QUALIFICATIONS BRIEF FOR JIM HOUSTON

ADDRESS:
326 NW San Juan Drive
Bremerton, WA 98311

Telephone: (360) 698-7404

Email: jhouston@telebyte.com

PLATFORMS:

• Mainframe: Honeywell, Univac (VAX/VMS/FMS/RMS), IBM
• Mid: DBUS, UNIX,
• PC: MacIntosh, MS DOS, Windows XP Professional/Office 2000
• Devices: Voice Response Unit, Touch Screen, Bar code

LANGUAGES/PRODUCTS:

• Database languages:
  • ACCENT R, Access, IDMS (ADSC, MAPC, DMLO, OLQ), ORACLE, PL/SQL
• Mainframe languages:
  • COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, JCL, CA-1, CA-7/11, Apache, Jobscan, CAPEX, IMS, CICS, TSO
• PC/Web Languages:
  • C, BASIC/Visual BASIC, HTML, Java, PASCAL, Security Explorer

• Department of Defense:
  • Combat System
  • MK27, 48, 48A, 50 Torpedo Systems
  • NMCI Evaluation and LADRA Testing
  • Configuration Management - User Profile System
• Banking - Bank of America
  • Loan Processing
  • Lease Processing
  • Flooring Processing
  • Voice Response Unit (Branch Online Processing)
  • Automated Report Retrieval/Transmission
• Maintenance:
  • Lease/Contract Maintenance (Remedy, Asset Management)
• Manufacturing:
  • Task Tracking Paperless System
  • GM Roadside System
  • Central Metrics Group
    • Testing Environment Maintenance, Security Explorer, Configuration Management, Implementation Management
• Department of Parks
  • Reservation System

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Created a process to automate identification and testing of applications installed on machines. This was used by Product Assurance and Staging/Deployment to verify applications were successfully installed. Normally there were 20-30 applications. This allowed personnel to verify 60-90 applications with the same time constraint.

• Analyzed 1,131 screen dialogs (359,000 lines of code), 615 programs (102,869 lines of code), for Year 2000 changes. Assisted in producing corrections, and testing in 3 different environments with a 0.01% error as determined by an external audit of the system.

• Used Visual BASIC to create and maintain a Defect Tracking system. Was one of the first projects to track defects based on task. This enabled us to track complex code areas/tasks with complex specification changes.

• Automated report retrieval and archival to allow the system to create and download 130,000 reports in less than three months as part of the project shutdown.

• Used a combination of technologies to minimize coding e.g. used a macro (actually Visual Basic) to do a data correction, and added SQL inquiries to determine/save data to be corrected, and adjusted the program to read the inquiry and do the correction, with far less code than would have been required to do the correction in batch.

• Enhanced run streams to allow in stream parameter specification and restart procedures. Combined the use of ACCENT R with COBOL to decrease the runtime of duplication tracking from 36 hours to 4 hours.

• Converted a FOCUS system to a more widely understood COBOL system, cutting the processing time from 2 hours to 15 minutes with a disk space reduction of 66%.

• Rewrote a batch system decreasing job recovery delays by 1/2 hour, and reduced job aborts by 94%.

• Created an online campsite reservation system that ran on a network with terminals at three principle sites. The result was a total reduction of reservation inquiry telephone calls, increased capabilities in camper tracking, and camp status tracking.