Primary Skills
System i / AS400, Advantage (Synon) 2E, RPG3, DDS, Agile / XP
Location
US-WA-Vancouver
Posted
Nov-25-08
RESUME DETAILS
General
Twenty-four years of application development experience. Working in a variety of market segments including resale, warehousing, manufacturing, distribution, building supplies and non-profit industries. Progressed from hierarchical, through relational into modeling technologies with a rich background in the development lifecycle using traditional and Agile development methodologies.
Fifteen years experience utilizing Advantage 2E (formerly Synon/2E) automated tools for systems development and implementation. Worked in both designer and programmer roles.
Ten years experience in technical, project and team lead positions. Supervised all phases of the development life cycle, working closely with the client community.
Skills
Highly experienced in i5/OS
Highly experienced in System i Platform Utilities
Highly experienced in Advantage 2E design and development
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, Vancouver, WA Programmer/Analyst II September 2002 - November 2008
Design, development and implementation of custom systems utilizing 4GL Modeling System (Advantage 2E), RPG3 and CLP on the IBM System i midrange system. Designed and implemented customer databases utilizing DB2 DDS. Developed, implemented and maintained programs for the company's custom Core Accounting systems (from Order Entry through Invoicing) with emphasis on Corporate Credit, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger subsystems
Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO Senior Programmer/Analyst August 1991 - July 2002
Design, development and implementation of custom systems utilizing Synon/2E, RPG3 and CLP on the IBM AS/400 midrange system. Designed and implemented customer databases utilizing DB2 DDS. Develop and implementation of interfaces with third-party services and products
Supervised Y2K remediation and unit testing teams. Each consisted of between six and eight team members. The project remediated 1.2 million lines of code. Project installed 120 object 'packets' without a production failure. Project was brought in ahead of schedule and under budget
Led three to five man teams to develop custom systems, migrating technology from hierarchical to relational client/server environments utilizing Synon/2E
Served as System Security Officer for eight years
Served as Synon administrator for five years
Sunclipse Information Systems, Montebello, CA Senior Programmer/Analyst 1988 - 1991
Designed, developed and implementation of custom systems utilizing RPG3 and CLP on the IBM System/38 and AS/400 midrange system, using existing databases for the Marketing, Distribution and Manufacturing divisions of Kent Landsberg Paperland Corporation.
Migrated one of four System/38's to the AS/400, converting CLP programs to the AS/400 syntax as the Team Leader.
S/38, AS/400, RPG3, DDS, CLP, DBU, PDM
Trans-Pacific Restaurants, Inc, Irvine, CA Programmer/Analyst 1986 - 1988
Converted batch oriented Payroll system to an interactive system utilizing RPG3 and CLP on the IBM System/38 midrange system. Converted existing database from a hierarchical and flat file model to a relational model. Created a data security system to allow customer control of table, row and column level access.
S/38, RPG3, DDS, CLP
Gary North and Associates, Irvine, CA Programmer 1984 - 1986
Programmed modules from design specifications for a proprietary Retail Sales system marketed to customers in 'soft goods' segment, utilizing RPG3 and CLP on the IBM System/38 midrange system.
S/38, RPG3, CLP
Education
Associate of Arts, Computer Programming, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA 1984
Certifications
See above
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