Grand Rapids Analyst

Mr. Dorian C. Chalom

**** ******** **., *.*.

Grand Rapids, MI 49544

616-***-**** • Cell: 616-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Specialized in computer use within educational organizations.

• Assisted faculty, students and clients with the implementation of many facets of technology.

• Possess active listening and interpersonal skills, clear verbalization, and appropriate use of

enthusiasm, energy and humor.

• Solid verbal and written communication skills which enable effective interaction with both functional

users and technical people.

EDUCATION:

Master of Education, Instructional Technology,

Wayne State University, Detroit MI

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science/Information Systems,

Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

Associate in Applied Science, Business Programming and Systems Analysis,

Oakland Community College, Farmington, MI

EXPERIENCE:

STUDENT RECORDS TECHNICIAN

Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI 3/2007 – 2/2009

Support student records processes, procedures, and systems, including a redesign of procedures and

systems, implement support technologies, testing, documentation, and training.

• Created an Import process to upload course equivalencies to a state database

• Created a GPA Calculator to use online

• Expanded the automation process of emailing transcripts

• Redefined the Records Review Process through Automation

• Worked on implementing the Academic Standing procedure on the technical side

CONTRACT TRAINER/CONSULTANT

Chancery Software, Ltd, Grand Rapids, MI 3/2005 – 3/2007

Consult/Train on Chancery’s product line of Student Information Systems – Win School, Mac School and

SMS - for the K-12 Schools.

• Taught Chicago Public Schools on how to build a Master Schedule in Chancery SMS.

• Taught Independence Public Schools in Missouri on how to build a Master Schedule in Chancery

SMS.

• Worked with Administrators, Counselors and Secretary staff.

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Optimal Solutions Inc., Grandville, MI 10/1996 – 3/2003

Assessed, Designed, Developed, and Implemented a variety of programs for student

Accounting/management.

• Developed a student reporting program for the State of Virginia in VFP 3.0.

• Developed a Report Card printing program for Saline Public Schools in VFP 3.0.

• Developed a State reporting program for the State of Michigan to extract the data out of the

Chancery SIS system and format it into the State format in VFP 6.0.

• Developed a program to produce the Annual Report for the Diocese of Grand Rapids in Access.

• Created several reports for the Chancery SIS using Crystal Reports to report from a SQL

database.

• Did support of the Chancery Student Information System

• Phone support/On-Site support/Small Group Training

Mr. Dorian C. Chalom

4179 Imperial Dr., N.W.

Grand Rapids, MI 49544

616-***-**** • Cell: 616-***-****

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PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

National TechTeam Inc., Southfield, MI 5/1993 - 10/1996

Assessed, Designed, Developed, and Implemented a variety of accounting systems in FoxPro and Access

in an MS-DOS and Windows environment.

• Modified an SBT Accounting program to allow for Repeat Sales Orders in FoxPro.

• Audit of all Hardware equipment for Ford Motor Co.

• Developed a Vehicle Loss and Damage program to track the damage done to vehicles during

transport in Microsoft Access.

• Developed and maintained a Call Tracking system for the Help Desk operation of the company in

FoxPro. There were about 11 different versions of the program.

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Computer Training and Support Corporation, Livonia, MI 10/1989

– 4/1993

Worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

Assessed, Designed, Developed, and Implemented majority of ideas for a Physicians Electronic Billing

System in Data-Flex and MS-COBOL 2.10 in an MS-DOS environment.

• Developed an EDI application in MS-COBOL 2.10 that allowed the physicians to electronically

submit their paper claim forms.

• Upgrade project where we went through out Michigan upgrading every system we supported to a

minimum of 640k and a standard version of the application. Before this we were supporting two

versions. We also upgraded all network versions to version 2.2, at that time this was standard.

SKILLS:

HARDWARE OPERATING LANGUAGES SOFTWARE

SYSTEMS

Honeywell DPS Microsoft Access, C++, PeopleSoft, Crystal

8/44c - CP-6, Microsoft Server 2000, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, Reports, Lotus 123, MS

IBM 4341 - CMS, Windows SQL, Visual Basic; Office XP, PFS:Series,

IBM 4381 - MVS/XA, 95/98/2000/XP; Clipper, Data-Flex, SBT, Word Perfect, Word

IBM-PC compatible, Mac OS/X MS COBOL 2.10, Star

P/S 2, Apple IIe, and Novell 2.x-6.x Assembler, COBOL,

Macintosh DBase III+, FORTRAN,

IMS II, Pascal, PL/1

ACTIVITIES:

Church Treasurer, Kids Hope (K-6 mentoring program) Leadership,

Cub Scouts of America Assistant Pack Master, Reading.

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