OBJECTIVE:

To utilize my experience and expertise in EDI, RPG and fulfillment in direct-to-customer and business-to business supply chain management. To work for you by offering high touch, rapid shipping and EDI translation services, increasing your productivity and profitability.

LANGUAGES: RPGIV (RPGLE), RPGIII (PRG/400), CL, SQL

ERP SOFTWARE: BPCS, ABS, Vertex, Movex

EDI SOFTWARE: Extol Integrator, Extol Secure, Premenos, Harbinger, Trusted Link, Inovis, Gentran, SAP IDOCS

SOFTWARE/ UTILITIES: PDM, SEU, DFU, SDA, DBU, QUERY, OPNQRYF, SHOWCASE

SPECIAL SKILLS: SQL-embedded RPG, Subfiles, ILE (modules, bound programs, service programs), Free-format RPGIV

EXPERIENCE:
Confidential . 11/08 - present
EDI Coordinator. Contract

• Interface support, Sterling AS2
• Monitor trading partners of various types that consisted of customers, vendors, public warehouses and brokers
• Analyze new trading partners' mapping and data requirements and modified existing interface programs to meet those requirements
• Participate in new EDI transaction development mapping and implementations

Confidential. 9/03 - 11/08
EDI Coordinator/Senior Programmer Analyst

• Complete EDI and interface support.
• Monitor over 60 trading partners of various types that consisted of customers, vendors, public warehouses and brokers.
• Oversee seamless set up of most of those trading partners.
• Analyze new trading partners' mapping and data requirements and modified existing interface programs to meet those requirements. During two company expansions, each time implemented about 15 new trading partners using various methods of connectivity (AS2, VAN (GXS, Sterling), and FTP). Migrate trading partners between VANs and from VANs to AS2.
• Managed AS2Gateway Services using Sterling Business Integration Suite
• Perform daily monitoring and addressing of connectivity issues, delayed acknowledgements, data errors. On several occasions promptly addressed mapping changes that were not communicated by trading partners to significantly minimize delays in both inbound and outbound message processing.
• Created and maintain interface programs and add-on programs for maps to minimize user intervention and streamline EDI data processing and reporting utilizing RPGIV, SQL-embedded RPG, ILE functions (modules, service programs)
• Maintain legacy interfaces written in RPGIII.
• Analyzed and created programs and utilities to address BPCS limitations with regards to unit of measure and currency conversions to meet trading partners' requirements.
• Support EDI documents included:
• Outbound: 304, 810, 850, 856, 880, 888, 894, 940, 943, and 997
• Inbound: 214, 812, 816, 820, 824, 830, 846, 850, 852, 856, 860, 864, 875, 895, 944, 945, 947, 997
• Based on a collaborative design created Order Analysis system to track on a fiscal month-to-day basis movements (entered, shipped, closed, cancelled, backordered, etc.) of various types of orders (customer, intercompany, resupply, credits, returns) at the inventory, AR and sales history levels. The output was initially used by a specially created reports generator, and later by Cognos reporting tool.
• Debug and modify existing legacy and BPCS programs to address program design shortcomings and meet new business requirements.
• Created new programs based on collaborative specifications to augment BPCS functionality primarily in Order Processing (ORD) and Purchasing (PUR) modules.
• Complete support for BPCS Order Entry, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Sales Analysis, DRP and other applications. Develop and apply modifications to BPCS applications to fit the requirements provided by the client.
• Create new programs to interface with BPCS (i.e. sales and purchasing reports, generator of bills of lading as an intermediate step between order confirmation and invoicing, etc.) as well as stand-alone applications per client's request utilizing ILE and RPG-embedded SQL.
• Create PC-based queries and reports of AS/400-based data for end-users using Showcase Query and Report Writer.
• Ability to manage, coordinate and resolve day-to-day support activities. Insures issues are resolved on a timely basis, and resolutions properly documented.

Confidential 8/98 - 9/03
Senior EDI/Programmer Consultant

• Worked on EDI projects for clients: Movado, Tag, Color Me Beautiful, Pen-Tab, Dupont, Brown-Wooten, Austin Nickols, Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, bioMerieux.
• Full scale EDI support using Premenos, Harbinger & Trusted Link, Gentran EDI Software: mapping, trading partner setup, testing with trading partners.
• Supported messages included:
• Inbound/Outbound Purchase Orders (850), Invoices (810), ASN (856), Remittance Advice (820), Product Activity Data (852), Material Release (830) in ASNI X-12 versions 3020 through 4010.
• Set up trading partners in BPCS/ECM and Movex/EDI.
• Wrote and modified interface programs for BPCS/ECM and Movex/EDI applications.
• Wrote new and modified existing programs to generate ASNs during Pick Release or Pick Confirm processes in BPCS.
• Developed:
• Reporting system for EDI/ECM processing in BPCS.
• Carton Split Maintenance System in BPCS.
• User exit programs in Movex.

Confidential 8/97 - 8/98
Senior Programmer Analyst

• Created and maintained EDI 810, 832, and 856 transactions files.
• Developed and modified existing programs for Apparel Business Systems.

Confidential 7/96 - 8/97
Senior Consultant

• Implemented programming changes to support the processing of prepackaged products.
• Implemented program changes to produce Bar-code data to be distributed to agents around the world. Formatted data to the requirements of Bergen Paramount for simple EDI data specifications.
• Maintained and enhanced the EDI 832 transaction files between EE's style master and the QRS catalog. Retail interacts (troubleshooting of Batch and Credit Card processing).
• Responsible for ongoing development reporting and daily problem resolution of the financial, sales, order, and product master modules.

Confidential 11/94 - 7/96
Consultant

• Designed, developed, and maintained billing and contract systems. Converted in-house tax modules to Vertex tax modules.

Confidential 8/93 - 8/94
Programmer/Analyst

• Responsible for business application development using RPG/400, JCL and system utilities.
• Create new Order Maintenance and Order Inquiry/Reporting system from initial design through implementation.
• Supported existing accounting applications.
• Responsible for coding, debugging, troubleshooting.

Confidential 1/92 - 8/93
Programmer

• Maintained program modules for a medical package that produced claims for medical institutions, inventory control, and accounts receivable for a medical equipment retailer.
• Created new registration menu from initial design through implementation, updated displays, CL, and RPG programs.
• Created a testing environment for new clients, set up user profiles.

EDUCATION:

BS in Computer Science
EXTOL certified