| Provide on-going Information Management consulting and support services, including assisting System Manager (Finance Director) in the establishment of Information Steering Committee. assisting individual departments in the selection and implementation of applications. Overseeing and monitoring the operations of the City's information network. Interfacing with application vendors on technical issues and assisting staff in the utilization of new technology as needed. |
| Performed in-depth needs analysis of all city departments and based on findings prepared and presented long term information plan and strategies. Information plan included replacement and upgrade of all workstations, servers and WAN and LAN topologies to meet Y2K requirements, upgrade or replacement of all core business systems and recommendations on long term IS management. |
| As project manager, coordinated the preparation, selection and implementation of new hardware and core business systems. Task included the preparation and publication of Request for Proposals for replace of existing workstations, servers and LAN and WAN topologies, replacement of major financial systems, upgrade of all Public Works maintenance management systems and acquisition of new Building Permit management system and upgrade or replacement of public safety systems. |
| Performed in-depth work flow analysis to determine factors causing delays in inventory information and processing. Based on review implemented operational changes and implementation of order processing and inventory control system. |
| Designed, constructed and Implemented a Cold Storage Order and Inventory Processing system. (OPTICS Warehouse System) |
| As project manager implemented Local Area Network (Banyan VINES) and migrated the LAN from DOS to Windows environment including integration with UNIX/PICK Mini/Mainframe running OPTICS Warehouse System via TCP/IP |
| As system administrator, responsible for system upgrades, network tuning, application implementation and upgrades. |
| Prepared Request For Proposal for acquisition of Housing programs system, based on response assisted Housing Authority management in the selection of vendor, and implementation of systems. |
| Provided site planning and installation management for re-location of Housing Authority systems. |
| Provided consulting support in the selection of vendors for implementation of Local Area Network system. |
| Analysis and reorganization of Information Services Division, including implementation of personal changes, presentation of plan to City Council and hiring of new IS Manager. |
| Assisted with the hiring of replacement IS Manager when current manager left at end of contract. |
| Prepared 25 year Business Plan for capital projects. Plan included financial model for preparing and printing of different scenarios based on changing parking rates and occupancy. In addition, prepared Business Plan document for presentation to Bellingham Parking Commission and City Council. |
| Public Works, review of materials inventory system requirements and preparation of Request for Proposal. |
| Police Systems, in depth review of Emergency Services (911) and police records. Based on review prepared conceptual design for City 911 systems. |
As contracted information systems consultant for Consumers Choice, Inc. from 1988 through 1993 was responsible for the development and implementation of the following projects:
| Assisted management develop a data base using FoxBASE Pro to capture, track and report on shopper activity. This data base |
| Assisted Corporate management in the selection and installation of corporate Minicomputer (UNIX/Informix) based accounting package. |
| Assisted store and corporate management in the selection, implementation and management of store based Video Management system. In addition, trained store personnel in the use and maintenance of video system. |
As interim MIS Manager, March 1993 to January 1994, performed the following:
| Installed, then upgraded corporate Local Area Network from LANtastic to Novel 3.11. |
| Implemented TCP/IP and network communications between LAN and corporate UNIX system. System implementation also included attaching and implementing Macintosh workstations and print serving for Macintosh environment. |
| Working with corporate management, hardware and software vendors coordinated the implementation and conversion of corporate accounting systems from an Intel server running SCO UNIX to an NCR 3450 running AT&T UNIX. |
| Project Manager for replacement and upgrade of entire Local Area Network and accounting systems lost in plant fire. |
| Re-located company systems to new facility including coordination of vendors for cabling. De-installed and re-installed system and implemented additional features required due to relocation. |
| Assisted client in the definition and selection of corporate accounting systems and associated hardware. |
| Assisted several (14) medical offices in the selection and installation of medical records and billing systems and Local Area Networks. |
| Assisted several (3) local legal offices in the selection and installation of
LAN’s, time and billing systems, legal software and word processing applications.
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