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| Position desired: |
Contract |
| Travel: |
Weekly |
| Relocate: |
No |
| Current Location: |
Kent, WA
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Lawson Certifications: |
Professional Services:
CERTIFIED Project and Activity Accounting, Version 8.x
Human Resources:
CERTIFIED HR Suite, Version 8.x
CERTIFIED HR Suite, Version 7.x
CERTIFIED Pay to Bill, Version 8.x
CERTIFIED HR Conversions, Version 8.x
Procurement:
CERTIFIED Procurement Suite, Version 8.x
CERTIFIED Procurement Suite, Version 7.x
Supply Chain:
CERTIFIED Supply Chain, Version 7.x
Technology:
CERTIFIED Environment Administration, Version 8.x
CERTIFIED Business Component Integrator (BCI), Version 8.x
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Lawson Package Experience: |
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Financials 7.x 8.x
Human Resources / Payroll 7.x 8.x
Procurement 6.x 7.x 8.x
Supply Chain 7.x 8.x
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| Skills: |
Lawson platform experience:
UNIX
Windows NT
Functional Lawson skills:
Implementation Consulting
Upgrades
End User Training
Technical Lawson skills:
Technical production support
Lawson system administration
Lawson DBA
Lawson CASE/4GL
Micro Focus COBOL
Conversion and interface program development
Custom report development
UNIX Shell scripting
Management skills:
Technical Team Lead
Functional Team Lead
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| Lawson experience: |
Safeway Inc, Phoenix, Arizona_____________________ March 2001 To Jen 2002_
As a technical leader, performed many different tasks such as:
· Being involved strongly with the preliminary scope and design of the entire project with all the management, system architects, system administrators.
§ Assisted system Administrators with the installation of Lawson Insight and universe in all of the modules.
· Responsible for carrying out all groundwork proof of concepts for different Safeway systems.
Mapped and analyzed current systems functioning and data, accordingly developed many complex Mercator maps to suit the data conversion to Lawson, using BCI.
Tested the efficiency of the product by running these Mercator maps and stress testing the product to assist the high management in their decision for choosing the product.
· System architect the Account Payable, General Ledger and Asset Management systems.
These systems were on different platforms, which required extensive technical analysis
to be able to extract and reformat data coming from these data bases into Lawson.
Five different Account Payable systems, General Ledger and Asset Management were converted, they all were very individualistic in their functionality and programming languages.
Databases were FoxPro, Informix DB2 etc. Different languages such as JAVA, Cobol, VBA/Access, Lawson Case/Tool, Cobol were used to convert these systems to Lawson.
· Lead and Supported the Conversion technical team to develop the conversion programs and in the problems they encountered during the testing phase.
· Lead and supported the Philippines programmers for interface development. Trouble shooting the problems and issues which they encountered during Mercator/BCI mapping and stress testing with huge volume of data.
· Trained twenty five programmers in the Philippines and Arcadia California in Mercator mapping and BCI and Lawson Case/Tools.
Logicon, Virginia
Government Consulting Company _____________ January – March 2001
As a senior programmer analyst, analyzed with the users their Account Payable and Purchase Order systems and developed Interfaces using Mercator/BCI to interface their
Existing system to Lawson. The Database used was Oracle.
Mercury, Inc., San Jose, California________________________October 2-29 2000__
As a senior programmer analyst, worked on designing, coding, testing and implementation of a conversion program for Order entry and human resources of Lawson Software, capturing orders that were released and formatting the data from different tables into CSV files for UPS mailing system. The main program was written to handle variety of processes by the codes entered online by the users. Also, within the program UNIX commands were coded to eliminate the external shell scripting. The program was written in Micro Focus Cobol
Using Lawson tables.
Safe, Inc., Oakland, California ___________________________September 4-29 2000
As a senior programmer analyst worked with 6 users defining screens and reports for Account Payable system that utilized Lawson Software and ORACLE databases on Windows NT. The inquiry screens and the reports were developed to list different companies and their detailed accounting information. After unit and system testing, I was involved in the implementation and user training of this new part of the system.
The coding was done in ACCESS and Visual Basic. Also modified few reports using ACCESS. To reduce run-time, optimized variety of Accounting SQL queries by rewriting the codes, using different accessing methods.
Associated Grocers, Inc. Seattle, WA (Distribution) January 1999 – April 2000
As a consultant, participated in the Procurement, Purchase Orders of food distribution, Account Payable, and Inventory Management systems of Lawson Software V-7.0 installation. This involved coding, testing, implementing
Conversion programs to convert the Vendor Master tables from Customer Information Informix system to Lawson Software.
Wrote series of programs for processing of Purchase Orders in Lawson, for the Legacy system and electronically entered Purchase Orders, evaluating and editing the incoming data to create PO lines for items requested.
Captured different criteria and calculated Add on Cost, discount rates .etc to create print programs to report this information to Account Payable system.
Created receiving records to be released by the system.
Modified and tested in detail the interface programs in Lawson system, from calculating inventory costs to actual payments and receipts of the goods.
Tested some of the Account Receivable programs to see if the process was working correctly. Traced the process to verify and confirm that proper tables were updated and how much good were received and paid for.
Also on the Inventory Management system, created Purchase Order reports that printed data for all the Purchase Orders calculating their loss and gains and their costs showing their discount rates and many other intricate data for viewing of the users. The Accounting department also used the reports.
Also participated in investigation of General Ledger system for the above reports and for other user questions
For the implementation of the programs, many shell scripts had to be written, tested and implemented which included cataloging the input files coming from other systems, checking to see if the input file was not empty, to creating reports and copying the output file of each program in the format and the DD name that the next program expected.
Participated in testing and implementations of other parts of the system and worked with the users.
Programming was done utilizing Micro Focus COBOL, ANIMATOR and Informix, on UNIX environment, and WINDOWS, EXCEL, WORD and VISIO on PCs.
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| General professional
experience: |
Armature, Bothell, Washington June 1998 to December 1998
Senior programmer analyst.
Member of a technical support team to support the Inventory Management System for Customers around the world. This position involves heavy analysis to resolve complex and intricate problems that customers encounter on the system, as well as coding, testing and implementing the changes.
It also requires good written, oral and global communication skills, as well as a favorable
personality to communicate with the customers around the world to arrive at a resolution.
this system is written in COBOLII, CICS, VSAM, Sequential files, on an IBM 3090.
Regency, Seattle, Washington Nov. 1997 – June 1998
Senior programmer analyst.
Responsible for the entire Claims Processing system. Applied year end changes to the system prior to the new year. Analyzed, coded, tested and implemented the changes. This system was in COBOL II, VSAM, Sequential files, on an IBM 3090. Also maintained an existing CICS system for the Claims Processing. Also worked with the users and the System Architect to redesign the Claims Processing system for more efficient processing. This involved a great deal of detailed analysis and technical knowledge of the system. This effort revealed the trouble areas and extensive improvements.
Boeing, Renton Washington Sep 1996 – Nov. 1997
Senior programmer analyst.
Participated in designing and development of an ACCESS Data Base project, which captured the
employees time spent on different projects. The system was developed, coded using ACCESS
/Visual Basic. Supported and Maintained the current Nonconformance system, originally
developed on the workstation using C, OS/2 for GUI applications and COBOL II, IMS, DB2 on
the mainframe for database updates. Worked on problems and redesign of applications related to
both C, OS/2 applications and Cobol/DB2 programs. Defined and Automated the current
process of working the problem logs.
Sakhalin, Russia Nov 1995 - AUG 1996
Senior programmer analyst.
Taught students the preliminary concepts of computer, operating systems with hands on
experience.
Nordstrom, Seattle Washington Jan 1995 - Aug 1995
Senior programmer analyst
Responsible for higher and lower analysis and design of an employee benefit registration and
racking system which could be accessed by telephone or online for Nordstrom's offices across
the nation. Development was done in CSP/DB2 and design using Window and other design
tools.
Puget Power, Seattle Washington Nov 1993 - Nov 1994
Senior Programmer Analyst.
Responsible for designing, coding, and testing of multiple programs in support of full life cycle
new development of the Customer Billing System. Completed lower level analysis. Development
environment was in Micro Focus COBOL II, DB2, XDB, ADW, COBOL II. Additionally
monitored performance of the user interface, analysis, and development of selected user
requirements. Also developed an online tracking system using CICS, DB2.
Nordstrom, Seattle, Washington Feb 1993 - Oct 1993
Senior Programmer Analyst.
Designed and developed an entirely new system for training employees which was to function
within the existing Integral system. Also customized and made modifications to Integral Package
for Nordstrom and implemented the system.
Eddie Bauer, Seattle, Washington June 1992 - Aug 1992
Senior Programmer Analyst.
Designed and coded, tested and implemented programs for a complicated Inventory System
using COBOL II, CICS and DB2.
Southern California Edison, Los Angeles, CA Nov 1988 - Aug 1990
Senior Programmer Analyst.
Analyzed, designed, coded and tested a reporting/tracking module for the existing claims system
using CSP/DB2 Developed batch systems using COBOL II and DB2 for a company-wide health
care system. Also maintained this system.
Mileage Plus, Inc., Marina Del Ray, CA June 1984 - Nov 1988
Senior Programmer Analyst.
Solely responsible for developing Enrollment, Account Maintenance and suspense system using
SQL/DS, CSP, QMF,REXX. Also, coded, tested and implemented the Revenue Miles system using CICS and batch programming. Analyzed and designed a training system which simulated the production environment. Designed parameter driven ad hoc reporting system to update and report on participant frequent-flyer bonus program. Also trained new programmers on the MIS system.
McAuto;Health Services Division, Hazelwood, MO Nov 1981 - Aug 1984
Programmer.
Designed, coded and maintained batch programs for enhancement to the company's third party billing system.
Computrol, Inc, St Louis, MO May 1981 - Aug 1981
Programmer.
Participated in the design, coding and testing of COBOL programs to create new billing formats and to convert data for banks.
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Safeway Inc.
3/2001 to 1/2002
Technical/FunctioTeam Leader.
As a technical leader, performed many different tasks such as:
· Being involved strongly with the preliminary scope and design of the entire project with all the management, system architects, system administrators.
§ Assisted system Administrators with the installation of Lawson Insight and universe in all of the modules.
· Responsible for carrying out all groundwork proof of concepts for different Safeway systems.
Mapped and analyzed current systems functioning and data, accordingly developed many complex Mercator maps to suit the data conversion to Lawson, using BCI.
Tested the efficiency of the product by running these Mercator maps and stress testing the product to assist the high management in their decision for choosing the product.
· System architect the Account Payable, General Ledger and Asset Management systems.
These systems were on different platforms, which required extensive technical analysis
to be able to extract and reformat data coming from these data bases into Lawson.
Five different Account Payable systems, General Ledger and Asset Management were converted, they all were very individualistic in their functionality and programming languages.
Databases were FoxPro, Informix DB2 etc. Different languages such as JAVA, Cobol, VBA/Access, Lawson Case/Tool, Cobol were used to convert these systems to Lawson.
· Lead and Supported the Conversion technical team to develop the conversion programs and in the problems they encountered during the testing phase.
· Lead and supported the Philippines programmers for interface development. Trouble shooting the problems and issues which they encountered during Mercator/BCI mapping and stress testing with huge volume of data.
· Trained twenty five programmers in the Philippines and Arcadia California in Mercator mapping and BCI and Lawson Case/Tools.
Logicon, Virginia
1/2001 to 3/2001
Senior Prog/Analyst
As a senior programmer analyst, analyzed with the users their Account Payable and Purchase Order systems and developed Interfaces using Mercator/BCI to interface their
Existing system to Lawson. The Database used was Oracle.
Mercury, Inc
11/2000 to 11/2000
Senior Prog/Analyst
As a senior programmer analyst, worked on designing, coding, testing and implementation of a conversion program for Order entry and human resources of Lawson Software, capturing orders that were released and formatting the data from different tables into CSV files for UPS mailing system. The main program was written to handle variety of processes by the codes entered online by the users. Also, within the program UNIX commands were coded to eliminate the external shell scripting. The program was written in Micro Focus Cobol
Using Lawson tables.
Safe, Inc.,
10/2000 to 10/2000
Senior Prog/Analyst
As a senior programmer analyst worked with 6 users defining screens and reports for Account Payable system that utilized Lawson Software and ORACLE databases on Windows NT. The inquiry screens and the reports were developed to list different companies and their detailed accounting information. After unit and system testing, I was involved in the implementation and user training of this new part of the system.
The coding was done in ACCESS and Visual Basic. Also modified few reports using ACCESS. To reduce run-time, optimized variety of Accounting SQL queries by rewriting the codes, using different accessing methods.
Associated Grocers, Inc. 1/1999 to
4/2000
Senior Prog/Analyst
As a consultant, participated in the Procurement, Purchase Orders of food distribution, Account Payable, and Inventory Management systems of Lawson Software V-7.0 installation. This involved coding, testing, implementing
Conversion programs to convert the Vendor Master tables from Customer Information Informix system to Lawson Software.
Wrote series of programs for processing of Purchase Orders in Lawson, for the Legacy system and electronically entered Purchase Orders, evaluating and editing the incoming data to create PO lines for items requested.
Captured different criteria and calculated Add on Cost, discount rates .etc to create print programs to report this information to Account Payable system.
Created receiving records to be released by the system.
Modified and tested in detail the interface programs in Lawson system, from calculating inventory costs to actual payments and receipts of the goods.
Tested some of the Account Receivable programs to see if the process was working correctly. Traced the process to verify and confirm that proper tables were updated and how much good were received and paid for.
Also on the Inventory Management system, created Purchase Order reports that printed data for all the Purchase Orders calculating their loss and gains and their costs showing their discount rates and many other intricate data for viewing of the users. The Accounting department also used the reports.
Also participated in investigation of General Ledger system for the above reports and for other user questions
For the implementation of the programs, many shell scripts had to be written, tested and implemented which included cataloging the input files coming from other systems, checking to see if the input file was not empty, to creating reports and copying the output file of each program in the format and the DD name that the next program expected.
Participated in testing and implementations of other parts of the system and worked with the users.
Programming was done utilizing Micro Focus COBOL, ANIMATOR and Informix, on UNIX environment, and WINDOWS, EXCEL, WORD and VISIO on PCs.
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| Education
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Southern Illinois university - Edwardsville, Ill
1/1978 to 8/1982
Bachelor of Science in Information System
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University of Washington - Seattle, WA
1/1995 to 1/1996
C Programming Certificate, 1996.
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