1993–1997                    American Century Mutual Funds     Kansas City, MO

Senior Programmer / Analyst

§     Circle of Honor – Francis J. Raw Service Award, the company’s highest service award.  The Circle of Honor is the group of finalists for the award.

§     Worked with Mr. Stowers (Founder and CEO) and Jack Jonathan (Consultant and former Hallmark executive) to plan and lead the effort to convert a Personal Financial Analysis program from a mainframe program to a PC-based interactive program.

§     Senior member of the search-team for a Client/Server-based Human Resources system.  The final recommendation was for PeopleSoft.  It was successfully implemented and now is a piece of the whole integrated financials system recently purchased from PeopleSoft.

§     Headed up a search for Client/Server development tool for Budget system front-end to the accounting system for 200+ users across WIN-95, OS/2 Warp, and Mac desktop O/S platforms.  PowerBuilder 5.0 was selected.

§     Spear-headed the research and recommendation for an integrated financials system.  It was eventually selected and implemented.

§     Studied the need for and evaluated modern e-mail packages to replace an antiquated CICS-based home-grown message system.

§     Designed and developed a complete asset management system to serve as an interim solution until a system could be purchased and implemented.

§     Project Lead and technical team member on a conversion of an old accounting system (MAS-90) from DOS-based (Novell network) to a UNIX network.  Lead support responsibility for 1 ˝ years while research and decision was made to purchase a new system.

§     I.S. Project Leader on the conversion of an accounting system and structure to support the merger with the Benham Group mutual funds.

§     Designed / developed a Lotus Notes application to track employee parking stickers, automobiles, car-pools, parking violations.

§     Assisted in the search for and implementation of a physical entry security package with picture-ID security badge creation from EDICON systems.

§     Implemented a physical security incident reporting package.

§     Assisted in the selection of IMPACT (change management) and ENDEVOR (source management) tools, serving in the Change Management Committee.

1992–1993                    Twentieth Century                     Kansas City, MO

Data Security Administrator II

§     Circle of Honor – Francis J. Raw Service Award.

§     Created the Data Security department, leading each security-related project, designing the data security approach, including corporate security policies, naming conventions and automation of security administrative tasks.

§     Conversions included – userids from CICS sign-on table to RACF, CICS 1.7 to 2.2 and 3.3 with RACF security, RACF installation, JES-Spool security, DB2 security tied to RACF groups through RC-Secure, TSO userids, CICS transaction security, Easel security tied to RACF.

§     Initiated and spear-headed a successful $10.5 Million law-suit against a software company who sold their software to us based on fraudulent claims.

1988–1992                    JE Stowers-Twentieth Century    Kansas City, MO

Programmer / Analyst II

§     Designed / developed Employee Status System – used 1989 to present.

§     I.S. Project Leader on Twentieth Century’s first international mutual fund.

§     Worked with Mr. Stowers and Jack Jonathan in the project to write Mr. Stowers' book on personal financial management (named "YE$ You Can - Become Financially Independent").  Also, developed a personal financial analysis program to complement the book, to offer a financial analysis to readers of the book as an extended service.  They would fill out a financial "survey" and send it in to run through the analysis (on the mainframe) - using IBM's Advanced Function Printing.  Was responsible for suggesting that this system be converted to a PC based system that could be utilized by users from their home.  This suggestion was accepted and greatly enhanced this offering.   Was also an editor for the book drafts.

§     Designed / developed a CICS-DB2 Human Resources / Benefits program to help the company until a permanent system was selected and implemented.

§     Created the first pop-up windows in the company’s COBOL-CICS programs.

§     Charter member of Application Development Support Team – to give internal programming and training support to the Information Systems department.  Also, interviewed programmer/analyst candidates.  Setup a standard training program for new I.S. employees.  Served on the I.S. Standards Committee.