DELBERT G. THORNTON

120 State Ave. NE Suite 271

Olympia, WA 98501

360-951-4067

SUMMARY:

IT Consultant - 26 yrs.

IT Manager - 4 yrs.

Corporate Controller - 4 yrs.

Systems Analyst - 5 yrs.

 

Analyst/Programmer - 4 yrs.

 

SOFTWARE/LANGUAGES:

SAP

Quest Central

JCL

MS SQL

FORTRAN

PROEDIT

ABAP

NATURAL

FTP

Tuxedo

CICS

DATABUS

BAPI

Construct

WORD

Windows XP

CMS

ENDEAVOR

SAP ALV

ADABAS

EXCEL

Unix

MVS

WordPerfect

Oracle

COBOL II

PowerPoint

Visio

VSAM

XPEDITER

Toad

DB2

FRONTPAGE

IMS

Omegamon

EASYTRIEVE

Net Express

N2O

Java

ISPF

OS/390

FileAid

UltraEdit

TRIM

HTML

Citrix

MainView

ADPAC

Visual Source Safe

TSO

BASIC

PL/1

SPUFI

ASSEMBLER

 

APPLICATIONS:

Energy Utility

CorDaptix

CISPLUS

Hydro-power Generation Scheduling*

 

 

Government

Revenue Management System*

Child Abuse Management Information System (CAMIS)

Labor and Payroll*

Superior Court Management System (SCOMIS)

Asset Performance System*

District Court Information System (DISCIS)

Vehicle Information System*

Judicial Accounting Sub-System (JASS)

 

Manufacturing

Time and Attendance*

Labor Analysis*

Production Scheduling and Control*

Quality Assurance and Reporting*

Work in Process Inventory Control *

Costing*

 

Oil/Gas

Production and Revenue Accounting

Royalty Accounting

Lease Owner Statements and Checks

Cash Receipts

 

Miscellaneous

General Ledger*

Payroll (multiple state)

Accounts Receivable/Payable*

Credit Union (savings and share draft)*

Equipment Leasing Control System*

Pulp Chemical Analysis*

Trucking Cost Analysis*

Order Processing*

New York Exchange Database Analysis*

Life Insurance Proposal Writer*

Container Cost/Pricing System*

Sawmill Inventory/Production Scheduling*

 

* Full Life Cycle: Analysis, application design, database design, programming, testing, and implementation.

 


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

(Government 03/2005 - Present)

As Consultant to Department of Natural Resources for the migration of DNR’s Revenue Management, Asset Performance, and Timber Sales systems to a SAP MS-SQL system.  Coded Natural ADABAS programs for capturing legacy data.  Coded ABAP and BAPI programs for uploading legacy data to SAP.    Using SAP List Viewer (ALV) – created screen views of Real Estate, Contract and financial data.  Using ABAP and BAPI’s coded Timber Sales, Revenue Distribution, and financial reports.  Coded ABAP programs to migrate all required SAP data to Datamart.    Reviewed all new ABAP programs and optimized, reducing processing up to 30 times on several.  Created ABAP, BAPI , SAP ALV, MS SQL, NATURAL, ADABAS, N2O, COBOL, CICS, TSO, JCL

 

(Energy Utility 12/2004 - 03/2005)

As Consultant to Accenture B.V. in Holland participated in the developed of a new Bill Print process to replace the current CorDaptix version. Involved extracting information from the Cordaptix Oracle database and formatting for DOC1 printing. COBOL2, Oracle, Toad 7.6, Net Express, UltraEdit, PowerPoint, Visual SourceSafe, Quest Central 5.0

 

(Energy Utility 11/1998 - 12/2003)

As Consultant to Pacific Gas and Electric of San Francisco during installation of SPL World Group CorDaptix system reviewed vendor’s COBOL II code, DB2 SQL, and developed program and database design alternatives for improved performance.  Developed alternate design for improved performance of soft table processing.  Monitored SPL’s modifications to the CorDaptix package during and after implementation.  Reviewed new regulation requirements with regard to impact on CorDaptix implementation.

From 1998 to 2002, served as acting ADABAS/DB2 DBA and lead technical analyst for the installation of SPL World Group Customer Information and Billing system (CISPLUS). Developed multi-threaded processing interfaces between SPL’s Natural/DB2 system and PG&E’s legacy CIS CICS/VSAM system. Optimized SPL’s Natural Construct code to reduce billing processing time over 70% by converting subprograms to subroutines, changing the use of global data areas, reducing DB2 reads, improved SQL code, and binding Natural objects. Coded all required modification to SPL’s package during its three years of active use. Developed Natural programs to compare Natural libraries. Trained PG&E’s ADABAS DBA, and Natural programmers. Unix, Tuxedo, Mercator, HTML, JAVA, NATURAL, ADABAS, Construct, DB2, COBOL2, CICS, TSO, JCL, FileAid, MainView, Omegamon, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel

 

(Government 03/1997 - 11/1998)

As Consultant to Department of Natural Resources designed, coded and tested Natural and CICS programs for the Equipment Maintenance system. Also as project lead on year 2000 conversion of three systems with over 1800 programs, developed methods to fulfill all requirements through logical program changes, project was completed at less than 50% budget.  Fine-tuned database access in two daily report programs and reduced production cost by $36,000.00 per year.  NATURAL, ADABAS, COBOL, CICS, TSO, JCL and WordPerfect.

 

(Government 03/1994 - 02/1997)

As Consultant to Office of the Administrator to the Courts, designed, coded and tested programs for the Judicial Accounting Sub-System (JASS) for use by Washington State Superior Courts. NATURAL, ADABAS, DB2, TSO, PROEDIT, VERIFY and MS WORD.

 

(Government 04/1990 - 02/1994)

As Consultant to Department of Natural Resources designed, coded and tested Natural and CICS programs for the Asset Performance and Revenue Management systems. NATURAL, ADABAS, COBOL, CICS, TSO and WordPerfect.

 

(Government 05/1990 - 11/1990)

As Consultant to Department of Social and Health Services designed, coded and tested Natural programs for the CAMIS system. NATURAL, ADABAS, TSO and WordPerfect.

 

(Government 11/1989 - 04/1990)

As Consultant to the Department of Transportation modified and enhanced COBOL programs. Worked on the upgrade of the payroll, labor and vehicle information system.  COBOL, CICS, NATURAL, ADABAS, DYL280, PANVALET, ENDEAOR, PCSPF and MS-WORD on an IBM 3090.

 

(Government 06/1989 - 02/1990)

As Consultant to Weyerhaeuser Information Systems worked on the District Court Information System (DISCIS) for the Washington State Administrator for the Courts. Designed, coded and tested over 40 Natural programs with DB2 I/O handlers. NATURAL, DB2, TSO, PROEDIT and WordPerfect on AMDAHL 5890 200E.

 

 

 

(Manufacturing 05/1988 - 06/1989)

As consultant and project lead to McDonnell Douglas developed a work-in-process inventory control system including on-line assembly explosions and remote document printing. Managed team of four programmer/analysts.  Developed terminal and system sensitive badge and password security system in parallel with a super-menu concept linking all on-line screens and menus. Modified and enhanced over 300 Natural programs.   Designed and programmed a Quality Assurance Information Tracking System that tracked manufacturing defects by shop floor workstations, monitored the type of defect by operator and workstation to assist in the quality assurance process. System was mandated by the U.S. Air Force. Programmed and implemented the entire system in five weeks. Made extensive use of ADABAS using NATURAL, CICS, OS/MVS, CMS, TSO, JCL, and COBOL on IBM 3090.

 

 (Oil and Gas 04/1986 - 04/1988)

As Consultant to Cotton Petroleum, completed an estimated 11 man months of work in 2.5 months. Converted off-site royalty accounting system from Honeywell COBOL to an in-house IBM 4341. Saved the customer over $240,000 in off-site production costs by bringing up the system 9-1/2 months ahead of schedule. Redesigned portions of the revenue system to increase response time and efficiency. DOS/VSE, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, JCL, and EASYTRIEVE/PLUS on IBM 4341 and 4841.

 

 (Computer Services 03/1982 - 04/1986)

As Manager for Computek Computing supervised operations and applications development personnel.   IBM 370, TSO, PL/1, COBOL and ASSEMBLER.

 

 (Manufacturing 08/1978 - 02/1982)

As Lead Analyst at Unit Rig, Inc. responsible for the design and implementation of a shop floor reporting/data collection system involving time and attendance, labor reporting and production scheduling and control. Acted as Project Lead for implementation of financial and accounting systems.

 

 (Manufacturing  06/1975 - 05/1978)

As an Independent Consultant designed, wrote, implemented, and tested General Ledger, Pulp Chemical Analysis, Equipment Leasing Control and Accounts Receivable systems. Wrote all the user documentation. Conducted on-site installations. Trained users in new systems. Systems were written on IBM 370's using COBOL and JCL.

 

 (Import/Export 12/1971 - 06/1975)

As Controller for Fibrex & Shipping, responsible for all administrative functions for three related corporations with combined gross sales in excess of $20 million. Developed investment, financial and accounting procedures. Supervised and evaluated all administrative personnel. Designed, coded and implemented all financial and accounting packages on a Datapoint 2200 in assembler.  Also coded a complete rewrite of the Datapoint 2200 operating system.             

 

 (Computer Services 04/1970 - 12/1971)

As Manager, Technical Support, at C&C Computer System, supervised marketing support technical representatives. Responsible for the development of all application system designs and programming proposals, evaluation and implementation of ICES-Engineering, BIOMED-Medical and GLAD-Accounting.  IBM 370, TSO, PL/1, COBOL and ASSEMBLER.

 

 (Forest Products 01/1969 - 04/1970)

As Consultant to McGrew Brothers Sawmill, developed a sawmill inventory control system that eliminated manual tagging. This system was nationally recognized by the industry and was featured in Forest Industry Magazine. IBM 370 using PL/1 under TSO.

 

Summary of Experience:

2005

Consultant

Dept. of Natural Resources

Olympia, WA

2004 - 2005

Consultant

Accenture B.V.

Middleburg, Holland

1998 - 2003

Consultant

PG&E

San Francisco, CA

1997 - 1998

Consultant

Dept. of Natural Resources

Olympia, WA

1994 - 1997

Consultant

Administrator for the Courts

Olympia, WA

1990 -1994

Consultant

Dept. of Natural Resources

Olympia, WA

1990

Consultant

Dept. of Social and Health Services (CAMIS)

Olympia, WA

1989 - 1990

Consultant

Department of Transportation

Olympia, WA

1989 - 1990

Consultant

Weyerhaeuser Info. Systems (Computer Services)

Tacoma, WA

1988 - 1989

Consultant

McDonnell Douglas, (Manufacturing)

Tulsa, OK

1986 - 1988

Consultant

Cotton Petroleum, (Oil and Gas)

Tulsa, OK

1982 - 1986

Consultant

Computek Computing, (Computer Services)

Tulsa, OK

1978 - 1982

System Analyst

Unit Rig & Equipment Co. (Manufacturing)

Tulsa, OK

1975 - 1978

Consultant

Crown Simpson

Eureka, CA

1975 - 1978

Consultant

Alameda Naval Airbase

Alameda, CA

1975 - 1978

Consultant

Datamatic

Santa Rosa, CA

1971 - 1975

Controller

Fibrex & Shipping Co.

Portland, OR

1970 - 1971

Consultant

C&C Computer Systems

Portland, OR

1969 - 1970

Consultant

McGrew Brothers Sawmill

Portland, OR

1966 - 1969

System Analyst

Georgia Pacific Corporation

Portland, OR

1963 - 1966

IT Manager

Grant County PUD

Ephrata, WA