Electronic mail: paul_stephanis@bigfoot.com

Post Office Box AN

Facsimile: (609) 279-2132

Princeton NJ 08542-0119

 

Profile:

·        Results oriented. Confident in making project related decisions.

·        Reputation for a strong sense of professionalism; dependable, reliable, remains calm and works well under demanding conditions.

·        Strong interpersonal and communications abilities.

·        Maintains project focus, productivity, and momentum.

·        Skilled in translating complex requirements into accurate specifications and technical solutions.

·        15+ years experience in complex systems development.

 

 

Project Administration/Implementation

·        Successfully communicates with disparate teams to guide project schedules and deliverables.

·        Directs programmers to complete tasks within a project deadline.

·        Skillfully employs PM techniques to increase batch throughput, and performance.

·        Precisely estimates programming effort for management of projects: development options, programs, resources, etc.

·        Manages complete SDLC on fixed T&M basis.

·        Technical liaison with vendors for outsourced project portions, including reconciliation with internal development.

·        Manages upgrades of system software tools: Telon, Sync Sort, Abend-Aide, etc.

·        Prepares guidelines for project implementation including on-site UAT support.

 

System Analysis/Design

·        Analyzes business requirements to produce detailed programs, database and process specifications.

·        Specifies program/process requirements across multiple platforms,

·        Details new or changes to programs to incorporate functionality into complex legacy systems.

·        With customer service in mind, evaluates software tools from vendors against enterprise requirements.

·        Employs solutions that have repeatedly and drastically improved response times.

·        Successfully employs analytical skills to revisit and solve long-standing production and process problems.


 

Software Development/Problem Solving

·        Develops programs that interact in real time with multiple platforms: Internet technologies, Unix, other DBMS, other mainframes.

·        Has written: 20+ database conversion programs; application conversion programs under extreme deadlines, template programs used to develop a complete sub-system.

·        Develops/maintains, and remediates sub-systems in entirety on fixed T&M cost basis.

·        Setup, and supports complete test environments, including all batch, ftp jobs. Supports developers with problems on application, as well as system software.

·        Configures, sets up application development products. Increases online response time over 95%. Increases batch job throughput system wide

 

 

Client History:

2002 – Present  Telecommunications Company               Consultant

1998 – 2001.     Avnet, Inc.                                            Consultant (via Telecommute)

1998                 Keane Consulting.                                 Technical Consultant

1997 – 1998.     Experian Credit Data.                           Consultant (via Telecommute)

1996 – 1997.     Levi Strauss & Co.                                Technical Consultant

1995 – 1996.     Marshall Industries, Inc.                         Consultant

1993 – 1995.     TRW Credit Data.                                 Consultant

1992 – 1993.     ARCO Petroleum Co.                           Consultant

1991 – 1992.     Avnet, Inc.                                            Consultant

1989 – 1991.     Scottish Widows Insurance.                   Contractor

1986 – 1988.     Infoplan Consulting.                               Senior Analyst/Programmer.

 

Education:

 

Technical Summary

Abend-Aide

15 yrs

 

TSO/ISPF

12 yrs

 

MS Office

5 yrs

COBOL

15 yrs

 

Expediter

10 yrs

 

Microman Project

3 yrs

File-Aide

15 yrs

 

COBOL II

8 yrs

 

MS Project

3 yrs

IMS DB

15 yrs

 

Panvalet

8 yrs

 

Roscoe

3 yrs

IMS DC

15 yrs

 

DB2

7 yrs

 

!DB Explain

2 yrs

JCL

15 yrs

 

Data Vantage

6 yrs

 

Endeavor

2 yrs

Sync Sort

15 yrs

 

CICS

5 yrs

 

Librarian

2 yrs

Telon

12 yrs

 

IMS-Expert

5 yrs

 

Smartest

2 yrs