LARRY D. HARDY

**** ********* ***** *****

Houston, Tx 77045

936-***-****

acuba0@r.postjobfree.com

OVERVIEW

I am currently looking for a position to that will utilize my skills

I have worked in various industries which include Oil & Gas,

Telecommunications, Human Resources, Mortgage and Loan, Defense,

Railroad, Insurance, Medical, Manufacturing, Personnel Services, General

Labor, Event Services and Facilities Management.

CAREER CHRONOLOGY

11/15 - Present

Pacesetter Personnel Services

Provide temporary services for clients on an as need basis. Services

include construction, assembly, banquet and general labor. Utilized

mechanical equipment such as lifts, pallet jacks, forklifts as needed.

07/07 – 01/15

Kingdom Builders Center

Responsible for assisting with the maintenance of the Kingdom Builders Center

(KBC) which included insuring proper functioning of facilities through

ongoing inspection and coordination with management. Assist in the

completion of day-to-day activities, involving the maintenance of the

building/facility, equipment and tools including HVAC, building lighting

systems, grounds keeping, security and overall facility appearance.

Assist the Facility manager with safety and related items. Coordinate

with event staff when facilities are used for client events. These

events included meetings, weddings, concerts, conferences as well as

specialized events. Coordinated/supervised support staff when events

were scheduled as well with daily activities. Utilized equipment such as

scissor lifts, forklifts, pallet jacks as necessary to complete duties.

05/04 – 07/07

Pacesetter Personnel Services

Provide temporary services for clients on an as need basis. Services

include construction, assembly, banquet and general labor. Utilized

mechanical equipment such as lifts, pallet jacks, forklifts as needed.

11/01 – 11/03 Consultant (AETEA)

EXXONMOBIL (Houston, TX)

Maintained the Professional Employment Recruiting System (PERS). This

system contains all the information pertinent to prospective employees

as they go thru EXXONMOBIL's hiring process. Responsibilities include

maintaining databases, production report generation, statistical

report generation and adhoc report generation.

These activities were accomplished using FOCUS in an VMS environment.

Also, on the MVS mainframe utilizing TSO/ISPF, JCL and other IBM

Utilities, as well as, FOCUS, COBOL and DB2. Legacy data was extracted

from multiple sources (i.e databases and flat files). From these

extractions additional databases and files were created and maintained

as necessary. FOCUS was then use to generate the user specified reports

from these sources as well as the legacy sources.

12/00 - 09/01 Consultant

Macro Enterprises, INC. (Houston, TX)

Assisted in the conversion of the Project Management Information System

(PMIS). This conversion consisted of expansion of key and select fields

within the system, updating file description and reports, and generation

of new files, Focus DBs and reports. The environment that the initial

programming was accomplished in was a remote job site with access to the

user's Alpha Vax via a VPN connection. Programs were developed through

a SourceSafe development system and then FTP'd to the Alpha Vax. Vax

utilities were also utilized for editing sorting and additional needed

tasks. Mainframe environment was MVS utilizing TSO/SPF, JCL, Syncsort,

and IBM Utilities. Programming languages were COBOL, FOCUS. Microsoft

Office 2000 including ACCESS, EXCEL & OUTLOOK, as well as BRIO were

also, utilizing in performing required responsibilities.

09/00 - 11/00 Consultant (ACCESSMIS)

University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX)

Generation of data files and reports per user requirements in respect to

Clinical Information. Provided support in the Clinical Information

Systems department to users in the main branch of hospital as well as

satellite sites.

These activities were accomplished using FOCUS in an MVS environment

utilizing TSO/ROSCOE, JCL, IBM Utilities. Batch and online processing

were also utilized. The data sources were Invision, VSAM and FOCUS

files.

06/00 - 08/00 Consultant (MAXIM GROUP)

United Health Care (Hartford, CT)

Documentation, maintenance and enhancement of the Performance Guarantee

System. This system was a performance tracking system for insurance

policies that were handled by the company. I was responsible for report

generation and maintenance per user requirements. I was involved in

creation and maintenance of databases to support the operations of the

system. I also incorporated additional functionality into the system.

This was done by accepting a data feed from the a legacy system and

incorporating the data into the existing databases and reports as well

as, creation of new databases and reports per user requirements.

These were accomplished using FOCUS in an MVS environment utilizing

TSO/ISPF, JCL, IBM Utilities, CLISTS and additional VSAM files and DB2

databases. MS Access & Excel were also utilized.

01/97 - 01/00 Consultant (MAXIM GROUP)

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD (Omaha, NE)

Primary responsibility was the conversion of FOCUS databases and flat

files in support of Y2K efforts. These efforts encompassed the

utilization of Smart Dates and the DEFCENT & YRTHRESH windowing

techniques in order to maintain compliance with Y2K issues. This

involved searching for suspect date occurrences, conversion, testing

and preparing an audit trail. In addition to the above Y2K duties, I

developed a scanning tool which assisted in the completion of the Y2K

compliance process. This scanning tool enabled a user to search

selected code for suspect criteria provided by the user. The tool’s

versatility made it invaluable in accomplishing our desired goals.

Additional duties consisted of maintenance and enhancements to

applications per requests from the user community. Maintenance occurred

as the result of user reported problems. Enhancements occurred as user

defined modifications that were deemed appropriate.

The environment consisted of FOCUS on an MVS mainframe utilizing

TSO/ISPF, JCL, IBM Utilities and CLISTS. DB2, FOCUS, SAS, IMS and

TERADATA database and VSAM files. Microsoft ACCESS, EXCEL, LOTUS NOTES

& BRIO were also, utilized in performing required responsibilities.

04/96 - 01/97 Consultant (SCB TECHNOLOGY)

CENTURY TELEPHONE ENTERPRISES (Monroe, LA)

Creation of databases, files and reports to be utilized by the

appropriate personnelwithin the company. Production of information for

use in tracking data through the Billing Systems and the Customer

Information Systems.

Environment consisted of VM/VAX, MVS, TSO/ISPF, DCL, JCL and IBM

Utilities. Languages included FOCUS, COBOL, SAS,IMS and DB2.

01/93 - 04/96 Independent Consultant

(Dallas, TX - Shreveport, LA)

Clients included numerous small businesses, particularly Day Cares,

Churches and retail establishments. Designed and implemented

applications pertinent to their business needs. These applications

included A/R, A/P, Inventory Control, and Payroll distri-

bution. These applications were developed in PC COBOL and PC FOCUS.

03/92 - 11/92

LOMAS MORTGAGE USA (Dallas, TX)

Performed maintenance and enhancements to FOCUS based Mortgage Servicing

system. This system consisted of multiple applications involved in

billing and tracking mortgage loans. Some applications required

creation of FOCUS databases on Client severs to facilitate users

specific needs. Generation of production and ad-hoc reports were also

essential to their system.

The environment consisted of an MVS mainframe utilizing TSO/ISPF, JCL

and IBM utilities. Languages included mainframe and PC FOCUS, COBOL,

DB2 and IMS.

09/89 - 08/91 Consultant (HESTAIR COMPUTER GROUP)

MOBIL OIL (Dallas, TX)

Provided application development and maintenance to existing Human

Resources systems. The systems were defined by the user's specified

requirements. Creation of FOCUS databases with pertinent employee data.

Environment consisted of MVS/XAE and VM/CMS mainframes. Utilizing

TSO/ISPF, JCL and IBM Utilities. Languages included Mainframe and

PC FOCUS, COBOL, IMS and REXX.

06/89 - 09/89 Consultant (DATRONICS, INC.)

FEDERAL EXPRESS (Memphis, TN - Dallas, TX)

Provided report programming on billing system utilizing FOCUS in an

VM/CMS environment. Creation of application software utilizing IBM PC

COBOL at company site.

01/84 - 06/89

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (Dallas, TX)

Development and maintenance of Library Management System with attention

to Software Configuration Management. Development and maintenance of

Quality Assurance Systems with emphasis on supplier Quality systems.

Coordinated monthly report production system as well as ad-hoc report

generation. Created and maintained databases containing a multitude of

supplier and test data deemed necessary for procurement systems.

Environment consisted of MVS/XA mainframe utilizing TSO/ISPF, JCL, IBM

Utilities,CLISTS, DEC/VAX, and Fileaid. Languages consisted of CICS,

Mainframe and PC FOCUS, SAS and COBOL.

09/83 - 01/84

TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

Waco, Tx

Instruction of Computer Science courses. Assisted in student

development on an IBM front end. Emphasis was on structured programming

techniques.

Environment consisted of remote Job processing. Languages included

COBOL, FORTRAN, ALC, IMS and JCL.

EDUCATION

A.A.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE, 1983

TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

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