Jennifer Blair
JENNIFER BLAIR jaybezo49@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE: Design and Present Technical Training
Has 25 years technical training experience and curriculum design
Presents technical concepts confidently to varying audiences
Rapidly assimilates information when preparing to teach new courses
Designs and writes detailed, step-by-step curriculum that allows users to "hit the ground running"
Experienced in Oracle database and Oracle 11i applications, SAP, manufacturing and finance
- Enjoys international travel
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Blair Technical Training, Inc.
Oracle Training Manager / Oracle ISD Consultant
1994 - present
Working as an independent Oracle trainer / technical trainer, provide training directly to hundreds of corporate and government clients all over the USA, Canada, UK, Vienna, and Germany. Oracle 6, 7, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11i
Authored entire five-month long Oracle Certification curriculum taught at 18 business schools and colleges around the USA. Have taught Oracle for Oracle Corp.; Certified Oracle developer.
Adjunct Professor in Oracle at George Mason University and UMUC
Frequently travel internationally to train.
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Career Highlights:
General Dynamics, Detroit, MI
Oracle 11i Training Consultant October, 2007 - April, 2008
Worked with the Training Project Manager to develop and execute an End User Training Plan to ensure that end users learned the skills required to navigate through the Oracle 11i (Finance and Manufacturing) system and were able to perform their jobs.
Oracle 11i modules include: AP, AR, GL, Procure-to-Pay, Items & BOMS (Engineering), ASCP, Manufacturing, Design-to-Build, etc.
Tasks include:
Oversee Development of Oracle 11i Course Content
Prepare Trainers to Deliver Training (TTT)
Develop Training Logistics Plan
Designed and Delivered Cognos Advanced Reporting Course
Instructional Designer / Curriculum Developer
Stryker Corp., France 2007
Create Oracle 11i User Manuals / Training Guides
for Stryker Orthopaedics EMEA
Oracle 11i OTC 11.5.10.2 Modules: Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Warehouse Management, Purchasing, Order Management, Service Contracts, Service Repairs (PO, AP, WMS, OM, SC, SR, 11.10)
SAP CRM Training Bearing Point / DLA 2006
SAP CRM, SAP Marketing and SAP Service training provided to DLA in: Wiesbaden, Germany, Mainz-Kastel, Germany and DLA Hdqtrs in VA
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1998 - 2001 Adjunct Professor (Oracle)
George Mason University
University of Maryland University College
Proposed, developed, wrote, managed and delivered Oracle Developer five-month long Oracle certification training programs.
Wrote entire curriculum, including overall theory and hundreds of detailed hands-on exercises. Rewrote and kept current all curriculum used as needed. Taught the classes.
Students varied from entry level to highly experienced.
NATIONAL TRAINING MANAGER
NCR Federal Systems Division Rockville, MD
Responsible for supporting nationwide FAA contract. Designed, developed, implemented, monitored, and assessed training programs. Developed policies and procedures.
Selected, managed and evaluated training vendors for delivery of training across the entire USA, Alaska and Puerto Rico to support $8 million contract. Acted as liaison to FAA point of contacts.
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Oracle Discoverer Training / Consulting Experience:
Verizon Corp.
Created a 700-page user manual for 7000 end-users Jan - Mar 2003
Smithfield Foods
Created training materials for 250 students March - August 2005
SAP environment
PennWell Publishing, Tulsa, OK
Discoverer Training / Mentoring October, 2005
Sage Fly Fishing, Bainbridge, WA
Discoverer Training / Mentoring December, 2005
Stryker Medical, Newark, NJ
Custom Discoverer Training - 2006
OTC Environment
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Some Companies, Colleges and Organizations
Where Jennifer Blair has Taught
George Mason University
University of Maryland University College
Florida Institute of Technology
Philadelphia Community College
University of Michigan
State University of New York (SUNY)
Virginia Dept. of Health, Richmond
AT&T- PDC, Bell Labs
NYNEX - New York (Albany and NY city) and Boston
EPA , FAA, DOT, DOD, DLA
Productivity Point Int'l
Lockheed Martin
Lexis/Nexis
Florida Agency for Health Care Adm.
New York State Dept. of Social Services
U.S. Navy, U.S. Airforce
St. Jude's Children's Hospital
US Air
Verizon
Smithfield Foods
Cap Gemini
Cedalion Education
Keane Corp.
Stryker Orthopaedics
Maden Tech
General Dynamics
Oracle Corp.
U.S. Army, Headquarters USAREUR
Heidelburg, Germany
Cramer Corp. (Bath, England)
USA, UK, Austria, Germany, Mexico, and Canada
Scheidt-Bachmann
Moenchengladbach, Germany
Defense Logistics Agency
Wiesbaden, Germany
Mainz-Kastel, Germany
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Curriculum Development Experience
Jennifer Blair has written courseware for a number of organizations:
Course Developed for:
Advanced UNIX O/S AT&T Professional Development Center
UNIX Shell Programming Bell Labs
UNIX Data Manipulation Tools
Advanced Informix RDBMS
Oracle SQL (ver 5.0) NCR
Oracle Basics for Imaging Clients IMIX Inc
FoxPro (Database) for Windows Paragon Computer Solutions
Intro. to Computers Temple Business School
BASIC ProgrammingIntro. To Operating Systems
RDBMS & Client/Server Concepts Computer Learning Center -
Advantec, PDC
Intro. to SQL & SQL*Plus Blair Technical Training
PL/SQL Programming
Korn Shell Programming
RDBMS Concepts & Oracle Overview George Mason University TTT Program
Intro. to SQL & SQL*Plus (7.0, 8.x, 9i) University of Maryland University College
PL/SQL Programming
Developer/2000 -
Forms 5.0, Forms 6i, 9i, 10g
Reports 3.0, Reports 6i, 9i, 10g
UNIX Basics Blair Technical Training, Inc.
Linux Fundamentals
Unix Korn Shell Programming
Advanced Oracle Forms 6i
Advanced PL/SQL Programming
Oracle Discoverer for End-Users NY State Dept. of Social Services
Oracle Discoverer Desktop (for End-Users) Verizon
Oracle Discoverer for Administrators Stryker Orthopaedics
Smithfield Foods
Train-the-Trainer
Cognos Advanced Reporting
Oracle 11i Navigation General Dynamics
SAP CRM: Marketing
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) - Weisbaden, Germany
Oracle 11i OTC 11.5.10.2 Financials, Manufacturing
Stryker Corp. EMEA, France / Switzerland
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MEMBERSHIP
MAOP, BWISE, Soc. for Info. Mgt., NAFE, Northern VA
PRESENTATIONS
Speaker at Computer Training & Support Conference, 1994, 1995, 1996
Presenter at MAOUG 1994, 1995
PUBLICATIONS
Technical Edit on Steven Feuerstein's Oracle PL/SQL Programming, O'Reilly Publishing
Self-Published: SQL Examples, Oracle SQL Function Examples
Member number:5439
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