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Anayze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer systems. Confer with personnel involved in analyzing current operational procedures and identify problems. Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and perform steps required to develop or modify computer programs.Review computer system capabilities and workflow. Study existing information processing systems to evaluate effectiveness and develop new systems to improve productivity. Combine system support skills to analyze and assist in developing customized software for various industries. Develop prototypes on relational database management systems.

Working in the Retail and Insurance product areas of the company developing a Point of Sale system in Visual Studio .Net eventually developing a Point of Sale Framework that is the basis of all new POS systems in the company as well as booking agents for several insurance customers.Development of a 2.0 version Business Process Workflow framework for construction of the company's main application lines.Promotion of Agile practices within the company's development group.

Began working as assistant to the IS department manager then became in charge of the IS department reporting directly to the Plant manager two months later when the IS manager changed departments.Daily activities included the coordination and direction of the department's Systems and Operations personnel, which serviced 120+ computer users in the Tijuana Plant location.Oversaw the transition of the plants network and systems to those used by global Autoliv, coordinating the adoption of Autoliv's various systems (ERP, ECM, communications) while at the same time ensuring the proper operation of current systems.Established the goals and budget for the department as well as setting policy and procedures for the use of the company's various information resources.

Developed COM based, MTS compatible data object servers for the Data Access Layer of the company's three-tiered application development approach using Visual Basic 6.0 and ADO.Created component generator to automate the process of producing consistent, tested, DCOM, ADO and MTS based data access code that now serves as the foundation of AIC's software projects.

Systems administration of a 100 user Novell NetWare 4.1 local area network with 80+ workstations as well as 20+ users in the Detroit Corporate office via a 64Kb data link, and the users of the San Diego office via a 256Kb channel of an E1-T1 link.Software development of in-house applications for various needs such asYear-end inventory control, Material cost analysis, Cycle counting; using Visual Basic, Microsoft Access and Crystal Reports.General administration of the Fourth Shift MRP-II system, as well as developing applications for generating special reports using extracts from the Fourth Shift databases as well as Framework for Windows.Supporting users of the computer network in both DOS and Windows applications (Excel, Word, Lotus, AmiPro, Flow, etc.).Implementation of the Windows environment on the LAN using Habitat for Windows 2.0.As well as various activities relating to the support of the Toshiba phone system, which include installation and troubleshooting of phone connections.