Objective

Employment or Consulting as a Project Manager, a Senior Technical and/or Business Analyst, use my experience mix (and new ones) to contribute to key objectives, strategic directions, competitive edge and the bottom line.

Summary

Over twenty-seven years of Information Technology experience spanning applications development, systems integration and conversions, project leadership, program management, mentoring, training, development and consulting. Add business development, sales and management. Training in Step 1 Inc. adds PC/Internet design and development to a rich background. Industries: Engineering, Sales/Marketing, Government, Insurance, Apparel, Finance, Telecommunications, Internet (startup company) and others.

PC / Internet Development training at Step 1, Inc. HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP, XML, Visual Basic 6.0 (Fundamentals, Database, Internet, ActiveX controls, creating objects) and Creating Web Graphics further broadens the skill base.

Background

Project Management in almost all areas of a company with almost every prevalent platform, including Mainframe, Client-Server, Systems Integration and Data Security. Led a team to create American Century Mutual Funds' first International fund. Led project teams in selection of, implementation and conversion and/or interfacing with enterprise systems and languages such as PeopleSoft, MAS-90 and PowerBuilder 5.0. Business Systems Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation as well as IBM Marketing Technical Support with the following languages and tools: CICS, COBOL II, DB2, QMF, VSAM, JCL, TSO, XPEDITER, File-Aid, IBM's 4th Generation Language - CSP (Cross Systems Product) Versions 2 and 3, Platinum DB2 Products, Lotus Notes, MS Access, Excel, Win-95, Win-98, Win-2000, OS/2, DOS, CLIST, REXX, MVS/ESA, DOS/VSE, VM, AIX, UNIX, Smitty, RACF 1.9, VRA 1.5, IBM Advanced Function Printing, ISPF Dialog Management Services, ENDEVOR, Impact, MS Visio and MS SourceSafe. Technical liaison, project manager and program manager responsibilities on various large integration projects in IBM, American Century and Sprint.

Experience

Aug 2004 – Feb 2006    The Piano Man                              Mission, KS

Management and Sales - Owner in Training

§     Helped keep the family business (of 43 years) open. The plan was to grow it to a level to provide parents with retirement and create a solid foundation for a well-funded chain of piano stores. The potential was there. There was no way to forecast that the entire nation would experience arguably the worst year in piano sales since the Depression. It closed as a logical conclusion.

§     Primarily acted in management and sales responsibilities. But, performed almost every function at one time or another except piano tuning or lessons.

§     Organized and supported a small PC/Server network with an MS Access customer database and various tools I created to automate tasks.

§     Worked on writing a business plan to raise outside capital. Not enough time.

Jun 2002 – Jul 2004     Freelance Work                           Kansas City Area

Many Areas of Personal Development and Endeavors

§     I took a short sabbatical to concentrate time and energy in areas of education and ministry with a focus on history, the present and the future of our nation.

§     When I attempted to re-enter the workforce in the I.T. field, I discovered that it was all but dried up. Many I.T. jobs and former contracting positions were outsourced overseas with some saying there were 800 to 1,000 resumes chasing every single open position, locally and even nationally.

§     Then, for some time, I worked in a number of sales positions, small business settings and did some freelance web site development.

Sep 2000 – May 2002                MCG / Sprint                           Kansas City, MO

Senior Technical Consultant

§     Consultant through Midwest Consulting Group assigned to Sprint.

§     Provided Project leadership on many projects with SODS, CLAS and SIG systems on ISDN Provisioning, I2D2, ICE Phase II, SeNNFroGB and other projects. Performed dual roles on ICE-P2 as both the CLAS system project leader and as the program manager with oversight for all systems involved.

§     Used Microsoft Project 98 extensively for developing large project plans with integrated systems on varied platforms. Also tracked and reported progress.

§     Served as a team lead on the IMS to DB2 CLAS Conversion project. Helped to document and track issues, report progress to management and raise awareness of problems with suggested solutions or workarounds.

§     Assisted management in reviewing resumes, some technical interviews and making recommendations for acquiring new consultants for various projects and positions. Became a trusted source for technical and personnel issues. 

Oct 1999 – May 2000                CitiesUnlimited.com                           Mission, KS

Vice President of Business Development

§     Provided leadership for operations during the location of office space and helped set up the next phase of business operations.

§     Point-man for development of the Business Summary and Private Placement Memorandum and Subscription Agreement for a $1.5 Million stock offering.

§     Point-man with Chairman of the Board, President and our securities attorney on internal due diligence required to rearrange and clean up the corporate structure in preparation for full disclosure of company information in the Private Placement Memorandum.

§     Developed an internal contact tracking system for potential investors with company stationary, database-driven form letters, envelopes and mailing labels personalized for each executive (also tracked all other contact types). 

1997–1999                    Maxim / EDS / Sprint                            Overland Park, KS

Senior Technical Consultant

§     Consultant through Maxim Group to EDS assigned to Sprint. 

§     Leadership role in the setup and operations of a Tier II Production Support team.  Responsibilities included analyzing trouble situations reported to FMS Production Support to determine and recommend if the need is user training, FMS development project or simply a production support level program fix.

§     Designed, documented and taught a Tier I - FMS Production Support class.

§     Technical lead on the TS029 project for Trunk Member Automation, a 12,000-hour project in FMS (Facilities Management System), coordinated development, systems testing and user acceptance testing with two other integrated systems RMS (Routing Management System) and CIS (Customer Information System), with development efforts of 6,000 and 3,000 hours.

§     Responsible for training, leading and mentoring less experienced staff members.  Contributed to appraisal and development process.

§     Have been assigned by EDS to improve quality and service when issues arose on several other projects. Successfully improved client satisfaction and perceptions of both technical and business issues related to major projects.

§     Successfully negotiated, designed, and carried out a solution to a severe communications problem between two of Sprint's major systems (FMS and RMS). Many systems used this interface and benefited from this change.

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, CEO) and Jack Jonathan (a Consultant and former Hallmark executive) to plan and lead conversion of a Personal Financial Analysis from the mainframe 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 a 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 1½ 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.   Also served as an editor for Mr. Stowers' 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.

1984–1988                    IBM Corporation                        Kansas City, MO

Systems Engineer

§     Worked with Hallmark to implement a 9370 departmental system, including information management, productivity and development software packages.

§     Became Regional Support Rep for Cross Systems Product and the IBM Application System and a member of the Specialist Team.

§     Special Assignment – 1985 in Raleigh, NC – to provide input to IBM's Cross Systems Product developers for Version 3 and Version 4 requirements, as well as critique and beta test Version 3.

§     Special Assignment – 1986 in Atlanta, GA – to develop the INFO NOW! Demo system.  This was used to demonstrate DB2, CSP, GDDM/ICU (graphics), DB2 Extract utility (PC download/query) and their integration for Executive Briefings around the world.

§     In a joint effort with the Lee Company, developed and documented code which enabled pop-up windows in CSP.  This technique was eventually published around the world in IBM documents.

§     In a joint development effort between IBM and a city government, facilitated the design and development of an incident tracking system for the police force, which could be used by the city and jointly marketed to other cities.

§     Sales and technical / implementation support of CSP, DB2, GDDM, ICU, A/S, Advanced Function Printing.

§     Attended IBM Sales and Marketing “Boot Camp” – one year training program for new Marketing Representatives and Systems Engineers.

1978–1984                    IBM Corporation                            Burlington, VT

Lab Technician,

Programmer Specialist,

Associate Systems Analyst

§     Developed and implemented a system to perform regression testing on JCL and program changes prior to moving into production. This was to safeguard against costly errors that could result in Millions of dollars of wasted product from the manufacturing line.

§     Designed / developed a user-friendly (front-end) interface to the Specials Design Methodology (SDM) system, using ISPF Dialog Management Services driven by CLISTS.  SDM was used by engineers around the world.  They were elated when we implemented my front-end to SDM because it freed them up to perform engineering tasks and not have to learn JCL, program execution, etc.

§     Initiated RACF protection and data security procedures for all engineering data and programs under my Area Manager (covering approximately 1,000 employees), to prepare for a corporate security audit. I performed a number of “self-audits” and made recommendations and implemented changes and new procedures. When the corporate security audit came to Burlington, VT (General Technology Division - 10,000 employees), my area was one of only two that passed the corporate audit.

§     Developed and lab-tested prototype microchip testing programs in raw hexadecimal program code.

§     Worked with an engineer to build test boards for logic and memory chips.

Leadership

Positions of Leadership in the Community.

§     Elder Board Member - Assembly of God Christian Center - Vergennes, VT

§     Treasurer - Assembly of God Christian Center - Vergennes, VT

§     Advisory Council Member - Full Faith Church of Love West - Shawnee, KS

§     Mentor - Southwest Middle School Mentor Program (with American Century Mutual Funds)

§     Elder Board Member - Celebration Community Church - Lenexa, KS

§     Basketball Coach - Overland Park Christian Youth League

Education

Jan 2002                    Sprint                      Kansas City, MO

Sprint paid for me to attend a weeklong class in automated testing tools, WinRunner and TestDirector while I was a consultant.

June 2000–August 2000                    Step 1, Inc.                      Overland Park, KS

I invested in my education to add PC Client / Server and Web Development to my inventory of skills. Step 1 had a ten-week Fast Track course to teach Visual Basic and Web Mastering tools. I also attended one other course. to learn how to create and modify web graphics. I used real web sites (which I built, registered names and setup web hosting) for my homework. See My Web Sites page for sites completed or under construction. My education in web development included these topics:

§     HTML4 with Tables, Frames and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

§     XML Overview.

§     JavaScript to add a dynamic presentation to web pages.

§     ASP 3.0 (Active Server Pages) with VBScript to support database-driven dynamic web pages - Microsoft Access and other SQL-based databases.

§     Visual Basic 6.0 Fundamentals, Database, Internet and Advanced ActiveX / Objects programming.

§     Relational Database and SQL - using Oracle and PL/SQL.

§     ADDED COURSE: Creating Web Graphics using Paint Shop Pro v6.02.

1988–1997                    American Century                      Kansas City, MO

During the course of my 9-year career, American Century sent me to various conferences on E-Mail and RACF Data Security. Also, internal courses included SAS, Endevor, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, C++ and Personal Financial Management (with Mr. Stowers - Founder and CEO).

1978–1988                    IBM Corporation                      Burlington, VT   and   Kansas City, MO

During the course of my 10-year career, IBM provided a vast education in their internal training programs, including courses like JCL, Utilities, Programming, Data Security, Relational Database design and administration, along with various IBM Fourth-Generation Languages, then through a one-year curriculum called IBM Marketing Boot Camp (when I moved to the Kansas City Marketing Branch Office). In a couple of those courses (in marketing boot camp), I graduated at the top of my class (which included classmates with MBA's, 4-year degrees and one attorney). The MBA graduates said it was like a fast-paced MBA program.

§     When added up, a full 20% of my IBM career (almost 2 years) was spent in classes.

1977–1978                    Control Data Institute                      Arlington, VA

In the Computer Technology course, we studied how to diagnose and fix problems in computer hardware. Other main topics included Principles of Electronics, Boolean Algebra and Hexadecimal Programming.

§     Graduated – First in my class with a 98.9% GPA (on 100 curve)

§     Certificate for a Perfect Attendance Record

1974–1977                    U.S. Marine Corps                      Washington, D.C.

Now, you may think it odd to have this on my Education Page. However, I personally found the U.S.M.C. to be a vast education in many non-tangible areas. Some of my experiences / achievements include:

§     Graduated – Squad Leader (and had held that position through most of boot camp).

§     Promoted to E-5 (Sergeant) within a short 3-year career.

§     Served on the U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Team in Marine Barracks, 8th & I, Washington, D.C. Performed in Washington, D.C. and around the country in various engagements.

§     Held a Top Secret Security Clearance (with White House Access).

1971–1974                    Shawnee Mission North H.S.    Overland Park, KS

§     NJROTC Company Commander, Football

§     Graduated -- High School Diploma – May 1974

Interests

Family, Church, Basketball, Camping, Weightlifting, Golf.

References

Provided upon request.

Web Sites

Completed:  (these are done more as a hobby rather than as a profession)

www.DavidWinney.com and www.PianoManKC.com

www.MSA-1.com and www.AbsoluteMachining.com

Under Construction:

www.TeachMeFudge.com