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TX

Objective

To utilize the knowledge and skills I have developed during the past 12 years as a Unisys LINC EAE / Unisys COBOL 74 developer and further expand them.

SKILLS

  • Unisys A Series/ClearPath LINC EAE COBOL74
  • WFL DMSII Depcon ISPECS
  • Visual Basic ERGO POS Inventory

Work Experience

Confidential

Contract Programmer

  • Coordinated efforts with Potomac employee to revise tax appraisal/assessment software for their client, Richland County Tax Assessor's Office in South Carolina. Remote position allowed working from home.
  • Implemented changes in existing screens and reports to reflect recent local tax law changes. Created additional screens and reports. This software is used for appraisal and assessment of local properties.

Confidential

Lead Programmer

  • 12 years experience coding, testing and implementing Unisys LINC/EAE systems and maintaining COBOL 74 systems on Unisys A-Series mainframes and ClearPath servers in support of business affairs for Al's Formal Wear of Houston
  • Al's is the largest independent formal wear company in the nation with more than 100 retail locations in six states each providing formal wear sales and rental services for wedding, prom and special occasion needs of the customers in their markets and maintains an inventory of more than 400,000 items which is valued in excess of 11 million
  • Experience with DMSII and LINC databases all systems utilized DMSII and/or LINC databases. Procedures were implemented to allow the LINC generated reports and ISPECS to access DMSII data structures directly without relying on the ERGO under structure
  • Maintained legacy COBOL 74 code accounting packages, statistical analysis reports still in use by the company
  • Wrote utility programs in Visual Basic to route print files created by Depcon to specific folders for individual stores and district managers and other Visual Basic programs were created to archive older Depcon print files and clear space on the file server
  • Coded, tested and implemented the following systems
  • Automated Charge Billing System: Developed LINC system to automatically create invoices for company charge customers when the customer has picked up merchandise in the store
  • Commission System: LINC application to pay commissions and PM's Promotional Monies for sales, rentals, and wedding bookings. Includes employee and store performance analysis reports
  • POS/Mainframe Data Interchange manage data flow to and from POS Point Of Sale systems in stores from production mainframe system. Existing system requiring additional routines and maintenance with some portions written in LINC and others in COBOL 74
  • High School Prom Mgt. System: LINC application to track annual school prom dates and class sizes market potential and capture rentals by prom for market share analysis used for forecasting for upcoming season based on previous year market share by school
  • Rental Merchandise Availability System: LINC application to track rental merchandise availability by style size with resulting information fed back to POS systems to help stores identify unavailable merchandise during peak rental periods
  • Merchandise Requisition System: allowing stores to requisition their own sales merchandise from either the distribution center or from other stores written in LINC
  • Automated Replenishment System: LINC system to automatically replenish sales merchandise for non-seasonal items based on pre-determined stock levels for each store set by buyers LINC screens provided for that purpose
  • Expanded Store Rental: Changed existing COBOL and LINC wholesale rental, and production systems from a single distribution center to handle multiple distribution centers that allowed for purchase of 17 stores and an additional warehouse / cleaning facility in Colorado formerly Mr. Neat's thereby increasing company size by 18
  • Last Minute Orders System: System written in LINC for last minute rental orders and reorders providing stores a screen to enter last minute orders and reorders directly into production system by checking availability and suggests substitute items when requested item is not available

Confidential

Mainframe Computer Operator

  • Managed running batch jobs while ensuring optimum mainframe performance
  • Performed backups of databases and disk files
  • Printed payroll, commissions and accounts payable checks
  • Performed help desk duties such as troubleshooting issues with store personnel and sending out replacement equipment printers, terminals if deemed necessary.
  • Emptied printers and routed reports to respective personnel
  • Coded batch jobs in Unisys WFL Work Flow Language and scheduled to run at appropriate times
  • Created Unisys ERGO 'Do' files to quickly generate data analysis listings requested by executive personnel

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