Catherine M. Carpenter
Tega Cay, SC 29708
803-***-**** (home)
803-***-**** (cell)
Email: ***************@*****.***
Experience
June 1999 – Present Resolute Forest Products, Inc.
5300 Cureton Ferry Road, Catawba,South Carolina
Systems Analyst
Duties:
- test and help install a new production tracking system at a mill in Tennessee (purchased system)
- Product Tracking System (in-house written MES):
- System includes: inventory control, shipping functions (including returning/correcting
of shipments), trailer pool management, scheduling functions, many reports, pulls data from corporate systems, communication with many different PLCs, communication with many different printers (to create roll label for customer use and barcode labels for
customer user)
- install upgrades
- 1 of 2 support staff for 24 by 7 support for 7 mill sites in the US and Canada
- SOX complaint application
- number of users: about 100 per mill site
- Truck/rail rating system for outgoing shipments (in-house written):
-System includes: add/modify/delete of rates for each carrier to specific destinations
-24 by 7 support for 4 mill sites
- Put in upgrades of system from corporate team
- Supervisor of several contractors
- Databases: INGRES, SQL server
- Programming Languages: FORTRAN, OSQ (INGRES 3gl), VB 6.0, C
August 1998 – June 1999 Lorillard Tobacco Greensboro, North Carolina
Systems Analyst
Duties:
-QA system (in-house written)
–allow entry of quality data to an ACCESS database and upload data to VAX
–read VAX port to add data to RDB database
- Databases: RDB, ACCESS
- Programming Languages: FORTRAN, VB 6.0
August 1997 – August 1998 Renaissance Worldwide Greensboro, North Carolina
Contract programmer/analyst to Lorillard Tobacco Greensboro, North Carolina
Duties:
- Specification system (in-house written)
- allow entry of specifications for each area of the plant
- Database: RDB
- Programming Language: FORTRAN
November 1988 – August 1997 Computer Consulting Group Columbia, South Carolina
Contract programmer/analyst to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Duties:
- Primary processing management system (in-house written MES)
-system included: receiving of inventory, keep track of inventory as it moves within plant, scheduling of each area, specifications for each area, communications with
control system, communications with corporate systems
-sole 24/7 support for 2 plants
-number of users: 100-150
- Databases: ADABAS, indexed vms files
- Programming Languages: Fortran, NATURAL
July 1981 – November 1988 IIT Research Institute Annapolis, Maryland
Senior Programming Technician
Duties:
- several Department of Defense systems
-code/debug/test and installation of systems
-Databases: ADABAS, sequential vms files
-Programming languages: Fortran, NATURAL,
Education
1988 University of Maryland University College,
College Park, Maryland
Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Management
1981 Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, Maryland
Associate of Arts degree in Electronic Data Processing