michael higgins

* Database administration with Access 97 and Oracle 7.3. * Worked with exploration sites to develop business rules of and functional design for the embedded systems Year 2000 compliance-tracking database and application used by company to track testing and compliance of all automated systems. * Helped create new data model for the embedded systems Year 2000 application. * Worked as a member of the development team in the enhancement of existing year 2000 inventory tracking tool for applications so that it could be used for embedded systems using PowerBuilder 5.0 Enterprise edition. * Embedded systems hardware and software research. * Altered application and database to meet growing need of information. * Designed and updated reports and queries.

On contract at Shell through Precision Task Group, working on the development and support of pricing applications used by shell for retail, aviation, and commercial gasoline sales. Tasks include data analysis, requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and change management.

Tasks included integration of Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Financial Analyzer, development with Visual Basic, VBA, Access and Excel, data analysis, data modeling, dimensional modeling, architecture, design, development, implementation, administration, data validation, testing, report design, and support. Validated aggregation and calculation for Balance Sheet and P&L reports. Business and technical process flow documentation.

Worked with Kraft supporting their financial budgeting and planning application. Tasks included development and testing of modules in Oracle Financial Analyzer and Oracle Express, data analysis, performance enhancements, and system administration. Validated aggregation and calculation for Balance Sheet and P&L reports. Business and technical process flow documentation.

Technical Lead for the development and support of client-server multi-dimensional OLAP Business Intelligence tool used in demand planning and sales forecasting. I designed and implemented creative and sustainable (manageable and flexible) solutions, extending the tool’s functionality far beyond the out-of-the-box capabilities. Provided technical guidance to other developers. Requirements Analysis, Leadership Oracle Financial Analyzer, Oracle Express (now Oracle OLAP), UNIX, Windows, Oracle OLAP DML (Oracle Express SPL at the time), Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell scripting, Visual Basic, Excel, VBA, VBScript

Developed software used in budgeting, bidding, management, and performance analysis of turnkey well projects for ADTI. My role on the team was informally as product owner under my manager who was the product/program manager. My focus was working with the SMEs, stakeholders, end users, and developers to define requirements for the system. I was involved in gathering and refining business requirements, writing user stories, prioritization of work, report development, new application functionality development, data modeling, database development, ETL development, testing, training, and support. Development of software used to create maintenance plans for rig equipment. C#, VB forms, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Replication, SSRS, SSIS, WPF, MVVM, Prism. Agile, Scrum

Product Owner/Manager responsible for deployment automation, development infrastructure, and 3rd line technical support for a complex system used for real-time monitoring of drilling operations, and performance optimization analytics. The software we were deploying, and providing technical support for, was a combination of web applications, services, and desktop software used in the capture, transfer, and analysis of drilling data for real-time operations monitoring, and drilling performance optimization. C#, .net, PowerShell, WIX, WPF, SQL Server 2014, SSIS, PI, Kongsberg, IIS, Windows Server, Amazon Cloud Servers (AWS), Amazon Cloud SQL Server (RDS), Visual Studio 2017, TFS, VSTS, GIT, NuGet, WITS, XML, WITSML, Agile, Scrum, Kanban.