Professional Summary

IT professional with **+ years’ experience in large-scale distribution, manufacturing and retail environments using OpenEdge Progress. Implement procedures and interfaces that increase productivity. Maximize system performance through hardware and software tuning. Work diligently with vendors and teams on a daily basis.

Core Qualifications

ERP development and management

Progress DB design, coding and administration

Web Services integration

Third party software integration

Systems process improving and monitoring

Best practices, Agile and detailed oriented

Microsoft applications

Work as team player or independently

Job History

Lead Contractor October 2017 to present

Virtusa – Coconut Creek, Florida (remote)

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Revise key audit reports: Run faster via proper use of indexes and OpenEdge 11 queries.

Add data validation to import & export programs to ensure proper output results from/to Excel (CSV and DAT).

Convert maintenance programs to menu options. Ie. Monthly billing rate upload, Inventory/Customer updates.

Move periodic reports to batch processing instead of using cron.

Complete daily requests for data updates using existing or writing new OpenEdge 11 ABL programs.

Systems Administrator II / Systems Engineer December 2015 to July 2017

Anda Pharmaceuticals - Weston, Florida 33331

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Reduced system alerts by 70% through upgrades, increasing system resources and configuration changes.

Implemented standard information flow from Developers to Quality Assurance to Deployment teams.

Identified and corrected 100% of all known and potential server issues and improved slow response times.

Actively participated on the weekly Change Approval Boards, both locally and globally.

Engaged the Network, Windows, Linux, Storage and Operations teams, on a daily basis.

Ensured Backups, Resources, Hardware & Software DR (colo) and compliances of 200+ servers.

Systems Administrator / Senior Program Analyst August 1996 to September 2015

Hydraulic Supply Company - Sunrise, Florida 33325

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Created third-party integrations between Progress and (Amazon, UPS/FedEx, MySQL, Java, etc.)

Managed complete ERP and warehouse systems for over 20 branch locations in 5 states.

Administered daily operations to ensure core values were adhered to and understood by staff.

Successfully increased employee satisfaction by creating a self-serving knowledgebase.

Cultivated strong business relationships with vendors to drive business development.

Planned and executed upgrade initiatives in collaboration with all departments.

Automated procedures and processes to increase productivity and reduce employee mistakes.

Communicate clear and concise responses and requests via emails and verbally.

Senior Program Analyst March 1994 to December 1995

Pepsi International Bottling Systems - Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Developed and implemented the sales, distribution and truck routing software for new plant in Brazil.

Created automated utility software to integrate drivers’ hand held devices to the main database.

Thoroughly tested work for accuracy and high quality of effectiveness to purpose.

Implemented software enhancements and team training based on Progress 4GL software.

Technical Experience

Operating Systems:

IBM AIX: 5.3 to 7.1

HP Unix: 11

Microsoft Windows Server: 2003, 2008, 2012

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5 to 7

Databases:

OpenEdge Progress 4GL up to v11.3 (DBA for OpenEdge, SQL 92, ABL)

Oracle Enterprise 10.1

IBM DB2

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Software:

OpenEdge Progress 4GL (ABL Coding of ERP System and interfaces to Oracle, Amazon, Google Analytics)

Operating Systems: IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux, HP Unix, Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10, Apple, Android

Unix scripts, VIO/LPAR/HMC, EMC/VNX, Citrix XenApp

ERP, MRP, Distribution, Warehouse, Management Operations systems - customized.

VMware vSphere Enterprise, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, ODBC, HTML

Microsoft Exchange, LDAP, IIS, SSMS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Access

Service Now, JIRA, GFI EventsManager & MailEssentials, McAfee, SolarWinds

Apache-Tomcat, LanSafe, ShoreTel, Multiview, VSI-FAX, Cyberquery, PhotoShop, Bartender, SysAid Help Desk

Devices/Appliances:

Cisco routers, HP switches

EMC VNX Hard Drive storage, Tape Library’s (Windows, AIX-added scripts to manage)

Apple, Android, Windows-based computers, Intel NUC’s, WinTerm

Laser/MFC Printers, Faxes, Modems, Wifi Adapters/Routers, RF Handheld Scanners/Printers

Education

Brown Institute of Technology – Ft Lauderdale, Florida

Certificate of Computer Programming: IBM Computer Programming

Northeast High School – Oakland Park, Florida

High School Diploma: Majored in Mathematics & English

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