About

Gulf Atlantic Consulting, Inc. has been in business since 1991.

Our experience runs from Space Based Architecure (SBA), Information Architecture, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Governance and Data Quality (DG/DQ), ERP and CRM packaged software to custom development on all major platforms. This includes GigaSpaces XAP, Siperian, IBM Quality Stage, Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), PeopleSoft, Epiphany, Siebel on Unix (all OEM), Linux, Windows and Tandem. We also have experience with Open Source software including Talend Open Studio/Profiler, Pentaho Data Integration, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostGreSQL, and PHP.

All our consultants are leaders, and are considered in the top 1% of talent in their field.

	For BondDesk Group, our consultant is the Information Architect responsible for creating a new best of breed architecture solution to replace the company's legacy bond trading platform. The solution is an all encompassing Space Based Architecture (SBA) including Service Grid, Messaging Grid, Data Grid and Processing Grid that is designed to significantly improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, extensibility, and maintainability. Proposed solution was crafted using the GigaSpaces XAP software capabilities.
	At Vitas, our top consultant implemented a HL7 compliant data mart to enable the client to replace reporting and analysis based on transaction type tables with cubes generated from a star type schema. The most interesting tools used are Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 with the bundled data profiling SSIS modules. Data is sourced, staged, transformed and moved into a dimensional model using the Wherescape Red Data Warehousing and BI tool.
	In 2009, one of our top consultants was the Lead for the post LexisNexis Data Quality project to summarize, codify and productize the policies and procedures for Data Governance and Data Quality using the Informatica Data Quality and Identity Systems toolsets as OEMed by Oracle. Here he installed, configured and tested these tools. This task required the creation of data profile (analysis), cleansing, standardization and matching IDQ plans for party organization and party individual detail data. The responsibilties included the design and creation of common source, metrics persistance, cleansed data and a match scoring data model. We developed a narrative and presentations for how these tools and processes fit into modern Data Governance with respect to the Data Governance matrurity model. Our consultant was very honored and pleased to prepared paper to be delivered at OAUG Spring 2010 conference.
	Renewed in 2009, our consultant was the Enterprise Data Architect responsible for Data Quality Initiative at LexisNexis. Here he provided thought leadership to enable best in class repeatable data profiling for enterprise data quality initiative. Key deliverables include enterprise level data quality/data profiling requirements and design, data profiling metrics data model design, data cleansing and standardization rules. All this was done using the IBM Information Server (Quality Stage) toolset. We managed off shore development team to instantiate this design into a production ready data profiling system which provides regular periodic profiling of enterprise source system data. Our repsonsibilty included captureing data quality rules from the data profiling effort to be fed back to source system owners. In the course of the project, it became necessary to migrated the data profiling results metrics data base to Teradata. It was required to interface with Enterprise Customer Master team on data quality issues relevant to their deliverables including profiling of MDM source data, data cleansing and standardization rules. This process saw the completeion of cleansing, standardization, matching and de-duplication of LexisNexis source party individual and party organization data via fuzzy matching techniques. Starting in 2008 our consultant was the Enterprise Data Architect responsible for MDM/CDI initial design. Responsibilities included data assessment of over 170 enterprise source systems, a CDI data model design and finally, detailed recommendations for survivability rules and data governance and stewardship.
	In 2008, our consultant was the Data Architect responsible for analysis and design of an initial data migration of donor data from legacy CRM applications to Siebel 8.0. Responsibilities included relationship and dependency of legacy donor management, HR and contact management software. Finally, we did the mapping of this data to the Siebel EIM tables.
	One of our best consultants has been assisting AutoTrader.com with troubleshooting and support of their large Epiphany CRM applications. This included providing advice to AutoTrader.com Support and Development teams regarding Epiphany Java extension coding best practices. We also solved production memory leak issues with bulk load import jobs and determined the cause of inbound email problems with their Service application. We've done whole bunch more that we can list for this client...
	Our consultants were successful in helping the University of South Florida configure EPM 8.9 and resolve some major issues with the configuration of the Meta Data Console imports and exports. We also assisted with correcting defects in many Ascential ETL jobs.
	Our consultant was the key developer in a PeopleSoft Time and Labor implementation. Directly due to his leadership and talent, the project had no subsequent problems after go-live.
	Gulf Atlantic consultants participated in a PeopleSoft EPM implementation at the Washington Post. Our consultants made recommendations for delivering an HR data warehouse including technical architecture and deployment options. We also prototyped workforce analytics in a successful effort to prove end to end data movement from the source systems to the EPM warehouse.
	Gulf Atlantic consultants participated in another PeopleSoft EPM implementation at Ameriquest.
	PWC retained our services to develop a comprehensive PeopleSoft Partner Information Database and administration tool to replace the legacy mainframe HR applications and Lotus Notes forms
	For HDR, Gulf Atlantic consultants set up, modified and tested a new PeopleSoft Time and Labor implementation for 5,000 employees. Our consultant performed design and development for TRCs (and earnings code mappings), workgroups, task groups and security for the new Time and Labor implementation.
	Gulf Atlantic consultants performed fit/gap analysis for a 7.5-8.0 upgrade of a specialized Time and Labor interface for 30,000 employees in the Houston Independent School District. We then designed and built panels for users to enable HR and payroll data input. All panels had extensive error traps using PeopleCode coupled with SQRs to handle a complex funding and grant accounting system.
	Gulf Atlantic consultants participated in a PeopleSoft HR/Benefits project for Anderson Consulting.
	Our consultants designed and developed a complex security tree and associated tables to reflect a dual reporting process (HR and Finance) at Brinks Security.
	For Stone Container, Gulf Atlantic consultants designed and developed a PeopleSoft Time and Labor/Payroll/HR/Benefits application to conform to FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act).
	Gulf Atlantic consultants participated in the merging of multiple companies with diverse systems backgrounds into a common PeopleSoft Human Resource and Payroll database.
	For NexTrade Holdings, Inc. our consultant evaluated and tuned their SQL Server platform as part of the due diligence required by an acquisition effort.