Career Goals
Deliver successful job assignments to my employer
Create and deliver complete and organized deliverables
Build my technical and communication skills through continuous training
Be a leader on the team
Become a technical software expert
Employment History
Programmer/Analyst 2016 to Present
Intersoft System
Use of Visual Studio for creation of Windows desktop application projects using COBOL .NET and C# languages for accounting software application
Develop test scripts from analysis of current production processes, screens and programs
Projects contain multiple GUI forms to allow users to build requested data input to show outputs on screens and printed forms using multiple master files
Use of Visual Studio debug processing to verify program changes and trace and correct logic errors
Programmer/Analyst III 2015 to 2016
Collaborative Vision (Contracted to Intel
Use of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create macros on Excel spreadsheet menu for user to select option to analyze and create custom information reports.
Macros were created from requirements received from management.
Each Macro requirement had a unique test script(s) to verify completeness. In most instances I also used a similar management generated report to compare and verify results from macro build.
Used Namespace System.IO.StreamReader and StreamWriter classes in macros to correctly read/write user data and create outputs for system report creation.
Worked with SQL administrator to insert VBA macros in daily morning SAP runs to analyze data stored in SQL database and extracted per shop order as a spreadsheet.
Analyzed multiple excel spreadsheets to determine patterns of operator manually entered problem descriptions to change into standardized comments for operators to use that could be used in management reporting for future testing.
Satisfied management requirement that the analysis and management report builds take seconds to complete. 180,000 spreadsheet records containing customer test results took 5 seconds to analyze and create management report.
Technical Parts Analyst 2013 to 2015
Manpower Group (Contracted to Daimler)
Created Visual Basic program updates and new objects for business use in VB.NET from requirements received from management.
Used SQL management studio and T-SQL to perform maintenance on business database tables. Used joins to format queries and inserts using multiple tables.
Use WebFocus and DB2 relational DB’s with TSO on IBM OS Mainframe to create ‘First Pull’ transactions for Parts Technical Department processing. Analyzed COBOL programs to determine path of “First Pull” transactions and traced JCL executable COBOL programs using TSO.
Work with business analysts and management to deliver information to department to monitor KPI’s
Used Microsoft Access to process business input files against DB2 database tables and create control datasets for input into windows Visual Basic application.
Use VLOOKUP and other functions in excel to add data to spreadsheet from external business tables
Created SharePoint lists and used SharePoint designer using workflows to authorize employee time off. Send email from SharePoint designer to recipient approving time off.
Business Systems Analyst 2012 to 2013
IE Solutions, Inc
Created Visio ‘AS-IS’ document working with SME’s to communicate transmission scheduling department functions
Developed Power Point presentation for Transmission Scheduling class for business associates
Created swim-lane process documents for activity steps used in generation of Failure to Comply function
Had the opportunity to meet and interact with new associates and learn about transmission services business function.
Business Analyst - IT Software Engineer 2008 to 2012
Schnitzer Steel, Inc – Portland, Or
Used Serena Business change management product to coordinate and document implementation of various software changes
Attended Change Management meetings to discuss and prioritize application product changes
Worked with systems SME’s to create ‘AS-IS’ functional docs to help build project requirement deliverables
Used SQL server management studio to research table relationships in business relational database.
Supported COBOL application on UNIX operating system. Continued study in COBOL/CICS mainframe processing in comparison to UNIX platform.
Used C# and VB in the .Net framework for application software maintenance
Used MS Access to import Excel customer data into Access tables and created SQL scripts from requirements to modify thousands of data records then export data back to project team for new platform build
Used SSMS for SQL table research inquiries and modifications to stored procedures
IT Software Engineer 2007 to 2008
State of Oregon – Salem, Or
Team member in system design, coding, testing and deployment of software application using SDLC concepts for Department of Transportation application conversion from VSAM environment to a DB2 database environment.
Worked with DBA to verify primary and foreign table keys for proper database schema. Application programming in COBOL/CICS language.
IT Software Install Engineer 2001 to 2007
CheckFree Corporation – Norcross, Ga
Member of project management software update life-cycle team for banking clients. Used MS Word and MS Project during SDLC.
A remote employee working at home for coordination of client software installs and working at client site for implementation phase
Analyzed current system software and developed ‘AS-IS’ documents. Developed unique bank project conversion and install scripts with client team using MS Word. Customer verification and sign off of results. Application was COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and JCL.
Helped client departments test changes to client software for new release verification and document test results. All project plans included milestone signoff,
IT Application Tools Used
SQL Server Management Studio T-SQL Visual Studio .NET
C# Visual Basic MS Word
VISIO MS Excel PowerPoint MS Project
SharePoint MS Access MS Excel VBA
Team Foundation Server JCL TSO WebFocus
CICS/DB2 IBM OS Notepad++ Win Merge
Education
Master’s Degree Program in IT - Completed in May. 2015
BS Degree, Troy State University (Computer Science) 1984
BS Degree, University of Alabama (Business Administration) 1979