Experience

Personal Household Management

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Stay-at-Home Mom & School / Church / Activity Volunteer

  • Jul 2001 - Present

  Upon deciding to put my professional career on hold to be more directly involved in raising our children, I engaged in many volunteer opportunities utilizing my organizational, communication and interpersonal skills across very diverse groups, MS-Office skills (especially Excel and Word), and leadership skills interacting with both parents and youth. Examples include the following: - School homeroom mom/general classroom volunteer - School PTO committee volunteer - School field trip chaperone (multiple times) - School front office volunteer (elementary - middle school) - School guidance office volunteer (high school) - Project Graduation volunteer (3 times) - High School AP exam proctor (multiple times) - Girl Scout Troop leader (10 years) - daughter attained Gold Award (highest Girl Scout rank) - Boy Scout popcorn lead (8 years) - son attained Eagle Scout (highest Boy Scout rank) - Team meal / snack coordinator for various kid's sports teams (youth - high school) - Church High School Mission Trip chaperone (4 Summers) - Church Family Mission Trip participant (6 Spring Breaks) - Church check-in volunteer/greeter (5 years) - Church Sunday School Teacher/Vacation Bible School volunteer (10 years as-needed) - Church Nursery volunteer (multiple times) - Feed Our Kids Summer lunch program coordinator (5 Summers) / volunteer (7 Summers) - Grapevine Relief & Community Exchange (GRACE) food pantry volunteer (multiple times) - Young Mens Service League (YMSL) philanthropy volunteer and committee chair (4 years) - Scholars & Athletes Serving Others (SASO) philanthropy volunteer (4 years) - Supported and helped prepare our children for college acceptance to their first-choice university (son is a Junior Engineering student and daughter is a Freshman Mays Business School student, both at Texas A&M University - College Station) Show less



JCPenney

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer / Project Lead

  • Sep 1994 - Jul 2001

  Designed, coded, tested, installed, and maintained COBOL programs in various associate systems including Government Reporting, Payroll, and Benefits. Tools/languages used include TSO/ISPF, SQL, MVS JCL, COBOL, CICS, and DB2 database. Advanced to a Project Lead position which included above responsibilities as well as leading 2-3 other programmer / analysts, developing project estimates, creating design/development/installation plans and schedules, ensuring project budgets were met, ensuring the quality of project deliverables, and providing support for production escalations. Deeply involved as a Project Lead of the Fast Forward Team in conversion of the entire JCPenney internally developed payroll system to PeopleSoft, including working on both batch/mainframe side as well as user interfaces. Show less



BDM Federal (acquired by TRW/Northrop Grumman)

• Lead Application Systems Test Engineer

  • Jul 1993 - Sep 1994

  Led and performed testing of production application systems being converted from MVS/XA to MVS/ESA at Kelly Air Force Base as part of the largest ever Air Force Logistics Command Datacenter consolidation and upgrade contract. Coordinated technical issues and resolutions with five other production sites. Briefed client on test activities. Validated technical content and quality of deliverable documents.

• Software Engineer / Training Lead

  • Jun 1990 - Jul 1993

  Performed full life-cycle software development for the largest logistics management system within the Air Force Logistics Command. Completed system and program-level design through direct interaction with customers for requirements validation through production acceptance. Coded and unit / system tested batch and on-line application programs in an IBM mainframe environment utilizing COBOL, CICS, JCL, DATACOM/DB, ROSCOE, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, and Verify. Trained designers and programmers in the use of design and development tools, and standards-based development principles. Show less



Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Air Force Logistics Command)

• Computer Programmer Trainee (College Co-op)

  • Jan 1988 - Dec 1989

  Participated in the design and coding of a DATACOM/DB relational database system using IDEAL programming language. Maintained software inventory database using a dBase III software application. Distributed system software tapes and documentation to requesting parties. Participated in the design and coding of a DATACOM/DB relational database system using IDEAL programming language. Maintained software inventory database using a dBase III software application. Distributed system software tapes and documentation to requesting parties.



Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (2750 Air Base Wing Civilian Personnel)

• Clerk Typist (High School and College Co-op)

  • Jun 1984 - Dec 1987

  Screened and processed job applications and performed clerical duties. Maintained job applicant database using a dBase II software application. Screened and processed job applications and performed clerical duties. Maintained job applicant database using a dBase II software application.