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Walter Ritzel

Senior Software Engineer

Porto Alegre,
Brazil

Member Since: 2003/09/25

Industry: Computer & IT

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Query Syntax Microsoft SQL Server Python

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Professional Background

Software Development Advisor

Dell Inc.

March 2009 – Present

- Currently working as development leader for the HR Reporting team, being responsible for team coordination, requirements clarification and L3 support;
- Worked as business analyst and development leader on the project to migrate the HR datawarehouse from Business Objects to OBIEE:
- Have executed gap analysis and mapping between the 2 solutions;
- Have written the requirements for data conversion;
- Managed development efforts of both internal and external (consultants) teams, using SCRUM;
- Worked as development leader for the HR Reporting team, being responsible for execute major changes in the solution (AbInitio to Power Center, Business Objects version upgrade, integration of new major data sources) and also have stabilized the solution, reducing drastically the number of issues in production.

Software Development Advisor

Dell

March 2008 – March 2009

- Development leader in charge of maintain the Program and Portfolio Management solution (Clarity) used by the Global IT team at Dell;
- Executed the project that have integrated Clarity with the Oracle Project Accounting module, allowing Dell better control over IT project expenses.

Software Developer Engineer

Dell

February 2005 – February 2008

- Worked as development leader of Product Group (PG/IT), maintaining more than 100 applications written in ASP 3.0, .NET and Java;
- Worked as development leader responsible for deploying a sales search engine tool, that integrates technologies like ENDECA search engine, Documentum and Microsoft Office tools to deliver the most current information about Dell products to Sales representatives, managing the vendor relationship and coordinating the integration between in house and vendor pieces of the final solution;
- Worked as development leader of the CMS tool responsible to administer the first Global SDLC framework developed by Dell IT. The challenges on this project were the management of development team, that does not have a stable formation, since developers were engaged on their bench time.

Developer

Accenture

2003 – 2004

Work as developer for Dell Computer Inc.

Software Developer

Other Startup Companies

January 1993 – October 2003

During this period I had worked for the following companies:
- Criar Estudio de Informatica;
- CSI - Consultoria de Sistemas de Informação;
- Binario Internet;
- Bankorp - Estratégia e Consultoria Empresarial.

I had worked as developer using technologies like: Clipper, Delphi, C++, ASP 3.0 and .NET 1.1. As database technologies, I had worked with Ingres, SQL Server and Oracle.

Education

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Master in Computer Science

Bioinformatics

2013 – 2015

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Bachelor

Computer Science

1993 – 2002

Colégio Técnico Industrial Professor Mario Alquati

Técnico em Processamento de Dados

Computer Software Engineering

1990 – 1992

Full Biography

Professional Experience:
- 20 years of experience on software development industry;
- Working for 9 years with web development using several technologies like ASP, JSP, PHP and .NET;
- Expertise in Content Management Systems (CMS) for internet/intranet websites;
- Expertise in ERP modules analysis\development: Purchasing, Quality Assurance and Production Engineering;
- Expertise in Business Intelligence, focused on Data Modeling and Data Integration(ETL);
- Currently working with Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE).

Languages

English

Full Professional Proficiency

Spanish

Limited Working Proficiency

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Current: Level 16

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