Ken French

AS*** Systems Analyst Consultant at Ez Com Technologies

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Computer Software

Previous 1. Teleflex Systems

Inc,

2. Hyundai Auto

Canada,

3. Saville Systems

Education 1. Wilfred Laurier

University

Contact Info: 561-***-****

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Email: acy3m6@r.postjobfree.com

Background

Summary

HIGHLIGHTS of QUALIFICATIONS

Unsurpassed knowledge of AS400 System I and computerized systems

Strong project management skills

Creativeness and resourcefulness to make anything work

Perseverance and thoroughness to get things done

Attribute ability to work within a team environment for success

My objective is to use my years of experience to enhance the functionality of your Companies Computer Systems and

increase revenue.

DEVELOPMENT

Introduced Circuit processing for First Communications increasing yearly revenue by $45,000,000.00

Software invoice creation rewrite for large Carrier Customer who processed in access of one billion calls

a month. Reduced invoice creation from 72 hours to on demand thereby improving cash flow.

AS400/RPG400/CL RPG Free DB2 Developer

Developed multiple manufacturing, telecommunication and distribution related applications

MANAGEMENT

Data Processing Manager for four years

A technical resource for all staff

Prepared and executed a departmental budget

Protects Companys information database

Experience

AS400 Systems Analyst Consultant

Ez Com Technologies

March 2003 Present West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Ez Com is a telecommunications billing organization which offers flexible billing solutions on the AS400 including

local, long distance, wireless, international reorigination, telemarketing, operator service, debit processing, voice mail,

and information services.

Performing information systems consulting, information management development and technical education assisting

clients in development of new systems, providing support of existing operations and effective implementation of

information technology. I am also involved in the development of information strategies, analysis of business and

systems plans and development of standards and procedures to insure effective use of technology in business.

New systems written included IP address call processing, Voice over IP capture and process from PC to AS400,

taxation override maintenance, and e-mail invoices reports from the AS400 for ASP environment.

Modifications of existing programs have been made in the area of long distance, local provisioning, rating, and

billing modules.

Enhancement and modifications of programs on Customer AS400 has been performed as needed. Customer AS400

are located in various locations throughout the United States.

Projects completed for World Exchange in San Diego were, Corporate Billing, vertical and horizontal block

processing, recurring charges using group codes, and sql processing to replace AS400 query no longer available to the

user.

Coded using XML specifications for an outside billing provider were further developed.

Enhanced Rating and invoicing to handle 1.3 billion calls a month. The large Carrier Customer required extensive

changes to increase through put.

Ez Com has an extensive Customer base using an ASP approach and as a result I have also written Customer Specific

programs as required.

Multiple data base conversions for First Communications as the result of new acquisitions was performed.

Currently using HATS Host Access Transformation Services Rational Business Developer, to migrate from green

screens.

Consultant Programmer Analyst

Teleflex Systems Inc

October 1998 February 2003 Boca Raton Florida

Teleflex was a telecommunications billing organization which offers flexible billing solutions on the AS400

including local, long distance, wireless, international reorigination, telemarketing, operator service, debit processing,

voice mail, and information services.

New systems written included a Trouble Reporting system for local service providers, EMI processing for Sprint

local processing, terminal ID processing, NENA information required by 911 for local providers, load programs from

data provided by telephone switches in multiple formats (ASCII, Binary and EBCIDC), NPA splits, and e-mail

invoices from the AS400.

Modifications of existing programs have been made in the area of long distance, operator service, debit processing,

international reorigination, and billing modules.

Extensive modifications of invoicing programs, an inquiry program that accesses every file in the system and online

maintenance programs.

Coded using XML specifications for an outside billing provider.

Teleflex had an extensive Customer base and as a result I have also written Customer Specific programs as required.

Contract Programmer Analyst

Hyundai Auto Canada

January 1998 August 1998 (8 months) Markham, Ontario Canada

Coded in RPG400 programs for Extended Warranty System including, Work order approval entry, approved parts

processing, and Claim entry processing.

Written user requirements were provided and from these documents Files and programs were designed and created to

provide processors to fulfill the Extended Warranty System Requirements.

Extended Warranty was written to be millennium compliant.

Contract Programmer Analyst

Saville Systems

October 1997 January 1998 (4 months) Markham, Ontario Canada

On Saville Project Teams to retrofit Savilles Convergent Billing For entrance of their customer GTE into the

Florida and California Market as the result of deregulation of telephone Services in the US.

Coding in RPG400 via seu in the Customer Care Project team, I fielded customer requests and problems, analyzed

the request, developed, and implemented solutions by enhancing functionality or introducing increased editing in

various processors to insure desired results were

As a member of the Billing & Post Billing team development,

enhancements were performed both in COBOL & RPG programming

languages.

Cobol programming enhancements to the Vertex US tax processing was performed to introduce increased editing and

process enhancements.

RPG coding enhancements were done on online inquiry taxing processors to enable the process of multiple States ie:

California and Florida.

Contract Programmer Analyst

Sears Canada

June 1997 September 1997 (4 months) North York, Ontario Canada

Discover Card System changes for millennium compliance,

expansion of fields, electronic chargeback enhancement,

and created test region for user testing. Acting as a team

leader working with a junior programmer. Was installed

error free, on time and on budget.

Millennium compliance was accomplished by performing a

complete analysis of the RPG and FILE source code with

programs written using output from DSPFFD &

DSPPGMREF. Date fields were isolated as the result of the

analysis and all files and RPG programs were enhanced

to be millennium compliant.

The required expansion of a key field for the Discover

Card System was isolated via seu search. File specs

and RPG source were modified, complied, tested, and

implemented to accommodate.

Electronic Chargeback Enhancement included the

coding of CL to process an incoming dataset from

a Mainframe located in the US, CL and RPG programs

to process and edit a multiple 80 byte record set to an

AS400 relational database, process existing file updates

as the result of the electronic transaction, and creating

CL to transfer the AS400 relational database to Sears

Mainframe for chargeback notification merchant letters

to be created via DOC1

The project was kept result oriented with weekly project

meetings informing Management of status, and monitoring

and assisting the junior programmers coding efforts to

insure implementation date was met.

Installation of the System changes was performed after

extensive user testing, and user sign off.

Data Processing Manager/Programmer

GL&V Process Equipment Inc.

February 1973 May 1996 (23 years 4 months) Orillia, Ontario Canada

Organized and carried out a successful migration from IBM

System 38 to AS400 on time, and on budget.

Designed, coded in RPG, installed, and supported the

following applications using AS400, RPG400 and CL

Inventory control system, General Ledger, Accounts

receivable, Order entry for Foundry and Factory, Steel by

plate size, Purchasing system, Routings, Bills of material,

Product costing, Order close out.

Responsible for CNC burning centre support.

Foundry and Factory scheduling.

Foundry and Factory production control

Labor reporting system for job shop environment.

Installed, configured and maintained an Electronic Data interchange

application

Extensive study and partial implementation of MAPICS

Assistant Accountant

Bank of Nova Scotia

January 1972 February 1973 (1 year 2 months) Toronto, Ontario Canada

Responsible for Reconciling Daily Transactions

Report Generation

Volunteer Experience & Causes

Tournament Chairman 52 team hockey tournament

Coldwater Minor Hockey

Children

Causes Ken cares about:

Animal Welfare

Courses

Independent Coursework

Local area network

Registered Industrial Accountant Courses

Introductory Programming (IBM)

Project Management (IBM)

Advanced Programming (IBM)

General System Design (IBM)

Work Station Design (IBM)

Costing, Production Control, Bills of Material, courses (IBM)

Money and Banking courses (Bank of Nova Scotia)

IBM Hats Training Course

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