JOEL M. ARRINGTON

8424 NW Waukomis Dr * Apt # 514 * Kansas City * MO * 64154

Home Phone: (816) 298-0138 * Cell Phone: (904) 708-0621

joel.arrington@aaccmjb.com * joel_arrington@hotmail.com

 

Profile

A technical professional with over 30 years of experience, advanced degrees in Data Processing, and accepted for membership by such organizations as the Continental, Empire, Madison's, and National Historical Society's Who's Who publications, the Who's Who of International Professionals and the International Who's Who of Technical Professionals. A business man who has been awarded honors such as 2005 Businessman of the Year by the National Republican Congressional Committee's Business Advisory Council. Other professional affiliations include: former President of the Webmasters' Guild of Phoenix, A Chapter of the Association of Internet Professionals; Founder and President of M.I.P.S. (Minority Internet Professional's Society), The International Programmers Guild, International Executives Guild, The Association of Windows NT Systems Professionals, The International Webmasters Association, and others. Maintained a cutting edge knowledge of the industry and participated in many symposiums and conferences not only as an attendee but also as a guest lecturer and speaker. He has management experience ranging from project to organizational. He has specialized education in Novell and Microsoft networking, Mainframe Application programming, a solid technical background and his long term experience in business systems round out his broad and deep background. He has held third party certifications as a Web Administrator (BCIP), Network Support Specialist, Computer End-User Support Specialist, Telecommunications Specialist, and Windows NT Server Administrator. He has participated in many aspects of the industry including but not limited to: Departmental Management; Project Management; Business Process Analysis; Information Engineering; LAN system design, installation, configuration, and administration; computer system: planning, analysis, design, construction, testing and implementation; data administration, data base management, formalized testing, maintenance programming, software and hardware evaluation, and training. Comprehensive knowledge of many technical areas including: PC technologies such as Windows, Unix, HTML, XML, ASP, CSS, JavaScript, VB Script, Novell NetWare, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, TCP/IP, Internet and WWW applications, most major desktop applications (Microsoft Office & Corel WordPerfect Suite), E-Mail systems (GroupWise, Microsoft Mail/Exchange, & cc:Mail), Mainframe technologies such as COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, CICS, DB/2, SQL, FOCUS, TSO/ISPF and OS/JCL; and have configured and installed gateways, bridges and routers for communication protocols such as SNA, TCP/IP and X.400. Exhaustive experience in Internet Systems, EDI/EC, health care, accounting, office automation, and inventory control systems.

 

Education

 

*          MBA (Technology Management); University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ; 1996-1997; 3.66 GPA (continuing student)

*          BS (Data Processing Management) Summa cum Laude; Strayer College, Washington, DC; 1988

*          AA (Data Processing Management) Summa cum Laude; Strayer College, Washington, DC; 1988

*          AA (Computer Programming and Analysis) w/Honors; Prince George's Community College, Largo, MD; 1987

*          AA (Computer Management) w/Honors; Prince George's Community College, Largo, MD; 1983

 

Professional Experience

 

05/02 - Present Consultant - Arrington Associates Consultants, Corp. - various assignments including: Onshore Project Leader - Project Leader, Business Analyst and SME for COBOL Mainframe Programming effort. Utilized COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, ChangeMan, TSO/ISPF, Infoman, IMS, Z/OS CECI, CEDF, CEMT, EDI, etc; Business Analyst/Consultant for multiple clients; Project Lead, Systems Administrator, and Senior Consultant - Apache Web Servers, Lucene, TomCat, Java, & Health Care systems; SME for technical areas such as Finance and POS; Designed, installed, configured and administered Windows 2003/NT/2000/XP LANs; Configured several DSL Internet access points. Software used includes MS Office, Access, Visio, HTML, ASP, VBScript, IE, Telnet, IIS, and MS Project; COBOL Mainframe Programmer in COBOL II, DB2, CICS, VSAM, DB2, SQL, IMS DB/DC, DLI, ChangeMan, TSO/ISPF, Panvalet, OS/MVS, OS/390, etc. Projects included Blue Cross Blue Shield HIPAA renovation and compliance project, transportation logistic systems and others. I created reports using Crystal reports.

 

02/02 - 04/02 IT Support Manager / Engineer - Indus Corporation - On contract to the US Dept of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics. I managed IT support staff including Help Desk, UNIX and Novell support personnel. Responsibilities included staff management, time accounting, proposal writing, client interface and technical support. Technical areas of responsibility included GroupWise 5.5, NetWare 4.11, Solaris 7/8, SunOS, Red Hat & Caldera Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, Oracle, C/C++, Visio, and RSA security administration. I configured and administered Cisco routers.

 

02/98 - 11/01 Consultant - Arrington Associates - various contracts: HIPAA, requirements and renovations, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, FOCUS, VM, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB/DC, ADF, MQ Series, GroupWise 5.5 and 5 mail system administration, UNIX System Admin (Linux, BSD, HP/UX, OSF/1), Novell NetWare Admin (3.11/4.x/5.x), Y2K conversions, EDI/EC, Harbinger TLC/TLE (Unix/NT/MVS), Gentran (Unix/NT/MVS), XML, Oracle, Data Warehousing Design and Implementation, C/C++, Visual Basic, Visual C, MS SQL, MySQL, MS Office, Visio, MS Project, Internet System Design and Configuration,, LAN, HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP, Java Script, VB Script, and Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP networking. I configured and administered Cisco routers.

09/97 - 01/98 Senior Member of the Technical Staff - Analysts International Corporation. Assigned to SRP as a Sr. Project Leader, Web Architect and EC/EDI Coordinator to help establish and define corporate strategies for electronic commerce. I trained users in Harbinger TLC (NT/Windows). I established the EDI program with Harbinger for New West Energy. Acted as a technical interviewer for disciplines such as COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB/DC, FOCUS, Networking, Novell, Windows NT/95, Unix, and JCL. At SRP utilized Linux, SunOS, Oracle, HTML, DHTML, XML, Solaris, Apache, MS Project, and Windows NT.

 

02/97 - 08/97 Consultant - Eagle Systems Technology, Inc. Memphis TN - Responsible for analysis and programming on various contracts. Assignments included data warehousing for a major health organization and logistic scheduling programs. COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB/DC and FOCUS.

 

10/96 - 01/97 Director of Technology - Cyber Publishing, Inc. Phoenix, AZ. Managed staff and contract Programmer/Analysts. Utilized Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, HTML, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, PERL FTP, Telnet, CGI, VBScript, JavaScript, and other WEB products. Analyzed & recommended both present and future technology solutions. Administered BSD, Novell, & Windows NT (3.51 & 4.0) Internet servers. Performed HTML, PERL (4 & 5), Access & Visual Basic programming. Used GroupWise, SendMail, Apache WEB Server, O'Reilly's WebSite, WS_Ftp, Telnet, Microsoft Office. & Bind. Administered Domain Name Service (DNS) system including virtual hosting, multiple Web Servers, Cisco routers & other hardware.

 

01/96 - 10/96 CIO/Chief System Engineer - BizNet Internet Services. Designed, built, installed, administered, configured, & maintained the Internet Access Provider system. Utilized HTML, Java, SHTML, JavaScript, VB Script, CSS, Novell NetWare 4.1/3.12, Windows WFW(3.1/3.11)95/NT 4/3.51, Linux, Free BSD, TCP/IP, GroupWise, SendMail, BIND/DNS, Oracle, INN, GroupWise E-Mail, NFS, LAN WorkGroup, X-Windows, WEB Servers (including Apache, NCSA HTTP, Novell, WebSite, & IIS Servers), Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, HTML editors, Cisco Routers, Livingston Portmasters, CSU/DSU units, workgroup hubs and modems.

10/95 - 01/96 System Engineer/GroupWise E-Mail and LAN System Administrator Independent - Novell GroupWise E-Mail and NetWare 4.1 LAN administration and maintenance, UNIX, Oracle, TCP/IP, NFS, SMTP gateway & MAC connectivity issues, PC support services. I utilized Novell NetWare 3.12, HP/UX, & VAX systems.

 

04/95 - 10/95 Consultant - Senior Analyst/Programmer - Independent - Novell NetWare 4.1/3.12, Windows NT, Oracle, and Windows 95/3.11 PC support services. Maintenance programming using COBOL II, DB2, CICS, IMS DB/DC, FOCUS, and DL/I. Taught training classes in Novell 3.12, GroupWise, WordPerfect 6.1, Lotus Release 5 and Windows. GroupWise, WordPerfect, & Data General UNIX installation, configuration & administration.

12/94 - 04/95 Information Center Assistant, St. Luke's Health System, MIS. Ran help desk. Novell NetWare 4.0 LAN, Windows, Lotus 123, WordPerfect, Data General Aviion, running DG/UX, Star Financials from HBO & Co. IBM 4361 running DOS/VMSP.

 

05/94 - 09/94 EDP Programmer Analyst, State of AZ, AHCCCS. Performed maintenance programming for on-line health management system. P/A for the reporting subsystem. Ideal DataCom DB/DC.

 

01/93 - 04/94 Consultant / Programmer/Analyst - Independent - Various Assignments and Contracts; CICS, COBOL II, DB2, MVS/ESA, IDEAL Datacom DB/DC Health Care system, IMS DB/DC, EZ-trieve Plus, TSO/ISPF, MVS/XA, VSAM, File-Aid, OS/MVS, OCL, IBM AS/400, IBM S3900.

 

08/85 - 11/92 Consultant, PC-Stat, Washington, DC, various contract positions ie: Task Leader - Sr. Programmer Analyst, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of VA, ARMS Inc.; Sr. Network Support Specialist, American Banker's Association, EDP Temps; Local Area Network Administrator, Office of the Secretary of HUD, Compdata Corp.; Sr. Programmer Analyst/Systems Analyst, Mobil Oil, Trecom Business Systems; Project Manager