William R. Firm

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William R. Firm

(909) 471-8251

bill_firm@msn.com

32500 Riverside Drive

Lake Elsinore, CA 92530

 

Professional Summary

Visual Basic client server programmer experienced in a wide variety of situations including Visual Basic application development, distributed processing, image processing, Oracle, FileNet, Microsoft SQL Server and verification at both the application and systems levels for all life cycle phases. Other experience includes Web development using FrontPage 97, FrontPage 2000 for Web development and, Systems design and development of small to large projects, OS/2 systems programming, MVS/ESA systems programming, and S/W troubleshooter. Experienced in helping developers solve their programming problems, and eliminating S/W bugs as well as experience in using PVCS and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for file level control.

Skills Summary

 

Hardware

IBM 360, 370, 8100, 43xx, 30xx,

IBM 3270PC, PC, PC/AT, PC/XT, IBM PS/2

Operating Systems

IBM VM/ESA, VM/XA, VM/SP, MVS, MVT, IBM & MS DOS,

IBM OS/2, MS Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT

Database Management Software

ACCESS, MS SQL Server 6.5, Oracle, Dbase II

Applications/Systems Development Software

Visual Basic 1.0-5.0, FrontPage 97 - FrontPage 2000, ACCESS 1.0 – Access 97, Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS, C

 

Professional Detail

Was the team leader for the Upgrades Department at CompUSA in Plano,  Texas.

Developed Various Web sites using FrontPage 97 and FrontPage 2000

Worked on a Visual Basic 5.0 project with other developers creating an Inbound Insurance agent call center telephony application that interfaced with Oracle, AS400 via RUMBA. This application provided script-based workflow for the agents.

Worked on a Visual Basic 5.0 development project with other developers creating an Insurance workflow application used by Insurance Agents for qualifying clients.

Assisted in the conversion of Claim Matrix, a workflow application for processing insurance claims to Visual Basic 5. This application interfaces to Oracle, Microsoft SQL server and FileNet for the storage and images used in processing insurance claims. In addition I developed a data entry application used for entering claims into the system.

Designed and developed a series of Visual Basic 4.0 applications that interface to an HP3000 mainframe system to retrieve data which is then used to build FileNet image indexes. These applications provided support for a large child care Accounts Payable and Payroll department.

Developed a Visual Basic 4.0 cost-estimating package for a large mining corporation. This application allowed the company to estimate and track costs of the construction projects within the corporation.

Developed a Visual Basic 3.0 application for a large Legal firm that allowed banks to retrieve bank loan packages from the firm using an online mail system.

Assisted in the design and development of Claim Matrix, a WorkFlow application for processing insurance claims. This application is written in Visual Basic 4.0 and interfaced to Oracle, Microsoft SQL server and FileNet for the storage and images used in processing insurance claims.

Designed and wrote applications for Arapahoe County to provide the following types of functions:

A Visual Basic application that gathers information from 4 mainframe systems and provides summary data for the user in a real time environment.

A Visual Basic application to track and maintain Grants funding and distribution.

A Visual Basic application supporting Scanning of tax notices.

An ACCESS workflow application to track Building permits applications.

An ACCESS application used by the County Coroner in gathering statistical data.

Developed Service industry applications for Dynamic Systems Integrators using Visual Basic, OLE, DDE and MS Word-word basic.

Owned and operated a Software/Hardware consulting business in New York.

Designed and marketed a Church Management application written in Visual Basic.

Advisory Programmer in IBM working on ESCM Manager development.

Lead Programmer on the IBM 3172 Operator Facility development team.

Lead Programmer on the IBM 3270PC development team.

Team leader-supporting DPPX, DTMS on the IBM 8100.

Provided software support for the IBM Mass Storage system.

Provided software support for IBM 1/2" Tape error recovery procedures.

Work History

                    November 1999 - February 2000 CompUSA upgrades department

July 1999 - Present FirmCo Software Solutions 

 November 1996 – June 1999 modis Formerly Berger & Company

September 1998 – June 1999 Teletech, Denver CO

November 1996 – August 1998 ImageMatrix, Denver CO

May 1997 – June 1997 City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs CO

January 1997 – February 1997 Berger & Co, Houston Texas

August 1997 – September 1997 Berger & Co, Salt Lake City UT

August 1994 – August 1998 Arapahoe County, Littleton CO

May 1994 – July 1994 Dynamic Systems Integrators, Denver CO

July 1992 – February 1993 firmco Software Solutions, Stone Ridge NY

July 1965 – June 1992 International Business Machines, Kingston NY