Overview:
A Senior Application Development Professional having served as:
• Project Manager
• Senior Technical Architect
• Business Analyst • Database Manager
• Systems Analyst
• Developer/Technician
In these roles I have always kept in focus that success is helping my clients
achieve their goals!
Core Competencies
Management / Architecture:
Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience leading project teams
working for multiple industries, with diverse organizations and processing
environments (centralized mainframe systems, multi-tiered systems and distributed
systems) on projects ranging from 15 to over 250 developers.
Application Expertise & Interfaces:
Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Business Intelligence Databases, Customer
Service Systems, Equifax, General Ledger, Hand Held Inventory Systems, ITRON,
MV90, Outage Management, Pay Connections, Payment Kiosk, , Purchasing, Smart
Metering, TIBCO and Voice Response Units.
Other Skills:
Capacity Planning, Project Estimating (both Function Point & Sum of the Parts),
Application and Database Performance Monitoring & Tuning, Project Management,
Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Planning, Data Modeling and Systems Analysis &
Design.
Experience
Job History:
Information Technologies August 1990 - Present
Crown Point, Indiana 46307
Position: CTO / Business Manager / Project Manager / System & Technical
Architect
I serve as the CTO / Business Manager of InfoTech a small software consulting
company with annual gross revenues of just over $3 million dollars. As manager
of the company I consulted with IBM on the development of three "mission
critical" Customer Information Systems and numerous interfaces to those
applications for IBM clients. In these engagements I served as Technical
Architecture Group Leader supporting the Application Design & Interface Groups.
My job during the development of these systems was to insure that product
functionality, performance, and quality met client requirements and expectations.
Project teams ranged from 150 to over 250 developers, with budgets exceeding 60
million dollars.
Northern Indiana Public Service Company March 1980 August 1990
Hammond, IN 46323
Last Position: Corporate Database Administrator, 1987 to 1990
Level-up supervisor: James Hahn
Directly responsible for estimating, planning, performance monitoring & tuning
and managing all resources required to support multiple Corporate Database
Systems (DB2, M204 and VSAM). Set database standards as well as reviewed &
approved all logical and physical database designs. Provided assistance to
project development teams on technology issues, as well as assisting the teams
with database project estimating & design.
Position: Project Manager, 1980 to 1987
Level-up supervisor: Don Sievert, Applications Development Manager
Project Manager having full SDLC responsibilities for the following application
systems: Accounts Payable, Bank Reconciliation, Internal Auditing, Materials
Management and Purchasing Systems. Directly responsible for assigned employees
and directing the work activity of NIPSCO user representatives and all
consultants assigned to the functional areas above during the development
projects identified below. Project sizes ranged from 15 team members to over 50
team members
Career Accomplishments:
• Led the Architecture Team during the development of three Mission Critical
Customer Information Systems. Prepared cost justification, initial project
estimate, designed & led the development of the Application Architecture.
Provided project status & estimates to upper management at each major milestone
during the project.
• Created cost justification, initial project estimate, designed & led the
development of the SLS Financial Reporting System. Provided project status &
estimates to upper management at each major milestone during the project.
• Created cost justification, initial project estimate, designed & led the
development of the Accounts Payable System. Provided project status & estimates
to upper management at each major milestone during the project.
• Created cost justification, initial project estimate, designed & led the
development of the Purchasing System. Provided project status & estimates to
upper management at each major milestone during the project.
• Created cost justification, initial project estimate and led the design &
development of the project to fully integrate the Material Services,
Purchasing/Contracts & Accounts Payable Systems streamlining the entire business
process lifecycle. Focus of project was cutting cost by automating the
integration of data checks (requisitions to purchase orders to material receipts
to invoices) across systems.
• Created cost justification, initial project estimate, designed & led the
development of the Hand Held Physical Inventory System. This middle tier system
directly interfaced our Mainframe Materials Management System with district based
servers using PTC 701ES handhelds. (I also wrote the district server inventory
system software.) Project cut the time it took to conduct a full physical
inventory of the central store room from 3 months to 2 weeks. In addition to
in-house development, I was directly responsible to the Director of Material
Management for the selection of a vendor to provide the hand held computers
(including the preparation of the RFP used to solicit bids, conducted the bid
reviews and vendor selection). This project also included responsibility for the
Hand Held Software specification & design. Throughout project I provided project
status & estimates to upper management at each major milestone during the
project.
• Also, designed & developed Corporate Property Records and Records Management.
• Served on numerous Standards Committees.
• Participated in numerous hardware and software evaluations.
Hardware & Software Experience:
Project Management Tools:
• MS Project
• Enterprise Architect
SDLC Methodologies:
• Modified Waterfall
• URDAD (Use Case Driven Analysis & Design)
• ICONIX Process (an agile subset of Rational Unified Process)
• Structured System Analysis and Design Method
• Client in-house
Development Methodologies:
• UML / ICONIX UML, RAD and Waterfall (Traditional) SDLC
WEB Technologies:
• HTML and XML
Communications/Messaging/Middleware Technologies:
• APPC/LU6.2
• MQ Series and TIBCO
Case / Development Tools:
• Enterprise Architect (EA), ERWin, Bachman, ADW
Report Generators:
• Compile/QMF, Easytrieve, Easytrieve Plus, and RPG.
Test and Debug Facilities:
• Xpediter (Batch/Online), Strobe, ABENDAID
File Managers / Access Methods / Screen Mgmt Facilities:
• Flat File VSAM, ISAM, BDAM and QSAM.
• Data Base DB2 SQL (DCL/DDL/DML), IMS DL1, M204, Oracle 7, 9i-11G
• Online DB2 QMF (SQL), CICS (CMD Level), & IMS DC.
Productivity Aids/IDE/Tools:
• DB2PM (BATCH/MON), OMEGAMON/DB2
• Micro Focus Net Express
• ProEdit and ProAlter/Plus
• Altova XMLSpy Pro - XML Editor
• Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly by Macromedia)
• QMF (Query Management Facility), SPUFI
• TSO, TSO/SPF/ISPF, TSO/SDF, SCLM, CICS/SDF, Librarian, and Panvalet.
IBM Utilities:
• DB2 Utilities, VSAM, DFSORT, IEBCOPY, etc…
Production/Job Control:
• BMC Patrol
• IBM OS and DOS Job Control Language (JCL).
• SQL/BATCH DB2 Call Attach Facility.
• UCC1, Automated Recovery and Tracking System.
• UCC7, Automated Job Scheduling System.
• UCC11, Automated Tape Management System.
Education
Calumet College of St Joseph, B.S., Organizational Management
Professional Training
Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML (ICONIX)
Specifying Client Requirements Using Best Business Requirements Practices (IAG)
Defining Business Requirements Using Best Business Requirements Practices (IAG)
Structured Systems Analysis for Rapid System Development (Codd & Date, Inc)
Systems Analysis & Design (Datamation)
Chris Date on Relational Database - Parts I & II (The Relational Institute)
DB2 Database & System Administration (IBM & Platinum Technology)
DB2 Performance & Tuning (IBM)
DB2 Database Design & Application Planning (Platinum Technology)
DB2 Database Design & Administration (DBMI)
DB2 Performance Considerations (IBM)
DB2 Capacity Planning (Codd & Date, Inc.)
Speaking Engagements
1997 IBM Executive Conference
Customer Service Information Systems – Technology
1997 AGA/EEI – IT Users Conference
Customer Service Information Systems - Technology
1996 AGA/EEI – CIS Users Conference
Customer Service Information Systems - Technology
|
