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Alexandria, Mn

Development of county recorder office system for use in recorder’s office. Facilitates receiving documents from customers for recording including stamping/numbering of documents and processing fees. Collaborated with owner on development of new VLP (Vital, License and Permit) desktop and web application. Worked with team on multiple full stack web deployments employing ASP.NET CORE MVC.

Blaine, Mn

Hired by the global plant-based cosmetic company as a Programmer/Analyst, later promoted to Senior Programmer/Analyst and then to Technical Software Engineer. Initially hired for creation and maintenance of the existing AS400 BPCS system application programming requests. Directed the Y2K upgrade of the AS400 platform, including the BPCS system and all in-house programs; responsible for three programmers and the analysis, design, scheduling, testing and implementation of their modules. Fall of 2000 moved to the Windows Application division utilizing Microsoft Visual Basic and SQL client/server architecture. Designed and developed several window, server and intranet web applications utilizing Visual Studio and Microsoft SQL server. Responsible for creation of project documentation with regard to business change control process, per Sarbanes Oxley; this would include all unit testing plans, unit testing documentation, user acceptance testing plans and managing projects. Develop application technical specifications for project development and create documents in accordance with System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Programed projects utilizing VB.Net, ASP.Net, Transact-SQL, SSIS, Access, IIS, VBA, Excel, SharePoint and InfoPath.

Brooklyn Park, Mn

Hired as a consultant by the medical device manufacturing company to design a financial reporting system from their Oracle application/database system. Upon completion of this project continued to design and program multiple applications and databases for their financial, sales, customer service, human resources and marketing departments. Programmed projects utilizing Microsoft Office VBA with Microsoft Access, Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

Plymouth, Mn

Hired by the international software development company as a Programmer/Analyst programming enhancements to BPCS (Business Planning and Control System), the company's AS400 based core product providing enterprise solutions for manufacturing and industrial sector companies. After one year was promoted to Senior Programmer/Analyst and assigned to the new development of the OLM (Outbound Logistics Management) application. Designated as Project Leader overseeing three to eight programmers, creating technical design documents and responsible for analysis, design, testing, code review and packaging of the modules. Wrote several automated internal utilities to analyze and evaluate written programming code.

Hired by the financial lending company as a Programmer/Analyst working in the Dealer Services and Special Products Division modifying AS400, RPG/400 based software package on IBM AS400 System. Duties included all aspects of an enhancement from analysis, design, coding and testing to implementation, conversion, education and documentation. Extensive coding of commands, CL and RPG/400 programming. Since April 1994 programmed using Genesis V Case tool. Primary programming assignment was development of a new loan entry system. Worked closely with third-party vendor and coded enhancements to their case tool code generator application.

Originally hired for the banking software vendor as a second shift help desk representative providing technical and system support for a client base of approximately 500 Sys/36 and AS/400 users. Became second shift team leader, overseeing and aiding second shift employees. Accepted position as lone third shift representative working with additional programming requests. Responsible for all internal programming software requests and enhancements, including data base management, product release, quality assurance and help desk call tracking and call problem analysis. Promoted 5 times, lastly to Programmer/Analyst originally assigned to the loans division, also worked in customer information area and in the "specials" programming division.

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