I am very interested in pursuing a career in Project Management and team leadership, whether that be in a sales, or development role. I enjoy the technical accomplishment of a project, the management of time, people and resources within the project, and the change management or rollout to client with the completed project. I prefer to work with emerging technologies like the WEB, CASE, OLTP or OLAP applications and Data Warehousing technologies.

I believe that my skills and expert Oracle product knowledge would suit a progressive organisation that is interested in using the latest technologies and network computing to their competitive advantage.

Over 7 years experience in Relational Databases, Open Systems and Network Computing including Systems Analysis and Design, Business Process Analysis, Needs Analysis, Computer Aided Systems Engineering, Project Development and Leadership, Software Engineering and Web Solutions Development. Areas of expertise include Oracle Product Specialist, Technology Strategy Development and Implementation, CASE Development, Web Development and Deployment, Technical Sales Support and Training Delivery.

(Tertiary Entrance Score = 930)

Duration: Feb 1996 - Present

Oracle Corporation is the second largest software company and the largest database vendor and consulting organisation in the world. Oracle provides best of breed database, development, OLAP and case tools, data-warehousing and financial accounting software on almost every operating system and also the web. Their market is normally the corporate or network computing environment. Oracle strives to differentiate itself by its focus on innovative web and network computing technologies designed to give the client maximum functionality, with high scalability and a low cost of ownership.

Jason worked as the managing consultant on a nine-month project with the Royal Australian Navy - Acoustic Analysis Corps. The project involved the analysis and design of an intelligence system using Oracle’s Designer/2000 and Developer/2000 products. This work successfully concluded this Oracle project with the Australian Defence Force and received personal commendation from the Navy Corp’s Commanding officer for Jason’s involvement.

In this capacity, Jason was involved in many successful sales campaigns selling Oracle’s Case tools, Development tools, Reporting tools and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools to many clients in the Queensland and Asia Pacific, delivering and providing the right tool solution for client’s business need. This involved understanding the customer’s business and often prototyping the solution in these tools to demonstrate the product’s capacity to solve their particular problem. Jason was used in national and international marketing campaigns and toured with roadshows. The most recent one was Oracle’s Data Mart Suite Roadshow that travelled to almost all the Australian capitals and New Zealand presenting to audiences of up to 250 people.

Working in this position covers a wide range of skills in the computer industry. To successfully sell software into an organisation the consultant needs firstly to understand their client’s business. Once their business is known to a large extent, it is possible to perform a business needs analysis on the prospective client and use intimate knowledge of the Oracle product suite to match the client needs to the right product set. This solution is then presented to the client and demonstrated by either a general product demonstration and/or building a custom prototype as a proof of concept.

In his Pre-Sales role, Jason was required to work closely with many hardware vendors and Oracle partner products, gaining wide experience with both. Many sales campaigns are run in close co-operation with the major hardware vendors, such as Sun, Hewlett Packard, Digital, Compaq, Tandem and Silicon Graphics. Primarily, Jason has worked on Oracle software on major operating systems of Windows NT Server and Sun Solaris but he has also gained exposure to Digital Unix and HPUX.

Jason has had the opportunity to assist many organisations with their Information Technology requirements including:

Involvement in these successful projects ranged from working with the client, to analysis and design of their project specification and requirements, to implementation of some or all of components of that strategy. Often, the strategies involved unprecedented state-of-the-art Oracle technology designed to give the client maximum functionality with high scalability and a low cost of ownership.

Jason is also the Oracle liaison with the Queensland Oracle Users Group, the strongest one in Australia, assisting the user community with conferences, presentations and delivery of technical support. In this capacity Jason has regularly presented to technical audiences of up to fifty.

Position: Casual Consultant Analyst / Trainer / Programmer

Duration: March 1995 - October 1995

Approach Solutions is a Sydney based software house which specialise in developing payroll applications for an international client base. Approach develop client server applications using Informix products in both the Unix and Windows environments. Approach are also resellers of the Fourgen Enterprise Accounting system.

Jason's involvement with Approach was in the role of an expert consultant in the fields of Fourgen Accounting and Enterprise suites, Fourgen CASE, and the Informix products. This position often meant interstate travel for presentations, training and programming of client in Sydney (Film Australia, Marriott Hotels) and Perth (Chevron and State Government).

Jason assisted with the design, and development of their payroll package, written in Informix 4GL, used by the hotel industry in Australia, Asia and Canada.

Position: Casual Consultant Analyst / Trainer / Programmer

Duration: August 1994 - July 1995

Omnix is a Queensland based Software House who develop and support commercial applications to a wide client base. Omnix is a reseller of Fourgen accounting. They specialise in Unix systems and use Fourgen and Informix CASE tools for their application development.

As required, Jason would assist Omnix to help them through heavy periods and to lend them his services in areas of his expertise. Jason was required to help with pre and post sales support of Omnix's clients using Fourgen Accounting and Fourgen CASE-developed vertical applications. These clients include Australian Resorts (a division of QANTAS), Morex Meats, Transport Companies and VOX Financials (a division of the Chandlers group) to name a few.

Jason's duties entailed the training of staff in Fourgen and Informix products, making presentations to clients, client support, database administration and optimisation, CASE application development and trouble shooting.

Position: Consultant Analyst / Programmer

Duration: December 1993 - August 1994

Sealy is the market leader in the Bedding Industry and turns over more than eighty million dollars a year. They are a Fourgen Accounting user on their NCR 3450 Unix and Windows network. Sealy’s Information Technology department develops custom applications for internal use using Informix Client Server tools.

Jason was recruited to assist Sealy with their machine and software upgrades and the in-house development of their payroll system. This system was written with Informix/Fourgen CASE Tools to integrate with Fourgen Accounting System. Duties included the strategic planning, analysis, design, specification, programming, integration and implementation of the payroll module, in conformance with current legal, accounting and bank requirements.

Jason was also responsible for the programmer training in the Informix products and CASE tools as well assisting in the end-user and management training of the application.

Position: Consultant Programmer

Duration: September 1993 - December 1993

DP Solutions is a software house that specialise in the Debt Collection industry. Their application, used throughout Australia, is developed under Unix with Informix client server tools. They also consult to Transport Technologies, the national bus booking and freight agency for Greyhound-Pioneer.

During this period, Jason's duties included the training of other staff in Informix products, the analysis and optimisation of their sites' database engines and the planning and implementation of database administration and maintenance procedures. Jason also was involved in systems design as well as the maintenance and enhancement of their Debt Collection Software written in Informix 4GL.

Position: Support Manager / Support Technician / Trainer

Duration: July 1991 - September 1993

Softgen Pacific, was at the time, the Australian Distributor of the Informix client server tools, Fourgen CASE tools and the Fourgen Enterprise accounting software. They have offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide. Their internal and target environments were Unix and Windows with an emphasis on Open Systems and Networking.

BACKGROUND

Jason Sourris was a Technical Support Manager in both the Brisbane and Sydney branches for some time. Jason joined SoftGen in July of 1991, and his duties included deep technical product support, product training and consultancy, UNIX system and network administration.

His responsibilities included hotline support of Online and Standard Database Engines, 4GL Products, C-ISAM, Embedded SQL Products, Development Tools, Wingz, and Fourgen Lower CASE product range. He is also responsible for pre-sales support, product demonstration and technical seminars. He was also responsible for hardware and technical personnel acquisition and budgetary expenditure for the support department. Jason maintained and administered the Unix network that included, Sun, Hewlett Packard, X-terninals, Workstations, Microsoft Windows machines.

ACHEIVEMENTS

Jason, working with a team, pioneered both the Queensland and the New South Wales INFORMIX USERS GROUPS and has played a very active part in both. He also co-ordinated the cost optimisation of the organisations communications by linking of Softgen branches by leased line and establishing the internal national Unix and email network.

Jason was acknowledged as SoftGen's National Authority in the Graphical User Interface Tools and was trained in Viewpoint and Hyperscript Tools - Informix's second generation GUI tools and programming language products. Jason's expertise has seen him consult and conduct training all over Australia, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Cairns, Newcastle, and Darwin.

TRAINING

In his time with SoftGen, Jason was a proficient and SoftGen's most experienced and prolific trainer. Of the Informix product range, Jason has run training courses for SQL, 4GL/ID, Relational Database Design and a Self-Designed Introductory courses to Graphical Analysis and End-User Query Tools.

During his employment, Jason delivered no less than one hundred courses in the full range of Informix relational database products to audiences ranging from end-users to database administrators and sales channel partners to managing directors. These courses were most often the Informix supplied syllabus, although Jason wrote and delivered several courses himself where the need arouse.

Position: Contract Programmer

Duration: March 1991 - July 1991

This job entailed the programming and quality control of parts of the Papua New Guinea Taxation system project in Informix 4GL. Other systems I was exposed to whilst engaged with this company were Ingres 5.1 and Wingz Hyperscript.

Position: Casual Store Hand

Duration: Feb 1986 - June 1991

Over the term of my employment in these capacities, I have been able to gain a practical understanding of, and an opportunity to apply the personnel and resource management skills that I have studied through my course, as well as understanding of retailing.

Duration: June 1988 - December 1989

Position: Computing Consultant - Part-time

Jason enjoys flying light aircraft for which he has his first licence, snowboarding, travelling, squash and camping. He is an accomplished abseiling instructor who has introduced hundreds of novices to the sport. Jason is a very active person who enjoys the sunny outdoors, church activities and the company of close friends.

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