MIS Professional/Software Systems Builder and proprietor of Applied Personnel: 30+ years of experience. 1969 - present. Computer consulting, systems integration, analysis, programming, unit and customer acceptance testing projects, formal IV&V, documentation, user training, and post-development system administration. Mainframes, mini’s, LAN’s and PC's. All phases of the system development life cycle with a development emphasis on order entry / accounting applications. Research faculty at Indiana University (demographics and international economics).

Year2000 independent verification for the US Postal Service payroll, retirement, and accounting services performing formal IV&V and change management board (CMB) assignments. Served as Y2k compliance lead for a retail point of sale SQA effort for a major US Postal Service vendor. Senior responsibility on multiple projects involving packaged, customized COTS, and fully custom legacy and OO systems related to financial matters, primarily on mainframes and in minicomputer timesharing environment. Experience suitable for a senior data analyst, business analyst, or test designer covering unit, system, and customer acceptance SQA.

• Full Software Development Life Cycle - 25 years

• Programming / Testing / SQA - 25 years

• Systems Analysis / Design - 15 years

• IV&V / Formalized Testing - 3 years

• Technical Writing / Documentation - 15 years

• CDC 3400/3600, 6600, Cyber 17 mainframes - 14 years

• PRIME 550/2650 super-minicomputer under PRIMOS - 14 years

• DEC VAX/950Series super minicomputer under VMS and UNIX - 2 years

• IBM / Amdahl 390 mainframes, MVS

• SDS Sigma-7 scientific minicomputer - 2 years

• IBM/Intel 80x86, Pentium, and AMD 5K/6K

• Windows NT, Win’98 and ‘95, Windows 3.x - 6 years
• MS/PC-DOS 2.0-6.22 - 17 years

• Compiled BASIC (IBM) - 10 years
• HTML – 3 years
• FORTRAN - 22 years
• MS Visual BASIC - 3 years
• MS Visual BASIC for Applications (VBA) - 4 years
• Mercury Test Director / WinRunner - 2 years
• SQL across multiple platforms and languages ( MS Access, ANSI SQL,
  ISAM, MIDAS / VSAM, R-Base, plus several custom systems) – 20 years
• COBOL and G-Tran – 3 years

System and software development process support, and Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) for mainframe, midrange, and NT accounting systems. (September, 1998 – January, 2000) Senior consultant to US Postal Service’s payroll and accounting center. Includes Year2000 code analysis, primary and delta test plan development, and technical assistance in test data generation, aging, and test execution. System and process owner including USPS calendar expert, and special projects including work on an SCM survey of the Postal financia l service’s practices and recommendations toward CMM maturity improvements.

Point of Sale (POS) Quality Assurance and Year 2000 Compliance. (July, 1997 - May, 1998) Senior tester providing SQA to development and deployment of the POS system for US Postal Service. Areas of special responsibility include Year 2000, accounting f unctionality, and the perpetual inventory subsystems.

Document Management. (March, 1996 – Sept, 1997) Physical storage of documents with electronic barcode tracking. System architecture, design, programming, accounting, and testing.

Warehouse Accounting / Administration. (Oct 1995 – Sept, 1997) Tracked customers, deposits, payments, invoicing, and general accounting for mini-warehouses – full life cycle.

Voter Registration for County Government. (April, 1991 - current) Novell network of 10 diskless workstations and a Novell server. Voter registrations, elections, absentee voting, poll working, site inventories, conformance to state regulations. Desig n, programming, testing, and system administration.

Y2K Newsletter. (Nov, 1996 - Feb, 2000) Web-published a newsletter on Year 2000 problem, 2K-Times, a well-read international newsletter on the subject. Topics include awareness issues, migration tools, and compliance efforts.

Circuit Court Infractions Division. (Jan, 1991 – Jan, 1994) Tracking system for 16,000 traffic citations a year in the Circuit Court jurisdiction for a pilot process. Design, programming, testing, and training. As the rules were being developed and refined by legislation, continuing maintenance was required over a 3 year period.

Timesharing Administration. (Jan, 1980 - Dec, 1992) Administered a PRIME minicomputer based service bureau for timesharing, providing customized order entry/accounting/sales support for retail and field rep sales support. Clients included a major har dware distributor (with 10K item inventory), an automotive solid-state electronics parts manufacturer, and a greetings card publisher.

Census/Demographics. (1973 - 1976) Research study for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on job creation/loss. Required use of Very Large Data Base organization (VLDB) of census and social security data.

Laboratory Equipment. (1968 - 1971) Interfacing of gas-liquid chromotography and mass spectrometer instrumentation to an SDS-Sigma 7 laboratory computer for real-time data acquisition and analysis of data.

Other. Property records and perpetual inventory for a public energy utility. Population/demographics for census data for the Alan Guttmacher Institute.

PhD candidate, Chemical Physics, Indiana University, 1967

MS, Chemistry, Indiana University, 1967

MA, Chemistry, DePauw University, 1966

BA, Chemistry and Physics, Augustana College, 1964