Information Technology Professional
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Sr. Analyst/Programmer, 10/2004-9/2011 Health Survey Research Center (School of Public Health)Sr. Analyst/Programmer, 2/1999-10/2004 Dentistry Clinical Systems (School of Dentistry)Sr. Analyst/Programmer, 3/1987-2/1999 HSCS→Office of Information Technology (OIT)Analyst/Programmer,10/1984-3/1987 Health Sciences Computing Services (HSCS)Applications Prog, 9/1983-10/1984. Health Sciences Computing Services (HSCS)I’ve generally worked in “small shop” environments where I wore multiple hats: business analyst/systems analyst, data modeler, application developer, DBA, 2nd/3rd tier tech support staff, and research design & statistical consultant. My optimal contributions have occurred in situations that favored both autonomous problem-solving and building close working relationships with customers.Operating systems & networking:- Windows; Macintosh (OS X and older); Unix, including shell scripting. Experience with older mainframe & mini systems: VAX/VMS; MVS/TSO; CDC NOS & NOS/VE.- TCP/IP and FTP experience; general network, firewall, encryption and email (POP and IMAP) troubleshooting skills; Active Directory.Data management tools:- FileMaker Pro expert, including FMP Server and web deployment).- MS Access, DBase, and similar.- SQLAnywhere, Oracle, MS SQL Server.- MS Excel, including macros and multi-file links.- Data warehouse (financial and HRMS).- PeopleSoft training.Online survey & computer assisted telephone interview (CATI) tools:- DatStat Illume development and survey administration- CASES 4.3 CATI development and survey administration.Programming, data analysis, other tools:- SPSS; SAS; BMDP.- SQL query writing (primarily Oracle).- Javascript (including .net variants).- HTML, XML, website work.- Optical data acquisition (barcode print/scan, OMR/OCR); document management systems.- Fortran, COBOL- PowerBuilder, VisualBasic, Perl.- Interactive Voice Response (IVR) design-build (Periphonics).- MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Visio