Summary

Application Developer

Detail oriented applications developer and technical support specialist applies broad technical skills founded in systems development best practices. Broad background includes lead application developer, database design and administration, and system administration. Strongly driven to implement the most appropriate solutions utilizing sound fundamentals in systems development. Skilled at working with and guiding customers to efficient and cost effective solutions.

• Expert: C, SQL, Ingres RDBMS, OpenVMS, DCL, CMS, MMS
• Practiced: Java, Python, Perl, Cobol, Fortran, XML, XSL, Visual Studio, .NET, SQLite, UNIX, Linux, Windows
• Familiarity: C , Visual Basic, Lisp, Scheme, GIT, CVS, SQLServer, Unify, Baan, SAP, SOAP

Confidential

Experis accelerates business growth and careers by intensely attracting, assessing and placing specialized expertise in IT, Finance Accounting, Engineering and other industries.

Application Developer

• Assisted the host development team with changes to the host system to prepare for the upcoming tax season, using C, DCL, Java, Perl and Python on OpenVMS. Created new and modified existing reports, expanding the coverage and delivery options. Made changes to the customer and system support tools.
• Added new exception handling logic to the XML transaction creation program to comply with client software and tax code changes.
• Maintained the field translation tables to convert the client software data into XML transactions. Identified tax code changes that would affect the host system and worked with the development and certification teams to design appropriate solutions.
• Created a new per state ACK tracking report to identify and automatically re-request late ACKs.
• Added a process to create and email daily tracking spreadsheets on the host, accumulated by system, tax form, and other parameters.
• Identified fields and processing specific to the legacy, flat file style, transactions. Added more legacy switching options for the active season then removed the legacy code afterwards.
• Helped support by creation programs to search the index and zip files for client records matching specific criteria.

Confidential

A 20 billion leading global technology services provider of information technology, applications and business outsourcing services.

Information Analyst

• Interacted with customers to gain an understanding of the business and technical requirements for changes and new systems based on organizational needs. Coordinated and collaborated with others to ensure that solutions met customer needs and expectations. Utilized appropriate tools to identify, analyze, and resolve business and technical problems.
• Designed changes to a large scale insurance transaction processing system C/COBOL on Tandem to handle new HIPAA data integrity and security standards.
• Created applications for the Facility Control Management System FCMS for the Paint Facility for International Truck and Engine using C, SQL, and QUEL on OpenVMS with an Ingress database. FCMS performs the functions of real-time manufacturing floor control, planning and performance reporting, customer and vendor transaction processing, and system and database maintenance.
• Developed internal coding standards and applied them to production systems. Updated and created documentation standards for development lifecycle including requirements gathering, business and technical designs, testing, and release notes. Mentored new team members on system, standards, and development methods.
• Administered the VAX/VMS system, maintaining users, permissions, backups, hardware and software upgrades.
• Administered the Ingress database, managing the checkpoints, backups, and upgrades. Maintained the users and their roles and security settings. Managed the addition of new tables and views, enforcing standards such as naming, key, and relationships.
• Created programs and scripts that interacted with the database for production support, reporting, scheduling, and maintenance. Utilized embedded SQL in C modules and interactive SQL in DCL scripts to query against the database. Created FMS system and VIFRED database forms for ASCII based menus and displays for FCMS monitoring and operations control.
• Guided the development of queries, forms, and reports that utilized the database, maintained and enforced the coding standards for SQL operations.
• Provided support and guidance for third-party PC based tools for access to the database. Trained and assisted users in the creation and optimization of SQL for queries and changes through these tools.
• Provided production helpdesk support, troubleshooting, analysis, and problem resolution for issues involving the FCMS.
• Adapted FCMS to handle the corporate change from IBM mainframes to Baan, including the replacement of flat file schedule updates to an EDI based schedule requiring interpretation into add, change, and delete transactions inside FCMS. Added MQSeries communication methods for messages to and from other systems using XML.
• Led the project to update OpenVMS system to the ANSI-C standard. Created a system-wide build procedure with full source code repository control for 350 executables containing approximately two million lines of code. Updated the FCMS coding standards to reflect the new requirements and set rules for how to correct non-compliant code. Created documentation and trained the development team on the proper use and maintenance of the new standards.
• Led the research and testing for the Y2K mitigation project helped to develop the processes to handle the date change and to recode modules as needed to make system compliant.
• Researched new software and hardware to modernize communications between FCMS and the floor control PLCs with the use of a Pyramid Integrator to connect the PLC Data Highways to the LAN. Created new conversion routines to handle the addressing, encoding, and decoding of PLC data in FCMS. Helped production staff install and utilize new PC based PLC monitoring and control software made possible by the new gateway. Provided training and documentation to the team on the new information gateway.