Terry L. Blackburn
RESUME HIGHLIGHTS
  • Seventeen years of working in a data processing environment on an I.B.M. System/38, AS/400, iSeries.
  • Fifteen years experience with data systems in hospital based health care systems.
  • Two years experience managing 5 or more employees
  • Experience managing large IT projects
  • Extensive development with structured programming and analysis.
  • Expertise in process automation.
  • Five years experience as a commercial software developer.
    • EXPERIENCE

    Tuality Healthcare, Inc.
    Information and Business Technology
    335 S.E. Eighth Avenue
    Hillsboro, Oregon 97123 

    Title:           Planning and Development Manager                      
Dates:           October, 2000  to present    
Responsibilities Functions as a resource for all system services under 
                 management of IBT departments.  Guides activities of 
                 Planning and Development team.  Serves as technical advisor 
                 to the organization and CIO for the strategic use of 
                 information technology.  Leads department in planning 
                 and implementation of major projects.  Directs development 
                 team in design and/or delivery of new technology.
    Title:           System Services Manager                      
Dates:           February, 1999 to October, 2000                                  
Responsibilities Title change only, responsibilities same as below.
    Title:           System Services Coordinator                      
Dates:           February, 1999 to October, 2000                                  
Responsibilities Functions as a resource for all system services under 
                 management of BIT departments.  Guides activities of 
                 Programming and Operations teams.  Serves as technical 
                 advisor to the organization and CIO for the strategic 
                 use of information technology.
    Title:           Senior Programmer Analyst                                  
Dates:           March, 1989 to February, 1999                                  
Responsibilities Establish and maintain all application program products.   
                 Analyze and design programs, subsystems or complete        
                 systems.  Write necessary program code, test document and  
                 implement new applications using CASE tools when           
                 possible.  Responsible for analysis and problem            
                 determination to correct program malfunctions. Design,   
                 enhance, or maintain interfaces between systems.  Serve    
                 as technical advisor or trainer for staff and              
                 departmental mangers.
    Independent Software Developer
    DataPacket Report Distribution System 
    Dates:           1991 to present                                            
Responsibilities Develop, maintain and enhance commercial software          
                 application.  The DataPacket Report Distribution System    
                 made its commercial debut first quarter of 1991, marketed  
                 by Pacific City Software.  Since that time, more than 100  
                 copies have been sold in the United States, Canada,        
                 Jamaica, Italy, Hong Kong, Singapore and India.  Major     
                 corporations to take advantage of this product include     
                 Shell Oil, Price-Costco, Bank of America, ADT Security     
                 Systems, Nestle Food Services and General Electric.        
                 DataPacket is now marketed by LXI Inc. as Report Distribution     
                 System.  The user interface for this general system utility
                 is engineered in SYNON.   The functional portion is hand 
                 written in efficient and highly structured RPG and CL code.           
    Adventist Health Systems, Inc.
    Boulder Memorial Hospital
    Boulder, Colorado 
    Title:           Programmer                                                 
Dates:           April, 1986 to March, 1989                                 
Responsibilities Coordinate installation of System/38 computer system,      
                 serve as primary systems contact person during             
                 installation and configuration of hospital information     
                 system.  Maintain and enhance HIS software to meet         
                 business requirements.  Automation of day end procedures   
                 to allow unattended operations was accomplished through a  
                 unique process that required minimal modification of       
                 vendor software.    
                                        
 
Adventist Health System.
    Eastern and Middle America
    8800 West 75th Street
    Shawnee Mission, KS 66204 
    Title:           Programmer                                                 
Dates:           July, 1985 to April, 1986                                  
Responsibilities Design and implement data conversion programs for          
                 installation of stand alone HIS software for hospitals in  
                 Washington, DC., central Missouri and Boulder, Colorado.   
                 Travel to hospital sites and function as technical         
                 assistant in both hardware and software configuration      
                 during installation phase.                                 
 

    EDUCATION:
    Walla Walla College
Bachelor of Arts - Music Theory, 1981
Additional class work towards BS in Computer Science in 1983-84 (WWC)
    IBM Technical Conference 1990, 1993, 2000
    Cozzi Technical Conference 1991
    Edify Corporation - Edify U - Electronic Workforce training, 
Advanced Electronic Workforce training, World Wide Web training - 1996
    TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Have experience in the following system environments:
RPG/400, RPG III, REXX,  and Visual Basic languages. AS/400, OS/2, Windows 95, DOS operating systems.
I also develop applications using the Edify Electronic Workforce, create web based using net.Data and SQL.
    Competent in the use of the AS/400 Utilities and Control programming language.
    Other miscellaneous systems/languages (the skills have died, the concepts linger on...)
HP3000 (1979-81), VAX 11-750 (1982-83), Sequent (1988-89), 
C++, Lisp, Forth, Pascal, BASIC, PROLOG, COBOL, SYNON


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