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Background
Grigsby Consulting LLC was established
10/11/2002 to purvey David W. Grigsby's talents to Small and
Medium Business.
Executive Summary
David enjoys the freedom of
being a consultant and the influence that a great consultant
can have on customers, product development lifecycles, education and documentation. He has an insatiable desire for
continued learning, new experiences, critical feedback, and
breaking through existing boundaries. He is a natural driver
and prefers to be instrumental to the change process and
influencing the necessary order, assessments and clarity so
that the team members can execute to deliver the required
deliverables on time and under budget while maintaining good
morale. He has a honed understanding of commercially
adequate and enjoys exceeding expectations. He will
generally excel in customer satisfaction and enable success
for his team members while delivering positive results
quickly using minimal resources and oversight by leveraging
his strong desire to achieve coupled with his diverse
experience and insight.
Professional
Background
Davids professional
background includes many different roles as an individual
contributor and as a manager. He has served as the Chief
Technology Officer for the City of Indianapolis and is a
Microsoft Alumnus. His civil service as CTO allowed him to
use his talents to manage a large Information Technology
datacenter serving 5500 desktops for 60 plus local
government entities in the 12th largest city in
the United States. His time at Microsoft allowed him to
engage in both roles as a individual contributor and a
manager. His position as a Program Manager he was
responsible for a development, test, documentation and
marketing team. As a program manager of the Microsoft
Operations Manager 2005 product, he was responsible for the
operations database and data warehouse. His broad experience
in database implementation and design, system
implementations prior to Microsoft gave him a unique first
hand experience in this area and lead to many key features
needed in the product. He has been developing custom
software for many industries since 1983, and was primarily
engaged in the insurance and legal industries. He owned and
operated his own successful consulting, custom applications
development and networking company. He had been certified as
a Novell CNE, Microsoft MCSE. He will soon have is
certifications as a MCSD and MCDBA. He has worked in
corporate applications development for a geographically
dispersed field force. He designed, created and implemented
the complete workforce automation system which included
hardware and infrastructure selection and installation, the
application development lifecycle, deployment, training and
the business process architecture for SM&P. SM&P has a corporate
office in
Carmel and the 16 field offices across the Midwest. That software system
built in 1996 is still in operation today. His experience
in development ranges from embedded devices which generally
use assembly language or C++, to the PC languages are
lengthy. His depth and breadth exceed a generalist, as he is
an expert in many areas having to do with application and
database performance, instrumentation and debugging, health
monitoring and architecture design for enterprise
environments. His experience at Microsoft afforded him the
opportunity to work around the world on real implementations
ranging from embedded robotics at ABB in Sweden to CRM
database and web performance at Siebel in San Mateo, Ca.
David has worked in the object oriented development space
since Visual C++ with MFC and Visual Foxpro 3.0 have been on
the market. Microsoft Visual Studio and the .Net framework
is a continued extension of this experience and was in a
unique position to be apart of the early betas by being an
Applications Development Consultant responsible for
assisting his Microsoft Premier Independent Software Vendors
adopt and implement emerging Microsoft Technologies and best
practices. This also allowed David great access to SQL
server internals and early SQL 2000 and 2005 betas as
Siebel was a major SQL Server client and was always pushing
the product in interesting ways as Siebel was originally
written for Oracle, DB2 and Ingress. In all, David brings 23
years of broad systems, development and business experience
whatever project he works.
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Objective |
To continue to
be a contributing citizen of the United
States of America who is open to
relocation with a preference for the State
of Indiana or Washington that enjoys world
travel as part of the project requirements.
To deliver results oriented solutions that
are scalable, maintainable and effective as
a
Senior Consultant responsible for
application and infrastructure architecture,
source
development, related enterprise development
methodologies and patterns, database
design and administration combined with
systems and business assessment and
analysis documentation within a project
management framework.
To repeat the highest return on investment
for a company from my involvement which
originated with a development team as a
manager responsible for assisting the team
of
ten people in working to overcome the
challenges related to skill set
modifications,
management of the project time line and risk
while staying within budget and
minimizing turn over.
To consistently deliver a return on
investment for a project as a senior
individual
contributor as a team player or as an
independent as the situation may demand.
To continue creating, presenting and
delivering solid solutions on time and
within
budget for customers using company assets
coupled with my breadth and depth of
experience.
To keep my debugging and analytical skills
sharp so that I may efficiently and
verifiably
determine the root cause of failures and
defects so that they may be documented.
Then assist afterwards in the proper threat
and risk models so they may be established
to eliminate or minimize the impact in the
current or future projects.
To continue identifying new business
opportunities, creating repeatable solutions
and learning new skills in every engagement.
To sustain my passion and ongoing industry
education by involvement in advanced
software and computing technology projects
that are applied to business processes
using collaborative influence that yields
mentoring opportunities.
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Experience |
10/2002-Present Grigsby Consulting LLC
County
Carmel, IN / Snoqualmie, WA / New Palestine, IN
Principal Consultant / Senior Developer / Member Manager
Operate and
manage my consulting and development
practice focused on office
automation for small to medium business.
Microsoft
Registered Partner and ISV
Sales
Consulting
Software
Development - Web, .Net , VS, VS Team
Web - MOSS/SPS,
ASP
Database - SQL
Design, SSIS, BI, Tuning
IT
Administration and Management
IT Governance
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04/2004-07/2007
Caffe Del Drago LLC
New Palestine, IN
Principal / Member Manager
Backoffice,
Accounting, IT Administration
Assist Anna, my
wife, in managing the Coffee House
-Barista
-Open/Close Shop as needed
-Till and Cash Flow Management
Marketing
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05/2006-12/2006 City
of Indianapolis/Marion
County Indianapolis, IN
Chief Technology Officer
Under general
direction of the Chief Information Officer
(CIO), responsible for
technology strategy, planning, and
architecture for City/County technology
environment. Serves as the City/County's
focal point with respect to technology
and architectures. Acts as the chief
advocate of technology use with a variety of
contacts including customer entities, the IT
Board and the IT Team. Works with
customers and ISA management team to
understand business needs across
various functions and to define the role of
technology to meet those needs
Technical
Architect for 60 local government entities
using a shared data center
serving 5500 desktops at 270 sites. This
data center hosted Windows, Unix and
Mainframe platforms running over 350
applications.
Responsible for
overseeing Operations Management and out
source contractors
Northrop Grumman and Unisys on a daily basis
Strategic
Technology Planning (25%)
-Business alignment
-New technologies evaluation
-Technology portfolio and standards
Service
Management of Technology Infrastructure
(35%)
-Operations
-Architecture
-Consultation
Strategic
Relationships with Technology Providers
(20%)
Solution and
Proposal Development (20%)
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10/2004-05/2006
Daniels Associates, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Consultant
Technical
Manager for the Justis.NET Team for the
Marion County Superior Courts and ISA. I
managed a team of 6 mainframe developers and
3 .NET Developers and primary architect of
the tool used in converting the Main Frame
Justis application to the PC Based
Justis.NET. I was also responsible for
delivering the needed .NET training to
assist the Main Frame programmers in moving
their SME knowledge and IDEAL and developer
skill sets to the VB.NET environment.
Team Lead on
the Reports Team and was responsible for the
adoption of standards and specifications for
the JTAC State Wide CMS. Drove the team to
develop working reports while a great deal
of ambiguity existed and provided
implementation guidance in setting up a
development environment, with source
control, and delivered working proto types
of the some of the key styles of the 500
reports to be developed as part of the final
production project.
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2/2003-3/2004
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
PM - Program
Manager
Feature Team
PM for the MOM Operational Database and Data
Warehouse
Effectively communicated feature needs from
the business and technical perspective to
PMs, Dev, and Test to get features added to
or removed from the product. Drove several
new features and recalled two features
DB/DW Feature team never missed a milestone,
was almost always the first to meet ZBB and
signoff
Triaged Bugs/DCRs effectively, escalated to
war as appropriate with customer and
business impact provided
MOM 2000 was purchased from NETIQ without
specs. I was instrumental in creating
missing specs and schema diagrams for the
DB/DW feature. This helped PMs, Test ,and
Dev to gain clarity on issues
Increased Dev and Test communication and
overall effectiveness by reducing
randomization by fellow PMs, clearing issues
through feature leads meeting, and staying
focused on the features, DCRs, and bugs that
mattered most
Earned the respect of my Dev and Test team
members through technical and operational
effectiveness, which was mentioned in my
review
Held great feature meetings and increased
feature team morale by incorporating
attendance incentives, participation rewards
focused on efficiency of delivering status
and relevant information
Worked with several other product groups to
create MOM Management Packs. Stretched even
farther by completing several OOB (out of
band).
Consistently received written customer
praise for exceeding expectations in the MOM
TAP Program and other MOM customer care
programs
Consistently exceeded customer satisfaction
goals
Provided organized, critical interview
feedback about PM candidates for our team
Consistently met all deliverables I was
accountable for and provided accurate risk
assessments on any deliverables at risk
Presented at MMS 2003 on short notice using
another PM's slide deck and received 7+
score out of 9 on audience feedback
10% Travel included international as well as
domestic Visited Saudi Arabia in October
2003
Dependable and on time with organizational
tasks such as customer reports and expense
accounting
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10/1999-9/2002
Microsoft
Corporation
Redmond, WA
Senior 1 -
Application Development Consultant
Provided
advanced technical consulting and developer
support for Independent Software Vendors and
Premier Partners
Delivered and
leveraged Microsoft Resources for customers
in both breadth and depth areas such as SQL,
Developer Tools, Embedded Devices, Client
Technologies, and protocols
Managed high
profile ISVs and delivered many critical
problem resolutions with executive
visibility
One of the
founding members of the MSCETeam focused on
Premier Windows Embedded Customers
Received the
first ever Very Satisfied Customer Survey
from Siebel for Premier Services
Consistently
received written customer praise for work
done on their behalf
Consistently
exceeded the utilization and customer
satisfaction goals for Premier Services
30% travel
included international as well as domestic
Dependable and
on time with reporting utilization, customer
reports, and expense accounting
Developed
technical depth in consulting and
development. I enjoy assisting in pre-sales
as a technical proof point. My technical
background is deep and broad covering
development languages, development
practices, consulting, infrastructure, and
IT management in small and medium businesses
as well as large enterprise environments. I
can consult, design, develop, train,
support, and maintain applications while
understanding the business needs and
processes that drive the need for the
application in the first place.
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1996-1999
SM&P Utility Resources,
Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Corporate
Applications Integrator
My primary
responsibility was to be the jack of all
trades in a 2-man MIS shop that consisted of
my manager and me. I would research,
propose, design, implement, configure and
deploy all necessary corporate information
systems. I met all my project timelines and
received all my bonuses as a result. The
primary process that I automated, originally
took 55 people in the field with 3 business
days to complete, and was reduced to 16
people taking just one day. I had a lot of
freedom and ability to innovate process and
technology.
1999
o I upgraded all the existing remote SQL 6.5
databases to a corporate NT 4.0 Enterprise
Server and SQL 7.0 Enterprise in 38 hours
straight over the 4th of July
weekend, which was 16 hours ahead of
schedule.
o I implemented our primary application for
the 1,200 remote field personnel. I also
converted another file-based application I
developed to a SQL 6.5 database /ASP Web
Site application using Visual Interdev 6.0.
1998
o I
implemented OWA for Remote Users as part of
the conversion I completed from MS Mail 3.1
on Novell 3.1 to Exchange 5.5 on a NT 4.0
Server.
o I implemented the executive overview
application in Visual Basic 5.0 accessing
the remote SQL databases via VPNs to
facilitate real-time executive access to
critical operation measurements of the
districts and regional sites captured in the
corporate application I created.
1997
o I implemented an Internet Web presence for
SM-P at WWW.SM-P.COM with IIS 3.0 using
FrontPage on an NT 4.0 Server. o I created a
beta version of Web-based ticket access with DBWeb.
o I deployed MS Proxy 2.0 for limited
corporate user use for browsing the Web.
o I implemented a claims application for the
corporate office as a file-based
application. Reporting was done by using
Access 97 to facilitate unlimited reporting
requests.
o I redesigned and converted the ticketing
file-based application from VFP 3.0 to VFP
5.0 for use with SQL 6.5. This app used
remote views to remove the 2 GB DOS file
limit on FoxPro, which we were approaching
after the first year as planned.
o I also moved to a NT 4.0 Server with duplexed and mirrored drives on a Compaq
Prosignia 500 and a NT 4.0 Workstation
environment eliminating the Novell 4.01 and
GroupWise NLM, as well as the GroupWise
desktop app and WFW 3.11 as they were not
viable in a remote district environment via
Internet Dial-ups, RAS, and VPNs for
routing and dispatch.
o The routing features were accommodated in
the ticketing application by using an
auto-routing function in the ticket
receiving process that I wrote. The three
regional sites were connected to the
Internet via fractional T1 line using
Adtrans and ACC Danube that I configured and
installed.
o The remaining 10 district sites where
using NT Workstation 4.0 with the ticketing
application and connected via a dial-up
account using RAS and connected to the NT
and SQL Server via a PPTP/VPN connection
that I implemented.
1996
o I
finished deploying the ticketing file-based
application to the two remaining regional
sites in Milwaukee and Dallas in 6 months.
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1994-1996
Lantech of America,
Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Corporate
Application Integrator
I was hired to
start an applications integration division
for Lantech of America, Inc., who was a
primary partner I had worked with while I
operated DNA Software Co., Inc.
1995
o I
implemented a beta version of an automated
ticketing application (C4) for SM&P Utility
Resources, Inc. at a beta site in
Noblesville, IN. This application was unique
in that it received the electronic ticket
(work order) from the One Call via a modem
that was supposed to be connected to a TTY
printer. I used the ActiveX control
MSCOMM32.OCX and dynamically parsed the
incoming ticket via a database of text
anchors (tokens) and runtime functions to
populate the database, and then emailed the
ticket to via GroupWise for routing and
dispatching the ticket to the locators via a
batch process on paper. I leveraged Novell
GroupWise 4.0(NLM and Windows Desktop
Application) with Visual FoxPro 3.0 (file
based database) via DDE on NT 3.5 Alpha
Shell in a Novell 4.01 environment.
1994
o I implemented a custom application for
Resort Condominiums International to
facilitate librarian research of competition
and completive analysis. I integrated
PaperWise Imaging and Text Bridge OCR with
Visual FoxPro 3.0 (file based database) and
Visual Basic 3.0 via DDE on WFW 3.11 in a
Novell 3.1 environment to accomplish this.
The leveraged the FoxPro rushmore query
capabilities and the text OCRd via Text
Bridge, and tied with the image retrieval of
PaperWise via Btrieve database based on a
unique key from FoxPro assigned at the time
the image was scanned.
o I designed, developed, integrated, and
installed Platinum Accounting System with
Visual FoxPro 2.6, Visual Basic 3.0, and
Excel 4.0 via DDE and OLE Automation on WFW
3.11 in a Novell 3.1 environment as a beta
Version of an in-house Quoting System for
Lantech of America
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1988-1994
DNA Software Co.,
Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Founder,
Consultant
Sales went from
80K in 1988 to 1M in 1994 with 4
consultants/developers.
I had personally trained all the employees.
I was managing 5 employees in 1994.
1991 Awarded
with Novell Gold Reseller status. We had
shifted our focus to Novell LANs and
WordPerfect installs for small to medium
sized law firms and insurance agencies as
development work would follow as a natural
extension of office automation. We leveraged
WFW 3.11 as Windows applications became more
prevalent and requested.
I developed and
maintained dBase 1.5, Foxpro 2.5 and xbase
applications for several insurance
companies, insurance agencies, manufactures,
and law firms. I developed many vertical
market, niche QuickBasic applications and
Microsoft assembly based TSRs for clients
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1987-1988
Sears Business Systems
Center Indianapolis,
IN
Systems
Engineer
I configured
and installed software, computers and
designed, LANs for customers. I provided
pre-sales support, consulting, support and
maintenance. During the downsizing of the 75
nationwide system engineers I was retained
as 1 of 26.
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1982-1988
Jarrett
Engineering Co., Inc
Indianapolis, IN
Draftsman /
Software Developer
I developed a
printer driver for the NEC P7 24-pin printer
for AutoCAD via the ADI specification in MS
Macro Assembler 4.0
I designed and
developed a labor / job costing application
on an Apple II in BASIC in my computer class
at high school. I later converted the labor
and job costing application to a IBM PC
using BASICA and finally to MS QuickBasic
1.0
I started as a
Junior Draftsman as part of a High School
Industrial Cooperative Training Class as I
had completed the required credits to
graduate High School as a sophomore.
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Education |
1984-2003
Industry
Conferences
USA
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MGB
2003 Exhibitor/Attendee
MMS
2003 Presenter/Exhibitor/Attendee
MGB
2002 Attendee
Microsoft Company Meeting 2000,
2002 Attendee
TechEd
1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 ,2001
Attendee
PDC
1998, 2000 Attendee
Frontline Expo 2001 Exhibitor |
WinHec
2002 Exhibitor
Embedded DevCon 2001, 2002
Exhibitor, Speaker and Attendee
Embedded Systems Conference 2002
Exhibitor and Attendee
Siebel
World Wide Users Week 2001
Exhibitor and Attendee
Siebel
eBusiness World 2001
Exhibitor |
1984-2003
Industry
Certifications
Indianapolis, IN
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MCSE attained in 1995
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CNE attained in 1991 |
1984-1986
College
Indianapolis, IN
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis - Inactive since Fall 1986
1980-1984
High School
Indianapolis, IN
Thomas Carr Howe High School - Graduated
with High Honors in May 1984 |
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Awards |
1980 2003
Microsoft
Bulldog Award Q3 2001
Microsoft ADC
of the Quarter Q3 2000
Novell LAN
Ranger 1990 for Outstanding Sales and
Support
Scholastic Gold
Key 1982
Indianapolis
500 Festival of Arts Grand Prize 1981 |
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