Summary:
  • 35 years of mainframe, iSeries-AS/400, PC and internet programming
  • 22 years of iSeries-AS/400 programming
  • System Administration - various environments - 22 years
  • Healthcare Billing (HIPAA, UB04, Home Health Care, PPS) - 8 years
  • Manufacturing - 8 years
  • Oil and Gas - 1 year
  • Telephony Billing - 8 years
  • Distribution - 4 years
  • Owner of www.texAS400.com which includes a 20 topic iSeries tutorial.
  • Author of 20 articles in AS/400 Trade Magazine, Showcase
  • Gave monthly presentation to Metro-Midrange Users Association on Perl.

    • iSeries Skill Set:
    System Administration: Device and System Configuration, Remote PTF Application,
    Configuration of TCP/IP, Configuration of HTTP server and Apache Server,
    Automation of file transfers via FTP, Disk Usage Analysis,
    API programming to write Email program, Data Queue API's, Object Authority
    Definition, Maintenance of User Profiles, System Restore, Library backup to PC,
    Digital Certificate creation (SSL for HTTPS and secure TELNET)

    Programming: RPG, RPG-ILE, Cobol, SQL, CLP, CGI, QUERY/400

    Other Skills:
    Visual Basic, DYL280, Active Server Pages (ASP), HTML, Perl, Java Script, PHP

    Education:
    B.S. Industrial Engineering - 1974 from Southern Methodist University
    MBA - 1975 from Southern Methodist University

    Job History:
    Self Employed as Texas400 Computer Consulting - 12 years
  • iSeries programmer / consultant
    • MPS Computer Consulting - 6 years
  • iSeries programmer / consultant
    • Affiliated Computer Services - 3 years
  • MVS Mainframe Cobol Batch and CICS programmer
  • iSeries Project Manager
    • Venture Encoding (Family owned business with 100 employees) - 7 years
  • IT Director of DOS/VSE system
    • Nixdorf Computer - 8 years
  • Tech Support Manager

    • Recent iSeries - AS/400 Experience Texas400 Computer Consulting (8 years - ongoing)
  • As owner of Texas400 Computer Consulting, I own 3 iSeries. This gives me the unique opportunity of system administration of a playground of systems.
  • Back-up and restore, TCP/IP configuration, SSL configuration using DCM,
  • download and apply PTF's, Configure SMTP server, Configure HTTP Server and
  • Apache Server, Email from batch programs.

    • Trinity Industries (48 months - ongoing)
  • Part-time RPG-ILE contract programmer as part of a team. $3.7 billion company
  • Member of a team of RPG / RPG-ILE / CL / Query400 programmers
  • Modified BPCS manufacturing programs
  • "Big System" environment that includes change control (Aldon),
  • formalized test plans and promotion documents

    • Confidential Client (3 months - ongoing)
  • Replicated 2 iSeries envrionments for Computer Forensics.
  • Wrote the RFP and chose vendor to purchase 2 iSeries
  • Backed up 2 iSeries and restored them to the new iSeries in a way
  • that preserved the original environment

    • Oil and Gas Client (1 year - ongoing)
  • System Administration including network support, set up remote communication via TCP/IP Telnet over redirected port
  • Apply PTF's
  • Wrote program that looks every 5 minutes for any program in error status and sends an email if any jobs have failed
  • Provide 10 hours / week to support custom system that includes Royalties, Gross Production Tax Reporting, G/L, A/P, P/R
  • RPG II / RPG / RPG-ILE / CL / Query400
  • Support and modify custom programs

    • Manufacturing Client (4 years - ongoing)
  • Provide all iSeries administrative support for iSeries running
  • Upgraded system from V4R5 to V5R3
  • Configure remote printers
  • Configured use of NT based disk drives for RSI Imaging system
  • CMS application and Optimum payroll.
  • The company has annual sales of $35 million.

    • City of Plano, Texas and City of McKinney, Texas
  • Designed and wrote iSeries / AS/400 programs to apply internet initiated credit card payments for Water Bills
  • System reads and writes XML documents and applies payments to HTE Utility Billing system
  • Keeps internet database synchonized with HTE database on AS/400
  • Wrote program to check every 10 minutes for a credit card payment applying to the Biztalk server. Process the payment and apply it to the AS/400 database

    • New Horizons (4 years - ongoing)
  • Provide occasional programming and training for Medical Billing Company
  • Modify programs written in RPG / RPG-ILE and RGL-SQL
  • Import and export HIPAA remittance and billing documents
  • Wrote import and export programs to interface data with POWER PATH PC based system

    • Competitive Cyclist
  • Upgraded iSeries from Model 170 to POWER5 System i with MQ Series

    • Ram Systems (2 1/2 years)
  • Provided all programming and administrative support for undocumented, custom programs that ran on 30 different iSeries in Iowa.
  • Updated custom RPG and RPG-ILE programs to be compliant with Medicare HIPAA changes.
  • Included migration from UB92 to UB04 forms and Home Health Care PPS Assessment and Oasis modifications
  • Configure Digital Certificate for SSL - Telnet
  • Remote administration of the 30 systems including: User Profile Maintenance, Back-ups, Upgrades, PTF application

    • United Medicorp
  • Provided all iSeries programming and administrative support for custom billing and collection system for 7 years.
  • RPG / RPG-ILE / CL / CGI
  • Import and export programs for HIPAA data
  • Wrote internet programs for end users to access AS/400 data over internet

    • Cardinal Restaurant Supply
  • Provided iSeries programming for IDS / Retalix system for distribution company.

    • Pipevine - United Way, San Francisco
  • Provided iSeries programming for Pipevine.

    • Chaparral Communications
  • Wrote 100% of programs for start-up company that grew to $1 million revenue per month in less than one year.
  • The system is written in COBOL/400.

    • RCC Koozy / Norwood Promotional
  • In RPG-ILE, wrote intranet dashboard program to summarize status of all orders in factory

    • Intermedia Communications
  • Led team of eight programmers on massive long distance billing system written by Billing Concepts Inc.
  • System includes all aspects of long distance billing and local service.
  • This system is written in RPG/400 and RPG-ILE.
    • Projects included:
  • Interface to automatically provision local service for customers on Intermedia's equipment (Intermedia is an I-LEC with 48 switches)
  • Interface to bill third party conference calling provided by Global Crossing
  • Rating system to rate calls on a Volume / Term concept
  • Calling card rating that includes international to international rating

    • Independent Packaging
  • Wrote 90% of manufacturing system for printer of bread wrappers.
  • This is a customer order manufacturer with its home office in Addison, Texas and its manufacturing plant in Bloomington, Indiana.
  • This system is written in COBOL/400 and COBOL-ILE.
    • The custom system includes:
  • Order Entry, Job Costing, Automatic purchasing based on orders,
  • Job Scheduling, Capacity Scheduling, Production Reporting,
  • Shipping, Invoicing, P/R, G/L, A/P, A/R