1. John V. Stires
1487 Thor Drive
Palatine, IL 60067
 (847)358-1487
pencarver@sbcglobal.net LinkedIn Site: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstiresilbi
SUMMARY
Highly motivated Business Intelligence Professional using SQL Server 2005 / 2008 and
Microsoft Technologies. Experience manipulating various data sources to support Senior
Management decisions. Experienced in all phases of full life cycle of application
development. Demonstrated leadership abilities and team work skills as well as the ability
to accomplish tasks under pressure and with minimal direction and supervision.
I am looking for an opportunity where I can design and build applications using business
intelligence to solve users’ issues and or problems.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Technologies:
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, SQL Server 2005
Reporting Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Performance
Point Server 2007, Microsoft Visio.
Databases:
MS SQL Server 2005, 2008, RDB
Software:
Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio
DEC/VAX, Open VMS, DCL, MS Project, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, COGNOS PowerHouse,
FOCUS, CICS, BASIC, FORTRAN, ASSEMBLER, COBOL, Visual Basic, VB.NET, C++
SetFocus, LLC Parsippany, NJ 9/08 - 11/08
Educational program combined with professional experience was designed to provide 2-3 years
experience in 1 quarter.
Implemented a Labor Analysis Business Intelligence solution for a simulated national
construction company.
Existing data from diverse data sources were consolidated into a uniform SQL Server
2005 database. SQL Server Integration Services was used to define imports of the
data, build scheduling packages, to define integration flow, log data error exceptions
and orphaned data and to define Database Maintenance Plans and send emails.
Created a number of cubes, dimensions and business critical KPIs using SQL Server
Analysis Services representing aggregations in several different ways - hierarchically
and using custom groupings that the company will use to analyze performance.
Created several MDX queries according to business requirements.
Developed several detail and summary reports including line and pie charts, trend
analysis reports and sub-reports according to business requirements using SQL Server
Reporting Services.
Implemented business intelligence dashboards using MOSS 2007 Report Center and
Excel Services producing different summary results based on user view and role
membership.

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Created score cards with executive summary dashboards using MS Office Performance
Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that display performance monitoring measures
for sales, sales trends, and book return rates for a simulated book publisher deriving
data from a SQL Server 2005 OLAP data source and deployed them to SharePoint
sites. The dashboards also contain drill-down capabilities to view book sales by book
category and customer, through summary reports and sales trend charts.
Created score cards with advanced set of dashboards using MS Office Performance
Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that feature executive summary measures for
revenue, overhead costs, material purchases, labor and profitability trends for a
simulated construction company extracting data from a SQL Server 2005 OLAP data
source and deployed them to SharePoint sites. The dashboards also contain pages to
view performance by employee, by region, and by quarter enabling end-users to make
filter selections.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEK Systems Pittsburgh, PA 5/11 - 10/11
Consultant
For the client, Highmark, a healthcare insurance provider:
Maintained and developed systems in support of General Billing, COBRA, and Direct
Pay clients and members. Environment was VAX VMS using DCL and COGNOS
PowerHouse.
Developed the systems required to accommodate billing within the framework of the
new Federal Stimulus Package.
Modis Solutions Pittsburgh, PA 3/09 - 9/09
Consultant
For the client, EBDS, a healthcare insurance provider billing vendor:
Maintained and developed systems in support of General Billing, COBRA, and Direct
Pay clients and members. Environment was VAX VMS using DCL and COGNOS
PowerHouse.
Developed the systems required to accommodate billing within the framework of the
new Federal Stimulus Package.
Links Technology Schaumburg, IL 2/08 - /09
Consultant
For the client, CareMark, a major healthcare provider:
Developed a system to triage/exchange sensitive patient information between
divisions handling different types of therapies. This system was streamlined and
divergent in terms of information platforms to ensure patient information was
transferred ten times per day via a secure FTP. Environment was VAX VMS using
DCL and COGNOS PowerHouse with a RDB Relational database.

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Coram Healthcare Mount Prospect, IL 3/05 – 5/07
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Supported the Billing System used on their 11 national locations, Corporate Billing and AR
Systems, and ancillary supporting applications on a VAX VMS using DCL and COGNOS
PowerHouse with a RDB Relational database.
Worked with team to create Post Back facility to provide management the ability to
track billing activities from their Billing System through their AR System.
Created an automated process to archive large amounts of complex data stored
across their 11 field locations and their corporate location.
Modified the nightly batch billing process to address One-Order-Per-Invoice taking
into account exceptions for special entities such as Medicare Part D.
Gaylord Container Corporation/Austin, TX 3/98 - 8/03
Temple-Inland Paperboard and Packaging
Sr. Systems Analyst / Systems Analyst
Responsible for Human Resource and Payroll systems. Member of transition team to
transfer and cleanse data moving from old systems to new, J. D. Edwards, Human
Resources and Payroll systems. Part of transition team-that transferred inventory
and storekeeping systems. Representative accomplishments include:
Collaborated with Corporate Tax Dept. to redesign, rewrite, test, and implement
improvements to W2 process requiring exclusive use of its own VAX machine with
dedicated IT personnel.
Result: Reduced W2 Process from 15 hours to 40 minutes process that ran on the
normal production machine.
Created, a Quality Control function for Corporate Payroll Tax Reporting System.
This, could be run with to the W2 process or independently.
Result: Eliminated dependency upon the external tax-reporting vendor to QC our tax
reporting data.
Automated unwieldy, time-consuming, and costly Payroll reporting process for
remote plants using ADP Payroll. Part of cross-functional teams including Corporate
Tax Department, and IT technical systems personnel.
Result: Saved over $27,000 per year in ADP costs alone. Work involved coordinating
efforts and activities of the ADP IT and business support staff, corporate Tax
Department, and internal System Services.

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Cancer Treatment Center of America Arlington Heights, IL 2/94 - 3/98
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Provided project planning, programming and analysis support in PowerHouse and
DCL on DEC/VAX for hospitals, clinics, and pharmaceutical home health care
providers.
Produced, managed, and maintained in-house reporting systems used to gather and
report hospital activity from third party system.
Maintained data file integrity for pharmacy, billing, and reimbursement systems.
Managed clinical system supporting Oncology clinics.
Worked with various departments to replace manual processes with interfaces
between the complex pharmacy system and General Ledger system with an
automated interfacing system. Result increased accuracy and reduced processing
from three weeks to 1.5 hours.
Independent Consultant Chicago, IL 8/92 - 2/94
Provided programming and analysis support using PowerHouse on DEC/VAX for large
aftermarket auto parts manufacturer.
Created electronic catalog system offering users wide variety of part information
access options and convenient means to produce periodic updates to third party
distributors.
Designed and implemented sales analysis reporting functions and supported
Accounts Receivable functions.
Provided warehouse system support.
Sears Roebuck & Company Chicago, IL 1990-1992
Systems Analyst
Responsible for trouble shooting and correcting in-store POS and Inventory systems
problems in stores nationwide. Minimized impact of these software-hardware-
procedural problems on store operations.
Wrote and modified programs within POS system.
Reduced monthly expenses by over $20,000 by identifying and eliminating
unused and correcting improperly used communication lines.
Reduced test time and increased consistency by developing automated
procedures to test cash register transactions.
Researched and presented alternatives to correct ongoing reporting problem
with Daily Sales Inventory Report written in 20,000 lines of assembler code.
Responsible for obtaining new user IDs, reinstating lost or forgotten
passwords and notifying department of policy, procedure, and software
changes.

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Prior experience
Technical consultant/systems analyst for various major organizations (1978-1990).
Examples of project accomplishments include:
Wrote pricing system for $7.5 billion in securities for Stein, Roe, and Farhnam
Developed functional specifications for highly sensitive Draft Schedules
application for United Airlines
Created disaster recovery plan for Advanced Systems Applications, Inc. (ASA)
Created secure login process for high volume vidoetext system (a precursor to the
internet).
Created operations manual for three mainframe timeshare site for
Advanced Systems Applications, Inc. (ASA)
Eliminated need for costly external vendor for system administration for
Bankers’ Life and Casualty Mass Marketing Division.
Evaluated major development software for HealthChicago.
EDUCATION
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
BS in Computer Science minored in Business Administration, 1978
BS in Biology minored in Chemistry, 1978
William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL
AS in Science, 1975
Out Side Interests
Running
Wood working
Gardening
Martial Arts