MARSHALL EARL KLEIN

Contact:

567 Wilmot Road
Scarsdale, NY 10804
phone 914 654 8366
email: 105142.527@compuserve.com


OBJECTIVE

Seeking business programming development or maintenance position
using APL2 application programming skills in an IBM VM/CMS mainframe
environment.


SUMMARY

Thirty years in computer mainframe application programming including:

Application Enhancement and Maintenance - Improved systems performance,
reliability, and end user productivity.
 
Application Design: Proven ability to identify, analyze, formulate and
design customized solutions for sales reporting applications.
 
Computer Language Skills: APL2, SQL/DS, ISQL, QMF, REXX, and XEDIT in a
VM/CMS environment.  Experience prior to 1976 with COBOL, MVS/TSO, and
System/360 Basic Assembler Language.
 
 
EXPERIENCE 
 
Smith Barney, NYC   Consultant June - November 1994, then Senior
programmer analyst January 1995 - January 1997.  Enhanced and
maintained Smith Barney's mutual fund sales and revenue reporting
system.  Used APL2 with SQL/DS and APL Sharefile databases, to
significantly reduce program run times, and improve processing
efficiency and end-user productivity.
 
Multifact Business Concepts, Inc., Pleasantville, NY  under contract to
IBM. Consultant March 1992 - September 1993.   Provided application
expertise, APL2 programming and documentation, and continued support of
critical data base reporting sytems.
 
International Business Machines Corporation, White Plains, NY
1966 - 1991 Promoted seven times in twenty-five years.  Positions
held include Senior Associate Programmer, Systems Engineer, Staff
Programmer Analyst, and Advisory Programmer Analyst.
 
 
International Business Machines Experience 
 
IBM had multiple application systems with duplicated functions and
resources. Integrated three separate applications into one system to
support company-wide sales measurement requirements; elliminated costs
for two entire systems.  Designed major portions of the new system.
Developed powerful and unique data inquiry and retrieval functions which
became standard in follow on systems.
 
A full blown system to support the tracking of IBM Special Bids was more
than a year away from being ready to use.  Developed an interim tracking
system within three months.  Utilized APL programming with data base
inquiry and report generation products (ADRS & APLDI) to create user
friendly menus, inquiry and reporting functions, and a data security
facility.
 
IBM's Commercial analysis department needed a data entry/retrieval system
in a time frame not achievable using traditional support services.  As
staff programmer-analyst  installed and implemented an IBM 3790
distributed processing system with host communications to a master data
base, which allowed analysts to capture competitive market information
previously unavailable.  Subsequently replaced the hardware with IBM 8100
machines.
 
User response times for frequently used summarizations in a large data
base system were unacceptably high, being over 10 minutes most of the
time.  Tuned critical sections of APL2/SQL logic, resulting in a 70 to 90%
performance improvement.
 
An inflexible sales tracking and measurement system did not support
current business marketing channels. Rewrote system from PL/I to APL to
meet current and future business needs.  Reduced system maintenance costs
by replacing home grown data base code with SQL/DS.
 
A staff maintenance position for a sophisticated Business Analysis System
was unexpectedly vacated.  Offered to fill the job.  Over three years
automated system maintenance functions and reduced time requirements by
over 70%.  At end of system life cycle built interface to an alternate
business data base which allowed critical applications to continue to run.
 
 
EDUCATION 
 
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 
Earned a Bachelor of Science degree in General Physical Sciences.   1960 
Earned 24 graduate level credits in Mathematics.   1964 
 
IBM Systems Research Institute, New York, NY   1979 
Completed other courses in SNA VTAM NCP, CICS/VS, Time Sharing Systems,
and Project Management
 
United States Navy, Winter Harbor, Maine   1964 - 1966 
Communications Technician Petty Officer 2nd Class