CAREER PROFILE

Projects Manager / Implementation Consultant / Business Applications Developer / IT Systems Manager Creative problem solver, strategic thinker and change agent seeking to deliver competitive business advantage via projects management, business applications software development, and implementation of mission critical information systems. Comfortable engaging business leaders, project stakeholders, mid-level managers and IT end users to yield successful business software application code construction, software implementations and organizational change management yielding lowered IT costs, increased business functionality, and improved customer satisfaction and service.

WORK EXPERENCES

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Senior Support Analyst

Unisys COBOL programmer/analyst in a team-based short term project environment contracted to CORELINK, LLC owned and operated by BlueCross/BlueShield of North Dakota in Fargo, ND. Worked remotely on several projects that had been back-burnered. Projects focused on freeing corporate staff to work an Agile stable teams and not having to maintain ongoing COBOL code to resolve program aborts, miscellaneous hard-coding of groups and fees pertaining to self-funded groups, correspondence control, etc. Interfaced with subject matter experts and support staff on program modifications and testing.

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Computer Operator/Analyst

• Short term contract to facilitate transfer of US Savings Bond processing from the Pittsburgh FRB to the Minneapolis FRB contingency site until new electronic savings bond processing software was competed
• Environment: UNISYS Libra ClearPath, COMS, DMSII, WFL, COBOL74, CANDE, DMutitily, DASDL.

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Unisys Programmer/Analyst

• Completed COBOL74 programming on a Unisys Libra A14 ClearPath system using CANDE, DMSII, and WFL, for a parameter driven online report execution system used by internal employees to streamline on-demand reporting functions conforming to HIPPA guidelines and internal user security administration for specific Union-based Taft-Hartley Health and Welfare Funds.
• Developed an EDI-style inter-fund benefits reciprocity system interfaced to the National Plumber and Pipefitters Pension Fund website conforming to their specific EDI formats. This system enabled the elimination of a manual reciprocity payment system saving end-of-month clerical effort and enabling a quicker turnaround for reciprocity benefits payments. Programs were written in Cobol74 interfacing with DMSII and COMS.
• Environment: Unisys Libra ClearPath, COMS, DMSII, WFL, COBOL74, CANDE, DMutitily, DASDL.

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Owner/Principal Consultant

Founded an entrepreneurial systems consulting firm on a retainer contract with my former employer to provide value and expertise as needed during the migration of their UNISYS applications and systems environment to their parent, ADM company's IBM systems in Decatur, IL after acquisition of the Benson-Quinn Company. Following three-year retainer contract, invested in SYSPRO Impact Software as a value-added reseller VAR of their ERP software suite selling into the small to mid-sized manufacturing and wholesale distribution market space. Provided project visioning, software requirements analysis and project management of implementations for sales won. I closed my VAR relationship with SYSPRO in 2010, to focus my attention on legacy UNISYS MCP ClearPath systems migrations and modernizations.

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Retained consultant

Delivered several small software development projects and provided backup relief for all internal systems personnel on a retainer basis. Wrote final extract of DMSII data, transformed, and loaded to ADM's IBM.

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Information Systems Manager

• Developed a 5-year IT Strategic Plan to guide ongoing and future IT initiatives.
• Developed and tested 5-Stage Disaster Recovery and Business Resumption Plan as required by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC and the National Futures Association NFA .
• Maintained core business-critical applications software suite with COBOL and CANDE on their UNISYS ClearPath data processing systems running the DMSII and COMS database management systems.
• Administered IBM AS400 based, Rolfe Nolan, Real-time Information System for Commodities RISC .
• Architected and directed an IT infrastructure modernization starting with a single small mainframe system and five non-networked PC's into a multi-system heterogeneous infrastructure including the Unisys Clear/Path mainframe, IBM AS400, and 15 Windows NT-server, networked WAN/LAN infrastructure spanning four locations. This included 120 NT workstations, 20 networked printers, and a multiplexed frame-relay LAN/WAN to three remote offices multiplexing legacy data-com, voice and automatic ring-down phone circuits to three commodities trading floors managed by the home-office centralized AT T phone switch and using Memotec multiplex IP routers.
• Environment: Unisys Libra ClearPath, COMS, DMSII, WFL, COBOL74, CANDE, DMutitily, DASDL, DEPCON print distribution and report archival.

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Contract UNISYS Programmer/Analyst

• Provided expertise in DMSII synchronized recovery with COMS for the UHC COSMOS insurance claims processing redevelopment project. Performed assigned module coding with ESI's GenPulse COBOL code generator and later, XGEN, on the claims systems Benefits Package Log BPL application module.
• Selected as a team member to assess and recommend the replacement of the ESI's development suite for new development, chose the XGEN tool-suite to replace ESI's GenPulse. Rewrote the BPL application code with XGEN to complete my programming assignment.
• Environment: Unisys A15, DMSII, DASDL, COMS, WFL, CANDE, COBOL74, DMutitily, ESI GenPulse code generator , DataPulse data dictionary , XGEN.

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Owner, Principal Consultant

• Presented UNISYS Burroughs systems and software applications development proposals to both existing clients and new sales prospects as identified by UNISYS sales personnel. Negotiated project deliverables agreements, managed project schedules and oversaw the development of the business applications for projects won. Primary lines of business were in the wholesale and retail building materials industry and custom make-to-order door-unit manufacturing. Managed development and contributed expertise in COBOL code construction, DMSII database administration, and UNISYS legacy data communications. Performed migration of the COBOL applications systems from a UNISYS B1855 to the UNISYS entry level A-series A4 pre-Libra using the LINC application development code generator. .
• Environment: Unisys A4 System, Burroughs B1000, DMSII, DASDL, COBOL68, COBOL74, COMS, NDL, WFL , MCP, SMCS, CANDE, GEMCOS, ODESY, LINC,

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Manager, Systems and Programming

• Coded Sales Order Entry, A/R, A/P, Inventory Control and Purchasing applications for the Unisys B1000.
• Architected a networked two-computer client/server system to accommodate the large transaction volume being processed to earn the attention of local and national Burroughs systems engineers and customers.
• Environment: B1870 and B1855, DMSII, DASDL, DMutitily, COBOL68, NDL, SMCS, CANDE, GEMCOS.