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Edwardsville, IL
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November 19, 2012

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Name: Alan Damhorst

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City: St. Louis

State: MO

Zip/Postal Code: 62026

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Background

Most Recent Job Title: IT Contractor

Most Recent Employer: Technisource

Career Level: Associate/Experienced (Non-Manager)

Availability or Timeframe: Immediately

Authorized to work in the US: Yes

Security Clearance:

Do you have transportation: Yes

Over 18: Yes

Education: Bachelors

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Job Preferences

Desired Salary: Open

Willing to Relocate:

Desired Job Titles: Java programmer

Web programmer

Software Developer

Desired Job Types: Contract, Employee

Work Status: Full Time

Desired Shifts: 1st Shift

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Category: Information Technology or Systems

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Alan Damhorst

65 Smoke Tree Drive a

% Fenton, MO 63026

636-***-****

abplv1@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Profile

Systems Analyst / Software Developer with diverse technical and management experience.

Wide-ranging experience in Healthcare Insurance IT including Claims and Member ship

processing, support of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting systems. Strengths

include analyzing business processes and issues to design and develop IT solutions that

achieve stake holders objectives. Proven record of success in planning, organizing and

controlling all phases of the system-development life-cycle. Genuine enthusiasm for doing

hands-on software development using current technology and methods.

Analysis, Design and Development experience

Keen desire to learn and apply new technology

Dedicated to implementing the best solutions

High quality standards detail oriented

Planed, Organized and Controlled full SDLC

Depth of IT experience with know ledge of latest development tools and techniques

Project Management training and experience

Objective: A software development position responsible for designing and building web-

delivered client-server applications using object-orientated programming techniques and

current technology.

Education

Bachelor of Science

in Computer Science

University of Missouri

Rolla, Missouri

Technical Experience

Computer Languages: Java SE6, Java Server Pages, ASP.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#,

ASNI-C, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, XML, XSL, CSS, UNIX, DOS, HTML, Visual Basic Macros for

Excel, Oracle PL/SQL, DB2, MySQL, IMS-DL1, IMS-MFS, COBOL, Fortran, IBM Assembler,

PeopleCode

Software Tools: NetBeans 6.71, Visual Studio 2005, Tomcat, Windows Vista and XP, MS

Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project, Visio, Oracle

9i, SQL Developer, SharePoint Designer 2000, PlanView Enterprise, Stellent CMS

Professional Development and Continuing Education

Advanced Software Development St. Louis Community College

in progress

Web Scripting Technologies St. Louis Community College

in progress

Web Publishing St. Louis Community College

in progress

Advanced Java Programming St. Louis Community College

2010

Visual Basic Programming St. Louis Community College

2010

Java 6SE Programming St. Louis Community College

2009

Object-Oriented Applications Programming Chancellor's Certificate Univ. MO - St. Louis

2009

Web Programming and Databases Chancellor's Certificate Univ. MO - St. Louis 2009

Advance Certificate in Project Management Univ. CO - Denver College of Bus. Admin. 2005

Professional Experience

Technisource Consulting Services

- St. Louis, Missouri (2010-present

)

IT Sr. Business Analyst, Wells Fargo Advisors, Brokerage Technology PMO (2010-2010)

Member of a Project Management Office team that provides industry best practices for

Project Services to enable the Brokerage Technology group to maximize productivity and

maintaining quality. The BT PMO does this by implementing sustainable tools, processes and

controls which monitor, evaluate and communicate the statuses of projects and deliverables

within Brokerage Technology.

Entered initial project and packages (subprojects) setup information into Planview

project tracking tool.

Monitored BT PMO s support mailbox providing help and instruction on using Planview and

WFA s proprietary project tracking tools, answer questions about WFA s methodology, forms

and procedures.

Researched issues and followed up with the other project management support teams.

Worked as part of BT PMO maintenance team to create, review and revise various Project

Management documents, BT PMO Reference Guides, Project Management Policies, Process

Flowcharts, Forms and Project Manager Training Materials.

Anthem - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri

- St. Louis, Missouri

Sr. Technical Project Analyst, Information-Management PMO (2005-2009)

Monitored financial budgets and quarterly budget reforecasts for over 100 projects that

used the IM department s resources. Produced bi-weekly budget status reports of over 100

projects for both project and cost-center managers. Analyzed reports to identifying trends

and discuss corrective options with managers.

Input the initial setup information and annual budget details for over 50 IM-department

projects a year, into Planview Enterprise. (PVE is an IT-projects portfolio-management

system that provides integrated enterprise-wide strategic, projects and services planning

through tools that scope, plan, schedule and manage projects and resources)

Served as the IM department s help and support contact for PVE; successfully supporting

over 600 managers and staff who used PVE for project and resource management and weekly

time reporting. Provided help and instruction on using PVE. Researched application issues

and followed up with the requester or opened service tickets for the PVE operations

support team.

IT Sr. Business Analyst, Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Program (2003-2005)

EDW Program was composed of several simultaneous sub-projects for developing new EDW

architecture and implementing extract-transform-load (ETL) processing jobs for various

legacy health insurance system feeds.

Assisted Sr. Manager of EDW Implementation Program with project management duties through

coordination of sub-project schedules and resources, maintaining issues log, updating

project plan in MS Project file, and monitoring the progress of an offshore software

development team through semi-weekly status meetings.

Conducted meeting with users to document business rules and metadata for source file

elements.

Performed data analysis, documented field mappings and ETL requirements for development

teams constructing source system feeds to data warehouse.

Project Manager for the WGS1.3 Claims System Feed to EDW sub-project.

WellPoint - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri St. Louis, Missouri

IT Manager, Corporate Financial Systems and HR Systems (2002 2003)

Managed a team of programmers/analysts responsible for supporting Accounting and Human

Resources systems during conversion and migration to WellPoint s accounting and HR

systems. Responsibilities included cost-center budget, resources planning, and employee

performance evaluations.

Directed project to create daily feeds of consolidated general-ledger and contractor FTE-

expense data for WellPoint s GL and Budget systems. Project was critical to completing the

companies merger.

Supervised merger project to export BCBSMO s HR data into WellPoint s PeopleSoft HRMS

system. Project was critical to producing BCBSMO employees first WellPoint paychecks on

schedule.

Managed merger project to convert all BCBSMO s financial systems to WellPoint s systems.

Required numerous systems to be transitioned quickly. Received company Impact Award from

WellPoint s VP of Accounting Systems for project s success.

Other Relevant Experience

IT Manager, Corporate Financial Systems and HR Systems

Managed a team of 12 programmers/analysts responsible for supporting systems used by the

Accounting and Human Resources departments. Responsibilities included cost-center budget,

resources planning, recruiting, employee development and performance evaluations.

IT Manager, Corporate Financial Systems and Actuarial-Marketing Reporting

Managed a team of 10 programmers/analysts responsible for supporting systems used by the

Accounting, Actuarial and Marketing departments. Responsibilities included cost-center

budget, resources planning, recruiting, employee develop ment and performance evaluations.

IT Project Manager, National Accounts Systems

Managed a team of 10 programmers/analysts responsible for supporting the Business Systems

Services (BSS) Financial and Membership systems. BSS division provided IT services to

other Blue Cross plans.

Information Systems Analyst

Planned and coordinated all work for BCBSMO s first DB2 application. Designed and built

the relational data base tables. Completed all analysis and design activities for the

online and batch programs. Application was a financial Decision Support System. Received

personal commendation from VP of Finance department.

Lead Programmer/Analyst

Supervised work of a five member maintenance team. Assigned tasks and coordinated work of

the team.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Member of Online Support team which provided IMS system administrator, DBA and help desk

functions.

Programmer/Analyst

Analyzed, designed and programmed batch and online programs using COBOL, IBM Assembler

and IMS DB/DC DL1.

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