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Rodger
G. Wade
6060 N Schumaker Rd Bennett, CO 80102 (303) 644-3772Ύhome
(303) 829-8816Ύcell
phone email: rodger@rgwade.com WebSite: http://www.rgwade.com
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Professional Summary
A creative innovator with thirty
plus years supporting business growth through information technology solutions.
Industry experience includes relational database management systems (RDBMS),
service center, internet e-commerce, telecommunications, financial, and other
areas.
Relevant
Management Experience
Ardent Consulting (four years)
Managed
and trained Ardent consultants, maintaining a consistently high level of
revenue.
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Managed multiple professional services projects
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Pre-sale and post-sale product and customer
support
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Performed RDBMS installation, configuration
and tuning
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Performed UNIX and NT systems administration
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Trained consultants in data and application
conversion techniques
Los Alamos Technical Associates (11
years)
Managed and trained corporate
computer hardware and software staff and systems.
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RDBMS systems development and support
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Performed Pre-sales proof-of-concept and
post-sale customer support
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Network development and support (including
voice & data communications)
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Oversight of two complete hardware and
software conversions
Hospital Information Systems (two
years)
Managed RDBMS development and
customer support for hospital operations applications.
Selected
Achievements
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Ardent Software: Managed and performed lead technical duties for a
10-month, $700,000+ international project to convert applications from Prime
mainframe environment to UNIX-based RDBMS.
Project staff included client, VAR and Ardent consulting staff
personnel.
Result: Standardized client computer
operations to optimize a $1.2 B (Australian) pharmaceutical wholesale
distribution business that serves customers throughout Australia.
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Ardent Software: While managing multiple consulting projects, served as
lead technical resource. Performed
pre-sales proof-of-concept demonstrations using corporate products.
Result: Contributed to Ardent
Professional Servicess consistently high level of revenue generation.
Pre-sales support efforts resulted in the addition of two international VARs
for product line.
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Los Alamos Technical Associates: Designed, implemented and managed the RDBMS-based
government contracts billing and project revenue-reporting application.
Provided production database maintenance support.
Result: For ten years, LATAs
systems passed all government and internal audits, and received commendations
for accurate and timely information management and reporting.
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Los Alamos Technical Associates: Performed pre-sales and post-sales support, database
design, development, and support for clients using Oracle, Sybase and Conetic
Cbase relational databases.
Result: Generated corporate revenue while performing corporate
management role and technical support roles.
Professional Experience
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Instructor
Education America Denver, CO SQL
Server Administration and Software Development Ecommerce
Website Development Linux
Administration and Development Introduction
to Computers Software
Application Development |
2001 2002 1973 1974 |
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Management/Project
Management |
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Independent
Consultant |
1999 present |
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Consulting
Manager/Principal Consultant Ardent Software, Inc.,
Denver, CO |
1995 1998 |
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Management
Consultant City/County of Denver, Denver, CO |
contract* 1999 |
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MIS
Network Manager Los Alamos Technical
Assoc. , Los Alamos, NM, |
1984 1995 |
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Systems Manager Hospital Information Systems, Addison, TX |
1976 1978 |
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Assistant
Director/College Computer Center Odessa College, Odessa, TX |
1973 1974 |
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Project Manager First National Bank, Lubbock, TX |
1972 1973 |
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Database Design and
Development |
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TRIP.com, Denver, CO Los Alamos Technical
Associates |
contract**2000-2001 1984 1995 |
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Application Performance
Lab/Development |
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Williams Communications,
Houston, TX |
contract**1999-2000 |
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PacifiCare HMO, Denver,
CO |
contract** 1998-1999 |
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RDBMS/NT or UNIX
Conversion |
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Wellington Leisure
Products, Madison, GA |
contract* 1999 |
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Buncombe County Medical
Dept., Asheville, NC |
contract* 1999 |
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Commonwealth Aluminum,
Inc., Lewisport, KY |
contract* 1999 |
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World Harvest Church,
Port Canal, OH |
contract* 1999 |
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City of Thornton,
Thornton, CO |
contract* 1999 |
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PCS Nitrogen, Inc.,
Memphis, TN |
contract* 1999 |
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Conexant Systems, Inc.,
Newport Beach, CA |
contract* 1999 |
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Sigma Pharmaceutical Co.,
Melbourne, Australia |
1996 1997 |
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Banctec Corp., Dallas, TX |
1995 1996 |
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RDBMS Recovery
Configuration |
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Premdor, Inc., Tampa Bay,
FL |
contract* 1999 |
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Web Development/Support |
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TRIP.com Penn Treaty Insurance,
Allentown, PA |
contract**2000-2001 contract* 1999 |
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System
Configuration/Performance Analysis |
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TVI, Inc., Houston, TX |
contract* 1999 |
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Texas State Technical College,
Waco, TX |
contract* 1999 |
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Analysis, Applications
Programming, and Operations |
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Wade Systems, Santa Fe, NM |
1983 1984 |
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Joy Petroleum Corporation, Inc., Waxahachie TX |
1981 1983 |
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Harris Corp., Grapevine, TX |
1979 1980 |
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Hospital Information Systems, Dallas, TX |
1976 1978 |
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Texas Tech University Medical School, Lubbock, TX |
1975 1976 |
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Odessa College. Odessa, TX |
1973 1974 |
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First National Bank, Lubbock, Texas |
1971 1973 |
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*less than three months
**3-12 months
Product experience and Education Overview:
Operating
Systems
UNIX IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, DG-UX, HP-UX, SCO UNIX, DEC UNIX,
AT&T UNIX System V
IBM OS/MVS, DOS/VSE,
DOS/VS, DOS, Data General AOS, Prime Primos, DEC VMS
Microsoft Windows 3.41, Windows 97-98, Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows XP
Networks/Communications
Ethernet,
Microsoft NT, Banyan Vines, Novell Netware 3.12, Windows for Workgroups,
Windows 95, TCP/IP, NFS, FTP, Locus PC Interface, ODBC, Object Call, AT&T
Starlan
Databases
SQL
Server, Oracle, Unidata, UniVerse, Sybase, Conetic Cbase, Access, Informix
Programming
Languages/API
SQL,
Perl, FrontPage, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML,
XML, Forest & Trees, InfoMaker, UniBasic, UnidataSQL, AcuCobol, MicroFocus
COBOL, Conetic Cbase, Oracle
SQL/Forms/ReportWriter, System Builder, Business Basic, C, Java, Redback
Office
Automation
MS-Project,
MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Power Point, Word Perfect, Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3
Education and Training
TRIP.com, Inc., Denver, CO, 2000
JAVA/TogetherSoft
application development
Ardent Software, Inc., Denver, CO, 1996-1999
Redback, Web-based application development,
HTML, JAVA, ASP
O2, Introduction to object oriented database concepts
and the Ardent Object Oriented Database Management System and Java programming
DataStage,
Warehousing Fundamentals
System Builder,
Ardent Application Development Interface programming
UniData, Ardent
Database Administration and Application Development
Aquilla Group, Albuquerque, NM, 1994
Banyan
Vines Systems Administration and Banyan Vines Advanced Administration, LAN/WAN
network administration
Oracle Corporation, Denver, CO, 1990
Oracle Forms,
Application forms development and management
PL/SQL, Oracle
SQL programming language
ReportWriter,
Oracle database report generator
AT&T Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, 1986
UNIX
Systems Administration, UNIX system administration and AT&T hardware
maintenance
Center for Public Education, Los Angelos, CA, 1985
Government
Accounting, Small Computers, Computerized accounting principles for government
contractors
Joy Manufacturing, Waxahachie, TX, 1982
Manufacturing
Resource Planning (MRP), Computerized manufacturing shop control principles
Data General Corporation, Los Angelos, CA, 1979
Assembler
Language Programming, Programming concepts
Informatics Inc., Lubbock, TX, 1977
Mark
IV Programming, concepts using MARK IV application development language
American Institute of Banking, Lubbock, TX, 1971
Bank Operations,
Principles of banking operations
Bank
Data Processing, Principles of computerized banking operations
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 1971 BA Theoretical Sociology/Psychology