LAWRENCE J.

FREDETTE
151 West Wing Street Unit 607
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005
lfacee16@wes
tpost.net
(815) 341-5462
System architect and technical lead with 25 years experience in Fortune 500 comp
anies. Specializing in system design and large database implementations, SOA and
distributed systems, both on-staff and as external consultant. Extensive People
soft Financials, Peoplesoft HR, Siebel CRM and Data Warehousing experience.

Technical Skills:
System Architecture and Design
Technical project manager
Data Modeler
Database design, performance and analysis
Performance engineering and testing
Critical system Problem Management
MQ Administration and Design
Highly Available Database Architectures
Siebel CRM
Oracle Database Administration
Peoplesoft HR, Portal, EPM
Peoplesoft Financials
Primavera
SOA Design

Industry experience: Insurance, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing,

Printing, Financial and Banking Industries.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CNA FINANCIAL CORPORATION
Infrastructure Technical Project Manager, Infrastructure Planning and Design
06/09-Present
* Infrastructure Technical Project Manager. Full-cycle project management speci
alizing in integrated design, estimation, capacity planning, performance testing
and trouble-shooting.
* Key projects: Policy Center-web access automated policy renewal system: WAS 6
update of CNA Central, the small business policy issuance system for external us
ers
* CNA Central, Primavera, F5 Application Security Module Firewall Data Center Up
grades.
* Technical SME advising project managers. Advised and contributed to standardiz
ed processes and procedures for planning, estimation, design and construction.
Web Services Technical Team Lead 06/06-06-09
* Technical team lead for Web Services, Internet teams and Middleware teams.
* Web Services Lead on Standard Lines Projects, responsible for technical system
s, estimation, and construction. Resolved all issues on key projects.
* Assisted and Advised Infrastructure project managers on WAS 6, WAS 5, WAS 4, M
Q and WBI issues.
* Created capacity estimation process and documented processes for Websphere 6 s
ystems capacity estimation. Resolved and standardized all Middleware, UNIX and I
ntel security processes.
* Technical SME for Performance of Websphere 6, J2EE Performance, Oracle and DB2
Database, MQ, WBI , UNIX technologies.
* Identified and corrected CNA Central Application Stability and Performance Iss
ues. This was a 300 Million dollar Annual revenue generating system which prior
had 10 outages a day.
* Advised methods to improve project planning, technical build and performance i
ssues for Policy Center and CNA Central. Directed Engineers in delivery of syst
ems meeting all requirements.
Senior Database Technical Consultant 04/04-06/06
* Infrastructure team project manager for: Peoplesoft HR, EPM, E-Time and HR Pr
ograms. Implemented PS 8.9 HR, Portal and EPM components. Managed infrastructu
re team project planning and managed the build out of the infrastructure for eac
h project.
* Created, designed, and tuned multiple Oracle 9i PeopleSoft DB instances and pr
ocesses including: Reports, OLTP and Batch processes. Methodology included perfo
rming Oracle Wait State analysis and profiling Oracle's trace generations. This
effort translated into reducing total CPU utilization, end user response times a
nd batch processing time windows.
* Tested, created, and defined AIX Oracle configuration standards on UNIX for IB
M p-series hardware. Defined Oracle related system settings for Performance in O
racle 9i and tested 10G and wrote the Oracle Build Standards for AIX.
Director of Database Administration 03/01-03/04
* Provided Infrastructure Project Management and Designs of related Peoplesoft H
R, Finance Peoplesoft GL, Allocations and projects and tasks. Planned, estimated
work efforts related to the Peoplesoft HR, GL Finance System Upgrades, Focus an
d CNA Central.
* Planned and executed the Payroll Unisource HR System Migrations back to the CN
A Datacenter.
* Performed project planning, estimating and oversight for Peoplesoft HR, EPM im
plementations for all Infrastructure Staff Assigned. Managed Technical Infrastr
ucture and Infrastructure Deliverables.
* Acted as Senior DBA for many large Oracle instances using Oracle 10G, 9i and O
racle 8.X. (150+), ranging in size from Gigabytes to Terabytes.
* Managed Database Activities, Build Outs of external customer facing systems, C
NA Central, HA Clustering Builds.
* Managed and Constructed: Finance, AP, GL, Allocations and Financial Data wareh
ousing Databases.

SIEBEL SYSTEMS 03/00-03/01

Principal Consultant
* For IBM International, functioned as the Technical Team Lead for the Implement
ation of Siebel 2000 eChannel, eSales, eService, Call Center, CTI, EAI, Assignme
nt Manager and Workflow applications. Lead a development team of 60 individuals
on the Siebel Team. Project team was comprised of Siebel and additional IBM sta
ff.
* Role included Technical Team Management, Project Management, Project Planning,
Activity Status, and weekly Reporting to the IBM VP responsible for overall Pro
ject Implementation.
* Performed numerous engagements for Siebel Consulting Expert Services area, Cap
acity and Sizing for new systems, Installations, and EAI reviews.
* Reported to Vice President of Sales Systems for IBM engagement.
* IBM Engagement was to Support World Wide 15,000 concurrent user system impleme
ntation. This was Siebel System's largest client engagement.
* Service Oriented Architecture Design, MQ Administration and implementation on
IBM, Websphere message brokers, and MQ Series.

DATA STREAM INC. 1/99-03/00

Owner and Consultant - System Architect
* Designed the logical data model and physical database for the application arch
itecture supporting Marriott International's Peoplesoft version 7.5 Financials a
nd designed a 350 Gigabyte Financial data warehouse.
* Designed and tuned Peoplesoft edits allocations, consolidations and nVision re
porting processes.
* Utilized Precise SQL, Glance and Measureware data to identify EMC disk configu
ration problems.
* Optimized performance of production and development of Oracle databases rangin
g in size from 20 to 350 gigabytes.
* Consulted for additional clients in Manufacturing and Hotel Industries.
* Reported to VP and CIO Level regarding project efforts, planning and status.
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION
10/97- 1/99
Database Consultant
* Installed and Upgraded Peoplesoft Financials from version 5.11 to 7.0. Provid
ed performance tuning and analysis in support of the version upgrade. Migrated
Oracle databases in excess of 2 terabytes to new HP V2200 hardware and new EMC h
ardware for Peoplesoft Financials Fixed Assets; Purchasing and Accounts Payable
modules.
* Responsible for Oracle database administration many large databases. Worked wi
th Oracle database versions 7.3.4 and 8.0.
CNA FINANCIAL CORPORATION (Operations Out Sourced to CSC)
8/96 - 10/97
Senior Database Consultant
* Implemented Peoplesoft Financial, Budgeting, Fixed Assets, and Purchasing and
Accounts Payable applications. The Oracle Database Platform was a configuration
of 3 HP T600/10 CPU servers using EMC arrays with RDBMS storage of 3 Terabytes.
Responsible for backup, recovery performance, and tuning of RDBMS. Vendor Part
ner Deloitte Consulting.
* Supported Lawson Payroll, Human Resource Data Warehouses, and other HR systems
.

RINGIER AMERICA INC. 1994 - 1996

Director of Database Administration
* Managed, directed and performed the database administration and RDBMS managem
ent of enterprise wide client server Oracle applications.
* Reported to CIO and CFO regarding project efforts, planning and status.
Database Administrator
* Responsible for the physical and logical database development of enterprise wi
de client server oracle applications. De
signed, installed and implemented all Oracle 7 DBMS objects required for the cus
tom development of Order Entry, Estimating, and Job Instructions applications.
* Case tools utilized include Erwin and System Architect.
KRAFT FOOD SERVICE INC.
1993 to 1994
System Analyst
* Designed, coded, and implemented enhancements to the KFS procurement systems.
This application provided cross platform communication from an IBM CICS applica
tion to the Tandem Platform. Phases of involvement included Business Design, Te
chnical Design and Implementation Plans. Worked with key users to develop requi
rements, design, and test.
TM FLOYD, INC. 1991 to 1993
Technical Consultant
* Responsible for on-going design, implementation, and maintenance of client DB2
databases and programs. Tuned complex DB2 queries for online CICS and batch pro
duction programs. Monitored DB2 database statistics by running run stats and r
eorgs. Within client production database environments. Familiar with most DB2 da
tabase utilities including loads, unloads, image copy, run stats, DB2I, and Plat
inum Fast Load. Performed application performance tuning for a major banking cli
ent's tax refund anticipation loan system. (Dean Witter Discover Card)
* Designed and implemented programs for a National Truck Order Processing System
using DB2 and APS IMS/DC. (Navistar International)
CONTINENTAL BANK (Operations outsourced to ISSC) 1990 - 1991
Programmer/Analyst
* Interacted with key users to develop and define a systematic approach to conve
rt and reconcile more than 13,000 corporate accounts.
* Developed and implemented CICS, DB2 applications that identified user accesses
within Continental Bank's Global Cash Management System.
* Working with marketing and system staff, designed, tested, and put into produc
tion a check data transmission system using BAI version 2 formats.
CNA FINANCIAL CORPORATION (CNA INSURANCE) 1988 - 1990
Programmer Analyst 1988 - 1990
Programmer 1988
EDUCATION
Loyola University of Chicago 1987, BS Business Administration
Major: Information Systems Management
Courses include: Project Management, Finance, Accounting, Database Management,
Systems Analysis and Design, Management Information Systems Concepts and Designs
, Structured COBOL, and PL-1.
MAINFRAME SKILLS
Hardware: Z Series, Z/OS
Software: CICS, Clists, IMS DB/DC, DB2, MVS, Novell
Languages: SQL, COBOL, CICS, PL-1, APS, TELON, JCL
CLIENT SERVER /PC/UNIX
Training: Oracle DBA, AIX, HP/UX, People Tools, Oracle 9i, 10G OEM, Precise SQL
,
MQ Series 6, WebSphere 6, Data Modeling, Oracle Performance and Tuning.
Applications: Peoplesoft: HR 8.9, Finance, EPM 8.8 and Manufacturing, Siebel CR
M
Databases: Oracle 7.3.3, Oracle 8, 8i, 9i, 10G, 11i, XDB, WATCOM, DB2 UDB
Case Tool Exposure: Bachman, Erwin, System Architect
Operating Systems: Windows XP, OS2, Windows, HP UX 10.X, 9.X, Dec OSF1, Digital
UNIX, AIX.
RDBMS Design: Data Modeling. Relational Logical and Physical Design.
Oracle: Oracle 7 & 8 Masters Certificate in Database Administration, Introduc
tion to Oracle, Database Administration I, Database Administra
tion II,
Performance Tuning, RMAN, Oracle 8, Oracle 9, Oracle 10G, Oracle Replication,
Oracle Partitioning, Data Warehousing, OPS, RAC, HOT SOS Training.
UNIX: HP/UX System Administration, Veritas Logical Volume Manager,
AIX 5.1 through 5.3, Sun Solaris 8.X., Clustering, (VERITAS HA and HACMP).
Siebel: Certified Siebel 1999, Siebel 2000 Principal Consultant.
SOA: Websphere MQ Series, 5.X, 6.X, Message Broker versions 5.X, 6.X.
Performance Tools: Precise SQL, Openview, Measure ware, BMC Patrol, OEM, ITCAM.
Others: PM4Data, Commerce Quest, Peoplesoft
J2EE: Websphere 6, Websphere 5, MQ Series, Tivoli Access Manager