Marvin M. (Max) Gilbert
1222 San Andres Dr
Frisco, TX
972 839-0328
Max_gilbert1@juno.com
Summary:
20+ years experience in a career growth, ranging from: Programmer / Analyst,
Senior Systems Analyst, IT Specialist. My work background includes IBM (Hertz
Equipment Rental, Blockbuster), Contractor for Citigroup (continuously, for 6
years), Crutcher Resources, City of Houston and Cooper Tire & Rubber. As a
self-employed contractor I worked on multiple, long term projects, in the:
Accounting, Distribution, Farming, Finance, Government (City, County, Municipal
Court), Health Insurance, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Rental/ Retail/hi-tech/IT,
and trucking environments.
Accomplishments include project management related duties, namely, sole
ownership for maintaining SLAs/deadlines/quality; as well as resolving
database/application queries.
Expertise in interpersonal relations/understanding/coordinating/translating
business concepts, across all levels of business.
Technical Expertise:
Skilled in design, coding, implementation and continuing support of multiple
applications.
RPG III, IV, ILE, CL, SQL, COBOL.
Experience using several management tools to monitor and manage activity.
Experience:
Paladin Inc
September 2006 Present
Senior Analyst
Currently on contract at the home office of a major retail corporation.
Maintaining and enhancing existing software package (Jobscope).
Developing standards for Sox compliance.
Production support.
Kaiser Aluminum April 2005
September 2006
Systems Engineer
Corporate employee working out of local plant in Sherman, TX
Providing development and production support for Jobscope(manufacturing)
package on AS/400.
Developed interface between Jobscope and Maximo(network based Asset Management
System).
Backup support for EDI developer using Trading Partner.
System Administrator for AS/400.
Backup network system administrator for local plant IT manager.
Calvary Chapel Assembly of God, Garland, TX
Director of IT & Maintenance April 2003 April 2005
Responsible for all aspects of in-house network, including network
administration, web design, and software administration. Schedule, analyze,
prioritize and monitor maintenance projects as needed.
IBM
September 2001 April 2003
Client: Blockbuster, Dallas, TX
IT Specialist
Prepared applications to meet acceptance criteria.
Involved in the information gathering stage of this project.
This was a multi-platform, multi-software requirement.
Client: Hertz Corporation, Oaklahoma, OK
IT Specialist/Production Support
Provide production support for applications running in a multi-platform
environment.
Interface with users both, locally and remotely, to determine nature of
problems
and then monitor solutions to verify the accuracy of corrections.
Used problem, change and software configuration management tools to monitor
and correct problems.
Platform was AS/400 ILE and mainframe.
Citigroup/The Associates August 1996 September 2002
Provide production support for entire Commercial Division
Custom written software that tracked collateral and receivables
This was operating in a diversified (multi-branch & multi-platform)
environment.
Initially, responsible for software and data on multiple (64) AS/400s.
Coordinated consolidation of data to better utilize hardware configuration
allowing for multiple branches to share a machine.
Wrote scripts for remote installation of software on windows based P/Cs.
Wrote conversion programs to move data from AS400 to Oracle based software
package.
Used change and problem management tools.
Alpha Omega Systems,
(Owner/Contractor) November1983 December 2002
Served multiple customers for long durations, i.e. 4 years to 15 years.
Custom programming of accounting software for funeral home, city government,
and county government.
Strong accounting software background, both, purchased and custom.
Y2K conversions for manufacturing company (Jacuzzi) (BPCS software) and City
government (City of Hot Springs Village) utilizing RPG400.
Programming support for Reynolds Aluminum Rolling Mill Plant in the Hot
Springs Arkansas Area.
Custom designed software packages.
Installed purchased software.
Maintained networks for several small organizations.
Assembled and installed many different P/C configurations.
Long-term relationships with most of my clients of up to 15 years.
Education:
Texarkana Community College, Texarkana, TX, Data Processing Technician
Certificate (equivalent to associate degree).
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