Michael Ramsey:  

ta Systems) to participate in a post graduate internship with them in St louis. EDS is a division of General Motors, and since I have a thing for cars, this was a great opportunity, plus it gave me some much needed credit towards my masters degree. Well, after one year with EDS, I hired on full time with them where I worked as a systems engineer on the automotive controls team. This was 1991, by 1993 I was working the on the robotics team that handled plant assembly operations. This continued until 1997 when I was promoted to director of automation for the Federal Mogul division, this division was the key OEM parts supplier for GM and had 27 different products from Fel-Pro gaskets to Moog Chassis. I started presenting some of our custom applications to the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1998, these were common industry meetings that occured during the North American Auto shows, so I traveled to each show and presented our developments to other companies in the auto industry. (By the way, I always lived in Christopher IL during this time, I flew out to Detroit or where ever I needed to be each week....yes, each week for almost 7 full years.) In late 1998 I was approached by a company called ORACLE, they were very big in computer databases, but were also ramping up their application products and were looking for someone like me to head their Automotive industry practice. I accepted a postion with ORACLE in late 1998, from that time i spent countless weeks working with everyone from DELL Computer in Austin, TX to General Electric in New York. Normally I would spend anywhere from 1 month to 6 months working with these clients on implementing ORACLE applications. The nice thing is that I got to work with some great people in some great places like San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Miami, London England, Bristol UK, Toronto, Montreal, and the list goes on. I don't think there is any major US city I haven't spent a few weeks in and several foreign cities too. In 2002 I moved to London England to work on an ORACLE project for General Electric, loved it and would move back in a heart beat. Then I went to Bristol UK for another ORACLE project for a company called Xerox, but I decided to commute back to the US every two weeks for this project. I continued working and traveling with ORACLE until July of 2006, when I was approached by a head hunter for SAP. SAP is the worlds largest industry applications provider, they are to corporations what Microsoft is to the common computer user, so I was another big step for me. I hired in as a director of Banking and Financial Service Solutions and am still in that role today. I work weekly with Toyota, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, etc. I really like what I do, I love to travel, and I have had a dramatic change in career direction since graduating college. Things have evolved for me in a very positive way and I am thankful for the opportunities I have been given. Military No Military experience