Gerry Doherty Email & Phone Number

Solihull

Solihull

Northampton, United Kingdom

Provision of customer focused connections and intra-company messaging, maintenance & upgrading EDI Software. Management of small highly focused team.Project Manager on integration projects - gathering requirements, writing technical documents, scheduling resources, co-ordinating testing, implementing solutions and supporting operational teams throughout the SDLC.Out-of-hours support for new and legacy interfaces which involved diagnostics, short-term fixes or workarounds, investigation and long-term solutions as a result of root cause determination (ad-hoc program development and data analysis using SQL), pro-active alerting and education of internal and external customers.Highlights:- Designed and implemented solutions for many (international) clients with varied methodologies and formats based on various hardware/software platforms, generally as the main point of contact for ITExamples:- designed, and implemented the EDI solution of 17 interfaces for a major international retailer, based on REIMS/SFTP/bespoke CSV in 6 weeks, twice (UK and Spanish distribution centres) into Red Prairie; implemented AS2 or VAN communications for individual customers, occasionally on an ad-hoc basis; switched customers from one communications method, VAN, to another, HTTP(AS2), to drive down costs; replicated inbound EDI documents internally to multiple individual warehouse sites/software packages; used EDI packages, MS Excel & VBA to map documents to Red Prairie interface formats when Clients have very low technical ability; facilitated and supported the integration of internal documents and externally scanned POD images into and retrieval of clients POD images from Hitec's DMS;Configured Red Prairie communications for multiple clients with multiple interfaces within a single site environment.Organisation and installation of a major strategic upgrade to the EDI platformIdentification and reductions of hardware (DMZ & Enterprise FTP servers) and EDI suppliers (VAN)

Northampton, United Kingdom

Development of internal Transport Management System including maintenance & upgrading Project Management of inter-company software-only integration projects using Synon/2E (RPG), FTP, REIMS and SQL.Out-of-hours support of all aspects of TMS and all customer related interfaces.Highlights: the challenge of managing a large team of developers with many projects on the go at any one time, developing EDI solutions for new customers and enhancing internal systems for business benefit

Northampton, United Kingdom

Designing and developing in Synon/2E (RPG) for internally developed TMS and WMS systems, implemented and supported OOH. Use of SQL to analyse data for problem resolution.Highlights: installing the WMS in UK, Holland and Belgium

Northampton, United Kingdom

Developing various functionality of internally developed Marketing system supporting various multinational Airline companies primarily using Microsoft Access and VBA.

Warwick, Warwickshire

Development of a bespoke business transaction system for a UK Paper Merchant, comprising Purchase orders; Sales orders; stock adjustments, balances and reconciliation; integration with a 3rd party warehouse system and Microsoft office products. Originally all development was using Cobol on an IBM System/38, also Synon/2E (into Cobol). Experience of Microsoft Office components including VBA to produce consumer price lists and allow tele-sales staff to use Access & Excel, via ODBC & RPC, to update the master database.Highlights: training new staff from scratch, also installing the complete package for a South African Paper Merchant.

Dublin, Ireland

Developing software for a various clients including leading Irish Retail chain and UK paper merchant using Cobol on ICL PDP systems and latterly using Cobol on an IBM System 38.