EDUCATION

University of Southern Mississippi

Computer Science & Statistics, B.S. Hattiesburg, MS

May 1994, Honors Graduate

Member, Student Chapter of Assn. for Computing Machinery Member, Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society

Dean's list four times.

Mississippi College and Belhaven

Accounting 24 hours Clinton MS & Jackson MS

Night courses 1975-1980

City College of Chicago

Core Certificate in Data Processing Branch at Army base in Stuttgart, Germany

May 1973

Six hours COBOL, Three hours IBM Assembler

Louisiana State University

Electrical Engineering, later Civil Engineering Baton Rouge, LA

Attended 1965-1970

TECHNICAL SKILLS & NOTABLE EXPOSURE

COBOL

IBM Assembler

JavaScript

Excel

Pascal

C

POWERBUILDER

MVS

Lotus 1_2_3

PANVALET

Unix

CALCOMP

FORTRAN

DPS-6

DPS-7000

EXPERIENCE

Tower Loan

Programmer Flowood, MS

Oct. 2014 - Jan 2019

Assisted in the conversion from a COBOL to a database system.

Wrote and maintained COBOL programs and Unix scripts as needed.

Helped maintain systems to provide files to 3rd parties (credit reporting, etc.).

Wrote system to read and migrate batch loans purchased from another company.

Executed ad hoc projects for executive director level decision makers.

Developed program logic for new applications and debugged existing applications.

Suggested technical alternatives and improved system maintenance processes.

Streamlined the creation of files to be read into Excel.

Documented various computer systems at Tower.

Coded new or modified existing computer programs into existing systems to test program accuracy.

CHA Systems, Inc.

Programmer/Analyst Pearl, MS

Jul. 1996 - Dec 1999

Maintained telephone billing system.

Developed Y2K scripts and procedures, including conversion programs.

Wrote Unix scripts and programs in COBOL and C.

Supervised Y2K conversion.

Mississippi Tax Commission

Systems Analyst Jackson, MS

Dec 1994 - Nov 1995

Maintained Correspondence System in COBOL and Assembler in a Windows environment on IBM mainframe.

Received training in Lotus 1_2_3 and Powerbuilder.

Public Employees' Retirement System

Systems Analyst Jackson, MS

May 1981 - Jan 1993

Maintained or developed CICS systems (COBOL and Assembler) to handle membership accounts as well as stock and bond holdings on MVS system.

Implemented new payroll system.

On DPS-6 maintained membership system and payroll system; developed form letter system to inform new retirees of their benefits.

Mississippi Highway Department

Programmer Jackson, MS

Oct. 1973 - May 1981

Maintained road inventory system and data base system.

Developed average daily traffic mapping system and inventory plotting system for CALCOMP plotter.

Developed various utility and systems programs including a PANVALET interface still being used.

PROJECTS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Member: Jackson Optimist Club 1980-1996, 2001-2004.

Charter member: Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra since 1984.

Volunteered 123 hours for Majesty of Spain Exhibition in 2001.

Organized music library at Galloway UMC and wrote C programs to print out current listings in 2001.

Webmaster for Miss. Chess Assn. 1998-2004

Movie screener for Crossroads Film Festival

Chess Instructor for Active Learning Services, Inc. 2012

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