Charlene Banks, Practice Leader

Charlene has over twenty years experience working with numerous fortune 500 companies designing, implementing, and tuning large-scale operational and business systems on a variety of database platforms to include Oracle and SQL Server

Charlene offers the capability of being precise while not missing the bigger business picture as evidenced by her wide ranging experience across the full lifecycle of software development from project management, requirements analysis and design, to programming, to quality assurance and testing to performance tuning. Charlened has consistently produced quality, re-usable systems through the use of rigorous software development and improvement methodologies (DodAF, Unified Process, RUP, Oracle Unified Method, Agile, RAD, CMMI) and modeling standards (UML, Use Cases, IDEF1X, IDEF0X, Oracles CASE method and ERWin.

Utilizing her effecive communication skills, Charlene has trained and mentored IT professionals in the use of advanced Oracle technology and has authored a number of courses in the Oracle curriculum which cover SQL, PL/SQL, data modeling, UML, database administration, performance tuning, data warehousing, and business intelligence OLAP reporting.

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

Tools: Sparx Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Designer, ErWin, Oracle Developer, Oracle Reports, SQL*Loader, Oracle Business Intelligence, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Crystal Reports

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Java, ASP.NET, HTML, XML

Education: Learning Tree International - Instructor and Author
ERWin Database Modeling (Author)
Oracle 10g Application Development and Tuning (Instructor)
Oracle 10g PL/SQL Development (Instructor)
Advanced SQL Server 2005 Development (Instructor)
SharePoint Services Design and Implementation (Instructor)
Enterprise Architect Certified Consultant
DoDAF using Enterprise Architect Co-Author