Contract Computer Programmer and Software Support Consultant.   Jim White of South Hill Va.
Resume
Hardware:
IV Phase mini, Motorola System 800, Digital PDP11, RS6000, AS400
Software:
Unix, Windows 95/98, COBOL, C, Visual Basic, Life-Works screen formatting, HASP, SNA, Eztriev(+), VISIO, AIX, S20/20 Spreadsheets, MS Access, MS Excel, HTML
Education
Danville Community College 1981 to 1983
Danville, VA
Associate degree in data processing.
4.0 GPA
Professional Experience
April 2000
Lake Country Insurance Agency
South Hill VA
Web page design, programming, and implementation.
January, April 2000
Garrett's Tax Service
Danville VA
Programming modifications to Microsoft Access database tables and reports.
Microsoft Excel to scanner interface support.
November 1996 to Present
Data Services America
Manson NC / Clarksville VA / Grundy VA
Data entry programs written in the LifE-Works language. Processing or reformatting programs written in the C language.
Design, program, and implement data entry systems for health-care questionaires, insurance vouchers, Medicaid documents. Output mediums included: 9-track reel-to-reel tapes, cartridge tapes, and electronic transferal in National Standard Format (NSF) using the COMMLINK software. Design and implementation involved interaction with the customer organization's systems and operations departments to obtain job specifications and ensure accuracy of final product.
Design, program, and implement incentive payroll system for 40 key-punch operators, producing gross pay register, individual posting sheets, weekly and quarterly production reports.
Support opening of new data-entry shops in Clarksville VA and Grundy VA, porting software to new system and solving hardware and software problems.
August 1997 to December 1999
April 1983 to December 1996
Dan River, Inc.
Danville, VA
Work involved duties in addition to programming and analysis: hardware support, user support, training of new programmers in the LifE-Works language, instructing and overseeing the programming performed by other programmers.
Design, program, and implement method for Y2K conversion of COBOL, LifE-Works, Unix shell programs (awk/sed).
Design, program, and implement inventory system for beams dyed and modifications to existing systems to handle the acquisition of new machines and new production plants.
All data entry programs involved were written in the LifE-Works language. Any processing or reformatting programs were written in the COBOL language. Job control instructions were written in either a subset of JCL or UNIX shell commands. In many of the systems, the mini-computer on which I worked transferred data files to the company's mainframe or routed reports through the mainframe to printers in other locations. In these cases, EZTREV(+) along with other CICS instructions were used.
Program and implement an update and conversion of older mainframe COBOL-written gross payroll system to newer COBOL standards system.
Analyze, program, and implement conversion of BASIC programs to LifE-Works programs performing various production control processes in Cloth Finishing Plant.
Design, program, and implement incentive payroll, inventory and lot tracking systems at vaious processes in the weaving operation: warping, dyeing, slashing, drawing, weaving(warp and cloth), inspecting, stitching, shearing, and shipping.
Design, program, and implement production scheduling system to enter customer orders, calculate customer promises, and produce bill of materials.
Design, program, and implement production control system predicting timing of materials needs at specific processes.