Richard Matz

SUMMARY

I have over ** years of information systems experience, from operations, systems, programming and analysis/design. I am the lead person of a team that has designed, written, supported and enhanced the systems that supports a 300 million dollar plus business. I am involved in all IT aspects of the company from purchasing, manufacturing, order entry, sales, shipping, invoicing, accounts receivable and accounting. I have been instrumental in automating the processes throughout the system to make communications from one group to another automatic. I have been involved in SOx, disaster recovery, EDI, bar coding and data passing between platforms.

I have a great working relationship with the whole user community, and am very capable of turning their desired changes into functional code that they are very pleased with.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

HARDWARE: IBM Mainframes from System 370 to z/9.

OS & UTILITIES: zVSE, Bim-Edit, BSI TCP/IP tools, TN3270, Westinghouse

dump/restore, SYSBII, WebTec, BimTransfer, BisCom, GenTran director

(EDI), FAQS, RAPS, BisCom, Excel FTP data transfer and mainframe building of PC data

LANGUAGES: COBOL II, COBOL, RPG, Gener/Ol, Vision 60, ZPL, and other PCL’s

DATABASES: VSAM, Total, EDN

ONLINE TOOLS: CICS, BimEdit

JCL Know and use standard IBM JCL as well as CA’s DYNAM/T/D

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ansul Fire Protection (A part of Tyco international) (04/71 – 12/09)

I began in operations and was there for the first 5 years. I have held every position from operator, programmer, system programmer, through my last position as business analyst/senior systems analyst.

I have always worked with the users at Ansul (Tyco) to find out what their needs are, and to design systems or suggest what changes should be made to fulfill their needs. In many cases I am the one that made those changes to the code.

Was the lead for a team that put together the requirements for a new sales order entry system. I then took those needs, and along with developers working under my direction, designed and wrote an on line real time order entry system that has met all the business needs since.

As part of order entry I designed a shipping system that utilized those orders to schedule shipping using time phased available to promise. The team wrote the programs to perform the shipping using bar code devices to speed up the process and reduce shipping errors.

Lead the effort and monitored the progress of converting all in house programs to conform to Y2K standards without any increase in staff. Used copy books and system tools to eliminate all issues from causing any down time in 2000. This was all done ahead of schedule with no extra resources.

When business need arose, I found, brought in and integrated software into our system for activities such as E-mails and faxes directly from the mainframe.

As real time needs arose in the manufacturing plant, I led the effort to take our MRP batch system and produced screens and data to give us an on line real time inventory flow with lot tracking capabilities. Transactions are captured via 3270 screens on hand held devices with bar codes.

Brought in Zebra printers for creating bar code labels and integrated them into the business system for producing labels to aid in tracking material through the shop.

Brought in EDI software on a PC and integrated it into the mainframe to receive purchase orders from our distributors and be sent directly to the mainframe to be copied into a sales order with minimal key strokes.

Used EDI to send our shipping orders to remote field warehouses to perform shipping. Then took the advance shipping notices from them to update our sales orders to mark them for shipping and create the invoice, unattended.

In years past I was a systems programmer here, and I still work as the buffer between my current company and our outsourced systems programmer. I identify problems to make sure where the responsibility lies, and if it is for him or software vendors. Gather all information and initiate the call to get the problem fixed.

Helped with the procedures and requirements for disaster recovery. Performed the first test with 100% success.

Was instrumental in the development of procedures used to enable Tyco Marinette to pass the SOx audits since its inception.

In order to get our part supply vendors to be more responsive to Tyco’s business needs, I led the effort to web enable the mainframe to allow vendors to verify receipt and acceptance of purchase orders. They also have the ability to change their own contact information in our system. This is all done on an on line real time basis, with automated E-mails from us to notify them to look at the web site when they have information.

Have been quite active in generating data from the mainframe for input into Excel or other flat files for users, and feeds into SAP. Most mainframe reports go out electronically automatically when the job runs. Only those that the users need in hard copy are printed.

I have never missed a deadline or been unable to turn a requirement into a working solution.

Provide on call support, 24x7.

Ansul/Tyco ( to 12/09) as a Senior Systems Analyst/Business Analyst.

I worked at many different levels through the years, from operator to the title above. I have always taken on more involved roles, depending on the needs of the company. I did whatever was necessary to keep the business going forward.

HCL A (12/09 – present) as Program Manager

Tyco outsourced the entire development staff, and HCLA (an India based company) took over. As they discovered they needed my expertise, HCLA hired me and assigned me to the Tyco account.

Contact Information

E-mail ad3uyn@r.postjobfree.com or ad3uyn@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 715-***-****

Address: W4086 Grasser Road

Marinette Wi, 54143

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