SUMMARY

• IT professional with extensive experience as development manager, project leader, programmer analyst, trainer and consultant. With expertise in administration, design, development and implementation over IBM AS/400 iSeries environments. Broad manufacturing industry experience across all functional areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: RPGII, RPGIII, RPGIV, RPGILE, RPG Free, CLP, CLLE, ABBAP IV, COBOLVISUAL BASIC 6.0., DB2/400

Utilities: SQL, QUERY, SDA, SEU, PDM, DFU, DDS, FTP.

Hardware: IBM AS/400, iSeries, PC’s.

Software: BPCS, MAPICS, JD Edwards, JBA(System21), Aurora, Client Access, WindowsXP, Office 2003, Visio, Project, Lotus Notes.

Other tools: Robot (Scheduler, Save, Alert, Opal code), MKS Implementer, Remote View, Aldon Implementer, DataStage, Psion Teklogix RF, Zebra bar code, Hawkeye, RJS Software, TimeClock Plus, EZVIEW.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Corporate IT Business Development Manger

Responsibilities:

• My philosophy is to implement cost saving and user friendly applications with a professional attitude from requirement gathering to product delivery throughout the system development life cycle.
• I’m currently managing an IT team of 7 senior system developers.
• Coordinate cross functional team meetings, elaborate project progress reports, perform unit tests, and elaborate user manuals.
• Designed and developed the corporate Expense vs Budget system.
• After a successful System21 implementation in two Confidential facilities in Mexico, I was designated project manager to implement ERP Aurora at the Berea KY plant.
• Designed and implemented the data warehouse structure.
• Participated in the JBA(System21) to Aurora conversion.
• As Project Leader, I was responsible for the full ERP System21 (Aurora) implementation at two Confidential Automotive Systems facilities in Toluca Mexico.
• Designed and developed the iSeries automated file and report e - mail process.
• As Senior System Developer, I developed the MRP tool; a GUI interface between Aurora-Excel-End users.

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• As a senior system analyst for Confidential -Global and performing as ERP legacy system team leader for DANA Corporation, I was responsible for first level support for two plants in Spain and I managed a staff of 13 members; 4 on site and 9 offshore. The environment architecture that a worked with consisted of 2 iSeries systems; one in Germany and the other in Spain, and two ERP systems, BPCS and MAPICS.
• Traveled to Pamplona and Itziar, Spain to manage the system transition project to transfer system administration and support to headquarters in Toledo, Ohio.
• Prepared and performed weekly status report presentations to DANA upper management.
• Performed daily progress meetings with team members.
• Responsible of help desk over all iSeries based locations worldwide to guarantee user service level agreement.
• Analyzed business needs to develop system enhancements.

Confidential

Computer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Help desk support consultant; responsible of 7 customers nationwide, solving any kind of programming, training and scheduling issues related to ERP JBA-System21 as well as development and maintenance of RPGIV and RPGILE programs for AS400 and iSeries systems.

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Familiarized with existing ERP JBA-System21 by developing, maintaining, enhancing and implementing diverse application programs following programming guide lines and existing methodology over an AS400 platform using DB2/400, RPGII, RPGIV, RPGILE.
• Analyzed business needs in purchasing, manufacturing, and inventory areas at Confidential ’s billiards division in Mexico plant to implement JBA-System21 application modules as well as system documentation and user training.
• Analyzed business practices at Antigo Wisconsin Pin plant to automate existing manual time tracking procedures and eliminate buddy punching. Evaluated existing software in the market, gained user acceptance and implemented a biometric employee time tracking system that satisfied user’s needs and enhanced the pay roll system by sending expedite and accurate data.
• Performed business analysis, developed, maintained and enhanced programs to integrate all subsidiaries into one multi-company unit and expedited data consolidation processes.
• Analyzed existing EDI process and developed a new automated system to integrate electronic customer sales orders into JBA-System21 in a timely, expedite and accurate manner.
• Optimized multiple programs integrating RFC capabilities to expedite warehouse tasks.
• Led physical inventory team by prioritizing and assigning tasks as well as leading program enhancement opportunities.
• Developed and optimized procedures and provided end user training for data extraction using DataStage which also minimized IT staff assistance.

Confidential

Project Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Administered the service and delivery group for the America’s region consisting of 12 countries by providing system support accordingly with service level agreement over an AS400 platform.
• Performed business analysis to automate and schedule daily, weekly, monthly and yearly batch processes for 12 countries in the America’s region using ROBOT from Help Systems.
• Developed and implemented an automated restoration procedure for historical data by converting 5 different tape cartridges formats into the most modern tape format on market and developed a system to allow the end user to restore data without IT staff assistance.
• Participated in the BPCS to SAP interface and conversion team.
• Developed an automated process to monitor specific system conditions and notify the responsible person via pager or email accordingly to service level agreement.
• After business system analysis, I recommended, developed and implemented the Blue Box procedure to automatically grant system authority to IT staff on production environments.
• Provided 24/7 on-call assistance.