Carl David Blake, CSM
11260 Overland Ave., #10-D Culver City, CA 90230
(c) 512-608-5295 (email) carldavidblake@gmail.com
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Created functional
requirements and process flow diagrams for the upgrade to the Legislative
Analysis Software with full iterative SDLC experience at the Texas State
Comptroller’s Office.
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Gathered business
requirements from clients and developed high-level design documents with
developers input at ThruComm, specifically for the POS Monitoring Software.
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Carried out User
Acceptance Testing (UAT) against our business requirements and obtained confirmation
that our software met business requirements, both at Comptroller and at ThruComm.
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M.A. in Mass
Communication from the University of South Florida
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B.S. in Biology from
the University of South Florida
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard ·
MS Windows 7 ·
MS Office
Professional 2010 ·
MS Project
Professional 2010 ·
MS Visio
Professional 2010 |
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MS Publisher
2010 ·
Adobe
Dreamweaver CS5.5 ·
Adobe
FrameMaker 10 ·
Adobe Acrobat X
Pro ·
Adobe PhotoShop
CS5 |
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SAP/Oracle/Sybase/SQL ·
iRise
Visualization Software ·
Witness
Simulation 3.0 ·
Rational
RequisitePro ·
HTML
5, xHTML, XML, Joomla |
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Gathered user
requirements and implemented them into a concise business plan for every
project.
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Managed and
designed the work flow for the complete development and production of five media
projects, which entered film festivals, one of which broke a Guinness World
Record.
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Performed the
phases of initiating, planning (designing and communicating), executing,
monitoring & controlling, and closing for each project.
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Volunteering on the
web team for PMI-LA, using Joomla, a web content management system.
Business Analyst/Project Manager - Property Tax Assistance Division (11/08 – 07/10)
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Gathered user
requirements and evaluated scope for each property tax training project. Moving
most of our training online, saved the Comptroller’s office thousands of
$5,000+.
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Communicated and
interacted on a regular basis with the project manager and development team
during different stages of the project.
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Moved into
monitoring software requisitions with Rational RequisitePro, which was an
outstanding program to not only enter requisitions but monitor those changes
throughout the process.
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Designed Data
Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), and web page mock
ups using Rational Rose for the Legislative Analysis software programmed in ASP,
HTML, and MS SQL Server.
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Wrote meeting
minutes and tested coding patches for quality assurance team for the
legislative group.
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Managed
priorities with MS-Project as well as Excel and tracked bugs/fixes with
MS-Access.
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Worked on the
legislative team analyzing legislative bills and documenting which ones
affected our division.
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Discussed Texas Property
Tax Codes with citizens and local governments and assisted in filing correct
forms.
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Helped perform
UAT for the Legislative Analysis Tracking System and the Wild Fire Tracking
software.
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Interacted with
the development and testing teams to improve overall quality of the
Application.
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Managed the
entire documentation system for Support Services and was asked to repeat that
same system for several other divisions, unifying all of the formatting and
sending rough drafts to SMEs to keep all documentation up to date.
Business Analyst /Legislative Liaison - Support Services (08/05 – 11/08)
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Prepared project
progress reports and status reports and submitted to the management on an
ongoing basis.
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Performed
in-depth Gap analysis with different business groups to ensure that the system
initiatives were met, by comparing the actual performance with potential
performance for the Legislative tracking software.
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Worked as the
legislative liaison, analyzing bills that affected our division and managed the
process of bill review, preliminary notes that affect division, review,
analysis, and entry into Legislation tracking software.
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Created business
process models for our procurement software as we updated it.
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Won two awards as
the recycling coordinator—from the Texas Facilities Commission and the
Comptroller. The new idea for recycling saved the Comptroller’s office $20,000+.
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Gathered business
requirements for the Legislative Analysis software (moving it from mainframe to
web) and met with users to assist them with their concerns and requests.
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Created the
division’s business plan, annual survey, solution design documents, and
business process maps.
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Reorganized the
entire documentation system into a simpler and more efficient one.
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Managed the Pandemic Influenza Continuity of Operations
Plan for the State of Texas.
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Performed risk assessments to ensure that internal controls were in
place and operating as intended.
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Updated the disaster
recovery, homeland security, and risk management/assessment plans.
Taught Professional Writing,
Freshman English, Public Speaking, Speech Writing, and SAT preparation.
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Adjunct
Communications Professor at The Art Institute of Tampa (1-05 – 6-05)
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Adjunct English
Professor at The University of South Florida—St. Pete Campus (8-04 – 5-05)
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Instructor for
StudyWorks (SAT review class) of Tampa (2-02 – 1-05)
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Adjunct English
Professor at St. Leo University (8-03 – 12-03)
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Applied XML
techniques to XHTML web pages, as this entire project was totally a
Beta-development project with no immediate plans to go live.
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Wrote training
documentation including Oracle database information for the procurement
division.
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Created flow charts of the Internet cloud using Visio for various XML
projects.
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Wrote/edited test scripts for the new XML-based module for the
procurement system.
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Coordinated
production information for TV hosts to promote products.
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Created web
standards with a streamlined style guide, giving the writing team more
effective rules to follow.
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Met with
vendors, created requirements to produce commerce content for the website.
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Managed entire
documentation system, including all manuals and network design diagrams (Visio).
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Worked with the
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) team and met with vendors on a regular basis
to ensure each plan was being implemented to their approval.
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Created Data Flow
Diagrams (DFDs) for the C+ program developers against a SQL Server background.
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Implemented a
risk management program, wrote design documentation, and created budgets while
working closely with accounting, marketing, and business technology systems.
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Saved company $20,000
by going to online documentation.
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Gathered business
requirements and presented them to the project manager and developers.
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Helped perform
UAT for the CID, a POS (Point of sale) device.
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The CID was
programmed in C, but the monitoring system was VB against a SQL Server backend.
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Certified Scrum
Master (CSM), an Agile/Scrum methodology
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Project
Management Institute (PMI)
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International
Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
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American Society
of Training and Development (ASTD)