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PROFILE
Mr. Daly is a Staff Consultant with CSC Consulting. He is a seasoned professional with over fourteen years in information systems with comprehensive experience in systems design, development and maintenance. His background includes functional requirements definition, software design, programming, implementation, and information systems standards development. His area of expertise primarily involves program analysis and design for COBOL systems. He is familiar with order processing, payroll, auditing, cost rollup, and logistics systems. Some of his recent projects have been concentrated in warehousing, distribution, and the telecommunications industry. One of his latest projects was a product recall system where Radio Frequency Terminals were used to input the data. Mr. Daly has been with CSC for over five years. Mr. Daly has both systems and practical experience in a variety of industries including, a major retail shoe manufacturer, a major food manufacturer, one of the largest telephone service providers, a major Japanese telephone provider, a major actuarial firm, a large computer manufacturer, a large paper products manufacturer, a major retail drug store chain, a major hardware distribution chain, and thread manufacturing.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
As a Staff Consultant for CSC Consulting he has worked with many different Clients in different roles:
From December 1995 - on he is part of the Year 2000 discussion group to determine ideas dealing with the changes needed to programs before the Year 2000. He is also a part of the CSC HEAT Seekers program for Windows 95. This group deals with the testing of the operating system, all associated programs and reporting any new findings.
From September 1997 thru November 1997 he was at the Falls Church, VA facility teaching two Year 2000 mainframe classes. These classes each last nine weeks and were overlapping. The subjects taught are COBOL. CICS, IMS, VSAM, JCL and DB2.
From August 1997 thru September 1997 he was teaching at CSC Conference and Learning Center in Chicago, IL. This job involved teaching COBOL on A PC environment to up to 30 students. About half of them did not have prior computer experience. He helped to improve the course by correcting mistakes in the courseware. He also changed some of the documents to be more understandable, and added many examples to the harder areas of the course.
From January 1997 thru August 1997 he was involved in the development of the Express Trak system at Bell Atlantic in Arlington, VA. He worked with the data conversion team. Because of his skill in testing programs and developing testplans he was asked to teach the others in the group. The programs produced by the group after that were 99% error free. He helped design, and program some of the harder data conversion programs. He also was part of the trouble shooting team for data conversion. This team found and corrected any mistakes in the conversion programs. This assignment required long hours.
From September 1996 thru January 1997 he was involved in the development of a new customer service system at American Electric Power in Columbus, OH. He worked on programs that dealt with various state Assistance programs used by the multiple companies that are part of the provider. He also worked on having the customer information programs meet the state requirements for disconnect notices. He helped with design, after he was given the original specifications, for both assignments. He dealt with personal from the states and the various companies that were involved in the new system.
From February 1996 thru July 1996 he was involved in the design and development of a manufacturing cost application for Champion products in Winston- Salem, NC, an international sportswear manufacturer. The new system consolidates plant cost data into tables that provide a corporate view of manufacturing costs. He worked closely with both client and CSC team members to create the complex reports and batch programs needed for the cost rollup system. Mr. Daly developed the application in MicroFocus COBOL and used Q&E’s (a third party data base product) ODBC function calls to retrieve and manipulate data in an ORACLE database. The system contained simple table selection and update as well as complex data base retrieval and information display reports.
From January 1995 - February 1996 he was asked back by StrideRite in Louisville, KY. His role this time was Problem and Production Support, on the Warehouse Business System (WBS). He wrote some functional and technical specifications while there. He was active in the areas of cycle counting, shipping, inventory control, high, and low velocity picking. Mr. Daly worked closely with the users of the system. He taught INTERTEST to some of his fellow programmers. He also taught an Intro to Easytrieve class to some of the computer operators as well as some of his fellow programmers. He developed and executed the unit test plans for all the programs that he was assigned. He also helped to develop a standardized test plan to be used in the IS area from now on. He was instrumental in standardizing the messages displayed by all the programs. He helped with some of the preparations for the Year 2000 effort. During the project he also tested Windows 95 for use by CSC Consulting and participated in the Year 2000 discussion being run on the Internet.
From October 1994 - December 1994 attended and completed the Corporate Re-engineering the IS Professional program. . In the Consulting part the team that he was on was judged to have the best presentation and was the group that was chosen by the client. He also learned C and PowerBuilder and completed projects in each. In the C projects he was able to complete some of the extra requirements. As part of a team using the X/AD (accelerated application development) methodology for the PowerBuilder project he was assigned one of the most complex screens and on his own built some other screens that were needed. The PowerBuilder demo ran without a problem.
From September 1994 - October 1994 functioned as an Instructor in the Corporate Associate Training Program, he taught about Legacy systems including COBOL, Structured Design, and SQL. He had prime responsibility for problems with the Micro Focus COBOL that was being used and any minor problems with the network. He also helped the Associates in the nightly labs with COBOL and VSAM programming and logic problems.
From April 1994 - August 1994 while working as a Programmer/Analyst for StideRite, a major retail shoe manufacturing and distribution company, he was assigned to the Warehouse Business System (WBS). WBS is a conglomerate of many vendor packages used to run an automated warehouse. The mainframe interface programs used CICS and VSAM files. Mr. Daly worked closely with the client on the identified problems team. He originally worked with the new IS manager and in the later stages of the project he worked with a new problem team leader. He used INTERTEST to test programs and taught this to the problem team leader. He also wrote both functional and detail specifications for some of the programs. He developed and executed the unit test plans for all the programs that he was assigned.
From June 1993 - March 1994 while working as a Programmer/Analyst for CPC, Best Foods, a major food company, he was assigned to the Inventory Control System (ICONS) project. This system will track product information from manufacturing to distribution centers and on to shipment to customers, and is used for product recall. It was created to ensure that all of the affected product and only the affected product is recalled. The project used bar code scanning equipment and radio frequency technology on site. The bar code information is stored on and reported from a local PC relational database. Order information on the mainframe is accessed to obtain order information that is then stored on the PC. The mainframe information is also updated by the information on the PC. Mr. Daly used MicroFocus COBOL Workbench, SQL, and RFXpress to code and test programs. He used Query Manager on OS/2 to create tables and panels used by customers. The mainframe interface programs used CICS and VSAM files. He wrote the specifications for some of these programs and took over the technical support for the current release.
From April 1992 - June 1993 while working as a Programmer/Analyst at Intelicom, he converted programs in the Netcharge Billing System from COBOL to COBOL II. Netcharge is a subscriber billing system used by telecommunications firms for data or voice-oriented service providers. Main areas of responsibility were in Volume Discounting, Service Discounting, Remit to Executive Account, Invoice Generation, Billing Register, Usage Report by Customer and a New Account Information Report. He also wrote a program to transfer data from a mainframe to a spreadsheet on a PC.
From March 1991 - April 1992 while at AT&T his accomplishments included:
As a Programmer/Analyst on the Carriage Control system wrote a COBOL program to change data on a TOTAL database.
As a Programmer/Analyst, developed applications using COBOL II and CICS command level, to update over twenty logical file server programs. Tested programs using INTERTEST.
As a Programmer/Analyst, developed applications using COBOL II and CICS to extract Floating Field Identifications (FIDs) for Electronic Service Order Request (ESOR) project. Performed system testing using XPEDITER.
As a Programmer/Analyst on the Wide Area Telecommunication System Service Order Processing (WATS/SOP), used COBOL II and IMS to write programs to convert the Work Order Database and the Customer Service Record Database.
From November 1990 - January 1991 while working as a Programmer/Analyst he developed applications for an accounting and billing system for Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, a major Japanese telephone company. The work was done at Cincinnati Bell Information Systems office in Virginia.
He used IMS and COBOL II to retrieve, update, navigate, and report information from several data bases up to six levels deep. Completed work using both IBM 30xx mainframe and IBM PC's running under OS/MVS and PC-DOS respectively. Used COBOL, COBOL II, and IMS in a Novell network environment. Used Double Byte Character Sets so the information could be in written Japanese language.
From June 1987 - June 1990 while working at the Wyatt Company, a major actuarial company, his accomplishments included:
As a Programmer/Analyst, designed, coded, tested, and maintained a Disbursements Accounts System on a multi-user platform. He converted programs from Microsoft COBOL to MicroFocus COBOL that was platform independent. He was responsible for user documentation, user training and support, system implementation, and system testing. He provided support for technical and non-technical, users. He conducted tests to check the User Manual for any problems.
As a Programmer/Analyst, converted single user payroll system to a
multi-user Novell network platform using Micro Focus COBOL. System capabilities included double direct account deposits, tax calculations, W2 reconciliation's, check printing, and data transfers. The total project consisted of over 300 programs. Responsible for designing, coding, maintaining, user documentation, user training and support, system implementation, and system testing. Implementation of a W2 form printing system using a HP LaserJet printer.From December 1983 - June 1987 while working at United Management Consultants his accomplishments included:
As a Programmer/Analyst, designed, coded, and implemented an order processing freight consolidation system for James River, a major paper company. Hardware concentration was IBM 3083 and 3090 running COBOL, IMS/DB, and DLI under OS/MVS with Roscoe and TSO/ISPF.
As a Programmer/Analyst, designed and coded a warehouse stock management system for a public warehouse in use by Peter Paul, Cadbury. The system utilized both IBM 3083 mainframe and IBM PC’s running COBOL using Roscoe and TSO.
As a Programmer/Analyst, designed, coded, and implemented a freight billing system for Unisys, a large computer manufacturer. System was PC platform-oriented and utilized COBOL under MS-DOS.
As a Programmer/Analyst, designed, coded, and implemented a warehouse labor scheduling system for both an automated warehouse for Eckard Drugs, a major retail drug store and a non-automated warehouse for a major hardware distribution chain. Utilized IBM 3081 and 3083 running COBOL and FOCUS under OS/MVS and TSO.
As a Programmer/Analyst, designed and coded a freight audit and payment system, to be marketed by Unisys. Converted the program to use MicroFocus COBOL on an IBM PC running under MS-DOS in a Novell network environment. It was then used by Standard Register, a large computer forms company.
As a Programmer/Analyst, designed, coded and implemented a mainframe interface between a bill of lading and payment system and the freight audit system mentioned above. Hardware emphasis was on an IBM 30XX mainframe running under OS/MVS employing TSO/ISPF, COBOL, and CICS. Responsible for user documentation, system requirements, system design, user support, system implementation, and testing.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Hardware: IBM 308X, 3090 mainframes, Honeywell DPS-6, Burroughs B20(25) IBM PC, PC Compatibles, IBM PS/2 and compatibles.
Operating Environments: OS/MVS, DOS, GCOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows, and Windows 95
Languages: COBOL, COBOL II, Micro Focus COBOL, SQL, RFXpress, CICS Command Level, IBM JCL, IMS/DLI, dBASE, FORTRAN, BASIC, Assembler, RPG/2, PL/1, Easytrieve, C, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, HTML
Mainframe Applications: File-Aid, SYNCSORT, LIBRARIAN, Panvalet, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, Vollie, Intertest, MCAT, and Platinum. QMF
PC Applications: MicroFocus Workbench, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Appletace, PC Board(a BBS system), PROCOMM, CROSSTALK, Lotus Notes,
Data bases: TOTAL, DB2, IMS, Database Manager, DB22, Query Manager, Watcomm
Access Methods: ISAM, VSAM, and Sequential
Methodologies: CSC Catalyst
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Associate of Science, 1981
Data Processing
Waterbury State Technical College
01141998