Errol A. Sippola Resume

Errol A. Sippola

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Suomi College, Hancock MI 1962
Extensive on the job and task specific training.

Accomplished programmer/analyst with diverse experience in writing efficient and well-structured programs.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work as part of a team or independently as the job requires.
Results oriented and committed to getting the job done right. Good communication skills with the ability to relate to different levels of management and technical personnel.

LANGUAGES:

COBOL
EASYTRIEVE PLUS
SQR(Structured Query Reporting)

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

OS/MVS/MFT/MVT
DOS

HARDWARE:

IBM 370 30xx 4341
IBM 3800 XEROS printers
HONEYWELL 2000, 200 120
NCR 315

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS:

AFP
BMS
BTS
CICS
DB2/SQL
DOCUMERGE
IMS DB/DC
LIBRARIAN
PANVALET
TSO/ISPF
VOLLIE
VSAM

APPLICATIONS:

Order Entry
On-line Pricing
Laser Insurance Policy Print
List Management (Junk mail)

Mail Sortation
Personnel Systems
Financial Systems
Transportation

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Consultant: Reliance Electric 1993, 1994-1999
Responsible for enhancements to on-line order entry system. Coded update logic for a bill-of-material database. Rewrote Easytrieve Plus code to SQR for UNIX environment in Y2K Mainframe elimination.
Used COBOL IMS

Consultant: Progressive Insurance 1994
Member of Laser Print team. Assisted in coding (DCF) of insurance policy forms and subsequent laser printing utilizing DOCUMERGE software.

Consultant: Stouffers 1992-1993
Coded, tested, installed an online freight application system.
DOS/VSE COBOL IMS CICS

Consultant: Cuyahoga County Data Center 1990-1991
Welfare system IMS to DB2 conversion.
COBOL IMS DB2 SQL

Consultant: Parker-Hannifin 1988-1990
Provided support and enhancements to a manufacturing system.
COBOL IMS CICS DYL-280

Consultant: American Transtech Jacksonville, Fl 1985-1987
Responsible for the design, programming, implementation of a list management system. Used various demographic selections to generate mailings to thousands of customers. Used merge/purge logic to maintain customer database along with zip code correction software.
COBOL IMS

Diamond Shamrock 1974-1983
Programmer/analyst project manager Responsible for online order entry system

Consultant: Computer Systems Company 1973-1974
Worked at various companies throughout NE OHIO

Addressograph-Multigraph 1965-1972
Programmer/analyst
Financial systems
COBOL IMS

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