SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• More than twenty years of experience on the AS400, programming in RPGIV/ILE RPG Free and RPGIII and System Analyst.
• Experience developing software for Retail, Distribution, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Financial industries.

TECHNICAL SKILL
PLATFORMS AND TOOLS

• HARDWARE: iSeries, AS400, System/36
• LANGUAGES: RPGIV/ILE, RPG400, RPG Free, RPGIII, CL/ILE, CL, SDA, DDS, Query400, SQL/400
• DATABASES: DB2/400
• SOFTWARE: Friedman Frontier 2.1, Lawson, BPCS, Magnum, American Software, ALDON, MS-Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Programmer/Analyst October 2008 to Present
Confidential Scottsdale, AZ.
Forever Living is a manufacturer and distributor of Health and Beauty products.

• Develop new applications and perform maintenance programming using RPGIV and RPG Free to support software installed on a multiple partitioned iSeries for more than sixty countries. Worked on various projects developing specifications, developing code, testing and implementation.
• Develop project specifications and interface with web team in coordination of projects.
• Responsible for project to convert data for country code conversion installed in over sixty countries.
• Use FTP to transfer data and objects between partitions on the iSeries to support the installation of new software and the setup of test environments.

Senior Programmer/Analyst November 2006 to April 2008 
Confidential San Marcos, CA.
Confidential is a manufacturer of eye glass lenses.

• Support and enhance Friedman Manufacturing ERP system Frontier 2.1.
• Develop new applications in RPGIV based on client’s request. Work with clients on custom programming request to our applications. Develop technical specifications and estimates.
• Performed maintenance programming for on call problems received from users and night time processing.
• Provide support to various departments for Ad-hoc reporting and provide audit support.
• Develop and conduct user training as required. Interpret technical information to non-technical employees. Act as an IS liaison between departments.
• Write and design program specifications. Code programs to meet specifications. Perform maintenance programming as required and recommend changes in methods and procedures where necessary.
• Work with the iseries IFS to provide file transfers for various uploads to our web site. Also support accounting department with various upload of data received from banking partners using client access.
• Work with GUMBO reports, Converting spool files to PDF files and email addresses.

Senior Programmer/Analyst March 2002 to September 2006
Confidential San Diego, CA. 
Intelligent Health Systems is a software development company that provides software to the Healthcare industry.

• Develop new applications in RPGIV based on client’s request. Work with clients on custom programming request to our applications. Work with the I.T. staff at our various client Hospital sites on site and remotely. Develop technical specifications and estimates. Deliver the software product to the client site, installing in their test environment first and after testing is completed move product into the clients production environment.
• ·Maintain the I.H.S. applications written in RPGIV. The I.H.S software is a complete Hospital information management system design to run the entire business operations of a Hospital. The various modules in the system include the Patient Financial Module which includes the following, Records/Chart Management, Patient Registration, Billing, Accounts Receivable, and Electronic Billing. The Financial Management module includes, General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Material Management.
• Programmed the HIPPA software modifications into the latest release of the I.H.S. software.
• Performed maintenance programming for on call problems received from clients. Also performed maintenance programming for planned upgrades to our software applications.
• Responsible for and performed the WebFacing of all I.H.S. applications, this involved over 5000 display files. Perform customized modifications to the webfaced applications to include drop downs, date widgets, check boxes, prompt icons and title bars. Implemented drop down menu system with the WebFacing project to replace the standard AS400 menu system. I was also responsible for the installation of the Websphere application server on the AS/400 and Windows server.
• Work with client support team for problem resolutions and testing. Also work with support team in developing new products and estimates.
• Work with the Aldon change management tool for software control and management.

Business/System Analyst December 2000 to March 2002
Confidential Richmond. VA.
Circuit City is a twelve billion-dollar electronic retail organization.

• Lead project to track vendor performance by providing advance ship notice errors received via EDI transmission. These errors flowed from the AS/400 to a UNIX platform where analysis was performed to determine if vendors were not delivering inventory within the agreed upon windows.
• Responsible for making major enhancements to the receiving and EDI/ASN applications. Responsible for the coding performed in RPGIV and the complete life cycle from development to installation.
• Responsible for the analysis, requirements gathering, requirement document, detail design, coding, and implementation. Software development was performed on the AS/400 using RPGIV/ILE utilizing a full life cycle methodology approach to development.

Senior Business Analyst July 1999 to December 2000
Confidential San Diego CA.
Household Automotive is a four-billion dollar finance company and a division of Household International.

• Lead project team to implement Magnum vendor software package CREDICHECK IV and RAPUP. I was the sole resource and lead programmer responsible for analyzing the package\'s process flow and devising a solution for implementing it into the HAFC system environment and interface into the in-house credit processing system.
• Coding in RPGIV/ILE for new development and maintenance of production systems using a full life cycle development approach.
• Interface with user community to determine requirements and provide technical liaison.

Senior Consultant November 1997 to July 1999
Confidential Fairfax, VA.
ASI Business Solutions a consulting company specializing in providing professional services.

• Working at the client site, I worked as part of the development team responsible for migrating the current Payroll and Financial systems from Lawson 5.0 and 6.0 to Lawson 6.1 environment, this included making custom modifications to the Lawson programs using RPGIII and RPGIV/ILE.
• I managed the AS400 environment meeting with department heads and developing requirements and project plans based on request. I was additionally responsible for the daily production environment.
• I was responsible for the management of the AS/400 environment, this included the installation of operating system upgrades, PTF\'s, Security Officer, change management, vendor software installation responsibilities.

Senior Programmer/Analyst February 1996 to October 1997 
Pulse Communications Herndon, VA.
Pulse Communications an electronic manufacturer, producing telecommunication parts for the Bell companies.

• Maintained the custom applications and the BPCS vendor software all written in RPGIII.
• Participated in user group meetings and was a member of a team that evaluated various manufacturing packages to replace the current vendor software installed.

Manager of Technical Support January 1991to February 1996
Confidential Reston, VA.
Molson Breweries USA a distribution and marketing company. Parent company was Molson
Breweries of Canada and later Miller Brewing a Phillip Morris company.

• Managed the AS/400 Application Programming, System Environment and Production Systems.
• I was responsible for production system and all modifications to these systems. Programmed in RPGIII/IV to enhance and maintain sales order and inventory control software.
• Maintained and supported the American Software ERP distribution software applications.
• Interfaced with user community to determine requirements and provide technical liaison.
• Managed contract programmers and operations staff. Established change control and managed it.
• I installed OS/400 and hardware upgrades and PTF installations.
• I was responsible for disaster recovery and planning, and oversaw several successful off site recovery test. Coordinated and was responsible for data center move from Reston to the Miller Brewing data center in Milwaukee.

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIRNCE

Senior Programmer/Analyst Project Leader for major Video Store Retail chain. Worked as Senior Programmer/Analyst for major Hotel Chain, Operations Supervisor for a major Non Profit Organization.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

I have attended numerous classes including project management classes at IBM, many technical seminars, including COMMON and IBM classroom curriculum that included AS/400 concepts and design work management and RPG development. I have attended SSA’s BPCS software and environment classes. Classes for ASI distribution software and environment. Attended a five day class at Computer Guidance Corporation on WebSphere and WebFacing. Introduction to Visual Basic .NET and Intermediate Visual Basic .NET.