Project Management, Development & Technical Administration

René M Finkler

ERP Consultant

( +34 647 266 517 : " www.finclair.com

Project Management, Development & Technical Administration

Oracle® JDE OW/E1 Development & CNC Consultant

Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft Dynamics™ AX 2009

Information Technologies Professional for 25 Years

Management Experience & Psychology Background

Current Technology Skills

ERP: JDE OneWorld – PeopleSoft/Oracle EnterpriseOne (13 years total)

• Independent Consultant

• 3 months custom development for Schouten-Ceralco in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 3 months upgrade development for the Post Office in Dublin, Ireland
• 2 months interface development for Nebus in Hulst, Netherlands
• 2 months transportation modules development for FSS in Sursee, Switzerland
• 1 month transportation BSFN debugging for Nebus in Hulst, Netherlands
• 5 months A/P Concur7 interface customization for Baxter in Thetford, UK
• 2 months supply chain management customization for Baxter in Maurepas, France
• 3 months data migration JDE -> DS7i for Sonangol in Luanda and Malongo, Angola
• 6 months supply chain management customization for Baxter in Valencia, Spain
• 18 months development (B7332=>Xe upgrade) for Baxter in Brussels, Belgium
• 12 months development (ERP8 Custom Purchasing & A/P) for Kohlpharma in Germany

• JD Edwards Consultant

• 4 years Technical Project Manager & CNC consultant with JDEdwards in the UK
• 3 years Development Consultant (B7331 to ERP8) with JDEdwards in the UK

• In-House Project Management

• 18 months leading implementation project (B714) for EDS in Tokyo, Japan

• Experience Details:

• Application Financials Application Distribution
• System Foundation System Administration
• Installation & Upgrade Software Modification & Deployment
• Application Design and Development Business Function Programming
• Data Conversion Workflow Programming
• OW TSE Configuration OW Java/HTML Configuration
• JDE-CRM (formerly YOUcentric) JDE-SCM (formerly Numetrix)

Programming

• X++

• 2010-08-01 ¨ Certification by Microsoft as Dynamics AX 2009 Developer

• C/C++

• 5 years experience C programming – OW/E1 C Business Function development
• 2 years experience MFC C++ programming (interface development)
• 2001-02-08 ¨ Certification by Learning Tree International

• Hands-on C, Advanced Hands-on C
• Hands-on C++, Advanced Hands-on C++, Microsoft Foundation Classes

• Java

• 1 year experience Java programming (JDE-CRM – formerly YOUcentric’s product)
• 2001-05-15 ¨ Certification by Learning Tree International

• Swing, JFC, MVC, Applets, Servlets, JSP
• JavaBeans, JDBC, JNDI, RMI, CORBA, EJB, JMS
• XML (SAX, DOM, JAXP, JDOM, DTD, Schema, XSL)

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Work History

01/11-02/11 MS Dynamics AX development for Columbus IT in Nottingham, UK

07/09-09/09 OW B7334 Custom development for Schouten-Ceralco in Rotterdam, Netherlands

08/08-10/08 Upgrade development Xe -> E812 for the Post Office in Dublin, Ireland

04/08-06/08 E1-8.12 Interfaces development for Nebus in Hulst, Netherlands

09/07-11/07 E1-8.12 Transportation modules development for FSS in Sursee, Switzerland

07/07-08/07 Debugging E1-8.12 Transportation BSFNs for Nebus in Hulst, Netherlands

12/06-06/07 Working on A/P interface Concur7-OW for Baxter in Thetford, UK

10/06-12/06 Continuation (from a year earlier) of development of a custom OneWorld SCM system for Baxter in Maurepas, France.

06/06-09/06 Data Migration from JDE to Datastream7i, and the complete development of a Materials Management system in VFP8 with Petromar for Sonangol in Luanda, Angola and Malongo, Cabinda.

07/05-12/05 Development of a custom OneWorld SCM system for Baxter in Valencia, Spain, on a Sun-Oracle platform including UBE, TC, APPL, C-BSFN, NER objects.

01/04-07/05 Creation, modification, retrofitting and validation of all types of customized development objects within the OW Financial Suite for an upgrade project (B772=>Xe) at Baxter in Brussels, Belgium, on an AS/400-DB2 platform.

09/02-10/03 Development work for implementation of JDEdwards ERP8 at Kohlpharma, Merzig, Germany, including dozens of custom modifications to - and development of new – interactive/batch applications and C business functions within the Procurement and Financial Suites under strict observance of validation rules pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry in Germany.

1998 - 2002 Technical Project Manager, CNC DEV Consultant with JDEdwards in the UK.

CNC projects too plentiful to list in detail, but including installations, updates, upgrades, data and database migrations, reconfigurations including WTS and Java Servers, and troubleshooting. Hardware and databases used include NT-Servers, AS/400, Sun, IBM & HP Unix Servers, Oracle, DB2, SQL-Server.

Development projects including:

CRM customization in Reading (UK) for The Accident Group UK

CRM (YOUcentric) customization in Charlotte, NC for Convergys UK

DDE interface – OW to scanned images for Hays Personnel Services UK

COM interface – OW to scanned images for Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

Handheld Symbol Devices as WTS clients running modified OW apps for Hyundai UK

Custom modifications to programs in Procurement and Financials for Bouygues UK

Work on custom-Interoperability solution for Service Work Orders for Crown Castle UK

Retrofitting and Java/HTML generation of Sales/Inventory objects for Delta UK

Migration development in Sales & Procurement, plus CNC support, for Orion UK

Multinational modification of financial objects for Ove Arup Partnership in London

Custom modifications and XML-interface for address book objects for Quadriga UK

Custom modifications to several financial programs for DHL UK

Retrofitting modifications to 15 migrated objects in the Sales suite for Spirax UK

Retrofitting and customizing of Sales/Procurement objects for 20-20 Logistics UK

Custom modifications to Sales APPLs and BSFNs for McCormick UK

CNC and development support with financial objects for Lloyds Register London

Custom modification to financial applications for William Hill UK

Ongoing CNC and development support for migration at Berifors in Örebro, Sweden

Languages, IDEs and Application Servers used include: OW RDA & FDA, NER, C-BSFN, C++, Java, HTML, XML, MS-Visual Studio, J-Builder, XML-Spy, Sybase, WebSphere

1994 - 1998 Working for formerly LINC Computer, Inc., since 1996 EDS Japan (Electronic Data Systems) in Tokyo on the following projects:

1997 - 1998 Leading the technical team in the implementation and administration of JDEdwards’ OneWorld (B714) Enterprise Resource Planning system on a Windows-NT (Compaq) Microsoft SQL-Server platform.

1996 - 1997 Managing, designing, coding, implementing and supporting the complete overhaul and expansion of EDS/LINC’s in-house Sales & Purchase Order System (FoxPro/Visual FP) and redefining the underlying business processes.

1995 - 1996 Designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting a system of 12 diverse but integrated programs in FoxPro (W) for Shell Japan on the networks aboard the ships of their B-Class fleet of LNG tankers.

1995 Developing an Accounts Receivable / Educational database system for St. Maur International School in Yokohama.

1994 Developing and supporting 2 database systems for BP Japan.

1994 Supporting, maintaining and developing EMS/PC (Equipment Management System) for UASC (United Arab Shipping Company – Tokyo), a FoxPro/DOS based system which served as a local interface to the central CICS based container tracking system - supporting all of Eastern Asia by way of pcAnywhere.

1990 – 1993 In the US as employee of Computer Task Group based in Buffalo, NY, working on the following projects:

1992 - 1993 As part of the maintenance team for the Auto Policy System at Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, OH, using CMS, Panvalet, TSO, SAR, MicroFocus Workbench and the MicroFocus SMF370 Assembler Option.

1991 - 1992 Working for Cincinnati Bell Information Systems in Cincinnati, OH, and in Tokyo (acceptance testing) on the development of the Customer Support Telephone Office System for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone; involved in all aspects of the file-to-file conversion of 2 subsystems: designing, coding, testing, promoting, VANing, and the application of the DBCS in an IMS/DB2 environment.

1990 - 1991 Working on a project for National Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA: designing, developing and testing code for an on-line procurement system using MicroFocus Cobol and Stingray IMS DB/DC.

1986 – 1990 As employee of MWA (Mal Warwick & Associates), based in Berkeley, CA.

Technical management of the word processing department of MWA, a direct mail fundraising company serving NGO's; running the production of all personalized high-$ mailings on 8 printers; implementing the migration of the system from 2 CompuPros and 8 Televideo 925 terminals running WordStar, dBase and MailMerge under MP/M, to a 386 system running FoxPlus under SCO Xenix V; designing, developing, implementing, maintaining and supporting all the software for customized list maintenance, list selection and mail merging.

Technology Skills History

PC – C/S MAINFRAME

Hardware Intel, Macintosh, Sun, HP 9000 IBM 3090, IBM 4341, AS/400 (iSeries)

OS DOS, W95/8, NT3.5, NT4, WTSE, W2K, WXP, Solaris, MVS/XA, OS/VS

HP-UX, SCO Xenix V, OS/2, Netware, Macintosh OS

Languages C & C++, Java, XBase, BASIC (VB) Assembler, COBOL, COBOLII, SQL

MS-SQL Script, OW-ER, XML, HTML

Databases MS SQL-Server, Access, Oracle IMS/DLI, IMS/DC, DB2

dBase, FoxPro, Sybase ASA

Software MS-Office, MS VC++, VS.NET, Visual Café, JBuilder, TSO, ROSCOE, CVM (CMS, PROFS)

MicroFocus Cobol, Stingray IMS, IBM Utilities, Data Xpert, SAR

XML-Spy, OW, Great Plains Dynamics Xpediter, IMS Xpert, Panvalet

Education & Training

2010 MS Dynamics AX 2009 Development Training & MS Certificates at Firebrand, UK

https://mcp.microsoft.com/authenticate/validatemcp.aspx 930547 rmf2010msd

2007 PRINCE2 Foundation Training and Certificate through KnowledgeTrain, London

2001 JDE CRM (YOUcentric) Technical Training in Charlotte, NC

2001 Certification as Java Programmer through Learning Tree International, London

2001 Certification as C & C++ Programmer through Learning Tree International, London

1997 - 2001 All JDE training in CNC and Development including 5-week Developer’s

Immersion UK & US

1996 Microsoft training in MS SQL-Server in Tokyo

1990 Graduate of Systems Engineering Development Program (SEDP) at CTG

Education in Buffalo, NY

1985 – 1986 Graduate (with Distinctions) in Computer Programming at Computer Learning

Center (CLC) in San Francisco, CA

1976 - 1979 Graduate of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychotherapy in Freiburg, Germany

1976 MA in Psychology from Hamburg University, Germany

1972 BA in Sociology from Hamburg University, Germany

Psychology 13 years of extensive experience in therapy, counselling and consulting in areas as diverse as communication skills, marriage counselling, addiction, schizophrenia, various group therapy techniques, Gestalt, Client Centered Techniques, Psychosynthesis and others.

Languages English & German (fluent), French & Spanish (basic), Japanese (rudimentary)

Legal EU Citizen (German Passport), Legal Residency in US and Japan

Desired Job Characteristics

Application of technology skills (analysis, design, coding, implementation, testing)

Application of project management, communication, organizational and cross-cultural diplomacy skills

Acquisition of new technology skills

Continuity of project involvement

Concise and targeted report, specifications, documentation and manual writing is fine

Travel is fine, working long hours is fine when required

Most important: the freedom to be creative

Long-term Vision

Psybernetics: The convergence of concepts and methods of Information Technology and Psychology

Transhumanism (Member of WTA)

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