Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 419-651-6704
Resume:
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/resumes/jim_chance/itpro
Residence: 1485 CR 1575, Ashland, Ohio 

ITT/BIW connectors, Santa Rosa:
•	Directed the strategy and development of the
information architecture to migrate from legacy to
scaleable infrastructure to meet projected company
growth. 
•	Responsible for long term strategies to meet future
business.
•	MS Project Planning of department activities to meet
project milestones in-line with corporate initiatives.

•	Performed assignment & prioritization of resource
workloads including department and functional team
needs. 
•	Management of external resources & 3rd party vendor
consultants. 
•	Assess & recommend IS projects related to
information systems & processes. 
•	Negotiated rates and fees for acquisition of
services or equipment. 
•	Developed training plans for users. 
•	Participated in strategic decision-making with upper
management during weekly steering committee meetings,
including tactical project planning.
•	Demonstrated teamwork by collaborating with others
to improve overall standards of performance and
service
•	Provided post Go-Live support to users, helped users
in solving their problems in production environment
and re-configured settings wherever desired and moved
it through the pipeline.
•	Experienced in preparing test plans & packages for
Unit Testing, regression testing and Integration
testing scenarios. 
•	Created and implemented strategies related to the
companies Mission, Vision, and Values, and objectives 

•	Provided estimated duration and resources for
project tasks and milestones. 
•	Highlights:
1.	Project managed large scale effort directing 3rd
party vendor and functional team of 8. 
2.	Transition the company’s ERP Jobscope system from
the HP3000 to Jobscope Enterprise Edition running on
MS SQL Server. 
3.	Manage all migration efforts (data & application)
while supporting day to day operations during project.

4.	Built 2003 server. 
5.	Wrote175 specifications, 50+ stored procedures
and/or Crystal XI reports. 
6.	Tested and monitored all customizations with each
functional area. 
7.	Setup & configure ERP failover environment and
server, plus MS SQL log shipping. 
8.	Lead upper management steering committee efforts. 
9.	Designed & maintained a 175 line item project plan
via MS Project; including expenditures. 
10.	Established training phase’s content and confirmed
successes. 
11.	Directed & overseen testing phases and GO LIVE. 
12.	Decommissioned HP3000 system.  
13.	Researched, recommended, purchased and installed
server utility software tools. 
14.	Set user security in new client/server ERP system
based on Sarbanes Oxley requirements. 
15.	Performed ad-hoc MS SQL queries as required to
diagnose complex ERP issues. 
16.	Documented: Disaster plan, failover steps, ERP
server recovery, business/financial month end
procedure, annual physical inventory tasks,
user/server security, startup/main configuring
choices, year end finance & operation activities. 
17.	Saved 5000.00 a year on forms with smarter
choices. 
18.	Created SQL triggers to proactively notify
customers of order shipments via email. 
19.	Saved finance over 100 hours a year on Excel data
entry with the creation of custom Crystal reports that
export to Excel formats directly from the database. 
20.	Ran implementation team briefings. 
21.	Authored weekly project newsletters to user
community. 
22.	Tracked significant project decisions. 
23.	Analyzed complex Excel macros and developed in
Crystal for management forensics. 
24.	Envisioned, designed and created custom SQL
database and tables for custom data needs to support
legacy business needs and new features. 
25.	Develop routines on HP to extract legacy IMAGE
database information to a specific format, then
import/DTS data into ERP JEE database (vendor) or into
custom database tables. 
26.	Directed IT human resources relevant to project
needs as required. 
27.	Trained new IT manager on all particulars. 

Lippert Enterprises, Ashland, Ohio 4/1/02–1/1/05 and
Astro Metallurgical, metal manufacture, Wooster, OH
9/1/89-4/1/95:
•	Responsible for department budgets and cost control.

•	Negotiated rates and fees for acquisition of
services or equipment. 
•	Demonstrated teamwork by collaborating with others
to improve overall standards of performance and
service 
•	Lippert highlights:
1.	Solo major project conversion from SCO Unix-dumb
terminal-dot-matrix environment to client server
Macola Enterprise System. 
2.	Increased sales 41% and saved 1000 hours of time in
the first year of Macola ES. 
3.	Directed 3 software vendor consultants’ data
converting and application requirements. 
4.	Evaluated, purchased, setup, configured and tested
3 new servers (file, MS Exchange, SQL) from ground up.

5.	Provided ERP user training sessions. 
6.	Vendor negotiations. 
7.	Complete project IT cycle management. 
8.	Established security policies. 
9.	Created business disaster plan contingency
documentation. 
10.	Full TCP/IP LAN created from ground up. 
11.	PDA programming for barcode receiving. 
12.	Built/configured Windows 2003 server. 
13.	Setup: active directory, T-SQL, Enterprise
Manager, Query Analyzer, tuner, terminal server
14.	Developed Crystal 9 reports.

Invacare Corporation:
•	Mentored and managed the development and support
teams in a way that allowed transition between the
legacy system and the client server environment. 
•	Secondary role in developing a rational release
schedule for all related WMS/Oracle system interfaces
•	Highlights:
1.	Team leader. 
2.	Directed 4 other consultants. 
3.	RF Telxon support. 
4.	Implementation manager. 
5.	12 employee awards. 
6.	Receive MOVE system user
issues-analyze-resolve-test-install and/or phone in
issues with Optum vendor. 
7.	Strategic implementation member for 5 distribution
sites. 
8.	AIX/UNIX Infrastructure team member. 
9.	Developed COBOL imbedded SQL applications for
complex interfaces from legacy system to Oracle for
warehouse requirements.

All companies:
•	Facilitated analysis and improvements in business
processes and functional systems. ROI & cost benefit
studies. 
•	Developed policies, operating procedures &
standards. 
•	Interfaced with software,  hardware suppliers and
users at all company levels
•	Provided first response technical support to users
in a fast paced, manufacturing enterprise.

Astro Metallurgical, metal manufacture, Wooster, OH
9/1/89-4/1/95:
•	Developed & monitored performance measures for
department employees.
•	Used employee resource accountability systems by
which workload is tracked and measured. 
•	Created and implemented strategies related to the
companies Mission, Vision, and Values, and objectives 

•	Highlights:
1.	Managed 4 persons. 
2.	In charge of all aspects of MIS. 
3.	Hands-on management. 
4.	Select and recommend for purchase new software and
hardware for enterprise business systems and PC’s.  
5.	Department & capital budgets. 
6.	Interpret trend differences. 
7.	Performed numerous system management activities
such as: Operating System installs/updates; configure
ports, identify performance issues and remedy, and
system security. 
8.	PC team leader and policy maker. 
9.	Manage year-end activities. 
10.	Administrated phone system. 
11.	Queue programming requests. 
12.	Submit enhancements and bugs to the Jobscope help
desk. 
13.	Developed/maintained all new and existing COBOL,
Quiz, and Suprtool applications. 
14.	Installed P/C software. 
15.	Vendor and third party software negotiations. 
16.	Re-engineering team member. 
17.	Reduction of operations processing times. 
18.	Installed Novell Lite 10 user LAN. 
19.	Created Heat Tracking and Inventory Control
databases. 
20.	3 Powerhouse/Cognos upgrades. 
21.	Solo hardware conversion from HP3000-48 to
HP3000-937. 
22.	4 Manufacturing system upgrades. 
23.	5 solo HP3000 O.S.upgrades. 
24.	Established High Availability. 
25.	Hands-on memory upgrade on 937. 

Business & Personal:
•	22 year IT career, 9 years as an independent
consultant/contractor, 20 years ERP/Manufacturing
systems. 
•	Extensive & Experienced IT manager with technical
knowledge 
•	In-depth ERP/Manufacturing Knowledge. Part-master,
Inventory, BOM, routings, operations, work orders,
scheduling, MRP, purchasing, WIP, OE, shipping, etc…
Technical and management of. 
•	Diverse experience in developing and supporting
enterprise applications
•	Experienced negotiating skills 
•	Leadership skills
•	Management Experience
•	Visionary with ROI justifications. 
•	Presentation skills. 
•	Likable and personable 
•	Organizationally astute, used collaboration and
communication skills to build strong working
relationships enabling a timely implementation with 
minimal impact to the businesses mission critical
applications.
•	Employee of the month a dozen times
•	Extremely organized
•	Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Persistent. Determined. Logical. Diligent. Patient.
Goal oriented. Structured. Stick-to-itiveness.
Leadership. Very strong organizational skills.
Excellent follow-up skills. Ability to interact,
understand and analyze various issues with users from
the President to the shop floor. “Roll up the shirt
sleeves” type.
•	Powerful strategist with an ability to map business
requirements to ERP requirements
•	Project management skills 
•	Managed through all service levels.  
•	Demonstrated innovative and strategic thinking
required, as well as a track record of success
implementing tactical solutions that result in
measurable business benefits.  
•	Previous experience in managing teams and developing
IT leads and technical staff.
•	Analytical. Business Acumen. Influencing Skills.
Organizational Agility. Time Management. Coach. 
•	Participated in and provided feedback to employees
using the employee review process twice annually.  
•	Ability to multitask under pressure. 
•	Ability to solve problems quickly and completely. 
•	A strong determination and understanding the need to
find solutions to 'root' problems. 
•	Ability to identify tasks which require automation
and automate them!!! Time savers!!
•	Demonstrated skills in Office Suite products
•	Calm and collected ability to work under pressure
and meet deadlines 
•	Excellent with follow-up 
•	Coordinated activities within the department to
ensure smooth and effective delivery of service using
independent judgment and discretion. 
•	Evaluated, recommended and implemented new ideas and
changes in the way that we provide services in support
of our clients, enhancing revenue opportunities as
well as controlling operating costs.
•	Hands-on management style. 
•	Proven ability to develop long and short-term IT
strategies that support the "Business Needs" 
•	Versed in Sarbanes Oxley requirements


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Please advise if you might have any employment openings that match any one of the following 2 career options I'm actively pursuing:

  1. A contract/consulting position with a company anywhere in the USA that has an HP3000 system 

  OR

  2.  A PERM position as IT Mgr. or Project Mgr. within a company in the manufacturing industry in Columbus Ohio

*My resume' is available upon request. Thank you. 
    
  Jim Chance of Ashland, Ohio @ 419-651-6704

My Keywords: MS SQL, COBOL, QEDIT, SUPRTOOL, ERP, CRYSTAL, HP3000, MACOLA, JOBSCOPE, POWERHOUSE, COGNOS, DBGENRAL, QUIZ, ACTIVE DIRECTORY, QUERY ANALYZER, ENTERPRISE MANAGER, PROJECT MANAGER, PROJECT LEADER, IT DIRECTOR, LOG SHIPPING, FAILOVER, SCRIPTS, TRIGGERS, STORED PROCEDURES, SARBANES OXLEY, DISASTER PLANNING, IMAGE, WINDOWS 2003, BUDGETS, TRANSACT, SYSGEN, ORBIT, T-SQL, IT MANAGER.


       
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