Bill Showler

Experience

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  EDS Canada

  Jun 1986 - Jul 1994

  Systems Engineer

  EDS Canada – Team Leader - Whitby, ON: Nov/93 - July/94• technical leader for EDS Canada’s PowerBuilder Centre of Expertise establishing corporate PowerBuilder design standards and data modeling documentation• led PowerBuilder project for a lien registration system for GMAC (used PB3)EDS Energy SBU (U.S.) – Application Consultant - Houston, TX, Calgary, AB: Dec/92 - Oct/93• Lead Canadian systems analyst working on requirements, definition, analysis, construction, testing, and implementation of an international gas marketing system using PowerBuilder and Sybase. (used PB2)• acquired project skills and customer relations experience in an intensely competitive vendor environmentEDS Canada – Team Leader Oshawa, ON: Jun/90 - Dec/92• Team Leader of the Canadian Order Management System responsible for supplying all GM Canada vehicle assembly plants with orders, production reporting, materials management via DB2 application programs• delegated workload to a team of SEs and assisted with mgt. responsibilities of the group• interfaced with senior GM Production Control managementEDS Canada – System Administrator – Application Developer - Oshawa, ON: Jun/86 - Jun/90• System Administrator of an HP3000 system and supported a user community of over 200 and links to EDSNET via SNA gateway, VAX 8650, HP1000, and HP9000 systems. Responsible for operating system upgrades, system management, user education and designing/maintaining several relational database applications. Show less

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  SPAR Aerospace

  Jul 1994 - Feb 1995

  Application Design Consultant

  • analysis, design, and construction in large 200 table application system for use by SPAR and NASA• established PowerBuilder Extended attribute strategy via the Erwin database analysis tool (used PB3/PB4)

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  TSN - Discovery Channel (Netstar)

  Mar 1995 - Jan 1996

  Application Architect

  • lead developer of custom scheduling/financial systems• brought in an extensive library of re-usable PowerBuilder objects to expedite design and construction (PB4)• effectively taught & mentored TSN’s developers, helping to transform them into a cohesive productive team

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  Mercer

  Jan 1996 - Feb 1996

  Technical Consultant

  • conducted 6 week feasibility study for a proposed sales contact management system employing remote database replication between SQL Anywhere on notebooks and a central ORACLE server

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  Rothmans

  Feb 1996 - Oct 1996

  Senior Data Modeler - Mentor

  • senior technical consultant, mentored a team of 7 data modelers and application developers• analysis, design, and construction of corporate data warehouse system• designed 8 different subject area databases via the ERwin database analysis tool including complex DB triggers

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  Ontario Ministry of Finance

  Oct 1996 - Sept 1998

  Consultant - Application Architect

  • analysis, design, and construction of 3 distinct assessment/complaint systems: AAS, IRIS and Compass• participated in group to data model the Property Assessment Corporation’s entire business process using ERwin

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  Alimentation Couche-Tard

  Oct 1998 - Oct 1999

  Consultant - Project Manager – Technical Mentor

  • managed project team of 15 developers. Was offered full-time application team management position.• analysis, design, and construction of 3 systems: Sales Datamart and 2 PFC based applications using PB6.5• led data modeling sessions to model client's entire business process using ERwin

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  Royal Bank of Canada

  Nov 1999 - Feb 2000

  Consultant - Application Architect

  • analysis, design, and construction of a customer service rep scheduling application • used PB7 and SQL Anywhere database to apply complex business rules

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  Bell Media

  Feb 2000 - now

  MicroStrategy Developer. Writing Oracle queries and designing reports for CRTC compliance and strategic business analysis. Design ETL procedures for transferring data from SQL server to our Oracle EDW. Design and maintain several PowerBuilder applications using Sybase and SQL Server DBs here at CTV. Proficient in database design using ERwin modeling software. Also have yrs of Oracle DB query experience. Possess superb client skills and consistently achieve superior client satisfaction.

  • Senior Application Architect

    Mar 2016 - now

  • Senior Systems Analyst

    Feb 2000 - now