Terry Blaser Email & Phone Number

Saint Charles, Mo, Us

Independent technology consultant/programmer with over 20 years of IBM mid-level mainframe experience.Focusing on:- Full project life-cycle management (concept to implementation)- Platform and Application Integration- Systems managementClient base:- Manufacturing

Senior IBM AS400 Programmer with a focus on systems integration and creation of applications built to deliver improved efficiency.Major System - DBS (Dealer Business System)Primary Language: CobolMajor Projects Include:- Design/Implementation of a product management and order entry interface to DBS which allowed for tailored pricing. The flexibility offered by this application resulted in significant bottom line revenue growth.- Design/Implementation of "LockBox" system to receive customer payments from the bank transactions to posting within the Lawson system. This greatly reduced the hours required for accounts receivable receipts posting and reconcilliation.- Design/Implementation Helpdesk application to greatly improve issue resolution

San Antonio, Tx - Chiller Manufacturing Plant (Now JCI) Singularly responsible for all aspects of AS/400 environment including :- System management and maintenance- Complete integration with MAPICS manufacturing software.- Code conversion from Sys/36 mode to native AS/400- Wrote several systems with hundreds of RPG/400 programs, most of them interfacing with MAPICS. Because of flexiblity built into the design, most of these are still in use in 2010. - Wrote large number of queries and provided instruction to users to self build their own queries as needed.- Made all programs and queries Y2K ready.- Performed operating system upgrades & MAPICS release upgrades.

- Primary support for Sys/36.- Wrote and/or maintained hundreds of RPGII programs.- Interfaced Sys/36 with IBM mainframe and AS/400.

- Sold and maintained various micro computer systems.- Performed upgrades, repairs, installations and configurations.- Computer consulting on IBM system 34 & 36, and on PC's

- System 36, RPG – Hospital Systems (Patient Billing)- System 36, Cobol - Appraisal System (Converted from Prime Cobol to System 36 Cobol). Because of program size limit of 64K and total system memory of 256K, this required substantial redesign resulting in a driver program and 12 additional programs called by the driver as needed. These had extensive use of memory overlays and temp files to hold and pass user data between programs. The resulting system allowed several users, using multiple requester technique, to use this system simultaneously despite the apparent impossibility due to memory restraints.

Major Clients:1.Southwestern Bell Telecom – Commission System, Communications protocols for sending data between System 36s in St Louis and the other cities where they had offices.2.Lutheran Altenheim - System 36, Resident Management and Donation Systems

Consulting Firm – Developed solutions for clients in St. Louis area

- Brought Casa Gallardo, Mexican Restaurant chain, into the computer age.- From 3 restaurants and no computers to System 34, DFASII, other packages and in-house developed interfaces allowed the accounting staff size to remain the same until there were dozens of restaurants.