Greg Schroeder
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Brentwood, TN 37027 **********@*******.***
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Proven IT professional experienced with global and locally diverse teams to
achieve business objectives on time with integrity and quality. Expertise
in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Project Management, designing and
developing computer software.
Six Sigma - Green Belt Certified CMM Level 2 Organization
Project Management EDI Standards
SDLC (Software Development Life Microsoft Visual C++, C#
Cycle) programming
Self directed, organized and Office Teaming Coordinator
consistent
PC hardware repair and purchasing Windows Operating Systems support
Novell, Windows Network Disaster Recovery
Administration
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Global Exchange services (GXS) Brentwood, Tennessee 1985-2009
GXS is a leading worldwide provider of business-to-business EDI solutions.
In June 2002, GXS was acquired by Francisco Partners from General Electric
Company (GE).
Project Manager / Migration Specialist (2006-2009)
Coordinate client and software engineering to schedule system migration
from proprietary mainframe services (IBM and Honeywell) to open systems
(UNIX and Linux). Updated schedules, performed migration activities, follow
up with client to verify changes and set up monitoring period.
. Consistently led the team in scheduled and completed migrations,
organization and execution.
. Project Manager for off shore support team in India with resolutions and
enhancements to Desktop EDI application and EDI standards development.
. Set up and migrate of existing dial up communications customers to VPN
(Virtual Private Network) saving the company expensive recurring cost,
increasing reliability and throughput for clients.
Subsection Project Manager Desktop Products Support (2000-2006)
Managed a diverse team to provide sales and client support to allow new
product development team to meet their goals and meet expected dates.
Release maintenance and enhancement versions of software.
. Designed and developed software for two Windows based EDI software
applications. This allowed new product development to not be impacted by
day to day issues with the client's software allowing them to make their
goals.
. Coordinated moving software support and future development off shore to
team in India reducing support cost by 200K the first year.
. Organized office events that would promote teaming between different
development groups.
. Assisted team in creating and executing office plan in case of emergency.
. Purchased hardware and software for the office which allowed to
controlled cost and increased productivity.
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. Planned office shutdown, setting up smaller office, telecommuting for
remaining employees and removal of existing furniture and equipment.
Vacating the space on schedule resulting in saving significant
restructuring cost and minimal down time for employees working from home.
. Consulted with legal department to allow software to be sold in Russia
which resulted in approval and expanded existing market.
Application Developer (1995-2000)
Developed back end processing for all EDI transactions, design associated
database API's, maintain servers for source code management, work with
client services to resolve client issues.
. Designer and developer for Windows based EDI application.
. Provided application support for internal and external clients for EDI*PC
Advanced System for DOS.
. NT Server Administrator which allowed the use of Microsoft Visual Source
Safe for software source code and version control. This was integrated
into software development tools increasing quality.
. Worked with external auditors to certify application meetingY2K
compliance.
. Assisted offshore company to translate software into Korean and
Simplified Chinese.
. Increased productivity of customized EDI data forms from two months to
one week through development of a Windows based application.
Application Developer (1986-1995)
Created applications to support EDI data processing, new components written
in C to replace proprietary menu software. Maintain servers for office and
teams source code management.
. Designer and developer for a DOS based EDI application.
. Provided support for previous versions of software which reduced client
issue turnaround time with client support.
. Served as Office Novell Network Administrator which allowed network
connectivity for shared resources in the office while also reducing
peripheral equipment cost and allowing sharing of information within the
office. It also allowed the use of software source code control for the
first time in the office improving software quality by reducing errors.
. Eliminated support calls by designing a standalone application for third
party software communications.
. Reduced EDI standards development delivery time from six months to three
weeks through development on distributed document support application.
This allowed EDI compliance, installation and data entry screens to be
generated.
. Served as facilities hardware support to repair failed equipment, which
resulted in eliminating all service calls for this location saving 70K
the first year.
Application Developer (1985-1986)
Design and develop applications to process EDI transaction from three
different EDI standards.
. Designer and Developer for a DOS based Financial EDI application mainly
sold in Europe and Asia.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Middle Tennessee State University - Majoring in
Computer Science with Minors in Mathematics and Information Systems.