OBJECTIVE

To pursue a challenging and rewarding career with an innovative and forward thinking organization who values excellent work and a can do attitude. A results-driven self-starter, utilizing highly developed analytical skills to methodically solve problems. Possesses a positive and enthusiastic attitude among peers and management. Strong leadership and communication skills for fostering a teamwork atmosphere.Highly drawn to systems architecture, business analyst, and IT management opportunities. Would be excited to pursue leads allowing growth in new directions as well.

• 8 years of 3 to 4 person team lead and management of application development using agile methodology.
• 15 years of strong business and fit gap analysis, cost/benefit analysis, requirements gathering, functional and technical design creation, unit and system testing.
• 6 years of creating/refining IT infrastructure for small company
• 11 years of experience using Crystal Reports.
• Excellent knowledge with SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 platforms.
• Ownership of Order Entry-Billing, A/R, A/P, Bank Reconciliation, Payroll Payment Processing, Scheduling, Workflow, and Judicial Case Management Systems.
• Superior communication, people, and troubleshooting skills.
• Highly experienced with all facets of the AS/400-ISeries.
• Proficient with SQL, Plex, RPG, Cobol and CLP languages. Good knowledge of .NET.
• System development lifecyle - extensive systems development from initial analysis/requirement gathering and design to implementation incorporating OOP and SOA concepts.
• Ability to design flexible systems that exceeds user expectations
• Bachelor of Science degree. Computer Science Applied Mathematics from USC - 1984.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Jury Application Ownership of JMS Jury Management System . Identified and resolved serious issues to Jury application. Streamlined the manual loading of the State Grand Jury wheel for jury selections Gained productivity of 100 . Enhanced export reporting options to be used by all counties. Provided analyst and support to Jury tier 2 users of the application.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Summary:

• Spartan Technology Solutions develops Case Management Systems for various types of Court systems that tracks cases, outputs, and results. Served as product owner/business analyst, team lead, systems analyst and developer supporting a portfolio of different modules.
• Responsible for working with customers to gather technical requirements based on specific needs and functionality.
• Developed within the application for new releases, enhancements, customization, and fixes using Cool:Plex.
• Development included work that was GUI as well as backend.
• Managed junior and remote team providing development direction, guidance, and oversight.
• Analyzed, created solution to streamline internal process - from entry of programming problem to solution to test environment. Created flowcharts and lead creation of standard operating procedures SOPs .
• Supported the Following Modules and Functionality:
• Workflow - Reduced personnel count by 15 due to automated tasks triggered by time, system events, or users. Allow end user to define their processes sequential, AND split, OR splits workflows to generate user tasks due. Design allows for automatic triggers from internal and external sources. Auto system tasks capability. Also, auto completion of user tasks. Conditions to terminate workflow. Ability to attach a workflow to any entity - flexible db design across platforms.
• Scheduling module - Provides for coordination of office calendars and resolvement of scheduling conflicts. Replaced manual calendaring system for scheduling court hearings. Designed, programmed, implemented to be able to define a schedule for a specified resource court room, prosecutor, etc ... define a master schedule and associate resources. Based on associations, auto build schedules for defined resources based on master schedule. Track max to schedule per day or time unit . Process to resolve to proper schedule at case level.
• Financial module Increased system integrity of financial data by automatically calculating costs due based on user driven definitions. Eliminated manual bank reconciliation. Designed and led team in development of financial package for court systems. Allow the definition of case costs, payments, allocation of payment to costs, check processing module, bank account reconciliation. Plug in for Master in Equity, Bad checks, and Probate systems.
• Master in Equity and Juvenile systems- gather user requirements, system design, program, implementation.
• Bad Checks- Allows solicitors to track bad checks written to merchants and aids in reclaiming lost merchant funds. Design, led china team on programming, reviewing system against system design docs., managing team on system changes, bridge with support staff system implementation.
• Probate- Efficient creation and tracking of documents used to close estate cases. Drastically reduces a user having to 'search' for a case file by utilitizing barcodes to check in and out files. Design, led china team on programming, reviewing beta against system requirements and design.
• IT internal processes - analyzed, created solution to streamline internal process - from entry of programming problem to solution to test env. Created flowcharts and lead creation of standard operating procedures SOPs . 2 - implemented cycles for dev life cycle...design/dev programming/qa testing cycles.
• DSS demo system- Managed creation of a DSS demo system. Researched, gathered requirments, Designed specifications for system. Managed china team in implementing demo system in a 3 week timeframe. High pressure with results. Company won project with comments such as 'best demo' from anyone
• Child Care demo - Researched gathered requirements fit gap analysis with current financial system. Created specs for system programmed and implemented for demo.
• SQL server administration - db save/restores. compare utilities for db's, folders, db2 scripts to identify file differences on 2 db's
• XML word merge design - 2 phases 1st phase, integrate with .net application to read control files and work with microsoft add-ins to enhance user experience within word. 2nd phase, - design to dynamically build schemas on the fly
• DB2 automatic module for upgrades - designed automatic db2 upgraded, and programmed. Created user documentation.
• Quickbooks interface - Totally eliminated double keying of financial data within Quickbooks. Designed interface to financial module.
• Batch word merge Decreased user keystrokes exponentially by allowing user to define merge criteria once. Designed to allow end user to specify a word document to process for all selected cases. Flexible definition for computer to process batch - any client or a dedicated server. Data driven printer/ batch definitions.
• Self managed proactive planning of work weekly report of accomplishment and plan for next 2 weeks. Daily log of task time.
• Strong analysis, design to meet and exceed requirements design for flexibility for future systems strong troubleshooting skills strong follow up on pending tasks. communication with team and across department lines, positive attitute that team can accomplish any clear directives,.

Systems Analyst

Confidential

• Designed and implemented financial solution for judicial software. Process flow included automatic creation of costs, payment processing including disbursements to costs, scheduled time payments, person accounts, check processing, bank reconciliation, and supporting reports.
• Interacted with support personnel and customers to provide ongoing solutions to meet customized requirements.
• Generated module to faciliate the interface of Crystal reports with client/server application. Provided solution for storing user defined report parameters at abstract level.
• Interfaced customer A/R and A/P system with Court Application.
• Designed Universal interface to facilitate creation of case data from external systems.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Interfaced two Order Entry systems with the company's billing system. Designed and programmed Order Matching process which attempts to match EDI data with order information on system and provides exception processing. Reduced manual matching by 80 .
• Downloaded EDI pricing data to facilitate spreadsheet manipulation, then uploaded the valid data into a pricing database using Visual Basic.
• Converted a complex pricing database for an Order Entry/Billing module.
• Learned Cool:Plex client/server development tool and utilized it for developing the majority of windows based order entry client/server application.
• Merged three A/R systems into one central system.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Responsible for operations system O.I.S.-Operations Information Systems . Involved in all areas of system development.
• Lead O.I.S. to payroll interface project. Automation eliminated one position in payroll.
• Wrote S/38 monitoring procedures.
• Converted S/34 software to S/38.
• Performed various computer operations tasks.