Sales Management

James Michael Parman

***** *. **** ******* *****, Blue Springs, Missouri 64015 Phone: 816-***-**** Email: ac0a98@r.postjobfree.com

Lotus Notes / Lotus Domino / Lotus Enterprise Integrator / Lotus Script / Lotus Formula Language / Crystal Reports SME / Microsoft Excel / Microsoft Access /

Ad Hoc Reporting & Documentation / System Development / Application Development

Salesforce.com / Database Repository Development / Knowledge Management / Agile

Software Evaluation / Software Interface / Presentations / Client Service / Team Lead

Outsourced & Contract Employee Training / Curriculum Development / Functionality

Contract Development / Conversions / Cascading Style Sheets

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Midwest Consulting Group

Lead Software Engineer / Lotus Notes SME, Overland Park, Kansas, July 2012 – June 2015

Created the National Integrated Business Systems (NIBS) web portal on Lotus platform.

Modified SPW for creation and printing of contracts, incorporating Word templates and JavaScript processing. Allowing full oversight and template development by SPW Administrators.

Created scheduled and ad hoc reporting via Crystal Reports.

Authored written documentation including:

oWebsite applications (personally developed), devised training documentation of up to 65 pages inclusive of screen shots, descriptions, and ability for client modification.

oTips Sheets, developed for any personally authored application, inclusive of screen shots, and typically one to two pages.

Instructed outsourced India team over eight week period, two to four hour daily, condensing training from eight month curriculum, via online screen-sharing in Cisco WebEx, allowing sharing of screen for recording of information being provided. Training encompassed processing, SalesForce.com and SPW integration, including views, forms, reports, contracts, and finally coding.

Created ability to generate printed contracts as PDF’s.

Delivered 90 minute presentations on new systems to groups of up to 25 per session and for executive staff assessment, with PowerPoint and participant handouts. Subjects included:

oSales Package Web (SPW) contract generation.

oNational Integrated Business Systems (NIBS) Portal, phased in over three phases accompanied by three separate training sessions.

oCrystal Reports

oeTracking

EDS/Hewlett Packard

Lead Software Engineer / Lotus Notes SME, Overland Park, Kansas, Jan 2004 – July 2012

Provided leadership for 3 junior developers. Prioritized assignments, assigned work, conducted code walk through.

Designed the Sales Package Web (SPW) application from scratch using HTML, Java Script, Cascading Style Sheets, XML and XLST (XML style sheets)

Modified Sales Package Web application to interface with Salesforce.com.

Created and demonstrated a prototype for the National Integrated Business Systems (NIBS) web portal. Was given approval for full development and implementation.

Created System Designer Web (SDW) (for system engineer) and Project Manager Web (PMW) (for project managers), that allowed engineers and managers to manage profitability of assigned contracts.

Created scheduled and ad hoc reporting via Crystal Reports.

Authored written documentation and reporting, including:

oTraining curriculum for SPW, web based instruction through application, with screen shots, for internal client. Training provided to 1,800+ Registered Users.

oVarious developed Website applications training documentation of up to 65 pages inclusive of screen shots, descriptions, and ability for client modification.

Delivered 90 minute presentations on new systems to groups of up to 25 per session and for executive staff assessment, with PowerPoint and participant handouts. Subjects included:

oSales Package Web (SPW) and interface to SalesForce.com

oCrystal Reports

oeTracking (on application benefits to leadership, and for training to end users).

Trained junior developers in utilization of Lotus Notes, Automated Sales Package, CA$H, ultimately acting as Team Lead and assigning and reviewing work, meeting directly with clients for requirements, garnering estimates for project timelines from contractors, providing status updates to clients and management. Projects included new screens, fields, and functions.

Sprint/Centurylink

Prog Analyst V / Lotus Notes SME, Overland Park, Kansas, March 1997 – January 2004

Prog Analyst IV, Overland Park, Kansas, March 1994 – March 1997

Prog Analyst III, Overland Park, Kansas, March 1988 – March 1994

Prog Analyst II, Overland Park, Kansas, March 1984 – March 1988

Prog Analyst I, Overland Park, Kansas, March 1981 – March 1984

Developed the Lead Management System that tracked and validated leads coming from multiple sources before sending it to Sales. Once lead was validated the information was automatically moved to the sales process application called CASH.

Developed the Management Reporting System (MRS) in Mainframe Focus language

Created scheduled and ad hoc reports via Crystal Reports.

Creation of internal team web pages linking to discussion databases based on the internal team, including web pages specific to developer’s needs, and providing each team with ability to control the data.

Designed eTracking from inception to migration. Application was created over eight-month time period, inclusive of testing, 16 inputs from six separate applications, and offering 360 degree picture of sales contracts, profitability, cost, revenues, overruns, and contractors hired to build, for formulation of contracts.

Determined and implemented hub and spoke server layout, created ID’s and coordinated with internal customer, the Business Markets Department.

Honored with various awards during Sprint employment tenure, including:

o2001 Distinguished Contribution – Sprint Excellence Award.

o1999 Distinguished Contribution – Sprint Excellence Award.

oTwo Quarterly Sprint Excellence Awards.

oOne Team Sprint Excellence Award.

Interfaced Lead Management application to telephone key system to populate information, allowing call center to transfer person and populated data to another employee automatically. Obtained less than 1% failure rate.

Authored written documentation and reporting, including:

oCoding guidelines for Lotus Notes, a 200-300 page document, inclusive of updates.

oVarious developed Website applications training documentation of up to 65 pages inclusive of screen shots, descriptions, and ability for client modification.

oTips Sheets, developed for any personally authored application, inclusive of screen shots, and typically one to two pages.

Traveled throughout Florida with colleague for programming of computers and subsequent updates to eliminate impact on daily work for CA$H, Lead Management, and Automated Sales Package update, impacting 500-600 computers. Personally scheduled with each staff member for updates and programming.

Selected to evaluate Lotus Notes prior to implementation, ensuring appropriate application coordination client needs, including email platform, Discussion Platform, Instant Messaging feature, and database (document repository), providing knowledge management product.

Delivered 90 minute presentations on new systems to groups of up to 25 per session and for executive staff assessment, with PowerPoint and participant handouts. Subjects included:

oCrystal Reports (for recommendation to implement to executives).

oLead Management Application.

oeTracking (on application benefits to leadership, and for training to end users).

Selected as member of numerous teams and committees, including:

oSprint to Embarq Conversion Team: Initiation of 10 new servers, new ID’s, and installation for Embarq, authoring programs to resend ID’s (non-Sprint related), relocating databases via conversion programs to purge reference to Sprint in ID’s and database data (multi-month project), 2004.

oAnnual Awards Committee: Reviewing and selecting awardees from nominations for monthly, quarterly and annual Sprint Excellence Awards, 2000, 2002

oCrystal Reports Evaluation Team: Evaluation of product for company reporting utilization, with test copies and test server, and assessment of integration with backend applications, speed of application, and co-authored recommendation for implementation, 1996.

oLotus Notes Evaluation Team: Evaluation of product with test copies and test server, and assessment of integration with backend applications, speed of application, and co-authored recommendation for implementation, 1994.

TECHNICAL PROFILE

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Oracle

Programs: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, RemoteDesktop, Project, Cisco VPN, Open Text (document repository), Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI), Adobe Photoshop, IBM DB2, Oracle Database, Progress Database (4GL), Crystal Reports, Salesforce.com, RESTful Web Services

Programming Languages: Lotus Script, LSX Extensions, Lotus Web Services, JavaScript, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT (XML cascading style sheets), CSS (cascading style sheets), AJAX, SOAP, Visual Basic, Web Focus

PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

American Management Association: Member: 2015 – Present

Project Healing Water: Volunteer: Aiding Disabled Veterans through the art of fly tying and fly fishing, 2015 – Present

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri: B.S. Business Administration

American Management Association

Single Tasking – How to Get More Done One Thing at a Time, 2015

Becoming a Value Player: A Toolkit for Personal and Professional Success, 2015

Five Choices to Extraordinary Productivity, 2015

The Art of Collaborative Thinking, 2015

Sprint

Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI), 2000

LSX Extensions, 2000

Project Management Fundamentals, 1997

Lotus Script, 1997

Crystal Reports, 1996

Project Management, 1993

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