Professional Profile:

An accomplished track record of consistently developing core efficiency initiatives to drive organizational change and performance

improvements. Acts as relationship builder and problem resolution expert with wide ranging experience in multiple business areas

including: System Engineering, Test Engineering, Software Testing, Tech Ops, Business Systems Analysis, and programming among others.

I am highly knowledgeable with the IBM AS/400, I-Series and Power 8/9. I have spent over 20 years programming in RPG III/IV/ILE/Free, CLP, DSPF, and DDS. I am knowledgeable in FTP as well as TCPIP. I have worked with RDi, LMi and Turnover. I have interfaced several third party software platforms with several AS/400s.

Professional Experience:

Jackson Furniture Industries October 2019 – September 2023

Programmer Analyst Cleveland, TN

Programmer Analyst

oWork resides on I-Series Power9.

Current system is an inhouse written ERP system.

oSupport Accounting department.

oSupport warehousing and shipping department.

oDesigned, coded, documented, and implemented warehousing system.

oDesigned, coded, documented and implemented new file-based menu system for company.

oDeveloped direct put away system for scan guns to assign locations quickly and easily to finished goods.

The new procedure helped to increase production by over 20%.

oDesigned, coded, documented and implemented new cycle count system for company warehouses.

oPart of on call system with 4 other programmers.

oManaged successful installation of ALDON CMS system.

Express Global Systems January 2017 – October 2019

Sr. System Developer/IT Lead, Sr. Programmer Analyst Chattanooga, TN

Sr. System Developer/IT Lead

oWorked on I-series Power 7.

oLead of a team of 3 RPG programmers.

oAssign and prioritize programming requirements.

oWork with upper management to determine priority ranking for projects.

oMonitor and review requests/help tickets from end users.

oReview and approve programmer hours.

oReviewed and updated programming specifications.

oDirect liaison with offshore programming company.

oProgramming included working in CLLE, RPG III/ILE/Free, DDS, FTP.

Sr. Programmer Analyst

oReview current process and offered suggestions for improved efficiencies.

oRotate as part of the 24/7 on call group to debug errors during nightly process.

oDesigned on-line forecasting screen on AS/400 using RPG, to replace outdated EXCEL forecasting screen.

oHelped to implement CHEETAH as an attachment to the AS/400.

oWorked on team to analyze and document.

New York Air Brake August 2012 – December 2016

System Engineer Watertown, NY

System Engineering Team

oWorked closely with Sales team to create system quotes for new sales to North American Customers.

oRan commissioning tests on locomotives and rail cars.

oSupported field services as required.

System Test Engineer

oUpdated System Test procedures per locomotive system & verify software changes.

oTest procedure writing & reporting, test rack setup.

Lockheed Martin May 2007 – July 2012

SR System Engineer (SECRET CLEARANCE) Liverpool, NY

Tech Ops Team

oWorked with the Tech Ops team to clarify processing steps for loading data.

oModified Visual Basic program to work with new files extracted from Eaglespeed.

Undersea Electronic Surveillance Test Lead

oModifying System Test plan & procedures for smoother test cycle.

oUpdate System Requirements Verification Matrix (SRVM), setup & moderate the Test Readiness Review (TRR).

oCreated the Work Bases of Estimate (WBOE) proposal for future contract bids.

Surface Electronics Surveillance Team

oProject lead on $2.1 million build of Anechoic chamber and associated lab.

oDocumented by diagrams & written procedures for the development system for the R&D (IRAD) group.

Ground Based Radar Team

oRan 3 successful Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) for ground based radar systems upgrades with foreign customers.

oForeign travel, testing & communication.

CR Fletcher September 2006 – May 2007

Contract Programmer Binghamton, NY

Analyzed AS/400 ERP system for improvements & software support. (Telecommuted).

Reviewed customer requirements and developed dividend payout program using RPG on the AS/400.

Maines Food & Paper Service June 2005 – December 2006

Business Systems Analyst Binghamton, NY

Project lead, reviewed programming practices, help design and implement new standards and change control processes.

Analyzed receiving, A/P, and logistics processes. Documented improvement recommendations.

Wrote Business and Technical requirements for upgrade to JDA E-3 system.

Successfully upgraded businesses E-3 software package on the AS/400.

Programming included working in CLLE, RPG III/ILE/Free, DDS, FTP.

Frontier Communications October 2001 – June 2005

Systems Analyst Rochester, NY

Designed AS/400 RPG project solutions, testing & project delivery responsibility from the Applications Development team.

Worked with Business Analyst to write business requirements to identify differences, recommended system updates.

Provide High Level Estimates for programming time on projects.

Responsible for writing technical requirements document.

Axis Computer Staffing January 2001 – May 2001

Contract Programmer Syracuse, NY

Created program in AS/400 RPG to covert data files to CSV and .DBF format.

Cardinal Distribution February 1993 – January 2001

Corporate Conversion team, Director of IT, Southern Support Programmer Dublin, OH

Designed, wrote, programmed and documented AS/400 based Quality control system.

Rotated as part of the 24/7 on call group to debug errors during nightly process.

Responsible for budget of over $2.1 million while IT Director.

Responsible for RPG programming training for conversion team.

Worked on conversion of home based WMS systems to the corporate AS/400 software as part of the conversion team.

Project Lead on several software conversions that were completed on time and within budget.

While on conversion team, wrote programs to use divisions pick documents designed using RLU.

Accountable for training of Order Entry, Computer Operations, and NGS Query.

Worked closely with Accounting, Customer Service and Warehouse Operations.

Created budgets for conversions and training plans.

Programming included working in CLLE, RPG III/ILE/Free, DDS, FTP.

Keith Clark June 1990 – February 1993

3rd Shift Operations, Programmer Analyst Sidney NY

Worked with the financial department to streamline month end reports.

Programming included working in CLLE, RPG III/ILE/Free, DDS, FTP.

Rotated as part of the 24/7 on call group to debug errors during nightly process on the IBM AS/400.

Designed and programmed a Bill of Material system on the IBM AS/400 allowing cost accounting to monitor builds.

Ran nightly, month-end and year end jobs on the IBM AS/400.

Awards

2011 & 2012 – Lockheed Martin Spot award

2010 – Lockheed Martin Performance Recognition Reward (BLQ-10)

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, SUNY Utica, 1990

Associate of Science, Computer Science, SUNY Morrisville, 1988

Continuing Education

2017 – Udemy on line courses for C## and Java

2016 – SCRUM Management Training – Scrum Master Certified

2009 - Introduction to Java Programming with Eclipse

2008 - How to improve communications

2008 – Using DOORS for Requirements Management

Hardware/Software Knowledge

Operating OS/400 Windows 95/XP/7/10

Systems:

AS/400: RPG II/III/IV/ILE/Free CLP DDS PRTF RLU

I-Series: FTP/TCPIP DBU DFU NGS Query

Power9: AS/400 Query Aldon ROBOT TL Ashford

Hawkeye Turnover SQL E-3 by JDA

Embedded SQL

Windows: Excel Word Visio PowerPoint

Outlook NGS Q-Port MS Project HTML

JavaScript Websphere VB Aldon CM

Access Eaglespeed DOORS WELCOMHOME

*References available upon request.

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