SUMMARY:

A versatile and flexible Information Technology Professional with more than twenty years of experience ranging from systems support through software development and director level management. Diverse industry experience includes Distribution/Logistics, Manufacturing, Catalog/Mail - Order, Healthcare, and now Traffic Reduction. In depth experience with full Software Development Life Cycle and Systems Integration (interfaces and data validation). A detail-oriented, focused professional able to communicate clearly and concisely with technical and non-technical staff and customers, with an aptitude for finding straight-forward solutions to complex problems.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

IBM Midrange Systems (S/34, S/36, S/38, and AS/400)

Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 98, XP

Microsoft Office Suite 97, 2003

DB2/400, dBaseII, Informix, MS SQL, MS Access

IBM RPG (II, III, 400, IV, ILE), Visual Basic (VBA & 6.0), HTML, JavaScript, Crystal Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Program Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for Commuter Rewards programs, training and support for the CommuteTrak and SalesForce.com web applications, training and support for our TMA (Transportation Management Association) partners, data analysis and report writing services, and general automation of office processes.
• Responsible for customization and implementation of SalesForce, including converting data from ACT.
• Managed conversion from CommuteTrak 1.0 to 2.0, including data cleanup and conversion that included 100,000+ commuter records and more than five years of commute behavior data.
• Primary tools are MS Access with PostgreSQL backend, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook, and VBA.

Confidential, Flowery Branch, Georgia

Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Initially hired to develop online versions of paper forms for this non-profit Mental Health Community Service Board.
• Moved into Operations Analyst position where primary responsibility is data analysis and reporting, both within the organization and for the state.
• Extensive software development background allowed contributions beyond the scope of the position. an interface to load authorization files from the state into the Unicare Mental Health Management system.
• This was done without documentation from Unicare and ever-changing specifications for the state-provided data, and included data cleansing processes to identify duplicate and spurious records prior to loading into Unicare. a multi-user application for tracking participants in the Supported Employment program and providing state-specified reports. an interface between Unicare and the Quantum accounting system. extracting and cleansing data from Unicare in preparation for migrating to Qualifacts' CareLogic software. data entry and validation reports for the four month migration process. system for synchronizing employee data between three employee systems (state, HR, and operations).
• MS SQL based data warehouse for uniform data analysis from multiple sources (old Unicare system and current CareLogic system)
• All reporting and application development was done with various combinations of MS SQL, MS SQL Reporting Services, MS Access, Visual Basic, MS Word, MS Excel, and Crystal Reports.

CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided small businesses with part time IT management, small application development, and website development on an as-needed basis.
• Primary tools were Visual Basic and Access in Windows environments, Netscape Composer, HTML, and JavaScript for web development.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Technical Requirements Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced the CARE billing package.
• Worked with Business Analysts to create specifications for Design Team.
• Required knowledge of IBM AS/400, RPG-ILE and CL, and various Cingular systems and interfaces.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported and enhanced MAC-PAC manufacturing software, an RPG based package running on the IBM AS/400.
• Developed interface between MAC-PAC and PeopleSoft.

CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed sales, accounting, and mail-list management tools for the Catalog/Mail-Order industry, for use on the IBM AS/400.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Director of Information Systems

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on director of five person Information Systems department in a fast growing (17% average annual growth in sales) catalog mail-order business.
• Responsibilities included all aspects of computer hardware and software systems and operations, software development, and user support in an IBM AS/400 RPG environment.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

President and Owner

Responsibilities:

• Genisys was a software consulting firm and an IBM Business Partner.
• Developed custom software for clients using RPG, OCL, and CL on the S/36 and AS/400 (DB2/400), and "C" and dBaseII on the PC.
• Acquired extensive experience in AS/400 standard utilities, including SDA, SEU, and Query/400 (SQL).
• Also sold IBM's DMAS distribution software package and A.B.May's S2000 dispatched service management software package, and provided on call I.T. services (technical support, business requirements analysis, project management, software development) for various clients.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and enhanced DAS, the distribution software (written in RPG and running on the S/36) used to manage software sales and shipping.
• Developed a PC-based time and billing system in BASIC.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a proprietary menu system which ran on three different platforms, the S/34, S/36, and S/38.
• Worked on a PC (DOS) based Fixed Assets Management package developed using Informix (SQL).
• The company developed and sold Traffic Management software for radio and TV stations.