Supply Chain Management System

Michael Van Albert (P) 610-***-**** (E) ****************@*****.***

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly skilled and dedicated professional offering an impressive background in software design, development, systems integration, and technical leadership, producing innovative software solutions for improved business operations.

CAREER BACKGROUND

Manager, Software Engineering, Supply Chain (Dropship, 3PL, Transportation)

(QVC/HSN Inc.), West Chester, PA. 2022 – Present

Currently leading the team to enable FedEx Carrier Rating and Shipping Capabilities.

Currently leading the team to replace the in-house dropship returns QVC Warehouse process with direct to supplier returns processing.

Currently leading the team to communicate product information to our 3PL Warehouses via EDI.

Currently leading the team that is delivering new transportation interfaces for the Keorber Warehouse Management System Installations.

Led the team to deliver new Dropship and 3PL Inventory Integrations to the Sterling Order Management System.

Led the team to deliver to enable QVC UK on the Global Dropship System.

Led the team to deliver HSN Transportation Integrations to the SAP System.

Led the team through multiple system upgrades for the Oracle Inbound Transportation Management System.

Led the team through multiple system upgrades for the Proship Outbound Transportation System.

Conducted Mid-Year and Annal Performance Reviews for each team member.

Managed project and production support budgets and team member time entry in conjunction with the IT Portfolio Management Team.

Reviewed and approved third party work requests and invoices via the Coupa System.

Created and managed employee and contactor positions via the Workday System.

Partnered with the Product Management Team to create and refine Jira Epics and Stories for the team.

Created annual performance goals and achievement matrix for the team.

Outlined high level project goals and designs for the team. Technical Leader / Senior Software Engineer / Senior Application Developer / Senior Systems Engineer

(QVC Inc.), West Chester, PA. 1995 – 2022

Led the effort to replace existing manual process flows with 3PL US Warehouses with Bridgegate EDI Workflows and Java Integration Services.

Led the effort to replace the existing Tibco Business Connect and Business Works Dropship US Process Flows with BridgeGate EDI Workflows and Java Integration Services.

Designed and created all the EDI Solutions, specifications and related JSON Schemas utilized at the company in the US, Germany, and Italy.

Led the Global Dropship effort to enable QVC Italy with BridgeGate EDI Workflows and Java Integration Services.

Led the Global Dropship effort to replace the existing manual process flows in Germany with Bridgegate EDI Workflows and Java Integration Services.

Led the EDI Transportation Management Integration effort to replace existing WebSphere Data Interchange (WDI) Mapping Processes with Tibco Business Connect Trading Partner AS2 Configurations and to integrate with the TMS OTM Oracle Cloud Platform.

Led the Carrier Agility Tracking and Billing Project which was attempting to utilize a third-party software solution provided by the Proship Organization. Provided a recommendation not to go with this solution as the submitted design did not meet the requirements.

Led the integration effort to replace our existing Legacy Product Creation Processes with a combination of Tibco BW5, Tibco BW6 and Java Services. This also involves utilizing the GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) standards to receive item information from our suppliers via FSENET.

Led the effort to replace several existing application systems monitoring software packages with the Application Dynamics APM Software.

Led the team which replaced the existing IBM WebSphere Toolsets (WBI, WDI, and WPG) with Tibco Toolsets (Tibco BC, Tibco BW).

Led the team which established integrations between the new Passport Legal System and existing SAP and HR Systems.

Led the team which implemented the Symantec eDiscovery Legal Hold System.

Led and participated in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle: (User Requirement Gathering, Functional Design, Technical Design, Resource Task Assignment and Management, Application Development, Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing, Production Migration Coordination, and Production Systems Support Turnover.

Utilized the Tibco Active-Matrix Service Gateway software to create secure service configurations.

Led the governance team which defined and established corporate wide Integration Standards.

Defined corporate wide Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Standards.

Led the team which defined and created integrations between the Sterling WMS System and existing Legacy Systems.

Led the team which defined and created integrations between the Dropship Systems and the Legacy Order and Inventory Management Systems as well as the SAP Financial Systems.

Led the team which selected the WebSphere Data Interchange EDI Software to replace the TSI Mercator EDI Software.

Led the effort to define and create EDI relationships with trading partners in both the Supply Chain and Dropship Areas.

Led the effort to establish connections with trading partners using third-party Value-Added Networks (Easylink, GXS), Internet File Brokers and Direct AS2 Configurations

Acted as Technical Leader for numerous other Fulfillment Dropship and Supply Chain B2B Integration projects.

Reviewed and approved all design and field mapping documents created by project team members.

Reviewed and approved all integration code and EDI Maps created by project team members.

Designed and created EDI maps using IBM’s Websphere Data Interchange EDI mapper tool for the B2B Integration project.

Supported the daily flow of EDI Dropship Data exchanges to and from the vendors utilizing the Websphere Business Integration connect product.

Selected and Installed the TSI Mercator EDI mapping software.

Designed, coded, and implemented Main Frame systems for the following areas: Purchase Orders, Purchase Order Change Requests, Returns information, Remittance Advice information, Invoices, Advanced Ship Notice information, Order Status information, Carrier Shipment Status information, Inventory Advice information, Product Resale Advice information, Product Catalog information, Load Tender, Load Tender Response, Ocean Status Update and Carrier Billing information.

Designed and created Mercator maps to produce and process EDI X12 files for the above information areas.

Modified existing and created new Main Frame Cobol Applications for Fulfillment IT projects and Production System Support tasks based on user requirements and business rules. Senior Programmer Analyst / EDI Manager

C&J Clark America Inc., Kennett Square, PA. 1989 – 1995

Selected and Installed the PROEDI EDI mapping software.

Defined corporate wide EDI Standards.

Participated in user requirements gathering meetings.

Designed, coded, and implemented Main Frame systems for the following areas: Purchase Orders, Purchase Order Change Requests, Invoices, Advance Ship Notice information, Inventory Advice information, Product Resale information, and Product Catalog information.

Designed and created PROEDI maps to produce and process EDI X12 files for the above information areas.

Established relationships with trading partners through the use of third-party Value-Added Networks (Advantis, GEIS).

Instrumental in the creation of a PC based Retail Sales Force Automation system coded in Dataflex.

Utilized IBM’s Cross System Product (CSP) Software to create and modify numerous CICS Online applications.

Created new and modified existing Main Frame Cobol business applications for both the Retail and Wholesale areas based on user requirements.

Programmer Analyst / Applications Programmer

Rollins Truck Leasing Inc., Wilmington, DE. 1987 – 1989

Created new and modified existing Main Frame Cobol business applications for the Marketing, Sales, and Tax areas based on user requirements.

Created system and program documentation.

Lead Computer Operator / Computer Operator

Comp-u-mark Inc., Newtown Square, PA. 1983 – 1987

Ran daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year-end sales reporting jobs.

Instituted JCL changes.

Performed nightly system backup procedures.

Supervised and instructed other operators.

Continued:

Computer Operator

Cabledata Corporation, Springfield, PA. 1981 – 1983

Performed nightly disk file maintenance such as indexing, reformatting, and purging files.

Performed nightly backup procedures.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Platforms: UNIX, Linux, IBM Mainframe, Tandem, Novell LAN, PC. Programming: Java; COBOL; Easytrieve Plus; DB2; CICS; Cross Systems Product (CSP); SQL/DS; Dataflex; Datacom DB/DC; MVS and DOS JCL

Software: Proship, Oracle Transportation Management System (OTM), Tibco Business Connect, Tibco Business Works, BridgeGate Workbench, WBI (WebSphere Business Integrator), WDI (WebSphere Data Interchange) EDI Mapper, Mercator EDI mapper; Trading Partner EC; ProEDI mapper, WPG (WebSphere Partner Gateway), Tibco Active Service Gateway, Datacert Passport Legal Matters MGMT System, Symantec eDiscovery Legal Hold System

Tools: Workday, Coupa, Eclipse, IBM MQ Explorer, MQ Visual Edit, Dynatrace, Kabana, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Delaware County Community College (DCCC), Media, PA. 1981

Associates Degree in Computer Science

PTS Learning Center, King of Prussia, PA. 1997

Visual Basic programming

XML

In-House Training. 2004 -2015

BridgeGate Workbench

Websphere Business Integration tool

Websphere Data Interchange EDI mapping tool

Java Programming Courses

Tibco Business Connect

Tibco Business Works Integration tool

Penn State, Great Valley, PA. 2004

Various Java Courses

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