Career Objective: Programmer / Analyst

DMS Systems, Inc. - Jan. 1994 to Present

Contract ASP-VB.net programmer for Kevin Stewart Productions. Web Development for Event and performer schedules, Budgets, Payments, Payroll, Authorizations, Inner-Office communications, Media Uploads, Related Vendor expense tracking, and Concert Ticket e-Commerce http://www.123ksp.com.

Contract VB.net Visual Studio 2005 programmer for Software Dissertation Company. Created / Designed desktop software in Windows to help doctoral students enter all of their references in the proper APA format. The program uses VB.net commands to manipulate Word Documents. This software product currently sells at www.bold-ed.com as BOLD PaperMaker.

Contract VB-SQL programmer for Management Health Services in Ontario California. Created / Modified VB program to act as a utility clean up for management processes. Wrote VBA program to imbed transcription data into relevant MS Word documents. Modified existing MS Access program to improve accuracy of document transcription turn-around time statistics.

Contract VB programmer for Gateway Title Company in Burbank California. Wrote program to automatically notify sales agents of any new escrow office sales orders. Included VBA interface to e-mail from Microsoft Outlook.

Contract Programmer for Imagisoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Using Visual Basic 6 wrote and designed financial Planning Software for major Life Insurance Companies including Waddell & Reed. Wrote and designed virtual calculators to calculate the following: the maximum contribution and impact of investing in an IRA verses a taxable savings account, the maximum contribution for a 457 Plan, the estimated cost of retirement based on life expectancy for self and spouse, the maximum contributions available for self-employed retirement plans under Keogh and SEP. Used Crystal Reports to print reports and graphs for the above calculators.

Contract programmer and systems analyst for meat packing plant. Used MS Access, SQL and Visual Basic to design and write all custom programs. Designed and wrote manifest and bill of lading system to track all out going trucking information with import interface from Mas90 Accounting system. Complete Inventory program to track packaging materials. Paychex payroll interface program to track all payroll checks. Built interface program to collect and track all checks from Wells Fargo telecommunications program. Engineered software program to send trucking and invoice data to major meat buyer through STX telecommunications system. Created separate program to send shipping schedules through same STX software. Wrote program to send laboratory testing analysis of meat samples to major meat purchaser with multiple custom reports to internet interface. Designed reports to track back from the manifest data where and when all the meat was shipped from any one day’s production. Designed and created reports to track daily meat production volume using embedded SQL code in VB program.

Consultant for Encore Entertainment an insurance agency. Directed all aspects of data processing. Directed implementation of new software and formulated necessary design changes for package software. Directed and taught programmers on methods and properties of custom entertainment insurance rating processes. Tested and verified custom programming changes and directed implementation of new customized software system.

Designed and co-wrote MS Access Claims system for Blue Cross of West Virginia through Data Co-ordinators in Brea California (1996).

Programmer for Data Co-ordinators. Worked on data conversion between the Wang and the AS/400. Made changes to AS/400 COBOL applications for Data Coordinators including: pop-up rating windows, pop-up zip codes and audit codes. Also, premium reports, agent zip codes and audit codes. Also, premium reports, headers, catastrophe code look-ups, policy look-ups by state, body parts, accident, and injury code look-ups and reports, audit work sheet print outs, and underwriter comments and diary system in their new Workers Compensation System for the AS/400.

Programmer / Analyst for RBJ Computers a large escrow software company. Designed and coded programs in Clipper and Visual Basic to create escrow company management reports (1995).

Your Office Genie, Inc. - March 1989 to Dec. 1993

Netware Systems Administrator/Programmer Analyst for Medical Transcription Corporation. Responsible for all aspects of network installation and IT, to include configuration, cabling, network trouble shooting training, and support of network. Managed 48 node Network with two servers. Installed computers at dozens of Hospitals and became familiar with the administrative staff at these hospitals. Analyzed needs and requirements, and coded programs to automate the collection of data from 53 off-site workers via modems, and automatically upload information. Designed and implemented programs to collect and upload data via modems to 19 remote hospital computer installations.

AON Entertainment Limited - Jan. 1985 to March 1989

Top Business Systems Analyst/Programmer for Insurance Agency (MGA). Maintained Wang COBOL programs for the Accounting, Claims, and Underwriting departments. Accounting Department programs: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, check writing, fixed asset depreciation, invoicing, management reporting, and telecommunications. Claims Department programs: interface to General Ledger, and cash disbursements, adjustments to loss and expense reserves, claims information capture and retrieval by suffix, and automated Loss Bordereau reporting. Entertainment Department programs: quote and policy tracking, Accounting and Claim look-ups, ISO territory code queries by zip code, and workers compensation employee code rate schedules.

Data Co-orindators - August 1982 to January 1985

Analyzed requirements, co-designed, and wrote Wang COBOL vehicle warranty programs for rate look-ups by vehicle type, contract processing and claims. Provided support, program installation and staff training for major vehicle warranty corporation. Collaborated with two programmers on the coding of a policy worker compensation claims processing system.

Education

Cal Poly VB.net and ASP.net - 2002. Brigham Young University, B.S. Agricultural Economics, 1980. Course work in Computer Science (BASIC), Mathematics, Accounting, Economics, and Technical Writing. Computer Learning Center. Cum Laude 1982. Languages: R.P.G. II, COBOL, and IBM Assembler.