Michael Amspaugh

323-***-**** abhxgd@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION:

M.B.A. in Operations Research & Management Science.

University of Michigan.

B.S. of Applied Science in Systems Analysis, minor:management,

Miami University.

Teaching Assistant/Tutor, Dean's List, Dean's Committee on

Excellence, Who's Who

in American Colleges and Universities, President of

Operations Research Society of America Student Chapter,

President of Student NAIC Investment Club, Computer/Statistics Lab Manager,

computer programming counselor/ proctor and grader manager,

author of linear and non-linear programming packages for the

University and students, President's List, Friends of the Library

Society, Contributing Editor for a Linear Programming Textbook,

Fraternity Officer, Martial Arts club. Was asked to stay at

Michigan for Ph.D., but declined.

RECENT ACTIVITIES & HONORS:

Martial Arts Instructor, NAIC Stock Club President, Public School

Site Council Member and Technical Committee member, Who's Who Among US

Executives, Who's Who in Martial Arts website, received CSP (Certified

Systems Professional), author of a Science Fiction/Fantasy novel that

was nominated for "Book of the Year From Small Publishing

Houses".

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Current:

Large Retail Discount Chain, part-time, Watsonville, CA

Internet order fulfillment, lay away, Customer Service,

cashier, displays/signs, loss prevention.

Windows, MS Office, P[em Office, Symbol RMUs,

Internet/Intranet,

Present.

Self-Employed, part-time. In addition to the activities

listed above, part-time Management/IT Consultant, helping

small business, start, run and sell their businesses. This also involved

selling of hardware, software, personnel contracts, and

projects along with customer service training. In addition: stock

investing, and creation of and running on a part-time basis of a California

non-profit, charitable trust (management, web master, fund

raiser, item/class sales), HOA finance chairman. Running a small

vending route. HTML, PHP, JAVA, JAVA SCRIPT, MAC/OS, WINDOWS, MS

Office, Open Office, Access, MS Project, MY SQL, C, SAS, Apache

Server, Linux, QuickBooks, NetSuite

Present.

Fortune 500 Company (S.A.I.C. La Jolla, CA). This was turnover

training for the

company that bought Critical Path Software Corporation (see next).

14 months.

IT/Management Consulting firm (Critical Path Software Corporation.

Los Angeles, CA) that was recently sold to a Fortune 500 Company. Was

involved in all aspects of

running the corporation and was more often than not, in the field as

a consultant in the areas of Operations Research, programming, design,

planning, management, training, facilitating,

budget & proposal, contracts, customer service, sales, sales support,

customer service,

documentation, and quality assurance. Work was performed on

PCs, mainframes, mini, and midi-computers in many popular operating

systems, databases, programming languages and

ERP packages. Work was also done in EDI and web design and

programming. Partial list of clients and activities follows.

9 years.

Merisel, El Segundo, CA

27 months

Lead teams to do CICS and Batch tuning,

programming modifications, schedule modifications,

backup and storage modifications to

ensure the mainframe could handle the increased transaction

volume, disk creep, and inefficient new systems that occurs with fast

growth. On the team that came up with proposed

solutions for Merisel's Year 2000 project. Another assignment was to

eliminate file contention between batch and CICS,

. There was part time involvement in

correcting Debit Memo/Returns subsystem. Project lead

and Sr. Programmer/Analyst on a team that did the data

conversions, interfaces, and EDI set up for Merisel's mainframe-to-SAP

R/3

conversion. Modified order entry and

inventory, enhanced the P.O. accrual portion of the

financial system, installed, created interfaces for partner mappings

for their GENTRAN CICS

EDI subsystem. SDF, GENTRAN for CICS, M & D Financials.

ABAP/4 FTP, HP-UX, UNIX, SAP workbench, MS Word, MS

Access, MS Excel, MS Project, Visual Basic,

Powerpoint, Visio and SAP, Workflow,

COBOL, COBOL II DYL280 IAM, Omegamon, Ellipse, IMS

DB VSAM buffering Jobtrac, ESA JCL, MS Project, concurrent backup

(DFDSS), Sync Sort CICS, and IDCAMS, Panvalet.

Ralphs Grocery, Torrance, CA 36

months

Lead team, did statistical analysis, set up search

criteria, and audited results for a study that

eventually became the RFP for the Year 2000 project. Designer and Senior

Programmer/Analyst on a project to automate and interface the

PC and mainframe based suggested store opening load order and

the shelf space allocation system. Designed, coded, tested, documented,

installed, and did training for the Forecasting portion of the

store PC and mainframe based Computer Assisted

Ordering system to automate the store inventory

management/forecasting/stock ordering tasks.

NDM, IMS DB, Microfocus COBOL II workbench

(including Panels and Dialog system), REXX, OS/2,

Macro and Command CICS (COBOL and Assembler), Knowledgeware IEW,

C, and SAS. MS Access, MVS JCL, ISPF, ROSCOE, COBOL, DYL280 and

Librarian.

Mann Theatres, Beverly Hills, CA 8

months

Team leader and lead designer/programmer for Mann's

Additional Rents system. This system was a VM DOS

system that allowed the users to pass control requests to a system that

gathered various data fields over

variable lime frames did a series of parameter driven

calculations on the data and accrued and passed

expense data due to theater landlords for

''additional'' participation to the G/L system (including Historic data

capture/purification).

VM DOS, Command CICS, and COBOL.

Senior Consultant to a Big 6 Accounting Firm (Coopers & Lybrant now

Price Waterhouse Coopers. Los Angeles, CA). Performed

programming, systems design and

selection, systems analysis, and statistical analysis as an

independent consultant for C&L's clients. Partial client list follows.

13 Months

Mann Theatres, Beverly Hills, CA

6 months

Helped upgrade batch and CICS COBOL programs and tape files

from DOS to VM DOS. Was on

team to evaluated different possible solutions to their

''Additional Rents'' problems and, when it was

decided that they would write their own, to recruit and train

the team members to complete the task.

Lorimar Studios, Culver City CA

4 months

Designed the video distribution system from satellite download

to video shipment to

subsidiaries for Lorimar's video distribution

center. Evaluated hardware and software to run the

system with, selected staff to train for the

systems and passed all recommendations to

Lorimar's IS executives. VAX VMS and

Priminos.

Unicorn Systems, Los Angeles, CA Senior Consultant. Client

list follows.

3 years

Ralphs Grocery, Compton, CA 3

years 7 months

Various MVS mainframe projects. Installed, initialized, and

wrote interfaces for DDA A/P system. Gathered and transferred

statistical data from store based PCs to the mainframe. Designed the

Stratified Random Sampling system that Ralph's auditors use to audit

the automated high-rise warehouse (99.7% accuracy

with a 0.55% sample). Helped convert CICS Macro programs (COBOL

and BAL) to Command level. Helped optimize and parameterize the on-line

pricing system. Wrote on-line interfaces between the Pricing system

and the Purchase Order system. Helped optimize JCL to reduce batch

window.

Dynacron Inc., Santa Monica, CA Senior Consultant. Client list

follows.

2 years

Cedars Sanai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA

2 years 1 month

Various mainframe projects. On team that converted the

platform from DOS to VM and finally to

MVS. Rewrote specious government supplied assembler DRG

grouper into a COBOL version that

gave expected results. Helped outsource the

billing system to SMS and wrote the necessary

interfaces.

Vivitar Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

7 months

Lead onsite consultant of team that maintained the old

MVS system while another team converted the company to an HP3000

system. We handled change requests, abends, file conversions, user

training,

and miscellaneous interfaces to the new system.

Vivitar Corporation. Santa Monica, CA PROJECT LEADER - SENIOR

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

4 years 5 months

Headed team that designed, coded, tested, and documented Vivitar's on-

line and Batch

International Forecasting System. Was instrumental in creating the

Forecasting Department,

lowering onhand inventory to one third of previous levels,

tripling forecast range and

accuracy. Was acting Programming Department manager and

featured speaker at GUIDE on multiple occasions. PL/1, COBOL, FORTRAN,

ADF, IMS DB/DC, TSO/SPF, Panvalet, SSP, SPSS, ISAM, PLANCODE/I.

Mainframe Assembler.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Detroit, MI PROGRAMMER

ANALYST

7 months

Participated in the system design, implementation, and documentation

of Inventory and Cost

Accounting systems. Reformation of databases. Librarian,

COBOL, RJE, and In-stream procedures.

A.C.T.S Computing, Southfield, MI TECHNICAL CONSULTANT -

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

5 Months

Involved in all aspects of Service Bureau from initial client contact

and analysis through

documentation, implementation, and training. Applications included

Benchmarks, Customer

Service, Water Billing, Medical Billing, Payroll, General

Ledger, and graphing. COBOL, FORTRAN, and Panvalet.

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