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NAME: JOHN PULWERS
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JOHN R. PULWERS
2252 Coppersmith Sq.
Reston, Va 20191-2322
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SUMMARY
Test Engineer with Unisys on USPS Y2K project, responsible for
Independent
Verification and Validation (IV&V) and code inspection of COBOL and
TAL code.
Twelve years as programmer-analyst, full life cycle development
involved in
structured development, and maintenance of ADABAS and NATURAL 2
business
applications for federal government. Experienced at reengineering
COBOL and
conversion of NATURAL 1 to Structured Mode NATURAL 2. Application
experience
on all platforms includes: Personnel, Financial, Payroll,
Telecommunications.
Thirteen years with Software AG in progressively more responsible
positions:
Print shop Management, Advertising Administrator, Marketing
Communications
Specialist, and Programmer Analyst.
Flexible, eye for detail, excellent interpersonal and oral/written
communication skills.Able to work independently or as a fully
cooperative
member of a team.Mr. Pulwers is analytical while creative, and an
Extroverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judicious hard
worker/decision maker.
CLEARANCE-TS/SBI(10/93);"Q"#TN93515(12/89);OPM/Sensitive(11/97),
NRC/Secret (10/97), USPF Postal Clearance.
ADABAS- Light Utilities including ADALOD1 ADALOD2, ADADEL, ADAULD.
NATURAL- High complexity Structured Application development with
version 1 and
2: Scrolling, ranked processing rules, dynamic attribute definitions,
control
variables, comprehensive PF Key processing, pop-up windows, detailed
design
from verbal or functional specifications (batch or online).NATURAL
PROCESS and Internal Reader experience with online display, edit, and
submission of JCL. Experienced on IBM, VAX, UNIX and PC platforms.
CONSTRUCT- MAINT, BROWSE-SELECT models; light use of OBJECT/MENU
Models.
PREDICT - Physical file design, gen. ADAWAN/DDM, Conceptual layouts.
TP MON.- TSO/ISPF/SDSF, CICS, COM-PLETE, TPX/IOF, Super Wylbur,
ROSCOE.
PC TOOLS - Word Perfect,MSWindows, NORTON.
COBOL- Best suited for Analysis and Re-engineering to NATURAL 2
systems.
JCL - Solid application level experience, some system level.
CLIST- Maintenance of online batch submission menus.
OP.SYS.- MVS/XA/ESA, VMS, MS-DOS, VM/CMS, UNIX.
EDUCATION
A.S
.- General Studies 1985, Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC)
A.A.S
. - Data Processing 1986, cum laude 3.5 GPA, Dean's List,NVCC
JOHN R. PULWERS
Detailed Experience/Accomplishments Summary
DEC/Present - Unisys Corporation, System Engineer/Test Engineer
providing
Independent Verification and Validation and code inspection support
for
United States Postal Service Y2K project including but not limited to
Business
Impact Assessment, Technical Data Sheets, Component Date-Handling
Characteristics profile, Test Completeness Matrix, as well as source
code
compliancy.
OCT/DEC 1998 - Consultant for SAI as a Temp-to-Perm candidate as Sr.
Systems
Analyst to Convergys Corporation providing maintenance on Austrian
Telecommunication company's billing system.
OCT
1996OCT 1998 - Sr. Programmer/Analyst for Applied Management
Systems,
Inc
. (AMS) on federal government contracts performing high complexity
ADABAS/NATURAL maintenance, development, conversions, and Y2K
assessment/development for integrated Personnel, Payroll, Time &
Attendance
and Financial applications.Oct 1996/Sep 1997 maintenance and
development of
Personnel portion of PAY/PERS system for Nuclear Regulatory commision
(NRC).
Sep/Nov 1997 Y2K assessment for Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Financial
and Personnel systems.Nov 1997/Apr 1998 Y2K development for OPM Phase
1
Pilot system.Apr 1998/Sep 1998 - development for OPM Automated
Voluntary
Allotment system (AVAS):Financial EDI transfer (EFT) of various funds
to
Automated Clearing House using CTX 820 X12 standard format.
APR/OCT 1996 - For Fortune 100 paper Manufacturing company, member of
team to
develop functional requirement documents, design and development of
ADA SQL
interface system on HP-UX UNIX platform in Windows NT environment for
Shop
Floor Control system of five paper mills to BaaN/ORACLE7 Cost
Accounting and
Planning
system for Production control, Inventory Management, Distribution, and
Transportation functions of corporate Enterprise Resource Plan (ERP).
Produced
Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) using VISIO and System Architect.Wrote
processing descriptions with MS Word.
JAN/MAR 1996 - Developed batch reports for University's Alumni
system.Used
NATURAL/VSAM to access VSAM KSDS files for fully normalized
Constituent
information.Developed baseline table maintenance system with CONSTRUCT
Browse-Select and Maintenance models.
MAY 1995/JAN 1996 - New CONSTRUCT development of high visibility
online
Financial system for OPM/FAPS baseline Retirement system for Federal
Agency.
Used modified CONSTRUCT models to generate specifications for online
MAINT,
BROWSE-SELECT, and OBJECT modules for Financial portion of system.
With
NATURAL 2 and ADABAS 5, developed online submission batch
update/report
programs for financial subsystem. Wrote test plans. Performed
unit/Integration
testing, and formalized walkthroughs for peer module
certifications.Revised
PDL specs. Utilized CCC/LCM life cycle management tool for version
control.
Wrote module descriptions as draft for User Guide.
MAR/MAY 1995 - ADABAS/NATURAL maintenance of Accounting/Finance travel
voucher
system for Federal Government Agency.Basic exposure to VI editor, C-
scripts, TCP/IP, KERMIT, UNIX operating system commands on HP-UX 9000.
Trouble
shooting and customer support for PC based work stations on Banyan
Vines
network at application levels. Database analysis and adhoc reporting
for IBM
based Financial Aid Recipient System.Testing/documenting of UNIX based
source and data file structures.
DEC
1993MAR 1995 - User Technology Associates Professional Associate
for SEC,
developing online and batch portions of various functions for
Electronic Time
and Attendance system.Using NATURAL 2.2.5: Developed history roll-up
function to migrate all current time and attendance data for multiple
agencies
with multiple recording formats to ADABAS history files. Developed
interface
to VSAM/COBOL payroll system. Developed Report selection facility for
online
submission of batch reports with dynamic input prompting. Batch
reports with
dynamic line suppression and page breaks on variable record
boundaries.Using
IBM/OGL developed SEC 699 graphic form image and merged with
information for
hours worked andleave used for year.
OCT 1993/DEC 1993 - For Cable and Wireless, Inc., developed 800 number
confirmation system for telecommunications company. System allowed
Customer
Service Representatives (CSR) to provide sales force with up-to-date
information regarding 800 number reservations.System interfaced with
MCI via
nightly batch E-Mails.
APR 1993/OCT 1993 -Consultant (MSI) to FBI, utilizing NATURAL 2.2.4,
Development of Electronic Document Attribute Search Facility for
Electronic
Case File (ECF) system. On-line generic ECF Help system. Subprograms
to
convert X-Serials from display or database complement format for two
applications, conversion of security codes.
JUL
1992Mar 1993 - FINANCE/ACCOUNTING System
As consultant (ATR) for Computer Science Corporation (CSC),
maintenance for
nearly ten thousand lines of critical production JCL to automate
system
parameters for MSGCLASS, CLASS, NATPROC, SYSOUT, FORMS and various
application
parms via submission to internal reader.Benchmark, analysis, and
documentation for automated conversion tools NATURAL ReSOURCE and
CON-NAT.
Designed and developed basic process control system for NATURAL
PROCESS to
automate operator submission of batch job streams. Modified
online/batch
submittal code to automate parms and edit JCL.
MAY
1991JUL 1992 - ENERGY TRACKING SYSTEM
As consultant (COMSIS) for DOE Natural Gas Division, designed and
developed re-
write of EIA-191A volumetric tracking system for underground storage
of
natural gas.Complex relational file design used ADABAS MU-PE for
many-to-
many coupling of logical keys for gas fields and reservoirs where U.S.
gas
volumes are tracked for millions and billions of cubic feet.Re-wrote
5000
lines (6 programs) of faulty COBOL into 300 line NATURALprogram for
Annual
Adjustment processing of survey statistics. Converted reservoir data
into
equivalent gas field level data. Prepared EIA 10 point FIPS Pub 38
documentation.
JAN/MAY
1991 - TELECOMMUNICATIONSNETWORK
Consultant to U.S. SPRINT International, performed maintenance and
report
development for DCA Subscriber Integration, Packet Switching Node
Event
Tracking system, Backbone, and Implementation systems for DDN.
SEP/DEC 1990 - ENGINEERING BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
Consultant to DuPont Engineering Business Applications.Award winning
conversion from NATURAL 1.2 to NATURAL 2 Structured mode for
Estimation,
Contracts Administration, Resource Scheduling, Procurement, and
Thesaurus
systems.From functional and verbal specs:designed, developed, and
tested
programs for Personnel Role Defaults for administrative portion of New
Contracts system written in NATURAL 2 structured mode. Maps were
imbedded with
2 dimensional ranked processing rules.With modified data tags all
updates
and inquires were performed form one scrolling screen. Used CICS TS
Queue to
bypass GDA to make direct commands system independent.
JUN/AUG 1990 - STATE GOVERNMENT REVENUE SYSTEM
Consultant for State of Delaware, compiled SDM 1.3 specs and developed
Security and Generic Table Systems.
JAN/JUN 1990 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
Consultant for DCA/DDN used Yourdon/DeMarco methodology to perform
requirements analysis and preparation of Functional Description
deliverables
for Equipment Inventory and Packet Switching Node Configuration
Management
System.
The following accomplishments span thirteen years with Software AG
DEC
1988
JAN 1990- Sr Programmer/Analyst
for Software AG
PERSONNEL SYSTEM
- Assisted in migration of data from COBOL ISAM/BDAM
files to
ADABAS for NASA personnel system.Assisted DBA in organization of Test,
Acceptance, and Production databases to reflect naming convention and
file
numbering standards across board using PREDICT.Linked applications and
defined groups using NATURAL Security.PERSONNEL SYSTEM - Developed
Skills
Inventory system in DBASE III+ to track contact information and skills
sets
for consultants and prospective employee's database.CUSTOMER
INFORMATION
SYSTEM - Analysis and preliminary design of internal customer
information
system.PERSONNEL SYSTEM - For DuPont Savannah River Nuclear Power
Plant MIS
group, form verbal specs, designed, developed, and tested interface
form
TESSERACT to ADABAS using NATURAL 1.2 for payroll and personnel system
conversion.File conversion required linking packed and binary data
from
Tesseract flat files to MU's and PE's in ADABAS after converting
number codes
into alphanumeric codes.Saved DuPont over $100,000 in double posting
costs
with this nightly batch personnel system link.
JUN
1986NOV 1988 - Programmer for Software AG
FINANCIAL SYSTEM CONVERSION - For Wickland Oil, converted over 1200
programs
from IBM to VAX for financial system. BUSINESS TRACKING SYSTEM -
Assisted in
design/development of internal Lead/Prospect tracking system for
Software AG
Intern Program. STATE GOVT.DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES SYSTEM -
Analyzed FP
for functional specs, developed/tested table code processing and
program level
security system for State of Utah DMV prototype drivers license
application
system.Developed on PC for the VAX, system also accessed IBM files for
insurance cross reference.Prototype won contract over IBM and
Price/Waterhouse. SOFTWARE VENDOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - Development
of
internal Software AG business systems.CONSTRUCTION COMPANY WORK ORDER
SYSTEM
- One of first billable
NATURAL 2 programmers in U.S.From functional specs, developed and
tested
detail processing portion of Work Order system for construction
company.
ROYALTY TRACKING SYSTEM - For Software AG Advanced Markets department,
provided maintenance/development of reports for Royalty Tracking
system.
SALES/MARKETING SYSTEM - On VAX, developed and tested batch reports
for Brown
& Williamson Tobacco Co.'s Sales Draft Tracking system.TRANSPORTATION
SYSTEM
- New Jersey Transit Authority "Trip Tix" system, VAX batch reports.
SALES/MARKETING SYSTEM - development of Sales Incentive Bonus Points
tracking
system batch reports on VAX.
MAR 1983
MAY 1986 - MARKETING SERVICES
For Software AG
as senior Marketing Communications
Specialist
:Negotiated
contracts and placed all advertising in trade press and business to
business publications, saving company over $250,000 in agency
placement fees.
Designed 35mm slide shows for technical and management presentations.
Coordinated audio/visual needs, including purchase and operation of
camera
system for documenting business meetings.Assisted VP of Marketing in
sales
training program.Coordinated marketing and production activity for
corporate
headquarters.Oversaw distribution of key marketing items to field
sales
offices. Saved company up to 50% of cost to agency/broker
relationships for
production of marketing literature.Assisted editor using Chicago Book
of
Style for editing and proofing all technical, financial, marketing,
sales and
business literature. Published corporate overview and product listings
in
trade directories.
AUG 1977/MAR 1983 - PRINTING SERVICES
For Software AG as senior Pressman/Lithographer, assisted manager of
Printing
Services in all printing service functions.Acted as manager during
manager's
absences.Instrumental in bringing in-house all production of technical
documentation, saving company over $100,000 per year in outside
printing
costs, and increasing print shop productivity from original plan for
250,000
impressions per month to over 2 million impressions per month.
APR/AUG 1977 - DOCUMENTATION AND DISTRIBUTION
Manager of Distribution department, Software AG headquarters. Started
new
department in growing international company.Coordinated dissemination
of
international distribution for all technical documentation and
corporate
correspondence.Established and organized company's first documentation
inventory system
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