To obtain a senior level technology management position that will leverage my experience in applications hosting, infrastructure support, applications monitoring and security.

I am an ITIL certified senior level technology director with over 29 years of experience in large-scale enterprise application deployments in the government and telecommunications sectors with specialties in the entire Oracle technology stack including designing, hosting and securing such implementations.

Program management experience includes establishing the information systems function, including hardware, software, and personnel, in a new international telecommunications company that provided a single point of customer care and billing for large multi-national companies. Additionally, was responsible for motivating and coordinating a division of 750 people to move forward with a new systems development methodology in support of the business. Project management experience includes both DSS projects implementing data warehouses and OLTP projects in telecommunications provisioning, billing and trouble ticket applications. Telecommunications functional knowledge spans the complete billing process from message recording and rating, to bill presentment, remittance processing, and interfaces with service order processing and financial systems. Additional telecommunications functional expertise in DSL order management and provisioning. Government functional knowledge includes case management, transportation security, scheduling, time entry and on-line learning.

Extensive technical and security architecture background including designing, hosting, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting complex, scalable, highly secure and highly available business solutions utilizing Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Applications, Oracle 10g Application Server, GOTS, COTS and custom J2EE applications and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in both Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) and Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) environments. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) experience includes Oracle Advanced Queuing, Oracle SOA Suite, Vitria and Tibco. Highly skilled at configuring F5 BigIP load balancers for continuous application availability. Monitoring experience includes Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and Quest Foglight. Security expertise includes applying technical controls to the entire technology stack (hardening) as well as participating in and developing documentation for the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) of business systems including System Security Plans. Experienced at securing environments to meet or exceed the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Baselines. Well versed in documenting and implementing NIST 800-53 security controls.

I have special interests and expertise in security and applications monitoring.

I have presented the following papers:

Securing and Managing the Oracle HTTP Server - Real World Examples and Lessons Learned, co-authored with Brian Mulreany, the presentation was delivered at Collaborate09 for the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG).

Integrating Oracle BPEL Process Manager Within the Unisys 3D Blueprinting Approach delivered at Oracle OpenWorld.

Review my SecureDBA website and the security paper I presented with Randy Giefer at Collaborate07 for the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) in 2007. I have also appeared on Randy's E-Business Suite Security Panel at OAUG in 2007 and 2008.

You may review my profile and recommendations on linkedin.com.

Established SecureDBA website/blog to share information and experience relating to securing applications infrastructure.

Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG)
Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG)
www.1-800-volunteer.org
Former Member of the Quest Foglight Customer Advisory Board

1997 Consultant of the Year for the Communications Industry of Oracle Consulting Services

Active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret clearance

ITIL Foundations v2 certified