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



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