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M. Paul Hawes
910-255-0118
[email protected]
North Carolina – Available for Raleigh/Durham, Greensboro/Winston-Salem, Charlotte
EXPERTISE:
Business Systems Analyst – Data Architect
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nformation Systems professional specializing in application and data solutions for business needs.
Extensive experience as a Business Systems Analyst, including Data Architect, in major corporations
in many types of business applications. Familiar with all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
Good with expansive concepts as well as the details needed to implement the concepts. Adept at
facilitating teamwork and communications among clients, end-users, executives, and developers. Focus,
drive for excellence, and drive for closure assure that deliverables are of desired quality and completed
within time, resource, and scope constraints.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Business Systems
Analysis
25 years to 2005
Conduct Joint Application Requirements (JAR) or individual interviews of
business experts to listen for business needs, business rules, business processes,
data structures, and data mapping. Write technical specifications including
environmental assessment, business requirements, gap assessment, functional
requirements, detail design, data models, process models, test plans, test cases,
and test scripts. Work with software developers to create optimal solutions that
meet users' needs.
Data Architecture
15 years to 2003
Work with business clients and application systems analysts to provide
conceptual data models to meet business data requirements. Create logical and
physical data designs for normalized, dimensional (data warehouse and data
mart), Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), and Operational Data Store
(ODS) databases for Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server database servers.
Write national and international metadata repository standards. Design and
implement metadata repositories. Introduce and implement data architecture
and data management “Best Practices”. Standardize data elements.
Create an enterprise data architecture and a target data architecture for planning
future software applications. Develop a migration plan to the target data
architecture.
Business Process
Engineering
/Process Modeling
15 years to 2000
Develop models of present and future business processes and identify
application modules to support these processes. Link metadata to process
models. Develop a migration plan to the target architecture.
Project
Management
9 years to 2004
Manage projects from planning through deployment. Passed the Project
Management Institute’s examination to become a Project Management
Professional (PMP).
Software
Development
11 years to 1997
Design, code, test, and deploy software applications in FORTRAN, Basic,
Focus, FileMaker, and Microsoft Access. Technical lead for Basic, Focus,
Cobol, Microsoft Visual Basic, Documentum, SQL, and Java software
developers. Operating Systems were VM, AIX, DOS, MacOS, UNIX, SunOS,
and Microsoft Windows.
Database
Administration
2 years to 2003
Create and administer databases in a SQL Server development environment.
Provide database administrators with SQL scripts for creating and changing
production database schemas on Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server DBMS.
M. Paul Hawes
CHRONOLOGICAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Wachovia (Contract)
2005:
Lead Data
Quality Analyst
½ year: Payment Cost Metrics Initiative Project, Charlotte, NC
 Assured that new applications that extract and transform data from new source
systems would supply high-quality data feeds to a system that analyzes
profitability by customer.
 Specified data quality requirements for production data quality testing.
 Planned test cases and wrote test scripts for data quality project test cycles.
Technology Environment
OS: Windows XP, MVS/TSO; DBMS: Oracle; SQL Editor: Benthic Golden; ETL: Ab
Initio; Graphics: Visio; PM: MS Project; Defect Tracking Mercury TestDirector
TIAA-CREF (Contract)
2004:
½ year: After Tax Annuities Project – Client Services Interfaces, Charlotte, NC
Project Manager  Identified and coordinated the tasks for creating OLTP Client Services’ system
interfaces to a new vender-supplied system for administrating after-tax annuities.
Technology Environment
OS: Windows 2000; DBMS: Oracle; Product administration: NaviSys Home Office;
Graphics: Visio; CRM: Siebel; PM: MS Project; Programming: J2EE; Methodology:
DTS Process Improvement
Bank of America (Contract)
2003 to 2004:
¾ year: Decision Support Applications, Charlotte, NC
Business
 Designed OLAP applications for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and
Systems Analyst
for analyzing profitability by customer. Both sourced a massive data warehouse.
 Designed test cases, wrote test scripts, and participated in integration testing.
 Coded transformations of XML into SQL using XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet
Language Transformations).
Technology Environment
OS: Windows 2000, AIX; DBMS: NCR Teradata, IBM DB2, MS Access; Report
Generation: Brio Insight, Crystal Enterprise; Graphics: Visio; Programming: Java,
SQL, XML, XSLT; Defect Tracking: Mantis; Methodology: Six Sigma, CMM, UML
(Use Cases)
Wachovia (Contract)
2002 to 2003:
Data Architect
¾ year: Evergreen Investments Data Architecture, Charlotte, NC
 Gathered the requirements, modeled, designed, and generated OLAP databases to
manage, integrate, and reconcile product, asset, account, portfolio, stakeholder,
and security trading information.
 Designed a staging hub to collect operational data from legacy systems as a
centralized source of data for client applications. Documented and mapped
sources, targets, and transformations of data flows.
 Created and administered databases in a development environment.
 Modeled the enterprise data architecture.
Technology Environment
OS: Windows 2000, XP; DBMS: SQL Server, MS Access; DB Access: SQL Server
Enterprise Manager; CASE: ERwin; Asset management: Portia, Trustware; ETL:
Mercator; Graphics: Visio; PM: MS Project; Programming: .NET, Java, C#, SQL;
Methodology: UML (Use Cases & Class Diagrams)
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SciQuest (Direct)
2000 to 2001:
Data Architect
¾ year: Business-to-Business Laboratory Supplies e-Commerce Metadata,
Raleigh, NC
 Gathered the requirements and designed e-commerce OLTP databases used for
catalog management, shopper browsing, registration, ordering, fulfillment,
payment, and customer service as well as for data marts and the data warehouse.
 Provided database administrators with SQL code for database schema changes.
Technology Environment
OS: Windows NT, AIX; DBMS: DB2 UDB, Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2000, MS Access;
SQL Editor: SQL Server Enterprise Manager, Embarcadero Rapid SQL; CASE:
ERwin, Popkin System Architect; e-Commerce: WebSphere Commerce Suite, Yantra,
Siebel, Solomon; ETL: Mercator, MQSeries, Informatica; Graphics: Visio; PM: MS
Project; Programming: Java, C++, SQL; Methodology: IE, OO Chen
IBM (Contract)
1999 to 2000:
Project Data
Architect
¾ year: IBM Personal Computer e-Commerce Project, Raleigh, NC
 Identified and documented data required to re-engineer a set of OLTP ecommerce applications used to support catalog management, shopper browsing,
registration, ordering, fulfillment, manufacturing, supply chain, and billing
business processes.
 Specified data requisite for transactions across application interfaces.
 Developed a project metadata repository.
 Devised methods for linking metadata to a process model.
Technology Environment
OS: Windows NT, VM; DBMS: MS Access; Graphics: Visio; Methodology: IBM’s
DesignFlow
AT&T (Contract)
1998 to 1999:
Enterprise Data
Architect
¾ year: AT&T Business Services Data Architecture, Bridgewater, NJ
 Developed a set of data architecture principles for the department.
 Modeled and designed a metadata repository to inventory legacy systems.
 Developed a target data architecture for planning future software applications.
Mapped data across applications and developed a migration plan to the target
architecture.
Technology Environment
OS: Windows NT; CASE: ERwin, Rational Rose; Graphics: Visio, MetaDesign;
Methodology: UML (Use Cases & Class Diagrams), IE, OO Chen
Bell Communications Research – now Telcordia Technologies (Direct)
1997 to 1998:
Web Site
Technical Lead
1 ½ years: Bellcore.com Web Site Project, Piscataway and Morristown, NJ
 Gathered the requirements, modeled, and designed the OLTP Web site Oracle
database used for advertising, catalog management, product ordering, and
payment.
 Gathered the requirements and designed the back-end software to administer the
site.
 Directed the SQL and Java software developers.
Technology Environment
OS: Windows NT, SunOS; DBMS: Oracle, MS Access; CASE: ERwin, Oracle
Designer; Document Control: Documentum; Graphics: Visio, CorelDraw; PM: MS
Project; Web Page Editor: MS FrontPage, HotDog; Programming: Java;
Methodology: IE, OO Chen
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M. Paul Hawes
1993 to 1997:
Data Standards
Representative
3 ½ years: Shareable Data Standardization and Registration, Piscataway, NJ
Published an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard and an
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard for a metadata
repository. Developed a prototype for a Metadata Repository on a Web server.
Technology Environment
OS: MacOS, Windows NT, UNIX; DBMS: FileMaker; CASE: ERwin, Bachman,
Software through Pictures, Rational Rose; Graphics: MacDraw, MetaDesign; PM: MS
Project; Methodology: CMM, ISO 9000, OO Chen, IE, IDEF, NIAM/ORM, UML
(Use Cases & Class Diagrams)
1990 to 1993:
Enterprise Data
Architect
3 ½ years: Data Standardization and Integration, Piscataway, NJ
Standardized a set of data elements used throughout the telecommunications industry
and incorporated them into an enterprise data model.
Technology Environment
OS: MacOS; DBMS: FileMaker; CASE: TurboCASE; Graphics: MacDraw,
MetaDesign; Methodology: IE, OO Chen
Pacific Bell – now SBC Communications (Direct)
1985 to 1990:
Business Area
Analyst
4 years: Enterprise Architecture Project, San Ramon, CA
Developed a model of future business processes and defined application modules to
support these processes. Developed a migration plan to the target architecture.
Technology Environment
OS: MacOS; DBMS: FileMaker; CASE: IEW; Graphics: MacDraw, MetaDesign; PM:
MacProject; Methodology: IE, IDEF
Prior to 1985:
 1 ½ years: Corporate Strategic Planning Project, San Francisco, CA
Systems
Directed the development of software for economic evaluation of business
Analyst/ Project opportunities.
Manager/
 1 ½ years: Corporate Decision Support Project, San Francisco, CA
Technical Lead/
Assembled a project team and then directed the project of designing and implementing
Programmer
a corporate decision support application.
 2 ½ years: Project Cost Tracking Project, San Francisco, CA
Assembled a project team and then directed the project of designing and implementing
a software application to track project costs.
 1 ½ years: Office Space Information System Project, Pasadena, CA
Directed the design, coding, testing, and implementation of a software application to
plan the utilization of office space.
 2 years: Project Alternative Selection Project, San Francisco, CA
Designed, coded, tested, and deployed a software product for economic evaluation of
telecommunications project alternatives.
Technology Environment
OS: VM, DOS; DBMS: Focus; Programming: Basic, Cobol, FORTRAN, FMS; PM:
TSPM
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M. Paul Hawes
FORMAL EDUCATION:
BS in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics from California State University
Northridge; Post-graduate work in Economic Analysis, Marketing, and Off-shore Sailing
RELEVANT JOB TITLES:
Business Analyst; Business Systems Analyst; Business Systems Planner, Data Administrator; Data
Analyst; Data Architect; Data Manager; Data Modeler; Database Administrator; Project Manager;
Relationship Manager; Systems Analyst, Developer
CERTIFICATION:
Certified as a PMP (Project Management Professional) by the Project Management Institute
PUBLICATIONS (partial list):
 American National Standards Institute. Metamodel for the Management of Shareable Data, 1997,
American National Standard for Information Technology ANSI X3.285.
 Bell Communications Research. Data Element Registration and Standardization Metamodel,
September 1993, Bellcore Technical Memorandum TM–STS–023479.
 Bell Communications Research. Language Standards Information Repository for Standardized
Data Administration, January 1993, Bellcore Special Report SR-STS-0002515.
 Bell Communications Research. Shareable Data Registration, June 1994, Bellcore Special Report
SR-STS-002880.
 Bell Communications Research. Shared Data Definition Principles, December 1993, Bellcore
Technical Memorandum TM–STS–023793.
 Bell Communications Research. Shared Data Quality Criteria, December 1993, Bellcore Technical
Memorandum TM-STS-023792.
 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standing Committee 14. Framework for the
Specification and Standardization of Data Elements, 1999, ISO/IEC 11179, Part 1.
RELEVANT BUSINESS APPLICATIONS (partial list):
administrative; advertising; asset management; banking; billing; budgeting; building space planning;
customer resource management, catalog management; data registration; decision support; e-commerce;
financial; fulfillment; manufacturing; ordering; payment; project tracking; registration; securities; shopper
browsing; supply chain; telecommunications
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Past and Present):
 American National Standards Institute (ANSI) technical committee on Metadata – Past International
Representative
 American National Standards Institute (ANSI) technical committee on Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI) standards – Past Planning Liaison
 Data Management Association (DAMA) International – Past Vice President
 Data Management Association (DAMA) New Jersey – Past Vice President
 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) sub-committee on Metadata – Past “Convener”
 Project Management Institute
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M. Paul Hawes
TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:
 CASE Tools:
Bachman/Cayenne/ ObjectTeam, AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler/ERwin,
IEW/ADW, Oracle Designer/2000, Popkin System Architect, Rational Rose,
Software through Pictures (StP), TurboCASE
 Database Access:
Embarcadero Rapid SQL, SQL Server Enterprise Manager, Benthic Golden
 Database Design:
Normalized, Operational Data Store (ODS), Online Transaction Processing
(OLTP), Dimensional
 Database
Management
Systems:
DB2, FileMaker, Focus, Microsoft Access, NCR Teradata, Oracle, SQL
Server
 e-Commerce:
WebSphere Commerce Suite, Yantra Fulfillment System, Siebel Call Center,
Solomon Financial Series
 Graphics:
CorelDraw, MacDraw, MetaDesign, Visio
 Methodologies and
Modeling Notations: Bachman Object Modeling Technique (OMT), Booch, Entity-Relationship
(ER), IDEF1X, Information Engineering (IE), Jacobson, Joint Application
Design (JAD), Martin/Odell, Object Oriented Analysis (OOA), Object Roll
Modeling (ORM) a.k.a. Natural language Information Analysis Method
(NIAM), Rapid Application Design (RAD), Rumbaugh, Shlaer/Mellor,
Structured Analysis, Uniform Modeling Language (UML)
 Presentation:
Microsoft PowerPoint, Lotus Freelance Graphics
 Project
Management:
MacProject, Microsoft Project
 Programming:
Basic, Cobol, FORTRAN, Java, Microsoft Visual Basic, SQL
 Operating
Systems:
AIX, DOS, MacOS, SunOS, UNIX, VM, TSO, Windows
 Spread Sheet:
Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Excel, VisiCalc
 Standards:
Data Registration, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Data Elements
 Word Processor:
Lotus Word Pro, Microsoft Word, Word Perfect
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