Software Project
Resume:
Bradley A. Carpenter
Loves Park, IL 61111-4315
815-***-**** - Home
815-***-**** - Cell
*.*.*********@*******.***
Objective
Obtain a position as a team player in a progressive, people-
oriented organization where I can utilize my IT experience along
with my analytical and organizational skills in a challenging
environment to achieve the corporate goals.
Technical skills - Personal Computers
MS SQL MS Windows 95/98/2000/XP MS Office
97/2000 MS Access97/2000 MS Excel 97/2000 MS
Word 97/2000
PowerPoint Microsoft SQL Server
FrontPage 2003 Dreamweaver Wordpress
Blogging Software Sharepoint
Crystal Reports
Technical skills - Mainframe computers
COBOL COBOL II DB2 Relational
Data Base
OS/MVS JCL IBM Utilities UNIX
IMS DB/DC TSO/ISPF FOCUS
SQL Baan ERP
Professional Experience
2009 Self Employed - Internet Affiliate Marketer
to
Present
. Developing affiliate web sites using Dreamweaver, Front Page
and Wordpress for the express use of promoting affiliate
programs, which allow the matching of a buyer of commercial
products and online products with a seller of those products.
. Knowledge of PPC marketing
. Knowledge of SEO Marketing
1996 TAC, Loves Park, IL
to IT Specialist
2009
Was the administrator for three years of the on-line/web-based Order Entry
System. This was a locally designed and written system using ASP.NET.
Coordinated and was the liaison with the Marketing/business people and the
consulting company, Abeam, who wrote the system. This included working very
closely with all members of the teams and coordinating meetings, change
notices, update schedules and implementation dates.
Worked with many users and customers of TAC. Also worked closely with
outside consultants on IT development projects
Was part of the project team that converted the entire legacy system to a
Baan ERP software system. Baan was developed on a DB2 database. From this
database I had to write queries that were fed into Crystal reports for
reporting as well as Access 2000. We did data dumps using Baan and SL
queries that were feed into Excel files for accounting and projection uses.
Was the Baan DEM (Dynamic Enterprise Modeler) administrator
Worked on Data Warehouse applications using SQL and Access 2000. The data
warehouse application was created on a MS SQL database and data structure.
Created reports from the SQL data base using Crystal reports and Access
2000. Data was also extracted for Excel uses. I also had to maintain the
data base structure as well as add new tables and data fields as required.
Developed and programmed many applications in MS Access 97/2000.
Applications included customer tracking, pricing books, order tracking and
customer quotes. Also designed the databases used in these applications
Assisted in set up and distribution of new PC's in the IT department and
assisted with diagnosing PC related problems within the department
Project Leader on a project to upgrade the Field Service Systems Astea
software using the Progress programming language and Astea ERP system
Project leader on a project to remove a sales branch office from the
Hewlett Packard server and move the systems to a PC system that used a
purchased software package
Worked on maintenance projects for existing legacy systems and programs as
well as developing new programs and systems using COBOL in a Hewlett
Packard server environment using the UNIX operating system
Developed test plans to properly identify all aspects of changes, upgrades
and new systems that needed to be tested and signed off by IT and users
acceptance. This was accomplished by IT and user "walk through" of the
development and test plans.
1994 Atwood Automotive, Rockford, IL
to
1996
Novell Network Administrator \ PC Administration Supervisor
. As supervisor of PC Administration, I guided the PC
Administrator in day to day duties and trained the PC
Administrator in any new software that was to be added to the
network
Novell Network administrator for seven servers located in three states and
Mexico
Project Leader to upgrade the servers from Netware 3.12 to Netware 4.1
Investigated, appraised and made recommendations for software and hardware
to be used corporate wide
Installed and upgraded software packages
Assisted network users with any E-mail or software problems
Helped network users in setting up user groups, doing special backups and
data recovery and solving daily problems
Added and removed users to and from the Novell network and GroupWise E-mail
system
Administrative duties included ordering replacement parts for PC's,
ordering new PC's, ordering software, recording and reporting charge back
information for user departments for accounting purposes, and tracking of
all PC software to meet licensing requirements
Was instrumental in the decision making of hardware to be used for PC's and
network equipment corporate wide
PC Administrator
PC Administrator for approximately 350 PC's at seven plant sites located in
three states and Mexico that were on a Novell 3.12 network.
Installed, maintained and troubleshot problems with hardware and software
Trained new users in the use of the network and GroupWise E-mail
1993 Camcar Textron, Rockford, IL
to Senior Programmer\Analyst
1994
Worked on maintenance projects for the manufacturing and EDI systems. The
translation software used for EDI was Gentran MVS/VSE release 5.0 by
Sterling Software
Designed, coded and tested programs (COBOL) that allowed for the
transmission of EDI documents to major customers of Camcar.
Developed test plans to properly identify all aspects of changes, upgrades
and new systems that needed to be tested and signed off by IT and users
acceptance. This was accomplished by IT and user "walk through" of the
development and test plans.
1991 Cap Gemini America, Madison, WI
to Senior Programmer\Analyst
1993
Worked for various clients of Cap Gemini America as a senior
Programmer\Analyst consultant. Duties included fixing and maintaining
existing programs and writing and testing new programs per user specs.
Clients included a telecommunications company, a large food manufacturing
firm and The State of Wisconsin.
1977 Sundstrand Corporation, Rockford, IL
to Senior Programmer\Analyst
1991
Designed and implemented systems for the financial and manufacturing
segments of the Aviation division. Assignments varied from maintenance
changes and new development of systems to the installation of a purchased
Master Production Scheduling System. Also designed, wrote, implemented and
maintained on-line programs using IMS DB\DC and DB2.
Project leader for both the analyst and programming efforts on assigned
projects. Responsibilities included program design, sequential file and
database design, estimating of hours for programs and tasks and the
scheduling of programming and analyst resources.
Systems worked include: a purchased Master Production Scheduling System,
scrap reporting, Travel Master Scheduling System, Accounts Payable, Cost
Accounting, General Ledger, Bill of Material, Capacity Planning, Tool and
Gauge and Labor Tracking.
Designed, wrote and tested programs using COBOL, COBOL II, FOCUS and WYLBUR
Assisted in training and development of new application programmers.
Developed test plans to properly identify all aspects of changes, upgrades
and new systems that needed to be tested and signed off by IT and users
acceptance. This was accomplished by IT and user "walk through" of the
development and test plans.
Education
A.A.S. in Data Processing
Rock Valley College
Additional Education
C++ programming language
Local Area Networking
PC Maintenance and Repair
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