An Oracle Partner Program Member.

Offering the software services of Ken Allen.

Summary of Education and Work history:

• I have a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University with a minor in Economics.
• I worked for Siemens-Empros for 5 years delivering Energy Management Systems to power companies such as SBB (the Swiss railroad) and some of the Spanish electric utilities (REE - Madrid, CSE - Seville, Fecsa - Barcelona).
• I worked at BI Performance Services for 2 years as a contractor doing Oracle work for their various consumer incentive programs.
• My first independent contract was at Andersen Windows where I converted their Oracle-based WindowCare customer service application to a GUI client/server system and then to a web-enabled 3-tier system.
• I worked as an independent contractor in the EDI department of Seagate Technology for 1 year creating custom forms and applications for their Oracle Applications system.
• I completed a 2 year contract helping the US Postal Service with their TACS system which tracks time worked, assignments, time off, etc for the 800,000 US postal employees. One of my projects inolved consolidating 23 of these databases into a more manageable set of 9 regional databases. I also did some XML work sending TACS data to external applications.
• I worked on the Amtrak and AT&T Loyalty systems developed and maintained by Carlson Marketing. One of my major projects was the implementation of a realtime XML based interface between the Amtrak ticketing website and the Amtrak Loyalty website allowing members to redeem points for Amtrak tickets
• Most recently, I was part of the team that upgraded McQuay International's Oracle Applications (Financials and Manufacturing) from version 10.7 to R12. I gained experience with the GL, AR, Manufacturing, and Service applications.

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Skills Matrix

Skill (blue font indicates a current skill, black font means it has been a while)	Experience	Level (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert)
Product Development	13 years	Advanced
Oracle databases (7, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g)	10 years	Advanced
PL/SQL	9 years	Advanced
Oracle Forms	7 years	Advanced
Oracle Applications Framework (OAF)	6 months	Intermediate
Oracle Workflow	3 months	Intermediate
Oracle Reports	7 years	Advanced
Oracle BI Publisher	1 year	Advanced
Oracle Discoverer	3 months	Intermediate
Crystal Reports	3 months	Intermediate
Oracle Applications 10.7	1 year	Intermediate
Oracle Applications 11i	3 months	Intermediate
Oracle Applications R12	1 year	Intermediate
Oracle Tools (Import, Export, Data Pump, SQL-Loader, SQL, SQL-Reports)	9 years	Advanced
Oracle JDeveloper	1 year`	Intermediate
ERwin	6 months	Intermediate
Oracle XML DB	6 months	Intermediate
Oracle Application Express (APEX)	6 months	Intermediate
Unix	14 years	Advanced
MS Windows 95 and NT	10 years	Intermediate
Unix Korn shell programming	10 years	Advanced
Python shell programming	1 month	Novice
C, Pro*C	2 years	Intermediate
Java	1 year	Novice
XML	3 years	Intermediate
HTML	2 years	Intermediate