SUMMARY

Skills:Technical Writing; SOA; DEC/VAX BASIC; TOLAS - Parts Supply Chain; DCL; RMS; DEC/VAX C; DEC/VAX C++; ACMS; MQ Series; Datatrieve; COBOL; Java; RDB; Cognos PowerHouse; SQL; CMS/MMS; Oracle; Parts Supply Chain; FORTRAN; FMS; Ubuntu Linux; Qt; EDI; Off-shore team leadership; OpenOffice; Lotus Sympyhony; MS Word; Visio

Consulting and Authoring Projects:

October 2009 to Present, Confidential,consulting. Developing a fuel surcharge and trucking rate calculator for unit based trucking company. (Charges rate per unit per mile rather than flat mileage rate.) Application is written in Java/Swing using xBaseJ on Linux desktop. Will also run on Windows desktop when completed.

September 2009 to October 2009 Confidential,authoring. Writing “The Minimum You Need to Know About Java and xBaseJ” ISBN-13 978-0-9823580-3-0. This book covers using Java and the OpenSource xBaseJ library for DBF creation on Linux platforms. Also involved making some patches to the xBaseJ project so the demonstration application could be complete. Once final editing is completed, this book will be released free of charge in PDF format. It may also be available for free in ePub format.

January 2009 to Present, Confidential,authoring. Began work on second edition of “The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer” with Lotus Symphony. This edition expands the CDD chapter and adds chapters for Datatrieve, Synergy DBL (DIBOL), and Cognos PowerHouse. Also began writing”The Minimum You Need to Know About Java and xBaseJ”.

November 2008 to January 2009 Confidential, remote contract. Data conversion work from Fortunoff to Lord and Taylor systems using OpenVMS BASIC, VAX COBOL, and DATATRIEVE. Target platforms were Tandem and IBM Mainframe formats. Coordinated and supported off-shore team which was performing QA effort. Project documentation written with MS Word and Excel

August 2008 to November 2008 Confidential,authoring. Wrote “Infinite Exposure” ISBN 978-0-9770866-9-6 (Hardcover) and ISBN 978-0-9770866-8-9 ( eBook format) with OpenOffice. A novel explaining in detail how the off-shoring of IT jobs leads to the largest al-Qaeda terrorist strike the world has ever seen and ultimately to nuclear war. More information can be found at.

February 2008 to July 2008 Confidential,on-site contract. BA doing STAR SDLC/systems design and a TA performing TOLAS EDI modifications and upgrades for Parts Supply Chain. Working with STAR XML, DEC/VAX BASIC, Java, MQ Series, ACMS, Cognos PowerHouse, Oracle and RDB. BA work done with MS Office 2007, Visio, and Excel.

November 2007 to February 2008 Confidential,authoring. Published “The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture” (ISBN-13 978-0-6-5). This book later won Book of the Year in the category Business: Computers/Internet/Technology from USA Book News.

May 2007 to November 2007 Confidential,on-site contract. Business Analyst to provide systems design and project management services interfacing the Parts Supply Chain OpenVMS ACMS services to Web services via SOAP and XML over MQ Series along with other projects supporting the Parts Supply Chain. Significant amount of VAX BASIC programming was also performed to map data into EDI formats. Provided specifications in the form of SDLC documentation for SOX compliance. Participated in STAR standards meetings and BOD creation. Also developed applications with Cognos PowerHouse. All documentation done with MS Word, Viso, and Excel.

January 2007 to May 2007 Confidential,authoring. Wrote “The Minimum You Need to Know About SOA” using OpenOffice. This book covers the use of ACMS and Java to create cluster wide fault tolerant applications. BASIC, COBOL, C/C++, and FORTRAN will all be used for back end programming.

August 2006 to January2007 Confidential,on-site contract. Electronic filing system modifications. Tools utilized: C/C++ and Java on OpenVMS. Also used DCL, MMS, CMS, FMS, and Perl.

March 2006 to July 2006 Confidential,authoring. Wrote and published “The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT” (ISBN-13 978-0-9770866-2-7)

September 2005 through March 2006 Confidential,on-site contract. Electronic filing system modifications. Tools utilized: VAX/Alpha OpenVMS, C/C++, MQ Series, CMS, MMS, Perl and Tibco.

June 2005 through June 2006 Confidential,authoring. Wrote “The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS Volume 1”. This book is the next logical progression from the previous book covering the use of JNI (Java Native Interfaces) for accessing RTL and System Service calls. Will also be accessing RMS Indexed files, RDB, and FMS from Java.

June 2004 through June 2005 Confidential,Wrote “The Minimum You Need to Know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer” ISBN 0-9770866-0-7. Book covers the crucial definitions of the VAX/Alpha VMS operating system and the distinctions between it and the lesser systems such as Windows and Unix. Historical reasons for things existing at client sites the way they do are being given. Development is being covered with DCL, DEC BASIC, CMS/MMS, FORTRAN, FMS, DEC C/C++, DEC COBOL, RDB, and MySQL. Book is designed to take a decent developer from another platform and let them become functional on VMS in a very short time span.

March 2004 through May 2004 Obtained a CDL and spent a month driving a truck around the country for Covenant Transportation.

May 2001 through March 2004 Confidential, Dealer Inventory Alliance (DIA) system using DEC/VAX C/C++, ACMS, MQ Series, Cognos Powerhouse, RDB, CDD, MMS, PL/SQL, XML, PRO*C, and Oracle 8i. This Parts Supply Chain project was a vendor managed inventory system interfacing to 5 different BSV systems and potentially interfaces to dealer written business systems. Interfaces to a back end Forecasting system written using Oracle 8 for real time forecasting. All production data was stored in RDB. Much of this contract is done remotely. The combination of ACMS and MQ were used to ensure guaranteed delivery and processing within a real-time transaction. All servers executed via QTI rather than direct terminal attachment. Parsing of XML was done in servers using the XERCES library for VMS. Orders are fed into the heavily modified TOLAS (BASIC) system for processing. All source code stored in CMS and built via MMS. One library for each environment (D,T,S.P) for controlled turns.

June 1999 through May 2001 Chicago Stock Exchange Returned to stock exchange to participate in decimalization project mandated by SEC. DEC BASIC/FMS system for real time trade execution.

December 1998 through June 1999 Confidential,Accepted Y2K project with cooking supply company. Project involved converting to Powerhouse 710G, testing, and repairing Y2K problems in both the Powerhouse code and its corresponding DCL. Also required DEC BASIC software modifications to Perspective 800 commercial package.

May 1997 through January 1999 Confidential,Accepted new project to convert existing parts routing system from RDB/DB2/Netwise communications system to MQ Series. Project involves coding in VAX C;VAX BASIC; CDD; CMS; MMS; DCL. New system will add greater support for full EDI transactions. Majority of contract is remote.

Education

B.S. C.I.S.

A.S. Business Oriented Computer Programming