PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 30 years of Information Technology experience with more than 8 years has an independent consultant after a 22 year career with the Unisys Corporation
• Held positions within Unisys of increasing responsibility with proven expertise in application and data migrations, application design and programming, application maintenance, problem solving, project sizing, pre-sales migration presentations, project planning, application performance consulting, project management and management
• As an independent consultant, demonstrated advanced technical and managerial skills as part of a development team, Team Lead, Project Manager or working independently

SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Programmer Assisted with the Upgrade of APS Automated Pawn System from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic.net for a corporate client of CKIS Inc.

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Senior Application Consultant

• Took over 7x24 support for all the COBOL application running on the Unisys 2200 mainframe until they were replaced by applications running on other platforms
• Support included fixing problems when they occur, supporting the Users with problems or questions and implementing approved enhancements
• Replaced three and half Andersen support staff supporting the following applications:

• Database support and backing up the DBA supporting two DMS1100 databases UNIS and SALES and three application environments PROD, TEST and ALT
• Used the Database Editor DBE to patch the bad pointers
• Re-org'd and resized databases to enhance performance and wrote new re-org programs where required
• Tested existing re-org program written in IQU and COBOL
• Developed methods to improve the application performance on the Unisys 2200 system by making application changes, database changes and redesigning processes to improve performance eliminating the proposed plan to upgrade the Unisys 2200 to a higher MIP rate device and was able to reduce costs by lowing the MIP rate without sacrificing processing power
• Implemented and Tested application disaster recovery for the applications for Andersen Corporation in 2005 and 2006
• Implemented product enhancements that were requested from the Users and cleared the backlog of Management approved User requests for modifications and enhancements
• Worked with development teams on integration changes to applications on the Unisys 2200 platform that were required when only a portion of the 2200 application's functionality was migrated off the platform

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Programmer/Analyst Worked on the development of COBOL TIP/DPS/DMS programs for the Assembly Component Inventory system on the Unisys 2200 Platform to replace existing programs running on an obsolete PC platform Worked with the Users to support the new programs after cut over Worked with the application support staff of the Unisys 2200 application to clear out the backlog of change requests for the application

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Programmer/Analyst Wrote PC based BASIC programs to integrate Imaging data and SQL Server data Ran Integration programs when new imaging data arrived Documented and trained Minnesota Office of the Secretary of State staff to run and maintain the conversion programs

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Data Conversion Project Manager Responsible for creating the Data Conversion Plan for the BUTLER project at the Minnesota Office of the Secretary of State to replace all the MAPPER applications running on a Unisys 2200 system with new applications running on an NT platform using MS SQL Server that would replace the hard copy documents with electronic images including the data conversion included the integration of the imaging data into the converted data Size and staff the project Work with the Users, Application Developers, MAPPER conversion Programmers, SQL Server and Imaging system DBA's to ensure the data is converted and loaded properly Coded the programs on the Unisys Mainframe to integrate the MAPPER and Imaging data to create the proper link between the application and Imaging databases Implemented the Conversion plan and developed the cut over plan Provided post cut over technical support as required

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Senior Application Consultant

• Assigned to the BAAN project with the objective to replace the application on the Unisys 2200 mainframe with the BAAN ERP package
• Provided application and program analysis as requested and performed Data extracts and filtering.
• Worked on system integrations between mainframe applications and other platforms
• Assisted the Unisys 2200 application support group in fixing problems or make application enhancements when is it required
• Loaded data in the BAAN Oracle database
• Made performance changes to the application programs as requested
• Modified the Cost Regen Programs to work in a Net Change mode instead of doing a Cost Regen on all the parts in the database
• The new programs cut the daily run time for the Cost Regen by seven to eight hours.

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Programmer/Analyst Worked on a Year 2000 upgrade for Andersen Corporation for all the programs running on their Unisys 2200 mainframe The applications were written in COBOL and MAPPER with the manufacturing application accessing a modified UNIS DMS100 database

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Manager Transpiration Market Sector

• Managed the Senior Data Processing Consultants Staff to appropriately assign projects and performed staffing performance reviews
• Project Manager and Lead Technical support of a pilot project for United Airlines to convert Fieldata
• Perform conversion sizing, cost estimates and made on-site pre-sales conversion presentations
• FORTRAN programs to ASCII FORTRAN programs and document the changes to determine what could be automated
• Wrote a FORTRAN translator to convert the Fieldata FORTRAN programs to ASCII FORTRAN

Project Manager and Lead Technical support for the conversion and year 2000 upgrade of the MAPP application running on an AMDAHL mainframe to a Unisys 2200 Platform for Global Payment Systems Application consists of COBOL, Easytrieve programs with a few BAL subroutines and uses CICS as the transaction manager and access VSAM, DAM and sequential files Converted programs to UCS COBOL using HVTIP/DPS/SFS Worked as technical consultant for Global Payment Systems coding an interface to their Stratus system Worked on the benchmark for the Hardware update for Global Payment Systems Received an Achievement Award for Excellence for my work on the Benchmark and Conversion Project

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Manager Application Support in Systems Integration Practice Managed of 12 Senior Data Processing Consultants including managing workloads and performance reviews Worked with management to develop the Open System Transition Guide and 2200 Series Software Planning Guide Helped staff to develop conversion tools to a UNIX based platform Perform conversion sizing, cost estimates and made on-site pre-sales conversion presentations Provided technical consulting support for NASDAQ and other Unisys 2200 projects

• Responsible for Project Management of the following projects:

o Bessemer Trust Migration Project Manager and Lead technical support for the for the Conversion and Year 2000 upgrade from Fieldata and ASCII COBOL/TIP/DMS to the UCS COBOL environment o Colorado Department of Youth Services Project Manager for project for the conversion of COBOL batch and TIP/DMS program from the Unisys 2200 platform to MicroFocus COBOL accessing an Informix database on a UNIX platform o Pulitzer Publishing Project Manger responsible for project sizing, planning and staffing for conversion from COBOL/MAPPER from the Unisys 2200 platform to a UNIX based platform o United Airlines Project Manager and Lead technical support of a pilot project to convert Fieldata FORTRAN, MASM programs using TIP FCSS and Freespace files to the UCS C environment using a United Airlines requested Third party Conversion tool to determine how automated the process would be

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Supervisor Conversion/Application Support

• Managed workload for team and performed annual performance evaluations
• Perform conversion sizing and cost estimates, pre-sales presentations on conversions and provide senior level project and benchmark support
• Team Lead over the batch portion of the Disney Central Reservation System CRS Development Project
• The CRS was coded as a COBOL/DMS1100/TIP1100 application and responsibilities included the design of the batch portion of the application and write the program specifications from the requirements documentation
• Assisted in the Coding, performed code reviews, provided technical support during testing and acceptance, train the client to take over support of the application and provide onsite support after implementation
• Received an Achievement Award for Excellence for work on the Disney project.
• Team Lead for the application development, testing and performance tuning of an UCS C HVTIP application accessing TIP FCSS/Freespace files for the NASDAQ Benchmark project
• Received two Achievement Awards for Excellence for my work on the NASDQ project of which one was a Corporate Achievement Award for Excellence

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Data Processing Consultant Conversion/Application Support

• Project Manager and Technical Lead on the City of Scottsdale Conversion Project for the conversion of batch COBOL programs from a Honeywell 6000 system to Unisys 1100 platform
• Technical Benchmark Support included coding COBOL, FORTRAN and MASM programs for the California Department of Justice Benchmark Coded C programs on a UNIX platform from a requirements document for the OPCON project

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Project Manager Benchmark Support Group Project Manager on more than twenty-five benchmarks or project on various Sperry 1100 platforms Responsibilities included project planning, staffing, system scheduling, provide technical expertise when required and insure project completion on time A typical Benchmark would be four to twelve weeks and would be for sales of 500,000 to 5,000,000 Set up projects for performance and stability testing of various hardware and software products

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Sr. Systems Analyst Marketing Conversion and Migration Services Team Lead on the conversion of MSA's Accounts Receivable system to converted from IBM OS COBOL batch CICS programs to COBOL DMS batch and HVTIP programs on the Sperry 1100 platform Team Lead on the conversion of the International Version of MSA's A/R system Worked on performance enhancements to MSA's Payroll and A/R systems Provide support and updates to MSA systems.

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Systems Analyst Marketing Conversion and Migration Services Performed sample translation and the fine-tuning of the conversion tools to meet client specific requirements Designed, coded and maintained a BASIC to FORTRAN translator Help train clients and new personnel in use of conversion tools and conversion sizings Worked on conversion project converting on-line COBOL programs from Burroughs 4700 and 6700 systems to the Sperry 1100 platform using COBOL/TIP/DPS/DMS programs Coded COBOL DPS programs for the new IMPACT Conversion software

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Trainee Associate Systems Analyst 1100 Field Support Conversion Services

• Learn how to use Conversion Tools ACCS Cobol Conversion , FC File Converter , RPGCO and BALCO
• Made customer site visits for application conversions to a Sperry 1100 Platform
• Assisted in creating a number of conversion sizing estimates and conversion plans
• Performed in-house conversions on COBOL programs using the conversion tool
• On-site COBOL conversion consultant for the State of Florida in Tallahassee, FL
• On site FORTRAN and COBOL consultant at NOAA in Asheville, NC

Coded COBOL TIP transaction from program specification for Connecticut Dept of Labor in Hartford, CT UNISYS CORPORATE TRAINING