Mark T. Steen
6513 Hillcrest Road
Flower Mound, Texas 75022
email - mtsteen@yahoo.com
voice - (972) 814-4170

Career Objective
Consulting with clients to provide business intelligence solutions that strive to seamlessly integrate
actionable information into successful business decisions.

Qualification Highlights
Extensive data warehousing experience from design through implementation.
Broad data modeling experience including logical and physical database design.
Ability to understand and explain issues from both business and technical perspectives.
Capability to manage others towards the successful conclusion of project goals and objectives.
Database administration including physical database management and tuning skills.
Experience with PeopleSoft financial and human resource application databases.
Experience with financial systems and accounting theory.

Professional Experience
Vivare, Inc.

Aug. 2001 - Present
Plano, Texas
Principal Consultant
Primarily responsible for design, architecture and successful implementations of business intelligence solutions; Providing services to clients including project management, business requirements gathering, business/process analysis and data modeling; Participating in business and practice development activities.
Industry experience: retail pharmacy

Sprint
Jun. 2001 - Jul. 2001
Irving, Texas
Data Architect / Oracle DBA
Responsibilities included data architecture, database design and Oracle database support for a new application development group chartered within Sprint to offer integrated phone services.

MicroStrategy, Inc.
May 1999 - Apr. 2001
Dallas, Texas
Managing Consultant (5/00-4/01)
Primarily responsible for ensuring the successful design and implementation of business intelligence applications using MicroStrategy platform software; providing services to clients including business requirements gathering, business/process analysis and data modeling; participating in business and practice development activities including proposal development project estimation and client meetings.
Senior Consultant (5/99-5/00)
Primarily responsible for driving client solutions and directing other consultants on technical aspects of client projects; providing services to clients including developing business intelligence applications using MicroStrategy platform software, business requirements gathering, data modeling and SQL/RDBMS tuning.
Industry experience: retail and consumer products

Independent Consultant
Oct. 1997 - Apr. 1999
Dallas, Texas
Data Warehouse Consultant/Oracle DBA
Provided services to clients including business requirements gathering, business/process analysis, data modeling and data extraction programming; implemented MicroStrategy applications; provided Oracle database administration services including logical/physical database design, sizing, tuning, capacity planning, backups and disaster recovery strategies.
Industry experience: telecommunications, consumer products and asset leasing
Representative clients: GTE, IXC Communications, McNeil Consumer Healthcare and Newcourt Financial

Perot Systems Corporation
Sep. 1996 - Oct. 1997
Dallas, Texas
Oracle DBA
Lead DBA for internal, enterprise-wide data warehouse based on PeopleSoft financial and human resource information; participated in logical/physical design and data modeling, data extraction programming and data requirements gathering; provided backup support for PeopleSoft application databases.

Integrated Medical Networks, LLC
Jan. 1995 - Aug. 1996
Dallas, Texas
Oracle DBA (7/95-8/96)
Primarily responsible for production support of approximately 15 remote client site Oracle databases as well as several internal development databases; additional responsibilities included: physical database design, capacity planning and disaster recovery.
Director of Finance (1/95-6/95)
Re-developed company's fiscal policies and procedures; implemented new accounting software package; managed the transfer of company's financial operations from Memphis, TN to Las Colinas; analyzed and effected revisions in company's initial business plan; instituted a new 40lk plan for company employees.

Coopers & Lybrand, LLP
Aug. 1990 - Sep. 1994
Chicago, Illinois
Valuation Services Group
Financial valuation analysis of primarily privately held companies for transaction related, strategic and regulatory purposes; composed and presented analytical reports for clients; conducted detailed discounted cash flow and other financial analyses; analyzed financial statements and key business ratios; evaluated general economic data as inputs for valuation models.

Software
RDBMS: Oracle, Teradata and, SQL Server
O/S: Windows NT, Windows 95/98, UNIX
Development Tools: UNIX shell scripting, PL/SQL and Sed/Awk
Data Modeling: ERwin
Data Warehousing: Microstrategy

Education
Loyola University of Chicago
1988 - 1990
Bachelor of Business Administration
Major: Finance - Concentrating on capital budgeting and corporate financial management
Minor: Comparative Government and International Politics

Arizona State University
1985 - 1987
Major: Finance

References Available upon request