SUMMARY

• Results oriented programmer analyst with over twenty years of progressively responsible experience. A wide variety of applications, languages, systems, and responsibilities contributing to quick adaptation to new environments, languages and applications. Experience in systems programming and software quality providing a broad base from which to draw.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Hardware: IBM 360, 370, 1401, 1620, 3090, 4341, 4381, INTEL Pentium PC,

Burroughs L3000, T3500, Honeywell 600, TI 960A, Univac 494, 1107

Languages: APL, ASSEMBLER, CLIST, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, FORTRAN, JCL, SAS, SQL

Mainframe Software: OS/MVS, UNIX, VM, CICS, CMS, FILEAID, PANVALET, SYNCSORT, TSO/ISPF, VSAM

PC Software: WINDOWS, ACCESS, EXCEL, LOTUS NOTES, OUTLOOK, POWERPOINT, VISIO, WORD

WORK EXPERIENCE

CONSULTANT

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• Wrote/modified SAS programs that produced daily and monthly reports for use by the Specialty Loss Mitigation group . The reports were in the form of Excel workbooks. Data was extracted from a database consisting of SAS datasets.

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• Used SAS and Enterprise Guide to produce and modify reports for mortgage default.

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• Used SAS and Enterprise Guide to enhance reports and correct defects

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• Used COBOL and Excel to produce reports.

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• Used SAS and SAS/GRAPH to produce reports displaying requested data at District, Branch, or Agent level. Used HTML to create screens used to request customized reports online.

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• Wrote SAS programs that produced monthly reports, and for ad hoc reporting, for use by International Markets Membership Rewards program. The reports were generally in the form of Excel spreadsheets and charts delivered as PDF documents.

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• Wrote SAS programs to validate reports and scores for student assessment testing.

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• Wrote SAS code from Detail Design Documents to extract data from Oracle database to produce reports regarding customer reactions to pharmaceutical company's products. Wrote a Detail Design Document for one of the programs I coded, as well as test the script for formal unit testing. And performed code reviews and formal unit testing on other programs using test scripts. Also wrote and tested several utility macros used by the query and report programs that were coded by myself and the other programmers.

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• Wrote and modified SAS programs used to extract data from a DB2 database and produce reports and phone lists for call centers. These reports were used, among other things, to track call volume and success rates by time of day. Also helped automate some of the reporting being performed manually.

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• Wrote SAS programs to extract data and produce Word documents containing survey results to be used by marketing. The documents were constructed with text constructed by the SAS program and Excel charts produced and inserted under program control, though I didn't write the macros to do this.

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• Modified SAS programs that produced monthly reports, and wrote SAS programs for ad hoc reporting, for use by Credit Risk Management. The reports were generally in the form of Excel spreadsheets and charts delivered as PDF documents. Data was extracted from a database consisting of SAS datasets.

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• Used Visual Basic and SAS programs to test conversion of credit products for international markets.
• Worked with Data Modeling group to produce reports for use in identifying potential credit risks.

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

• Wrote programs for on-line exams and Computer Based Training. Also stored scores from these exams and others entered separately and provided access for viewing by the individual students, as well as computation of grades and other statistics.
• Wrote programs for transportation system which identified over 3 million in erroneous and double billing by shippers the first month it was implemented.
• Wrote software to interface and control input devices to CPU. The company was developing a system for use in retail stores. The device would produce a receipt for the customer, print a record of the transaction, and write to a tape which would later be read to transmit the data to a central location for inventory processing.
• On my own time, re-wrote Laundry List program to allow for random access corrections and insertions with coding which used less space than the original. This was part of a system which ran on mini-computers that could only address 64K.
• Wrote an interactive data entry system, which included error checking, and crash recovery routines. The program used input data to control successive input. The data was uploaded to another mainframe, so routines to confirm transfer and clear work areas were included. Wrote other interactive data entry programs which were much less complex.
• Installed and tailored new operating systems for upgrade from System 370 to 4341. The new configuration was DOS/VSE running under VM.
• Made presentations to management and customer representatives on the status of programs, including budget, progress, and problems. Also acted as customers' representative, in some instances, for buy-off of testing. And represented our company on visits to subcontractors and vendors.
• Part of transition team to transfer operation of Data Processing Center from one consulting firm to another.
• Added numerous features to cost estimating and accounting systems, based on direct contact with users, for ease of use and timely access of data.
• Wrote programs to aid in the recovery of lost revenue due to billing errors. Wrote programs to identify and rectify over billings, as well.
• Wrote SAS programs and UNIX Shells to convert systems on mainframe to run on RS-6000 under UNIX and access data from ORACLE database using SQL.