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Martha VanLangen, Practice Leader

Strategic Business Analysis Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing Data Modeling (Relational and Dimensional) Data Migration / ETL / Data Integration Database Administration Performance Tuning Software Engineering, full lifecycle development Application Development Project Management Professional College educator and IT mentor

Martha has over twenty years experience working with numerous fortune 500 companies designing, implementing, and tuning large-scale operational and business intelligence systems on a variety of database platforms to include Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Focus, and Teradata

Martha 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. Martha has consistently produced quality, re-usable systems through the use of rigorous software development and improvement methodologies (Unified Process, RUP, Oracle Unified Method, Agile, RAD, CMMI) and modeling standards (UML, Use Cases, IDEF1X, IDEF0X, Oracles CASE method, Ernst and Youngs Navigator, James Martins Information Engineering).

Utilizing her communication skills, Martha 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.
Technical Competencies

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, Focus

Tools: Sparx Enterprise Architect, IBM Rational Business Developer, Oracle Designer, ErWin, Oracle Developer, Oracle Reports, SQL*Loader, Oracle Business Intelligence (Oracle Data Warehouse Builder, Oracle Discoverer), Oracle Data Integrator, Data Stage, SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Crystal Reports

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Java, C++, Visual Basic, .NET, HTML, XML

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science University of Central Florida, 1988
Learning Tree Oracle Application Development and DBA Certifications (v 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g)
Enterprise Architect Certified Consultant