbase Analytics 9.3 Developer Certified Expert, and Hyperion Planning 9.3 Administrator Certified Expert

Hyperion- Hyperion Planning 9.3, Hyperion Planning 11.1.1 Essbase, Hyperion Reports, Hyperion Analyzer, Essbase Administration Services and Oracle DATA Integrator, Essbase Excel Add-in, Smart View

10 years of experience in DATA WAREHOUSE development and Business Intelligence design using Oracle/Hyperion EPM tools.

Technical expertise is in Essbase (v4.5, 6.5, 7.1, 9.3), Financial Reports, ESSCMD, MAXL, Web Analysis, SQL, Excel Add-in (Essbase), Hyperion Security administration, DATA Relationship Management (MDM), and Planning (including HAL development).

Strong people skills, worked at all levels and comfortable working at the highest levels of management.

Has been a team leader and team member, in requirements gathering during the SDLC many times.

Solving daily issues and answering user concerns.

Training of application software being rolled out to users on a nation-wide scope.

Roles include Business Systems Analyst (Essbase developer and administrator); Finance DATAbase manager; Business Sytems Analyst (Essbase); Senior Programmer Analyst (Essbase); Essbase Technical Analyst with Hyperion Solutions for about 5 years), and DATA Analyst.

Masters in Business Administration, and Bachelor's in MIS.

More than 9 years experience in the financial and marekting areas. Skilled in planning, analyzing, designing, implementing, testing and deploying solutions. Highly experienced in trouble-shooting various business applicatiosn includes RDBs and OLAP. Comfortable in fast-paced environments.

Extensive experience in specification, design, development and, management of operational and reporting systems. Relational DATAbase background includes ORACLE, SQL Server, Sybase and MS-Access. Business Intelligence tools include Cognos and Pilot

For a government agency

Created a 5-year Information Technology Plan for the detailed design, deployment and management of the complete IT infrastructure. Designed, planned and implemented Internet, Intranet and Extranet Portals. Modular Solution included Presentation layer, Wireless access, Security, Portal and Personalization, Web Server, Content Management, Applications, Multi-language, Search and other user-access tools.

For a Major Bank

Designed, developed and deployed the Corporate Intranet purchasing portal which placed web-based procurement capabilities on 70,000 desktop computers in the global environment. Defined and created an MIS DATA Mart to effectively monitor the levels of customer service.

For a Major Pharmaceutical firm

Corporate growth could not be supported with current sales force DATAbase and associated applications. Designed and developed a client/server solution, which included porting existing DATA from a legacy system to a client/server environment. Performed logical and physical DATAbase design, re engineered applications to take full advantage of the new DATAbase, and managed development and implementation.

For a national Telecom Company

Managed development of an ORACLE application to track service calls.

For a Major Brokerage

Complete and timely information could not be provided to the customer base. To improve customer service and support growth, a core ratings system was ported from a legacy system to a client/server environment. Re architecture was completed through the performance of logical and physical design and implementation of a core ratings DATAbase.

For a Major Transportation Agency an equal opportunity contracting system was needed to fulfill government requirements.

Extensive system integration and information management experience in: insurance, finance, transportation, government, SCM, CRM and e-Commerce.

BI/DATA Warehousing, portal development, SOA architecture and project management experience.

Extensive requirements gathering, process and DATA modeling experience. Proven track record of adding business value to IT projects.

Management skills

Team lead, issue management, project budget and schedule management, and client/vendor management

Technology

DATA WAREHOUSE

Erwin, ER/Studio, Oracle Designer, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Unix/Linux scripts, Toad, SQLoader, SmartDB, Informatica, DATAStage ETL tools

Business intelligence

Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Oracle Developer, Oracle Portal, Discoverer, OBIEE

Content Management

MS Office, Visio, SharePoint, Documentum

Application development

SOA, Rational Designer, RAD, Java/J2EE, JBuilder, Eclipse

Configuration and change management

PVCS, CVS, VSS, Clear Case

General

RequisitePro, MS Project, TeamPlay, SDLC, RUP, Agile

Cognos (5+ years), PowerPlay Enterprise Server 6.6 (4+ years), Web Reporting, Access Manager, Upfront, Visualizer 1.5, Impromptu Administration 6 (4 + years), Oracle 8.X, Impromptu Web Reports, Transformer MDL, Cognos Script, PeopleSoft EPM.

Full life cycle, project plans, finance, marketing, brokerage, pharmaceutical, HR, banking, insurance, transportation, order processing, retail, and more.

Expertise in all phases of systems development. Lead project manager, decision support systems designer, DATA modeler, and software quality assurance engineer.