Software Analyst

ERNEST MCGRATH

St. Louis, MO ***** C: 314-***-**** ***************@*****.***

Summary

15+ years experience as a software developer. Experienced in Cache/Mumps, DSM, Greystone

Mumps, and VB.Net primarily in the Health Care Industry on a variety of platforms including

VAX, Unix, Windows XP/Vista/7/8. Thorough knowledge of Antrim LIS software. Excellent

written/oral communication and people skills. An energetic team player highly dedicated and

motivated to succeed and meet all challenges. Strong development skills writing new code, as well

as modifying existing code. Outstanding debugging skills. Worked with end users regarding testing

code and running QA on finished

projects. Great time management skills.

Experience

Programmer/Analyst Nov 2012 to Sep 2013

Quest Diagnostics Lenexa, K S

Developed new applications and enhancements for legacy system, wrote routines for

data extraction for customized reports.

Fixed bugs, provided software maintenance as needed.

Application written in Cache/Mumps on a Windows 7 network.

Worked with end users on enhancement requests.

Programmer/Analyst (worked remotely in St. Louis, MO) May 2010 to Jul 2012

Iconma, Inc. Troy, MI

Developed new applications and enhancements for legacy Antrim ystem, wrote routines for

data extraction for customized reports.

Fixed bugs, provided software maintenance as needed.

Application written in Cache/Mumps on a Windows Vista network.

Programmer/Analyst Oct 2006 to Apr 2010

Coventry Health Care St. Louis, MO

Responsible for user support, software maintenance, bug fixes, new application

enhancements and releases.

Extract data to generate custom reports as needed.

Worked on both the billing side and laboratory side.

Aided the Business Analysts in spec design for user requests for enhancements.

Application written in Cache/Mumps on a VAX platform.

Programmer/Analyst (worked remotely in St. Louis) Feb 2006 to Oct 2006

Henry Elliot & Co Wellesley, M A

Responsible for updating global documentation.

Maintained and developed new software, performed bug fixes.

Offered new enhancements as requested.

Extracted data for custom reports as required by users.

Worked on billing side (proprietary software owned by MySys).

Wrote utility programs to generate patient data for custom sales reports.

Application written in Cache/Mumps on a Unix platform.

Sr. Programmer/Analyst Jan 1999 to Jun 2005

Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO

Offered user support and provided maintenance and enhancements and bug fixes on

existing in house applications.

Wrote HL7 interfaces, parsed data to build data dictionaries, developed web

application written inVB.NET for use on the University's intranet for Tumor Registry.

Wrote custom software for transcription reports, which allowed users to view

documents transcribed from Oncologist's reports on patients' progress.

Applications written in Cache/Mumps on a VAX platform.

Programmer/Analyst May 1998 to Oct 1998

Stockell Consulting St. Louis, MO

Worked on Sanchez banking application.

Application was written for the Lutheran Church savings and retirement system for all

employees.

Responsible for user support, provided maintenance and bug fixes on existing

software.

Developed enhancements and modifications on the application, per user requests,

generated custom reports.

Application written in Greystone Mumps on a VAX platform.

Programmer/Analyst Apr 1996 to May 1998

Quest Diagnostics St. Louis, MO

Responsible for user support, provided software maintenance.

Developed enhancements and modifications to the lab and billing software.

Wrote utility programs to aid lab users in generating custom reports, and maintaining

data file dictionaries.

Provided custom reports for billing reps.

Maintained HL7 interface with billing system.

Parsed data to build new dictionaries.

Application written in Mumps on a VAX platform.

Programmer/Analyst Jan 1994 to Apr 1996

Citation Computer Systems St. Louis, MO

Supported approximately 14 hospitals and clinical laboratories' LIS applications.

Responsible for user support, provided software maintenance, bug fixes.

Developed enhancements, applications, and custom reports per user requests.

Application written in Mumps on a VAX platform.

Rotated call 24 x 7 monthly.

M edical Technologist Jan 1983 to Jan 1994

SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories St. Louis, MO

Worked in Chemistry and Toxicology depts.

Performed assays on body fluids.

Responsible for instrument troubleshooting, quality control analyses on various

instruments, reporting stat testing results to hospitals.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry 1983

Southeast Mo. State University Cape Girardeau, MO

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