Have good Business
competence. Conceived,
planned, raised capital and established various computer businesses. Some
stores and others consulting and contracting.
Defined
business policies, established norms, and created procedures and control forms;
and supervised operations: cash flow, sales, inventory and payments. Managed
local and international purchasing and product selection; prepared products
cost calculations and pricing.
Successfully
executed Marketing and Sales responsibilities.
Sold computer products as well as technical services. Participated in
promotional events, like computer shows, with great success and setting
industry trends.
Experiences in various Industries
and Businesses; varied hands on experience in: Auto Sales and Parts,
Insurance (all lines), Schools, Finance and Banking (Mortgages), Manufacturing
(Furniture, Doors, Cabinets, Tassels) Retail, Wholesale, Water Utility and City
Services and, Pharmaceutical.
Excellent Management
and leadership skills and experience; with capable decision-making aptitude. Good organizational and planning skills. Performed Business Management, IT Management and
Project Management. Experience with recruiting and hiring, as well as budgeting.
Effectively handled vendors and worked with external consultants. Can
effectively manage small teams and groups.
As an IT Manager, I was responsible
for new systems and maintenance planning; managing Systems Analysis and Design,
Development and Programming, and Operations teams. Supervised contracted
personnel. Created successful Procedures and Documentation Standards and
Policies—including Security.
Extensive
interviewing and fact finding activities, collecting available documentation
and blueprints; and explaining the advantages of the new systems to users and
management; as part of Systems Analysis
and Business Process improvement activities.
ExcellentSystems Design skills;
preparing system-wide re-engineering proposals and plans; including conversions,
migrations and
enhancements and, new systems developments.
Development, Conversion
and Migration Projects. Good project management competence; capable of leading project
from conception to delivery. Successfully
planned, prepared and managed various projects, including . data cleansing,
conversion and loading - Extract, transform and load (ETL).
Exposed, at
various levels, with various ERP
application packages: BPCS (Native
AS400 and S36 Emulation), VAI 2000 andFriedman Frontier, as well as
various homegrown. Planned and managed application
as well as system Security and users,
Competence
with IBM iSeries, AS/400, and PCs and Intel based servers Hardware and Software and, LANs, WANs and communications
technology--including Ethernet and TCP/IP. Performed iSeries/AS400-based
technical support, supporting users at different levels; troubleshooting, supporting
operations, processes and devices. Good
understanding (hands-on) with IBM OS/400 and Windows 9x/NT/2K—server
and clients; iSeries tools and BackOffice and Office tools
suites.
Strong COBOL and RPG (RPG II, RPG III, RPG IV, RPG ILE, RPG Free,
and embedded SQL) skills, and familiarity with other programming languages.
Special
Tools and Technologies:Expertise
with Infomaker-specially with reporting. Good Markmagic and Jmagic Bar
coding--from Cybra, and scanners. Capable in GIS development--with Maptitude.
X-Analysis, DBU, IBM Optim Database, Cognos
Query and Report Studio, Hawkeye and Turnover.
Very strong
Database skills--Designs and Development with IBM DB2/400, MS SQL Sybase SQL.Hands on—at various levels, with Ultra
Edit, AQT (Advance Query Tool), FTP, COGNOS, Inovis and EDI.