OBJECTIVE: To obtain challenging consulting positions nationwide/ worldwide.

HIGHLIGHTS: Banking, Healthcare Financials, Credit-Card Processing. Brokerage, Trucking.

COMPUTER SKILLS: My primary skill for over 25 years has been that of a software specialist, creating, maintaining and updating software modules. I have written full-fledged, posting financial interfaces from scratch that worked perfectly, and have maintained software-systems for $250-billion-a-day US banks.

TANDEM Non-Stop Computers (20 Years)

• COBOL, SCOBOL, Pathway (Heavy)
• TANDEM "C", ANSI-standard "C", SQL/MP, SQL/MX
• - TAL (Tandem Application Language) (Heavy), pTAL, epTAL
• HTTP 1.1 (RFC 2616)
• HTML (HyperText Markup Languare) 4.0, XHTML
• XML (eXtensible Markup Language) 1.0, 1.1 SE, XSL, XPointer, XLink
• JavaScript 1.5 (ECMA-262, v3)
• DOM (Document Object Model) 1.0, SAX
• C++, C#, ASP.NET, WSDL, PGP
• Microsoft ACCESS (Jet Red Database Engine), SQL (Structured Query Language)
• .NET Framework 1.0, 3.0
• UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, BASE64
• DDL (Data Dictionary Language)
• ENFORM
• CMI, SAFEGUARD, RMS (Resource Management System), CONTROL
• TACL (Tandem Advanced Command Language)
• PATHMAKER (Manual Only)
• RSC (Remote Server Call), Transaction Delivery Service (TDS)
• Remote Source Object Model (RSOM), TUXEDO, PICCOLO (Message-Oriented Middleware)
• FTP, TCP/IP, NDM, HYPERCHANNEL, RJE
• NETBATCH (Batchcom)
• EMS (Event Management System), Viewpoint, Viewsys

Microsoft:

• C++, C #
• VISUAL BASIC 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
• VISUAL STUDIO 3.0
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Microsoft WORD, EXCEL; Lotus NOTES
• Novell Netware, Certified Netware Engineer (CNE)
• Digital Equipment Corporation PDP 11/70 (BASIC Plus) - 3 Years; DEC VAX (1 Year)
• Data General NOVA (Business BASIC) - 1.5 Years
• DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Lantastic, etc., etc. Have built, tested and implemented
• ca. 100 IBM-PC compatible personal computers.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential- August, 2010 - October, 2010.

Studied toward licensing by State of Texas as "All-Lines Insurance Adjuster". Completed course and passed test for license; am now awaiting license.

Confidential - February, 2010 - July, 2010.
(Confidential, Oracle 7, VoIP Telephone System/Local Area Network, Microsoft Server 2000, IE 6, Microsoft Access (JET Database Engine)).

Was "Office Operations Supervisor - Information Technology" for United States Census Bureau office in Corpus Christi, Texas. Directly assist "Assistant Manager - Technology" in making sure that all parts of office environment work correctly - software, hardware, networks, printers,
VOIP telephones, workstations, scanners, etc. Subsequently, assumed another position with Census
Bureau, that of "Field Operations Supervisor"; was mid-level manager over 8 Operations Supervisors, each of which managed 20 people, for a total of 160 people managed. Was only FOS district (out of 7) to stay intact with no desertions for entire operation of 4 months.

Confidential - September, 2009 - December, 2009.
(Confidential)

Answering the phone as a Customer Service Representative for Verizon Wireless. Review bills with customers, help them to order new phones, explain to them the latest handset and wireless (OTA - Over The Air) technology.

Confidential - March, 2009 - May, 2009.
(Windows Direct Push Technology (Wireless) on an Confidential)

Worked door-to-door in Corpus Christi, Texas and other parts of South Texas obtaining information about housing in preparation for the 2010 Census. Entered this information into a hand-held computer and transmitted information via wireless communication to a central server on a regular basis.

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri 06/2008 - 07/2008 (Consultant)
(TANDEM COBOL85, SCOBOL, TAL, "C", SQL, ENSCRIBE, WEB6530, Attunity, MQ Series, assorted TANDEM utilities)

Participated in a project meant to upgrade Confidential store-based item-search system to
also access web-based provider DOT.COM/ICONGO. Also, trouble-shot production problems.

Confidential, St. Petersburg, Florida 10/2007 - 12/2007 (Consultant)
(TANDEM COBOL85, SQL, ENSCRIBE, OUTSIDE VIEW, WIP, SIS, CSS, JavaScript, assorted TANDEM utilities).

Participated in the \'Investor Access Redesign\' project. Read, analyzed, documented and validated
three months\' worth of securities and brokerage software. Wrote a new program to make available to external customers 2+ years of archived transaction data. Used SQL cursors extensively. Also did exstensive reading regarding use of WIP and JavaScript, company\'s \'middleware\' products. Company decided to deemphasize consultants and emphasize employees at start of 2008.

Confidential, Corpus Christi, Texas 11/2006 - 1/2007 (FTE)
I participated in the beginning stages of a project which was intended to enhance the processing of files for the Criminal Records Division of the state of Texas. I immersed myself in Visual Basic 6.0, C #, C, Visual Studio 3.0, .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation. After three heavy months on the job, I concluded that the company was not what I was looking for and decided to go back out on the job market.

1/2004 - 10/2006 -- I enjoyed some time off after spending nearly two years on the road. I day-traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ, and also took graduate-level classes at Texas Confidential-Corpus Christi in the area of Psychology. Ultimately, I have decided to rededicate myself to my computer programming career.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio 5/13/02 - 12/03/03 (Consultant)
(TANDEM TAL, COBOL85, TACL, OUTSIDE VIEW, FTP, TCP/IP, RJE, TANDEM utilities).
Assisted in running Bank One's $250-billion-a-day nationwide MONEYNET wire-transfer system, which stretches from Arizona and Oregon in the western U.S. to West Virginia on the East Coast.

Duties included finding bugs in and making coding changes to various MONEYNET modules including the Domestic Inbound Formatter (IFRM), the DDA module (DDAS), the Review-Release module (RRNF) , and the International (MIC) Review-Release module (REV). I also completely overhauled the bank's OFAC (Office of Foreign Asset Control) modules.

Supported the bank's ability to communicate via TCPIP within the wire-transfer system and with external users. This included maintaining TCPIP servers and TCPIP ports within the existing wire-transfer system.
CAL Changes -- I made changes to the MICS module of the bank's CAL (Cross-Application Link) software; this project involved a thorough study of the complete CAL subsystem (OLTCP, DOMS, MICS) for the purpose of preventing the IBM users from entering wires with "send-dates" which fall on Federal Reserve holidays. I also made changes to the DOMS module (the domestic US component of CAL) involving accounting for 'internal' transactions.
ALSO - Performed a 'charter collapse' for old affiliates which were rolled into the bank's lead affiliate. Involved changing the SOURCE-BANK-NAME and OGB= fields of ASTs and domestic repeats belonging to the 'collapsed' affiliates. Also involved changes to the APMFEDT file and to the CRSPSNA program.
ALSO - Fax-Server.
ALSO, wrote a program to convert the MoneyNet USER file from our existing \\W2 system to our new \\W3 system. Involved altering the TERMINAL array inside each individual USER record so that the FNAMEEXPAND-ed device names for each USER would contain the MYSYSTEMNUMBER of the new system. Output was routed to the screen and was CAPTURED using the Windows session-logging facility.
ALSO, converted MoneyNet TBLD program (TERMINAL-BUILD) so that it would:

• retain functions from previous TERMINAL record, and
• convert TERMINAL records across system nodes. Both of these fixes are enhancements to a program which has run in crippled fashion for years until fixed. Both the USER-file conversion program and the TBLD program mentioned directly above were part of the recently successful move of our "South" MoneyNet system from Phoenix to Chicago. This move also involved the changing of node-names (from \\W2 to \\W3) and the re-hosting of the application and all relevant software and datafiles from the old computer system to the new one.

Confidential, Boston, Ma. (Lexington) 2/2002 - 5/2002 (Consultant)
(TANDEM COBOL85, TAL, WIN6530, IXF, assorted TANDEM utilities)
Wrote a conversion program to convert the MoneyNet "Domestic Repeats" file (REPSTRUC) to the BESS "Recurs" file (RCRINFO and RCRINFO2). This very challenging program takes both FED and Internal wire templates and creates from them the corresponding entries in the BESS template file. The program will be used going forward by LOGICA as part of their MoneyNet-to-BESS conversion package.
Also, did extensive work on the program which converts the MoneyNet 'pin-caller' files (AUTHMAIN, AUTHACCT) to the corresponding BESS files (TPAUTH, TPBAUTH). Program will also be used going-forward by LOGICA as part of their MoneyNet-to-BESS conversion package.
Also, worked on the programs which convert the MoneyNet ACCOUNT and CUSTOMER files into their corresponding BESS equivalents (CUSACCT, CUSINFO). Programs will also be used going-forward by LOGICA as part of their MoneyNet-to-BESS conversion package.

Confidential, San Francisco, California (Concord) 11/2000 - 6/2001 (Consultant).
(Tandem COBOL85, NDM, FTP, X.25, NetBatch +, Viewpoint).
I participated in the upgrade of the bank's DATA EXPRESS software from the 6.0 level to the 6.2.1 level.
DATA EXPRESS is a software system that serves as a "front-end" for the bank's ACH (and other related) applications. My duties included extensive testing and certification of the following components: the End-Of-Day/ Beginning-Of-Day modules, the software's "drop-in" modules for dynamic schedules, and the "time machine" modules (leap-year testing, Daylight Savings Time testing).
We moved this extensive upgrade of the software into production with only miniscule problems. It was a major implementation for BofA with maximum exposure for the bank, and we carried it off nearly perfectly. I am proud to have been a part of this effort.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois, 2/99 - 8/99 (Consultant)
(Tandem TAL, COBOL85,ENFORM, DDL, TACL, NETBATCH, NDM, X.25--GUARDIAN OS)
Duties at ABN/AMRO: Was part of a team which maintained the bank\'s multi-billion-dollar-a-day MoneyNet 3.0 wire-transfer system. Software and hardware extremely similar to that used at First Union and at SunTrust, included supporting X.25 protocol for both remote and International wire access.
Biggest project at ABN/AMRO: Performed database conversion to absorb an existing affiliate into the larger LaSalle Bank infrastructure. Also, performed Y2K conversion on several files which enabled them to support wire activity above and beyond the year 2000 threshold.

Confidential, Atlanta, Ga., 4/96 - 7/98
(Tandem TAL, COBOL85, ENFORM, DDL, TACL, CMI, HYPERCHANNEL -- GUARDIAN OS)
Duties at SunTrust: Maintained the $12 Billion A DAY MoneyNet 3.0 Wire-Transfer System. On-call 24 hours a day. Programmed in TAL, COBOL, and ENFORM. Support both the Domestic (Federal Reserve) and International (SWIFT) components of the wire system; the International system was converted to communicate via the X.25 communication protocol.
Biggest project at SunTrust: Supervised the upgrade of the bank\'s complete domestic
(Federal Reserve) software system, which was changed due to Federal regulatory changes. Once I was given the assignment by my superior (Jeff Dunnahoo), I coordinated the implementation of the project, handled communications with the vendor, and served as technical lead. This project
affected $11 Billion of the wire-systems\' $12 Billion daily total. Was implemented
with no problems. MoneyNet software to be replaced by INTRANET software as of 7/17/98.
Participated in the MoneyNet - INTRANET conversion.
Also participated in Disaster Recovery exercises, which involved moving our entire production environment (datafiles, software, communication lines, etc) to our test-system, making all the required parameter, line-name, system-name changes to the test-system, then bringing up the production environment on the test-system in production mode and communicating with the Federal Reserve in order to authenticate the "recovery".
Also installed changes in the bank's SWIFT International wire-transfer software to enable the communication systems to use TCP/IP and packet-based communications to send and receive wire transfers.

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida 5/94 - 4/96
(Tandem TAL, COBOL85, ENFORM, TACL, DDL, CMI, SAFEGUARD, RMS, "C", NDM -- GUARDIAN OS)
Was sole programmer responsible for maintaining First Union\'s MONEYNET wire-transfer system, which was a $4 BILLION-a-day system. Supported both Domestic Wires (which ran out of Jacksonville) and International Wires (which ran out of Miami, Fl.). International Wires used ACI\'s SWIFT wire-transfer system. Was heavily involved in First Union\'s conversion from
MoneyNet 1.417 to MoneyNet 2.0. Daily routine involved debugging/altering ACI\'s MoneyNet
code (TAL), as well as writing report programs in TAL, ENFORM, and TANDEM "C".

Was also on call 24/7, and supported both BOD and EOD streams. ACI code included both SWIFT and ECDA (PC-Wire). Was a true "systems analyst" position, as it involved heavy use of diagnostic and analysis skills, as well as coordination of several different groups of people. MoneyNet
software to be replaced by INTRANET software as of 3/18/96.
Was lead (and only) programmer on the TANDEM side in the MoneyNet-INTRANET conversion (INTRANET is a DEC VAX-compatible system, and the conversion involved myself, a DEC programmer, and an IBM-mainframe programmer). The conversion was a highly visible project within the bank, and was carried off without a hitch; it was successful, with no problems.
Also participated in Disaster Recovery exercises, in which we backed up the production environment running in Jacksonville to cartridges, flew to Charlotte, N.C., and then reinstalled the production environment on the banks\' TANDEM computers running in Charlotte, NC. We communicated with the Federal Reserve from the "recovered" system in order to validate our recovery.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA 9/93 - 3/94 (The REGISTRY)
(Tandem COBOL85, SCOBOL, Pathway, TAL, ENFORM, DDL)
Maintained the Credit Card Authorization System for the AT&T Universal Card. Involved making changes to COBOL, SCOBOL and TAL programs, as well as producing database reports by means of ENFORM and DDL. Became familiar with MasterCard\'s CIS (Customer Interface Specification) Manual. Installed several changes to this world-wide, around-the-clock system.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas 6/93 - 7/93
(Tandem COBOL85, SCOBOL, Pathway, TAL)
Participated in a project which established an electronic "bridge" between Southwest Securities and Bank of America in San Francisco, Ca. Wrote print program which printed every hour on the half-hour and displayed all transactions for the day to that point in time.

Confidential, Duluth (Atlanta), Ga. 4/93 - 5/93
(Tandem COBOL85, SCOBOL, Pathway)
Helped to write a financial system which factored accounts for doctors\' offices\' accounts receivables. Company planned to make money by paying doctors a percentage for their receivables, then collecting the full amount from patients, various government agencies,
etc., etc.
Also - helped to implement an electronic billing system involving NEIC.
Also - wrote company\'s UB82 billing program.

Confidential, Memphis, Tn. 5/88 - 2/92
(Tandem COBOL74, COBOL85, SCOBOL, Pathway)
Was Systems-Analyst/Programmer-Analyst in charge of Commercial Data\'s Accounts Receivable software for hospitals and other medical institutions. Designed, wrote and implemented Medicare Electronic
Billing for New York State, Medicaid Electronic Billing, UB82\'s, HCFA 1500\'s, various other government forms. Maintained existing billing systems; interfaces, purges, archiving, etc., etc. Installed A/R and Uniform Billing systems at D.C. General Hospital, Washington, D.C.; included writing full-blown
financial interface between McAUTO financial system and Commercial Data\'s proprietary system. Designed, wrote, implemented and maintained almost every conceivable type of AR financial program while at Commercial Data Corporation.

Confidential, Memphis, Tn. 2/85 - 1/88 (DEC PDP 11/70 - Basic Plus)
Was Financial Programmer. Designed, wrote and implemented financial software for In-Patient Billing, Out-Patient Billing, A/R, Medicare, Medicaid, etc., etc. For fiscal year 1986, rebilled for in-house use every Medicare patient supported by BMH; involved altering existing programs, writing new ones, in order to produce grand-total Medicare dollars for year. Wrote a binary-search routine for use in this project. Worked extensively with all types of financial software while at
BMH; became expert in In-Patient billing system.

EDUCATION:

Programming Certificate
Certified Netware Engineer,
SUN Certified Programmer For The JAVA 2 Platform 1.4, 2004.

Awards/Honors

National Merit Scholarship Exams, Honorable Mention, 1972
Four-Year Academic Scholarship for Scores on ACT Test (Partial)
Confidential, 1973
Confidential, 1974 and 1976
Published Author of Religious and Philosophical Essays