Senior Applications Programmer Analyst Resume
Houston, TX
CAREER SUMMARY:
- Experienced Technical Leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME)—with a programming and analysis, business intelligence, and software engineering background—seeks to analyze, design, develop, document, deploy, and support various types of data - centric/-driven applications and systems; with emphases upon analytics and master data management.
- Leadership (e.g., director, manager, lead, architect), with emphasis upon technology
- Data reporting and analytics, informatics, master data management (e.g., tools from Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Tableau)
- Data warehousing, using extract, transform, load (ETL) (e.g., tools from Informatica, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP)
- SQL queries for ad hoc and scheduled reports, views, performance tuning, and stored procedures
- Object-oriented programming (OOP) and structured programming
- Project management, emphasizing software development lifecycle (SDL/SDLC), including Agile and Waterfall
- Systems integration, emphasizing network solutions (e.g., cloud computing, remote access)
- Strategic technology planning (e.g., disaster recovery DR, security requirements)n-tier analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and support of applications, databases, and systems
- Diagramming, including flowchart and unified modeling language (UML) (e.g., using Microsoft Visio)
- Extensive knowledge of banking/lending, healthcare, manufacturing, taxation and other regulatory environments
- Oral presentations (e.g., Presentations, PowerPoint) for diverse audiences, including business, clinical/medical, legal, and technical
- Various forms of writing, including legal (e.g., contracts, proposals, policies, motions, pleadings, judgment forms) and technical (e.g., manuals, procedures, specifications)
TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY:
Analytics: SAP BO Dashboards f/k/a Xcelsius, WebI (i.e., Explorer/InfoView/Rich Client), DeskI; Tableau Desktop, Public, Server
Cloud Storage: Amazon Cloud Drive; Apple iCloud; Dropbox Desktop; Google Drive; Microsoft OneDrive f/k/a SkyDrive, SkyboxCloud Cloud (e.g., Hybrid, Private, Public)
Collaboration: IBM OneSource; I.R.I.S. IRISCloud Community; Microsoft SharePoint
Compilers: Apple Xcode; Borland C++Builder, Delphi, JBuilder, Kylix; IBM VisualAge, WebSphere; Microsoft Office VBA, Visual Studio/.NET; NetBeans IDE; Oracle JDeveloper; Progress Software ClientBuilder, Eclipse IDE; SAP PowerBuilder
DBMS: dBASE; IBM DB2 (e.g., mainframe; Windows), Informix; Microsoft Access, FoxPro, SQL Server; Oracle Database; MySQL; PostgreSQL; SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, Sybase SQL Server
DB Tools: Oracle SQL Developer; IBM Data Studio, DB2 Connect; Pegacat Software JXPlorer; SQLTools.net SQL Tools; Synametrics Technologies WinSQL
Document Management: ABBYY Business Card Reader, FineReader, FineScanner, FlexiCapture, PDF Transformer+, Recognition Server; Adobe Acrobat; I.R.I.S. IRISCard, IRISCloud (i.e., ECM, Invoice, OCR), IRISCompressor, IRISNotes, IRISPen, IRIScan, Readiris; NewSoft Presto PageManager; Nuance OmniPage, PaperPort, PDF Converter
EHR/EMR: Cerner Millennium, PowerInsight Explorer (PIE), PowerInsight Warehouse (PIEDW), HealtheIntent (HI); athenahealth athenaOne, athenaClinical; GE Healthcare Centricity eReaders Amazon Kindle; Barnes & Noble Nook; Microsoft Reader
FTP/SFTP: GlobalSCAPE Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) Server; IPSwitch WS FTP; Mozilla FileZilla
Languages: Basic (e.g., VB5/VB6/VB.NET), C/C++/C#/Objective-C, FoxPro, F#, HTML, Java, JavaScript/JScript, Pascal (e.g., Delphi), Perl (i.e., PerlScript), PowerBuilder, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL/T-SQL/Transact-SQL
Mainframe (Legacy): Attachmate Extra ; BMC Control-D; CA Technologies Integrated Database Management System (IDMS), Top Secret, Terminal Productivity Executive (TPX); IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS), CICS Transaction Gateway, COmmon Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) Compiler, DB2, Direct Access Storage Device (DASD), Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), Interactive System Productivity Facility / Production Development Facility (ISPF/PDF), Job Control Language (JCL), Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS), Time Sharing Option/Extensions (TSO/E), Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM), WebSphere Application Server; Software AG Adaptable DAta BAse System (ADABAS)
Middleware: Compuware Gomez; Enteros Load2Test; IBM WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server; Infor Fourth Shift ERP/MRP; Informatica Dynamic Data Masking, PowerCenter; Microsoft Active Directory; Nagios IT Infrastructure Monitoring; Oracle Applications (e.g., JD Edwards EnterpriseOne), Directory Server f/k/a Sun Java System Directory Server, Sun ONE Directory Server, iPlanet Directory Server, Netscape Directory Server), WebLogic Portal; SAP ERP; Tecnomatix Unicam eM-Quality System
Office Suites: Apache OpenOffice (i.e., Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, Writer); Corel WordPerfect Office (e.g., eBook Publisher, Lightning, Paradox, Presentations, Quattro Pro, WordPerfect); Google Docs; Microsoft Office (e.g., Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word), Office 365
OS: Apple iOS, MacOS; Google Android OS, Chrome OS; IBM AIX, OS/2, OS/390, OS/400 (e.g., i5/OS, i), z/OS; Microsoft Windows (e.g., NT 3.51, NT 4, 95, 98/98SE, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10), Windows Phone, Windows Server (e.g., NT 3.51, NT 4, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2013); Oracle Linux, (Sun Microsystems) Solaris/SunOS; Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry OS
Project Management: Microsoft Project, Project Online; OpenProject Foundation OpenProject; SAP Business ByDesign, Portfolio and Project Management (e.g., cFolders, cProjects, RPM); Workspace.com Workspace
CORE SKILLS:
- Project management
- Workflow and work queue management
- Mentoring and training
- IT Architecture:
- Process engineering/workflow
- Resource planning/scheduling
- Change management
- Data science
- Descriptive and predictive analytics
- Dashboards, reports, and extracts
- Database administration
- Data warehousing
- Master data governance/management
- Methodology:
- Object-oriented (OOP; e.g., Booch)
- Structured (e.g., Yourdon)
- Compiled:
- Java
- Delphi
- F#
- Visual Basic (VB), Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET)
- C, C++, C#, Objective-C
- Scripting:
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- JavaScript/Jscript
- Perl
- PowerShell
- Python
- Structured Query Language (SQL), Transact-SQL (T-SQL), Oracle PL/SQL
- All things Tableau, including administration, architecture, and development:
- Tableau Server
- Tableau Desktop (preferred)
- Tableau Online f/k/a Tableau Public
- Tableau Prep
- All things SAP, including administration, architecture, and development:
- BusinessObjects (BO)
- BO Dashboards f/k/a Xcelsius
- Crystal Reports (CR)
- All things Microsoft, including administration, architecture, and development:
- Excel, e.g., Power Query; PowerPivot
- PowerBI
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- NetBeans IDE
- Eclipse
- ActiveState
- Oracle JDeveloper
- R Studio
- Microsoft SharePoint
- IBM OneSource
- Microsoft Office, through Professional Plus 2016 and 365
- Corel WordPerfect Office
- Google G Suite
- Apache OpenOffice
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior applications programmer analyst
Confidential, Houston, TX
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate requests to determine proper placement
- Conduct meetings to gather/clarify specifications with Customers
- Prioritize requests according to an enterprise value matrix
- Meet monthly with Senior Leadership to finally prioritize requests
- Efficiently resolve conflicts to meet Customer expectations
- Weekly Team Meeting:
- Communicate/explain priorities of Senior Leadership
- Review and discuss current analytics and statistics (e.g., aging of assigned versus unassigned; average time to close/resolve)
- Assign requests that have been finally prioritized, or which have been determined not to require such prioritization
- Facilitate peer knowledge sharing, especially regarding issues, obstacles, and resolutions (if any) from previous week; industry standards and best practices
- Training:
- Conduct advanced individual and small group training sessions to teach Customers how to use BO and Tableau
- Mentor other Team Members in various aspects of analytics and reporting, with emphases upon our tools
- Dashboards using Tableau, BO Dashboards f/k/a Xcelsius, and Microsoft Excel
- Reports using BO, Microsoft Excel
- Extracts in custom/direct SQL (i.e., Oracle; Microsoft SQL Server; HP Vertica), Microsoft Access, and BO. Some custom/direct SQL queries were standalone, while others were operationalized within Access, BO, and even on the hosts, themselves. E.g., standard views; materialized views; executable reports
- Custom coding for, e.g., formulae; calculated fields and variables; filtering; alerters and conditional formatting
- ETL packages in Informatica PowerCenter and Microsoft SSIS
- Maintain and troubleshoot various other dashboards, reports, and extracts
- Ensure that Team maintains service level agreement (SLA) for elevated/expedited requests, especially for minimizing time from opening to Customer contact
- On Call:
- Manage on-call assignments
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Request/Service Management:
- ServiceNow
- BMC Remedy
- HP Quality Center
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR) / Electronic Health Record (EHR) / Health Level SEVEN (HL7) / Population Health:
- Cerner Millennium, HealtheIntent athenahealth athenaOne/athenaClinical
- GE Healthcare Centricity
- Medical Billing/Practice Management
- Cerner Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) athenahealth athenaOne/athenaCollector
- Allscripts EPSi
Systems analyst
Confidential, Round rock, TX
Responsibilities:
- Drafted business requirements for large-scale enterprise records management project (ERMP), affecting in excess of TEN MILLION (10,000,000) records, pursuant to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
- Developed last desktop version of Report Request Distribution (RRD) using Delphi. Provided template for AdvanTG Web version using Java, J2EE, and JSP
- Customers to gather/clarify requirements and specifications
- Cross-functional Teams to control/coordinate changes to production systems
- Applications, using Delphi, Java, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and .NET (e.g., VB.NET, C#):
- End-to-end solutions
- Bug fixes and enhancements, such as a utility for converting rich text format (RTF) to hypertext markup language (HTML) for mass collection letter generator application
- Components:
- User interface (UI)
- Middle tier
- Backend components for web applications using a variety of technologies, including Active/Java Server Pages (ASP/JSP), HTML, cascading style sheets (CSS), extensible markup language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), JQuery, and Struts
- SQL queries and stored procedures using for use in enterprise applications, some of which utilized Java Object Oriented Querying (JOOQ)
- Reports using ad hoc SQL and PL/SQL (e.g., IBM Data Studio, WinSQL), SAP Crystal Reports (CR) and BO, Microsoft Excel, and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- Extensions and plug-ins using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), JavaScript, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails:
- Network monitoring
- Software/website testing automation
- Web applications for Android OS and iOS devices, using Eclipse and Xcode
- ETL packages using Informatica PowerCenter, IBM DB2 Warehouse Manager, Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB), and Microsoft DTS n/k/a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Maintained and troubleshot various applications, reports, and extracts
- Regular on-call rotation
- Annual disaster recovery (DR) exercises
Programmer analyst
Confidential, Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Quickly promoted within a short time after hiring
- Provided project management leadership to transition from proprietary electronic data interchange (EDI) to XML and other more widely-held standards
- Created a credit management report, pursuant to requirement/specifications provided by the chief financial officer (CFO). This solution leveraged Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA, i.e., within Excel), and SQL Server
- Analyzed, designed, and tuned SQL queries and stored procedures for use in enterprise applications
- Designed ETL packages in OWB and DTS
- Developed and supported serial communication applications with Delphi and Visual Basic (VB), capturing real-time data from various machines, such as IET Labs (GenRad) in-circuit testers (ICT)
- Developed custom integration modules for enterprise/manufacturing resource planning applications (i.e., Proprietary, Fourth Shift MRP, SAP ERP), which used dBASE, SQL Server, and Oracle back-ends
Programmer analyst
Confidential, Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Quickly promoted within a short time after hiring
- Performed both leadership and development functions, including architecture and server administration
- Electronic Tax Filing System, which automatically receives and processes sales tax returns via electronic data interchange (EDI):
- As project manager, drafted requisitions for system components, all of which were approved
- As developer, built custom C/C++ modules to extend NetVillage f/k/a Galacticomm WorldGroup BBS/web server, so that the latter could automatically assign unique numbers to each incoming tax return
- As systems integrator, used the extended version of BBS/web server on then-latest version of Windows NT Server 4.0, in order to achieve Year 2000 compliance
Developer consultant
Confidential, Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Developed comprehensive inventory control application for a leading pipe manufacturer, using a combination of Acrobat, VB, and SQL Server
- Developed executive reporting solution for a leading online gaming company.
- Provided on-demand snapshot analysis using an Excel front-end to query a SQL Server back-ends from around the United States
Principal member
Confidential, TX
Responsibilities:
- Develop mobile applications for Android OS, iOS, Java ME, Symbian OS, and Windows Phone devices
- Provide systems integration services with build-to-order hardware, software, and web solutions (e.g., e-Business/Commerce; informational; mobile device), as well as technical support services for each
- Provide audio/video/multimedia consulting, engineering, and production services
