Work Experience

March 2006
to Present

Computer Aid, Inc
Harrisburg, PA

Systems Engineer

• Tyco Electronics – Provided ASP, C# and VB .Net support for intranet web applications. Converted web pages from ASP and VB6 to VB.Net. Database access is provided by stored procedures and direct SQL commands. Duties include analysis, coding, testing, and general support of users’ problems & questions.  

July 2005

to March 2006

Celerity IT
Mechanicsburg, PA

Systems Engineer

• EDS (September 1994 to February 1998) - Provided COBOL, CICS, IMS, and IDMS support to a legacy manufacturing system. Duties include mentoring, analysis, coding, testing, and general system support for this MVS system. Provided COBOL and Assembler Language support to a major health care system processing 100,000 claims per night.

September 1994
to July 2005

Computer Aid, Inc
Harrisburg, PA

Systems Engineer

• Tyco Electronics (July 2003 to July 2005) - maintain intranet documentation web site for ERP package.
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield (November 2001 to June 2003) - worked on documentation (Capital Blue Cross) and changes to claims processing system (Florida Blue Cross/Blue Shield).
• Tyco Electronics/AMP (February 1998 to November 2001) - worked on ecommerce.tycoelectronics.com. Responsibilities include:

• Build and design web pages for e-commerce web site using html and Perl.
• Web-enabled legacy(Cobol & IDMS) systems to allow output to be routed to a Perl CGI script.
• Import legacy data to databases for access by Perl CGI scripts.
• All web pages must work on the last 2 version of Internet Explorer and Netscape.
• EDS (September 1994 to February 1998) - Provided COBOL, CICS, IMS, and IDMS support to a legacy manufacturing system. Duties include mentoring, analysis, coding, testing, and general & on-call system support for this MVS system. Provided COBOL and Assembler Language support to a major health care system processing 100,000 claims per night. Duties include analysis, coding, testing and general systems support for this MVS system.
• Web based:

• Founding member of the Internet User Group.
• Designed and wrote Comments Entry web page, for customers Intranet, that is easily customized for various teams.
• Designed and wrote Activity Status web page, for customers Intranet, page with built-in JavaScript database for viewing Activities based on selection criteria.
• Created and taught various HTML classes to 60-75 SE's.

September 1993
to September 1994

CVS
Woonsocket, RI

Applications Specialist

Responsible for development, coding, and testing of the Condor RX-90 RX package, on SCO Unix, using Micro Focus Cobol II and C. Installed and implemented PVCS for applications team use.

March 1988
to September 1993

Rite Aid Corporation
Camp Hill, PA

Systems Engineer

Responsible for development, coding, and testing of the Condor RX-80 RX Package using Micro Focus Cobol, Concurrent DOS, and QuickBasic. Also, tested hardware for 286, 386, and 486 PC's and assisted Customer Services with Condor store issues. Also, worked with the interfacing the Condor package to the UNIX Point-Of-Sale system via kermit.

December 1986
to March 1988

US Computer
Mechanicsburg, PA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for development, coding, testing, and documentation of Commercial & Consumer Collection Package. Also, assisted clients with question and problems. Worked with LPI Cobol-85 on a NCR Tower and a Convergent Technologies Systems with a UNIX systems. Utilized the UNIX Bourne and C shells.

February 1987
to August 1987

Lebanon Valley National Bank
Lebanon, PA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for installing, coding, testing, and maintenance Florida Software Package on a Burroughs B-2900 using COBOL-74. Also, to assist computer operators and answer user's questions and problems.

September 1978
to December 1981
and July 1982
to November 1986

Hill Financial
Harrisburg, PA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for development, coding, testing, and documentation new and existing programs and systems on a Burroughs B-2930 B-3700. Also, to assist other programmers, work with users, operate computer on occasions. Worked with Cobol 68 & 74, BPL and Assembler programming languages. Have installed maintained Burroughs Thrift and SLIMS A/P and G/L packages.

December 1981
to July 1982

Pennsylvania National Insurance
Harrisburg, PA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for maintaining and correcting the data-base files and programs on a Burroughs B-2900. Worked with Cobol-74 and BPL languages. Devised way for testing data-base corrections while system was on-line. Redesigned data-base program's overlay structure to increase throughput.

December 1977
to September 1978

Capital Blue Cross- MAPP
Harrisburg, PA

Programmer Trainee

Responsible for developing new programs, rewriting old programs, maintaining existing programs, and assisting other programmers on an IBM 360/40. Worked with Cobol, Assembler, DITTO, and QUIKJOB.

March 1977
to December 1977

Harrisburg School District
Harrisburg, PA

Operator/Programmer

Responsible for operating and programming on a NCR 201. Learned and worked with the language NEAT/3.

TECHNICAL DISCIPLINES

Software: HTML, PHP, My SQL, VB.Net, C#.Net, ASP.Net, VB6, ASP, JavaScript, PERL, CICS, COBOL, UNIX, Bourne Shell, C Shell, Korn Shell, JCL, IBM Assembler, ISAM, VSAM, IMS, IDMS, MS-DOS, Windows, BASIC, AWK, Java, Auto It Scripting

Hardware: IBM Mainframe, IBM PC, various Unix Platforms

EDUCATION
Palmyra Area High School Palmyra, PA
Graduated June 1976

Computer Learning Center Springfield, VA
Graduated March 1977 with Honors (98%)

HACC Harrisburg, PA
Various classes.