James J.
Watt
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Summary: |
Technical Analyst with over 20 years of experience on
mainframe systems with a broad background in all phases of the software
development life cycle building maintainable user friendly applications in a
rapidly changing business environment.
Recognized for broad technical knowledge and proven ability to achieve
focused results and creative solutions, resulting in many contributions that
have led to improvements in efficiencies and cost savings. |
Professional Experience:
1994 – 2008 Limited Technology Services (LTS), a
Division of Limited Brands, Inc.,
Technical Analyst – Solution Delivery – LTS 2004 – 2008
Project Lead – Development Group – LTS 2000 – 2004
Project Lead – Financial Systems – Lane Bryant 1996 – 2000
Senior Programmer
Analyst – DC
Systems – Lane Bryant 1994 – 1996
Hardware/Software: Mainframe: IBM Z series, MVS, COBOL, CICS,
Install/1, DB2, VSAM, IDCAMS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, Expediter, FTP, Platinum Edit, File-Aid,
Changeman, Control/M
PC: Windows,
Visio, Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, Project
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Received
SPARK award within first year of employment for A/P-EDI project below – the first
person in company’s history to be so recognized.
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Increased
efficiency of A/P department by automating the posting of EDI invoices from a
manual system. A/P system was IDMS
based, so I had to build an understanding of both the database and A/P system
prior to designing and coding the solution.
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Saved
over $80,000 in the first season of deployment after redesigning the picking
and packing slips to improve the efficient movement of product through the DC.
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Designed
and led a team that accomplished the goal to provide store management with next
day sales results (a 24hr increase over prior reporting to that time) that
included comparisons sales and corporate rank statistics. Also built an e-mail interface process to
deliver an excel report to all field management, which became the model for all
go forward reporting.
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Interfaced
the size level forecasting system Limited Brands developed to Lane Bryant’s
current MMS allocation system. Wrote the
technical manual and participated in the preparation of the user training
material.
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Led
team to install GLOBESET, a deposit management system, at Bath & Body Works
(BBW) to monitor and balance bank deposits at the store level across the 900+
store chain.
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Installed
Island Pacific’s Sales Audit module for the Express – Package Migration Project.
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Merged
the Structure Brand into Express, creating the Express Men’s brand.
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Designed
and built all POS interfaces to collect hours and staffing information at the
store level for all of the brands within Limited Brands at the time for the PeopleSoft
Payroll Project. I also flowcharted and
coordinated the building of the full production schedule.
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Analyzed
manual process BBW used to get sales data from it’s web provider and convert it
to a usable format, then designed, wrote, and implemented an automated process
to deliver the data each morning prior to start of the home office’s business
day.
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Updated
all CICS-Install/1 processes to support new PKMS (
Professional
Experience: James J. Watt – Cont’d
1985 – 1994 Nationwise Auto Parts, Inc.,
Senior Systems Analyst
MSA SF/DRP Product support
specialist
Hardware: IBM 3090, MVS, COBOL, CICS, RPG II, SDF II, SYNCSORT, Librarian.
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Responsible
for the support of our Inventory Control Systems, both in-house and purchased.
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Requested
by MSA to assistance in the development of modules needed to complete their
Retail Inventory System SF/DRP when their deliver date began slipping. I was assigned to the MSA development team
and worked in
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Designed
in-house forecasting and replenishment system to eliminate work load on MSA
system by over 65% and increased overall store inventory efficiency.
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Converted
Mainframe from DOS to MVS.
1980 – 1985
Project Lead,
Payroll Systems
Hardware: Burroughs B1985, MCP II,
Candi, COBOL, RPG II, Scope, NDL.
IBM Series/1, COBOL.
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Restructured
Payroll system to handle multiple companies and tip reporting. Mandated after our office took over all
processing for the Casa Gallardo restaurant chain.
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Consulted
with Darden to convert Payroll system to run on their mainframe after
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Developed
all batch software for new A/P system for Series/1
1974 – 1980 Iron City Distribution Company/Beverage
Marketing Corp.,
Programmer Analyst
Hardware: Burroughs B1865, MCP II,
RPG II.
Converted from an IBM System/3, RPG II
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Developed
all software needed to publish the “National Beverage Marketing Directory”.
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Converted
all software and data moved to Burroughs system and trained all operators on
new system and procedures.
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Designed
invoicing system and support documents used by sales staff.
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Revamped
sales reports for readability and processing efficiencies.
1977 – 1979 Jefferson Technical College,
RPG II Programming Instructor
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Instructed
an evening class in RPG and ADVANCED RPG programming during the winter and
spring quarters.
EDUCATION:
Degree: AB/Data Processing
Numerous classes, seminars, webinars, and CBT’s focusing on
coding, performance & tuning, project leading, & vendor products.