PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly motivated self-starter with over 25 years of experience in application development, database design and system administration.  Experienced with functional analysis, design, development and implementation of software solutions.  Works independently on projects and has excellent interpersonal skills, applying to both team and individual situations.  Performs well in critical situations, root-cause analysis and strategic planning.

ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

infogroup northwest, Lake Oswego, OR               September 2017 – March 2018

Contract Application Developer

Client: Portland General Electric – Portland OR

Responsibilities:

• Appworx development, requirements gathering.
• Controls and documentation to ensure compliance of audit & SOX requirements.
• Perform code migrations, ensure standards are followed and testing completed.

consilium1, Rochester NY                                            June 2006 – April 2017

Application Administrator

Client: General Electric – Cincinnati, OH

Responsibilities:

• Implementation & Decommission planning.  Including requirements documentation, request/ticket creation, approvals and execution.
• Change Coordinator/Change advisory board member – Review elevated risk changes, determine business impacts and required actions.
• Resolve Service calls & problem tickets and implement change requests submitted to the Service Now application.
• Managed file transfer application support – GlobalScape.
• Scheduling application design and administration support – Appworx/Application Manager versions 5 thru 9.  
• Design new scheduling utility model configurations.
• Developed appworx application upgrade process for migrations from version 5 & 6 to version 8. Including scheduling, planning, business impacts, check points, regression testing and rollback.
• Administer/support IBM Websphere MQ series version 5.2 thru 8 on VAX, zOS, Linux, Unix and windows servers.

·         Install, build out Appworx & MQ dev/qa/prod internal and export controlled environments.

·         Maintain operations procedures for daily routine middleware processes

·         Install fix pack & maintenance upgrades + support packs

·         Setting up IBM Websphere MQ infrastructure for large, complex integrations on UNIX, VAX, IBM, and Windows systems.

·         Setting up (Creation of Queue Manager, Queues, Channels), administration, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning and change management, dead letter queue messages.

·         Coordinate and support IBM Websphere MQ configuration changes, installs, & upgrades with application owners – including planning, scheduling, status reporting & following company change control procedures.

·         Controls and documentation to ensure compliance of audit requirements.

·         Maintenance, analysis, installation, performance monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and administration

·         Trouble shoot via system and IBM Websphere MQ logs.

·         Generate trace files, opening IBM PMRs, collecting documentation, work with IBM and drive problem resolution.

TEK Systems, Cincinnati, OH                                  December 2005 – June 2006

Contract Administrator

Client: General Electric

Responsibilities:

• Administer IBM Websphere MQ series, Nastel Autopilot application and Appworx applications for dev, qa and production.
• Perform code migrations, ensure standards are followed and testing completed, resolve issues submitted to the helpdesk.

Brooksource Technical Youth, Cincinnati, OH      August 2004 – September 2005

Contract peoplesoft Developer

Client: SENCO Products, Inc.

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all aspects of Peoplesoft Application Development using Peoplesoft Tools.
• Custom modifications: Analyzed user requirements, prepared design specifications, cost estimates and project plans for 3 MS SQL/.Net Applications including an interface for credit information into Billing Application tuning after ORACLE 9i upgrade & Peoplesoft 8.4 SP2 upgrade.
• Re-apply customization as part of Peoplesoft 8.4SP 2 upgrade.
• Worked on Inventory archiving strategy
• Provided additional support for OM, IM and BI modules

O-Cedar Brands, Inc., Springfield, OH                   June 1997 – March 2004

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed customizations to People Soft & Symix systems for our manufacturing and distribution environment.  Responsible for daily production support for all People Soft, RF application and Unix/NT server related issues.  As team lead, involved in the design analysis, development and provided database support. Managed ERP system code changes, change control documentation, Unix/NT/Firewall administration

• Provided production support for OM, IM, AR, AP, PO, GL, MFG People Soft modules.
• Provided support for data interfacing needs between People Soft and other systems (MFG planning, Demand Solutions, Warehouse RF)
• People Soft Supply Chain Management: People Tools Developer, Security Administrator, Change Control Administrator.  Including People Code, Application Engine, SQR Reports, Page/Panels, Cobol, Process Scheduler
• High Jump RF Warehouse Data Collection System Administrator & Developer
• MS SQL 7.0 System Administration – Installations, table maintenance, performance tuning, data updates using data transformation and SQL server agent jobs
• Data Query & Report Development using various tools – Front Page, ASP, Access, People Soft Query Manager, SQL
• Database administration & programming development of Symix v2.6 Progress v6.3.
• HP9000/HPUX 10.20 administration and UNIX script development.
• NT/MS Exchange/Checkpoint Firewall /Websense/SQL7.0/COGNOS/Access application & database Administration