Employment History

 

           

West Virginia Northern Community College, Wheeling, WV, January 2001-present

            Responsibilities:

Associate Professor - Information Technology                 

 

Accomplishments:

¨       Taught courses in Access, Excel, PC Networking, Data Communications, Visual Basic, Linux, Systems Analysis & Design, Practicum, Presentations, Logic, COBOL, e-Business Programming, and Introduction to Computers.

 

SARCOM, Columbus, OH, May 2000-December 2000                                                              

            Responsibilities:

Project Management Consultant              

 

Accomplishments:

¨       Managed outsourced desktop support personnel at Bank One, Ohio Health, and AK Steel.

¨       Project leader on Windows 2000 implementation within SARCOM.

¨       Project consultant to Greif Bros. on Help Desk transition to SARCOM.

 

AK Steel, Butler, Pa, 1997-2000                                                                                   

            Responsibilities:

Director of End User Computing             

 

Accomplishments:

¨       Managed the company training, Intranet, personal computer, and security functions.

¨       Performed Project Manager role on a $1.7M conversion of 350 Macintoshes to PCs.

¨       Managed a $4.5M budget with a staff of 5 internal persons and 14 contractors.

¨       Upgraded 1800 PCs to Office 97 from Office 95.

¨       Implemented automated software distribution, remote control, and hardware/software inventory of PCs within the company.

¨       Managed Sarcom, Inc of Columbus who supported the PC hardware and software with 10 on site agents and the Sarcom Customer Response Center (CRC) help desk in Columbus.  This help desk processed over 1000 user support calls per month supporting 2000 PCs.

¨       Managed the End User Reporting function, with tools such as SAS, FOCUS, and Impromptu.

Technical Environment:

VMS, MVS, Microsoft NT, Mac OS, Windows 95, Windows NT, Office 95 & 97, Access, Seagate Desktop Management Suite, Outlook, Exchange.

 

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, Wheeling, WV, 1970-97                                            

Responsibilities:

Programmer, Analyst, Project Leader, Supervisor of Production Support, General Manager of Systems, Director of Computer Support, Administrative head of the Duvall Data Center.

 

Accomplishments:

¨       As General Manager of Systems, I managed a staff of approximately 40 application specialists who had responsibility for implementing and supporting major systems such as the Purchasing Inventory Management System from American Software, Steel Caster Scheduling, and Allenport plant material tracking.

¨       Performed project leader function on several system implementations, including Benwood and Yorkville plant order entry systems, corporate pricing system, and Martins Ferry plant shipping system, to name a few.

¨       As Supervisor of Production Support, I managed a staff of 5 people and was totally responsible for maintaining the production environment of 134 application systems, which included several thousand programs.

¨       As Director of Computer Support I managed a staff of 10 and established the personal computer network within the company, which eventually grew from 50 to 1000 PCs running on a Novell network, accessing mainframe and distributed manufacturing systems, and serving software to the user community.  I had responsibility for end user computer training and reporting tools, such as SAS.   I developed the company internal help desk for desktop systems and implemented a software package called Utopia to manage help desk calls.

¨       Wrote several hundred programs (mostly in COBOL) while performing the programmer function. 

Technical Environment:

COBOL, Culprit, SAS, IMS DB, MFS, MVS, VMS, DB2, RDB, Novell 3.12 & 4.0, NetWare for SAA, Wang, Windows 3.11, Lotus, and WordPerfect.