Dave Marynowski

Dave@Marynowski.com

 

PROFILE

Result-oriented individual with several years of experience in the Information Technology field; with focus in the Healthcare, Airline, Utility and Human Resources (compensation, manager self-service, employee self-service and benefits) domain.  Quickly gains the confidence of internal and external customers at all levels by providing strong consulting, design and analysis during the requirements phase, providing leadership during the design phase and delivering technical solutions on time and with the highest level of quality.

 

Core Strengths

 

Decisive Leadership

Functional and Technical Knowledge

Self-Starter

Project Lifecycle Development/Management – Analysis, Design, Project Management, Development and Implementation

Issue Management and Change Control. Able to manage several projects simultaneously.

Able to work with little direction or supervision. Works well with ambiguity

Risk Identification and Mitigation Planning

Strong Oral and Written Communications

Learns and adapts quickly

Highly Dependable

High Quality Standards

Detail Oriented

 

Software Analyst and Development StrenGTHS and Experience

Very proficient Analyst/Developer in several technologies, with over 20 years of analyst, design, development and implementation experience. Also, business analysis experience and project management experience, managing multiple projects simultaneously.

 

C#.net - 2 plus years

Asp.net - 2 plus years

HTML - 12 years

Javascript – 11 years

MS SQL Server/Transact SQL– 10 years

Oracle 9/8/7, PL/SQL – 7 years

XML\XLT – 3 years

Edify IVR – 7 years

IIS – 9 years

Visual Basic 6.0/5.0 – 5 years

Windows platforms – 12 years

Mainframe applications – 10 years

Business Analysis – 15 years

Project Management – 5 years

Project Lead – 5 years

 

professional experience

 

Spherion Consulting                                                                                                       Scottsdale, AZ

Application Architect Consultant – HR Technologies                                                       February 2010 - Present

  • Consultant at American Express. Analyzing, designing and implementing projects working with SumTotal, Peoplesoft and Taleo.

 

Coventry HealthCare                                                                                                       Scottsdale, AZ

IT Project Manager – Medicare IT                                                                      November 2009 –February 2010

  • Managed new and enhancement IT projects to the Medicare IT business.

 

SumTotal Systems, Inc                                                                     Mountain View, CA/Phoenix, AZ

Senior Implementation Consultant – Professional Services                                           October 2007 – May 2009  

·         Responsible for business analysis, design and installing and configuring SumTotal’s highly customizable software behind customer’s firewall as well as in SumTotal’s hosting environment.

·         Managing several clients’ projects at once, as many as fifteen at a time. Both working remotely from my home office and traveling to client sites as needed.  Approximately 40% travel to client sites and working remotely using WebEx and other tools to facilitate analysis, design, installation and support on customer’s sites for many of the Fortune 500 companies.

·         Designing and implementing custom systems, using SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle PL/SQL, IIS, HTML, Skillsoft Integration, XML and internal tools to meet the customers needs.

·         Providing customer facing training and configuration workshops in preparation for the SumTotal suite installation.

                                                                                                                                                                    

Kelly Professional Services, Inc                                                                                         Phoenix, AZ

Programmer Analyst/Developer Consultant                                                              August 2007 – October 2007  

·         Assigned to American Express International Marketing Division to do analysis and coding on their marketing system.

·         Responsible for analysis, design and coding C#.net apps for their International marketing system.

 

Avnet, Inc                                                                                                                              Phoenix, AZ

Senior Programmer Analyst/Developer - HRIS                                                              August 2002 – June 2007  

·         Project and Technical Lead on Learning Management System conversion from Aspen 1.1 to SumTotal 7.2.  Worked as technical liaison between SumTotal implementation consultant and Avnet.  Using SumTotal 7.2 and Data Sync and Data Migration utilities.  Skillsoft Integration, Oracle Pl/SQL, IIS, SQL Server, FTP, HTML, XML.

·         Lead Systems Analyst/Developer on a C#.net project to automate a responsibility and authority system that kept track of the dollar amounts and types of items managers and executives were allowed to approve.  This was written in .net 2.0 using some of the new 2.0 features such as master pages and tree views.  It allowed for the purchasing department to move from paper forms to this automated web system for adding and maintaining the responsibility and authority data.

·         Lead Analyst/Developer on an Employee Self Service/Manager Self Service project which web enabled all of a managers administrative functions: Job Transfers, Job Changes, Job Status Changes, Pay Changes, Bonuses, Leave of Absence request and Terminations.  Successfully implemented this application on time and under budget and the system has subsequently saved Avnet a substantial amount of money in operating costs.

·         Lead Analyst/Developer on an Online Benefit Open Enrollment, New Enrollment, Life Events and Name Change system. 

·         Lead Analyst/Developer on a web based dynamic total compensation statement that employees could view at anytime to see their total compensation package with the company.  Responsible for gathering business requirements and business analysis of current system and designing the new system as well as developing and implementing the system in a web environment.

·         Lead Analyst/Developer on an automated paycheck and pay stubs to be displayed on the web based system, eliminating the need for paycheck stub printing for employees with direct deposit, saving thousands of dollars in check stub printing costs.  Employees could print their stubs only when needed and see the complete history of their paychecks/pay stubs at anytime.

·         Designed, analyzed, developed and maintained a web based merit planning system that the entire company used to determine and enter pay increases for employees during the yearly merit cycle.  This system also saved thousands of dollars for Avnet by automating a previously paper based process of yearly merit planning.

Awards

o    Several Peer PRAISE Recognition Awards

o    Several RESULTS Process Enhancement Recognition Awards

 

 

Workscape, Inc.                                                                                          Marlborough, MA/Phoenix, AZ

Field Services Systems Consultant/Integration Engineer – Professional Services           June 2000 – August 2002 

·         Successfully Analyzed, designed, developed and implemented a manager self service application for Bank One/Chase a major national bank integrating with Peoplesoft and Oracle. Rolling out to over 3000 users. Served as Project lead to five developers assigned to this project.

·         Successfully designed, developed and implemented a full employee self service application including benefits enrollment for Visa International credit card company integrating with Peoplesoft and Oracle.

·         Responsible for technical task identification/assignments while also being responsible for technical deliverables

·         Worked as an Integration Engineer installing and configuring Windows operating systems with IIS.  Also Responsible for integrating Workscape Products: Edify 6.0, Integration Server, Workscape 3.0 and 3.1 with Windows operating Systems.

·         Responsible for performing stress/performance testing utilizing Web testing tools WebLoad and Silk Performer to provide stress/performance results and user experience timings to the client for web based applications.

·         Triaged technical issues and provided oversight

·         Participated in internal and client Go-No-Go meetings where the lead stake holders would evaluate the current state of the implementation and look to me to provide the companies readiness assessment

 

Pinnacle West Capital Corp. /Arizona Public Service                                                     Phoenix, AZ

Systems Integrator III/Programmer/Analyst III – Information Systems                       November 1997 – June 2000 

·         Lead Analyst/Developer on an Employee Self Service application that was both WEB and IVR based and interfaced with a DB2 database and a CA-HRisma HR system.

·         Lead designer/analyst/developer on an automated Employee Incentive program in an IBM DB2/IMS environment, for the human resources payroll department.

·         Project Manager and technical lead on a Y2K conversion effort for the IT HR payroll department.

·         Lead Designer/Developer on a Visual Basic application interfacing with SQL Server automating mailing labels for the HR payroll department.

 

US Airways (formerly America West Airlines)                                                                        Tempe, AZ

Programmer Analyst/DBA Training – Information Systems                                         July 1996 – November 1997 

·         Learned DBA duties and created an Informix relational database schema with database prototyping tools, as well as being responsible for installing and learning a network archive and restore package, that is the disaster recovery mechanism for the million dollar a day revenue generated by the UNIX based online vacation reservation system.

·         Designed/analyzed and developed on an IBM DB2/CICS based frequent flyer system for the airline passengers.

·         Designed/analyzed and developed the backend mainframe processing of the internet enrollments for the frequent flyer system.

·         Responsible for developing project plans that included development tasks and resource assignments as Project manager.

·         Continued design and development of new processes that greatly reduced cost and man-hours

 

CVS/Caremark (formerly AdvancePCS and PCS Health Systems)                               Scottsdale, AZ

Programmer/Analyst – Information Technology Division                                                     April 1995 – July 1996 

·         Analyzed and programmed an auditing system for the pharmacy RECAP system.

·         The system consisted of an intricate on-line CICS system utilizing both DB2 & IMS databases. These databases were used to store the many pharmacies insurance claims on which they would be audited for fraud pertaining to those claims.

·         The front end consisted of an ACCESS database system that ran on the auditor’s laptop computers in the field. This ACCESS system was written, customized and fully implemented by one other person and me. I also maintained sole production support for the mainframe and laptop portion of the systems.

 

CARA Corporation                                                                                                               Phoenix, AZ

Programmer/Analyst Consultant                                                                                 October 1994 – April 1995

  • Analyzed and programmed a MIS reporting system for American Express government & corporate credit cards. The system consisted of an intricate flexible reporting system utilizing both DB2 & IMS databases. These databases were used to generate reports based on credit card activity, as well as accounting information for each corporation's staff that possessed the cards.

 

Pharmaceutical Marketing Services Inc.                                                                           Phoenix, AZ

Senior Programmer/Analyst                                                                                 February 1992 – October 1994

  • Analyzed, designed and programmed a pharmaceutical tracking system to track newly launched drugs into the market place for various pharmaceutical companies.
  • Started as a P/A II promoted after one year to a P/A III, promoted after two years to a Senior Programmer/Analyst.

 

Michael B. Marynowski & Associates                                                                              Naperville, IL

Programmer/Analyst Consultant                                                                    September 1988 – September 1991

  • Analyzed and programmed an accounts receivable system for The Options Clearing Corporation.
  • The system consisted of an intricate accounting of trade options that were traded on the various stock exchanges around the country.
  • The system kept track of the various investors’ margin accounts that allowed them to buy and sell options on stock on a credit basis.

 

 

Education

 

Certificate with Distinction Computer Career Program: equivalent of AS Computer Science from DePaul University, Chicago, IL  

·         Employer sponsored program curriculum containing practical applications in Mainframe and Distributed Systems and Systems Analysis and Design utilizing Yourdon and Page-Jones Methodology as well as Project Management training.

·         Various software and management training courses

 

Systems Background

Business and Management Solutions:

SumTotal  LMS, Skillsoft, Taleo, Workscape, PeopleSoft, CA-HRisma, Ceridian Ensemble, Documentum’s eRoom, Rational ClearQuest

Analyst and Design

Business analysis on many different types and sizes of systems.

Project Management

Project Management/Project lead experience. Handling several mid-range to large projects simultaneously.

Programming Languages, Databases, Source Control and Query Tools:

C#.net, VB.net, ASP.net, MS Visual Basic 6.0/5.0,  ASP, HTML, XML, Javascript, SQL, Oracle 7/8/9, PL/SQL, Oracle SQL*Plus, Toad, MS SQL Server 2000/7.0/6.5, SQL Server Report Writer Training and Exposure, T-SQL, Firewalls, FTP, MS-DOS, OS/2, IIS, J2EE, Microsoft Windows 3.11, 95/98, 2000, NT, XP, C programming training & exposure, Edify IVR, Edify/Workscape EWF, Edify/Workscape ESY, Microsoft ACCESS BASIC, DBASE III+, FOXPRO, UNIX: Korn Shell (AIX & SunOS), VI, Informix, COBOL II/COBOL, PL/I, BASIC, SPF/PC, Microfocus Cobol GUI & Character Based Animator With Workbench, FILE-AID-PC, DB2 Database/SQL, QMF, IDMS Database, VSAM, CICS, OS/MVS JCL, TSO/ISPF/PDF, SYNCSORT, PAN-VALET, ELIPS, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, VIASOFT SMARTTEST, SAS, DYL-280, Changeman, Info-Man, Exposure To IMS Database

Office Tools:

MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Outlook, FrontPage, Webex, Interwise, Adobe Connect, Lotus Mail

 

Travel

Extensively traveled to client locations; willing to travel