John E. Black II
5773 Reagan Dr. · Fontana, CA 92336
Home:  [Send email to request phone number] 22-5368 · Mobile: (760) 617-1899
Jblack_2@verizon.net   
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Professional Summary
Experienced manager with skills in leading direct reports, cross-functional
teams, managing full SDLC, track and publish progress, determining and
documenting new project requirements.  Excellent organizational skills along with
strong analytical and problem-solving skills combined.  Experienced in presenting
to senior management, representing senior management, meeting with customers,
leading training sessions, accepting ownership, and coordinating multi complex
projects at the same time.  Candidate has proven ability to reduce expenses thru
technical knowledge and management of projects as well as a propensity to meet
required deadlines.

Platforms:	
· Windows  · NT/2000/2003/XP 	· Unix  · Mainframe 	· Teradata · WebSphere	· NT
Server	

Certifications:	
· Windows XP  · Windows NT  · J2EE WebSphere 	· Natural 2  · Adabas 	· DB2  · MS
Certified Partner 	· HP Business Partner  · IBM Business Partner	

Skills: 	
· Project Manager  · Subject Matter Expert (SME)  · WebSphere  · EDI X12  ·
Mainframes  · MS Office  · MS Project  · Data Warehouse 	· Extract transform load
(ETL)  · Data mining · FTP  · Natural DB2/Adabas  · Cobol  · Swishmax  ·
NetObjects Fusion   · Dreamweaver 	· Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)  · DB2
Utilities · Service oriented architecture (SOA)  · networks  · TCP/IP  · .Net C# 
· Visual Basic 6.0  · MS ACCESS  · Six Sigma	· Agile · Waterfall · Hyperion
Essbase · MKS SDLC · Martin Tate · Visual Age for Java · SOX	

Industries Served:	
· Railroad · Federal Government · State Government · Department of Defense	·
Retail · Manufacturing · Oil and Gas	· Newspaper · Federal Aviation
Administration · Education	

Awards and recognitions:	
§ Numerous awards between 2005 and 2009 for the reduction of CPU usage resulting
in savings of 1 million dollars per year. § 2009 - Recognition for integration
Train team applications with Web team applications. § 2008 - Recognition for
restoring data saving time and financial loss associated with having to recreate
§ 2007 - Award for successfully connecting the Web to Mainframe legacy systems. §
2007 - Award for successful integration of BNSF system with CSX system allowing
seamless business between the two companies.	§ 2006 - Director of TS award for
serving as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and aiding in successful implementation of
cross team system. § 2005 - Recognition for quick response to U.S. Customs issue
preventing BNSF from being assessed fines. § 2005 - Recognition for connecting
rail road with need to transport Katrina relief supplies from CA to LA. § 2005 -
Award for leadership role in creating SQL and coding standards which resulted in
increased productivity and additional CPU savings.	
Education:
§	Associates Business Technology (ABT) 				5/1986

EXPERIENCE:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) 	5/1997 - Present
§	Design, code, test, implement, and support WebSphere applications accessing
legacy processes on mainframe platform.
§	Solely responsible for development of J2EE process to make communication
between Web and mainframe possible.  Code, test, and support programs with API
wrapping applied.
§	Served as SME on Train, U.S. Customs, and Yard and Industry teams.
§	Lead team of developers in converting code purchased from Canadian National
Railway to handle U.S. Customs processing.  Worked with executives and field
users to create a usable and productive system. Teamed with DBA group to create
tables to support system.  Designed, coded, tested, implemented, documented,
trained, and supported new system.  Served as SME to facilitate the cross team
functionality associated with this process.
§	Lead group of developers and managers to develop coding and SQL standards to
decrease CPU usage and lower maintenance costs.
§	Lead and performed performance enhancements that resulted in savings of 1+
million dollars per year.  Used Six Sigma process to identify and track progress
of issues.  Assigned as SME for DB2 performance.
§	Leadership role in successful merger and consolidation of 2 multi million
dollar corporations.  Performed as developer, DBA, scheduling coordinator, and
team lead.  Made presentation to executives on consolidation options.
§	Created process that would allow particular users to continue to work if
mainframe connection was lost.  Saved the company from losses due to downtime. 
Users are able to complete necessary work via ACCESS database using stand alone
PC.
§	Create process that would support third party application to access secured
data to identify hazardous materials.  Assigned as SME due to data sensitivity.
§	24/7 Production support

J. B. Computer Consulting 					1995 - Present
§	Installed network hardware and configure routers and switches.
§	Refreshed PC.
§	Developed custom programming using C# and Visual Basic.
§	Designed, developed and implemented Web sites.
§	System setup.
§	Customized computers with specified hardware.
§	Product support for third party systems.
§	Hardware diagnostics
§	Commercial off the shelf (COTS) support and installation.
§	COTS training.
§	Virus detection and removal.

Santa Fe Railroad						9/1993 - 5/1997
§	Lead team of developers in creation of Teradata Data Warehouse.  Educated
developers in the ETL process. 
§	Created ETL process for over 100 tables.
§	Designed and implemented databases on Teradata
§	Created training document and trained team of developers and managers on
Teradata usage.
§	Worked with team of developers to create necessary data for dashboard.
§	Created process to allow backup and retrieval of DB2 data from Car Accounting
System (CAS) and Revenue Accounting System (RAS) preventing application
performance issue.  Presented solution for RAS/CAS issues to executive
committee.

Department of Defense						7/1992 - 9/1993
§	Responsible for design, analysis, coding, testing, and implementation of
CARNAC system.
§	Designed and implemented file structure to be used with CARNAC.
§	Site manager for consultants on project.
§	Worked with State of Arizona, Department of Public Safety, and Criminal
Intelligence group to collaborate on solution.
§	Data mining and ETL processing to create consolidated data source.

Price Waterhouse 						1/1992 - 7/1992
§	Successfully completed project on time despite being 18 months behind schedule
when assigned to the project.
§	Responsible for design, analysis, coding, testing, and implementation of DORIS
system for the State of Wyoming, Department of Revenue Information system
handling tax and minerals.
§	Shared management of team of developers and documenters used to assist in the
creation and documentation of system.

Farah Jewelry							7/1991 - 12/1991
§	Worked directly with owner to analyze needs and produce working and usable
system.
§	Responsible for full SDLC.
§	Create data from old paper system.