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5/2004 - Present

Industry: Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals

Lead Applications Developer

• Currently in charge of loading and extracting Prior Authorizations for new incoming clients and adhoc requests. Files are received via FTP and/or NDM thru direct physical file or IFS.• SME and lead developer for new client implementations for Prior Authorizations. New software used is IBM DataStage. • A recent and major accomplishment was the design and development of a Prior Authorization extract and load utility that converted and loaded new Prior Authorizations under new Carriers, Accounts and Groups. I received a Process Improvement Award for this idea and utility. It will be used for years to come and will save the company thousands and thousands of dollars and resource labor hours.• Also work with Member Eligibility application. Duties include loading Member and Group Eligibility files, Member ID conversions to meet the federal government needs of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). In this capacity, I have written conversion programs and procedures utilizing Free Format RPG, CLLE and . I have successfully completed the conversion of millions of pharmacy benefit members in Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Kansas. I am currently creating unique programs to fit the needs of other states.• Currently, others work under my leadership to help with Prior Authorization projects and adhoc reporting.• Change Management software is MKS ( Implementer ). Formerly used Turnover before conversion to MKS.

8/2002 - 5/2004

Senior P/A II and Business Analyst

• Initially hired as a Senior P/A II and in less than one year, was promoted to be the Warranty Departments second (ever) Business Analyst. My new position consists of approximately 50% programming and 50% design.• After 5 months, successfully co-rewrote the monthly ACL process which improved the companies warranty claim approval rate by an average of 15%. This monthly ACL process is how KMA gets reimbursed for warranty parts and warranty labor from KMC. This 15% which I was part of, is equivalent to approximately $150,000 per month.• Successfully rewrote the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resource Board (CARB) reporting process which enabled KMA to be 100% compliant with both of these government agencies and avoid strong penalties and fines. This was the first time in KMA history (since 1993) where no fines where levied against KMA.• Designed a technician certification program for Kia’s new Amanti luxury car line. This project includes CLLE programs, RPG IV programs with BIF’s (built in functions) and subprocedures, Client Access transfer requests TO and FROM the I-Series built within DOS batch files (rTOpcb and rFROMpcb), subfile maintenance programs, Excel VBA macros, and various other technologies.• Various other projects using the above technologies.

1/2001 - 2/2002

Senior RPG Programmer/Analyst

· Uploaded customer’s order data to AS/400 via FTP or Client Access Express and ran this data through a series of AS/400 programs. Utilized RPG III and CL to write these programs and continually modified and enhanced them due to changing and ongoing customer or internal requirements. · Developed new programs in RPG IV/ILE to support data· Converted RPG III to RPG IV whenever possible. New programs were always written in RPG IV/ILE.· Wrote macros within Excel 2000 to prepare the data to be uploaded to the AS/400 for approximately 70% of order data received from customers.· SQL/400 and Query/400 were used daily to support and verify customers order data once it has been processed completely.· Made minor enhancements and modifications to an automated e-mail solicitation application written in Visual Basic 6.

3/2000 - 12/2000

Senior RPG Programmer/Analyst - Data Warehouse Tea

· Utilized languages such as RPG IV/ILE, CL, and SQL to support the data warehouse on a daily basis.· Converted legacy non-normalized databases to native AS/400 for a payroll conversion project using Infinium software. Languages utilized included RPG IV/ILE and CL.· Developed the AS/400 data warehouse for the United Kingdom salons. The effort included establishing and creating all RPG IV/ILE programs, CL programs, and SQL procedures, physical and logical files.· Designed and developed a Visual Basic 6 program which interfaced with Pilot (data presentation software) to move log files to proper location after each nightly run.· Designed, developed, and implemented a salon sales audit and control process on AS/400 utilizing RPG IV. This process reconciled the pre-data warehouse sales figures with the post-data warehouse sales figures during the nightly data warehouse run procedures. Developed using languages such as CL, RPG IV/ILE, and SQL outside of RODIN. · Designed, developed, and implemented an AS/400 salon relocation process within the RODIN data warehousing software. Besides RODIN, this was written in CL, RPG IV/ILE, and SQL.

6/1993 - 2/2000

Senior Systems Engineer

· Full Lifecycle Development responsibility for WorldTIES application, which was a global currency exchange program, including gathering requirements through extensive user interface, design development and analysis, documentation, technical design report and presentation, testing, and user acceptance.· Lead developer for all AS/400 WorldTIES Foreign Exchange accounting applications. This AS/400 bank accounting application was written in RPG IV/ILE, RPG III, RPG II, CL, and OCL. New programs were always written in RPG IV/ILE. Older programs were always converted to RPG IV/ILE. Many end user interfaces contained Sub-Files.· Transformed the backend AS/400 application from a very high support intensive application to a system that needed no support at all.· Majority of effort (80-85%) was spent doing AS/400 development and support. Remainder (10-15%) was spent doing PC development in Visual Basic, DOS batch scripting, Access, Excel, and others.· Lead the effort for WorldTIES Year 2000 compliance on the AS/400· Designed and developed 2 Visual Basic 6 Letter of Credit financial applications which sorted through downloaded mainframe text files and output to text files in proper order and format. These apps interfaced with Access 97 and Crystal Reports.· Designed and developed very large PC based Visual Basic 3 Foreign Exchange financial application. This automated application allowed customers to initiate foreign and domestic wires and drafts from their desktops. This app interfaced with Access 2.0, Crystal Reports 4.0, and PDQ Comm.· Designed and developed 4 smaller size applications using Visual Basic 4 and VBA which interfaced with and supported the above mentioned VB app. These apps interfaced with Excel 97, Access 2.0, Access 95, Crystal Reports, and Macro Scheduler.· Supported 1st level and 2nd level help desk effort for Visual Basic application. Help desk activities included VB application troubleshooting, Windows NT desktop and troubleshooting, Windows 9X desktop troubleshooting, communications/modem troubleshooting, NT/Netware network troubleshooting, printer troubleshooting, and many other types of help desk tickets· Change management software used was IBM’s ADM (Application Development Manager).

12/1991 - 6/1993

AS/400 Applications Programmer

· Developed CL and RPG III programs, detailed analysis and design documents, test plan documents (unit, integration, and system), implementation plans, and end user documentation.

6/1990 - 12/1991

PC Programmer Consultant

· Programmer on PC lab projects. Software used was Clipper, Dbase III+, Dbase IV, and Genifer.

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5/1986

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics

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