TAMARA S. HOUSE, PMP

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Clarendon Hills, IL 60514

630-***-****

abl5ui@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly motivated IT professional with experience in financial retailing and

property management; strengths include ability to learn and develop new

skills, train co-workers, and interact with all levels of personnel;

excellent work history; adaptable and effective communicator; proven team

player, builder and leader.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

DB2 SQL COBOL

IMS JCL CICS

FTP Microsoft Office JD Edwards World

JD Edwards Enterprise One ITIL v3 Certified OnBase

Imaging software

PMP

EXPERIENCE

Consultant/Project Manager

University of Illinois BIS, Naperville, IL March 2010 -

Current

. Etip Grant Processing

. Administrative Assistance

Inland Computer Services, Siegburg, Germany May 2008 - June

2009

. Provided 100% of the overseas project support reducing lead time on

projects.

. Project lead for all phases of project development - from initial

information gathering, to designing specifications, to coding, to

testing and training the end-users for the Property Management Expense

Participation True Up billing process.

Project Lead/Programmer/Analyst August 2006 - March 2008

Inland Computer Services, Oakbrook, IL

. Project Lead in implementing JD Edwards Enterprise One from legacy Alf

system.

. Project Lead responsible for analyzing and reviewing business and

functional requirements, creating technical designs, coding system

changes utilizing JD Edwards Enterprise One 8.11; OMW, RDA, Table,

View and NER creation. Module unit testing and basic integration

testing was expected. Code and unit test reviews were conducted.

Provided testing support, prepared and packaged code elements for

production deployment and provided production support. Subject matter

expert for JD Edwards. Developed and implemented A/R, A/P, Address

Book, G/L, Property Management and Expense Participation projects.

. Created, reviewed and corrected integrity reports to accelerate

financial month end close with the use of SQL to query tables.

. Project Manager for designing and creating Property Management reports

to increase timely tenant payments. Expense Participation, Fee

Management, Lease expiration and G/L Tenant Summary reports

. Mentored new employee, enabling him to become productive and

comfortable in a new environment.

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Project Lead/Systems Analyst July 1998 - May 2006

Ace Hardware, Oakbrook, IL

. Responsibilities include analyzing and reviewing business and

technical requirements, creating technical designs, coding system

changes utilizing JD Edwards World 7.3; C/L, RPG and Cobol. Developed

and implemented A/R, A/P, Address Book, G/L, Sales Order Processing

projects.

. Responsible for the Sales Order processing monitoring and updating of

the system in JD Edwards 7.3 to include new order types.

. Coordinated with the EDI team the mappings for the 810-invoice and 850-

purchase order files for the JD Edwards billing process.

. Project Manager for creating an invoice process to comply with Mexican

Peso payment system. Lead a team of 8 for this project. Project

yielded a saving of 200 hours in labor cost and a 75% increase in

sales by allowing new vendors to be added to the JDE system.

. Project Manager to process invoices into an imaging system to allow

access from the web vs. shipping the invoices to an offsite vendor for

scanning. Resulted in an annual labor cost savings of $122,000 and a

reduction in the scan time from 7 to 3 days.

. Completed high-priority, tight deadline growth strategy project to

create a new billing process for brand recognition. Project was

completed on-time and under budget.

. Directed complete automation of Federal 1099-miscellaneous tax return

project to be in compliance with federal tax requirements. Project

yielded a 50% reduction in labor cost related to the tax department.

Training Coordinator

. Trainer, coordinator and mentor for 10 new hires in Application

development.

. Developed schedules and training material in COBOL, DB2, Expediter,

company standards and procedures to expedite the new programmers into

Ace's working environment.

Programmer

. Programmed Online and Batch Mainframe Cobol system for International

drop ship order processing. Programmer responsibilities included

COBOL, IMS and VSAM code changes, unit and system testing, creation of

JCL and turnover documentation and provided support for implementation

of merchandising and financial systems.

EDUCATION

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

. Computer Career Program

Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL

. B.S. Health Management / Business Administration

OTHER INFORMATION

. Membership: J.D. Edwards Professionals, Project Management Institute,

PMI Chicagoland

. MicroTrain: Project Management Professional, ITIL v3 Foundations, MS

Project

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