Skills Summary
Experienced computer programming consultant with good communication skills. Quick learner with ability to see the big picture and attend to detail. Recognized by clients and co-workers as a diligent, professional team player.
Over 10 years of VMS programming experience on VAX and Alpha platforms.
Languages: C, FORTRAN, BASIC, PASCAL, PL/I, COBOL, DCL.
Databases: Oracle RDB, INGRES, DBMS, SYBASE.
Screens: DECforms, FMS, DECintact, Oracle Rally, TDMS.
Other: ACMS, Indexed RMS Files, DMQ, Datatrieve, CMS, MMS.
Professional Experience
7/2008 to 12/2008 Confidential,, Woodland Hills, CA
Consultant. Confidential,Woodland Hills, CA
Modified and maintained programs for a health claims billing system. The system validates claims, then processes the billing of the claims. Analyzed COBOL and BASIC programs as required to support production processes. Modified existing and created new COBOL and BASIC programs. Debugged, and unit tested COBOL and BASIC programs. VAX/VMS, ACMS, COBOL, BASIC, DCL 1/2008 to 6/2008 Confidential,Confidential,VA
Consultant. Alcoa, Riverdale, IA
Modified and maintained programs and database for aluminum shop floor system. The system captures manufacturing information from various aluminum process machines and subsystems, and generates reports to assist Management. Analyzed COBOL, FORTRAN, and C programs and DCL procedures as required to support the manufacturing processes. Modified existing and/or created new programs and DCL procedures. Debugged, and unit tested COBOL, FORTRAN, and C programs and DCL procedures. Assistant system manager and DBA as required. On call as required. VAX/VMS, ACMS, COBOL, FORTRAN, C, Oracle RDB, TDMS, DCL 6/2007 to 11/2007 Confidential,Confidential,MA
Consultant. Confidential, Framingham, MA
Converted FOCUS-based programs and files to BASIC programs and RMS files for the sales and marketing reporting system. The system captures sales and order information from stores and internet orders, and generates reports to assist Marketing and Management. The system is being migrated to an Itanium platform. Analyzed FOCUS and BASIC programs and DCL procedures to replace the FOCUS programs and files with BASIC programs and indexed RMS files. Modified existing and created new BASIC programs and DCL procedures. Modified, debugged, and unit tested BASIC and DCL modules for system migration. ALPHA/VMS, Itanium/VMS, BASIC, FOCUS, Indexed RMS files, DCL. 8/2005 to 8/2006 Confidential,Chicago, IL
Consultant. Confidential, Jacksonville, FL
Developed enhancements and maintained the debt collection management system. The system maintains debtor and credit account information, plus generates reports to assist in the debt collection process. Analyzed BASIC programs and DCL procedures to make corrections to solve new and old production problems, plus requests to create or modify reports. Created new BASIC programs and DCL procedures as required. Discussed specifications and trouble tickets with the client as needed. Modified, debugged and unit tested BASIC and DCL modules for system maintenance and new development. ALPHA/VMS, BASIC, FMS, Indexed RMS files, DCL. 4/2004 to 8/2004 Confidential,Hartford, CT
Consultant. Confidential,, Enfield, CT
Developed enhancements to the new business system. The system processes both manual and automatic payments and reports for a variety of life insurance products. Technical lead. Supervised one person. Analyzed BASIC, Rally, and SQL modules, and wrote design specs. Developed, debugged and unit tested BASIC, Rally, and SQL modules for the system enhancements. ALPHA/VAX/VMS, BASIC, Oracle RDB, Indexed RMS files, Oracle Rally. 7/2002 to 3/2003 Confidential,Darien, CT
Consultant. Confidential,
Migrated a repo system (RepoEdge) from a VAX to Alpha platform. The SEC ordered Bank Of New York to upgrade their systems to use HP/Compaq/DEC Alphas instead of the slower VAXs. Analyzed C and COBOL modules to be migrated. Applied all changes recommended by HP and developed enhancements. Re-compiled code for migration modules and corrected errors. Checked migration modules back into CMS library for testing by HP Quality Assurance and Bank Of New York. ALPHA/VAX/VMS, C, COBOL, SYBASE, DECintact, TMX, Swift. 9/2000 to 8/2001 Confidential,Wayne, PA
Consultant. Confidential,, Philadelphia, PA
Developed enhancements and maintained insurance billing review systems, mostly for state workers’ compensation systems. The government regulations changed continually, which in turn created customer requests to modify the application to accommodate the specific changes for one state without affecting the way an application worked for other states. Analyzed state customer requests for changes or new development.
Discussed specifications with state customer as needed.
Developed new and maintained old medical billing application and review forms.
Supported EDI processing for updating host databases.
Coded, compiled, linked, tested, and debugged new or changed C or BASIC modules, SQL modules, RMS files, and complex DECforms screens as needed.
Checked modules into CMS library for system rebuilds and customer testing.
ALPHA/VMS, C, BASIC, Oracle RDB, ACMS, DECforms, Indexed RMS files, Datatrieve.
10/1999 to 9/2000 Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA Consultant. Confidential,Lynn, MA
Developed enhancements for and maintained an Aircraft engine manufacturing reporting system plus help desk operations. The reporting system exists to help Manufacturing monitor the processes involved to build the various models of aircraft engines. Since the models changed frequently, with different parts lists, there were daily calls to the help desk because some reporting function didn’t work correctly, which had to be corrected that day if possible. Handled help desk calls not handled by the Canadian help desk team.
Analyzed and developed new FORTRAN modules specified by various manufacturing groups.
Coded, compiled, linked, tested, and debugged FORTRAN modules.
Checked modules back into CMS for customer testing.
ALPHA/VAX/VMS, FORTRAN, C, INGRES, Datatrieve. 4/1999 to 9/1999 Confidential, Casselberry, FL
Consultant.Confidential, Fort Wayne, IN
Brought manufacturing and reporting systems into Year 2000 compliance. Various manufacturing and reporting systems were out of compliance with the year 2000 handling of dates. Analyzed all code modules and FMS forms for year 2000 compliance. Modified all modules as required to bring them into year 2000 compliance. Compiled all source modules and corrected errors as needed. Checked modules back into CMS for system builds and ITT testing. ALPHA/VAX/ VMS, C, FORTRAN, PASCAL, PL/I, BASIC, DCL, RDB, FMS, Rally, Indexed RMS files, Datatrieve.
1/1999 to 4/1999 Confidential,Greensboro, NC Consultant.Confidential, NC Developed enhancements for warehousing and inventory systems. These systems existed to handle warehousing and inventorying of ingredients to be used in the manufacturing of Knorr soups, gravies, and other food mixtures. Database changes required modifying existing systems to maintain current operations and to provide new features. Analyzed PASCAL and FMS forms to provide new features as specified. Modified or created PASCAL, FMS forms, and DCL modules. Compiled, linked, tested, and debugged PASCAL and FMS forms and did system tests. ALPHA/ VAX/ VMS, PASCAL, DCL, FMS, Indexed RMS files.
5/1997 to 10/1998 Confidential,Greenville, SC Consultant. Confidential, Decatur, GA Maintained and developed new features for order entry and check printing systems. John Harland is a quality personal and business check producer. Analyzed and modified existing programs to reflect specification changes or create new programs. Analyzed production problems and modified programs to resolve the issues. Compiled, linked, unit tested, debugged programs, and checked modules back into CMS for Quality Assurance regression testing and incorporation into the production systems. Analyzed all programs and modified them for year 2000 compliance. Compiled, linked, unit tested, and debugged all modified programs, and participated in the overall system test. ALPHA/ VMS, C, ACMS, DECforms, Indexed RMS files.
12/1996 to 5/1997 Confidential,Wakefield, MA Consultant.Confidential,Wilmington, NC Developed optical fiber manufacturing systems for Corning overseas partners in England and Germany. The overseas partners were also competitors, so only older technology was shared with them, hence, the use of PDP-11 systems. Modified existing programs on VAX systems for use on PDP-11 systems. Compiled, linked, tested, and debugged programs on the VAX systems, then downloaded them to the PDP-11 systems, where they were again tested for final shipment overseas. VAX/ VMS, PDP/ RSX, FORTRAN
8/1996 to 12/1996 Confidential,Wakefield, MA Consultant. Confidential, MS Tested and maintained one-way mobile paging systems. Mtel, a division of the old Worldcom, produced both one-way and two-way pagers. The one-way product was fairly mature at that time, but there were several major issues with the timeliness of messages. Conducted and monitored several long-term tests for several one-way mobile paging systems. Modified, compiled, linked, tested, and debugged programs. VAX/ VMS, FORTRAN.
11/1995 to 8/1996 Confidential,Raleigh, NC Consultant. Confidential, Wilmington, NC Developed a shipping and warehousing system for the optical fiber manufacturing system. This was all new development that interfaced with an AS/RS system and a conveyor system for warehousing and handheld barcode scanners for the shipping department personnel. Created new programs and complex DECforms screens according to the specifications. Compiled, linked, tested, and debugged all programs and DECforms screens. Migrated the system from a VAX to an ALPHA platform. Analyzed all modules and modified them according to the Corning and DEC recommendations, then compiled, linked, tested and debugged the modified programs and checked modules back into CMS. Participated in the overall system test. ALPHA/ VAX/ VMS, FORTRAN, RDB, ACMS, DECforms. Education
Computer Science post-graduate courses
B. S. Electrical Engineering .Net Framework Introduction
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