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NAME: JIM EDWARDS
ADDRESS:
CITY: Cupertino
STATE/PROVINCE: CA
ZIP/POSTAL CODE: 95014-1528
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: *****@***.***
PHONE: 408-***-****
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JIM EDWARDS
10154 Parkwood Dr., Apt. #4
Cupertino, CA 95014-1528
POSITION DESIRED: Six month or longer contract as ORACLE Developer, or
working on Y2K analysis and fixes. Working with UNIX and/or WINDOWS is
also desired.
EXPERIENCE SYNOPSIS:- Over 20 years programming business, scientific,
engineering, financial and manufacturing applications.- Three years of
techwriting, software. - Contractor since 1975 for many major Bay Area
companies.
COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE USED:UNIX (2.3 years), ORACLE (7 years), SQL (7
years), SQL*PLUS (7 years), PL/SQL (2 years), SQL*FORMS 2.3 (1.3
years), SQL* FORMS 3.0 (3 months), SQL* LOADER (2 years), SQL*GRAPH (2
months), SQL* MENU (1 month),SQL*REPORT (5 months), MICROSOFT WINDOWS
3.1 (1 year), BANNER (1 year),MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95(9 months), WINDOWS
NT SERVER (5 months), ISPF (1.5 years).Languages: COBOL (10 years),
PRO*COBOL (6 months), FORTRAN (5 years), ASSEMBLER (4 years), PL/1 (3
years), JCL (6 years), DCL (1 year), DB2 (5 months),UNIX SHELL SCRIPTS
(5 months).Computers: AMDAHL (2 years), PC (2.5 years), HP9000 (9
months), DEC VAX (4 years), Honeywell 6000 (4 years), IBM 360/370 (5
years), realtime minicomputers (3 years), Siemens Pyramid (4
months).Operating Systems: HP-UX, SUN OS, DC/OSX, VMS, MVS, OS,
MS-DOS, GCOS, DOS.
EDUCATION:M.S
. Applied Mathematics, University of Santa Clara 1970B.A.
Mathematics,
Drake University 1963
SPECIAL ABILITIESAbility to communicate; easy to get along with;
logical mind; ability to write programs or scripts free of bugs;
excellent documentation and mathematical Skills; many years experience
as a free-lance writer.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:
JUN 1997
- FEB 1998Hewlett-Packard, Palo
AltoContractor, Programmer/AnalystDeveloped GIANT software program
modules to extract product repair data from ORACLE tables instead of
from HP 3000. This involved extensive analysis to determine where to
get the data. Worked on project to remove a cluster from ORACLE
tables. Provided detailed documentation of product repair programs.
Spent several months working on Y2K problem. This was a client-server
environment. Used UNIX (HP-UX), ORACLE 7.2, SQL, SQL* PLUS, PLISQL,
MICROFOCUS COBOL, PRO*COBOL, KORN Shell scripts, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95,
GIANT, PC, HP9000.DEC 1996 - APR 1997Pyramid Technology, San
JoseContractor, ORACLE ProgrammerAnalyzed forms and numerous report
programs to determine modifications required to implement Sales Agent
Commission plan changes; modified those forms and programs to
incorporate those changes. Used UNIX (DC/OSX), ORACLE 7.1, SQL*FORMS
3.0, P1/SQL, SQL* PLUS 3.1, SQL*REPORT 1.1, Shell Scripts, Siemens
Pyramid computer.
JUL 1995 - AUG 1996US Postal Service, San
MateoContractor, Programmer/AnalystWorked on very large client-server
ORACLE project to transfer data from National Server to 85 district
servers. Wrote DB2/COBOL programs to extract sales and marketing data
from mainframe DB2 database; wrote, modified and tested ORACLE scripts
to load and update that data in ORACLE database, after transferring
the data to National Server. Used WINDOWS NT SERVER, MICROSOFT WINDOWS
3.1, ORACLE 7.1, SQL*PLUS 3.1, P1/SQL 2.1, SQL*LOADER 7.1, FTP, AMDAHL
MVS/ESA, PC, NOVELL, DB2 2.
3, VS COBOL II, JCL, ISPF.SEP 1993 - SEP
1994
Mills College, OaklandContractor, ORACLE ProgrammerDesigned and
programmed over 100 ORACLE reports for the Financial Aid, Finance,
Graduate Studies, Admissions, and Controller departments. Modified
forms for the BANNER Student System. Used SUN, UNIX, ORACLE 6.0,
SQL*FORMS 2.3, SQL, SQL*PLUS, SQL*REPORT, NOVELL.
JAN 1992 - JUL
1993
Wrote a book called "Zany and Thought Provoking Ideas to Stimulate
Conversation": (Not yet published
)
FEB 1991 - JAN 1992Physics
International, San LeandroContractor, Programmer/AnalystWrote ORACLE
programs for Human Resources Information System, including headcount
reports to track monthly changes in employees department, job and work
status. Modified WDS database programs for Vendor, Purchasing,
Accounting modules. Used DEC VAX, ORACLE, DCL, SQL, SQL*PLUS,
SQL*MENU, PRO*FORTRAN, COBOL-85, WDS, POWERHOUSE, VMS.
MAR 1990 - DEC
1990
Dataquest, San JoseContractor, ORACLE ProgrammerWrote ORACLE
programs for Worldbase, a Market Intelligence system used to provide
subscribers information about high-technology products, such as the
market share for companies shipping computers. These programs loaded
the Worldbase database with shipments data and created reports. DEC
VAX, ORACLE 6.0, DCL, P1/SQL, SQL* PLUS, SQL* LOADER, VMS.
AUG 1989 -
JAN 1990
Northern Telecom, Santa ClaraContractor, ORACLE
ProgrammerModified Executive Information System. Wrote programs to
print or display on-line dollar amounts of orders per week, cost of
sales, revenue from shipped and backlogged orders. Modified programs
and complex forms to add new product types for telephone switching
systems. DEC VAX, ORACLE, DCL, SQL, SQL* PLUS, SQL* FORMS, SQL* MENU,
SQL* GRAPH, VMS.
MAY 1989 - AUG 1989Amdahl, SunnyvaleContractor,
Technical WriterUpdated Amdahl 5890 computer software manuals.
AUG 1988
- JAN 1989
Northern Telecom, Santa ClaraContractor, ORACLE
ProgrammerModified Executive Information System. Developed forms and
graphs to report orders, sales and costs of telephone switching
systems. DEC VAX, ORACLE, SQL, SQL* PLUS, SQL* FORMS, SQL* LOADER,
SQL*GRAPH, VMS.
NOV 1987 - APR 1988Integrated Automation,
AlamedaContractor, ORACLE ProgrammerWrote programs for Work-Load
Planning portion of LEADS project, which automates Federal Mogul's
inventory warehouse. These programs allow inventory to be selected and
packaged in an optimal manner. IBM System-88, ORACLE, COBOL (with
embedded SQL).
OCT 1986 - MAY 1987Craftmart, Menlo ParkContractor,
Programmer/AnalystWrote and modified MS-DOS microcomputer programs for
Retail Ledger, Recall Order and Inventory Cost Systems, which allow
Craftmart headquarters to track store inventory. COMPAQ 286, COBOL,
BTRIEVE, KEDIT.
JUL 1984 - OCT 1986General Electric Nuclear Energy,
San JoseContractor, Programmer/AnalystMaintained and wrote new
programs. Applications included Nuclear Program Control, Purchase
Orders and Sales Tracking, Resource Predictor programs to forecast
man-hours and costs per project, Management Information Systems and
Absence Tracking Systems. Honeywell 6000. DEC VAX, ORACLE, DCL, COBOL,
FORTRAN (with embedded SQL), GCOS, VMS.
OTHER PRIOR EXPERIENCEPROGRAMMING:
General Electric Nuclear Energy, San
Jose - manufacturing scheduling, engineering, purchasing and budget
programs; General Electric, Sunnyvale - budget programs conversion;
Amdahl, Sunnyvale - financial programs modification; US Postal
Service, San Bruno - debugged programs used nationwide in bulk mail
system; GTE-Sylvania, Mt. View -electronic surveillance systems (had
secret clearance); Westinghouse Electric, Oakland - BART Train Network
simulator; Control Data, Sunnyvale - Multi Access Retrieval System;
Boole & Babbage, Cupertino - birth control pill study and analysis of
programs to decrease execution time; Allstate, Menlo Park - operations
research applications and math modeling; Lockheed Missiles & Space,
Sunnyvale - math model of Deep Submergence Search Vehicle; Farm Bureau
Life, Des Moines -auto insurance programs; Bankers Life, Des Moines -
life insurance applications, including actuarial, financial and
accounting programs.
TECHNICAL WRITING, SOFTWARE:GTE SPRINT, Burlingame - systems
documentation for billing and order entry systems; Singer-Link,
Sunnyvale - users manuals for flight simulation programs; Westinghouse
Marine Division, Sunnyvale - documentation of computer equipment
inventory programs, required by government; Memorex, Santa Clara -
documentation of equipment tracking programs; IBM, San Jose - improved
users manuals for Phi Checkout Compiler and Fortran Language
Reference; IBM, Palo Alto - users manual for IBM 5110 computer.
REFERENCESExcellent references are available upon request