1. J. Mike Howington, CDP, PhD
email: jmike@howingtonenterprises.com (214) 293-6084
I/T Systems Architect Resume
Aspiration: To lead my employer’s staff and clients through complete solutions to their needs and issues
Profile:
 Resolved many diverse IT applications and business design through coding needs for 35+ years
 Managed and led projects, designed and modeled applications, databases and data warehouses
 Installed accounting packages, trained pkg users, gave on-site support and coded acct/fin reports
 Extensive activity and leadership in community and church services and volunteer organizations
Brief Summary of 35+ Years Experiences and Skills:
 Delivered optimum I/T solutions because experiences span mainframe, mini, micro and PC client-server
systems in both on-line and batch modes with multiple TP/DBMS,operating systems and platforms.
Fulfilled I/T applications needs from experiences within management, project leadership, application
architecture, database administration, data modeling, enterprise data warehouse ETL, test data
management, Cross-Platform and Hub Communications, Web Site Applications, and structured
development life-cycle components in all phases, including object-oriented, on applicable platforms.
 Brought clarity and comprehensiveness to business requirements and designs while contracting in the
Energy Domain, Railroad Domain, Retail Domain, Health Insurance and Claims Domain, Finance and
Bookkeeping Domains, Oil and Gas Reporting Domains, Manufacturing BOM domains. Experiences
included insurance policy and claims administration, health care provider, medical case bills and
treatment codes, Medicare and Medicaid processing, rail road transportation expenses billing and
financial reporting, banking securities, oil and gas, electric utilities, marketing, electronics, purchasing,
manufacturing, inventory, production scheduling, actualcosting, bill of materials, bill of laden,
distribution, accounting, tax reporting, financials, personnel, real estate appraisal, abstract closing,
education, motel, banking, credit, security and military applications.
 Ensured security compliance requirements within laws and regulations such as: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
(SOX), PCI (Payment Card Industry) Security Standards, HIPAA,and state and federalPrivacy laws, and
Senate Bill 7.
 Dr. Howington has experienced business and Clinic Office mgt for an internal medicine clinic handling
staffing, scheduling, credentialing, contracts,leases, employee payroll and benefits, accounting, reporting
and supervision of office staff. Experience spanned insurance policy and claims administration, medical
case bills and treatment codes, Medicare and Medicaid processing, and medical records.
 Providing leadership and service within the Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) and Fire
Corp (Fire and Rescue Volunteer Support) as a FEMA Certified CERT Instructor and Vice President of
the Board of Directors in the city’s overseeing corporation. Taught courses to adult volunteers; developed
and taught a course for aspirant instructors. Serving the community as an Ordained Independent Minister
of the Church of New Life, teaching adult Bible Studies, administering weddings, funerals, baptisms,
family and individual therapy or marriage counseling, and serving as the Chaplain in community service
organizations. Founded Toastmaster's (public speaking) clubs; been a Boy Scout troop leader; co-founder
of a telephone crisis counseling center; church youth minister, and judging High School UIL debate.
 Brought superior communication skills honed from having written and produced stage plays, published
poems, directed and performed on stage,frequently teaching adult classes,and writing “Daily Bread”
email short messages,three times a week,to bring God’s Word to subscribers.
Education Summary:
Doctor of Divinity, Church of the New Life, 2005
M.B.A. Management, Amber University, 1985
M.S. Computer Systems Applications, American University (completed academic studies 1978, but
relocated prior to comprehensive exams)
B.S. Technology of Management, American University, 1975

2. J. Mike Howington, CDP, PhD
Professional Career Experiences
06/2013 – present: Infosys LTD
Dr. Howington is currently employed by an Indian (Offshore) consulting/contracting firm in the Energy Domain,
roles: Technical Lead,Architect, Analyst, Mentor, Business Analyst, QA. Most recently assigned the role of a
Business Analysis using Rational Quality Manager (RM (requirements management and stories), CCM (change
and config management) QM (quality management test plans, test cases and test scripts) on an Agile project with
Quick-to-Market Waterfall deliverables and scheduling, for a large web-based java front end to mainframe
CICS/DB2 back end application. Applications: QA/Testing for fpl.com (web-based customer account interface),
Billing, Accounts Receivable, Credits and Debits.
In the energy domain, in the assigned role of a Technical Lead implemented severalADRs (Application
Development Requests) for a large Waterfall project with CICS, DB2, Oracle data warehouses,COBOL,
Changeman, Remedy, CA7. Responsibilities included Requirements, Technical Design, Scheduling, Program
Specifications, Code Review, Change Management and versioning, Test Cases and Scripts, Unit Test,System
Test, Migration, Implementation, indoctrination, training of a new Business Analyst, and off-shore resources
liaison. Applications: ADRs for Collections Risk Assessment and CS-Revenue Recovery within the CIS2
(Customer Information System): recording risk evaluation used for assessing deposit amounts; for CS-Revenue
Recovery: Final Notices, and CONP (Cancelfor Non-Pay (recording the disconnection of the meter)).
For Infosys, contracted in the transportation/shipping domain for a large nationwide railroad company as a
mainframe lead in the accounts payable misc. invoices and the accounts receivable special receipts department,
with applications in the mainframe environment, Unix AIXservers,Web based online services, SAP and
Informatica interfaces. Experiences included COBOL,Unix BASH scripts, PUTTY,DB2 SQL, JAVA,HTML,
jscripts, CSS, XML, SQLI, CHANGEMAN,WRR, MARIMBA,FORTIFY,CONTROL-M,CA7, full life cycle
SDLC documentation from project initiation, requirements, estimates, impact analysis, test plans, coding and
testing reviews, through migration and implementation with tracking through MKS/WMR "Project Management
tools, provided on-call support and customer support and off-shore liaison responsibilities.
For Infosys, contracted with a large nationwide department store retailer as a mainframe lead to assist the lead,
who has been on project for about a year, with finishing up design and with off-shore liaison responsibilities.
Project was in Acceptance Testing,about to implement upon arrival. Performance including the coding, testing
and implementation of severalutilities to manipulate data, including SORT, COBOL code, TERRADATA Loads,
Unloads, BTEQs, and table creations, DB2 loads, unloads and table creations. Assisted other projects by
documenting and enhancing large CICS transactions that interacted with service requests to/from a Web
application and the DB2 data warehouse and by supporting UAT testing with various DB2 utilities to CREATE,
UNLOAD,LOAD,IMAGE COPY,RESTORE , CHECK,RECOVER, and XMIT very large DB2 tables.
Outside of Infosys, for a small service business created a scheduling, book keeping and reporting application to
run in the WINDOWS environment using VISUAL BASIC with EXCEL as its database.
10/2010 - 02/2013: Family Medicine Clinic
Clinic Office Manager of a solo-practice family medicine clinic. Exercised direct supervision over professional
nursing staff, medical records staff, reception and scheduling staff and billing/claims staff while personally
handling all correspondences,legal matters,supplies, book-keeping, licensing, accreditation, training and CME,
customer service, banking and payroll. Selected, installed and converted data into a new compliant Practice
Management cloud-based software system. Wrote a computer database application that backed up all patient
demographic and billing data housed in the online system. Wrote a computer application to replace the manual
punch card time clock that reported bi-weekly payroll hours. This time clock was quickly implemented in Visual
Basic and then redesigned as an OO application project with use cases and UML models and rewritten in Java.

3. J. Mike Howington, CDP, PhD
Professional Career Experiences, cont.
02/2010 – 10/2010: Walmart Super Center Accountant
Part time accounting office associate reconciliation, loss and shortage research,cash balance and cash register
distribution, banking, and sales and income reporting.
5/2009 – 04/2011: Webmaster and Data Management Coordinator
Design and coded internet web pages and customized features for web pages including interactive forms, links to
other sites, pop-down menus, pop-up maps, databases and queries using HTML, XML, PhP and MySQL coding.
1/2006 – 6/2009: Blue Cross Blue Shield
For a merger consolidation/conversion project: extracted and reformatted data from the TERADATA Enterprise
Data Warehouse (EDW). Wrote crosswalks and interfaces to other systems. Also loaned to other projects to code
and implement data model modifications and new Dimensional Data Models. Also loaned to other projects to
code and implement data warehouse ETLs (extracts,updates,loads), COGNOS reports and other deliverables.
Tools: TERADATA, SQL, BTEQ, FASTXPORT, DATASTAGE, DB2, VSAM utilities,
MAINFRAME JCL and utilities, UNIX scripts
During off-hours and non-billable time: Completed a course in Advance OO and Java Concepts and a course in
JDBC (Java Relational Data Base) Application Programming; wrote JAVASCRIPT and XML to process a form
on a web page for a small business that did not want to use 3-rd party CGIs; modified and update web pages using
HTML and PhP; sold and implemented internet advertising packages; installed new computers and switched the
accounting software from Peachtree to Quicken Premier and tutored the staff in the use of the software for
accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and general ledger.
11/2003 – 12/2008: Family Medicine Clinic
Business Manager for the internal medicine doctor’s clinic. Replaced the office manager, replaced the credit card
processing system, replaced the banking facility, completed all re-verification processes for all insurance carriers,
streamlined the billing statement processing and implemented an employee cross-training program. Advised the
proprietor on all business matters including staffing, contracts,leases,employee benefits, employee evaluations
and salary adjustments. Continued ongoing monitoring of office productivity and accounting auditing.
1/1998-12/2005: Assurant Employee Benefits, formerly known as Fortis Benefits
Because of extensive diversity of knowledge and skills a one-year project with this client was renewed each year
to stretch into an eight-year contract. Services for Y2k assignments led into severalother projects and
developments. Project Lead,Architect, Technical Lead and Team Supervisor for severalprojects, most related to
converting six mainframe systems to a client-server ORACLE database system. Frequently loaned to various
projects involving the Data Warehouse,CICS,and Hub Communications, to design, and occasionally code,
technical solutions. Provided detailed designs, specifications, mentoring and supervision for teams of offshore
developers. Supervised several teams developing differing interfaces, providing technical assistance,code
review, mentoring, coaching and training on all development tools and methods. Coded stored procedures and
database triggers then taught client personnel how to develop them. Became a member of the clients’ Triggers
SWAT team with the responsibility for the review and/or design of any interfaces needing access or control of the
ORACLE data. Also reviewed and approved vendor software products and updates.
Provided technical assistance and coded reviews for a project to do GUI interfaces between ACCESS and DB2
Connect (using ODBC). Analysis of entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) and databases to map and clean data
from IMS and DB2. Designed, specified and team leader for a LOTUSNOTES project tracking application
having severaldocs, response docs, multiple security levels with client server and INTRANET access.
Point man on severalmajor business units across many platforms to assess Y2k compliance and code
corrections. Duties included: completing compliance planning documentation packets, detailed Y2k impact

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Professional Career Experiences, cont.
analysis, detailed renovation design, code renovation, business rules analysis for test case development, test data
capture, subsetting, data modeling analysis for referential integrity during test data collection, conversion and
transportation for multiple tier testing within multiple LPARs mixing multiple operating systems, extensive
MVS/DFSMS, ABARS and LMS processes, walk-throughs and test comparisons, installations, and warranty
period supports. Gave process presentations for kick off meetings and gave severaltraining sessions. Supervised
as well as personally participated in all the processes for various sized teams consisting of anywhere from 1
(myself) up to 7 people.
Tools: ORACLE,SQL-PLUS,ORACLE URL_HTTP utility, SYBASE,DB2, IMS, ACCESS with ODBC links,
DATASTAGE,IBM MQSeries, JAVA,C++, VISUAL BASIC,WORD/VBA, EXCEL macros,
POWERBUILDER,LOTUSNOTES applications, HTML and XML, Micro Focus COBOL,PRO-C,CICS,
VSAM, MAINFRAME JCL and utilities, EXCEED, CA7, UNIXscripts, AUTOSYS and COBOL(-II and
/MVS(370), ASSEMBLER, EASYTRIEVE, FOCUS,FORTRAN,C, PASCAL,WP Macros, LOTUS Macros,
IMS/DC, SAS, ORACLE,FOXPRO,PARADOX,CLIPPER,FILEAID, SUPERC,COMPAREX,EDGE,
ENDEVOR
Note: in addition, Dr. Howington conducted technical interviews to evaluate technical backgrounds in both
mainframe applications and PC environments, keeping skills current within the tools of past experiences.
Beyond these 10 years, the rest of Dr. Howington’s long career involved the following clients:
Sprint Invoice Processing, Los Colinas
Mobile Exploration and Production, US
IBM Marketing Services Support
Lennox International for IBM
NationsBank
Mobil Oil Corporation
Texas Electric Support Company
Dallas County Community Colleges District
Coopers and Lybrand, Inc.
J. C. Penney Co.
Harris Data Communications Inc.
Dallas Power & Light Co.
Moore Business Forms
JEEP Corporation
American Motors Corporation
Fidelity Investments,Los Colinas
Burlington Northern Rail Road, Ft. Worth
Texas Instruments Inc., Plano
Van Zandt County Title Abstract Company
Alba-Golden Independent School District
Darby's Dept. Store & Grand Saline Chamber of Commerce
Ivy Marketing Group
AIM America, Inc.
Interstate Wire Co.
The Drawing Board Inc.
Augren Computing Company
Dr. Pepper Inc.
Cutler-Williams Inc., Corporate Management
Planning Research Corporation
And the U.S. Air Force (1969-1975)
Technical Summary List
Over thirty-five years of diverse applications development and consulting experience:
Hardware Manufacturers Summary:
IBM mainframes, UNIXmainframes, HP/UX,DEC VAXs and PDP-x,HONEYWELL 66xx, 635, DN355, Level
6, BURROUGHS:4700, 3500, 263. Many micros and PCs,ATs,LINUX, MS-DOS, WINDOWS,XP, etc.
Software Languages Summary:
COBOL,PLI,PLAS, REXX, VISUAL BASIC, VBScript, C, C++, C#, .NET, LOTUSNOTES,JAVA,
JavaScript, XML, Spring, Php, HTML, CSS, XHTML, WEBSPHERE,SQL, PL/SQL,SQL*PLUS,MySQL,
PLS, CQS, FORTRAN,EXEC, IEF, APL,RPG-II, DIBOL,DBL, BASIC,FOCUS, EASYTRIEVE,MARKIV,
DYL260/280, COGNOS, SAS, NATURAL,DATAVANTAGE,and some exposure to others. Assembler for
IBM (ALC and BAL), HONEYWELL (GMAP and DN355MAP),DEC (PDP-PAL),Burroughs 263, and some
micros.

5. Software Major Packages Summary:
IBM related: DOS, DOS/VSE,zOS, OS/MFT, /MVT, /VS1, /MVS, CSP,VM, CMS, HASP,POWER,
JCL, JES2, JES3, TCP/IP,CA7, CONTROL-M,VSAM, DB2, QMF, SPUFI,PROEDIT,SQL,VSPC,
TSO, ISPF, BMS, SDF2, MFS, CICS, IMS/DC, VSAM, IMS/DB, DATASTAGE,MQSERIES,
PANVELET,LIBRARIAN,ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, WYLBUR,MENTEXT,ROSCOE,
COMPLETE and others.
Database packages:ORACLE,SYBASE, ACCESS,DB2, DLI, IMS, DLI,TERADATA,ADABAS,FOCUS
IDMS, TOTAL,IDS, DM-IV, DBMS, and microcomputer packages listed above
UNIX, LENIX, Shell Scripting, (shells CSH, SH, KSH and BASH), EXCEED, AUTOSYS and many Honeywell,
Burroughs and DEC operating systems/major packages.
Microcomputer and PC Vendor packages: SMART, dBASE, PERFECT FILER,RBASE, PARADOX,FOXPRO,
ACCESS, Revelation, DOS,OS/2, TurboDOS, TRSDOS, XENIX, WINDOWS,IBM-LAN,NOVELL,
LANTASTIC,BANYAN-VINES,CP/M,MP/M,WORD,WORDSTAR,WORD PERFECT,MULTIMATE,
PERFECT WRITER,DISPLAY WRITE,SPELLBINDER,DW4,LOTUS NOTES,SPF/PC,LOTUS, EXCEL,
VISIO,POWERPOINT,PERFECT CALC,PROJECT WORKBENCH,M.S. PROJECT,DATASTAGE,etc.