David Peters

1 403 383 9980 or 1 403 888 1146 (cel)

PO Box 5194, Airdrie, AB T4B 2B3

 

Work History:

Wingenback - January 2004 to present

  • Responsible for coordination and installation of bank ATMs
  • Prepared manufactured productes (fiberglass and metal) for painting

OfficesWithoutWalls - Co-Owner 1999 - present

Web Developer

  • Develop websites for various small business, particularly ecommerce stores.
  • Integrate ecommerce stores with United States Postal Service (for US clients), Canada Post and UPS.
  • Provide website maintenance and search engine optimization for clients.

Transportation Consultant

  • Providing data assessment and needs analysis for users.
  • Participated in co-ordination, development and execution of software deployment.
  • Providing analysis and implementation of corrections to Financial Models.

Canadian Pacific Railway 1991 - 1999

Car Management System Analyst

  • Supervised the development and maintenance of the car management systems.
  • Developed Key Performance Indicators.
  • Provide needs analysis and financial implications for Equipment Rents.
  • Participated in co-ordination, development and execution of Y2K Plan.

Equipment Rent & Lease Coordinator

  • Responsible for $200M Equipment Rent annual budgets.
  • Developed, tested and implemented software solutions for Lease Management, Work Load Analysis and Equipment Rent Expense Reporting.

Computer System Specialist

  • Installed, tested and implemented third party software for IBM 390 system.
  • System software support, disaster recovery plans, for third party software.

Environment Services 1988 - 1991

Mainframe Systems Programmer

  • Migrated Mainframe System Software MVS/SP to MVS/XA.
  • Installed, tested and implemented third party software for HDS EX60.
  • System software support for third party software.

Mount Sinai Hospital 1987 - 1988

Systems Analyst

Dartmouth Home Video Ltd. 1986 - 1987

Systems Analyst

Micmac Native Learning Center 1984 - 1986

Computer Instructor

Education:

  • B.A., Mathematics & Computer Science 1982 St. Francis Xavier University
  • Diploma in Accounting 1980 Dartmouth Regional Vocational

Achievements of note:

Saved Money

  • Implemented computer system which reduced rail yard congestion from 85% to 43%; and equipment rent saving was $1 million annually.
  • Recovered $2 million in lost revenue through internal audits.

Saved Time and Increased Accuracy

  • Developed computer model for workload analysis. Equipment Rents process was reduced from 2 weeks to 2 days, with increased data accuracy from 73% to 95%.

Provided Useful Information

  • Team leader to develop key performance management tool, including Revenue v. Workload, Cycle Times, Miles to Workload, Revenues v. Expenses, Bad Order Car Times

Standardized Skill set for Personnel

  • Designed, developed and implemented computer courses for Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the needs of each user group.

Quick Response Time

  • PC and Mainframe hard disk recovery for mission critical system within 6 hours of initial call (also wrote preventive maintenance procedure for client).
  • Identify, resolve, test, and implement patch for 'mainframe down' emergency at Environment Services within 2 hours of call.

Used Initiative

  • Founded the Cole Harbour Rugby Football Club, got constitution approval, attained accreditation within NSRFU, developed and administered budget.
  • Opened Micmac Native Learning Center on time, under budget, and certified.

Professional Development:

  • Novell System Administrator
  • Excellence in Project Management
  • Visual Basic Application Development
  • MVS/ESA Systems Diagnostics
  • MVS Migration
  • MVS System Programming
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Technical Skills:

User Interfaces

JCL, TSO, ROSCOE, ISPF/PDF, SAP

Data Manipulation

SAS, Mark 4, JCL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembler, C, C++, Dbase, Clipper, Fox Pro, Paradox, Visual Basic, Syncsort , SAP

Databases

Model 204, MS Access, Dbase, Clipper, Fox Pro, Excel, Lotus 123, Paradox, SAP, MySQL

Operating Systems

MVS/ESA, UNIX, PC DOS, OS/2, Novell, Windows NT, Windows

Internet

Java, HTML, CGI, PHP, Client Server, ASP, FrontPage, Cold Fusion, Dreamweaver

Word-processing

MS Word, WordPerfect

Interests:

Rugby Referee International Rugby Board Level 2

Hook & Hackle Fishing Club