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Pittsburgh, Pa

For 26 years our firm has been a profitable organization. We were named in the Pittsburgh Business Times top 100 Fastest growing companies. Our goal is to find you the best and brightest talent in any IT skill that you are looking for. It becomes more difficult all the time to find top-notch talent. We are the firm that will find the talent for your IT requirements.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Sr. Project Manager on the Customer Choice Project at Duquesne Light Co.• Managed all aspects of application upgrades to design, code, test and implement modifications to the cash processing system to accurately split customer payments between Duquesne Light and the energy suppliers.• Designated expert for Duquesne Light’s Cash Processing system, including payment processing, general ledger, invoicing, and EDI• Designed and delivered a new Customer Service application for Duquesne Light’s three customer services offices

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Director of Sales - Achieved promotion to Sales Director for surpassing sales targets during transition to sales role from KCS Consulting staff• Account Manager - Led a team of 30 staff members while managing consulting responsibilities. Conducted annual reviews, facilitated raises, client manager consultations, and pre-sales visits• Technical Trainer - Instructed COBOL/CICS to employees of a major corporation in the Pittsburgh area

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Senior Technology Consultant Assigned to Duquesne Light Co’s Discus Project. Responsibilities included:• Managed on-site KCS consultants• Designated expert for Duquesne Light’s Cash Processing system, including payment processing, general ledger, invoicing, and EDI• Developed specifications for software development by conducting user meetings, reviews, and final sign-off on deliverable designs• Developed and coded CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM programs for the Discus Project

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for developing and maintaining Fisher’s EDI system.• Managed system change requests and enhancements• Managed ongoing EDI development staff• Developed EDI specifications by meetings with users and gathering information• Converted the EDI system from a home-grown translation package to IBM’s Data Interchange product• Worked with EDI trading partners on a daily basis to map and convert their day-to-day transactions with Fisher to automated transactions including, 810’s, 820’s and 867 transactions

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Project Manager, Office of the Chairman • Managed a staff of three people to design, implement and deliver critical corporate data to executive level management• Automated 35 manual reports that were being run daily by hand• Designed and wrote data extracts for data analysisTeam Leader, Telecash systems • Lead a team of two analyst on Mellon’s Automated Investment Service (AIS)• Ensured that daily sweep transactions were accurately done for Mellon’s corporate customers• Designed and wrote in COBOL, an interface between AIS and Mellon’s Trust systemSr., Programmer Analyst, Telecash Systems • Designed modifications to Mellon’s AIS system• Coded changes to Mellon’s AIS system from specificationsProgrammer Analyst, Commercial Credit Facilities Systems (CCFS) • Wrote and modified COBOL programs for an existing loan system• Created daily reports based on user demands to extract data for analysis