Gregory Oakes

Background

About Gregory Oakes

Durham College – Part-time / Partial-load / Sessional Professor during Fall 2016, Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall 2017, Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall 2018 Winter 2019/Fall 2019/Winter 2020, teaching 1st year Business Applications I and II, 2nd/3rd year Mainframe Development, and 1st year Introduction to Databases- Bank of Montreal – Developer / Group Leader / Manager for Enterprise Application Development and Support, directly involved in Project Cycle, Project Management, Designing, Reporting, Documentation and Implementation of large custom developed financial application. The support team ranged from 5-6 to 18 people as part of a team of over 100 people involved in a 7 year project- Burroughs/Unisys – System Analyst / Database Administrator / Systems Architect / Group Leader / Manager / Project Manager, system analyst with over 30 years expertise in the delivery of technical and functional strategies and solutions, application development and implementation, database management, optimization and benchmarking, technical team lead, systems analysis, business analysis, testing (unit, integration, UAT, implementation, and deployment testing), requirements gathering, application documentation, user documentation and training, operations documentation and training, project life cycle, business process re-engineering and client interaction. AREAS OF EXPERTISE - Finance Management / Cost Controlling & Budgeting / Project Management - Proposals and RFPs / Database Administration and Advanced Tuning / Human Resource & Public Relation / Production Planning / Supply Chain Management / Warehouse Management - Presentation Skills / Staff Development, Motivation and Mentoring / Service Management - Workflow / Hardware/Software Configuration / Advance Pricing - Communication Skills / Ongoing Learning across the IT spectrum KEY MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY ABILITY - System Analysis, Business Analysis and System Design / Database/Application Tuning and Optimization - Strategic planning / Project Planning / Resource management - Forecasting & Planning / Feasibility studies / Communication / Team Building & Motivation - Storage Solutions / Data Migration / Disaster Recovery Planning - System Integration Solutions / Business Process re-engineering SOFTWARE & PROGRAMMING SKILLS - MS Office / Project / Visio / Access / Outlook - Networking / NDM / File Transfer protocols and security - Testing (Unit, Integration, UAT, Implementation)- SQL Server / DB2 / Sybase / Oracle - Algol / Cobol / Fortran / JCL / CICS / Python / Linux / C#- MF Cobol / Visual Basic / Visual C++