Objective

To obtain a position in the Information Technology arena in the Greater St. Louis area that will utilize my strengths, abilities, and experience. I plan on contributing to a great company and aid in taking them to a higher level.

Professional experience

6/2010 - Present US Confidential, Rosemont, IL
Senior Developer, EDI

• Develop complex development for our setups with trading partners that involves mapping with EDI (810, 850, 855, 856, 875, 880, 997, 824, 867, 894), flat files, XML, and ODBC formats. Also, implement business process modeling utilizing HTTP, FTP, SFTP, and AS2 protocols, mailboxing and other BPML services in GIS 4.3 and Sterling Integrator 5.1. Also develop and deploy "standard" projects for our clients through our Green On-boarding process for trading partners and train others in EDI and E-Business departments to use this process. Work projects during the end to end cycle (design, requirement gathering, development, testing, and deployment). On a rotation schedule, perform production support to troubleshoot lower and higher tier issues. Provide administration, performance tuning , and system optimization on the GIS and SI system. Now involved in process to streamline GIS experience by moving from GIS 4.3 to Sterling Integration 5.1 and transitioning from a property file driven architecture to a table and service driven architecture that will interface with a web front end interface. Track incident, problem, and change tickets using Remedy and HP Service Manager and projects using the SDLC process. Migrate plethora of clients using FTP servers to the GIS mailbox perimeter servers.

Senior EDI Analyst

• Provide services as an in-house Gentran Integration Suite Expert for Viant in the area of system administration, performance tuning, patch installs, business processes development, mapping, trading partners setup, training, documentation, and production deployment. Provide QA and production support for EDI issues dealing with trading partners with an emphasis HIPAA Compliance on healthcare claims transactions such as the 837,277, 834 and proprietary formats. Troubleshoot problems dealing with the GIS 4.3 system and Gentran 6.0 for Unix system in the areas of configuration, mapping, programming, and perimeter servers. From the given business requirements and conceptual design, write technical designs and from that develop end to end solutions within GIS for the given trading partner. Develop business processes for the inbound and outbound transactions flow and in the areas of communications (FTP, HTTP, sFTP), mailboxing and encryption (PGP). Also, train others within EDI team, the Operations team, the QA team, and the Application Support Team the fundamentals of GIS so they can perform their duties in GIS. Provide EDI team with suggestions to maximize our productivity with GIS and implement the plan to put it into action. Document mappings and procedures and serve as controls owner for SAS70 audits.

Senior EDI Analyst

• Provide support for EDI issues dealing with customers and suppliers with an emphasis on warehousing and grocery transactions. Troubleshooting problems dealing with the EDI system, configuration, and programming. Test trading partners to bring them into production. Also work assisted in project to bring EDI to readiness for a rollout of SAP across the company. Also, do EDI mapping using Gentran tools and do post and pre-processing with shell scripting to provide special requests of the trading partners and to monitor activity in the EDI system. Provide EDI team with suggestions to maximize our productivity and implement the plan to put it into action. Document mappings and procedures. Also working on changing maps from Visual Mapper format to AI mapper format to prepare to make future GIS upgrade smoother.

7/2006 - 3/2007 Confidential, Louis, MO
EDI Specialist

• Provide EDI mapping expertise and support for new and existing transactions using the Gentran Integration Suite 4.0 package at the Energizer site. This involved mapping in the AI mapper, converting maps from Gentran Unix visual mapper format to Ai mapper format, implementing trading partners envelope setup, and writing and revising business processes to instill successful flow of the transactions for the assignment at hand. This contained a range of transactions in EDI X12, EDIFACT, and Tradacoms.

11/2000 - 7/2006 Confidential, Louis, MO
Application Messaging Services Analyst

• Provide support for EDI issues dealing with customers and suppliers. Troubleshooting problems dealing with the EDI system, configuration, and programming. Test trading partners to bring them into production. Work very close with the customer to supply their needs in the area of EDI. Contact trading partners who don\'t acknowledge the receipt of EDI documents. Also, do EDI mapping using Gentran tools and do post and pre-processing with shell scripting and C to provide special requests of the trading partners. Deal with trading partners to setup special functionality in SAP Business Connector using processes that involves Java and XML.

8/1999 - 10/2000 Confidential, St. Louis, MO
Teleservices Systems Coordinator

• Provide system administration and maintenance for the TeleDirect predictive dialer, provide PC support on the floor, create and maintain databases and dialer files using MS Access, create agent screens using TeleDirect Application Builder (visual basic type of application), provide backend reporting for clients .

3/1998 - 8/1999 Confidential, Chesterfield, MO
MIS Associate

• Maintain databases using Clipper programming languages, provide PC support for computers on the floor, supervise predictive dialer operations, and create database reports using Crystal Reports.

6/1997 - 3/1998 Confidential, St. Louis, MO
Tutor
Tutor elementary and high school kids in the areas of mathematics, reading, and science and also being in a position to be a mentor to the students.

6/1992 - 9/1996 Confidential, St. Louis, MO
Electrical Engineering Intern

• Worked five summers for them as an intern doing the such: Revised and coded computer program in company created assembly language for a new computer function for an airplaine mission computer, Revised and coded computer programs used for model airplane wind tunnel testing in C programming language, Created and revised schematics for test equipment of the F-15E Eagle, and Devised database for department's computer inventory, performed tape backups on systems, and aided in computer troubleshooting in DB3+.

Skills

MS Access, ABAP, C++, Clipper, Crystal Reports, B2B, EAI, DB3+, DOS, HIPPA Compliance, EDI ANSI X12(277, 810, 820, 824, 830, 831,832, 834, 837, 840, 846, 850, 855, 856, 860, 864, 867, 875, 880, 894, 940, 943, 944, 945, 947,996, 997, 999),EDIFACT (PRICAT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, ORDCHG, INVRPT, PARTIN, INVOIC, DESADV), Tradacoms (CREHDR, GENHDR, ORDHDR, PPRHDR, SRMHDR), AS2, Cyclone, Macromedia Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Fireworks, Flash, FORTRAN, Frontpage, GENTRAN 6.0, Gentran Integration Suite, BPML, XPATH, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, Visual Basic, Shell Scripting, Perl, Unix, HP-UX, Linux, SAP, Predictive Dialer Administration, HTML, Java, XML, SQL Server, PGP, Oracle, IBM Rational ClearQuest, HTTP, SFTP, FTP, Remedy, HP Service Manager,

Education

Major: Mathematics

Major: Electrical Engineering