Gift Baskets and Retail Store selling nuts, dried fruits, trail mixes, chocolates and Mountain-themed gifts. Mountain Man has been around since 1977 and is a local favorite. We support the businesses and hotels in the Vail Valley. Use Intuit Quickbooks and Quickbooks POS to manage sales, inventory and general retail system processes.

Project manager and lead (24/7) support for the Pension System at the City of Boston; coordinating, managing, analyzing needs, designing, developing, programming, testing, documenting, implementing, and training users since its installation in 1999. Experience with the operations, bringing the system up/down, installing new software, database adds/updates, backup/restore operations and other daily system operations, and FTPing, accepting and sending encrypted data files. Applications include a payroll interface with outside agencies to accept enrollments and weekly member (30,000) contributions into Annuity Savings Fund, yearly accounting statements, handling billing for buybacks of prior service, refunds of account from the savings plan, transfer of funds to other boards, daily/monthly/yearly interest calculations on the member accounts, retirement estimates and calculations, benefit pension payroll for (15,000) retirees which includes yearly cost of living increases, health insurance and other various deduction maintenance, taxes, retroactive adjustments to pensions, payroll checks, letters, and billing requirements, daily/monthly/quarterly and yearly reporting, 1099Rs. HPe3000 IMAGE Database environment using COBOL on MPE/ix platform with many different applications, online and batch. Interfaces with IBM, MSOffice, Email. 3rd party software tools include SUPRTOOL and QEDIT by Robelle, MPEX by VESOFT, DBGeneral Database Utility, KSAM files, SUPERDEX. Recently moved to Colorado as current system is stable, and undergoing a conversion to a different platform which will be managed and supported by external company owning the software. Currently supporting system/users from home in Colorado until conversion is complete and software capable of performing needed tasks.

Designing, developing, programming, testing, documenting, implementing, and training users at various sites around the country that installed the RCG Retirement Pension software system. Travel 50%. Eventually work only at City of Boston (at their request) until contract dissolved and hired on as permanent contractor/consultant under my own newly formed company (Logical Alternative Inc). Database environment using COBOL on MPE/ix platform with many different applications, online and batch. Interfaces with IBM, MSOffice, Email. 3rd party software tools include SUPRTOOL and QEDIT by Robelle, MPEX by VESOFT, DBGeneral Database Utility, KSAM files, SUPERDEX.

Raised two wonderful boys, now pursuing their educational goals at VA Tech and Purdue. Very active in MOPs (Mothers of Preschoolers) and sold handmade crafts in booth at local mall and holiday fairs as a hobby.

Law applications including citations to cases, statutes, codes and law reviews. IBM COBOL with IDMS Relational Database.

Worked for several large Hartford area companies on short-term contracting/consulting assignments: - Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal in Chicopee, MA - Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford - Aetna Insurance in Middletown - Otis Elevator in Farmington (two contracts) - Corliss Data Systems in East HartfordCOBOL/CICS with VSAM, DB2, IDMS/IMS Relational Databases for various Financial, Insurance, Automated Contact/Phone Applications

Financial Applications including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Order Entry. COBOL/CICS with IDMS Relational Database on an IBM platform.