Cynthia K. Slackman
150 Ball Street
Port Jervis, NY 12771
[Send email to request phone number] 72-3624
Email: [Send email using form at bottom]
Strengths: Good verbal and written communication skills, able to meet deadlines
and work well under pressure, can easily adapt to any environment or industry,
strong analytical and problem solving skills, can work collaboratively or
independently with very little supervision, very strong customer service focus,
excellent learning capabilities, possesses a solid understanding of the software
development life cycle.
Hardware: IBM AS400; IBM System 38; PC
Software: RPGIII; RPGIV; CLP; SQL; AS400 Query; Cobol; Pascal; HTML;
Lawson; MAPICS; DMAS; JDA, GENTRAN, ZMOD, GAUSS
Professional experience:
2000 - 2010 Dow Jones Local Media Group Campbell
Hall, NY
Applications Analyst
Formerly Ottaway Newspapers, Dow Jones LMG provides IT services for 7 newspaper
franchises including The Times Herald Record, Cape Cod Times, Pocono Record,
Portsmouth Herald, and others. Each site also delivers the Wall Street Journal,
NY Times, Money Magazine, and USA today as well as their own publications.
24/7 technical support for Circulation and Advertising applications, financial
interfaces, and Microsoft Office applications such as Excel and Word. Well
versed in Remedy software for incident reporting and documentation.
Developed and maintained software written in RPGIV, RPG Free, RPGIII, CLP, and
Cobol running in an AS/400 ILE environment.
Developed a process to eliminate repetitious data entry by populating multiple
publications with advertisement particulars.
Combined 13 custom versions of Carrier Billing into one feature controlled
program to simplify maintenance and debugging.
Created and implemented a Do Not Call system to satisfy federal and state
regulations governing telemarketing legislature.
Worked closely with third party vendors to develop interfaces to send and
receive encrypted data for external software applications via FTP.
Developed software for the processing of employee benefits as well as advertiser
and subscriber credit card transactions using Gentran and Zmod, Ebills, and bank
drafts.
Designed and implemented interfaces for publishing related software such as
address and routing facilitators (Route Smart), interactive phone processing for
subscriber transactions (Chatterbox), postal regulations (Computerized Delivery
Sequence), ad layout processing, classified advertising (Enterprise), BCC
software for custom mail labels, automated subscription starts/stops for the Wall
Street Journal, etc.
Taught and attended well over 200 hours of in house training.
1995 - 1998 Mobile Fabrics Hawthorne, NJ
Programmer/Analyst
Corporate headquarters for fabric and craft store called The Rag Shop.
Participated in development of a custom POS system written in RPG on the
AS/400.
Maintained and enhanced JDA merchandising software including AR, AP, Sales
Analysis, GL, Purchasing, SKU Item Location, and Inventory modules.
Modifications to sales reports resulting in significant reductions of processing
time.
1990 - 1994 Finkelstein & Partners Newburgh, NY
Programmer/Analyst
Personal injury law firm
Software design and development. Worked with lawyers, paralegals, and support
staff to gather specs, develop, code, implement, document, and train end users
for a firm of 40 attorneys.
Total redesign of Case Intake and Review program, logic driven by accident type.
Intake program generated a list of tasks specific to the case. Case managers
were able to maintain the list
and track the status of each action.
Automation of all forms, envelopes, and letters for requests of records.
Diary system to organize case related reminders and alerts, deadlines, and
inter-office communications for
support staff and attorneys.
Calendar system to schedule and track attorney activity on individual cases.
1989 - 1990 The Logical Byte Wappingers Falls, NY
Programmer/Analyst
Software development
Modifications to DMAS running on an AS/400 in System 36 environment.
Development of Payroll module in RPGIV including back-up and recovery procedures
written in CLP. Process involved all stages of software development from
documentation of specs and standards to implementation, training, and
documentation.
Rewrite of Fuel Delivery package written for System 36 to native RPGIV.
1987 - 1989 Spence Engineering Walden, NY
Programmer
Steam valve manufacturing
Taught myself RPG and CLP on an IBM Systems38
Purchasing module to interface with MAPICS.
Serial number tracking system.
Various programs for costing, production, inventory control, time/attendance
tracking, sales analysis, and
inquiry/update using MAPICS files as well as numerous programs to create,
update, maintain and print
files.
Education
SUNY New Paltz, NY
BA Degree - Computer Science w/Business Emphasis
SUNY New Paltz, NY
BA Degree - Sociology
Teacher Certification N-6
Accreditations
IBM Certified Specialist AS/400 RPGIV Programmer 2003
IBM Certified Specialist AS/400 RPGIV Developer 2003
CALC/Canterbury Advanced Excel2000 2003
Lawson Technical Foundations for AS/400 2002
Lawson Developers Workbench 2003
Additional Technical Training and Achievements
IBM iSeries Technical Conference Miami Beach, FL 10/28-11/01, 2002
Lawson Software - Environment 7.2 - AS400 Little Falls, NJ 12/16 12/18,
2002
Lawson Software Developers Workbench Little Falls, NJ 10/9-10/10, 2003
N.E.S.T.U. SQL Day Fairfield, NY 8/15, 2002
FASUG Technical Conference Danbury, CT 10/22, 2002
FASUG Technical Conference Danbury, CT 10/21, 2003
www.decospirit.com - Designed and coded HTML web site for Antique sales, 2002
IBM Guided Learning Center - Computerized tutorial in RPG and the IBM AS/400
ATS automated training course - AS/400 RPG IV Programming ILE
ATS automated training course - HTML Coding & Web Site Design
ATS automated training course TCP/IP
MS Excel Intro 12/02/03
MS Excel Intermediate 12/10/2003
MS Excel Advanced 12/16/03
CUE 2003 Lawson technical Conference Orlando, FL 4/13-4/16, 2003
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