Taylor Made Multimedia, Inc.
Resume Summary of Bradley M. Bloyer, President
Contract Project Manager/Business
Analyst/Developer
Phone: (904) 608-5253 E-Mail:Bloyer@AOL.com
111 Marquette Avenue P.O. Box 186
Minneapolis, MN 55401 Wauzeka, WI
53826
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State |
Start |
End |
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Role |
Hardware |
ERP |
Version |
Modules **including custom** |
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WI |
1993/02 |
1994/05 |
16 |
BA,DV |
HP3000,HP9000 |
MANMAN |
N/A |
DIS,MFG |
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MN |
2006/04 |
2006/06 |
3 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
8.10 |
FIN,DIS |
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IA |
2002/01 |
2002/06 |
6 |
PM(6),BA |
Windows Server |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN |
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FL |
2005/04 |
2005/09 |
6 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
8.10 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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WI |
2000/01 |
2000/06 |
6 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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IN |
2010/06 |
2010/08 |
3 |
BA |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
8.10,9.0 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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IL |
1998/12 |
1999/07 |
8 |
PM(4),BA |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
7.3 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
2007/02 |
2007/10 |
9 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
8.10 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
2005/10 |
2006/03 |
6 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
8.10 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
1997/01 |
1997/03 |
3 |
BA, DV |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
7.3 |
FIN |
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MN |
1995/11 |
1996/06 |
8 |
PM(6),BA |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
7.3 |
FIN |
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MN |
1995/07 |
1995/10 |
4 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
Legacy |
N/A |
FIN |
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MN |
2006/07 |
2007/01 |
7 |
BA, DV |
Windows Server |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS |
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WI |
1988/05 |
1989/01 |
7 |
BA,DV |
DEC VAX |
CTS |
+ |
Telecom |
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MN |
2008/06 |
2008/08 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE E1 |
8.12 |
EDI |
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MN |
2008/12 |
2009/07 |
8 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
XE,8.12 |
FIN,DIS,MFG,EDI |
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MN |
2008/09 |
2008/11 |
3 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
8.12 |
FIN,DIS,MFG,EDI |
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WI |
1987/12 |
1989/01 |
14 |
BA,DV |
PC Assembly |
ENR/ENW |
N/A |
Teleprompting |
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MN |
1995/01 |
1995/03 |
3 |
PM(5),BA |
AS/400 |
HFA |
N/A |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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IL |
1999/08 |
1999/08 |
1 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
5.2,7.3 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
1992/01 |
1992/02 |
2 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
Legacy |
N/A |
FIN/Real Estate |
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MN |
2004/11 |
2005/03 |
5 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE E1 |
8.10 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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WI |
2001/02 |
2001/04 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
1990/01 |
1990/04 |
4 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
HFA |
N/A |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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IA |
1998/08 |
1998/11 |
4 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
6.2,7.3 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
1989/01 |
1990/01 |
13 |
PM(5),DV |
AS/400 |
N/A |
N/A |
Operating Systems |
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MN |
1996/08 |
1998/08 |
22 |
PM(6),BA |
AS/400 |
DATA3 |
N/A |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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VA |
1991/03 |
1991/06 |
4 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
Pansophic |
PRMS |
MFG |
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WA |
2001/09 |
2001/12 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
7.3 X3 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
1995/04 |
1995/09 |
6 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
6.1,6.2 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
1994/08 |
1994/10 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE World |
6.1 |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MB |
2009/08 |
2010/05 |
9 |
PM(13) |
Windows |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,EDI |
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OH |
2003/09 |
2004/10 |
14 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS |
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OH |
2001/05 |
2001/08 |
4 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS |
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IL |
1999/09 |
1999/12 |
3 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS |
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MO |
1990/06 |
1990/09 |
4 |
PM(2),DV |
S/38 |
Pansophic |
PRMS |
FIN,MFG |
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GA |
1990/09 |
1991/03 |
7 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
MAPICS |
DB |
FIN,MFG,DIS |
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MN |
1991/09 |
1991/11 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
MAPICS |
I,DB |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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WI |
2007/11 |
2008/05 |
7 |
PM(2),BA |
AS/400 |
JDE OW |
XE |
DIS,Service Billing |
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MN |
1992/02 |
1993/02 |
13 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
HFA |
N/A |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
2010/09 |
Present |
4 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
MAPICS |
XA |
MFG |
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FL |
2000/06 |
2000/08 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS,EDI |
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MN |
1991/06 |
1991/09 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
Legacy |
N/A |
FIN,DIS |
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TN |
2002/10 |
2003/08 |
11 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,Service Billing |
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MN |
1994/06 |
1994/07 |
2 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
Legacy |
N/A |
FIN |
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IL |
2001/09 |
2001/12 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
JDE OW |
7.321,XE |
FIN |
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FL |
2002/07 |
2002/09 |
3 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN |
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WI |
1987/10 |
1987/12 |
3 |
BA,DV |
S/38 |
Legacy |
N/A |
FIN,DIS |
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FL |
2000/08 |
2001/01 |
6 |
BA,DV |
Windows Server |
JDE OW |
XE |
FIN,DIS |
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MN |
1990/04 |
1990/06 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
HFA |
N/A |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
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MN |
1991/11 |
1992/01 |
3 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
MAPICS |
I,DB |
MFG,PR |
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MN |
1994/11 |
1994/12 |
2 |
BA,DV |
AS/400 |
Pansophic |
PRMS |
FIN,DIS,MFG |
20+ Years of Fortune 500 Consulting
Experience
Resume Detail of Bradley M. Bloyer
20+ years of I.T.
experience as a flexible ERP consultant fulfilling simple to complex
PM/BA/Developer roles using a wide variety of methodologies and technologies
for diverse Fortune 500 clients.
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Excelerator
OO Data Modeler by
Evergreen (now Visual Object
Modelers) |
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Dream Writer Version (DWV) |
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Software Version Repository (SVR) |
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Universal File Converter (UFC) |
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World Writer (WW) etc. |
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Object Management
Workbench (OMW) |
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Object Librarian (OL) |
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Data Dictionary (DD) |
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Table Design Aid (TDA) |
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Business View Design Aid (BSVWDA) |
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Form Design Aid (FDA) |
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Report Design Aid (RDA) |
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Enterprise/Financial Report Writer |
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Business Function Design Aid(BSFN) |
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Event Rules (ER) |
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Visual Event Rule Compare |
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Named Event Rules (NER/C++) |
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Data Structure Design Aid (DSDA) |
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User Defined Codes (UDC) |
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Processing Options (PO) |
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Menus etc. |
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Majors:
Computer Science, Mathematics,
Education |
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Polaris Industries (NYSE:PII) (Global manufacturer of off-road vehicles,
snowmobiles, and On-Road vehicles including motorcycles.)
September 2010-Present Minneapolis, MN
Contracted as a senior independent consultant, business analyst, and developer
for Infor MAPICS XA special projects in an AS/400 CLE/RPGLE and Powerlink
environment.
Batesville
Casket Company/Hillenbrand Inc. (NYSE:HI) (North American Death Care Leader)
June 2010-August 2010 Batesville, IN
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to test custom object compatibility
for a J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.10 to 9.0 upgrade. Functional areas included: Address Book,
Advanced Preferences/Extended Payment Terms, Advanced Pricing (Schedules and
Adjustments for Price Caps/CSC Add-ons/Truck Load Discounts/PC Code Adjustments),
Commissions/Bonuses, Credit Matching, Salesperson Dashboard, Deferred Floors,
Discount Adjustments, Formscape Processing, Malika Interface, New Product
Placement, Quotas, Special Programs Maintenance, Rebates, Price Lists, Sales
Aid Allowances, Sales Compensation, and Territory Transfers. Training scripts
setup in the User Productivity Kit (UPK).
Kitchen Craft a division of MasterBrand Cabinets/Fortune Brands, Inc. (NYSE:FO) (Leading Kitchen Cabinet Mfg)
August 2009-May 2010 Winnipeg, MB Manitoba Canada
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to serve as an onsite special
projects manager and business analyst directing an internal I.T. staff of nine
and remote/offshore staff of four.
Projects include: Multi-site financial, manufacturing, and distribution
systems integration of JDE E1, MANMAN, Friedman Frontier, Get Paid, and SDW for
Home Depot Canada. Home Depot, Lowe’s,
Rona, and Home Hardware alternate language application support of French and
Spanish for Quebec and Mexico.
Manufacturing systems integration with HOLZMA’s Cut Rite part
optimization software for cellular manufacturing plant. Various other process improvement
projects. All project deadlines were met
on time.
CHS,
Inc.-Corporate I.T. (Nasdaq:ITRI) (Fortune 200 integrated agricultural company)
December 2008-July 2009 Minneapolis, MN
(Repeat and Remote Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant for business analyst production
support of J.D. Edwards 8.12, XE, and World.
Projects include: Financials: automatic bank reconciliation, A/R EFT and
A/P ACH switch from Wells Fargo Bisync to SFT, bug fixes. Order to Cash: Sales Edit Process. Supply Chain: EDI UBE/Trusted Link iSeries
fixes. Energy: Custom Inventory
Forecasting Enhancements/Reports/EDI.
System Maintenance: Data archival/purging/encryption.
CHS,
Inc.-Energy/Refined Fuels Division (Nasdaq:ITRI) (Fortune 200 integrated agricultural company)
September 2008-November 2008 Minneapolis, MN
(Repeat and Remote Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne applications and interfaces for refined
fuels terminal management via DTN (Data Transmission Network) TABS ADMLOD. Functional areas include:
customer-consignee/carrier/terminal/product/group setup, product allocation,
credit allocation, allocation notification, Petroex translation, CRM/RFCR web
interfaces, and terminal systems interfaces.
CHS,
Inc.-Ag Business/Crop Nutrients Division (Nasdaq:ITRI) (Fortune 200 integrated agricultural company)
June 2008-August 2008 Minneapolis, MN
(Repeat and Remote Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement Inovis Trusted Link iSeries EDI interfaces for J.D. Edwards
EnterpriseOne. Format/Maps/User File
Definitions include: Outbound 850 - Purchase Order, Inbound 855 - Purchase
Order Acknowledgment, Inbound 856 - Advanced Ship Notice, Inbound 810 -
Invoice, Outbound 820 - Payment Remittance Advice, and Inbound 997 - Functional
Acknowledgment. Related tools include:
Tidal Scheduler and TrailBlazer.
Oshkosh (Truck) Corporation (NYSE:OSK) (Leading manufacturer of special vehicles for
Defense, Fire, and Commercial)
Brands :Oshkosh, Pierce, JLG, McNeilus, Medtec, Geesink, Norba, Jerr-Dan,
CON-E-CO, London, IMT, and Frontline
November 2007-May 2008 Oshkosh, WI
Contracted as a senior independent project manager of two to implement J.D.
Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Billing with various fix and custom modifications
for the Oshkosh Defense division, also assisted with financials, manufacturing,
and payroll/Kronos production support of J.D. Edwards World for various other
divisions.
Cardinal
Glass Industries (Largest manufacturer of superior glass products for
residential windows and doors)
February 2007-October 2007 Minneapolis, MN
(Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement custom J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne applications which include demand
by thickness, flexible item description based on configurator item attributes,
mixed fraction decimal lookup, pricing mass updates, sales order inquiry by
configurator item attributes, dimensions tolerance handling, out of stock
reporting, racking enhancements, MRP messaging enhancements, supply and demand
fixes, ST/OT related order number fixes, various form/report cosmetic
enhancements, and various memory leak fixes.
Assist in multiple massive ESU/tool set retrofits. Assist in redesign, recode, retest and
reimplementation of z-file interfaces to multiple plant external shop floor
control systems triggered via DB2 and RUNUBEXML. Interfaces include work order issues, manual
issues, work order completions, boxing, and crate tag.
Cargill
Salt Division (Producer, packager, and shipper of salt applications
for ag, food, water conditioning, industrial and ice.)
July 2006-January 2007 Minneapolis, MN (Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement custom J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne applications which include
effective date costing tied to third party demand and capacity planning
systems, recall reporting, sales order status inquiry, safety stock
maintenance/mass change, and automated sales order item suggestions/branch
plant selections. Also responsible for
analyzing and fixing item cost interoperability, journal entry
interoperability, memory leak cursor/caching issues, tons per day inquiry,
vendor bid pricing awards, carrier emailing, and perfect order closing.
Agriliance,
LLC. (Joint venture between CHS, Inc. and Land O'Lakes,
Inc.-Agronomic products and services)
April 2006-June 2006 Minneapolis, MN
(Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement business critical post go-live J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne reports. Objects include: Sales Orders by Customer
(Current vs. Historical), Aged Customer Orders on Hold/Not Reviewed, Purchase
Order Print, Aged Vendor EDI Invoices in Error, Containers at Business Site by
Business, Container Deposit/Refund Status By Customer, Monthly Bulk Repacks for
the EPA, and Open In-Transit Inventory, etc.
Cardinal Glass Industries (Largest
manufacturer of superior glass products for residential windows and doors)
October 2005-March 2006 Minneapolis, MN
(Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to audit the J.D. Edwards
EnterpriseOne version 8.11 manufacturing implementation managed by a third
party consulting firm, resulting in multiple recommendations that the client
strenuously analyze the managing vendors practices. Recommendations implemented include the
functional/technical redesigns of all interfaces between J.D. Edwards
EnterpriseOne and all four custom legacy shop floor control systems. These systems handle the float, tempered,
coated, and insulated glass manufacturing processes. Batch processes include: R47121-EDI Product
Activity Data Edit/Create, R31122Z1I-Hours and Quantities Inbound Processor,
R31113Z1I-Inbound Inventory Issues Transaction, and R31114Z1I-Inventory
Completion Inbound Processor. Also
responsible for service pack code reintegration and various forecasting and WIP
application designs and implementations.
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc./Andrx
Corporation (NYSE:WPI)
(Leading manufacturer and distributor of
generic and branded pharmaceuticals)
April 2005-September 2005 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to centralize J.D. Edwards
EnterpriseOne non-stock procurement for four divisions (Corporate, Anda, APD,
APM). Functional and Technical areas
include: Requisitions, Quotes, Blanket Orders, Purchase Orders, Approval
Processing, Budget Checking, Receiving, Fixed Assets, and Voucher Logging. Project Scope includes: As Is/To Be Modeling,
Blueprinting, Configuration (Processing Options, Data Selection, Menus,
Approval Processing, Security), Modification Designs/Coding/Testing, CRP,
Integrated Testing, Signoff, Training, and Go-Live Prep/Cutover.
Equus Computer Systems, Inc. (Largest
white box system builder to the channel)
November 2004-March 2005 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to stabilize, optimize, and
enhance a post J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne Rapid Start implementation for eight
branch plants, before rolling out an additional ten. Installed modules include: Financials (GL,
AP, AR, FA), Distribution (Procurement, Inventory, Warehouse, Sales Order,
Transportations), Manufacturing (Product Data, Shop Floor, Configurator, Work
Order), and
LimitedBrands, Inc. (NYSE:LTD)
(Leading manufacturer and distributor of retail fashions)
Parent Company of Bath & Body Works, Express, Henri Bendel, Lane Bryant,
Lerner New York, Limited Too, Structure, Victoria’s Secret, and White Barn
Candle Co.
September 2003-October 2004 Columbus, OH (Repeat and Remote
Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement Bank of New York EFT and wire transfers via J.D. Edwards
EnterpriseOne. Remittance advice was
transmitted to associates via email.
Various other projects included:
speed voucher entry fixes and ESU retrofits, purchase order dashboard,
purchase order approval processing, budget hold, expense clearing journal entry
report, and freight matching.
Remarketing Solutions, Inc. a division of Cox Communications (NYSE:COX)
October 2002-August 2003 Nashville, TN (Remote Client)
Contracted as the sole senior independent J.D. Edwards One World XE consultant to
support all applications until a permanent employee of equal qualifications
could be found. Tasks included support
of all financial modules which include:
address book, general accounting/GL, accounts payable, accounts
receivable, and service billing.
Responsible for integrating major ESUs with modified code, fixing and
enhancing applications for ESUs not available, financial report writing, and
design/implementation/testing of new custom application modules.
Southern Wine & Spirits of America,
Inc.-Group Services(Largest
distributor of wines and spirits in the United States)
July 2002-September 2002 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Contracted as the sole senior independent J.D. Edwards One World consultant to
convert the Colorado division’s financial systems from J.D. Edwards to
SAP. Tasks included integrity reports
and the following conversions: address
book (customer and vendor masters), general ledger (Chart of Accounts, Account
Balances, Account Detail), accounts payable (open items and detail), and
accounts receivable (open items and detail).
AmerUs Group
Company (NYSE:AMH) Parent of:
AmerUs Life (which includes joint ventures with Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.),
AmerUs Annuity Group (American Investors Life, Delta Life and Annuity, Financial
Benefit Life), AmerUs Home Equity, AmerUs Capital Management (ACM Properties),
ILICo Holdings (Indianapolis Life, Indianapolis Annuity, Indianapolis
Securities, Bankers Life, Western Security Life)
(Marketer, underwriter, and distributor of a wide range of life insurance and
annuity products.)
January 2002-June 2002 Des Moines, IA
Contracted as a senior independent J. D. Edwards One World XE technical consultant
and project manager of six developers by Cap Gemini/Ernst & Young to
consolidate and centralize multi-divisional legacy financial systems into one
corporate financial system. The purpose
of this project was to greatly reduce the time required for fiscal closings and
to greatly increase corporate wide reporting capabilities. Project details included: Restructuring all
divisions to one standard chart of accounts (COA). Converting address book, general ledger, and
accounts payable data from the legacy systems (Sungard/ISA ABC-Mainframe COBOL,
GEAC SmartStream-Win NT, J. D. Edwards One World B73.3.2-Win NT) to J. D.
Edwards One World XE B73.3.3 running on a Microsoft Windows 2000 server
utilizing IBM’s UDB2. Replacing and
enhancing financial interfaces to and from insurance administration systems
(CSC/Continuum: ISA Life70 & Vantage, EDS/SOLCORP: Ingenium, Formula
Insurance Solutions: ALIS, Leverage Group Inc.: LPS Leverage Payout System,
PricewaterhouseCoopers: LifePro, Princeton Financial Systems: PAM) using J. D.
Edwards One World XE interoperability.
Replacing and enhancing financial interfaces to and from external
entities (Bank Positive Pay/Reconciliation, State Reporting, Tax Reporting,
ADP). Replacing and enhancing financial
reporting using J. D. Edwards One World XE Enterprise Report Writer with Smart
Fields. Utilizing J. D. Edwards HTML & Java web client server
technologies. Responsibilities included:
Technical team lead, design, coding, testing, and implementation.
ITRON (Nasdaq:ITRI)
(Leading manufacturer and distributor of automated utility meter readers)
September 2001-December 2001 Spokane, WA (remote client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to assist in an IBM AS/400 JD
Edwards World A7.3 CUM 10 to CUM 12/X3 upgrade via telecommuting evenings and
weekends. Responsibilities included
merging 1500 modified objects and unit/component/system testing.
Siemens
Energy and Automation (NYSE:SI)
(Leading manufacturer and distributor of CNC controls)
September 2001-December 2001 Chicago, IL
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to assist in an IBM AS/400 JD
Edwards One World B7.3.2.1 to NT B7.3.3.3 XE upgrade. Responsibilities included data conversion and
program modification porting manually across two different platforms that are
not connected. Also developed and
implemented custom booking reports, sales reports, Optio invoices, and accounts
payable checks (UBEs).
The Limited, Inc. (NYSE:LTD)
(Leading manufacturer and distributor of retail fashions)
Parent Company of Bath & Body Works, Express, Henri Bendel, Lane Bryant,
Lerner New York, Limited Too, Structure, Victoria’s Secret, and White Barn
Candle Co.
May 2001-August 2001 Columbus, OH (Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement custom IBM AS/400 JD Edwards One World XE Procurement Module bug
fixes and application enhancements for the store planning division. Applications included Purchase Order
Workbench and Blanket Release with modifications to the F4311 Begin Doc/Edit
Line/End Doc master business functions.
New development included purchase order modeling and sequential load
splitting for phased store construction.
Fiskars
Corporation / Fiskars
Brands, Inc. (Manufacturer and
distributor of consumer goods-best known for scissors)
February 2001-April 2001 Madison, WI
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to implement JD Edwards One World
XE for the
IBM
Global Services (NYSE:IBM) and Tree Of Life (Distributor
of grocery specialty foods)
August 2000-January 2001 St. Augustine, FL (Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement a custom IBM AS/400 JD Edwards One World XE authorization list
application to fulfill one of multiple CRP (Conference Room Pilot) gaps. This
application manages what items customers are authorized to purchase and complex
distribution logistics at parent, division, location, and department levels.
This application was necessary due to customer contracts, state laws, and
non-centralized distribution constraints.
Diagnostic
Imaging, Inc/PSSI (Nasdaq:PSSI)
(Distributor of pharmaceutical equipment and supplies-CAT/MRI/X Ray etc.)
June 2000-August 2000 Jacksonville, FL
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement IBM AS/400 JD Edwards World custom applications. These applications included the vendor
catalogs application which allowed the receipt of vendor information into JD
Edwards custom tables using the Universal File Converter (UFC) via a custom
formatted Excel spreadsheet for small vendors or the Sterling GenTran ANSI ASC
X12 Release 4010 832 transaction set for large vendors. This information could then be system edited,
user edited, and selectively transferred to the production JDE item, cost,
price and cross-reference masters.
IBM (NYSE:IBM), Lotus (NYSE:IBM), and Banta (NYSE:BN)
(Manufacturer and distributor of printed and packaged software)
January 2000-June 2000 Menasha, WI (Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to convert IBM/Lotus’s SAP sales
order, account receivable, item master, bill of material, and routing databases
to Banta’s AS/400 JD Edwards One World system.
Responsibilities also included creating EDI transactions for purchase
orders, sales orders, acknowledgments, inventory transactions, and shipment
confirmations. These transactions are transmitted using IBM’s MQ Series. The
JDE customer service module was modified to allow multiple methods of complex
quoting and pricing along with special handling for third party order returns. Logistics Pro was modified to accommodate
special bar code shipping label requirements for international orders. Reconciliation and follow-up reports were
also created. All programs were
designed, coded, tested, and documented using JD Edwards standards.
LKQ, Inc. (Salvager
and distributor of like, kind, and quality auto parts)
September 1999-December 1999 Chicago, IL (Remote Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to design, code, test, and
implement a new custom JD Edwards One World application which would allow LKQ
to better purchase and receive into inventory automotive parts. This application included item bidding, which
used bill of material explosions in a spreadsheet manner with historical
inventory statistics. Click technology
was used for receiving selected bid items.
Responsibilities also included modifications of the customer service and
purchasing modules along with related reports (UBEs) so that they would be
integrated with this new application.
Bourn & Koch, Inc./DeVlieg-Bullard (Manufacturer,
distributor, and services for manufacturing equipment-CNC machines)
August 1999 Rockford, IL
Contracted to assist in an IBM AS/400 JD Edwards World upgrade from version
A5.2 to A7.3 in order to satisfy Y2K compliance. Responsibilities included file conversions
and custom code integration.
Baxter
Healthcare (NYSE:BAX)
(Manufacturer and distributor of pharmaceutical equipment-i.e. Intervenes/IV
pumps)
December 1998-July 1999 Chicago, IL
Contracted a senior project manager of four developers to redesign, code, test,
convert, and implement an IBM AS/400 JD Edwards World custom medical
application which formerly resided on an IBM 3090. The purpose of this application was to
satisfy FDA requirements in the event of a medical machine recall. These machines were to be traced from
location to location by item and serial number.
This application was redesigned using only JD Edwards standards and
interfaced with the item ledger via Data Mirror Transformation Server. This project was part of Baxter's global Year
2000 project.
Gateway (NYSE:GTW)
(Manufacturer and distributor of micro computers)
August 1998-November 1998 Sioux City, IA
Contracted to assist in an IBM AS/400 JD Edwards World version A6.2 to A7.3
upgrade as a part of Gateway's global Year 2000 project. Conversion involved modified code and new
custom enhancements. Also responsible
for replacing Gateway's JBA order entry system with the JDE World sales order
management module.
IMI Cornelius, Inc. (London:IMI.L)
(Manufacturer of ice and drink dispensers for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonalds, BK,
etc.)
August 1996 - December 1997 / April 1997 - August 1998 Minneapolis, MN (Repeat and Remote
Client)
Contracted as a senior independent project manager and Year 2000 Technical
Advisor for a team of six. Fixed
problems with Data3’s AS/400 manufacturing and financial software, rewrote MRP
for increased performance, wrote reports to reduce production errors, designed
a physical inventory system, performed year 2000 project support (using Into
20000), assisted in a RISC box conversion and four level upgrade of Data3 KBM
with modified code.
Cargill Corporate (Worlds largest privately owned company diversified in
agricultural and financial markets)
January 1997-March 1997 Minneapolis, MN (Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant on the Core Process Redesign
(CPR) team to convert multiple worldwide divisions with a variety of hardware and
software platforms to interface with the corporate centralized IBM AS/400 J.D.
Edwards World financial applications.
Divisions included Dry Milling, Feed, Fertilizer, Financial Markets,
Salt, Seed, Wet Milling, etc. Also
responsible for other corporate worldwide modeling projects.
Cargill Corn Milling Division (Manufacturer of corn syrup for Coca-Cola, Pepsi,
etc.)
November 1995 - June 1996 Minneapolis, MN (Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent project manager to work with a team of six
to convert Cargill’s Corn Milling homegrown AS/400 financial applications to
Cargill’s corporate AS/400 J.D. Edwards World financial applications. Project entailed designing, documenting,
coding, and testing of database conversions, interfaces from source systems,
data integrity between multiple AS/400s, and source application updates from
J.D. Edwards.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Cargill Corn Milling Division (Manufacturer of corn syrup for Coca-Cola, Pepsi,
etc.)
July 1995 - October 1995 Minneapolis, MN (Repeat Client)
Contract as a senior independent consultant to maintain and enhance custom IBM
AS/400 RPG sales order position reporting applications. Enhancements included sales reporting by
location, commodity, and salesperson groups.
Reports show projected and actual sales by multiple units of measure
based on commodity type.
Johnson Screens A Weatherford Company
(Wheelabrator/US Filter/WMX/Vivendi) (NYSE:WFT)
(Manufacturer of diverse environmental products)
April 1995 – September 1995 Minneapolis, MN (Repeat and Remote
Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to upgrade from JD Edwards World
version A6.1 to A6.2. Assisted in
converting new businesses purchased by WMX to JDE World version A6.2. Assignments included writing JDE fixes and
modifications, writing RPG and World Writer sales analysis reports, converting
impact documents to laser documents, setting up remote PC support print servers
and PC Anywhere servers for remote connection.
This division of WMX manufacturers specialty screens to the oil and
water drilling industry.
DataCard (Manufacturer of credit card manufacturing,
processing, and identification machines)
January 1995 - March 1995 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted as a senior independent project manager to work with a team of five
DataCard employees to develop client server forecasting and order entry
applications between two sister companies, Card Personalization Group (CPG) and
the Service Bureau. Each company had an
AS/400 and a PC network. Applications
included modifications to HFA and Data3 packages.
Orthomet/Wright Medical Technology (Manufacturer of pharmaceutical devices and supplies)
November 1994 - December 1994 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to replace an entire M.I.S.
department of six, because of Wright Medical Technology buying out Orthomet and
closing the Minneapolis, MN facility. Responsible
for AS/400 operations, Pansophic applications support, and creating reports
needed by Wright Medical to complete the buy out.
Johnson Screens A Weatherford Company (Wheelabrator/US
Filter/WMX/Vivendi) (NYSE:WFT)
(Manufacturer of diverse environmental products)
August 1994 - October 1994 Minneapolis, MN (Repeat Client)
Contracted as a senior independent consultant to assist in converting an AS/400
Data3 system to JD Edwards A6.1.
Assignments included fixing, modifying, and enhancing JD Edwards A6.1
using JD Edwards standards and tools.
Major applications included purchasing, accounts payable, positive pay,
general ledger, shop floor control, quotes, and Vertex interface. Major discrepancies fixed in JD Edwards
included large manufacturing dollars being lost or unreported to general
ledger.
SciMed Life
Systems/Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)
(Manufacturer of pharmaceutical devices-i.e. heart monitors)
June 1994 - July 1994 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted to write medical sales maintenance and reporting programs on an AS/400
in RPG/400.
3M (NYSE:MMM) (Manufacturer of consumer goods-i.e. Scotch
Brands, Post-It Notes, Thinsulate, Magentic Media, etc.)
February 1993 - May 1994 Prairie du Chien, WI
Contracted as senior consultant to work with a team to design and implement a
manufacturing Plant Order Processing System on an HP3000 using the STRADIS
methodology, ALLBASE, SQL, COBOL, and Uniface windows client/server design
tool. Primary application functions
were: accept corporate orders at plant, edit orders (windows, x-terminal, dumb
terminal environments), automated tracking and allocation, scheduling, packing
lists, routings, automated order forwarding, audit, view, modify, split,
referral, archive, process product information, automated semi-finished
material requests, automated dating, security, and change rules.
Owatonna Tool
Corporation/SPx (NYSE:SPW)
(Manufacturer of auto parts and diagnostic devices for GM, FORD, etc.)
February 1992 - February 1993 Owatonna, MN
Contracted to work as senior technical consultant with teams to convert
manufacturing and financial applications from an IBM 4381 to IBM AS/400 SAA/CUE
system. Packages included Computer
Associates, HFA, Lawson, Software 2000, and homegrown systems. Conversion
included: Writing RPG/400 interfaces from all applications/packages to Computer
Associates General Ledger package. Redesigned and rewrote COBOL based shop
floor packet print to RPG/400. Packet
print included the following document creating programs: Routing, operation
(bar coded), material issue, bill of material, setup instructions, inspection
instructions, engineering and manufacturing drawings, NMAR, packets printed,
and pick tickets. Redesigned and rewrote
COBOL based work in process, labor, and quality assurance systems to RPG/400.
Eberhardt/LJ
Melody/CB Richard Ellis (Commercial real-estate management company)
January 1992 - February 1992 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted solely to convert, enhance, and fix a property management/financial
software package called PropMan. PropMan
was used to manage all aspects of commercial office building, condominium, and
apartment rentals. Conversion was from
PC DOS to AS/400 RPG/400. Enhancements
and fixes included: unlimited suite
support, user definable charges by property, shared property allocations, LMR
(last months rent/deposit) interest processing, pending tenant handling, NSF
special handling, manual adjustment posting, suite transaction history, tenant
transfer, etc. Reports included: monthly rent roll, adjustments, LMR
adjustments, LMR history, check register, tenant history, parking and storage
assignments, tenant lists by name or suite, rent increase notice to tenant(s),
rent edit audit showing manual overrides of rental charges, etc.
Warner
Manufacturing Company (Manufacturer of consumer goods-best known for The
Widget)
November 1991 - January 1992 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted solely to convert a S/36 shop data collection system feeding MAPICS
I to native AS/400 mode feeding MAPICS/DB. Conversion entailed converting and
rewriting RPGII and RPGII 1/2 to RPG/400.
This system created off-line files for the MAPICS/DB Product Cost
Control and Payroll applications. This
system also created audit trail reports for supervisors as well as files to be
used by other labor tracking programs.
Norwesco (Manufacturer
of plastics)
September 1991 - November 1991 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted to work with a team converting MAPICS I to MAPICS/DB. Major enhancements and modifications were
made to MAPICS/DB to better fit the way Norwesco does business. The order entry and invoicing applications
were completely rewritten. One of the
many responsibilities for this project was to create a subsystem that would
more specifically allow various types of shipping for order entry line items
and pick list configurations. Because of
the size spectrum that Norwesco's products have, this was needed to allow
multiple partial orders on specific carrier's trucks.
Red
Line/MediMart/McKesson (NYSE:MCK)
(Distributor of pharmaceuticals and drugs)
June 1991 - September 1991 Minneapolis, MN
Contracted to work with a team converting a homegrown S/36 order entry and
distribution package to AS/400 native mode. Conversion entailed S/36 multiple
record format database analysis to create a standard AS/400 database. All displays and programs were converted to
use SAA and CUE standards. Subfiles, for
performance considerations, were added to eliminate array processing and I/O
operations.
Ingersoll-Rand World Wide Headquarters (NYSE:IR)
(Manufacturer of rock drilling equipment)
March 1991 - June 1991 Roanoke, VA
Contracted to work on a conversion from an IBM 4381 Mainframe to an IBM AS/400
Midrange computer. Software conversion
mainly consisted of converting a homegrown MRP system to Pansophic PRMS. Most of the PRMS system had to be tailored
and enhanced to meet the needs of the way Ingersoll-Rand does business. Was placed in charge of converting a
stand-alone subsystem that handles warranty claims. Conversion of software was a total rewrite,
keeping or enhancing current functions.
All conversions were from COBOL to RPG/400.
Infor/IBM-MAPICS
Division (Manufacturing
software company)
September 1990 - March 1991 Atlanta, GA (Repeat Client)
Contracted to be a team player of the IBM MAPICS DB MCS/VAT and EFL
(Multiple-Currency Support/Value Added Tax and Extended Field Length)
projects. Responsibilities included
writing and testing of CL and RPG/400 programs.
Area assigned was CAS (Cross Application Support). Applications: AP, AR, CAS, CRP, FA, FOR, GL,
LLM, IM, MRP, MPSP, OE&I, PA, PCC, PDM, PMC, PU, REP, SA.
Tyco
International, Ltd./Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc./Mallinckrodt Laboratory Chemical
Division
(NYSE:TYC)
(Manufacturer of chemicals for the medical industry)
June 1990 - September 1990 St. Louis, MO
Co-Project Leader in a conversion of a Product Cost System from an IBM 3090 to
IBM S/38. Conversion entailed: JCL to CL,
IMS to relational database, Mainframe COBOL to AS/400 COBOL, PANSOPHIC
integration, job scheduling issues, data integrity issues, and RJE setup for
transmissions between Product Cost System and other corporate database systems
on IBM 3090 and DEC VAX.
McKesson/D&K Healthcare Resources,
Inc./Krelitz Twin Cities Wholesale Drugs (Nasdaq:MCK)
(Distributor of wholesale drugs)
April 1990 - June 1990 Minneapolis, MN
Team member of a manufacturing conversion from an IBM 4381 to AS/400. Conversion entailed: Database conversion from
homegrown package to HFA manufacturing package, E3 Ordernet integration
replacing Distribution IV, and RPG/400 custom program modifications. Conversion was similar to FMG conversion, but
required more modifications to fit the needs of FMG's business. This conversion also had more requirements to
work with other application packages.
FMG-Fragrance Marketing
Group/Tsumura & Co. (Manufacturer and distributor of consumer beauty
products)
January 1990 - April 1990 Minneapolis, MN
Key player in a team project to convert FMG's UNISYS manufacturing application
to HFA's AS/400 application.
Responsibilities included analysis, coding (CL and RPG/400), and testing
of: program modifications, form modifications, and data conversions. HFA's package includes some of the following
applications: A/P, A/R, Assemble to Order, Bill of Lading, Customer Order
Processing, Distribution Resource Planning, Drop Shipping, Engineering Records,
G/L, Inventory Control and Management, Manufacturing Control and Management,
Multiple-Currency, On-line Help, Payroll, Product Tracking, Promotional
Pricing, Purchasing and Receiving, and much more.
IBM-Rochester, MN Programming Lab (NYSE:IBM)
(Manufacturer of midrange computers-i.e. AS/400, S/3x, RISC 6000)
January 1989 - January 1990 Rochester, MN (Repeat Client)
Project manager for two IBM employees and three consultants working on Release
3.0 ECS and Intermediate Node of OS/400. Responsible for: project analysis and
presentations, scheduling, development with code reviews, testing, and meeting
proposed schedules with a team produced quality product. Team leader responsibilities included:
creating motivation and self satisfaction in all individual team members to get
a quality job done on time and within budget using IBM's methodology. Development parts of ECS included ability to:
Run problem analysis of AS/400 hardware and software, send service request VIA
multiple AS/400s, send and receive PTF orders in different languages, send and
receive alerts from multiple AS/400s or S/38s, and to maintain the contact
database. Development language was PL/MI
on an IBM 3090, testing was done on the AS/400.
Computerised
Business Systems, Inc. (Telecommunication application software company)
May 1988 - January 1989 La Crescent, MN
Designed, coded, tested, and documented a TSR communications software package,
coded in IBM Assembly using Microsoft tools for IBM personal computers. This package interfaced with C.B.S.I.'s
telephone company engineering study software (CTS+), which was written by a
team of programmers in C, running on IBM personal computers and DEC VAX
computers.
Comprompter,
Inc. (Television and radio application software company)
December 1987 - January 1989 La Crosse, WI
Member of team that designed and implemented electronic news room and
production software for television news rooms and production sites across the
world. Installation, training, and technical
writing were also a part of job responsibilities. Software (ENR, ENW, TOTA+, etc.) includes:
word processor, prompter, wires service, chyron generation, producer's
utilities, archive system, LAN support, portable remote site support, and
communication systems. Provided training
and technical support for clients.
The Company Store/Gillette Industries (Manufacturer
and distributor of consumer goods-i.e. bed and bath products)
October 1987 - December 1987 La Crosse, WI
Team member responsible for testing of a conversion from a homegrown mainframe package
to Arthur Anderson's S/38 COBOL marketing and distribution package.
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