Mark Foy

2150 Ashby Ave; Berkeley, California 94705-1836 USA  [San Francisco Bay Area]

Telephone: +1-510-666-8200 [Pacific Time Zone]

E-mail: mfoy@vitalita.com (or mfoy55@16mail.com)

( Latest resume available at my URL: http://www.vitalita.com/mfoy.html )

 

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Masters Degree in Computer Science.

19+ years experience as an IT consultant.

15+ years experience with Oracle.

9+ years experience with Oracle Applications - Performing functional and technical work within the Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Distribution, Manufacturing, Financial, and Self-Service modules of Oracle Applications (Oracle Financials/Oracle E-Business Suite (eBS) for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)).

7+ years experience with Oracle CRM; including: TeleService, Install Base, Service Contracts, iSupport, and TCA.

3+ years working with large Oracle integrators such as Oracle Consulting, BearingPoint, CGEY, and Deloitte.

Started working with Oracle as a software engineer/developer; then began working in Oracle Applications; next moved to being a technical development team lead; finally transitioned to also working as a functional lead.

Functional responsibilities: requirements gathering, functional gap analysis, application design, configuration, module setup, test script generation, writing training guides, training end users, and production support.

Technical (technical lead, developer, etc.) activities: interfacing with users, identifying functional and technical gaps, estimating work, architecting system interfaces, designing custom solutions, programming, leading developers, scheduling, producing documentation, and providing production support.

 

JOB INTERESTS

Oracle Applications Implementations and Upgrades / Functional Lead / Techno-Functional Consultant / Business Analyst / Architect / Technical Lead ( Oracle / Oracle Applications: CRM, ERP, Distribution, including Oracle 11i / Implementations, Upgrades, Customizations, Extensions, Interfaces ).

 

EDUCATION

University of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A. (1990-1992)
Master of Computer Science (MCS) - Specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Colorado School of Mines - Golden, Colorado, U.S.A. (1986-1990)
B.S. in Mathematics (BS) - Computer Science (CS) Option - Minors in Physics and Economics.

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

Software:

Oracle: 9i, 8i, 8, 7.x, SQL, PL/SQL, Pro*C (15 yrs)

 

Oracle Applications/Oracle E-Business Suite: R11i, R11, R10.7, R10.6 (9 yrs);

Customer Relationship Management (CRM/JTF), Distribution (DIST), Manufacturing (MFG), Financials (FIN); Self-Service Web Applications (OSSWA/ICX) modules;

Most experience in CRM: Service/TeleService/Service Requests/Customer Support/Customer Care (CS/CSS/CSC), Installed Base (CSI/CSE), Service Contracts / Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), CRM Foundation (JTF), Trading Community Architecture (TCA/HZ), iSupport (IBU), Customers Online (OCO/IMC), Service Intelligence (BIV);

Additional modules: Order Management (OM/OE/ONT), Shipping Execution (WSH), Inventory (INV), Bill of Materials (BOM), Spares Management (CSP), Field Service (CSF), Electronic Commerce/EDI Gateway (EC), Accounts Receivable (AR), Customer Intelligence (OCI/BIC), Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Purchasing (PO);

Other Components: Workflow/Workflow Builder, Alerts (ALR), Application Object Library (AOL/FND), Concurrent Manager (CM), Flexfields;

New System Implementations; New Module Implementations; Upgrades; Customizations and Extensions; Interfaces and Data Conversion.

 

Oracle Tools/Components: Oracle Application Server (OAS), Oracle Developer/2000 and Oracle iDeveloper (including Forms6i and Reports6i), SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, Browser/Query Builder, Oracle Discoverer, Designer/2000 (15 yrs)

 

Misc.: ClearCase, ClearQuest, CVS/RCS, PVCS, Kintana/Chain Link (O*M, R*I, A*I), DBArtisan, SQL Navigator, TOAD, DDTS, Lotus, MS Access, Remedy (Call Tracker)

Languages:

SQL (15 yrs) & PL/SQL (13 yrs)

Pascal (3 yrs)

HTML (3 yrs)

 

C/C++ (9 yrs) & Pro*C (10 yrs)

FORTRAN (2 yrs)

SAS (6 mos)

 

Korn/C/Bourne UNIX shell scripts (6 yrs)

JavaScript (1 yr)

OS:

UNIX (Sun/Solaris, HP, SGI, IBM/AIX) (17 yrs)

MS-Windows & MS-DOS (19 yrs)

 

VM & MVS (IBM mainframes) (6 mos)

Mac OS (Macintosh) (15 yrs)


 

WORK EXPERIENCE

11/2007 – present

TIBCO Software – Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.
Oracle E-Business Suite CRM Business Analyst (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 70% Functional and 30% Technical within Oracle E-Business Suite.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i (11.5.10); Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), Installed Base (CSI)], Oracle (9i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows XP.

 

Business: Develops and sells integration software.

 

* Techno-Functional consulting on the project to implement Maintenance Renewals within the Oracle 11i application.  Charged with all tasks related to implementing the Service Contracts (SC/OKS/OKC) and Install Base (IB/CSI) modules: gathering business requirements, identifying gaps, design solutions to resolve gaps in the standard Oracle system, configuration/setup, testing, training, and all documentation.

 

* Designing and implementing the data conversion methodology to bring Installed Base (IB) instances and Service Contracts (SCs) from a legacy system into the Oracle 11i application.  Designing an interface to send entitlement information from SC/IB/OM Oracle 11i to Digital River (for Electronic Software Download entitlements) and to Siebel (for support entitlement verification).

 

Project Characteristics:

* Interfacing Install Base and Service Contract information from 11i to a an electronic software download system and to a Siebel system for Service Request entitlement and tracking.

 

 

9/2006 – 10/2007

Advent Software - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Oracle E-Business Suite Consultant (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 65% Functional and 35% Technical within Oracle Applications.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i (11.5.10); Installed Base (CSI), Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), Order Management (OM/ONT), Inventory (INV)], Oracle (9i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows XP.

 

Business: Develops and sells investment management software and portfolio data services.

 

* Working as a business analyst for the final 6 months of a project to expand the implementation of Service Contracts (SC/OKS/OKC) and Install Base (IB/CSI).  Involved in testing (both standard functionality and custom functionality), working with Oracle on bugs, developing new business processes, writing training documentation, and configuring the application during go-live.

 

* Functional lead on the Phase 2 project which will deliver a number of Service Contract enhancements, as well as preparing the system to interface data to a data warehouse (OLAP).

 

* Functional lead on the Oracle 11.5.8 to 11.5.10.2 upgrade project for the following areas: IB, SC, Advanced Pricing, and integration of Oracle to ONYX CRM.

 

* Analyst on a project to deliver AdventÕs software to customer as Electronic Software Downloads (ESD).  Working on integration between Oracle Applications and IntrawareÕs SubscribeNet Electronic Software Delivery Solution.

 

(See below [4/2005] for more information about my prior work at Advent Software.)

 

 

1/2006 – 9/2006

VMware – Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.
Oracle E-Business Suite CRM Business Analyst (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 65% Functional and 35% Technical within Oracle E-Business Suite.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i (11.5.10); Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), Installed Base (CSI)], Oracle (9i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows XP.

 

Business: Develops and sells virtualization software.

 

* Techno-Functional consulting on the project to implement VMwareÕs Order to Cash process into the Oracle 11i application.  Charged with all tasks related to implementing the Service Contracts (SC/OKS/OKC) and Install Base (IB/CSI) modules: gathering business requirements, identifying gaps, design solutions to resolve gaps in the standard Oracle system, configuration/setup, testing, training, and all documentation.

 

* Designing and implementing the data conversion methodology to bring Installed Base (IB) instances and Service Contracts (SC) from a legacy system into the Oracle 11i application.  Designing an interface to send entitlement information from SC/IB Oracle 11i to Siebel so those can be used by the support organization to verify a customerÕs right to support.

 

Project Characteristics:

* Converting customers from 3 legacy systems; cleansing customer data with Dun and Bradstreet services.

* Interfacing Install Base and Service Contract information from 11i to a customer web portal and to a Siebel system for Service Request entitlement and tracking.

* Implementing iStore as part of this Order to Cash process; this allows customer to place orders (product and services) on the web.

 

 

11/2005– 12/2005

Coherent – Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.
Oracle E-Business Suite CRM Technical Lead (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 35% Functional and 65% Technical within Oracle Applications.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i (11.5.10); Installed Base (CSI), Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), TeleService (CSS), Field Service (CSF), Depot Repair (CSD)], Oracle (9i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows XP.

 

Business: Manufactures Lasers.

 

* (This project to implement Oracle 11i CRM into an existing 11i (11.5.10) environment was suspended before it was instantiated into production.)

 

* Techno-Functional consulting on the project to implement Oracle CRM including: Install Base (CSI), Service Contracts (OKS/OKC), TeleService (CSS), Field Service (CSF), and Depot Repair (CSD).

 

* Leading a 4-person development team.  Interfacing between development team and users.  Resolving system issues with functional setup or technical work (customization or extensions).

 

* Designing and coordinating all data conversion development/testing tasks (for IB instances with Counters, Warranties, Service Agreements, and Service Contracts with Charges) and custom development items (e.g., Field Service Debrief customizations to facilitate data flow to order management (OM) and cost tracking).

 

 

4/2005 – 11/2005

Advent Software - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Oracle E-Business Suite Subject Matter Expert (Consultant) - MIS.
(Working ~ 65% Functional and 35% Technical within Oracle Applications.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i; Installed Base (CSI), Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), Order Management (OM/ONT), Inventory (INV), Bill of Materials (BOM)], Oracle (9i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows XP.

 

Business: Develops and sells investment management software and portfolio data services.

 

* Consulting on a project to move AdventÕs customer product install base and service contracts from an Onyx legacy system into Oracle Applications.  Designing a complete re-architecture of inventory items and bill of materials (BOM) to support all product and service sales, billing, and renewal from the Oracle system.  New processes in Order Management (OM) so customer licensed software ends up in the Installed Base (CSI) and Maintenance ends up in Service Contracts (OKS/OKC).

 

* Documenting business requirements; Data design and process re-engineering to fit with the Oracle system; Prototype new business processes; Design legacy data conversion; Configure applications; Create test scenarios.

 

* Developed custom programs: (1) a program to send out updated software versions to entitled customers (utilizes the standard Oracle order API to create and book orders) (results in a mass shipment of the new software version to customers) (PL/SQL – 6000+ lines) and (2) a program to process a flat file containing inventory (INV) and bill of material (BOM) data into the open interface tables to load these items (utilizes the standard Oracle API for Importing Inventory Items, Inventory Categories, and BOMs) (results in items loaded without users having to manually enter them into Oracle) (PL/SQL – 3000+ lines).

 

 

2/2005 - 3/2005

Xilinx - San Jose, California, U.S.A.
Functional Oracle E-Business Suite Analyst (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 60% Functional and 40% Technical within Oracle Applications.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i; Installed Base (CSI), Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), Trading Community Architecture (TCA), Accounts Receivable (AR)], Oracle (8i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows 2000.

 

Business: Designs and produces programmable logic devices (PLDs), and software tools for these devices.  Provides world-wide solutions, support, and service for PLDs.

 

* Implemented Oracle Customers Online (OCO/IMC) module.  This included enabling Data Sharing and Security (DSS) for OCO and Customer Standard in AR so that users would not be able to modify restricted data as per SOX requirements.

 

* Post-production troubleshooting and analysis of business process issues within: Service Contracts (OKS), Install Base (CSI), and TCA/Customer Master.  Gather requirements, write functional (MD050) and technical (MD070) specifications, provide recommendations for user challenges, and implement process and system modifications.  (Utilized Oracle's Application Implementation Method (AIM) approach, and documented the process using AIM guidelines.)

 

 

3/2004 – 11/2004

Wind River - Alameda, California, U.S.A.
CRM Track Functional Oracle Applications Lead (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 90% Functional and 10% Technical within Oracle E-Business Suite.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i (11.5.9+); Service Suite/TeleService/Service Requests/Customer Support/Customer Care/Installed Base (CS/CSS/CSC/CSI/CSE), Customers Online (OCO/IMC), Trading Community Architecture (TCA/HZ), Service Intelligence (BIV), Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), iSupport Self-Service (IBU), CRM Foundation (JTF), Application Object Library (AOL/FND), Concurrent Manager, Flexfields], Oracle (9i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows XP.

 

Business: Designs, produces, sells, and supports embedded software products.

 

* Managed all aspects of implementing the Customer Relationship Management (Oracle CRM) suite within the Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite) R11i project; included the following business flows: ÒCall to ResolutionÓ, ÒClick to ResolutionÓ, and ÒContracts to RenewalÓ.  Performed the full configuration, testing, documentation, training, and post-production support for the following modules: CRM foundation (JTF: Tasks, Resources, and Escalation Management), the TeleService area (Service, Customer Support, Enterprise Install Base, Service Requests, Solution Management System, Customer Care, Contact Center) (CS/CSS/CSI/CSE/CSC), Customers Online (OCO/IMC), Contracts/Service Agreement area (Service Contracts and Contracts Core) (OKS/OKC), and iSupport (IBU).  Coordinated implementation details with 4 other functional track leads in the areas of ÒRecord to ReportÓ (Financials), ÒProcure to PayÓ (Manufacturing), ÒOrder to CashÓ (Distribution), and ÒRecruit to RetainÓ (HRMS).  The main business goal of implementing the CRM/Service modules was to effectively manage customer service contracts and entitlement.

 

* Worked on all phase of the project life-cycle: (1) Gathered all business requirements in the service provider/service logistics area.  (2) Designed training materials to bring users up to speed with the standard system functionality.  (3) Performed an initial configuration of the system to support training and demonstration activities.  (4) Final design incorporated business processes throughout the Support organization.  (5) Completed configuration and setup to meet these needs.  (6) Three cycles of testing performed: conference room pilots (CRPs) 1 and 2 and user acceptance testing (UAT).  (7) Trained super-users.  (8) Supported all go-live activities and post-production troubleshooting.

* These activities where done within the R2i implementation methodology since this project was lead by BearingPoint.

 

Project Characteristics:

* Global implementation for 12 operating unit dispersed in the Americas, Europe (EMEA), and Asia (APAC) completed in 6 months.

* Re-implementation Oracle Applications from legacy 10.7 system (and other custom and third party systems) to 11i (11.5.9).

* Customer Master re-engineered from 10.7 to 11i TCA with de-duplication, address verification, and DUNS number assignment using Dun and Bradstreet (DNB) services.

* Converted the following data from legacy systems into 11i: Service Requests, Installed Base Instances and Systems, Service Contracts, and Customers.

* Orders for new Service Contracts come from Siebel (into 11i OM); renewals are completed using the 11i Service Contracts module directly; pricing occurs using Advanced Pricing (QP).

 

 

6/2003 - 12/2003

Xilinx - San Jose, California, U.S.A.
Functional Oracle E-Business Suite Analyst (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 60% Functional and 40% Technical within Oracle Applications.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i; Trading Community Architecture (TCA), Service Contracts/Contracts Core (OKS/OKC), Installed Base (CSI), Order Management/Entry (OM/OE), Accounts Receivable (AR), Service Requests (CS), iSupport Self-Service (IBU), Customer Care (CSC), CRM Foundation (JTF), Application Object Library (AOL/FND), Concurrent Manager, Flexfields], Oracle (8i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows 2000.

 

Business: Designs and produces programmable logic devices (PLDs), and software tools for these devices.  Provides world-wide solutions, support, and service for PLDs.

 

* Analyze, design, configure, test, and implement a pilot project to re-architect Xilinx's existing customer model into the Oracle 11i TCA (Trading Community Architecture) framework.  Insure that TCA is implemented correctly, and new customers are structured properly, so that: (1) existing functionality and business processes (in the areas of Orders, Contracts, Installed Base Instances, and Invoices) are improved, and (2) future CRM module implementations can take advantage of this new TCA framework.  Performed prototype implementations of the following CRM modules in an 11.5.9 instance: iSupport (IBU), Service Requests (CS), Customer Care (CSC), Customers Online (OCO/IMC), and CRM Foundation (JTF).

 

* Post-production troubleshooting and analysis of Service Agreements/Contracts (including Service Contracts and Contracts Core (OKS/OKC) modules), Install Base (CSI), TCA, and tax issues with Contracts (AR).  Full life-cycle from requirements to specifications to testing to deployment using OracleÕs AIM approach.

 

* Custom development to call standard APIs in the Installed Base (CSI) and Contracts (OKC/OKS) modules.  This custom process updates installed base instances and contract records to reflect correct ownership information for drop ship orders (PL/SQL).

 

* Design, prepare, and conduct workshops and training sessions for Service Contracts (OKS) module users to provide them with short cuts and point out lesser-known features so they can improve their day-to-day productivity.

 

* Analysis of system and process improvements allowing users to perform more transactions, in less time, with better quality.  Areas researched include: Oracle Customers Online (OCO/IMC) module, TCA framework, Service Contracts templates, and other CRM areas.

 

 

3/2003 - 4/2003

Neptium - Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.
Senior Functional/Technical Oracle Applications Analyst (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 70% Functional and 30% Technical within Oracle Applications.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i; Order Management/Entry (OM/OE), Shipping Execution (WSH), Inventory (INV), Application Object Library (AOL/FND), Concurrent Manager, Flexfields], Oracle (8i): PL/SQL, SQL. Toad, Windows XP.

 

Business: Develops software systems that extended functionality of ERP systems.

 

* Development, configuration, and testing of interfaces from Neptium's various systems to Oracle Applications (including the Order Management (OM/ONT), Shipping Execution (WSH), and Inventory (INV) modules among others) (PL/SQL).

 

 

8/2002 - 3/2003

ShopNBC (NBC/GE/ValueVision Media) - Eden Prairie, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Functional/Technical Oracle E-Business Suite Analyst (Consultant) - IT.
(Working ~ 50% Functional and 50% Technical within Oracle Applications.)

 

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite [R11i; Order Management/Entry (OM/OE), Shipping Execution (WSH), Inventory (INV), Order Capture (ASO), Workflow, Application Object Library (AOL/FND), Concurrent Manager, Flexfields], Oracle (8i): PL/SQL, SQL. UNIX (AIX), SQLNavigator, Windows 2000.

 

Business: E-Retail; B-to-C; web storefront and telephone sales direct to end customers.