John V. Stires

1487 Thor Drive

Palatine, IL 60067

(847)358-1487

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SUMMARY

Highly motivated Business Intelligence Professional using SQL Server 2005 / 2008 and

Microsoft Technologies. Experience manipulating various data sources to support Senior

Management decisions. Experienced in all phases of full life cycle of application

development. Demonstrated leadership abilities and team work skills as well as the ability to accomplish tasks under pressure and with minimal direction and supervision.

I am looking for an opportunity where I can design and build applications using business

intelligence to solve users’ issues and or problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Technologies:

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, SQL Server 2005

Reporting Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Performance Point Server 2007, Microsoft Visio.

Databases:

MS SQL Server 2005, 2008, RDB

Software:

Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio

DEC/VAX, Open VMS, DCL, MS Project, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, COGNOS PowerHouse,

FOCUS, CICS, BASIC, FORTRAN, ASSEMBLER, COBOL, Visual Basic, VB.NET, C++

SetFocus, LLC Parsippany, NJ 9/08 - 11/08

Educational program combined with professional experience was designed to provide 2-3 years experience in 1 quarter.

Implemented a Labor Analysis Business Intelligence solution for a simulated national

construction company.

Existing data from diverse data sources were consolidated into a uniform SQL Server

2005 database. SQL Server Integration Services was used to define imports of the

data, build scheduling packages, to define integration flow, log data error exceptions

and orphaned data and to define Database Maintenance Plans and send emails.

Created a number of cubes, dimensions and business critical KPIs using SQL Server

Analysis Services representing aggregations in several different ways - hierarchically

and using custom groupings that the company will use to analyze performance.

Created several MDX queries according to business requirements.

Developed several detail and summary reports including line and pie charts, trend

analysis reports and sub-reports according to business requirements using SQL Server

Reporting Services.

Implemented business intelligence dashboards using MOSS 2007 Report Center and

Excel Services producing different summary results based on user view and role

membership.

pencarver@sbcglobal.net Created score cards with executive summary dashboards using MS Office Performance

Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that display performance monitoring measures

for sales, sales trends, and book return rates for a simulated book publisher deriving

data from a SQL Server 2005 OLAP data source and deployed them to SharePoint

sites. The dashboards also contain drill-down capabilities to view book sales by book

category and customer, through summary reports and sales trend charts.

Created score cards with advanced set of dashboards using MS Office Performance

Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that feature executive summary measures for

revenue, overhead costs, material purchases, labor and profitability trends for a

simulated construction company extracting data from a SQL Server 2005 OLAP data

source and deployed them to SharePoint sites. The dashboards also contain pages to

view performance by employee, by region, and by quarter enabling end-users to make

filter selections.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEK Systems Pittsburgh, PA 5/11 - 10/11

Consultant

For the client, Highmark, a healthcare insurance provider:

Maintained and developed systems in support of General Billing, COBRA, and Direct

Pay clients and members. Environment was VAX VMS using DCL and COGNOS

PowerHouse.

Developed the systems required to accommodate billing within the framework of the

new Federal Stimulus Package.

Modis Solutions Pittsburgh, PA 3/09 - 9/09

Consultant

For the client, EBDS, a healthcare insurance provider billing vendor:

Maintained and developed systems in support of General Billing, COBRA, and Direct

Pay clients and members. Environment was VAX VMS using DCL and COGNOS

PowerHouse.

Developed the systems required to accommodate billing within the framework of the

new Federal Stimulus Package.

Links Technology Schaumburg, IL 2/08 - /09

Consultant

For the client, CareMark, a major healthcare provider:

Developed a system to triage/exchange sensitive patient information between

divisions handling different types of therapies. This system was streamlined and

divergent in terms of information platforms to ensure patient information was

transferred ten times per day via a secure FTP. Environment was VAX VMS using

DCL and COGNOS PowerHouse with a RDB Relational database.

pencarver@sbcglobal.net Coram Healthcare Mount Prospect, IL 3/05 – 5/07

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Supported the Billing System used on their 11 national locations, Corporate Billing and AR

Systems, and ancillary supporting applications on a VAX VMS using DCL and COGNOS

PowerHouse with a RDB Relational database.

Worked with team to create Post Back facility to provide management the ability to

track billing activities from their Billing System through their AR System.

Created an automated process to archive large amounts of complex data stored

across their 11 field locations and their corporate location.

Modified the nightly batch billing process to address One-Order-Per-Invoice taking

into account exceptions for special entities such as Medicare Part D.

Gaylord Container Corporation/Austin, TX 3/98 - 8/03

Temple-Inland Paperboard and Packaging

Sr. Systems Analyst / Systems Analyst

Responsible for Human Resource and Payroll systems. Member of transition team to

transfer and cleanse data moving from old systems to new, J. D. Edwards, Human

Resources and Payroll systems. Part of transition team-that transferred inventory

and storekeeping systems. Representative accomplishments include:

Collaborated with Corporate Tax Dept. to redesign, rewrite, test, and implement

improvements to W2 process requiring exclusive use of its own VAX machine with

dedicated IT personnel.

Result: Reduced W2 Process from 15 hours to 40 minutes process that ran on the

normal production machine.

Created, a Quality Control function for Corporate Payroll Tax Reporting System.

This, could be run with to the W2 process or independently.

Result: Eliminated dependency upon the external tax-reporting vendor to QC our tax

reporting data.

Automated unwieldy, time-consuming, and costly Payroll reporting process for

remote plants using ADP Payroll. Part of cross-functional teams including Corporate

Tax Department, and IT technical systems personnel.

Result: Saved over $27,000 per year in ADP costs alone. Work involved coordinating

efforts and activities of the ADP IT and business support staff, corporate Tax

Department, and internal System Services.

pencarver@sbcglobal.net Cancer Treatment Center of America Arlington Heights, IL 2/94 - 3/98

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Provided project planning, programming and analysis support in PowerHouse and

DCL on DEC/VAX for hospitals, clinics, and pharmaceutical home health care

providers.

Produced, managed, and maintained in-house reporting systems used to gather and

report hospital activity from third party system.

Maintained data file integrity for pharmacy, billing, and reimbursement systems.

Managed clinical system supporting Oncology clinics.

Worked with various departments to replace manual processes with interfaces

between the complex pharmacy system and General Ledger system with an

automated interfacing system. Result increased accuracy and reduced processing

from three weeks to 1.5 hours.

Independent Consultant Chicago, IL 8/92 - 2/94

Provided programming and analysis support using PowerHouse on DEC/VAX for large

aftermarket auto parts manufacturer.

Created electronic catalog system offering users wide variety of part information

access options and convenient means to produce periodic updates to third party

distributors.

Designed and implemented sales analysis reporting functions and supported

Accounts Receivable functions.

Provided warehouse system support.

Sears Roebuck & Company Chicago, IL 1990-1992

Systems Analyst

Responsible for trouble shooting and correcting in-store POS and Inventory systems

problems in stores nationwide. Minimized impact of these software-hardware-

procedural problems on store operations.

Wrote and modified programs within POS system.

Reduced monthly expenses by over $20,000 by identifying and eliminating

unused and correcting improperly used communication lines.

Reduced test time and increased consistency by developing automated

procedures to test cash register transactions.

Researched and presented alternatives to correct ongoing reporting problem

with Daily Sales Inventory Report written in 20,000 lines of assembler code.

Responsible for obtaining new user IDs, reinstating lost or forgotten

passwords and notifying department of policy, procedure, and software

changes.

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Prior experience

Technical consultant/systems analyst for various major organizations (1978-1990).

Examples of project accomplishments include:

Wrote pricing system for $7.5 billion in securities for Stein, Roe, and Farhnam

Developed functional specifications for highly sensitive Draft Schedules

application for United Airlines

Created disaster recovery plan for Advanced Systems Applications, Inc. (ASA)

Created secure login process for high volume vidoetext system (a precursor to the

internet).

Created operations manual for three mainframe timeshare site for

Advanced Systems Applications, Inc. (ASA)

Eliminated need for costly external vendor for system administration for

Bankers’ Life and Casualty Mass Marketing Division.

Evaluated major development software for HealthChicago.

EDUCATION

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

BS in Computer Science minored in Business Administration, 1978

BS in Biology minored in Chemistry, 1978

William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL

AS in Science, 1975

Out Side Interests

Running

Wood working

Gardening

Martial Arts