Paul T. Rykiel, PMP, CSM

*** **** ******* ******, **** #3S

Chicago, Illinois 60613

773-***-****

accgcv@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

- Leadership - Project Management - Training / Support - Design - Consultation - System Development

Web Development - Analytical - Strategic Planning - Troubleshooting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Development:

Java, XML, HTML, .NET 4.0, ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, JQuery Visual Basic, Sitecore 6.5 (Content

Management System), Share Point Developer 2010

IBM AS/400 I-Series:

(CL, RPG, RPGLE, RPG Free, SQL, DBU, DFU, OS/400 DB2, Query), IBM Data Propagator

Cognos Suite:

(Impromptu, Series 7, CRN Report Net, Framework Manager)

Microsoft Suite:

(SQL Server 2008, Excel, Access, Outlook, Office, Project, Visio, Visual Studio 2010, 2012, IIS)

Utilities:

Eclipse, Merant, Softlanding (Turnover), Hawkeye, SVN

ERP Systems:

BPCS, AS/SET, Infinium, CS Stars, and JD Edwards.

Other Systems:

Oracle Agile, Project Cards, Track-IT

PROFILE

• A highly capable IT professional with fifteen years of experience in project management, design,

development, training, support, and implementation of various business systems.

• Strong technical and troubleshooting skills.

• Detail-oriented with an impeccable work ethic and a proven track record of success in providing

comprehensive training and support.

• A resourceful leader capable of quickly identifying key stakeholder critical Business

requirements, as well as drive important milestones.

• Manage team projects from conception through completion; consistently deliver timely results

without ever sacrificing quality.

• A diplomatic, articulate communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills; able to effectively

interface with diverse individuals at all levels.

• Versatile and adaptable; able to adjust to new systems, technologies and business environments

with confidence and ease.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Designory 2013 to 2014

Chicago, Illinois

Sr. Technical Engineer (Sitecore)

I, worked on a project team of Front-end and Back-end Developers to deliver a brand new website to

Regal Entertainment Company. The current site was written in .NET and the CMS system was Sitecore

6.5. The Regal project was the first .NET, Sitecore project for Designory. There were several components

to this project. The first component was to evaluate the current site which was written in .NET and

Sitecore and to correct issues with site in a remediation project. The second component was to rebuild a

brand new site using .NET and Sitecore 6.5, while maintaining the existing site. The new Regal site

included a new interface and new backend functionality utilizing Regal’s web services and Fandango web

services. Also, included in this project, was a brand new application to register customers and present

them with promotional and special products. I wrote most of the code for this part of the project. The last

component was the Mobile Showtimes component. This website was a scaled down version of the

desktop site, but it included Geolocation services to help determine a person’s physical location and assist

them in finding a theatre location in their area and look up movie information, view trailers, and buy

tickets from Fandango. I wrote this entire component.

Furthermore, I rewrote the Designory website in .NET and Sitecore. For this I built a local instance of

Sitecore 6.5 and installed SQL Server. I set up a new Website in IIS. The original site was written using

HTML and JavaScript. I maintained the old JavaScript and functionality and rewrote the hard-coded

HTML components using Sitecore.

Paradigm Technology 2013 to 2013

Chicago, Illinois

Web Developer (Sitecore)

Worked on the Mitsubishi Electric Automation account. This account was a Sitecore 6.5 site. The client’s

requirements were to work on a web site remediation project and build new web applications for that site.

I wrote new web applications utilizing data from Sitecore CMS and SQL Server. I also was on a project to

rebuild 3 websites and convert them to .NET and Sitecore.

INTERMATIC CORPORATION 2010 to 2013

Spring Grove, Illinois

Application Systems Analyst III

Primary Web Developer and Project Manager on Intermatic.com – building and maintaining web forms

and Web applications on .NET 4.0 platforms, using C# and XSLT, XML, HTML, Java Script, and SQL

Server 2008. Building and Maintaining content using Sitecore 6.3 CMS system. Part of a project team and

lead developer in the launch of brand new Intermatic.com, to launch in January 2012.

As part of the PMO, Project Manager - was involved in helping to introduce SCRUM to the IT

Department as a new project methodology. We created a board with post-it notes for our backlog and we

created stories and defined our sprints. We prioritized the work based on the IT group’s background and

experience. We created ground rules and defined all of our sprints and releases. The team was pretty open

to the changes. We were used to a waterfall methodology. Later we implemented an automated version of

this using Project Cards. With the introduction of Project Cards we were able to allow the Business

Owners the ability to add to the backlog and prioritize the workload.

Project Manager H/R System of Record Project – Met with the business to define requirements. Wrote the

project plan and scope, created milestones for project. The project entails either finding an outside hosted

solution, or building the solution in-house. Project is still a work-in-progress.

Project Manager Intranet Portal – Project was assigned to me in late June of 2012. I installed and built the

Intranet Portal and made it functional for the company. I recruited power users from various departments;

I trained and mentored them on adding content to the Intranet Portal. I managed their workload and

coordinated efforts to make certain that content were being updated on a regular basis. Project is on-

going.

Lead project manager, with a team of consisting of marketing and IT. Involved in all web-related

projects. Creating project plans and scope.

Lead Developer – New Website launched in 2011. Sat in on design sessions, where we looked over and

designed the wireframes for the new site with the Web Designer. Worked with another developer to build

new web applications, Web forms which updated SQL tables. Wrote all of the Java interfaces between our

Oracle Agile system and Web Site.

Project Manager for Bank transition project – Assembled project team, delegated tasks and wrote all

conversion programs using Java and AS/400 - RPGILE.

Developer of Automated Rebate Process and Project Lead – Wrote the project plan and scope. I wrote the

test plans and User Acceptance Testing. This was an iterative process due to the ever-changing was the

company was defining sales. Designed, developed and implemented a system in AS/400 -RPGILE to

apply Customer terms agreements and customer sales to calculate and post rebates to customers. Was a

manual process that took a week to perform on spreadsheets. The new process runs in less than 5 minutes

and is more accurate at determining trends and inaccuracies in customer terms.

Developer on Oracle Agile API’s for Engineering – built customer API’s to be used with the Oracle Agile

system. These API’s use Oracle’s pre-loaded Java classes and scripts, and are combined with custom Java

code. Data is stored in an Oracle database on the server and is retrieved using SQL.

Analyst and Lead Investigator of ERP Engineering Study – Studied the financials and the business

processes that utilize the current system. Interviewed various stakeholders and end users to evaluate the

current ERP BPCS system for effectiveness and pitted it against other systems on the market. Wrote

business case and recommendation for upper management. This study was to determine the company’s

readiness and all data was keyed into a model in Excel for making this determination.

Project Manager over all of Finance related projects - Coordinated, organized and prioritized projects that

related to Finance. This is more a PR move, to give attention to the mounting projects that related to

finance. The position was meant to be a spring board into a new Application Director’s position that was

being suggested by the IT VP and CIO.

Project Lead and Analyst – A/R GetPaid system. This is an Oracle based system. It is a workflow tool

used to create a conduit between the A/R lockbox and the ERP system. Before I took over this project the

users worked in silos and the relied heavily on IT for manual processes. I streamlined operations by

automating the process; I trained and empowered the users to work independently without IT

intervention. IT was a “bottle-neck” in this whole process. The project was more about building

efficiencies and making users accountable and able to troubleshoot their issues. Highly successfully

initiative.

Mentor to staff – Asked to mentor individuals at the company who may or may not be interested in IT.

STANDARD PARKING CORPORATION 1999 to 2010

Chicago, Illinois

Senior Systems Analyst

Project Leader and Coordinator of Cognos Impromptu Implementation – this project was an Enterprise-

wide implementation. Key stakeholder s from various departments were asked to participate. We stated

with a project Charter and Project Plan, went through a complete design phase, Development phase of

creating the Company’s data catalogs, and development and training of power users and staff. Also,

during this project, I evaluated and implanted IBM’s data propagator tool. This tool kept our data in the

reporting environment refreshed in real time. It utilized SQL and FTP protocols. After the original

implementation was completed, I stayed on as administrator and primary support and trainer.

Web Developer and Administrator of Client View Reporting System – This is the only external web site

that clients utilized. Key pieces and properties were stored in XML. Security was handled through LDAP,

and development of key web pages and reports were built using Java and JSP. JSP, was used to connect to

the DB2 database, Java was used to build various classes and methods to perform tasks of retrieval of

data, and building of building key components of customer hierarchies and reporting components.

Administration of the system including maintaining users and login information, creating new reports and

generating PDF’s for clients, and trouble shooting.

Developer and Administrator of Insurance Budgeting Process – this annual process included extracting

the insurance costing information, and insurance rates and properties, from the DB2 database, storing the

information into a repository using SQL Server FTS scripts, and Developing an Excel spreadsheet

containing various formulas and applications. Data was summarized and aggregated through various

levels in the hierarchy. This system was a useful tool, used by EVP’s to determine Insurance Risk and

Costs and profitability for the next budget cycle. It also provided for Budget reforecast and archiving.

Developer of the Chargeback System – this system allows the user to maintain the chargeback rates,

properties, and business rules associated with chargebacks to clients. The system is written in AS/400

-RPGILE and interfaces with Infinium General Ledger. The system is a revenue generating device and it

stores costs and profitability associated with each chargeback. It also archives historical costs and rates

and is an input into the above budget process.

Primary Technical Support of General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Tax and Risk Management Systems

Secondary Technical Support of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, and Procurement Systems

Backup System Administrator and Security Officer

WHITEHALL JEWELERS 1997 to 1999

Chicago, Illinois

Senior Programmer / Analyst / Project Leader

Developer of Break-up Jeweler System – Designed and developed a system in AS/400 - RPGILE that

tracks pieces of jewelry that are heirloom pieces or pieces that are dissembled and tagged and tracked.

There is a data entry component, and conversion component, and a reporting component to this system.

Developer and Implementation Specialist on Diamond Tracking System – Developed, Implemented,

Documented and provided training to the Diamond specialists. This project was a requirement by the Risk

and Loss prevention to track and log loose diamonds. It was written in AS/400 - RPGILE.

Project Leader of Y2K project – there were 3 consultants reporting to me, and one employee which I

recruited to work under me. Like most companies, the project consisted of research and the writing of

date conversion routines to coincide with the change in the year 2000. Programs modified were JD

Edwards and JDA.

Technical Support of Corporate Finance – Reported directly to the VP of Finance.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

WHITMAN-HART 1995 to 1997

Chicago, Illinois

Senior Consultant

Clients Include:

Candle Corporation in Des Plaines, Illinois – worked primarily for HR and wrote several compliancy

reports for government agencies, such as EEOC and OSHA. IBM AS/400 and BPCS system.

Road Master in Olney, Illinois – Project lead in the development of a payroll incentive system, that

rewards employees based on meeting certain criteria. This system integrated with BPCS, and was written

using the case tool called “AS/SET”. All coding was done in RPGILE.

Van Leer Corporation in Alsip Illinois – Made initial client contact through a lead, and secured this 100K

project. Also, recruited another consultant to work on the project with me who joined Whitman-Hart. Van

Leer is a manufacturing firm and a BPCS customer. I wrote a custom Bill of Materials system for special

customer needs and specifications. All coding was done is RPGILE.

Select Beverages in Darien, Illinois – on a development team at Whitman-Hart to build an inventory

control system, using BPCS and Modern Cell phone technology. The programming was in RPGIII.

GBC in Northbrook, Illinois – this was a side project, where I worked part-time writing reports for

various conversions, the company performed the largest BPCS and AS/400 implementation in the state of

Illinois and I was brought in to help with the conversion of a multitude of reports. The reports needed to

be written in AS/SET, the case tool developed by System Software Associates, Inc. (SSA) and BPCS.

Corporate Trainer on Site

INTERNSHIP – Non for Profit

Working Bikes – with another team member, designed, developed and implemented an automated

Inventory System to track bike inventories. We used the Web2Py Framework which is written in Python.

We wrote our tracking system in Python. We used SCRUM methodology for the project. Wrote stories

based on user requirements and created a backlog for the project. This is still and work-in-progress.

CERTIFICATION(s)

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, November 2011

.NET Developer Program

SITECORE DEVELOPER CERTIFICATION, April 2011

PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

2009

SCRUM Alliance (CSM) Certified Scrum Master

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

Completed course work in Java Programming toward Web Design Certification. 2000 to 2001

EDUCATION

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

Chicago, Illinois

Master of Computer Science, expected in 2014

KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Chicago, Illinois

Master of Project Management 2002

DEVRY UNIVERSITY

Chicago, Illinois

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Information Systems 1987

REFERENCES

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