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WHAT IS STILL FUN: Maintaining a close partnership with clients analyzing current state and defining practical and effective paths to future state by building, integrating and implementing technical solutions to solve specific business requirements.
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MY SIMPLE OBJECTIVES
PROFESSION AND AREAS OF INTEREST
Volunteer Web Developer | Delray Beach FL2017 - Present
Recently, the most fun I'm having is providing tech-support for two non-profit spinning up new websites that use WORDPRESS as CMS with over 30 plugins such as Membership management, secured access, members only capabilities and many more. Further, these non-profits use Constant Contact email service, PayPal digital gateway, and leverage all capabilities of Zoom. Self-trained in use of LAMP technology, cPanel suite, PHP and HTML5 constructs across client / server topologies, the cPanels SDK includes all cPanel plugin capabilities such as SQL, analytics, library management, social networking and blogging. With this technology that I new label Legacy, I build a custom Framework with many capabilities and tools for the Boca Group. Some of the Client specific needs included scheduling, inventory management, membership management, station reservations, and role base management. Lastly, I built an administrative suite allowing for timely implementation and ease of use, and continue to refactor solutions and developing new capabilities.
2015-2015 Tech Support Specialist
Trained in Apple OS and incident management toolset.
UNUM US CORP | Portland, ME
1986-2015 as Technical Support Engineer
Employed for Unum Group in a global economy and where Forbes ranked Unum third in the insurance industry and No. 46 out of 500 overall on its list of best employers. My most recent team focus is adapting and moving from waterfall project methodologies to an Agile mindset using Scrum / Kanban or Scrum-ban. My project focus has been on infrastructure and conversions while providing production support. Recent examples include moving web, smartClient and service applications from COM+ to HIS-TI and as needed new DB2 stored PROCS, ASMX services to WCF, and sun-setting applications. In some cases these sun-set apps were re-written in C# ASPX.NET and leveraged various factory patterns. Further, completed many data conversions from legacy data repositories to MS-SQL or re-building existing data structures. Other areas supported included various smart client applications and web services. When support issue arose, performed detailed root cause analysis (CLICK to view recent RCA), associated solutions and implement application changes. In our Quote-Proposal domain, I built customer facing front-end proposal generation web based applications. This included proposal generation and delivery to brokers and customers. This further included heavy infrastructure focus ensuring latest design technologies were industry and company compliant such as using where possible OOA and SOA designs. Given I was part of the Operation Services team, our mission critical task was ensuring system stability and supporting production applications. Given my experience across many applications, I was the Quote-Proposal domain point for Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Resiliency testing that included all our Gold+ applications. For a few years I was responsible for migrations of mission critical applications across multiple environments which included quality control, variance analysis, library management and ensuring environment stability. Previously I supported billing and enrollment record keeping applications and built and supported retirement security applications writing key modules that included participant valuation and statement generation and delivery, all controlled by a UI front end. One of my last involvements in this business area was as a contributing member to the "TSA of the Future" where the entire business line was re-evaluated and new applications built to support customer needs. Other ad hoc teams included the corporate "Print Replacement" and sale of retirement security line of business to Lincoln National Life. Daily I maintain regular partnerships with local and offshore technical and business staff. Given the need to fill IT tool gaps over time and as demand existed, I built IT tools that supported application migrations and application problem management using IDMS data dictionaries and REXX repositories. Recently, I've begun exploring and embracing MVC4 and MVC5 patterns and capabilities.
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Supported inventory, order placement, shop floor control with interfaces to the fab's DEC VAX processors, and capacity and requirements planning tools. Heavy interface and customization of purchased manufacturing applications. This included heavy modification to IBM’s MAPICS and Cullinet’s (now CA), Manufacturing MRP application suite on IBM’s System 38 (these were glorified AS/400 servers), and 4300 processors. Partnered with IBM as Bata test site for multiple linked System 38’s using APPC. The APPC network was also used to talk with the shop-floor DEC VAX servers.
Built, supported and managed development staff, contractors, and budgets in this component manufacturing facility. This included all heavily modified IBM MAPICS shop floor controls, inventory, order placement and tracking, ensuring partnership between all plants in the corporate manufacturing structure. Designed and built custom Capacity Requirement Planning (CRP) to meet the demands of component manufacturing processes. Designed and built data center in satellite component factory.
STANDARD KNAPP | Portland, CT
Assistant DP Manager and Developer
Packaging equipment, shop floor control, tailored IPICS, inventory control, operations and development, and all administrative systems.
PEN-BAY MEDICAL CENTER | Rockport, ME
Developer
Develop and support administrative applications, payroll, accounts receivable, census, ad hoc research projects
EJ PRESCOTT | Gardiner, ME
DP and Operations
Water works distribution such as ductile pipe, DP operations and business office staff.
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CIVES STEEL | Augusta, ME
Steel fabrication handler
Steel manufacturer and product handler
NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE | Gardiner & Augusta ME
Installer and Repair
Install and repair home telephones and supported and maintained central office which included number-5 cross bar and switch offices.
TECHNICAL and BUSINESS SKILLS
Technical Tools and Skills
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ADO.NET, Adobe, ADSO, AFP, ASP, ASP.Net, C#.Net, C, C-DONTS, CL, Cobol, COM+, COMTI, CULPRIT, DB2, Enterprise Architect (EA), FTP, HIS-TI, HTML4, some 5, IDMS, IIS, Infragistics, IVR/VRU, some JAVA, JDBMS, JavaScript, JCL, MVC4, ODBC, OMF, Outbound, RPGIII, REXX, TSO, MS-MQ, MS-SQL-SSRS, MS-SQL, some SalesForce.com, SharePoint, VB, VBA, VBScript, Web Services, VSAM, WCF, XML, XPATH, XSL
Applications and Business tools
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MS and IBM developer tools, HP Quality Center, IBM Tivoli (TSRM/SCCD), WorkFlow, Integrated Rating and Proposal (IRP Group, SimplyUnum, and Individual), Census, Clarity, Control-M, Omegamon, MAPICS, IPICS, Employee Benefits and Account RecordKeeping (PENFACTS), Cullanne’s Capacity Resource Planning (CRP), Shop Floor Control, Inventory Management, FAVORITE-TOOLS: StylusStudio, MS.VisualStudio2008 / 2012, BeyondCompare3, Orca, Enterprise Architect, TextPad, MS.SQLServerStudio2008,Google Chrome and capabilities
EDUCATION
University of New England, Portland, MEWeb certification
University of Hartford, Bloomfield, CT
MBA credits with focus on manufacturing MIS and requirements planning
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University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
BS business administration
FAMILY AND INTERESTS
FAMILY: Since 1989, my wife and I have been together. She is an amazing person, mother, daughter, friend and wife. She is dependable, loving, caring, and a loyal friend with wisdom beyond her years. Professionally, she has been a registered dental hygienist (RDH), independent practicing dental hygienist (IPDH), nationally certified medical coder, owned and operated two start-up businesses, is a notary in two states, is a signing agent, and marries couples (IDOIDO), was a medical office manager and holds degrees in education and health management. She was a two term president of Maine's dental hygienist association and is currently president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County. We are parents to five children and grandparents to four all who are engaged across a variety of activities. Our children's profession spans registered nurses, business owner, property managers, automotive, home and business maintenance and repair, and community support and services. We have three granddaughters and one grandson. They are into soccer, swimming, hockey, gymnastics, young musicians, mixed martial arts (MMA), academics, lacrosse, skiing, budding artists, and they are going all the time. We are so proud of our children and grandchildren. My brother Fred is retired USN (Capt.), retired high school math teacher, 1971 USNA grad, and now lives in Maine with wife Nora. They have two children including two grandkids. Our extended family is spread across our country on both coasts, mostly in New England and New York with deep roots in New Brunswick, PEI, and Novia Scotia CA, plus Europe and Great Britain.
INTERESTS: Board member and volunteer on various non-profits that ranges from health care, athletics and education. These included Scarborough School Board, Scarborough Conservation Commission, Scarborough Vernal Pool Studies, wrestling boosters at various schools, spinning up the Scarborough wrestling program, regional meet director at Maine State wrestling championships, Maine Dental Hygienists Association, Maine Interscholastic Wrestling Officials Association, and Maine Amateur Wrestling Association. Provided, at no cost, web master and development support for several of these non-profits. Am a retired NCAA and NFHS wrestling official. Some of my pass-times include ocean kayaking, SCUBA PADI certified, hiking, spiritual studies, legacy writing, amateur radio [N1QFH], Army MARS operator, fraternal organizations such as Free Masonry, coaching, nature research as citizen scientists for vernal pools, community volunteering, swimming, lifting, beach time. Lastly, my Gardiner High School Maine class had our 50th reunion in 2022 at Gardiner and Augusta Maine various facilities. This was a focus for a few months and was so nice to see my classmates after so many years via Zoom.
ACTIVITIES: Wrestling, MMA, Football, corporate Track and Field, Racquetball, Kayak, SCUBA, Hiking, Officiating, Coaching, Swimming, Running, Weight training.
VOLUNTEERING
Over my career, I have served on many non-profit groups and started up some. These range from booster groups, athletics, medical services, and medical research projects. In Florida, I volunteer at Delray Beach Police department as Parking Enforcement specialist and at Arthur R Marshall National Wildlife Refuge as tram-tour driver and visitor center receptionist. Currently I serve as a director, past-secretary and webmaster for the Boca Raton Amateur Radio Association (BRARA.ORG) and Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County (JGSPBC.ORG). Also, I'm a member of Gold Coast Amateur Radio Association (W4BUG.ORG), West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group (WPBARG.ORG), Davie Cooper Amateur Radio Club (DCARC.CLUB) and the Wireless Society of Southern Maine (WS1SM.COM). All of the radio groups are involved with many projects, emergency communications, latest technologies, training and testing and community outreach efforts fostering public goodwill in this ever changing service.
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ASP.Net ASP.NetDemos C-SharpCorner CodeMag CodeProject dnrTV Gartner KanbanV-1 LeanKit MillSys MojoPortal |
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