Perry
Stripling
Tualatin,
OR *
503-691-2898 * perjanstr@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~perjanstr/resume
SUMMARY
With over 25 years of data processing and related technical skills, Perry produces professional, productive and quality work. Whatever the need, from Systems Architect to Programmer/Analyst to Customer Support, he is experienced, flexible and willing to take the initiative in all aspects of project dynamics, all within a team environment. He observes a personal standard of the establishing system integrity, controls and written procedures, while educating the end-user community to maximize understanding, confidence and usability of the system,. He has a proven track record of successfully implementing computer-based solutions over a broad scope of application areas as well as all phases of development, from analysis and specifications, through testing and post-implementation. These include, but are not limited to, Imaging & Data Entry, Printing & Services, Sales & Marketing, Customer Orders, POS; Manufacturing, Inventory, Warehousing, Purchase Orders, EDI; A/R, A/P, Banking, Pension, Insurance, Health Care, Hospital.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
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Hardware
and Operating Systems: |
Programming
Languages: |
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IBM 30xx, 43xx,
UNIVAC, CICS, TIP/30 MVS/XA/ESA, MVS
Utilities, VSE/VM, DOS/VSE Windows, UNIX, OS/JCL & Utilities, VMS (VAX), CL (AS/400), IBM PCs & compatibles, MAC, DOS |
COBOL II, COBOL (IBM
PC, AS/400 & Mainframe), VisualBasic (5.0), Crystal Reports, ColdFusion,
Perl, HTML, Easytrieve Plus, IDEAL, ADS/O, Culprit, Natural, Assembler,
Fortran, RPG, PL/I, DYL-280, REXX, SAS |
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Databases
And Tools: |
Applications
Areas:: |
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DB2, VSAM, IMS (DL/I
and DBDC), DataCom, IDMS, ISAM, QSAM ACCESS, FoxPro,
MS-SQL/Server Roscoe, TSO/ISPF,
Xedit, ICCF, Panvalet; VMspool, SDSF, Flasher; IDCAMS, DITTO, DMLO, OLQ;
PROFs, LIBRARIAN, Panvalet File-Aid, Xpeditor, DADS, PlayBack, INTERTEST, EZ-Test, EDF; MS Office Suite (WORD, EXCEL, OutLook, Project); Norton's Utilities, WordPerfect, WS_FTP, PFX, PC/Support, PC3270, Rumba, Extra/Now |
Accounting (A/R, A/P)
Applications Banking Systems, EDI
Systems Health Care &
Hospital Systems Insurance &
Pension Systems Inventory and Purchase
Order systems Manufacturing Systems MRP (Manufacture
Resource Planning) Order Processing systems POS (Point-of-Sale)
Applications Printing Systems &
Service Scanners (Imaging)
& Data Entry Sales & Marketing |
EDUCATION
Western Illinois University (1980) - BS
Bachelors of Science, College of Business, Data Processing major
Buffalo Grove high school (1975) - diploma
Career Highlights
04/05
to 10/05 Oregon State Dept. of Human
Services, Salem, OR, Consultant
05/04
to 11/04 FreightLiner Corp., Portland,
OR, Consultant
12/03
to 05/04 PERS - Public Employees
Retirement System, Portland, OR, Consultant
07/01
to 06/03 SAIF Corporation, Salem, OR,
Consultant
04/00
to 11/00 Communik Inc., Portland, OR,
System Architect
03/99
to 03/00 PERS - Public Employees
Retirement System, Portland, OR, Consultant
10/97
to 02/99 FreightLiner Corp., Portland,
OR, Consultant
03/97 to 06/97 CMI
Systems, Portland, OR, Consultant (concurrent
w/ PERS assignment)
07/96 to 01/97 Enron/PGE
, Portland, OR, Consultant (concurrent
w/ PERS assignment)
10/95
to 9/97 PERS - Public Employees Retirement
System, Portland, OR, Consultant
07/94
to 09/95 SAIF Corporation, Salem, OR,
Consultant
05/94
to 07/94 Blue Cross of Idaho, Boise, ID,
Consultant
10/93
to 05/94 Ore-Ida Foods Boise, ID,
Consultant
04/93
to 09/93 First InterState Bank, Portland,
OR, Consultant
02/93
to 03/93 Evergreen Hospital, Seattle, WA,
Consultant
10/92
to 01/93 King County Medical/Blue Shield,
Seattle, WA, Consultant
05/91
to 10/92 Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA,
Consultant
07/90
to 04/91 Eagle Insurance, Seattle, WA,
Consultant
04/90
to 06/90 Group Health Ins. Co. , Seattle,
WA, Consultant
02/90
to 03/90 Eagle Insurance, Seattle, WA,
Consultant
08/88
to 12/89 Pay ‘N Save, West Seattle, WA,
Consultant
07/87
to 07/88 King County Medical/Blue Shield,
Seattle, WA, Consultant
02/87
to 06/87 Pay ‘N Save, West Seattle, WA,
Consultant
09/86
to 12/86 Pay ‘N Save - , West Seattle, WA,
Consultant
07/84
to 07/86 DariGold, Seattle, WA,
Programmer/Analyst
07/83
to 06/84 Chicago Specialty, Chicago, IL,
Programmer/Analyst Sr.
09/76
to 06/83 IPM - International Products and
Mg, Chicago, IL, Programmer/Analyst
09/73 to 09/76 Began data processing experience as high school sophomore writing
programs for school staff which were utilized as teaching aids.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
4/05 to 10/05 COMsys, Portland, OR Consultant
Oregon State Dept. of Human Services, Salem, OR (04/05 to Current)
As a System Architect participated in project to replace TARTAN legacy mini-system based Data Entry with server-based system. Responsible for achieving organizational goal by defining, engineering, communicating and integrating the implementation of a highly complex, comprehensive information system architecture change plan. Directed and coordinated all levels of the data and process modeling, work process, user interface design, technological infrastructure design. Also the applications and system development process and the development of appropriate work activities, tasks and estimates. Mentored and supported the project staff in various roles and responsibilities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Consulting Systems Architect, continued)
Duties: Worked with department Project Managers to develop or adapt the projects system development method to produce the requested service or product. Identified the needed skills and other resources and estimates for system development tasks from requirements thru implementation. Lead the development of the conceptual/high-level business process, data and technical requirements to provide common understanding between customer and software/hardware project wants and needs.
Coordinated with other project units to ensure that proposed technical solutions fit within the technological standards and strategic direction of the department. Produced the technical alternatives, cost benefits and recommendations. Facilitated and developed the Overall System Design and validated the content with the customers to ensure their understanding and buy-in of the system solution as it developed.
Ensured the coherence and efficiency of deliverables produced by the group and validated project objectives were met by coordination of team efforts in understanding of the delivery process, development environment and tools.
Evaluated and performed impact analysis on project change requests and ensured quality in the product and processes developed and maintained. Worked with all team Project Managers to resolve project issues as they arose. Scheduling, development and documentation specifications, current and proposed; change (version) control, unit testing, system programming, implementation and follow-up customer and client support.
Accomplishments: Defined and documented business processes by analyzing information utilization; studying business operations and user-interface requirements; determining systems architecture, components, and technologies; and directing development of knowledgebase.
Achieved information architecture operational objectives by identifying trends and resolving problems; determining system production and quality standards improvements; contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; and preparing and implementing action plans. Confirmed architecture capability and flexibility by developing and executing validation tests.
By accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments, the TARTAN Replacement Team enhanced organizational and departmental reputation through the successful implementation of a high-profile system change impacting multiple departments and client customers and workers at all levels.
Technical environment: MVS-OS/390 utilizing TSO; COBOL using VSAM, IMS and DB/2; DOS Scripts thru Win-Scheduler; File Transfer Program (FTP); Kofax, EDMS; Remote Administrator.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
12/03 to 11/04 Pacific Crest Technology, Portland, OR Consultant
Freightliner Corp, Portland, OR (05/04 to 11/04)
As a Senior Programmer/Analyst participated in conversions and interfaces for legacy applications to SAP-based package (Paragon). Responsible for analysis, design, programming, unit testing, and system programming, setup and testing as well as User and Staff training as required.
Technical
environment: COBOL using VSAM, IMS and
DB/2.
PERS - Public Employees Retirement System, Portland, OR (12/03 to 05/04)
As a Senior Programmer/ Analyst participated in interface development for Server-based package (jClarety). Also responsible general system maintenance of integrated in-house systems in the Benefit/Pension, Membership, Benefit Calculation and Death areas at mainframe and server/web levels. Duties were analysis, design, programming, unit testing, and system testing of new and current systems;
Technical
environment included VSAM and IMS using COBOL and Easytreive+, under ROSCOE
under MVS/ESA - and – PERL/HTML for web-based applications.
07/01 to 06/03 COMSYS, Inc., Portland, OR Consultant
SAIF Corporation, Salem, OR
As a Sr. Programmer/Analyst, worked on development and maintenance of integrated in-house systems in the Claims and Policy areas. Responsible for analysis, design, programming, unit testing, and system testing of new and current applications.
Technical
environment: VSAM, S2K (SAS, Natural), DB2 using COBOL and EasyTreive+,
TSO/ISPF and ROSCOE under MVS/XA.
04/00 to 11/00 CommuniK, Inc., Portland, OR Systems Architect
Led team in maintenance of web based CkNet system. Duties ranged from lead I/S contact with user & operations community to analysis, programming and project management. Responsible for: development and documentation specifications, current and proposed; change (version) control; testing; implementation and customer support.
Company dealt in financial information, including 401k (funds) related. Performed research and produced customer documents through multiple media, mainly print. utilizing web based systems and tools. Also performed mailings and other services as the company takes the client from design through production providing a complete campaign utilizing web based applications.
Technical
environment included: Cold Fusion
driven system which utilized SQL-Server and ACCESS databases; HTML, Java;
VisualBasic, VBA, VBscript, Windows NT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
10/97 to 03/00 Delta Systems, Portland, OR Consultant
PERS - Public Employees Retirement System, Portland, OR (03/99 to 03/00)
As a Senior Programmer/ Analyst participated in proto-conversion system development, State Audit project and Benefit/Pension, Membership, Benefit Calculation and Death systems development and maintenance. Proto-conversion system. Responsible for tasks as part of proto-conversion development which included; mainframe extract, download and Import to ACCESS and corresponding VisualBasic screen; 'screen scraper' application, which is where terminal emulation is run from the VisualBasic program and it acts as a user entering and reading data. State Audit project involving extract, download and import of Benefit Payment data to ACCESS, along with development of Querys and Reports. Also responsible for development and maintenance of integrated in-house systems in the Benefit/Pension, Membership, Benefit Calculation and Death areas. Duties were analysis, design, programming, unit testing, and system testing of new and current systems; miscellaneous extract, download to PC application sub-systems as requested. User and Staff training as required.
Technical
environment included VSAM and IMS using COBOL and Easytreive+, under ROSCOE
under MVS/ESA - and - ACCESS and VisualBasic, under Windows ’95. Data transfers utilized IND$FILE and FTP.
Freightliner Corp, Portland, OR (10/97 to 02/99)
As a Senior Programmer/Analyst led -or- participated in EDI system development, Help Desk system maintenance, system conversions and SAP project analysis. Initial project was conversions for the acquisition of Sterling, the Heavy truck Division of FORD. This involved development of processes for transferring, importing and utilizing of the FORD data by FreightLiner Customer Service Reps. This included an ACCESS database and corresponding VisualBasic utility. Also involved coding & testing of Help Desk software (Expert Advisor language and VisualBasic). This was done as part of maintenance and upgrade to the packaged system. EDI system development involved analysis & standardization of EDI procedures and software. This project utilized VisualBasic which used an ODBC call to a mainframe DB2 file for our data. Also - Installing & maintenance of PC-based EDI software (EDIfecs). In addition performed analysis for legacy financial application interfaces for in-house Parts Application to package (SAP).
Responsible for analysis, design, project control, programming, unit testing, and system testing as well as User and Staff training as required.
Technical environment: VisualBasic (5.0), ODBC (DB/2 calls) SQL/Server, ACCESS, Crystal Reports and EXCEL for the PC apps under Windows '95 and NT. COBOL using VSAM, DL/I and DB/2 was the mainframe Environment.environment included IBM (or clone) mainframe and various micros; EA (a PL/I derivative).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
03/97 to 06/97 CMI Systems, Portland, OR Consultant
As a Programmer, worked as a member of the team on the development of a Business Licensing system for a municipality in Michigan. Duties included programming and testing. This project ran concurrent with PERS assignment (10/95 to 09/97).
Technical
environment ACCESS (2.0 and 7.0) and VisualBasic (4.0 and 5.0), Crystal Reports
under Windows 3.1.
07/94 to 09/97 Computer People Inc., Portland, OR Consultant
PERS - Public Employees Retirement System, Portland, OR (10/95 to 9/97)
As a Senior Programmer/ Analyst, participated in development and maintenance of integrated in-house systems in the Benefit/Pension, Membership, Benefit Calculation and Death areas - Batch and On-line mainframe. Responsible for analysis, design, programming, unit testing, and system testing of new and current applications; miscellaneous extract, download to PC application sub-systems as requested. User and Staff training as required.
Technical
environment included VSAM and IMS using COBOL and Easytreive+, under ROSCOE
under MVS/ESA - and - ACCESS and VisualBasic, under Windows ’95. Data transfers utilized IND$FILE and FTP.
Enron/PGE, Portland, OR (07/96 to 01/97)
As a Programmer/Analyst, worked on the development of Work Order and Line Crew Activity Tracking applications. Duties included analysis, programming, testing and implementation. This project ran concurrent with PERS assignment (10/95 to 09/97).
Technical
environment ACCESS and VisualBasic (4.0), Crystal Reports under Windows 3.1.
SAIF Corporation, Salem, OR (07/94 to 09/95)
As a Sr. Programmer/Analyst, worked on development and maintenance of integrated in-house systems in the Accounting and Membership areas. Responsible for analysis, design, programming, unit testing, and system testing of new and current applications.
Technical environment: VSAM, S2K (SAS, Natural),
DB2 using COBOL and EasyTreive+, TSO/ISPF and ROSCOE under MVS/XA.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
10/93 to 07/94 Datronics, Boise,ID Consultant
Blue Cross of Idaho, Boise, ID (05/94 to 07/94)
Consulting as a Programmer Analyst. Worked on the upgrade of in-house systems in general and enhancement of Policy system specifically. Responsible for programming, testing and documentation.
Technical
environment: Batch and online
mainframe; VSAM and DataCom using COBOL
and IDEAL, ROSCOE under MVS/XA.
Ore-Ida Foods, Boise, ID (10/93 to 05/94)
As a Programmer Analyst participated in the integration of bought company operations into in-house systems and enhancements of Customer Orders and Warehouse system components. Project duties included mapping and extracting data for EDI (GenTrans) processing. Responsible for programming, testing and documentation.
Technical environment included VSAM and DataCom
using COBOL and IDEAL, ROSCOE under MVS/XA.
05/91 to 09/93 Programming & Consulting Services, Seattle, WA Consultant
First InterState Bank, Portland, OR (04/93 to 09/93)
As a Programmer Analyst participated in packaged (PegaSys) system install for bank document and info storage and retrieval. Responsible analysis, programming, unit testing, and system testing of package components and interfaces, both batch and on-line. Duties included installation, setting system parameters and training in-house staff for on-line development and tuning.
Technical
environment: CICS utilizing DADS, PLAYBACK under MVS/TSO; Programming involved COBOL/VSAM.
Evergreen Hospital, Seattle, WA (02/93 to 03/93)
As a Programmer Analyst installed Patient Accounting package system. Responsible analysis, programming, unit testing, and system testing of package components and interfaces, both batch and on-line. Duties included installation; set up and training for PCs and Communications (Controllers, Phone lines) at remote sites, setting system parameters at Mini site, training in-house staff for on-line development and tuning as well as configuration.
Technical environment: IBM/486 using OS/2 through PC/Support via IBM3451 Controllers to AS/400 utilizing CL, programming in COBOL and RPG
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
05/91 to 09/93 Programming & Consulting Services, Seattle, WA Consultant
King County Medical/Blue Shield, Seattle, WA (10/92 to 01/93)
Consulting as a Senior Programmer Analyst participated in MEDICARE system changes. Basic maintenance and Year-End reporting per government requirements
for systems maintained by KCMBS. Responsible for analysis, programming, and unit testing - both batch and on-line. Duties included training in-house staff for system testing and help desk operations.
Technical
environment included: MVS, TSO, COBOL using ‘OLAMOD’ database and VSAM, some
Macro Level CICS.
Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA (05/91 to 10/92)
As a Senior Programmer Analyst participated in
development and maintenance of in-house and packaged systems. Claims Billing system. Expansion and
support of PC based packaged system for Claims Billing. This included daily transfers from local
mainframe to PCs, then to remote mainframe. Responsible analysis, programming,
and unit testing, training in-house staff for system testing and help desk
operations.; VM ‘machines’, JCL and programs. Duties included PC software and
hardware maintenance as well as mainframe components.
E/R system. Another project for this client was an Emergency Room Patient system, which included a mainframe to VAX to Mac transfer. Other systems maintenance. The remainder of duties was filled by requests for reports, ‘fixes’ and basic changes on various mainframe systems.
Technical
environment included: VMS (VAX), MVS (TSO) and VM (Xedit), inter-regional CICS,
COBOL, EasyTreive+, Fortran, RPG II, and VSAM.
Also MacIntosh II (O/S) with PFX for communications, DOS 5.0 and Windows
3.1 running on Compaq 386 and IBM PS/2
utilizing Qbasic and MicroFocus COBOL.
07/90 to 04/91 Financial Data Systems Inc, Seattle, WA Consultant
Eagle Insurance Seattle, WA (07/90 to 04/91)
As a Senior Programmer Analyst worked on development and maintenance of packaged (M&D) Claims and Policy systems. Provided CICS and PC support as needed. Responsible for analysis, coding, testing and implementation. Duties also included maintenance and documentation of in-house and packaged systems.
Technical
environment included: DOS/VSE, ICCF, COBOL, DL/I, CICS.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
07/90 to 04/91 Financial Data Systems Inc, Seattle, WA Consultant
Group Health Ins. Co., Seattle, WA (04/90 to 06/90)
As a Senior Programmer Analyst participated in development of Claims History Reporting system for A/R. Other projects involved analysis and programming for Claims and related systems. Responsible for analysis, coding, testing and implementation.
Technical
environment included: MVS/Roscoe, DataCom using COBOL and IDEAL.
Eagle Insurance, Seattle, WA (02/90 to 03/90)
As a Senior Programmer Analyst worked on design, development and maintenance of Provided analysis and programming for packaged (M&D) Claims and Policy systems. Responsible for analysis, coding, testing and implementation.
Technical
environment included: DOS/VSE, ICCF, COBOL, DL/I, CICS.
09/86 to 12/89 Programming & Consulting Services, Seattle, WA Consultant
Pay ‘N Save, Seattle, WA (08/88 to 12/89)
As a Sr. Programmer/Analyst involved in the development and maintenance of batch and on-line systems. Hand-held Scanner system. Duties were creating the extract files from the mainframe, downloading them to the PC's and mini's (NCR Tower) and testing the Telzon remote handheld scanning units. Sales Reporting system. Responsible for analysis, programming and testing for IDMS - ADS/O to VSAM - COBOL conversion.
Remainder of duties consisted of minor tasks on PCs, minis and mainframe - CICS trouble-shooting - as needed.
Technical
environment included: MVS/TSO, IDMS, and VSAM, COBOL, ADS/O, CULPRIT. Also IBM 386, DOS, PC3270, Telzon bar code
scanners.
King County Medical/Blue Shield, Seattle, WA (07/87 to 07/88)
As a Senior Programmer Analyst participated in design, development and maintenance of new & existing MEDICARE sub-systems. Responsible for analysis, coding, testing and implementation. Duties also included maintenance and documentation of other KCMBS in-house and packaged systems.
Technical
environment included: MVS, TSO, COBOL using ‘OLAMOD’ database and VSAM, some
Macro Level CICS.
09/86 to 12/89 Programming & Consulting Services, Seattle, WA Consultant
Pay ‘N Save, Seattle, WA (02/87 to 06/87)
As a Sr. Programmer/Analyst worked on Point-of-sales
(POS) system where retail store data is gathered & transferred from NCR
minis to IBM mainframe and then utilized on-line. Responsible for programming, unit testing, and maintenance. Remainder of duties consisted of minor tasks
on PCs, minis and mainframe. CICS
trouble-shooting and staff training as needed.
Technical environment included:
MVS/TSO, IDMS, and VSAM, COBOL, ADS/O, CULPRIT.
Pay ‘N Save, Seattle, WA (09/86 to 12/86)
As a Sr. Programmer/Analyst worked on Sales/Marketing and Warehouse Inventory systems. Performed maintenance on the Warehouse Inventory system (WCSS) systems, in-house and packaged, using PC data edited & transferred to the mainframe. Also developed Sales/Marketing regional analysis & reporting system. Remainder of duties consisted of minor tasks on PCs and mainframe. Responsible for programming, unit testing, and maintenance. Technical environment included: MVS/TSO, IDMS, and VSAM, COBOL, ADS/O, CULPRIT. Also IBM AT, PC3270.
07/84 to 07/86 DariGold, Seattle, WA Programmer/Analyst
As a Programmer, participated in development of
Inventory Control, Accounts Payable and Production Capture systems. Responsible for analysis and programming of
on-line components, micro to mainframe functions and batch interfaces to
current systems. Also maintained
existing systems - changes and fixes. Technical environment included: MVS/Roscoe,
VSAM and IDMS; COBOL, BAL and PL/I.
Micros were IBM/AT's utilizing Btreive through Pascal, networked using
PC/Net.
07/83 to 06/84 Chicago Specialty, Chicago, IL Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Responsible for analysis, re-design, programming and
implementation of on-line systems for purchasing and inventory control as well
as support for all systems in general. Technical
environment included: UNIVACS/OS running TIP/30 for online with programming in
COBOL, ISAM.
09/76 to 06/83 International Products and Manufacturing, Chicago, IL Programmer/Analyst
Main achievement was re-write of customer order and
related systems. This involved on-line
Order Entry/Maintenance, Customer & Inventory Inquiry and Warehousing
functionality. Pre-requisites included
a CICS install/upgrade, ISAM to VSAM conversion and batch RPG II to online CICS - COBOL- conversion. After
this performed analysis and corresponding upgrade of sales, manufacturing,
Accounts Receivables and Payables systems and integrated into the system.
Responsible for analysis, design, development, programming, testing,
implementation of on-line and batch components. Also project management,
programmer training and general systems maintenance. Began professional career with
this company as an Operator Trainee. Technical
environment included: DOS/VSE using ICCF, CICS, COBOL and RPG II, VSAM and
ISAM.