Professional experience

• A PMP Certified Project Manager and Information Services Professional with extensive
• experience in mainframe systems development and support. I have performed activities in all
• areas of the Systems Development Life Cycle Methodology SDLC . Including, Project
• Management, Team Leading, Working with Users, Requirements Definition, Database Design,
• Programming, Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Production Support, Software
• Implementation, Tracking Defects / Changes, and Project Communications.
• My industry experience includes Manufacturing, Inventory Control, Warehousing, Call Center,
• E-Commerce, Telecommunications, Medicare Billing, and IT Infrastructure Projects.

Career History:

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managing Liquid Competitions and maintaining Rational Team Concert RTC content improvement for a large internal maintenance and support project.
• Communications focal point between Liquid Challenge, Liquid Community Players, and Project Management.
• Contributing member of the Project Estimating Center of Excellence Community.

Project Manager

• Liquid Portal focal point for the Michigan Delivery Centers' bench resources. Tracking and weekly reporting of bench resource liquid usage.
• Liquid Player Representative for the Michigan Delivery Center.

Project Manager

• Led several IT Infrastructure upgrade / installation projects for a State Government client.
• Created the Project Planning, Control, and Schedule documents.
• Communications focal point between the Client Staff and the Vendors.
• Created Impact Assessments, Project Proposals, Estimates, and Feasibility Studies
• Controlled Tasks assignments and Priorities
• Provided weekly status reporting to Client Management.

Senior IT Specialist / Team Leader

• Led a team modernizing a mainframe software system for a State Government client.
• Analyzed existing programs, jobs, documentation, and copy libraries to confirm the impact assessment of the proposed changes.
• Created cross-reference material to be used in creating a Companion Guide for the systems users.
• Communication focal point between the team and the client.
• Provided weekly status reporting to IBM Management and Client Staff.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Supported the HP Tandem NonStop system for the company's Home Security client.
• Resolved system errors, monitored and updated file size usage, researched and corrected software problems.
• Documented the client's software environment.
• Made recommendations for systems improvement.
• Provided weekly status reporting to client and management staff.

Senior Consultant

• Developed a major change in the Telecommunications client companies Customer Ordering Systems to allow multi-line orders. Used COBOL85, C, and HP NonStop SQL for the environment.
• Developed the Functional Specifications for the solution that included Customer Requirements, Test Plans, Implementation Plans, and changes to the Data Dictionary.
• Developed the Technical Specifications for the solution that included Programming Specifications, Time Estimates, Testing Scripts, and a Change Tracking Spreadsheet.
• Wrote and tested several of the Driver Modules that run on the HP NonStop mainframe.
• Developed a series of SQL utilities for system maintenance.
• Member of the Product Review Team that enforced the Software Development Methodology and company standards.

Senior Technologist

• Supported a major universities' Student Financial Aid package developed by PeopleSoft.
• Applied software patches as they were made available, tracked changes.
• Created several custom SQL Queries not delivered with the software.

Business Analyst / Senior Consultant

• Created the Gas Supplier of Choice Residential and Commercial billing systems for the companies' Electric Utility client. Created the software, database changes, documentation, and test plans for the systems. Used IBM MVS systems, COBOL, VSAM, and DB2 tools.
• Developed a stand alone Driver Program for testing the Commercial Billing system.
• Supported the client's existing Billing systems.

Senior Consultant

• Created the software prototype of the DataGuide System that the client company uses for Marketing. Used the MS C language and MS Access database.
• Developed the Software Development Methodology and Standards..
• Determined the documentation, testing, and coding practices to be used.
• Led the team of developers, including Interviewing, Time Management, Performance

Evaluations, Requirements Definition, Programming, and Documentation.

Confidential

Senior Developer

• Co-Developer of the MessageWay EDI Translator and Message Switching system. Used COBOL85, C, and HP NonStop SQL for the environment.
• Created several of the configuration modules running in the background.
• Participated in the System Development Life Cycle code reviews and testing reviews.
• Developed the Software Release documentation.
• Assisted a customer in the Pittsburgh, PA. in implementing the MessageWay Software product.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

• Supported the Warehousing and Distribution System's Picking, Packing, and Shipping subsystems for a major Automotive Manufacturer.
• Used COBOL and HP NonStop SQL to rewrite several of the driver programs to improve system response time, enhance functionality, and remove system defects.

Confidential

Senior Computer Systems Designer Project Leader

• Co-Developer of the Inventory Control System, used to manufacture the Space Shuttle External Tank for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration NASA .
• Created over 60 of the modules
• Performed module and integration testing
• Assisted in the implementation of the system.
• Member of the Software Development Systems Refinement Team SD SRT .

Project Leader TRMS Support Staff,

• Technical Liaison between the NASA Engineering Staff and the Technical Requirements Management System TRMS Programming Staff.
• Converted the Engineers' Functional Requirements into Technical Programming Requirements, Project Plans, Time Estimates, and Test Plans.
• Maintained a log of Enhancement Requests and Completed Tasks.
• Led the Programming Team, Interviewed new Team Members, Assigned and Reviewed Tasks, Performance Reviews, Training, Status Reporting, and Communication with Management.
• Member of the Software Quality Assurance Team, code reviews, adherence to standards.

Project Leader for the Xerox 9700 Laser Implementation project.

• Led the team of software developers in modifying all of the printing applications within the NASA Slidell Computer Complex.
• Determined programming and testing criteria, project schedules, and resolved conflicts with other teams.
• Member of the Software Development Systems Refinement Team SRT , proposed programming standards changes and documentation changes to NASA. Improved paperwork flow for the Computer Center.

Confidential

Computer Operator / Programmer

• Operated the companies' mainframe computer system, completing the daily and weekly production schedules.
• Developed an automated production scheduling system for improve part availability forecasting.

Key Skills:

• IBM MVS environment. DB2, VSAM, MS Office Professional, MS Project
• COBOL68, COBOL74, COBOL85, C, CICS, PeopleSoft PeopleCode, TAL, and
• FORTRAN-74 programming languages
• HP NonStop environment, NonStop SQL, TACL, SCOBOL, Guardian
• Rational Team Concert RTC , Liquid Methodology
• Key Courses and AAO TAC Application Assembly Optimization, Concepts Series