Gerald A. Provost
Voorhees, NJ 08043
gerald.provost@cotrantech.com
Phone: 908-946-3610
RESULTS ORIENTED DATA & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Results oriented Enterprise Data and Information Management Professional with solid industry architecture experience
related to: Enterprise Architecture Blueprint and Roadmap development, Enterprise Infrastructure Reference
Architecture, Application Architecture, Risk and Vendor management, Enterprise Data Management, Integration &
Governance frameworks-(Quality, Entitlement & Virtualization), Business and Information Technology Strategy
Planning, Enterprise Software Performance Engineering (including PeopleSoft HR, Oracle Financials and eCommerce
Applications), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Master Data Management (MDM), Integration of technology
architecture with evolving business models, Business Process Modeling / Automation-(Integration of people, processes
& systems), Healthcare Information Systems & Tele-Medicine Application Architecture, Customer Relationship
Management (CRM), Master Data Management (MDM), Enterprise Mobility Management, Distributed Database
Management Systems, Data Marts & Data Warehouse Architecture.
Domain enterprise experience includes consulting with corporations such as: Bristol Myers Squibb, Citibank, MetLife,
Medimmune, McKinsey & Company, WellPoint, UPS, United Airlines, Putnam Investments and State Farm.
Managed teams of software engineers/developers who have developed, implemented and supported; Data Marts and
Data Warehouses, Enterprise Document/Knowledge Management Systems, Distributed DBMS – Repository/Server
Systems, Database Replication - (Oracle Advanced/Multi-Master Replication), Financial Application Software Systems,
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) – Frameworks, Biometric Enabled Application Software Systems, Asset
Management - RFID Enabled Application Software Systems, IP-Telephony – Unified communications systems, Telemedicine/Tele-health systems, Healthcare Information Systems, IP-based video surveillance systems and Electronic
Voter Registration/Balloting Systems.
Architect for multiple software systems, frameworks and solutions to include the following;
 Enterprise Analytics, Reporting & Information Delivery Engines: Solutions that provided for the delivery of
near real-time data and information to corporate decision makers. This architecture incorporates next
generation database management systems, data & application integration, data virtualization, Business
Intelligence, Reporting Engine, Analytics engines, data harmonization and globalization engines. It integrates
data from multiple providers/sources (Cloud and on-premises data sources) into a readily available
environment that is capable of effecting “user-empowered “ real and or near real-time information delivery to
include reporting analytics and data mining that incorporates single and multi-phased predictive models.
 Enterprise Application / Data Integration Framework: This framework leverages a Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) which enables business systems to act on data with no regard to the source and location of
the needed data sets. Its implementation: (a) Minimize the impact of changes in technology and middleware. (b)
Decouples business systems to reduce the effect of changes in one business system to others. (c) Supports a
single logical image of global/enterprise data regardless of how and where data are physically stored. (d) Allows
programmers to concentrate on business problems rather than middleware complexities. (e) Provides a flexible
and consistent programming interface that enables the delivery services such as On-line transactions, On-line
non-transactional Store and Forward, Publish & Subscribe, Broadcast/Event Notification and Batch etc.
 Data Warehouse / BI Architecture: Architect for multi-terabytes data warehouses that enabled select
Pharmaceutical, Distribution & Logistics, Financial and Travel Related Services organizations to leverage their
data into manageable assets that deliver near real-time, actionable information to employees, managers, and
business partners. Task included but were not limited; Data & Middleware Architecture – (Virtual Data
Management), Architecture Assessment and strategy development, Software & Tools Selection and
Implementation - (ETL, OLAP, ROLAP, WOLAP, BI), Data Governance - (Business and Transformation Rules, Data
Quality and Cleansing), Meta data Architecture, Reporting & Analytics, Data Mining – (Creation of models that
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combine/align data predictors with business intelligence rules), Executive/Management Dashboard
Development and Implementation, Change Control/Management procedures.
Application Development & Business Process Platform and Toolkit: Enterprise-wide, browser-based,
application development & business process platform and toolkit with the capability to support multiple
solutions for data-sensitive and regulated markets. This framework has caused for the development of a suite of
Healthcare Applications/Solutions to include: (Incident Manager Solution, Claims Manager, Root Cause Analysis,
Legal Matter Manager, Peer Review Manager, Infection Control Manager, Performance Improvement Manager,
Employee Health Manager, Compliance Manager and Contract Manager).
Distributed Database Architecture: Repeatable, Consistent, and Scalable distributed Oracle database
architecture that exploits commodity hardware systems networked to provide high levels of scalability and
reliability. This design utilizes standard hardware configurations utilizing Intel chip architectures and Linux
operating systems. It is capable of supporting large-scale oracle databases which are used to provide shared
database hosting as well as handling ultra-large database applications. In addition to providing large scale and
expandable performance, the design provided for high levels of availability and continuity of operations utilizing
database –aware technologies to include: Oracle Grid Architecture – Oracle Coherence, Oracle (Real Application
Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Data Guard (DG) and Enterprise Manager Grid Control
(OEM)). The design addressed a set of requirements that is intended to support mission critical data of 10TB
plus, 10K plus I/O operations per second and over 5K concurrent connections.
Systems / Application Profiling & Governance Architecture : Robust framework that facilitates the mapping,
categorization and tagging of information within operational systems to improve information accessibility, The
definition of views into corporate information assets to address inconsistencies in meaning, terminology and
format without impacting the function of information assets, The alignment of information assets to reference
architectures and patterns, The creation of an enterprise registries (Data Flow, Entity & Attribute Semantic
Maps, Reference Architecture & Patterns, designation and Life Cycle Management Classification) that supports
projects their architecture and implementation decisions and the virtualization, harmonization & globalization of
enterprise data. The resultants – (System content semantic mapping specifications, Canonical model candidates,
Virtual Data Management (VDM) Candidates, MDM Candidates, Domain ontology specifications, Domain
specific implementation specifications, Content Life Cycle Management)
Tele-Health/Tele-Medicine Solution: HIPAA compliant, Cloud based Tele-Medicine Solution that enable primary
care physicians to wavelet compress, forward encrypt, display and transmit via the Internet/Secure VPN
dermatological images integrated with reports and annotations to a centralized location for consultation and
interpretation by a board certified dermatologist. This application incorporates HL7 (Health Level 7 Standards, a
tele-medicine compliant browser plug-in capable of transforming a standard browser equipped computer into a
tele-medicine compliant workstation. This application enables a clinician to easily assemble a consultation,
including demographics, images, video, audio, studies and scanned documents. This browser plug-in controls
cameras, scanners, and other data acquisition devices directly, eliminating the need for additional programs.
These features along with Internet-based services - web-based chat, email, and discussion groups - help foster
communications and collaboration between dermatologists and their affiliated primary care physicians.
Supported by this application, a dermatologist is able to provide affiliated primary care physicians with
Dermatological consultation services regardless of their geography.
IP-Telephony / Unified Communications Solution: Redundant IP-Telephony network, utilizing cutting-edge IP
technology capable of riding on some of the world's premier internet backbones. A robust, state-of-the-art
cloud based architecture that guarantees reliable, inexpensive communications (voice, email, SMS, Video) to any
point on the globe. Based on this infrastructure, organizations such as AllCom (http://www.allcom.com) is able
to provide a wide catalog of value-added IP-Telephony products and Unified Communications Services. The
implementation includes software solutions that enables the clustering of multiple Soft switches / PBX systems
for reliability and speed, the association of trunks to multiple providers, the delivery and management of
services to include the integration of real-time communication services such as Instant Messaging (IM),
Presence Information, Telephony, Video Conferencing, Call Control and Speech Control with non-real-time
communication services such as; (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax).
 K-12 School Management Software Suite: Cloud based solution that is designed to deliver and provide the key
functionalities that are necessary to meet the emerging and evolving educational information management and
delivery market. This solution provides the following key functions: Student Demographic Management, Student
Mobility, Student Grade/Attendance/Scheduling, Student Assessment, Student Misconduct, Student Program
Management, Student Special Education, Free/Reduced Lunch Management, Teacher/Principal Performance
Management, and Teacher Professional Development.
 EPC compliant RFID enabled Asset Management Appliance: This appliance features centralized management
and control, intelligent inventory sensing and reporting elements (TAGSYS RFID Reader and Integrated
Antenna/Shelves, Integrated Touch Screen Monitor, State–of–the-Art inventory management/tracking and
security software (SureCountTM) capable of determining counterfeit products along with who removed or
replaced what and when.
Holder of joint Master’s degrees from the University of Miami, have written and co-authored multiple Information
Technology (IT) related whitepapers and templates to include; (Creating Test Plans for Application Software Systems,
Guidelines for Selecting Application Software Systems, Enterprise Application Systems - Operational Readiness Review
(ORR) Procedures & Checklists), Creating Functional Specifications for Application Software Systems, Creating Data
Conversion Plan For Applications Software Systems, Application Software Performance Tuning Tips - (Oracle DBMS),
SQL Correctness - Positives for Data Warehouse Performance, An approach to tuning PeopleSoft Applications
supported by Oracle's RDBMS, Optimizing SQL Performance within an ORACLE environment. Professional affiliations
include memberships in the American Tele-Medicine Association (ATA), IEEE Computer Society and the Association for
Computer Machinery (ACM).
CAREER PROGRESSION / WORK EXPERIENCE
Cotran Technologies, Ltd., Voorhees, NJ
August 1991 - Present
Principal Consultant
Provided consulting services and solutions related to: Enterprise Architecture Blueprint and Roadmap development,
Enterprise Infrastructure Reference Architecture, Application Architecture, Program & Project Management, Risk and
Vendor management, Enterprise Data Management, Integration & Governance frameworks (Quality, Entitlement &
Virtualization), Distributed Database Design, Data Marts & Data Warehouse Development and Implementation, Business
and Information Technology Strategy Planning, Enterprise Software Performance Engineering (including PeopleSoft HR,
Oracle Financials and eCommerce Applications), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Master Data Management
(MDM), Building of competent software development teams capable of meeting technology and business demands,
Application software integration – Cloud & On-premises (IaaS), HIPAA compliant Tele-health/Tele-medicine systems,
Biometric enabled application software systems & solution, Asset Management - RFID enabled application software
systems & solutions, IP-based video surveillance systems and IP-Telephony – Unified Communications. Consulting
engagements include, but are not limited to, the following companies: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Allcom, Inc.,
Advanta Corporation, American Trans Air, Brooks Fiber Properties, Blackboard, British Petroleum, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Citicorp North America, Inc., Cummins Engine Company, Cotran Telecommunications, Ltd., EG&G Park, DuPont, DermDx
Centers for Dermatology, DOCSAIDE, LLC., GE Computer Services, H.S. Crocker Company, Neustar, Inc., Northern
Telecom - (NORTEL), MedImmune, McKinsey & Company, MetLife, Oracle Corporation, Peminic, Pittsburgh Public
Schools, The European Travel Commission, Putnam Investments, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, QVC,
UPS, RF Power Products, State Farm and WellPoint. NOTE: Detailed descriptions of solutions and or engagements are
available upon request.
CAS Technologies, Inc.,
September, 1987 – August, 1991
Director – LAN/WAN Technologies
 Computer System Integration Company – Managed software and network engineering teams that designed,
developed & Implemented Accounting and Manufacturing Information Systems.
Boroughs/Unisys Corp.,
February, 1986 – September, 1987
Sr. Manufacturing Software Engineer
 Mainframe Computer Manufacturer/Systems Integrator - Developed software testing tools used in the
secondary testing of Boroughs/Unisys A-Series computer systems
ARMS, Inc.,
November, 1983 – February, 1986
Sr. Systems Design Engineer
 Computer Software Engineering & Consulting firm - Developed real-time process control systems, multi-tasking
operating systems and application software systems.
TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Software Systems, Libraries, Frameworks, Appliances, Standards & Tools
Denodo Platform 5.0 (Data Virtualization & Information Management), Dell Boomi AtomSphere, Fiorano – (SOA, ESB,
MQ - Data / Applications Integration Engine), IBM WebSphere (Cast Iron), Expressor (integrator, repository, processor),
iDASHBOARD, Qlikview, Pentaho BI Suite, Pinnacle Suite – (SIS, Gradebook, Insight, Aspire), MicroStrategy, Jaspersoft BI
Suite, Crystal Report, Holos, Hewlett Packard-Intelligent Warehouse –(HPIW), nQuire – Oracle/Siebel Analytics, Trillium(Data Profiling / Governance Software Suite), Tableau Analytics, AXURE RP Pro - Prototyping tool, IBM Tivoli – (Identity
Manager), InfoSphere Guardium, Talend (data integration, management, profiling and governance solutions), CorVu,
Business Objects, InfoPump, EDA/SQL, ENCINA, TSISoft-Mercator, AutoSYS, Rouge Wave (Tools.h++ & DBTools), Precise
Software-(Inspect, Interpoint, Indepth), UML - Rational Rose, Intersystems CACHE, HIPAA, DICOM, CANDA, Alpharel(AlphaVIEW,AlphaSCAN,AlphaQC,AlphaDX), WebLogic, Mule, DataPower, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, Adobe(Dreamweaver,
Fireworks), Blackberry Application Dev., AEPSystems/Netilla, APPC, OSF-DCE, HL/7, SOAP, SYMIX, COINS, OpenEMR,
OpenVISTA, Peminic – WEBAgent and HIS Solution Suite, Microsoft .NET framework, Java/J2EE framework, Alfresco
(Document Management, WCM, Collaboration), DHTML Tools, ERWin, Embarcadero (Architecture & Modeling suite),
Oracle Designer, Oracle Coherence, Serena (SBM,SSM, Requirements Mgr., Development Mgr. & Release Mgr.,
TeamTrack), ActiveVOS (BPMS/BPEL Engine), Queplix (data integration & management solutions), FINEOS, PeopleTools,
PeopleCode, Web Services related frameworks (UDICo-TierBroker, SOAP, CXF), XAWARE – (SOA Data Integration
engine), LongJump – (SaaS enabler), SharePoint (2007, 2010), Varonis - Data Governance Suite, SEI CMMI Framework,
ITIL, TOGAF, BPEL, BPMN.
Operating Systems & Networks
Linux (CentOS), UNIX (Coherent, BSD, SYS V), SUN Solaris, VOS, Unisys MCP, Unisys OS1100, Novell Netware (All
Versions) VAX/VMS, RSX-11M, OS/2, CTOS, DECNET, TN3270, LU6.2, Microsoft Windows XX
Programming Languages & Web/Universal Client Development Tools
C#, C++, XML, AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript), XPATH, WSDL, PHP, HTML, JAVA, CGI/Perl, SQR, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, MSWeb Platform, MS-Visual Studio, Visual C++, Visual C#, Eclipse, Pascal, Fortran, Forth, Progress DML, COBOL, ALGOL,
VX/REXX.
Data Management Systems & Related Tools
ORACLE (V6.x–Oracle11g), Oracle (Advanced/Multi-Master Replication), Oracle11g – (Real Application Clusters (RAC),
Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Data Guard (DG), Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM)), Oracle
(GoldenGate), Oracle Coherence, PROGRESS RDBMS, MySQL, Express, Visual FoxPro, Oracle RDB, DB2, Informix,
Infobright, Apache Hadoop – (HDFS, Map-Reduce, Pig, Hive, Hbase, ZooKeeper, Sqoop, Flume, OOZIE), Hortonworks
Data Platform (HDP), InfoSphere BIGInsights, SQLServer, PostgresSQL.
IP –Telephony
3GPP and xDSL Architectures, QoS, Fixed & Mobile VoIP Architectures, SIP, H323, MGCP, RTSP, NAT Traversal, PPPoX,
802.1X, DHCP, Media Codec (g711x,g729, etl), VoIP NOC (Design & Configuration), Cellular Bridging, SIP Messaging &
Security
EDUCATION
 Master of Science - Computer Information Systems
University of Miami, Miami, Fl. (1982)
 Master of Science Education - Curriculum & Instruction University of Miami, Miami, Fl. (1981)
 Bachelor of Science - Building Construction. Technology (1978)
INDUSTRIES / VERTICALS
 Education, Financial/Accounting (A/R, A/P, G/L, P/R, F/X, Tax), Manufacturing (MRP, ERP), Telecommunications
(PBX, ISDN, Central Office Switch, VoIP), Insurance, Airline/Travel Related Operations, Petrochemical, Publishing,
Pharmaceutical, Retail (Point-of-Sale, Distribution), Healthcare, Logistics and Transportation.
Keywords: ALM, Advanced Replication, BPM, BPEL, Big Data, BPMN, data virtualization, data harmonization, data globalization,
data management, semantic data integration, Canonical, Cloud Computing, SOA, BI, senior manager, lead, director, software
development, database administration, distributed database, data governance, multi-master replication, materialized views,
advanced replication, CIO, business architecture, process architecture, performance engineering, Pinnacle, enterprise Information
Architect, Identity Management, Information Management, IT architect (EITA), ITIL, TOGAF, IEEE, Senior, ETL, human-computer
interaction (HCI), reference architecture, software architect, consultant, assurance, senior, systems architecture, lead, manager, ecommerce, user interface designer, contract, subject matter expert (SME), project manager, database administration, data
governance, multi-master replication, materialized views, advanced replication, systems analyst, systems of record, data flow, UML,
embedded systems, architect, Serena, supervise, data warehouse, WebSphere, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analysis, RFID, PCI,
Biometrics, Surveillance, SFDC, Salesforce, NetSuite, Teacher effectiveness, TeamTrack, Tivoli, TIF, Qlikview, Unified Communications,
IP-Telephony, Virtual Data Management, VoIP, voice over internet protocol, data integration, application integration.
Last Updated: September 2013