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Resume
Jim Hyde
Web Designer, Application Architect, Project Manager, Business Systems Analyst, Database Designer
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Profile
Currently: More than ten years experience designing websites for individuals and small businesses on Whidbey Island. Now offering email automation, search engine optimization and digital marketing services as well. Formerly: "Decisive, results-driven IT professional with a track record of highly successful full-lifecycle projects for major corporations, consistently delivering on budget and on time. Skilled business analyst, adept at communicating across functional areas and geographical units, documenting process flows, and helping business experts define and specify functional requirements. Extensive background in database applications. Adept at building and leading skilled teams to leverage IT strengths. MBA plus formal training in project methodology, expertise in Oracle CASE*Methods, PHP programming, SQL, and web design. Solid technical acumen is complemented by broad business experience." |
“Jim has a rare combination of technical skill, business understanding and an ability to focus on getting the job done even when
political storms are raging around him. He was instrumental in getting a Distributor Accounting extension to Oracle Financials built at Xilinx when the various user constituents could barely stand to talk to each other, let alone IT.” – manager at Xilinx Inc. – |
Career Track
Web Developer/Digital Marketing ................................................................................................................. 2011 to Present
Focus on rapid development of affordable custom sites using the Weebly and Wordpress platforms. The option for complete owner control and maintenance with the easy-to-use Weebly platform makes these sites even more affordable. Offering a complete spectrum of SEO and digital marketing services to increase audience and revenue.
Global Action Connection (2020) and Hyperlocal Community Classifieds (2016)......................................2016-2020
Founder, architect and business developer for Global Action Connection and Hyperlocal Community Classifieds. Still seeking funding and/or interested parties to help bring these two projects to fruition.
View prospectus here:
RealNetworks, Project Manager 2006
Directed multiple projects for the production operations organization. Scope of responsibility included Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring, inventory management, data center monitoring, and reporting. Created a disaster recovery site in compliance with a major customer SLA. Managed a portfolio of 30+ business initiative projects having cross-functional engagement within RealNetworks. Implemented improved processes for project initiation and tracking. Analyzed and documented the cost structure, inputs, factors, and components of broadcast services.
Osiris Inc., President/Business Developer/Consultant/Project Manager .....................1995 to 2003
Sun Microsystems Inc. ….......................................................................................................2000 to 2001
Technical Architect/Project Manager: Developed a customer registry to store core customer address and relationship data, which enabled Sun to uniquely identify its customers within its ERP, CRM, and related applications worldwide. Project scope included defining business rules, determining business processes and workflows, designing and leading a team of in-house programmers to build a prototype application.
CSTONE Inc. ….........................................................................................................................2000
Senior IT Manager: Directed all aspects of IT staffing, application integration, network design, software/hardware evaluation and recommendation, and short-/long-term planning for this e-business start-up specializing in the assembly of custom switch and router configurations. Developed an IT strategy emphasizing projected growth to maximize ROI through the phased implementation of third, second, and first-tier ERP solutions. Planned and designed the corporate network/application/data infrastructure. Analyzed and defined business functions and interfaces. Evaluated and adopted a suite of business software products that would minimize the costs of scaling up as the business grew.
Escalate Inc. ….........................................................................................................................1999 to 2000
Project Manager/Architect/Team Lead:
Coordinated the architecture, design, build, testing, and documentation of a production-ready integration interface that featured order entry and item
(inventory) interfaces to the Oracle Financials (ERP) application to facilitate the import of orders and items from an e-commerce database. Leveraged in-house
resources and fostered cooperation among disparate business units and technical staff to complete the project in less than 30 working days and to client
satisfaction.
Novell Inc. …............................................................................................................................1999
Team Lead/Principal Architect: Designed, built, tested, and documented custom e-commerce integration interfaces to the Oracle ERP using EDI and other
transaction sources as part of a major Oracle Financials conversion project. Spearheaded the development of the European Commissionaire extension to order cycle processing from order entry to invoicing. Designed and built interfaces for order entry, order acknowledgment, invoice, and invoice acknowledgment messages in X12 and Edifact formats; integrated order entry from Novell’s web-based storefront, Shopnovell. Designed automated interfaces for Novell Consulting Services’ order and expense reporting from Evolve, their consulting services management application. Designed a “fixit” module and user interface to resolve problem orders. Provided expertise on other ERP integration issues.
Lockheed Company …..........................................................................................................1998
Project Manager/Lead Developer: Challenged to develop a custom Oracle-based replacement for a mainframe manufacturing planning application used to create, maintain, and publish written plans for manufacturing and assembling missile components. Trained legacy programmers in Oracle. Re-engineered sequential processes into relational structures. Implemented industry standards for RDBMS architecture and application development methods.
Xilinx Inc. …..............................................................................................................................1995 to 1998
Project Manager/Principal Architect: Designed, built, tested, documented, and deployed a global distributor accounting system, integrated with Oracle ERP. This large, distributed, web and WAN-deployed application was used by distributor accounting to control and report debit authorizations and was fully integrated with 30+ legacy and emerging corporate information applications, including Oracle Financials 10.6. Delivered the project within time and budget constraints, resulting in its being ranked #2 in corporate ROI in 1997.
Project Manager/Lead Developer: Designed, built, tested, documented, and deployed a marketing price book, which was used by product managers to automate component pricing under multiple scenarios. Supported an EDI price message integrated with Oracle Order Processing ERP.
Lead Developer: Directed the creation of a global WIP inventory application to support complex queries and reports for WIP inventory at San Jose and Ireland. Wrote all DDL and conversion scripts to create a new data repository for Xilinx parts.
Previous Employment:
Informix Inc., Senior Programmer/Analyst;
Oracle Inc., Senior Consultant;
Cisco Systems Inc., Contract Programmer;
Asset Management Group, Programmer/Analyst;
Argonaut Insurance, Market Research Analyst,
Behavior Analyst
Special Education Teacher
Academic Credentials
M.B.A. – Marketing, University of Massachusetts
M.A. – Education/Psychology, Sonoma State University
Teaching Credentials – California, Massachusetts, Washington
B.A. – English Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Publication
Desktop Integration with Spreadsheets (using Dynamic Data Exchange to integrate an
Oracle database with the Excel spreadsheet). Oracle User Resource, January, 1994.
Web Developer/Digital Marketing ................................................................................................................. 2011 to Present
Focus on rapid development of affordable custom sites using the Weebly and Wordpress platforms. The option for complete owner control and maintenance with the easy-to-use Weebly platform makes these sites even more affordable. Offering a complete spectrum of SEO and digital marketing services to increase audience and revenue.
Global Action Connection (2020) and Hyperlocal Community Classifieds (2016)......................................2016-2020
Founder, architect and business developer for Global Action Connection and Hyperlocal Community Classifieds. Still seeking funding and/or interested parties to help bring these two projects to fruition.
View prospectus here:
RealNetworks, Project Manager 2006
Directed multiple projects for the production operations organization. Scope of responsibility included Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring, inventory management, data center monitoring, and reporting. Created a disaster recovery site in compliance with a major customer SLA. Managed a portfolio of 30+ business initiative projects having cross-functional engagement within RealNetworks. Implemented improved processes for project initiation and tracking. Analyzed and documented the cost structure, inputs, factors, and components of broadcast services.
Osiris Inc., President/Business Developer/Consultant/Project Manager .....................1995 to 2003
Sun Microsystems Inc. ….......................................................................................................2000 to 2001
Technical Architect/Project Manager: Developed a customer registry to store core customer address and relationship data, which enabled Sun to uniquely identify its customers within its ERP, CRM, and related applications worldwide. Project scope included defining business rules, determining business processes and workflows, designing and leading a team of in-house programmers to build a prototype application.
CSTONE Inc. ….........................................................................................................................2000
Senior IT Manager: Directed all aspects of IT staffing, application integration, network design, software/hardware evaluation and recommendation, and short-/long-term planning for this e-business start-up specializing in the assembly of custom switch and router configurations. Developed an IT strategy emphasizing projected growth to maximize ROI through the phased implementation of third, second, and first-tier ERP solutions. Planned and designed the corporate network/application/data infrastructure. Analyzed and defined business functions and interfaces. Evaluated and adopted a suite of business software products that would minimize the costs of scaling up as the business grew.
Escalate Inc. ….........................................................................................................................1999 to 2000
Project Manager/Architect/Team Lead:
Coordinated the architecture, design, build, testing, and documentation of a production-ready integration interface that featured order entry and item
(inventory) interfaces to the Oracle Financials (ERP) application to facilitate the import of orders and items from an e-commerce database. Leveraged in-house
resources and fostered cooperation among disparate business units and technical staff to complete the project in less than 30 working days and to client
satisfaction.
Novell Inc. …............................................................................................................................1999
Team Lead/Principal Architect: Designed, built, tested, and documented custom e-commerce integration interfaces to the Oracle ERP using EDI and other
transaction sources as part of a major Oracle Financials conversion project. Spearheaded the development of the European Commissionaire extension to order cycle processing from order entry to invoicing. Designed and built interfaces for order entry, order acknowledgment, invoice, and invoice acknowledgment messages in X12 and Edifact formats; integrated order entry from Novell’s web-based storefront, Shopnovell. Designed automated interfaces for Novell Consulting Services’ order and expense reporting from Evolve, their consulting services management application. Designed a “fixit” module and user interface to resolve problem orders. Provided expertise on other ERP integration issues.
Lockheed Company …..........................................................................................................1998
Project Manager/Lead Developer: Challenged to develop a custom Oracle-based replacement for a mainframe manufacturing planning application used to create, maintain, and publish written plans for manufacturing and assembling missile components. Trained legacy programmers in Oracle. Re-engineered sequential processes into relational structures. Implemented industry standards for RDBMS architecture and application development methods.
Xilinx Inc. …..............................................................................................................................1995 to 1998
Project Manager/Principal Architect: Designed, built, tested, documented, and deployed a global distributor accounting system, integrated with Oracle ERP. This large, distributed, web and WAN-deployed application was used by distributor accounting to control and report debit authorizations and was fully integrated with 30+ legacy and emerging corporate information applications, including Oracle Financials 10.6. Delivered the project within time and budget constraints, resulting in its being ranked #2 in corporate ROI in 1997.
Project Manager/Lead Developer: Designed, built, tested, documented, and deployed a marketing price book, which was used by product managers to automate component pricing under multiple scenarios. Supported an EDI price message integrated with Oracle Order Processing ERP.
Lead Developer: Directed the creation of a global WIP inventory application to support complex queries and reports for WIP inventory at San Jose and Ireland. Wrote all DDL and conversion scripts to create a new data repository for Xilinx parts.
Previous Employment:
Informix Inc., Senior Programmer/Analyst;
Oracle Inc., Senior Consultant;
Cisco Systems Inc., Contract Programmer;
Asset Management Group, Programmer/Analyst;
Argonaut Insurance, Market Research Analyst,
Behavior Analyst
Special Education Teacher
Academic Credentials
M.B.A. – Marketing, University of Massachusetts
M.A. – Education/Psychology, Sonoma State University
Teaching Credentials – California, Massachusetts, Washington
B.A. – English Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Publication
Desktop Integration with Spreadsheets (using Dynamic Data Exchange to integrate an
Oracle database with the Excel spreadsheet). Oracle User Resource, January, 1994.