software application design
Resume:
Ravi Loomba
Bellevue, WA 98007
**********@*****.***
blog:raviloomba.blogspot.com
Summary of Qualifications
OVERVIEW: M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science combined with 17 years of advanced experience in application software design, development, troubleshooting, and implementation.Highly specialized in mainframe systems and conversions, including demonstrated expertise on HP3000 platform. Able to oversee completion of internal/external application projects within time and budget constraints.Excellent written references and ability to work directly with end-users to build systems that meet their specific needs and requirements.
EDUCATION:
Masters in Computer Science (M.Sc), (1983)
Courses in Microsoft's Dot Net technology, Systems Analysis & Design,
Project Management (2004-2005)
Recent Employment & Accomplishments
Contract Opportunity converting HP3000 College Applications to .Net
HP/C I S: 02/2006 – 07/2006: Bellevue, Washington
Senior Programmer Analyst/ Solutions Architect
Worked on a project that involved converting College Applications from HP3000 COBOL to .Net and AcuCobol. My role was to research performance differences between applications on the two platforms and identifying causes of these differences using available tools. Also researched technology issues like making .Net interact with AcuCobol using MS Com Server and prototyped a simple application to demonstrate this. Provided help and expertise with HP3000 related issues.
Training in dotNet and other Skills
Bellevue College (BCC) 06/2004 – 01/2006
Due to Hewlett-Packard's decision to phase out HP3000 by 2006, many of the organizations
sing these computer systems are in the process of migrating to other technologies. To keep up
with this shift, I have also decided to use this opportunity to upgrade my skillsets accordingly.
Courses: VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, SQL, Systems Analysis & Design, Project Management.
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Merrill Lynch Howard Johnson, Seattle, WA: 07/2001 to 04/2004
Functional Job Description: I particated in enhancement, development and support of DC (Defined Contribution) Retirement Plan software for various external clients of the employer , running on HP3000 platform using standard and third-party tools. Served as the sole support for DC application, which provides backbone for various web and custom online interfaces.
Technical Environment: HP3000, MPE/IX, COBOL85, TURBO IMAGE, SUPRTOOL, QEDIT
Scope of Work:
• Completed dozens of work-requests and help-desk tickets to enhance and fix background programs;
• Developed Fund-windowing application enhancement which gives users the functionality to transfer funds between unrelated retirement plans;
• Created Summary balances and Activity data-feed that routes information from HP3000 to a Web-based application at the Retirement group headquarters;
• Enhanced entire Defined Contribution (DC) application suite to handle a larger number of Mutual Funds choices;
• Part of team to provide fund Auto Rebalancing capability for one of the clients;
• Prototyped and implemented data archiving project that increased the efficiency of background and online retrievals, a project which required enhancing the entire DC suite currently comprised of 70+ programs;
• provided technical guidance and collaboration to other staff members on HP3000-related issues as well as suggested improvements in technical and non-technical procedures to increase efficiencies and reduce costs.
Contract Assignments & Project Details
Client: AMERICAN COLLEGE (training provider for Financial and Insurance industries)
Location & Approx. Duration: Bryn Mawr, PA - 04/1998 to 04/1999
Environment: HP3000, MPE/IX POWERHOUSE (QUIZ, QTP), TURBOIMAGE, SUPRTOOL
Scope of Work: Provided support for Student Information System for the Marketing and Student Services departments. The support took the form of providing statistics about the student population, subject to criteria established by the Marketing department for recruitment campaigns.Developed system for printing customized labels and registration forms.Also created ability to generate reports for follow-up phone-calls for Student Services department to recruit students for pending courses. Additionally, worked on ad-hoc work-order requests from these and other users (e.g.: new 1098-T Tax forms).
Client: MICROWAREHOUSE (Online retailer of PC products)
Location & Approx. Duration: Lakewood, NJ - 04/1997 to 02/1998
Environment: HP3000 XL, MPE/XL, COBOL, QUIZ, QTP, IMAGE, SUPRTOOL, QEDIT, SGA mail-order application software (MACS)
Scope of Work: Customized and fixed shortcomings in the original software.Created an easier user-interface for duplicate customer-account merges. Generated new reports and other programs per user-request, provided guidance and assistance to other systems people in testing complex changes to Order- Management and Marketing database extract programs.
Client: HEWLETT-PACKARD (Manufacturer of testing equipment, now spun-off as Agilent)
Location & Approx. Duration: Wilmington, Delaware - 05/1996 to 02/1997
Environment: HP3000 XL, MM/3000, MPE/V, COBOLII, POWERHOUSE, IMAGE, QUERY, VPLUS, Qedit, MPEX, DICTIONARY/3000, SUPRTOOL, MAESTRO, JOBRSQ, and MAESTRO
Scope of Work: Analyzed and fixed interfaces between various Order fulfillment applications and the materials management software (MM/3000). Migrated OF reports from the old 2680 printer to F100 and provided support for Perigee, an in-house application that allows CSRs to take customer orders in real-time and have them shipped the same day. The Perigee program interfaces with various other applications like SHIP and MM/3000 to achieve this.
Client: CDI CORPORATION (Engineering and Software Consulting firm)
Location & Approx. Duration: Philadelphia, PA - 12/1995 to 3/1996
Environment: HP3000XL, POWERHOUSE and TURBOIMAGE
Scope of Work: Programmed enhancements, fixes, and custom reports into MORRIS applications per user requests. This application keeps track of information regarding consultants working with various customers throughout USA. The information is uploaded from various CDI regional offices in electronic format. MORRIS is the application that loads this information into the image databases at the MIS department.
Client: HEWLETT-PACKARD (see above)
Location & Approx. Duration: Wilmington, Delaware - 11/1993 to 11/1995
Environment: HP3000 XL, MM/3000, MPE/V, COBOLII, POWERHOUSE, IMAGE, QUERY, VPLUS, Qedit,
MPEX, DICTIONARY/3000, SUPRTOOL, MAESTRO, JOBRSQ
Scope of Work: The assignment involved providing technical support for the materials management package MM3000, automating its launch and termination (operator-less), and developing/enhancing software in response to user requests.Also upgraded the MM3000 package from the 9.10 to C.00 version. Provided occasional support for purchasing (PROMIS) and site-maintenance (HPMAINT) and programming help on a finance consolidation project.Acted as an HP3000 guide for analysts relatively new to HP3000.
Client: NORTHERN TELECOM (manufacturer of phone equipment)
Location & Approx. Duration: Dallas, TX - 10/1992 to 09/1993
Environment: HP3000 XL, MPE/V, COBOLII, POWERHOUSE, IMAGE, QUERY, VPLUS, QUAD, MPEX, REFLECTIONS, JOBRSQ
Scope of Work: The project involved enhancing or redesigning financial applications to accommodate information from multiple invoicing divisions as well as to automate the process of generating General Ledger accounts. Some of the applications thus changed are Inter-company Invoicing, Payroll and General Ledger etc. The tasks performed include analyzing, redesigning, coding, testing and implementing the systems.
Client: MOBIL (petroleum & chemical manufacturer)
Location & Approx. Duration: Dallas, TX - 03/1992 to 06/1992
Environment: HP3000, MPE/V, COBOLII, IMAGE, QUERY, VPLUS, QUAD, MPEX, EASYFLOW, TRANSACT, REFLECTIONS, JOBRSQ.
Scope of Work: The project involved making enhancements and modifications to the company’s existing Gas-Liquids On-line system which tracks information about agreements that MOBIL has with other companies to exchange/sell/purchase products.Also provided guidance to other members of the team who were new to the HP3000 platform.
Client: SGS THOMSON (manufacturer of microelectronics)
Location & Approx. Duration: Dallas, TX - 06/199 to 10/1991
Environment: HP3000/935, MPE/XL, COBOLII, TURBOIMAGE, QUERY, MM3000, POWERHOUSE, TRAX, JOBRSQ
Scope of Work: The project involved transferring PO processing, Receipts processing as also tracking stock activity, from M&D on IBM to MMS on HP3000. Designed and developed programs to do one-time conversion, as well as to transfer information on a daily basis between IBM and HP. Also did analysis and design of GENERAL LEDGER feed programs that converted MTD stock activity to financial transactions. Designed and developed several reports for the users.
Client: AMP (manufacturer of electronic connectors etc)
Location & Approx. Duration: Harrisburg, PA - 01/1989 to 04/1991
Environment: HP3000/70 and HP3000/950, MPE/V, MPE/XL, COBOLII, TURBOIMAGE, QUERY, VPLUS, QEDIT and SPEDEDIT editors, TRAX debugger
Scope of Work: Involved in design, development and implementation of INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEM including developing the Large Order Breakdown module, upgrading the Factory Order System, Work Center maintenance, loading reports to the next release, and customizing the manufacturing software for specific departments; Worked on WAREHOUSE CONTROL SYSTEM, participating in coding and testing of programs and developing several utilities to ease testing of programs using TRAX; Assisted in upgrade of BIN-LOCATOR SYSTEM which involved altering existing report and other programs for the generalized bin-number format.
Client: DUPONT (manufacturer of plastics and chemicals)
Location & Approx. Duration: Camp Hill, PA - 06/1988 to 12/1988
Environment: HP3000/70 and MM3000 manufacturing package, MPE/V, COBOLII, TURBOIMAGE, QUERY, VPLUS, TOOLSET, QUAD
Scope of Work: Performed MM3000 implementation including customization of screens and reports using the CUSTOMIZER tool.Also designed USER-EXITS for some MM3000 transactions. Designed store cataloging capability and added it to the MM3000 package. Designed, developed and implemented programs to load manufacturing data like parts, B.O.M. and factory orders from IBM to HP system.
Client: WESTINGHOUSE (manufacturers of products like Formica)
Location & Approx. Duration: Hampton, SC - 12/1987 to 05/1988
Environment: HP3000/70 MPE/V, COBOLII, TURBOIMAGE, QUERY, VPLUS, and QUAD
Scope of Work: Designed and developed the core programs of the company’s Time and Attendance System. This system automatically categorizes hours worked by plant personnel under various categories: regular, over-time and holiday etc. based on the shift worked and other rules. Payroll and other systems then use this information.Also developed customized reports for this system.
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