Richard P. Blaquiere												[Send email using form at
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Goal: 
Senior Programmer Analyst or Mainframe Programmer

Summary:	
Over 15 years of application programming, analysis, design, and development
experience in the pharmacy, financial and insurance industries.

Experience:

Jay Meadows, Inc.								10/07 – present
Consultant – Business Analyst
	Employed as a consultant working on the Rx2000 (CVS/Condor) to RxConnect
conversion project at CVS/Caremark Incorporated on the automated pharmacy
conversion team.
Responsibilities include:
Utilizing Oracle SQL to analyze conversion related issues to determine cause and
propose working solutions.  Providing UAT level QA testing and analysis.  Working
collaboratively with business and technical representatives performing data
mapping analysis,  requirement design, high level estimating, prioritization, 
and testing.  Updating and controlling version release for multiple conversion
data maps.  Also coordinating multiple personnel, IS departments, and computer
systems to accomplish various tests for the automated store end-to-end
conversion.  Creating and expediting various defect and change control
documents.

CIBER, Inc.								 	02/07 – 09/07
Consultant - Senior Programmer/Analyst
	Employed as a consultant working on the Amica Country Wide Insurance System at
Amica Insurance on the Production Support team.
Responsibilities include:
-Analysis, coding and testing for a major record expansion project spanning most
mainframe batch and CICS systems on the insurance system using Assembler and
Cobol in a Z/OS mainframe DB2 environment.

Frontier Systems Consulting, Inc.					 	7.5 years
Consultant - Senior Programmer/Analyst and Application Architect
	Employed as a consultant working on the CVS/Condor Pharmacy System at CVS
Incorporated on the Development and Production Support teams.
Responsibilities include:
-Analysis, design, coding and testing for many projects including IVR, and Sure
Scripts on the Pharmacy system using Micro Focus Cobol in a UNIX environment.
-Production support which includes dialing into the Retail Store Pharmacy and
analyzing data, various logs and conditions, and working with store personnel to
procure a solution to a given issue.
-Extract information and business requirements from the business community and
relate requirements to the Information Systems area through various design
documents.

Information Services Consulting, Inc.					1.5 years
Project Leader and Senior Programmer/Analyst
Employed as a consultant working on the Retail Investment Applications Y2K
effort at Fleet Technology Solutions.
Responsibilities included:
-Project Leader for all phases of several Y2K mainframe and PC investment
application projects.
-Analysis, design, coding and testing for Y2K projects.
-Analysis of inter-application interfaces including Deposits, PEP+, ACH, and
Combined Statements.
-Analysis of external vendor files and their relationships to all investment
applications, for Y2K remediation and vendor Y2K testing.
-Analysis of several investment applications and creation of the General Design
Specification for their Y2K projects.
-Report Y2K project status to Fleet Y2K Corporate Program Office.


Technical Summary:
Platforms: Client Server, IBM mainframe, PC

Operating systems: UNIX, Linux, Z/OS, various MVS, various Windows

Languages: SQL, various forms of COBOL, CICS, Assembler, JCL, UNIX Scripting,
Easytrieve Plus, DYL-280

Databases: Oracle, VSAM, DB2, IMS, DL/1, MSAccess

Utilities: Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, Project, and
ViSio, Toad for database, Subversion and Sharepoint for Document access and
control, Control_M Job Scheduling, TSO, ISPF, PVCS Version Manager, Endevor,
File-Aid, Expeditor, Abend-Aid, FTP, SDSF

Applications: RxConnect (CVS/TCS) Pharmacy System, Rx2000 (CVS/Condor) Pharmacy
System, In-House Insurance Applications, various banking  systems including
Consumer and Commercial loans,  Deposits, Investments, and  Letters of Credit.

Education:	
B.S. degree in Computer Systems Management - Johnson and Wales University.
A.S. degree in Accounting - Johnson and Wales University.
Systems Engineer Development - Electronic Data Services
A large variety of in-house Teacher and Computer based courses.