Collection Of Recommendation Letters From Clients And Peers In Reference To Mark Foy (Page 4 of 9) in pdf

As Technical Applications Manager at , I have managed many different Oracle Applications technical and function

people. During the first 4 months of 2001, I hired Mark Foy as a consultant in my group, and this letter is to comment on my

experience working with Mark.

Mark was immediately thrown into a rapidly changing group, where learning our customized system and producing

enhancements was critical. Bluelight was in the process of rolling off the Oracle Professional Services consultants we had

hired for the last year to customize and implement our Oracle Applications system. Therefore, Mark had to quickly assimilate

knowledge of the system technical design and customizations from the departing consultants. Mark was tasked with learning

all customizations and functionalities of the order entry system, the warehouse interface, and some parts of the inventory

interface. We were very happy that Mark was able to quickly come up to speed in these areas, and then immediately begin to

perform business-critical additions and changes.

In particular, I was very impressed with the way Mark carried out his work, from analysis to implementation and post-

production support. His analysis was always very complete, and easily understood by users and management so different

system extension options could be evaluated with all relevant information. He has the rare ability to be able to effectively

communicate will all different types of people (technical peers, supervisors, end users, etc.), and this was definitely an asset

within our organization. Other developers and QA personnel were able to learn a lot from Mark because he can clearly

communicate complex ideas in a methodical style. Mark was able to quickly scope requested enhancements, and give solid

estimates of how long it would take to produce high quality, well-tested solutions. His organizational skills were valued

because he could effectively schedule and manage his work, without me having to give guidance every step of the way.

Mark is a very skilled software engineer with good documentation skills. We did many production pushes of code Mark had

developed and tested, and I can only recall one occasion where we had a problem with the code push. Overall, his code

seemed virtually bug-free, and other developers appreciated how he documents his code so that it can be easily understood in

the future.

In summary, I would definitely hire Mark again, and would recommend him to other companies without hesitation. He brings a

long and varied background in information technology that can be hard to find today, and Bluelight definitely benefited by

employing his consulting services.

Sincerely,

Roger Shirakawa

Technical Applications Manager

Information Technology

San Francisco, CA

*****

U S WEST COMMUNICATIONS

July 22, 1998

Lafayette, CO

Memo to: Current and Prospective Employers of Information Systems Personnel

In my 25-year career with U S WEST Communications, I have most recently held the positions of Engineering Systems

Mechanization Project Manager and Technical Project Manager. My primary responsibilities included project oversight, client

requirements gathering and direct interface with the development staffs. My charge was to understand client needs, ensure

the developers understood those needs and developed programs that would satisfy their requirements. I have worked with

scores of developers, many of them technically competent, many who could speak to management and end users on

whatever level necessary and even a few who were creative and were able to present fresh ideas. But, in my experience,

there has been only one individual whom I would recommend unconditionally to others, Mark Foy.

Mark worked as a technical consultant on a project of which I was the Technical Project Manager from February 1996 until

October 1997. From the very start he proved himself to be highly competent technically. In addition, he was required to

perform under very difficult, stressful circumstances, often with nearly impossible deadlines and conflicting directions. Client

requirements changed weekly, sometimes as often as hourly. He was expected to produce a high quality product on a

schedule that would have caused most developers to just quit. Not Mark. Not only did he remain completely unruffled under

pressure, he produced a product of extraordinarily high quality and made many creative, useful suggestions to improve the

results. He was called up to work with a very diverse group of people, some quite difficult. Mark worked well with everyone

and kept focused in a highly chaotic environment. His technical excellence makes it a pleasure to work with him but where I

believe his star shines most brightly is his ability to speak to anyone, at any level, without being condescending or

unnecessarily technical. That is a quality very few developers possess.

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