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James P. O'Brien 75 N Woodward Ave, Suite 8000-1164 Tallahassee, FL 32313 Voice: 303-697-0183 E-Mail: jim.obrien@usa.net
Summary
Over thirty years of experience in a broad range of applications and environments. Experience in application network interfacing, connectivity and information engineering is evident. Such diversity of experience is demonstrative of the versatility of this individual.
Applications
Product Support Material Requirements Direct Mail Document Storage Order Processing Accounting Software Support Telephone Billing Data Warehousing Transportation Distribution Job Scheduling Medical Payroll Bill of Material Artificial Intelligence Frequent Flyer Banking Software Development Inventory Order Tracking Film Processing Dental C.A.S.E. Call Processing Quality Assurance Insurance Quick Service Restaurants Internet Affiliate Marketing
Project Experience
3/12 - Present PBOJ Enterprises As a subject matter expert, participated in a research project in semi-automated taxonomy generation. The objective of the project was to see if a tool could take Entity, Attribute and Relationship definitions, analyze them, generate a taxonomy and then create Entity Relationship Diagrams reflecting the generated taxonomies. As a developer, designed and implemented a tool in VB .net that used ERwin API to take the generated taxonomies and automatically create Entity Relationship Diagrams. As a participant reviewed the interim results with the Enterprise Data Architecture unit of the sponsoring organization. System Environment: Windows Vista, Excel, Word. VB .Net, Powerpoint, Erwin, StarUML, FreeMind, Protege
System Environment: LAN, PC workstation, IBM mainframe, Unix servers, DB/2, MS Access, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Visual Basic, Windows 2000, Word, Excel, Erwin, ModelMart
System Environment: 3COM+, MS-Access, ERWin, Leverage, PACBASE, Windows and OS/MVS
were drawn up utilizing Entity Relationship Diagrams and De Marco Data Flow Diagrams. System Environment: AS/400, OS/400, PL/I, COBOL and Excelerator.
System Environment: IBM mainframe, Dec VAX, OS/MVS, VMS, LU6.2, IMS DB/DC, PL/I and Pascal
Other Experience
8/84 5/85 University Research Projects - University of Michigan
Participated in a research project in Symbolic Integration. Solutions were arrived at utilizing rule based processing methods. System Environment: Amdahl 470, MTS, LISP Participated in a research project in Optimal Solutions. Solutions were derived utilizing tree generation and heuristic search techniques. System Environment: Amdahl 470, MTS, LISP
Conferences
EDW 2012 Atlanta, Ga presented A Pragmatic Approach to Enterprise Data Architecture DWBI 2012 London, UK presented Using Metadata to Speed up Reference Model Organizationalisation
Education
Acheived Instructor & Product certification for Erwin 6/98 Logicworks, Inc. Acheived Instructor & Product certification for BPwin 10/98 Logicworks, Inc. Attended Flashpoint pre-release class 3/94 Knowledgeware Corp. - San Francisco Attended Structured Analysis & Design class 3/90 CTG Branch certified course - Denver Branch Attended IEW class 6/89 CTG Education center - Buffalo Attended Interpersonal Management Strategies class 8/88 Xcel - Denver Branch Attended Account Development Strategies class 6/88 Xcel - Denver Branch Attended Oracle Application Programming class 8/86 Oracle Corp. - Chicago Attended University of Michigan 1978 - 1982 General Studies Curriculum