Highly experienced IT professional with over 20 years of business application design and development on the i-Series (aka AS400) platform.
Highlights
Strong team player who can fulfill a number of different roles depending on project needs.
Extensive background in a wide variety of industries and application systems through a 15 year career as an independent contractor. For that reason, learning new concepts and applications comes with a much shorter learning curve.
Strong analytical skills to perform defect root cause analysis and removal.
Well versed in the full SDLC in both a traditional waterfall and Agile development methodologies.
Equally comfortable working with business users as well as business and IT leadership.
A passion for quality and efficiency.
Accomplishments
Modified Reinsurance application to deliver reports electronically and eliminate 100,000 pages of hard copy reports annually.
Created Reconciliation system to replace 65 reports with a single monthly report for each analyst.
Provided consulting services for several Fortunes 100 & 500 companies in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Financial applications.
Created application interfaces to MAPICS for Order Entry, Invoicing, and Piecework Payroll.
Created Inventory Management and Route Accounting systems for local Beer and Wine Distributors.
Redesigned application for recommending wheels and tires that fit a specific vehicle with feeds to web applications for 515 retail stores.
Developed data extract from DB2/400 to XML text using COBOL/400-ILE to server-based forms package via FTP for State Quarterly Tax Returns.
Received Service Recognition Award and bonus for Project Lead efforts on Honeywell Business Acquisition project.
Experience
Aurecon - IT Application Specialist Manila, AR, 01/2007 - Current
As Application Specialist in their Business Intelligence Group, I support the Finance, Claims, Reinsurance, Underwriting, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal groups with ad hoc reports, data feeds, and production projects from Service Requests.
In the course of completing projects, leveraged CL/400, RPG/400, SQL/400, COBOL/400, DB2/400, SEQUEL, PDM, DDS, SDA, Aldon CMS, HP ServiceCenter, Robot, and Hawkeye.
Created ETL programs to extract DB2 data from i-Series and reformat for other applications like Mainframe, BO and Portal Teams.
Learned Business Objects (BO) and started using it to create web-based custom views and reports from databases (universes) designed and developed in consort with the BO DBA.
IT division realigned to Standing Teams and Agile Development in 2012.
Pwc - Principal Consultant/President Tampa, FL, 08/1996 - 01/2007
Independent consultant and contract systems developer supporting various clients on a project or hourly basis.
Perform on-site and remote project management, business application systems design and development, database design, production support of legacy systems, QA Testing and general IT consulting services.
Tools include RPG III/400, RPG/IV, RPG-ILE, COBOL/400, DB2/400, SQL/400 (interactive and embedded), CL/400, PDM, DDS, SDA, DBU, DFU, TOTAL Query/400, Robot, Sequel, Hawkeye, Turnover, Aldon's CMS and Harmonizer, Remedy, and Mercury's Test Director.
Clients have included:
* 04/06-02/07 Assurant/Reliable Insurance, Scottsdale, AZ (Sr.P/A)
* 02/05-04/05 Independent Health Assoc., Buffalo NY (Sr.P/A)
* 03/03-08/04 Discount Tire, Scottsdale AZ (Sr. P/A)
* 01/02-09/02 Intuit, Reno NV (Sr. P/A)
* 05/99-12/01National Century, Columbus OHā(Lead Designer)
* 04/99-09/99Pinnacle Technology Resources, Scottsdale AZ (Sr. P/A)
* 11/97-03/99Honeywell/ Allied Signal, Chandler AZ (Y2K Project Lead)
* 09/96-11/97American Express Travel, Phoenix AZ (Sr. P/A)
Avalon Software, Inc. - Product Analyst City, STATE, 1995 - 07/1996
Worked with customer focus groups as application specialist in Distribution and Financials to develop functional requirements for automotive industry Supply Chain module (EDI Suite) for manufacturing software developer in a 4GL/Unix environment.
Wrote Test Plans & Use Cases to insure programs satisfied user requirements.
Developed logical designs using Sybase CASE data modeling methodology in Deft on Mac.
Responsible for estimating, scheduling and managing projects for customer modifications.
Designed display and report formats using Deft Forms Editor.
Led A/P development team to design and implement application rewrite under Sybase.
Coordinated testing and training with QA, Customer Service and key customers for conversion from Sybase to Oracle O/S.
Wrote SQR reports to satisfy A/P and A/R functional requirements.
Participated in Requirement Definition reviews to insure application functionality for improvement of product marketability.
Participated in re-engineering development process for ISO-9000 standards while improving product quality & cycle time.
Served on core management team to review non-systems internal processes for streamlining processes culture.
Allergan, Inc. - Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer City, STATE, 04/1990 - 11/1994
Converted from 6 month CTH to FTE after 3 months.
Performed application support on BPCS for Worldwide Manufacturing operations on multiple remote System/36s and AS/400s communicating via RJE and EDI with 3084 Mainframe (for Order Management, Invoicing and General Ledger) utilizing OS/MVS, JCL, TSO, and RJE.
Designed & developed software mods per user requirements on System/36 using RPG II on AS/400 using RPG/400.
Led team for conversion of hardware, software, and data from System/36 to AS/400 version of BPCS INV & DST modules.
Administered IS QA function to insure QIP for zero defects, conformance to standards, and root cause analysis and removal.
Participated in gathering functional requirements enhancement for K-Mart/WalMart JIT "Quick Response" project to receive POS sales or inventory levels via EDI and automatically.
Transferred to Surgical Optics division. Production support on CA-PRMS ERP system (O/E, EDI to M/F Invoicing, MRP, MPS, SFC, I/M, and DRP).
Evaluated & implemented laser-based CD-ROM system for report archive & retrieval that interfaced with AS400.
Used Activity Modeling techniques (IDEF) to map business processes.
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