Experience

Ascent Global Partners

• Japan
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Ascent Global Partners is an Executive Recruitment firm based in the Tokyo Otemachi area. Our company is registered in Japan and officially licensed by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ascent Global Partners provides mid to senior level management solutions for a range of different clients (from multinational corporations to start-ups). Our industry professionals have extensive experience in the Japanese and Asian recruitment market. Ascent Global Partners is an Executive Recruitment firm based in the Tokyo Otemachi area. Our company is registered in Japan and officially licensed by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ascent Global Partners provides mid to senior level management solutions for a range of different clients (from multinational corporations to start-ups). Our industry professionals have extensive experience in the Japanese and Asian recruitment market.



CenturyLink

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Objectstar Application Software Consultant

  • Mar 2009 - Nov 2019

  • Designed and programmed in,TIBCO ObjectStar™, the application changes needed to load and process property data from an acquired company for the CenturyTel and Embarq merger. • Trained a client project team member to program in TIBCO ObjectStar • Designed and programmed in,TIBCO ObjectStar™, the application changes needed to load and process property data from an acquired company for the CenturyTel and Embarq merger. • Trained a client project team member to program in TIBCO ObjectStar



Accenture (sub-contract OPM, DoD)

• Consultant

  • 2008 - 2010



Relational Consulting, LTD

• Owner - Tibco Objectstar Developer

  • 2008 - 2009



U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Objectstar Interface Architect

  • Nov 2007 - Jul 2008

  • Architected and programmed ,in TIBCO ObjectStar™, the infrastructure needed to gather retirement data from 60 federal government agencies to be sent to a third party vendor for processing. • Appointed project manager for the second phase of the project. This included reporting responsibilities to Accenture as well as OPM senior management. • Trained five project team members to program in TIBCO ObjectStar™ • Obtained the “Position of Public Trust” federal government security clearance Show less



BlueCross / Blue Shield of Illinois, Chicago, IL

• Senior Consultant

  • Sep 2006 - Oct 2007

  DB2/ COBOL application programming in the Bluestar ID-Cards sub-system. DB2/ COBOL application programming in the Bluestar ID-Cards sub-system.



Aozora Bank, Tokyo, Japan

• Objectar Senior Consultant / Project Manager

  • Aug 2005 - Apr 2006

  • Co-developed, in TIBCO ObjectStar™, the infrastructure needed to extract data from IMS databases and port the data into newer software packages • Assisted TIBCO’s upper management in client relations, reporting and retention • Co-developed, in TIBCO ObjectStar™, the infrastructure needed to extract data from IMS databases and port the data into newer software packages • Assisted TIBCO’s upper management in client relations, reporting and retention



Blue Cross Blue Shield

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Objectstar / DB2 Senior Consultant

  • Jan 1997 - Aug 2005

  Over 4 separate contracts of varying length, I re-designed an insurance claims system written in Objectstar and maintained various systems in COBOL/DB2 Over 4 separate contracts of varying length, I re-designed an insurance claims system written in Objectstar and maintained various systems in COBOL/DB2



Your Customer

• Customer (FMB Mortgages)

  • 2000 - 2003



Kemper

• IT Developer

  • 1984 - 1997



Kemper

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• • May 1992 - Jul 1994

  Supervisor, then manager, of re-write of a property insurance system from COBOL into Objectstar.

• • Jan 1985 - Apr 1992

  Entry level programmer through senior analyst positions on various property/casualty COBOL/DB2 and IMS application systems.