Kenneth Slate

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About Kenneth Slate

Bring cross-functional leadership experience across planning, design, development and deployment.• Apply technical strategies to maximize operational performance and competitive market position.• Promote eliminating manual data manipulation and generating reports using scripts and queries.• Ensure project deliverables meet time and budget requirements.• Conduct and maintain database configurations and ensure best-practice security.• Lead software development lifecycle (SDLC), quality control, change management and customer support.• Proactively and optimistically approach process improvement and adoption of new tools.COMPETENCIES• IT leadership, key stakeholder partnering• Technical team leadership, coaching• Cross-functional team leadership• IT hiring, performance management• Data security, disaster recovery• Database design and optimization• Remote system administration• Network management• Business intelligence, business analysis• Program management, project management• Problem solving, decision making• Process improvement• Planning and organizing• Budget management• Transformation strategy, change management• Vendor management• Software development lifecycle (SDLC)• Technical customer support, user trainingTECHNICAL COMPETENCIES• MS SQL Server, Windows Server• T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS• Dynamics products (GP, AX, 365)• SharePoint• MS Exchange and Office Suite• Agility content database (Accudata)• Third-party database tools• Tableau, Crystal Reports• PowerShell• PCAnywhere, Backup Exec• SQL tuning• Cisco VoIP, CCM, switches, routers• Active directory• VPN, LAN/WAN, TCP/IP