Phil Mercadante
516-***-**** X **** (Office)
**************@*****.***
Qualifications Summary
An accomplished developer of business applications specific to the AS400 platform.
Highly skilled at identifying the functionality required to meet the business processes.
Extensive experience in managing projects with strong technical abilities for system analysis,
application design, software development, training and implementation.
Technical Skills
Hardware: IBM Series I (AS400), System3X
Database: DB2/400
Software: MAPICS/DB INOVIS - EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
Quadrant Software – Electronic forms
Program Languages, Utilities: RPG RPGII RPGIII RPGIV QUERY400
CL (control language) PDM (program development manager)
Key Accomplishments
• Established a department for technical development that had a strong focus on continuing
improvement, accelerated implementations and cost savings.
• Custom development of the order to cash applications with interfaces to MAPICS/DB
resulting in software to better support the business processes, achieve cost savings, and
allowing for more rapid implementations of future business initiatives.
• Implemented Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to receive sales orders (850) and
eliminated manual entry. Receive product transfer resale (867) allowing sales
commissions to be paid and credit memos for rebates earned be processed.
• Developed the rebate application for contract management. This assured accurate and
timely reimbursement to our customers while preventing any overpayment caused from
the receipt of incorrect claims.
• Developed a user driven report writer application enabling the user groups to be
independent of technical support for their reporting requirements.
• Developed a service and repair application for medical devices that met management’s
requirements for exposure to warranty effective dates, scheduled preventive maintenance,
repair billing, and financial requirements for deferred and earned revenue.
• Developed a name and address cross referencing application for our customers and the
HIN data base from the Health Industry Business Communication Council (HIBCC)
resulting in accurate sales tracings of our products shipped.
• Created applications to support program life cycle and change control to comply with
Sarbanes Oxley requirements without any purchase of vendor software.
• Designed the processes, programmed data file conversions, and managed application
interfaces for the global implementation of the JDE811 ERP system and met the go live
date.
Employment History
E-Z-EM, Inc., Lake Success NY 1991 - 2009
Director of Systems Development for a $150M global manufacturer and distributor of medical
devices and diagnostics products.
Reported directly to the CFO, and was responsible for development and ongoing maintenance of
all computerized business applications on the AS400
Analyzed business processes and made recommendations to management for application design
Evaluated new software proposals from consultants and overseen any implementation through
completion
Created programs and test scripts
Mentored and supervised the activities of programmers working on application programs
Specified the content and supervised the development of all documentation materials
Interfaced with all users within the organization for training and implementation
Independent technical consultant. 1980 – 1991
Developed custom business applications for a wide range of industries and business types having
System3X and AS400 platforms.