Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Mar 2015 – Apr 2022 · 7 yrs 1 mo

• Positions: Solution Architect (MDM, SGG), MDM Integration Specialist
• Multiple Electric, Water & Gas Utility Clients across the USA and South America
• Responsibilities:
• Provided technical and functional solution leadership on multiple Oracle Utilities product suite implementations.
• Engaged directly with business sponsors and key stakeholders to ensure focus on business objectives
• Led requirements gathering sessions with clients, vendors and internal resources to implement Oracle Utilities MDM and Oracle Utilities SGG and perform scope management, leveraging best practice processes
• Collaborate across various delivery architects to ensure cohesive, consistent solutions and deliverables.
• Led design and configuration of Oracle Utilities MDM, SGG, C2M, ODM, CC&B, and Oracle SOA Suite
• Actively participates in business development, including customer presentations and RFP responses related to Solution Architect role/function
• Oversee successful full lifecycle implementation
• Collaborated with client IT staff and key stakeholders for architecture and infrastructure planning, installations of applications, deployment, and troubleshooting
• Developed performance and regression testing plans and strategy for testing multiple Oracle product implementations
• Achievements:
• Architected solution for master data integration between Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle Utilities C2M – One of its kind integrations between a Paas and SaaS product
• Architected solution for master data integration between Oracle Utilities C2M and Siemens EMeter MDM - a complex integration with two competing products with entirely different data models
• Resolved critical performance issues for read load from Sensus AMI to Oracle Utilities MDM, effectively increasing throughput by 200%
• Spearheaded the efforts to strategize the use of Groovy with OUAF across the organization that would allow extensions to be built for SaaS/PaaS OUAF implementations.

Apr 2014 – Feb 2015 · 10 mos

• SGG Implementation Specialist
• Responsibilities:
• Designed integration between Oracle Utilities SGG and Head-End systems including L+G Gridstream Command Center, CellNet USC, Itron FCS, Itron MV-90 and LODESTAR
• Designed integration between Oracle Utilities SGG and the legacy CIS system
• Lead performance testing meetings, identifying potential bottlenecks and working with key stakeholders and vendors (Oracle)
• Led System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing and production support
• Achievements:
• Identified potential bottlenecks that increased the throughput drastically from 500messages/5minutes to 10,000messges/5minutes; Earned accolades from client
• Designed easily extendable parsers from scratch for parsing Itron FCS and Lodestar Enhanced (LSE) files to process high volume meter reads
• RockStar of the Quater - Q4' 2014
• Clients:
• Electric Utility - Kansas City, KS, MO
• Electric & Gas Utility - St Louis, MO

Nov 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Developed Custom Usage and VEE rules.
• Integrated MDM with PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Manager (PSERM) using the Oracle Utilities Direct Integration Pack.
• Performed Regression testing, UAT and System Integration testing
• Developed Custom SQL for calculating unbilled usage
• Achievements:
• Developed Custom Usage Rule using OUAF Scripting, affecting billing over 150,000 customers
• Created a parser for parsing HHF binary files; the parser was implemented in three different client projects