Project Management consultant for GuideWell Innovation project at Florida Blue. Designed and created numerous complex dashboards using MS Power BI

Responsible for the leadership of multiple application development teams supporting systems for Crew Operations, Hours of Service Reporting, Taxi, Unit Train Operations and the Network Operations Workstation. These mission-critical systems, some of which were vendor provided and supported, provided the necessary tools to call crews effectively within the constraints of contractual obligations and regulatory restrictions, to provide the necessary monthly federal mandated Hours of Service reporting, to efficiently utilize taxi services for the efficient movement of crews, to track the movement and facilitate the management of unit trains, and to provide a comprehensive overview of the CSX network and its operations. These systems spanned multiple platforms including OS/390, Unix and Windows and were developed using COBOL, Java and HTML and utilized VSAM, IMS, DB2 and Oracle databases. Additional responsibilities included a leadership role for development of a new crew system strategy, participation in capital and OE planning, expanded vendor management along with pursing an expanded usage of off-shore resources to effectively manage a dynamic development work-load.

Responsible for the leadership of multiple application development teams supporting systems for Customer Operations, Customer Service and the Safety departments. These mission-critical systems, that spanned multiple platforms including OS/390, Unix and Windows, were required for the efficient and effective operation of trains at the local level, to provide tools for customer orders and shipment tracking, and to support field safety training and safety incident reporting. The systems were developed using COBOL, C, PowerBuilder, C#, Java and HTML and utilized IMS, DB2 and Oracle databases. Additional responsibilities included oversight for comprehensive Safety training for the Technology department, participation in capital and OE planning, implementation of an enterprise learning system TrainingTrax, and expanded vendor management.

TrainingTrax Award:

CSX Chairman’s Award of Excellence, 2009

Responsible for the leadership of an application development team supporting the Customer Operations systems. These mission-critical systems, that spanned multiple platforms including OS/390, Unix and Windows, were required for the efficient and effective operation of trains at the local level. The systems were developed using COBOL, C, C#, Java and HTML and utilized IMS, DB2 and Oracle databases.

Responsible for a development team supporting the Operations Research department along with client-side, mid-tier and web applications development communicating with mainframe and mid-tier databases. Also responsible for the initial development of a tablet based mobile application for conductors developed using Java and utilizing cellular connectivity.

Mobile Application Awards:

First Annual 3G CDMA Best in Show Award Winner at CTIA Wireless, 2003

CSX Chairman’s Award of Excellence, 2003

Business Transformation Award Winner for Mobile & Wireless World, 2004

Responsible for project execution and budget oversight along with client-side applications development on the DOS, Windows and OS/2 platforms. Applications were developed using C, C++ and Java and communicated with mainframe systems via TCP/IP sockets. Participated in the initial development of web based HTML and Java applets.

Team Leader for all check printing (MICR) application software development efforts. Additional responsibility included managing the corporate LAN.

• Leader for software team that developed PC based applications to print negotiable MICR documents on laser check printers. This application allowed clients to merge in-house data with user defined forms to produce negotiable MICR documents on blank check stock.
• Led the programming efforts that successfully ported existing software applications from the DOS platform to the Windows platform.
• Responsible for the growth and daily operations of the corporate Novell LAN.

Systems Analyst/Lead Programmer for multi-platform software development along with conversion efforts. Additional responsibilities included managing the corporate LAN.

• Led the development efforts for a wide variety of information systems targeting the IBM, WANG and Unisys mid-range platforms, Novell local area networks and personal computers.
• Introduced both the ‘C’ language and Novell networks to the organization.