SUMMARY

• 35 years of experience in application development, system administration, project management, database conversions, system migrations and general consulting.
• Experienced in many settings and across many industries as a consultant, using numerous tools and technologies.
• Excellent communications skills and ability to carry through projects in a team environment, resulting in an excellent track record of delivering projects on time and under budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware: Installed 7 separate Confidential i (AS400) CPUs and expansion towers and added new processors, memory, tape libraries, and replaced more than 20 DASD units.
• Installed and upgraded HMC and LAN consoles for Confidential ’s Power 7, Power 9 servers.
• Configured and Migrated more than 7 Confidential (AS400) partitions (LPARS).
• Managed and maintained more than 16 Confidential (AS400) partitions.
• Upgraded and patched more than 7 Confidential (AS400) Operating Systems ranging from V4R1 to V7R3.
• Upgraded Vertex, APLUS, Payware, FASTFAX, ROBOT, DBU applications.
• Managed more than 20 Mimix Role swaps, QEDP implementation.
• Monitored and managed SAP, Job Schedulers, and processed transports for SAP on an iSeries platforms.
• Managed multiple projects and lead many support teams on shore and offshore.
• Excellent documentation and knowledge transfer skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• As an Confidential Programmer Analyst, customized, enhanced, and created custom RPGLE applications to improve warehouse distribution, order entry, and credit card application interfaces. Created a custom EDI interface with the client’s ERP software for an International electronics company. This resulted in the company saving more than $75,000 without having to purchase new EDI software.
• As an Confidential I System Administrator, managed legacy and new AS400 partitions for multiple high - end customers in NY, Chicago, California by applying patches and upgrading and migrating the OS versions. Managed and Installed More than 16 partitions of all sizes and Implemented DR and HA. Created software to automate Data Replication during testing and migration saving the customers $50,000 in HA software while migrating systems with less than an hour of business interruption.
• As a Project Manager, managed from beginning to end multiple system migrations and upgrades, OS and program patching, application installation and transports resulting in a great track record of on time delivery, minimum business interruption and under budget implementations.
• As a Senior Consultant, provided customers recommendations on hardware and software requirements resulting in savings in excess of $100,000 on hardware and software. Implemented automation whenever possible to reduce manpower on day-to-day operations. Researched and provided suggestions on a new application to manage SAP jobs and created all the batch jobs dependency, schedules and scripts for a big food distribution company. Provided recommendations resulting in enhanced application and system performance. Also experience in many HA tools resulted in configuring and recommending the appropriate replication methods.

Web Developer/Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Developed and Designed Ewing’s web on-line order entry application, Internal wireless device application, intranet Web Based Employee application, managed Confidential I database and RPG developing team for custom applications.
• Managed Gentran EDI application and developed Lotus Notes HR applications.

Sys. Admin/Programmer Analyst/Project Manager

Confidential, Canoga Park, CA

Responsibilities:

• Built and redeveloped customized solutions to web enable iSeries/AS400 existing applications for many clients. Managed a team of 5 programmers in the design and development of Web solutions with CGI-scripts using ILE RPG on the back end with a front end of HTML and JavaScript. Managed the company’s AS/400’s systems and visited clients for application discovery.
• Created On-line Web order entry electronic credit card and check payment applications for several clients.
• Developed web printing application for the WEB and WEB 5250 emulation tool.

Senior Programmer

Confidential, Sylmar, CA

Responsibilities:

• Coded and modified RPGIII programs using Synon (4GL) tool for Distribution and Manufacturing applications for Spears Manufacturing and as a vendor, customized and distributed the applications to other vendors in the industry.

System Administrator/Programmer

Van Nuys, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the IT operations and programming tasks for the company’s AS/400.
• Participated in the program conversion to ILE RPG and Y2K compliance of the Order Entry modules.

Project Leader

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Produced from beginning to end the development, design and testing of self- system/36 system 38 and AS/400 courses.
• Among some of the ones produced were, System/36 to AS/400 Migration and RPG/IV programming courses.

Operator

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Performed Confidential ’s System/36 Daily Operation tasks and routines such as daily transactions, backups, system printer and equipment configuration.
• Managed and installed system peripheral devices.