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Experienced project manager and IS Director. Very interested in project life-cycle planning and management. Wrote own project life-cycle tracking software.

Most professional experience is in designing sytems for health care treatment plan generation and service coordination. Current experience (8yrs) maintaining and expanding a Titan application for  retail point-of-sale, retail sales accounting, and inventory management at a large Telecommunications company.  Involved with interface design, batch operations scheduling and troubleshooting, disaster recovery and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Recently developed SOAP and XML RPC interfaces  and  a Progress-based dynamic web server.

Also very experienced with electronics, PC configuration, installation, networking, and repair.  Soldered my first computer, a Heathkit H-8 with 8080 microprocessor at age 13.

Hobies include aviation, robotics, rocketry, and restoration of vintage computers.

Roles:

• IT Manager, IT Director
• Project Manager
• Business Analyst(BA)
• Webmaster
• Database Analyst(DBA)
• System Administrator(SA)
• Programmer/Developer

Projects/Operations:

• SAP Master Data Governance for global manufacturer
• Wholesale Distribution of after-market Tractor and farm equipment parts
• Development of Web Ordering applications
• Data Migrations for corporate mergers and acquisitions of large telecommunications and manufacturing companies
• Sarbanes-Oxley(SOx) compliance modifications to ERP application security, server, processes, and IT policies and procedures
• Database Replication, Hot Spare System syncronization, Disaster Recovery planning
• Retail Point of Sale data collection and interface to ERP and other systems
• Data visualization of ultrasonic medical device for measuring blood flow
• Healthcare Clinical Assessment software development
• Developed software interfaces for data acquisition from geographic survey devices

ERP Systems:

• SAP Data migrations, master data governance, operations trouble-shooting
• WDS II Warehouse Distribution System (including Order Entry, AR, AP, MRP, etc)
• Titan

Programming Languages/Techniques:

• Python, C, C++
• SQL
• Unix Shell scripting: ksh, bash
• Progress 4GL RDBMS (25 years)
• HTML, JAVASCRIPT, some PHP
• Web Services using SOAP, XML-RPC, AJAX, JASON
• VB.Net, Basic (particularly HP Interpreted Basic), PASCAL, FORTRAN
• Various assembly and machine code languages

• MS-Windows 3.1 through Windows 10, MS-DOS, CP/M
• Unix: RedHat Linux RHEL 5, Raspian, HPUX, AUX, SCO
• VMS, KRONOS, NOS (remember those?)

• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
• Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
• TrackIt, ServiceNow, WorkFront/AtTask. Developed own Task Tracking software.
• Maestro (Cross-platform batch process management

• Established factory-style IT proceesses for smooth flow through full product development and support life-cycle.
• Developed own Task Tracking software for Change Requests, HelpDesk Support Tickets, tasks.
• Developed UNIX/Linux script for monitoring health of server, database, and batch jobs. It sent emails and text messages to alert to risks and issues.
• Developed UNIX/Linux scripts to manage database syncronization of hot-spare server
• Developed SOx-compliant automated release process for program code changes, database schema changes, data changes.

• Continuous Improvement(CI): Kaizen, 5S/6S, Value-Stream Mapping, leadership/policy deployment, Lean Manufacturing, Kanban, TQM
• DevOps application of Lean principles to IT for smooth, efficient operation.
• Electronics and robotics

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