PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE |
Sun Certified Java Professional and Prosoft Certified Internet Webmaster
seeking a Web Development, Software Development, Programmer/Analyst,
Operations, or Support role utilizing my education and past experience
in both mainframe and client/server environments. Any combination of
these positions will also be considered as my wide variety of skills
enable me to perform multiple functions within an organization.
SKILL SUMMARY |
Programming Languages: | Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, SQL, Visual Basic, MicroFocus COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS/DLI, Easytrieve, GOL1, FOCUS, VSAM, ISAM |
Operating Systems: | Unix v10.2, PC/DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and NT Mainframe: IBM DOS/VSE OS, MVS/XA with TSO / ISPF and HP3000 |
Software/Utilities: | Microsoft Office, Adobe PhotoShop, WebPosition Gold, MS FrontPage, Abend-Aid, Syncsort, Animator, Librarian, and Xpeditor |
- Eighteen years designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting business application software and creating system and user documentation in both mainframe and client/server environments.
- Two years of part-time freelance web design, search engine optimization, web hosting, and site optimization for faster download speed and standards compliance.
- Redesigned 3 large web sites for improved visual appearance, structure, usability, and navigation resulting in faster download speeds, easier maintainability, forward compatibility, and search engine placement optimization. This has helped to increase orders and sales by almost 80% in only six months.
- Redesigned CD website and reorganized site structure to save over 80% disk space. This resulted in faster CD generation, easier site maintenance, and better user navigation, thus saving maintenance and production costs.
- Designed automated Perl process to create and maintain websites for AMH dealers. It determines which pages need to be added, updated or removed, then creates all pages needed, updates all pages that have links to the dealer pages, and then automatically uploads them to the web server and removes ones no longer needed.
- Assisted in system conversion from a DOS/VSE mainframe to a RIMS system in a Unix and PC environment, including such health insurance-related systems as eligibility, billing, claims, and finance. This resulted in Y2K compliance, automation of claims entry and adjudication, and increased system efficiency and productivity.
- Assisted in the design, implementation, migration and maintenance of new data acceptance, cash receipts, bank reconciliation, and IRS 1099 systems resulting in increased functionality of the RIMS system after conversion.
- Other applications have included maintenance of billing, customer, order, bill-of-materials, raw materials, product, customer, vendor, inventory, and routing systems.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING |
Foss Training, Leawood, KS: Java and CIW Certificaiton Training February 2003 - September 2003
Certification: Sun Certified Programmer for Java2 Platform 1.4 July 2003
Certification: Prosoft Certified Internet Webmaster - Master Site Designer September 2003
MySQL for Developers, MySQL Inc. September 2007
Perl Programming and CGI Scripting, Hands On Tech Training Inc. October 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
Freelance Webmaster: Part-time web hosting and web design for local small businesses.
Specialties include search engine optimization, and web site optimization for W3C standards compliance,
faster download speed, better navigation, lower bandwidth, and easier maintainability.
Accenture, Leawood, KS
March 2006 – Current
Level 2 Legacy Support and Development: Consulting services for Interstate Brands
Corporation in Lenexa, KS. Monitor and maintain multiple systems on HP3000
mainframe and Unix Servers. Systems include FDA, CSALES, Auto Cash, PDS, BDS, IPP,
CATS, bankruptcy reporting, system database capacities, and other miscellaneous
daily and weekly monitoring. Project work includes the development and maintenance
of legacy and web based applications.
TechniSource, Inc, St. Louis, MO
May 2005 - March 2006
Programmer / Analyst: Contract programming services with Accenture
assisting in COBOL development and maintenance on an HP3000 mainframe
system for Interstate Brands Corporation in Shawnee, KS.
Arrow Material Handling Products, Inc.,
Kansas City, MO
January 2004 - May 2005
Operator / Webmaster: Run daily Unix operations and print daily reports.
Perform system backups and database updates. Maintain multiple web sites,
using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PhotoShop and Search Engine
Optimization (SEO).
American Trust Administrators, Inc.,
Overland Park, KS
October 1996 - November 2002
Programmer / Analyst: Analyzed job requests to create new programs and
maintained existing RIMS systems utilizing Micro-Focus Cobol in a Unix/PC
environment; Visual Basic in a Windows/PC environment; HTML and JavaScript
web applications; Cobol, CICS, JCL, GOL1, and Mantis in a Mainframe
DOS/VSE environment.
H.A.S., Inc., Kansas City, MO
October 1994 - July 1996
Programmer / Analyst: Contract programming services with Sprint LTD in Kansas
City, MO. creating new and modifying existing programs in COBOL, IMS/DLI, and
JCL in an MVS/TSO environment.
Advanced Management, Inc., Kansas City, MO
August 1993 - October 1994
Programmer / Analyst: Contract services with Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
to analyzed job requests to create new programs or perform maintenance on
existing programs using Easytrieve, FOCUS, and JCL in an MVS/TSO environment.
Russell Stover Candies, Inc., Kansas City, MO
February 1990 - February 1993
Applications Programmer: Analyzed job requests to create new batch and
on-line programs and perform maintenance on existing programs using COBOL,
CICS, IMS/DL1, and JCL in an MVS/TSO environment.
References available upon request