Background

Programmer - Analyst - Administrator with over 17 years of experience and a successful track record of solving problems with innovative solutions. I am a quick study who rapidly becomes productive. Diverse expertise related to: 1 Solving problems in business and programming environments 2 Life cycle software application design and development 3 Skills of communication and interpersonal interaction. The multi-disciplined background contributes to my creative problem solving and technical abilities.

Technical Summary alphabetically listed

• Languages: ADA, ADO.NET, Assembly, BASIC, C, C , C , Clipper, COBOL, Delphi, FORTRAN, INGRES/SQL, JAVA, LISP, Pascal, PL/1, PL/SQL, T-SQL and Visual Basic/VB.Net
• Hardware: Apple and Macintosh PCs, CDS CYBER 180/830, Dec Micro VAX2, IBM PCs and compatibles, IBM 4341 6000, NCR 650 400, Sun SPARC5, UNIX HP9000 827 , and VAX 11795, 8650, 6000-410
• Systems: Apple DOS, Microsoft Windows for Workgroups, Linux, Novell 3.x 4.1, NOS 2.6.1, NOS/VE 1.4.1, PC DOS, Sun Solaris UNIX, TCP/IP sockets, VM/CMS, VAX/VMS, Windows 95 and Windows NT
• Special Software: Apache, DBaseII and FoxBase, cc:Mail, Formware/Dispatcher, HyperCard, Input Accel, Lotus 123, Lotus Notes, MetaDesign, Microsoft Office Suite Access, Excel, Mail, Powerpoint, Project, Scheduler, Word , Mind Wire, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Tomcat, WordPerfect and Wavelink Com Library.
• Special Knowledge: Client/Server Programming, EDI Implementation, Networking, Telecommunications and Object Oriented Programming.
• Certifications: MS Access Developer not current

Professional Experience

Senior Programmer

• Project: Implement a brand new prototype product framework that allows a customer to take the various Explanation of Benefits EoB documents that they receive and export the data using the ASCX12N Health Care Claim Payment/Advise 835 EDI Standards.
• Used Formware version 5.3, Input Accel version 6.0, Dispatcher version 6.0 and VB.Net to implement new Captiva platform
• Created extraction queries using SQL and ADO.Net
• Collaborated with the business group to define and document the various healthcare standards that applied to the project.
• Project: Implement change to legacy UB92 document processing program in order to make it compliant with the new UB04 forms with the exported the data compliant with the ASCX12N Health Care Claim Instituional 837 EDI standards. I was able to complete my portaion of the project ahead of schedule allowing me to create various informational documents that were used by customer service and support and included within the program's help files. Once final development on this project was concluded I was handed the task of second tier maintenance and support of the CMS1500 and UB04 products during which the industry instituted the National Provider Identification NPI requirements and I lead the initiative to implement these requirements.
• Used Formware version 5.3, Dispatcher version 6.0 and VB.Net to implement new Captiva platform
• Created extraction queries using SQL and ADO.Net
• Collaborated with the business group to define and document the various healthcare standards that applied to the project.
• Project: Implement change to a legacy HCFA 1500 document processing program in order to make it compliant with the new CMS 1500 forms with the exported the data compliant with the ASCX12N Health Care Claim Professional 837 EDI standards. I quickly discovered that the legacy software at no previous time ever matched these industry EDI specifications as was previously believed by management and I had to work with the health care content professionals to uncover the information we would need to make the necessary developmental changes within the accelerated project timeline before us.
• Used Formware version 5.3, Dispatcher version 6.0 and VB.Net to implement new Captiva platform
• Created extraction queries using SQL and ADO.Net
• Collaborated with the business group to define and document the various healthcare standards that applied to the project.
• Project: Migrate and enhance an existing Health Claim and Physician Fees VB program to VB6 and enhance the ASP.Net web version of the program as well. Once the VB6 migration was completed, I gathered the enhancement requirements, created a functional specification and project timeline, and implemented the approved changes. During the investigation I discovered that the current Physician Fees SQL queries were incorrectly gathering the information which subsequently produced erroneous results. This led to my implementing a major fix to this software in conjunction with the upgrades.
• Used VB6, MS Access, Crystal Reports to implement program changes and ASP.Net and MS SQL to implement web changes.
• Created a functional specification and project timeline, and then implemented the approved changes.

Confidential

Computer Systems Consultant

• Project: Took an undocumented unique collection of processes used to migrate data from ConAgra's main ERP system down to its local systems and then migrate the local systems data back up to the main ERP system and while troubleshooting this to keep it functional I worked at fully documenting these processes and streamlining them in order to make the system more reliable and easier to maintain.
• Used Visual Basic 6 and VB.Net
• Created extraction queries using SQL and ADO.Net
• Created triggers and stored procedures using Oracle's PL-SQL
• Project: Developed a simple program for a Pocket PC unit using GPRS technology.
• Used VB.Net and Java with Wavelink Edge on Microsoft's XP and Pocket PC 2002 environments
• Project: Worked directly with a client on a complex migration program from an ERP-like Access front-end/backend, Excel Spreadsheet, Word Document system to a Visual Basic front-end/MS Sequel Server backend. This project not only entailed converting the old to the new but maintaining and enhancing per client's immediate needs the old until the completed conversion was finished.
• Used Visual Basic 6, MS Access, and Crystal Reports
• Created triggers and stored procedures using MS SQL Server's T-SQL
• Analyzed the current processes in order to map out a transition plan.
• Project: Completed an ASP to SQL Stored Procedure / Crystal Reports conversion.
• Used ASP, ADO, MS SQL Server, and Crystal Reports
• Project: Interspersed within the above larger projects I worked on various other small troubleshooting projects.
• Used ASP.Net, C , MS Access, Java, VBA, and VB6

Confidential

Applications Developer

• In this position I functioned as a senior programmer working closely with the MIS Manager to develop solutions to requests from other departments. I gathered the information needed to outline the scope of the request and then implemented a solution using their existing software and hardware configurations. I also worked as back up administrator at times. These projects were programmed to run on Win98, WinNT, and Win2000 over a Novell Network where applicable .
• Project: Created a secure report server that allowed the user to pick from the various reports that they had access to and set the basic parameters and then print the report.
• Used Visual Basic, MS Access, and Crystal Reports.
• Project: Created a client/server program that followed manufacturing EDI standards to take live output from their ERP system 4th Shift and generate an order acknowledgement file that could be automatically imported and sent by their EDI software.
• Used Visual Basic, SQL, ODBC, MS Access, and Dbase IV files.
• Project: Created a program that followed EDI standards to take output from their ERP System and generate invoices so that they could be automatically imported into and sent by their EDI software.
• Used Visual Basic, VBA, SQL, ODBC, and MS Access.
• Project: Troubleshot, fix, and upgrade several legacy programs written in MS Access.
• Used MS Access and VBA.
• Project: Worked with the manufacturing department to help automate their resource planning process using MS Access. As part of this project, I also taught one of their staff how to use MS Access at a programming level.
• Used MS Access and VBA.
• Project: Worked with the Engineering department to help them create a PC user interface for one of their products.
• Used Visual Basic and C.

Confidential

Computer Systems Consultant

• Project: Worked on a 24 hour in-house lending call center software package working directly with call center staff to design functionality improvements and to trouble shoot existing problems. Redesigned several large sections of the program to improve performance, readability, and maintainability. Helped create and document coding standards and program process flows.
• Used Visual Basic, MS SQL Server, and Crystal Reports on a Novell and NT network.
• Project: Completed several other minor contracts.
• C, Linux, MS Access, MS Excel, and MS Word as well as doing various PC hardware and software upgrades.

Confidential

Senior Programmer / Analyst

Project: Performed program maintenance on many different aspects of a complete software system designed for retailers. Created several modularized functions that could be easily ported into other existing code and created programmer documentation explaining the functionality of some of the pre-existing functions.

Used the UniBasic language in a UNIX environment on the IBM 6000.

Confidential

Programmer / Analyst

• Project: As part of a team I created the user interface for the query of a dynamic database of materials and pricing information for the making of quotes for book publication.
• Used Lotus Notes.
• Project: Converted a DOS based Estate Tax planner to a windows version using a pre-developed template for an Income Tax planner as a model. I worked mainly with programming the various dynamic graphs and other graphics that are used to display the data as well as the overall conversion of the template to the Estate Tax planner specific needs. The program had to be able to run on Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT.
• Used Visual Basic in Windows 95/NT.
• Project: Maintained and enhanced the Immigration and Naturalization Service current software. In my first two assignments I uncovered 2 major bugs that had been in the system since conception since 1974 and fixed them. I was then assigned the lead on the Y2K documentation effort for the GUI side of the house and was given a team of 3 other programmers to work on it. I created the Impact Analysis and Program Specifications for the project using the information supplied by the research team. Then the team and I researched the business rules for the programs, created the Unit Test Plans and then ran the Test Plans.
• Used C, Visual Basic in a Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT.