SUMMARY:

A challenging IS / IT Management, Programmer/Analyst, Systems Analyst, or Team Leader position within a progressive technologically oriented firm; utilizing and developing skills within computer applications related technologies. Seeking opportunities to learn and practice modern development skills and methodologies. Seeking opportunities where I can grow into upper Management “C” level and / or Ownership level positions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,New Jersey

Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Contracted out to IBM Global Services as Consultant and Technical Team Lead at Confidential Publishing company in Somerset New Jersey. Role as IT Consultant - Applications Infrastructure Integration Specialist.
• Contracted out to IBM Global Services as IBM Global Services Consultant and Technical Team Lead at John Wiley & Sons (JWS) Publishing company in Somerset New Jersey. Working on an SAP ERP Integration project. IBM Global Services Technical Team Lead for JWS SAP ERP Legacy Refactoring for the E-Commerce Applications Team. Working on the Integration of E-Commerce and other Legacy applications into SAP using MQ-Series, the TIBCO ESB Bus, Web Services, SYNON, RPG, and LANSA, on the IBM i or I-Series. Responsible for Refactoring Research, Analysis, Design, Testing, and Developer Direction for a Team of Off-Shore (India) Developers. Responsible for leading the team in Refactoring Multiple Integration points as new Web-Services within multiple systems in a Global Enterprise environment. Working with both business and technology stakeholders. Working with Wiley staff, IBM staff, SAP staff, and others. Active Roles include IBM i technical expertise, LANSA technical expertise, and project and staff management roles.
• Managed Testing of applications and supervised Change Requests and remediation of all defects and enhancements. Verifying testing results on both the I-Series and with SAP via the SAP GUI client.
• Work extensively with other technical & business teams supporting SAP, the TIBCO ESB, the Address Doctor web-services utilities, & the new Sabrix OneSource Tax engine.

Confidential,Cincinnati,Ohio

Senior Programmer/Analyst and Senior Systems Analyst

• Team Leader for major Internet development that lead to both Internal usage and products/services for sale to clients. Lead rebuilding of consulting practice around new Web based products and services.
• Serviced a very large number of various clients in a wide variety of industries on a wide variety of projects - including ITT-TDS, MRG, Future Now / XeroxConnect, TexStyle, Inc., KAMS/PMI, Frontier Communications, NK Sanitation District #1, Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Investment Systems Company, Government of Bermuda, etc.
• Worked on R&K Internal systems & networking - including Internet/Web development, email, & Networking Infrastructure.
• Worked on several R&K products - Essential WebSite Portal Manager, Essential Infinium WebSite Portal Manager, Essential Enterprise Portal, & Methos Maintenance Management.
• Account Management for numerous major IS/IT OutSource clients and other clients. Handled all requests for services and projects. Budgeting, purchasing, project management, and provided both strategic & tactical leadership. Managed both R&K and customer staff members in order to accomplish timely delivery of high quality services.
• Numerous R&D projects lead work over many years on LANSA for the Web, WebFacing, I-Series Access for the Web, IBM WebSphere Applications Server Express, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Trailblazer EDI-INT AS2, aXes,Virtual Machines usages, and R&K’s Essential Enterprise Portal ASP deployment.
• Responsible leadership role for numerous IBM AS/400 server family Hardware and OS/400 upgrades and migrations. Responsible for the migration / upgrade implementations and trouble-shooting in a wide variety of customer organizations and situations.
• Lead LANSA Infrastructure specialist - Implement, Install, Upgrade and support numerous LANSA installs on numerous I-Series partitions both Internally at R&K and for numerous major R&K customers and clients.
• Lead InfraStructure designer and implementer for R&K’s 1SYNC ASP solution using LANSA’ s DSD software, VLF, R&K’s EEP portal. Worked with R&K 1SYNC team to support R&K’s 1SYNC ASP solution.
• Numerous RESNET infrastructure implementations for the IAD / Agilysys business partner hotel / casino clients including Mandalay Resort Group, StarDust, GayLord Entertainment, and Stations hotel / casinos and many, many others.
• Cloud / ASP Leadership role in implementing Cloud Hosting / ASP Hosting for clients at Rippe and Confidential . Successfully created and implemented ASP environments for multiple R&K Clients and their Customers.
• Also played major roles in Rippe and Confidential Google Apps Business Partner Initiative assisting numerous clients and customers businesses and organizations in moving from traditional email to Google Apps Cloud services.
• Served as R&K Systems & Consulting Technical Help Desk lead technician and trouble-shooter. Support all levels of users both Internal and Clients / Customers for a very wide variety of products and issues. Regular Support relationships and business partner Interfaces between R&K and LANSA Support, between R&K and IBM Support, between R&K and AVNET Support, between R&K and United Computer Group, between R&K and TL Ashford, between R&K and Trailblazer / Nubridges, and many others.
• Extensive I-Series Securities & Authorities Management & Administrative Activities. Users, Groups, Objects & Authorization Lists. Both Standard DB2/400 objects and IFS directories and objects.
• Educated Client Organizations on IBM Standards, Processes, Procedures and Best Practices for IPL’s, Full Systems Saves and other IBM standard processes and procedures.
• Extensive I-Series Job Scheduling (WRKJOBSCDE, AJS, & ROBOT modules) and Job Monitoring knowledge & experience.
• LANSA Advanced Applications creation, modifications, and implementations for online, reporting & Web-Applications. Extensive familiarity with ALL LANSA modules - RDML, RDML-X, LANSA A/D, LANSA for the Web, JSM / Integrator, Visual LANSA, LANSA VL IDE, LANSA Web Editor, LANSA Web Administrator, LANSA Debuggers, and LANSA WAMS.
• Extensive Advanced LANSA Administration including Installs, Upgrades, EPC patches, version & module upgrades, & more.
• Advanced work as an SSL and Digital Certificate specialist doing creations and renewals.
• Provided Leadership in Advanced R&D, Development, and Administration of R&K Virtualization environment including both WorkStation and Server Virtualization environments and tools using VMWare and ESX.
• Served as “Applications Infrastructure Integration Specialist” to both Internal Customers & External Customers.
• Practiced Advanced Collaborative efforts allowing Teams I was leading to accomplish “reach” goals - like DC Migrations.
• Provided Centralized Collaborative Technical Support for advanced Technical Support Services Issues for both Internal Customers and External Customers. (I got the call when nobody else could answer).
• Implementation and Administration of Vault/400 Internet backups for both Internal Customers and numerous External Customers.
• Lead collaborative teams in the Design, Creation & Implementation of Advanced Web-Services and Web-Services updates for applications doing things like Credit Card processing, SalesForce Updates, and Digital Media Integration.
• Implementation of Integrations between I-Series applications and Windows Servers, Linux Servers, and Unix Servers. Proficient in Linux Servers, Windows Servers, and Unix Servers environments.
• Advanced leadership point person role in Trouble-Shooting the most intractable infrastructure & web applications issues.
• Significant and Substantial Email Server Administration, Management, and Upgrades work performed on a wide variety of email server platforms.
• Specialist Web Administrator for a very wide variety HTTP Servers & a very wide variety of Servlet Applications Servers.
• Managed and worked in a variety of both Internal Customer & External Customer Change Management environments.
• Collaborated closely with R&K (.NET) & Java Teams to create the most robust web applications.
• Contributor and Collaborator for Google Apps based Cloud Computing for both Internal Customers & External Customers.
• Proficient with a wide variety of Soft Skills for SOW creation, project estimations, WBS creations, Project Management, Budget Management, and Communications with Team Leads, Department Heads and Upper Management.
• Cited for Excellence in Documentation, Record-Keeping, and Diagramming of Systems and Services.
• Advanced I-Series Administration including i5/OS Upgrades, I-Series Upgrades, I-Series Migrations, Application of IBM PTF’s and PTF patch Packages, Groups, and Cumulatives.
• Advanced I-Series Administration using HMC, LPARs, Hardware, i5/OS Software LPP installs, and Firmware upgrades.
• Extensive Advanced work as Administrator for a very wide variety for Firewalls, Routers, & Switches.
• Extensive I-Series Securities & Authorities Management & Administrative Activities. Users, Groups, Objects & Authorization Lists. Both Standard DB2/400 objects and IFS directories and objects.
• Educated Client Organizations on IBM Standards, Processes, Procedures and Best Practices for IPL’s, Full Systems Saves and other IBM standard processes and procedures.
• Extensive I-Series Job Scheduling (WRKJOBSCDE, AJS, & ROBOT modules) and Job Monitoring knowledge & experience.
• Advanced work as an SSL and Digital Certificate specialist doing creations and renewals.

Confidential, Madison, Wisconsin

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as senior programmer/analyst on PI, Cycle Count, Replenishment, PO, AP, PR, & HR and other mission critical business applications systems.
• Full Journaling, Commitment Control & Rollback Environment with Book-Marking and Full Online / Batch Job Processes Step Re-Starts supported.
• Advanced Applications created using LANSA, CLP, i-Series Query, SQL, and Utilities. Advanced LANSA Application software design, analyze, code, test, debugging, documentation and support. The team stretched numbers of updates during a single online interaction from the Industry Standard of dozens to 10’s of thousands per a single online Replenishment models transaction interaction.
• Advanced Specialist in debugging the most difficult issues and problems with Journaling, Commitment Control, Control Breaks, and Rollbacks. Functioned as lead Support Specialist for both online and batch bookmarking and restart logics in support of the Full Journaling, Commitment Control and Rollbacks environment.
• Created Advanced Intelligent reporting using mathematical algorithms that could detect and report on matching Store Shoe Inventory Models by Store, Item, Size, & Width.
• Senior Programmer / Analyst on numerous mission critical business application software development projects.
• Challenge Project - Rewrote & Re-programmed PO and Receivers Processing & Reporting using only CLP and AS/400 Query.
• Created online 3-way Matching Vouchering applications for AP department.
• Created robust advanced online applications for Scheduling Store Physical Inventories and Store Cycle Counts.
• Replaced manual Purchase Order documents with Reprogrammed Purchase Orders printed on Advanced Forms Overlays documents.
• Team Leader for the Massive Advanced Store Number Change project.
• Team Senior P/A and major contributor on the Very Large Store Inventory Models Replenishment project.
• Extensive Experience and Contributions to Advanced Data Warehousing data extraction, capture, loads, balancing, and Management. Additionally worked on programming of Advanced EIS screens and reports to use and report on Data Warehousing Summary Data that could be used by Buyers and upper Management for mission critical business decision making.
• Advanced LANSA Green-Screen debugger work and trouble-shooting.
• Implementation of Advanced online LANSA and CLP documentation - reduces support costs and speeds support response times. Cited by Management for reduced support costs and improved support services.
• Integrated Applications and Jobs into ROBOT scheduling environment.
• Integrated and Connected I-Series Applications to remote Warehouse WMS Unix systems.
• Advanced CLP creation, modification, and Job Management.
• Team Leader on several mission critical applications systems development efforts - Store Number Change Project, FIT Forms Project.

Confidential,Madison,Wisconsin

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

• Used Kermit Data Transfers and new Applications to Remove all Data Entry. 2 Dozen Persons re-purposed.
• Creation of New Advanced New Product Embedment Subsystems - New Product intro time down from a Month or more to a couple of Days.
• Creation and Implementation of New Subsystems for Check Register balancing (Similar to Quicken but before it existed.).
• Revamped and Re-wrote the entire Purchase Orders and Receivers Subsystems.
• Extracted and Created Customer Catalog Marketing List files from Historical Sales data files and tapes.
• Loaded Zip Code information and Created & Implemented Advanced Books Marketing reporting with Salesman Sales by areas via Zip Codes data matching.
• Advanced Development and use of Error Messaging and Error Reporting to Improve Debugging Response times.
• Advanced use of JCL for Honeywell DPS-7 GCOS-7 environment.
• Maintain and support existing applications software.
• Analyze, design, code, test, document and support new business applications in a team environment. Worked on PO, AP, GL, Customer Service, AR, OE, Billings, Bookings, Mailers, and other mission critical business applications systems.

Confidential,Burlington, Ma

Programmer / Analyst

• Worked on Honeywell DPS family of servers. DPS 8 systems in Cobol & IDS databases.
• Advanced COBOL and IDS-II Application software - Analysis, design, code, test, implement, document, and support new & existing business applications in a team environment. Developed batch and forms-mode transaction programs for the Access Project. Worked on Access, BeeLine, ASRS, & ARF business applications systems.
• Honeywell DPS-8 GCOS-8 and GE Computing environments.
• Load and Process Card Punch data.
• Implemented Bee-Line EDI Order processing. Pick up remote GE Meters Division orders from remote GE Locations.
• Maintain & Support existing applications programs and JCL. Develop and test JCL for new applications.

Confidential,Newton, Ma

Programmer/Analyst - Business Applications Programmer

• Worked on Honeywell DPS 6 & DPS 8 systems in Cobol and IDS-I & IDS-II databases.
• Learned IDS-II Hierarchical Database Language in 2 weeks from Honeywell CBT Training Courses.
• Learned Honeywell DPS-8 GCOS-8 OS in course of 3 months from Honeywell CBT’s and Training videos.
• Advanced COBOL, IDS-I & IDS-II Application software development - Analysis, design, code, test, implement, document, and support new business applications in a team environment for both FCCS & Logistics business applications systems.
• Centralized, Consolidated and Created new Advanced Customer Service Division online applications for One-Stop updates for Honeywell PARCS and SPARES parts Orders Management.
• Environment including both DPS-6 GCOS-6 and DPS-8 GCOS-8 platforms.
• Hierarchical Databases running in IDS-I and IDS-II database environments.
• Substantial advanced work with Honeywell JCL.
• Advanced Honeywell DPS-8 GCOS-8 Octal Systems Dump Analysis Training and Experience.
• Switched Teams and Learned Honeywell CSD Logistics Team applications and operations.
• Develop and Test JCL; Modify existing systems; test and debug new and existing applications programs.