Paul Lindley
9491 Main Street – Whitmore Lake, Michigan 48189
72 Waltham - C – West Palm Beach, Florida 33417
734-846-9337
Currently pursuing PMP certification – anticipated October 2004
Strong leader with more than fifteen years experience in the technology field and nine years as Manager, Architect, Analyst and DBA in automotive / communications / financial / insurance / logistics and retail environments, including serving as management and direct CIO report for Borders Group and Jackson National Life - several multi-billion dollar global companies.
Proven ability to sell and manage successful projects with critical vendor management needs. Responsible for creation and implementation of policies, procedures and documentation for: SDLC, budget, SOW, schedule and project / program management.
Skills Summary
· 10+ years experience as DBA / Architect for SQL Server ( 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 2000 )
· Managed large (20+) teams – including sub-contractors - delivering multi-million dollar cross-functional, high priority enterprise-wide IT projects including implementation of policy & procedures using CMM, PMI and UTIL practices and tools – including MS Project & Source Safe, Rational Tools, Mercury Tools, PVCS, Compuware, BMC, CA, etc.
· Demonstrated vendor management and executive liaison capabilities.
· Expert understanding of data modeling (Er/Win, ER/1, Systems Architect, Visio VEA), physical schema properties, triggers, stored procedures, and database backup, restore and recovery processes.
· Expert understanding of data clustering (SQL Server 2000), server farms (Windows and Unix), load balancing (SQL Server, Windows and Sybase Unix) and data communications (DirectConnect, MQSeries)
· Strong understanding of data-warehousing/OLAP and ERP packages – in particular PeopleSoft and Lawson - also SAP, Oracle, and Siebel.
· Strong understanding of document, image, and content management / workflow systems (FileNet, Documentum, SharePoint, Content Management Server, etc.).
· 10+ years of technical leadership.
· 10+ years of SQL, Perl and PL/SQL.
· 10+ years of VB and C++ programming.
· 5+ years of UNIX shell script programming.
· 3+ years in a J2EE environment.
· Ability to automate administration tasks, perform capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning and administer security.
· Strong optimization skills (Cast Software, MS SQL Profiler, Embarcadero, SQL Power, etc.), especially with high volume databases (>300GB) and large, distributed J2EE systems.
· Administration on AIX/Solaris/HP/LINUX/Windows Server (recovery skills important).
· 10+ years experience writing complex stored procedures for one or more of SQL Server 2000, Oracle8i+ or DB2/UDB.
· Experience using Object Oriented Methodologies, Java, Visual Basic, C/C++, JDBC and ODBC.
· Significant O/S experience in Windows Server, UNIX and Linux platforms.
· Ability to "think big" and grasp the overall picture.
Professional Experience
SELECT RESOURCES, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2004
Consultant to “Encoda Systems, Inc.” the top traffic and billing systems provider for broadcast and broadband business worldwide.
Data Base Administrator
Provided critical concurrency, performance and tuning improvements for major customer implementations that “rescued” the customer base, preventing loss of customers and revenue.
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES, Islandia, New York 1998 – 2003
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) is a leading worldwide provider of solutions and services for the management of IT infrastructure, business information and application development.
Manager
· Managed a variety of projects including the largest (20+ member) Microsoft Internet enterprise application development with particular critical QA and implementation needs for Exel, a leading logistics company. Initiated best practice methodologies, creating uniform standards, guidelines, procedures, and processes for a clustered Windows 2k load balanced .NET based server farm environment.
· Provided top level problem resolution for major customers in implementation and operational support of CA products and services.
· Key team lead in internal worldwide document and process management for ISO certification.
DATASYNC, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1996 - 1998
IT consulting group providing innovative technology solutions and services with a particular focus on performance and design to companies in commercial financial and real estate.
Partner
· Provided expert consulting providing daily success of large volume batch and online applications. Resolved problems with systems employing multiple technologies. Responded to user calls and job abends 24/7. Initiated creation of a procedures manual to run quarterly, annual and on-request jobs.
· Supported core business applications
o Sanwa Leasing a leading small-ticket leasing corporation using SQL Server, Sybase and Oracle with 20+ server instances supporting >300GB of databases.
o Dow Jones Teleres division, a leading commercial real estate information company using SQL Server and Sybase with 150+ server instances supporting >4TB of a variety of clustered and non- clustered databases.
Jackson National Life Insurance, Lansing, Michigan 1995 - 1996
A $59.4 billion full-service financial services firm.
Data Analyst
· Reporting to the CIO, provided technical expertise, procedures and education to the Systems and Programming staff, to create from scratch a cost effective development and operations environment allowing staff to concentrate on providing business solutions, not solving technical problems.
· Responsible for development and maintenance of data base and data communications: methodologies, standards and procedures, hardware and software identification and procurement, data base design, program requirement specifications, backup and recovery, performance tuning and operations monitoring. Also responsible for installation of data center database hardware and software for multiple system clustered environments.
AMERITECH, Southfield, Michigan 1994 – 1995
Now known as “SBC”, a leading communications company.
Client - Server Consultant / Data Base Administrator
· Solutions were quickly recognized and a response plan implemented for large scale PeopleSoft system data base problems areas of: stability, application performance and tuning, ad-hoc performance and tuning, training, version control, quality assurance, system documentation, etc.
BORDERS, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1991 – 1994
Reporting to the CIO - Lead architect for the design and implementation of the distributed client / server technology and applications of this nationwide retail book super-store chain.
Senior Analyst / Architect
· Responsible for design and implementation of an advanced distributed client / server data base design utilizing the Sybase data base Sun Unix, and a suite of client applications utilizing the Windows, Unix, and DOS operating systems. Systems were designed using joint application development (JAD) teams, and developed using rapid application development (RAD) tools and techniques.
Chrysler Motors CorporatioN, Detroit, Michigan 1989 - 1991
A well known auto and truck manufacturer.
Project Leader
· Led the development team for "SuperGlue", a version control, distribution releasing, and tracking system for the Mopar Diagnostic System ( MDS ). The system maintains the software residing on the four CD's and hard disk's present in each MDS unit, installed at the many thousands of Chrysler dealers world wide.
Education/Training
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, Detroit, Michigan
Computer Science, Math
CONTINUING SEMINARS
· CMM, PMI / PMP, Peoplesoft, Lawson, Unicenter, SQL Servers, Sybase, Oracle