Edward Macdonough Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Exstream Dialogue and ACE postal application setup, testing, support, and change management. Interpret workflow requirements to design, configure, test and implement complete document creation solutions for client customers. Statement analysis and debugging. Develop new and improve existing Exstream application architectures.

Owings Mills, Md

Provided expert HP Exstream consulting services to the Retirement Planning Services (RPS) team in support of statements for participants in "Non-Qualified" 401k plans as well as various other statements for the Department of Labor. Worked extensively with XML, reference files, pie charts, complex tables, conditional colors, and defining of color families. Architected an EWS (Engine as a Web Service) application on version 8.0.325 using the version .2.0.009 SOAP Connector to produce a visually… Show more Provided expert HP Exstream consulting services to the Retirement Planning Services (RPS) team in support of statements for participants in "Non-Qualified" 401k plans as well as various other statements for the Department of Labor. Worked extensively with XML, reference files, pie charts, complex tables, conditional colors, and defining of color families. Architected an EWS (Engine as a Web Service) application on version 8.0.325 using the version .2.0.009 SOAP Connector to produce a visually impressive Strategic Plan document available immediately to Plan Sponsors that fill out an online survey. Show less

Novi, Mi

Ed has over 30 years of experience in analysis and design, system enhancement, software maintenance, and production support of large-scale customer information and billing systems. Having served his “time in the trenches” at companies like Pacific Gas & Electric, Reliant Energy, and T. Rowe Price, Ed knows the territory and the technology. Ed is an active member of the Dialogue users group, an expert in CSF to Dialogue conversion, and a respected speaker, author and authority on document… Show more Ed has over 30 years of experience in analysis and design, system enhancement, software maintenance, and production support of large-scale customer information and billing systems. Having served his “time in the trenches” at companies like Pacific Gas & Electric, Reliant Energy, and T. Rowe Price, Ed knows the territory and the technology. Ed is an active member of the Dialogue users group, an expert in CSF to Dialogue conversion, and a respected speaker, author and authority on document engineering. He earned his BBA in Computer Information Systems from Western Michigan University. Show less

San Francisco, Ca

Provided HP Exstream consulting services as a member of the Bill Redesign development team. This team included 3 additional HP Exstream developers. Collectively we built new bill statements and late notices using DBCS (double-byte font) capabilities to present them in English, Spanish, and Chinese. I developed an additional application in HP Exstream to magnify these same statements approx. 65% to support people with limited vision capability. In addition, working with the other HP Exstream… Show more Provided HP Exstream consulting services as a member of the Bill Redesign development team. This team included 3 additional HP Exstream developers. Collectively we built new bill statements and late notices using DBCS (double-byte font) capabilities to present them in English, Spanish, and Chinese. I developed an additional application in HP Exstream to magnify these same statements approx. 65% to support people with limited vision capability. In addition, working with the other HP Exstream consultants on the project, I helped train PG&E employees on the functionality of the new bill statement applications. Show less

Owings Mills, Md

Lead HP Exstream consultant engaged in developing two new statements required by the Department of Labor in 2012 under ERISA sections 404(a) and 408(b)(2). Mentored a T. Rowe Price employee in techniques and best practices in the use of HP Exstream. These statements were successfully deployed in June and August of 2012.

Co-lead Dialogue Developer on major project to integrate original 2005 bill design to the new Customer Care & Billing (CC&B) system purchased from Oracle. Enhancing the application to also print summary bills, street light bills, and other types of non-energy charges.

Dialogue Architect (2 engagements) - Bill Redesign Project, designed and coded high-level architecture for bills, data dictionary, components, system testing. Successfully implemented the new bill in September 2010.

Dialogue Consultant (3 engagements) - Created Material Change Notice Application in Dialogue using PDF Import and Dynamic Data Access Connector. Assisted in-house team in moving AFP production invoices from Regulus to Personix (3rd party print providers). Mentored and trained in-house staff in Dialogue tools and best practices

Dialogue Consultant - Developed complex energy audit statements in full-color PDF for Duke Energy, employed use of SOAP .NET Connector.

Co-lead Dialogue Developer - Bill Replatforming Project, converted CSF bills on MVS to Dialogue running on Unix, (volume 260,000 per night).

Dialogue Consultant- Developed two new Dialogue applications: Summary Billing and Traffic Control / Streetlight Billing.

Lead CSF Developer (2 engagements) - Asset Allocation Statement and Annual Increase Statement developed in CSF/MVS with Xerox Metacode output.

Mailing Systems Integrator and Tester - Converted mail preparation software from Mailer’s Choice to Pitney Bowes MailStream Plus in very short time frame.

Analyst / Dialogue Developer - Bill Redesign Project, converted CSF Bill Print and Collection Letter applications to Dialogue

CSF Developer - Developed new Key Customer Bill Print Application in OpenCSF on the HP-Unix platform.

Co-lead CSF/COBOL developer - CCS Bill Delivery Project interfacing with SAP, COBOL coding for history bar chart, EBPP interface using XML.

Enhanced and maintained Customer Information System (CIS) with focus on Bill Print (CSF, AFP, Group 1).