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George Pearson, Jr.

Green Springs Software, Inc                             PO Box 3336, Ashland, OR 97520 USA

InfiniumPro@hotmail.com                                               

(541) 488-2560

 

 

SUMMARY   

 

·         23+ years of proven experience in Software Engineering involving Analysis, Design, Development, Coding, Import/Export, Conversion, Validation, Testing and Debugging.

·         Extensive experience on IBM iSeries (AS/400) with proficiency in RPG  (ILE/IV/Sub-File Programming), CL, SQL/400, Query/400, SQLRPGLE,  rpgFree.  IBM Certified in RPG IV.

·         12+ years of experience with Infinium HR/Payroll, Financials and Materials Suites, Programming, Customization, Installs and Upgrades.   Experience with HR, Payroll, GL, AR, Payables, AP, Fixed Assets, Flex Benefits, Cross Applications, Purchase Management, Order Entry, Materials, Inventory and Training modules. 

·         Recent experience Installing and supporting the International versions of Infinium HR/Payroll for Europe and the UK.

·         7+ years of experience with PRMS (ERP) and ILE RPG (RPG IV) Programming, Testing and Debugging.  Experience with PRMS versions by PCR, Pansophic and Computer Associates.

·         4 years of JD Edwards World Financial software, primarily Payroll, Human Resources, General Ledger and Accounts Payable.

·         6+ years of Cool:2e (Synon) Design, Development and Maintenance

·         Strong working knowledge in Visual Basic, VBA, SQL Server, Access and DB2/400 Administration

·         Knowledge and Experience as Data Base Analyst, with full understanding of data base normalization and structure

·         Exposure to EDI, ASP, Net.Data, VB Script

·         5 years of legacy COBOL

·         Interfaces and networking with a wide variety of platforms, including Infinium, JDE, Kronos, Oracle, Synergen, VAX, Windows, Davox Predictive Dialer and others 

·         Team player with very good interpersonal relation skills.

 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

 

LANGUAGES: RPG (ILE. 400 (III, IV), Embedded SQL, Visual Basic, VBA, Cool:2e (Synon), SQL/400, CL/400, ASC's Sequel

 

OPERATING SYSTEMS: OS/400 (V2R1 thru V5R4; MS Windows (XP/2K/9x/NT)

 

RDBMS: OS/400, SQL Server 7.0, DB2 UDB (iSeries)

 

UTILITIES: SQL, DFU, SDA, PDM, DBU, SEU, iSeries (Client) Access, EZ-View, Hawkeye,  RLU, ISDB, Query/400, SQL/400, Showcase Strategy, Soft Landings Turnover, Robot/400, Robot Save, BRMS, Rumba & NLynx Emulators, Hawkeye, Silvon Implementer, MS-Office

 

ERP/PACKAGES:

Infinium: Human Resources, Payroll (International and Domestic), General Ledger, Payables Ledger, Inventory, Accounts Receivable, Cross Apps, Fixed Assets, Purchase Mgmt, Flex Benefits, Training, and Many Upgrades

PRMS: (Solid experience with versions by PCR, Pansophic, and CA). HR/Payroll, Distribution, Financials, Order Billing, Inventory

JD Edwards World: HR, Payroll, General Ledger, and Accounts Payable

JD Edwards OneWorld: Conversions; Z-File Processing

MAPICS: (legacy), Manufacturing, Financials

MOVEX: (legacy), Manufacturing and Distribution

 

INDUSTRIES: Financial, Distribution, Systems, Health Care, Manufacturing, Retail & POS, Government, Oil and Gas Services, Collections, Multi-Level Marketing, Y2k

 

 

EDUCATION

 

·         2007 Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Metadata Modeling, Beginning, Irvine CA

·         2007 Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Metadata Modeling, Advanced, Irvine CA

·         2002 Received IBM Certification as a Specialist - AS/400 RPG IV Programmer, IBM

·         1998 Beginning and Advanced Microsoft Access 97, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR

·         1998 Using Front Page 98, Eugene, OR

·         1998 A 2-week immersion Spanish language school, Casa Xelaju, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

·         1997 Intro and Advanced Web Design, Infostructure, Ashland, OR

·         1990-1995 IBM FTN Training, IBM Satellite Network (Several Courses)

·         1993 Sequel/400 Advanced, ASC, Inc. Schaumburg, IL

·         1994 Synon 2E Training, Synon, Larkspur, CA

·         1994 Synon 2E Advanced, Synon, Larkspur, CA

·         1987 Received the Certificate of Data Processing

·         1977-1981 Classes toward Business  Data Processing, El Camino College, CA

·         1975-1976 Computer Technology, Control Data Institute, Los Angeles, CA (Graduated 2nd in the class)

 

EXPERIENCE

 

From 1985 I have been employed by my own corporation (Green Springs Software, Inc), and involved with several clients and a large number of projects.  Selected client projects are listed.  

 

 

Polo Ralph Lauren, Geneva Switzerland                              Oct 2007– Dec 2007

Infinium European HR/Payroll Functional and Technical Consultant

·         Installed all software, including all upgrades of the International Version for Infinium HR/Payroll for the European Headquarters of this Retail Giant.

·         Built all controls, (Employers, codes, Positions, Jobs, etc) for 18 Employers over 13 countries.

·         Imported and wrote custom programs to Mass-Hire about 2,000 employees into new system, set for 1 Jan 2008 Go-Live.

·         Project completed on-schedule with performance bonus paid. 

 

Amy’s Kitchen, CA                                                    Jul 2007– Present

Programming Technical Consultant

·         Developing a series of custom APIs to interface with existing but un-affiliated ERP Packagers.  

·         Initial API will capture information from a Bar-coding application and feed to the Movex Inventory and Distribution system.  

·         Other interfaces will follow.

 

 

Regis Corporation, MN (Supporting Europe)                      Aug 2006– Jul 2007

Infinium United Kingdom Technical Consultant

·         Primary support for the International version if Infinium Human Resources and Payroll, for several hundred locations in the United Kingdom and Europe.  

·         After completion of the Upgrade, I was asked to return as a full time resource for long term support of the Infinium HR System. Projects include: Re-engineering the Benefits Administration to remove outdated customization and convert to Plan Year processing.

·         Upgraded the heavily customized domestic version of Infinium HR/Payroll to Release 10.4 on 3 Development and 1 Production platform.

·         Upgraded the International version of Infinium HR/Payroll from 11.2 to 11.1.4.

·         I have personally been involved in over 100 payroll systems, but the Regis installation is by far the most complex and customized payroll system that I have ever experienced. 

 

 

The GEO Group, FL                                                  Oct 2004 – Aug 2006

Infinium Technical Consultant

·         Initial project was 3 month project to upgrade a heavily customized implementation of Infinium HR/Payroll system to meet 2005 standards.   Analyzed/modified RPG-ILE, SQL and CL custom programs. HR Release from 9.2+ to 10.2.

·         After completion of the Upgrade, I was asked to return as a full time resource for long term support of the Infinium HR System. Projects include: Re-engineering the Benefits Administration to remove outdated customization and convert to Plan Year processing.

·         Upgrade Infinium HR/Payroll to Release 10.3 and further remove outdated customization.

·         Convert all occurrences of Employee number in HR and Payroll systems from SSN to a System generated number.  Because of a very large database, a custom written solutions was required. 

·         Upgrade all Financial and Purchase Management Infinium Applications from out-dated releases to most current.  Systems converted included: Accounts Receivables, Cross Apps, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Global Tax, Journal Processing, Payables Ledger, Purchase Exchange, and Purchase Management.  Removed heavy outdated customization.

 

 

Alaska Railroad Corporation, AK                            Apr-Jul 2004 & Feb-Mar 2005

Infinium Technical Consultant

·         Upgraded New Software Releases of several SSA-Infinium Applications

·         Retrofitted highly custom RPG-ILE modifications to new releases of the applications

·         Financial Applications include: Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Global Taxation, Payables Ledger, Purchasing Exchange,  Upgrade Infinium Releases from old to all latest releases (12.x).

·         Materials Applications include: Cross Apps, Inventory Control Purchase Management, Journal Processing.  Upgrade Infinium Releases from 7.0 to 8.0.

 

 

SSA-Global Infinium                                                  2003-Ongoing

SSA-Infinium Technical Services Representative

Representing Infinium Technical Services Division, I have completed a few small remote projects for Infinium for 2 of their customers.

 

·         Finning Canada, Edmonton, AL, Canada  A 200 hour 1-time RPG-ILE project to mass import and enroll Employee Benefits and Beneficiaries to Infinium HR from an outsourced system. 9/2002 – 12/2002

·         Fitzgerald Casinos, Las Vegas NV:  A 60 hour 1-time RPG-ILE project to mass import General Ledger transactions from Excel to Infinium General Ledger.2/2003 – 4/2003

·         Legends Casino, Yakima, WA   On-site Technical and Functional support for 2004 W2 Payroll Processing 1/2005.  Infinium HR Release 10.2.

 

Dover Chemicals, OH                                               Jul 2004 – Oct 2004

Infinium Technical and Functional Consultant

·         A part time project, spanning 3 months, to generate a series of auditor reports from historical financial information.  Utilized SQL, RPG ILE and CL programming to extract from the Infinium Financial Database.

 

 

Fraser Papers, ME                                                    Aug 2004 – Oct 2004

Infinium Technical and Functional Consultant

·         A short-time project, spanning 2 months to generate a series of menu driven downloads from Infinium Accounts Receivable to specific Excel formats.   The Infinium selection screens  allow F4 Prompting and Help support.  Utilized SQL, RPG-ILE and CL programming to extract from the Infinium Accounts Receivables Database.

 

 

Weatherford International, TX                                 Jan 2003 – Feb 2004

Infinium Technical and Functional Consultant

·         Designed and developed RPG ILE and SQL conversion programs for data import to JDE OneWorld.  Source data originates from JD Edwards Infinium and various Excel spreadsheets

·         Designed interfaces for JDE OneWorld Z-File mapping and processing

·         Supporting the existing Infinium Financial and Human Resources/Payroll systems

·         Analyzed several PC based payroll time gathering packages including Kronos, before deciding upon a custom solution.

·         Implemented VBA driven Excel projects, including the automated retrieval and processing of AS/400 information, and generating Outlook email with attachments.

 

 

CKE Restaurants, CA                                               1996 – Present (as requested)

Contract Programmer Analyst

 

Client owns 3500+ restaurants, US and International.  As needed, I continue to participate in projects, either covering for staff vacations, or performing projects as needed.

·         Several projects utilizing RPG, RPG-ILE, SQL and, CL and Access.  Details upon request.

·         Infinium Financial Software (AM/HR/PY/GL/PL/AR) and PeopleSoft

§         PRMS Manufacturing and Distribution Software, plus home-grown

 

ITT Systems, IN                                                        Oct 2002 – Dec 2002

Infinium Consultant

                

A 2 month, onsite technical support project, to aid the staff in installation of Infinium Software upgrades, and year end payroll tasks. 

·        Conversion Infinium HR/Payroll to Release 10.0, and 10.0.1.

·        Wrote mapping programs for Benefits Administration extracts to conform to vendor standards in RPG-ILE, RPG-SQL.

·        Various other small tasks as needs arose

 

PeaceHealth, WA                                                      Feb 1995 – Mar 2002

Contract Programmer & Technical Analyst

                

For several years, the Corporate IT organization utilized me for countless projects, large and small.  This client is a parent corporation that owns and operates Hospitals, Physician Groups and Clinics across the Northwest states.  Some selected projects: 

·         Numerous Projects utilizing RPG, RPG-ILE, SQL, CL, Cool2e (Synon), Visual Basic, Access for a wide variety of projects, systems and applications. Detailed list upon request.

·         Infinium HR and Payroll and Financials (AM/HR/PY/GL/PL/AR/FA/FB/TR)

·         Customized Infinium and custom programs to interface with Kronos Time Keeping systems

·         Developed several electronic interfaces between Infinium and: Fidelity (benefits), Electronic Parking Gate system,  Exposure tracking,  Pharmacy orders, etc

 

 

Fred Meyer, Inc, OR                                                 Mar 1993 – Nov 1994

Contract Programmer Analyst

 

A Retail Supply Chain firm with over 200 stores uses AS/400s and JD Edwards to handle the HR and Payroll.  Application is heavily customized.

·         Created customized programs and modifications to existing programs as requested.

§         Designed, programmed and implemented a process to calculate and distribute Store Management incentive Bonus checks, based upon performance, and fed the information to the Payroll system, were the checks were generated.

§         Participated in a JDE World release upgrade.

 

** End of Resume - More History on Request, Including Apple Computer, Advanced Micro Devices and more **