R.Barrett Bower

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Lexington, KY 40514

Telephone: 859-***-****

Email: abl94j@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: Seeking a full-time professional position that will use my

skills and experience.

Skills:

People: Have a warm, outgoing personality and make people feel at ease in

almost any situation. Dealt with a diverse mix of people and

personalities ranging from executive management to line workers. I am

a listener.

Communications: Have excellent oral and written communication skills. Can

limit or expand my vocabulary and terminology to fit the situation and

people involved. Can translate technical information for those who

are uninitiated in technical arenas. Can document technical

processes, business functions, and work practices in easily followed

and understandable English and write technical systems and programming

specifications.

Analytical: Can analyze and convert complex technical, industrial, or

business functions into manageable and understandable units. Can

examine the current functions and practices of a business and

recommend changes to improve work flow. Can analyze and plan new

practices that must be integrated into an established environment.

Management: Managed both systems support, application design and coding

personnel. Project manager for development of infrastructure for

international inventory control systems.

Technical:

Computer Operating Systems: IBM MVS OS/XA/zOS, IBM VM/SP, PC/MS DOS

Computer Languages: BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, REXX, RPG, SAS

Ancillary Skills: CICS, DB/DC, Endevor, FileAid, JCL, Mark IV,

Microsoft Office Products, PC Literate, TSO/ISPF, VSAM

Work Experience: Over 30 years of experience of analysis, design, coding,

testing, implementation and documentation of business applications. Been a

project manager to integrated business functions of foreign subsidiaries

into a corporation's domestic systems. Experienced in business processes

that include accounting, payroll, inventory control, credit management,

accounts payable and receivable, inventory forecasting, warehousing,

logistics, and bill of materials. Worked in industrial applications for

process controls, work flow management, project scheduling and materials

estimating. Completed Year 2000 application testing for a company's

financial and treasury systems in a very limited amount of time. Taught

mathematics in public school and introductory computer courses in a

university.

Education:

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 1963: Bachelor of Science

in Education majoring in mathematics and earth/space science

IBM Systems Research Institute, New York City, New York, 1978: IBM's

advanced education program for computer technology.

Electronic Data Processing Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1965-

1966: Operation and programmer of IBM unit record, IBM 1400 series,

and IBM 360 systems architecture and assembler programming.

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1964: Graduate course work in

mathematics for permanent teaching certificate.

Goethe Institute, Passau, Germany, 1965: Took primary course in the German

language.

Awards:

Outstanding Contribution Award, IBM Corporation, 1972

Honorary Member of Pennsylvania Future Farmers of America, 1982

Work History:

2005-2009 Ashland Incorporated, Lexington, Kentucky. System, problem

determination and resolution, and programming support for Legacy Human

Resources, Employee Benefits, and Payroll applications. Extraction

and reformatting of Legacy systems data for transfer to SAP. Analysis

and documentation of Legacy application to retire systems.

2004-2005 Amazon, Lexington, Kentucky. Warehouse attendant in picking

and receiving.

2004 University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Programmer

analyst for University's Legacy applications, a short-term temporary

assignment to provide maintenance and problem determination and

resolution support.

2003-2004 Primerica, Lexington, Kentucky. Independent insurance agent

promoting and selling life and health insurance, mortgage, and

investment products sponsored by CitiCorp.

1998-2003 CDI Professional Services, Charleston, West Virginia. Assigned

to Ashland Incorporated, Lexington, Kentucky as a Programmer/Analyst

responsible for all of the testing for the Treasury and Credit Systems

of Ashland Incorporated for the Year 2000 transition and maintained

these systems through the transition to SAP.

1993-1998 IBM Corporation - ISSC Lexington, KY. Evaluated and monitored

twenty-seven (27) CPUs for the IBM Corporation to determine system's

capacity, usage, and projection of requirements.

1966-1993 IBM Corporation, Philadelphia and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Thirty years experience with large and small central processor

systems, personal computer systems, application and systems software

development, and application analysis, design, testing, documentation,

and implementation. These experiences include both central and

remote/distributive based application systems. Experienced with RPG,

FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I, SAS, REXX and MVS/VM BASIC. Experience on

systems platforms of MS-DOS, MVS XA and OS, VM SP and XA, IBM DB/DC,

CICS, and CICS/DMS. Have been responsible for both project and

personnel assignments. Have held the following positions during my

IBM career:

Staff Analyst: Responsible for the coordination of projects between

the local application and development function and the ISSC

company (the provider of service) at the Mechanicsburg IBM site.

The job required the coordination of hardware and software

installation to ensure the greatest benefit to the user

community without the disruption of services.

Application/Systems Programming Manager: Have managed both application

and systems programmers. During tenure as manager, was

responsible for the integration of the application systems

between the domestic and Canadian corporations for IBM's parts

inventory management system.

Capacity Planner: Responsible for the forecasting and evaluation of

processor requirements for a complex of eleven large mainframes.

The skills needed in this job involved communication skills

amongst diverse end-user, project, and technical people to

coordinate and evaluate the "best fit" solutions for both the

user and the company.

Systems Analyst: Responsible for the design, coding, testing, and

implementation of business applications. These applications

included the administrative, financial, and operational function

of the IBM Corporation. Responsible for directing work of

analysts and programmers and evaluating their work.

Application Programmer: Responsible for the design, coding, testing,

and documentation of applications for inventory control and

distribution, inventory accounting, and inventory stock

replenishment.

Systems Engineer: Responsible for the design and implementation of IBM

customer's data processing systems. Implemented business

applications for billing, accounts receivable/payable, inventory

control, payroll, order processing, and heuristic and linear

programming.

1988-1990 Pennsylvania State University, York, PA. Instructor teaching

the introduction to computers and data processing. Leading an

introduction to LOTUS 1-2-3, WordPerfect, and Dbase III in a personal

computer laboratory.

1965-1966 Secondary school teacher, Norristown, Pennsylvania. Taught

algebra to eighth and ninth graders.

1963-1965 Secondary school teacher, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. Taught

trigonometry, geometry, and algebra to tenth, eleventh, and twelfth

grades.

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