Terry Blaser

RPG Programmer/Analyst

St Charles, Missouri, United States

About

Independent technology consultant/programmer with over 20 years of IBM mid-level mainframe experience. Interested in consultant/full time positions in the St Louis metro area. Specialties: Focusing on: - Full project life-cycle management (concept to implementation) - Platform and Application Integration - Systems management - Code review, optimization, and conversion Worked extensively in: - Industrial - Manufacturing - Medical (Patient/Resident Billing) - Accounting Applications Technologies: - System/34 - System/36 - AS400 - iSeries - RPG - COBOL - Query/400 - DB2/400 - CLP / OCL

Experience

  • RPG Programmer/Analyst at Independent Consultant
    1998 - Present · 28 yrs 6 mos

    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 management Client base: - Manufacturing

  • Senior Programmer/Analyst at HOLT CAT
    1999 - 2002 · 3 yrs

    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: Cobol Major 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

  • MIS Manager at York International
    1996 - 1998 · 2 yrs

    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.

  • Team Leader - Programmer/Analyst at United Van Lines
    Oct 1992 - Nov 1994 · 2 yrs 2 mos

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

  • Owner - Computer Consultant at Mid-America Computer Center
    1987 - 1992 · 5 yrs

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