Harlan R. Cohen, MBA
Email HRCohen@gmail.com
24560 Greenwich Lane
Home 216.591.9388
Beachwood, OH 44122
Mobile 216.513.5391
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Seeking new roles to utilize the skills developed as a business application developer. Pradco personal success
factors are VERSATILITY, IMPROVEMENT, ATTITUDE, FLEXIBILITY, AND TEAMWORK.
QUALIFICATIONS
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Experience with Oracle SQL+, PL/SQL, TOAD, MS Access ODBC, and SQL Server since 1998.
Applications management in university development and alumni relations; in purchasing, inventory, and
sales functions in other industries.
End-user support and training, and associate training and mentoring.
Small team leadership in operations and software maintenance.
Functional and technical document construction and user guide writing.
WORK HISTORY
PNC (ConsultUSA)
November 2011 – January 2012
Maintained loan history and valuation data in Oracle 10g to assess consumer credit risk via Primatics
using SQL+ scripts.
Deloitte Consulting
August 2010 – May 2011
Assessed the custom CRM technology at a university development foundation and independent alumni
association in preparation for vendor selection and system conversion.
Independent Consulting
September 2008 – Present
Miscelllaneous troubleshooting of a short-term nature and personal education.
Conseco (Zanett Commercial Solutions), Indianapolis, IN
June 2008 – August 2008
Senior Consultant. Reverse engineer PL/SQL actuarial packages into English as functional / technical
specifications for major insurer. Delivered four specifications in time alloted for three.
Novelis (CGI), Mayfield Hts, OH
May 2007 – April 2008
Consultant. (Oracle 9i, TOAD) Supply chain activities in recycling using Oracle 9i with BASIC, database,
triggers, and COBOL on OpenVMS 7.x.
University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, OH
September 2006 – January 2007
Report Developer. Siemens Soarian. Scheduling v2.1 model RTF report modifications.
Dealer Tire Inc. (Relational Solutions, Inc.), Cleveland, OH
June 2006 – September 2006
Business Applications Analyst. ETL analysis and development migrating logistics reporting from MS
Access 2003 to a data mart in SQL Server. Visual Integration Studio 3.9 is the primary ETL tool.
Goodyear Engineered Products (Spherion), Akron, OH
December 2005 – March 2006
Business Applications Analyst. Migrate custom catalog application to COTS applications in MS Access
2003 and Oracle 9i, print catalogs in Crystal Reports, and data migration using XML / XSLT / XPath.
Wrote several PL/SQL procedures.
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John Carroll University University Heights, OH
December 2002 – May 2004
Advancement I.S. Specialist (Banner/SCT, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, SQLTools, MS Access 2003, Crystal Reports). Managed
technical activities to support 30 staff and managers in Development, Alumni Relations, and Public
Affairs. Supported fund-raising, campaigning and stewardship. Managed demographics and mailing lists
for public phase of a capital fund-raising campaign. Wrote packages and procedures for data ETL.
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
June 2002 – December 2002
Analyst/Programmer (Advance/BSR, Infomaker, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, SQLTools, TOAD). Migrated legacy reports from
mainframe ADABAS to InfoMaker (PowerBuilder) for the Advance/BSR Oracle database. Wrote PL/SQL
procedures and SQL scripts to prepare report data in custom tables for development and fundraising.
Conley, Canitano and Associates, Inc. Mayfield Heights, Ohio (liquidated 2004)
Senior Associate. "Employee of the Month" twice in two years
Conley-Canitanto Consulting firm engagements follow:
1988 – 2001
Nova Engineering. (CCAi 04/01 – 05/01, Oracle Applications 11i, TOAD). Analyzed order fulfillment workflow.
Produced training material on ABC Analysis, Cycle Counting, Physical Inventory.
Medical Mutual of Ohio (CCAi 04/00 – 03/01, IBM AIX, Oracle Developer 6i, PL/SQL, TOAD). Produced applications in
PL/SQL 8i packages and procedures and Oracle Reports, conforming to NCQA HEDIS industry
specifications. Improved data cleansing procedures. Performed technical reviews.
Sales order reporting
using PL/SQL packages, procedures and reports. Resolved issues in Payroll and Accounting. Loaded
international price lists to Order Management. Migrated payroll batch jobs to UNIX shell scripts.
Commercial Intertech (CCAi 12/99 – 04/00, HP UX, Oracle, PL/SQL, TOAD, COBOL, Bull DPS88).
Migrated Sales Order
EDI applications from OS/390 to OpenVMS. Coordinated activities of three analysts locally and others
in Canada. Supported Advance Shipping Notice processing and prototyped a new version in Oracle
Designer 2000. Wrote a few database triggers.
Alcan USA ( CCAi 03/98 – 05/99, IBM OS/390, IBM S/36, Compaq OpenVMS, COBOL, Oracle).
Team
lead developing data extract, transform, and load (ETL) applications. Defined and developed retail
‘Shrink’ reports. Commander OLAP data extract and transform for a conversion. Project lead in third
party’s mail order software upgrade. COBOL ETL to Comshare Commander.
Cole National, Things Remembered (CCAi 04/94 - 12/97, AS/400 DB2, IBM MVS/ESA and Datacom/DB, COBOL).
Analysis and
programming for Work in Process, Inventory Control, and Distribution. $100,000 cost savings
automating vendor billing and accounts payable. System administration and workgroup
administration. Quality Assurance Tracking and Summary Packaging applications with RDO.
ALCOA (CCAi 11/89 – 02/94, DEC VAX/OpenVMS, COBOL, Pathworks, Rdb, DECNET, TCP/IP).
Various (CCAi 11/88 – 11/89 IBM MVS). Various clients using COBOL and JCL programming.
Fermenta Plant Protection Co. Mentor, Ohio
1984 – 1988
Senior Analyst (DEC/VAX, IBM/MVS, PC/DOS, Macintosh, COBOL, Cincom / Total / Supra, Henco Info)
Purchasing and inventory control on DEC VAX. Application enhancements in Info 4GL and Supra RDBMS.
General Electric Lighting Group Cleveland, Ohio
1977 – 1984
Analyst/Programmer (COBOL, Honeywell, Burroughs, IDS II, IBM, IDMS). TREND Order Entry programming and systems analysis.
Distributed processing between Honeywell and Burroughs. Purchasing system analyst and MRP system analyst.
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EDUCATION
Certified in Production and Inventory Management, APICS 2000 - 2016
MBA, Mgmt. Information Decision Systems 1985. Weatherhead School of Management. Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
BS, Management Science 1976. Case Institute of Technology, CWRU. Honors: cum laud, President's
Scholarship, N.C. Carlton Prize for Scholarship in Economics.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
APICS – The Association for Operations Management. Certified in Production and Inventry Management
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Advancing Computing as a Science and as a Profession
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Various for ethics and compliance (Deloitte)
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (Deloitte)
Qlikview Tutorial (Qliktech CBT)
MS Project 2007 Professional and Server
Administration (Boundless Flight)
2004 SCT Summit (Conference)
Banner 5.x Intro. to Alumni/Development (SCT)
Introduction to Java (CWRU)
Data Mining Techniques (using SAS Enterprise
Miner) (CSU)
Strategic Management of Resources (APICS)
Execution and Control of Operations (APICS)
Master Planning (APICS)
M/CRP (APICS)
Basics of Supply Chain Management (APICS)
Oracle Designer: Using Forms (Oracle)
Oracle Designer: First Class (Oracle)
MS Visual Basic 5 Learning Ed. (Microsoft CBT)
Introduction to AS/400 (CBT)
Advanced CL and Programming
Introduction to PowerBuilder
Oracle SQL+
Quality in the 21st Century
UNIX Shell Programming
UNIX Fundamentals
COMPUTER PLATFORMS AND SKILLS
Oracle Corporation: DBMS Versions 7.x to 10g PL/SQL packages and procedures including triggers; SQLPLUS;
SQLDeveloper, TOAD, Developer 2000 Reports and Forms; Designer 2000; Order Management 10.7;
Inventory 11i.
OpenVMS: COBOL (incl. Report-Writer), Rdb, TDMS, CDD+, CMS, MMS, LSE, Pathworks for VMS, TCP/IP, DECNET,
DECNET/SNA, DCL, RMS, FMS, Datatrieve, EDIT/TPU.
Siemens Soarian Scheduling 2.1. Reporting with RTF and Crystal Reports.
SCT/Banner 5.x: General, Alumni/Development, Self-Service.
Microsoft Windows and Client/Server: SQL Server 2000 and 2005 T-SQL, MS Access 2003, Visual Basic for
Applications, Crystal Reports 10 and 11, Infacta Group Mail, InfoMaker (Sybase), Visio, Microsoft Office
Professional.
UNIX: IBM, HP; , Tru64, vi, shell scripting, COBOL.
IBM OS/MVS MVS/XA MVS/ESA: COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, IDCAMS, CICS, CA-Datacom, SQL, various utilities.
IBM AS/400: CL, RPG/400, DDS, DBU, PDM, and Shared Folders.
Burroughs CMS/MCP. COBOL, ISAM, CANDE.
Honeywell GCOS. COBOL, JCL, ISP, ISAM, IDS II.