# kato janssen > Architecture & Planning Professional Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kato SUMMARY Senior project manager, software designer, and business analyst; experience includes: Product management and application design (14+ years): experience designing application user interfaces and business logic Project management (10+ years): experience in all project stages, and with traditional "waterfall" and "agile/iterative" system development life cycle (SLDC) methodologies Requirements analysis (14+ years): identifying business needs; writing functional specifications and use cases Business process improvement (8+ years): designing/improving operating procedures, work and data flows Specialties: account management, agile, application development, business process, capacity planning, credit, crm, customer service, database ## Work Experience ### Senior developer @ salesforce automation Jan 2009 – Present SFA) system. Helped write workplan and supervise developers. ### Mips Technologies @ Mountain View Jan 2009 – Present Created application that used time-dimensioned business metadata to control data warehouse reporting rollups. ### Med @ Vantage Inc Jan 2009 – Present Managed geocoding, site administration, and web analytics features for physician/hospital search website suite. Gathered requirements from numerous customers, created UML models, and wrote market and product requirements documents (MRDs and PRDs). Managed products through three releases: refined product roadmap, determined release scope; collaborated in planning and estimating, adapted plans to changing conditions, and participated in QA testing and rollout. ### Programmer/Analyst @ Cisco Systems Jan 2009 – Present Designed and built marketing analytics datamart and tools to detect patterns in product orders. Created project plan. Analyzed data sources and gathered requirements. Designed and built database, ETL, and data analysis components. ### Database Technical Lead @ vivid studios Jan 2009 – Present Designed and built database for content management system for search/site-catalog service (similar to Yahoo). Analyzed requirements including use cases for site-review workflow and database extensibility features. Designed and documented database. Wrote detailed module designs and supervised one developer. ### Programmer/Analyst @ University of California Jan 2009 – Present Created tape library management and software license tracking applications, using Oracle tools and C. ### Independent Consultant @ xxxxxxxx Jan 2008 – Present Provided services to web-oriented startup ventures in online customer service, online video game services, social networking, and other areas. GetActive Software, Berkeley - Product Manager 2004 to 2005 Managed fundraising and financial transactions product modules of CRM suite, in fast-paced environment using a three-month release cycle. Gathered requirements from numerous customers, created UML models, and wrote market and product requirements documents (MRDs and PRDs). Managed products through three releases: refined product roadmap, determined release scope; collaborated in planning and estimating, adapted plans to changing conditions, and participated in QA testing and rollout. ### Project Lead (Consultant) @ Genentech Inc Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 Led project to build Oracle sales tracking application. Application included powerful features for loading, verifying and researching sales and distribution data; it replaced multiple legacy systems, greatly improving productivity. Application tracked drugs used in thrombolytics, oncology, endocrinology, and other areas. Project employed a waterfall project plan and highly detailed specifications. Wrote project plans. Facilitated stakeholder decision-making on project scope and phasing. Managed change requests and oversaw three releases. Gathered and analyzed requirements; wrote both functional specifications and technical design. Generated test cases from use cases and directed user acceptance testing (UAT). Managed three to five developers and coordinated user representatives. ### xxxxxxxxxx @ NextCard Inc Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 Coordinated additions to database of financial services website, in a dynamic startup employing an agile/iterative development process. Collaborated with object modelers in UML/Rational Rose environment. Analyzed requirements and created DB designs for CRM, customer account management, and credit card product offering. Analyzed business process flows, performed capacity planning, and reviewed responses to RFP for web-based services. Participated in release rollout, and in post-rollout support and monitoring. ### Project Lead (Consultant) @ Fabrik Communications Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 Led development of Oracle billing datamart for a business ISP. Application supported sophisticated billing plans and configurable promotion and discount features. Lead requirements meetings; wrote uses cases and functional specifications. Worked closely with Sales and Marketing management; helped clarify and resolve issues in feature definition, feature priorities, and phasing. Managed all stages from inception through implementation. Supervised one developer. Developed process flow to coordinate and load data. ### Database Technical Lead (Consultant) @ Charles Schwab Jan 1994 – Jan 1995 Designed and built Oracle datamart to hold legacy data for producing monthly brokerage customer statements. Wrote project workplan. Analyzed requirements and data mappings. Supervised one developer. Designed and built database, ETL tools, and automated QA tests. ### Technical Lead @ Syntex Pharmaceuticals, Palo Alto (later acquired by Roche) Jan 1992 – Jan 1993 Co-led development of early version of Oracle Clinical, a pharmaceutical clinical trial data analysis system. Involved with dataset management and analysis, workflow management, data capture and validation, and adverse event reporting features. Helped develop project plan. Defined UI standards. Estimated and assigned tasks; helped supervise seven developers. (Oracle Corporation Internal Project ### xxxxxxxxxx @ Oracle Jan 1986 – Jan 1993 From 1988-on I was in Oracle's consulting group, conducting projects for Oracle's clients using a standardized, structured development process. Small projects omitted.) ### Technical Support Analyst, DBA @ Oracle Jan 1986 – Jan 1988 ### Project Lead @ Grubb & Ellis Jan 1988 – Jan 1990 Designed and built commercial real estate property tracking system. Supervised three developers. ## Education ### BA in International Relations San Francisco State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kato-janssen-4934801a --- Source: https://flows.cv/kato JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kato/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10