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Tom McQuinn                    

 

President & SENIOR LEVEL CONSULTANT

Experience & Education

Associates Degree in Computer Science from Cincinnati Technical College 1982 - 1984

Programmer/Analyst at Southwestern Publishing 1984 - 1988

Consultant at McQuinn & Associates Inc. 1988 - Present

 Professional Summary

Seventeen years of analysis, applications programming, and consulting experience with projects representing a wide range of industries and skills. Five consecutive years of full-time J.D. Edwards World development experience with the intention of transitioning to J.D. Edwards One World in the near future. Founded McQuinn & Associates in 1988 and continues to manage the company while working full-time in the field for clients.

Project History 

  • Consolidating disparate MS Access databases into a shared client/server system using AS/400 physical files connected to MS Access applications using ODBC, stored procedures, and Active X for Data Objects.
  • Assisted an international publishing company with upgrading their J.D. Edwards manufacturing software from the A6.2 release to the A7.3 release. This required identifying and documenting custom manufacturing modifications made to the A6.2 release and evaluating their functionality in the A7.3 release. Worked as both a technical resource and assisted with project management.
  • Fully trained by J.D. Edwards as a One World developer. Training includes Forms Design, Advanced Tools, Enterprise Report Writing I and II, and System Administration. Currently J.D. Edwards certified in One World Report Design.
  • Designed, developed, tested and implemented a custom system to update J.D. Edwards sales data with current sales force crediting information received from sales management via Microsoft Excel. Automated and documented all procedures to upload the data to the AS/400, error checking the data, and process in batch. All AS/400 programs developed using the J.D. Edwards CASE tools.
  • Provided daily production support for J.D. Edwards Accounts Payable system.
  • Recovered critical sales orders and restored their proper J.D. Edwards status codes to allow customer billing after a major J.D. Edwards to warehouse management system malfunction.
  • Worked as a technical resource during two year project to convert a company using J.D. Edwards to Y2K compliance without upgrading to a compliant release including all interfacing software.
  • Provided production support and troubleshooting for J.D. Edwards General Accounting system.
  • Implemented a POSPORT credit card processing system including all necessary J.D. Edwards modifications and testing.
  • Interfaced Vertex tax software to J.D. Edwards standard sales modules as well as the client’s custom order return and EDI systems.
  • Technical Lead for a Boston company converting PC based financials to J.D. Edwards.
  • Converted a retailer from a Texas Instruments system to the AS/400.
  • Aided in the design, coding, and testing of a costing system for a large publishing company.
  • Extensively modified Pansophic software to meet the specific needs of a plastics manufacturer. Also designed, coded, tested and implemented an integrated production scheduling system for the same company.
  • Participated in much of the programming and some of the analysis and design for a financial advisory company's mutual fund system.
  • Coded, tested, and implemented an infection control system for a large regional hospital.
  • Designed, coded, tested, and implemented a physical inventory system for a rubber products manufacturer using Pansophic software.
  • Completed a complimentary textbook analysis system for a large publisher. This included all analysis, design, testing, implementation, and documentation as well as working very closely with the end users.
  • Part of a three man team that added a company to an existing system for a large publishing company.
  • Designed, coded, and implemented improvements to a stock management system to accommodate T+3 trades.
  • Maintained and modified JD Edwards sales order processing at two sites for a major publishing company.
  • Maintained production JD Edwards applications for a publishing company.
  • Designed, programmed, and maintained a reporting system for distribution and presentation on the internet.

     
   
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