Peter Cardinal

Employment History

Beginning in 8/2010 I am willfully unemployed.

SENIOR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST (4/1997 - 7/2010)
Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (which was subsequently bought out by a competitor)
Previously Merck-Medco Managed Care, LLC, ProVantage Health Services, Inc., and ProVantage, Inc.
Green Bay, Wisconsin

• Design and construction of new healthcare data product (8/1999 - 8/2010): Processing healthcare claims (drug, professional, institutional) and eligibility data for retrospective drug utilization review, other studies, and ad hoc reporting. Design documentation for this product is entirely on our intranet. Designed for Teradata database, building from earlier work with Oracle database on AIX (IBM's Unix).
• Support for the healthcare data project: Developed an intranet site for training analysts about healthcare claims. Implemented ancillary infrastructure for program repository, interface with Concurrent Version System (CVS), batch runtime environments, job scheduling interface with LoadLeveler, etc.
• Support for RationalMed® product (3/1998 - 7/1999): Productionized importing and filtering of drug, medical, and hospital claims from clients for drug utilization review system using C and DCL on DEC VMS. Authored intranet training and reference site for analysts transferring to this project.
• Supported vision benefit management application (4/1997 - 3/1998) using SQL/COBOL and DB2/400 RDBMS on IBM AS/400. Designed DB/2 tables and integrated DB/2 database maintenance with documentation kept in Oracle Designer 2000.
• Software & hardware:
  • Teradata RDBMS, Oracle 8, DB2/400
  • C, DCL, COBOL, SQL, CL, Korn shell scripting
  • OpenVMS, OS/400, AIX (Unix), LoadLeveler
  • HTML, Telnet, FTP, CVS
  • Microsoft Project, FrontPage, Word 97, Excel
  • DEC Alpha, IBM AS/400, IBM SP complex (RS6000)

ANALYST III (9/1986 - 4/1997)
St. Vincent Hospital
Green Bay, Wisconsin

• Primary author of patient accounts application, including interactive and batch services, billing, interfaces to accept registration and charge data, electronic data interchange (EDI) for remittance (X12.835) and claims (X12.837). Supported human resources, accounting, surgical services, and other areas.
• Responsible for application interfaces to database and operating system. Designed software integrating Windows and AS/400 emulation into a single interactive application for medical coding. Set security standards and programs for security administration on the AS/400 (including interchange of data with Netware NDS).
• Created an application menu system and on-line user guide. Wrote operator interface, job scheduling, automated program documentation (from the CL, COBOL, and RPG source code), project and time tracking, and application management.
• Upgraded operations staff to handle security implementation, configuration changes, ad hoc reporting, first-line problem determination.
• Converted applications from IBM System/36 to System/38. Coordinated conversion from System/38 to AS/400. Also set up a plan which would have allowed conversion to DEC VMS.
• Software & hardware:
  • COBOL, C, CL, Delphi, Visual Basic, Access
  • Word, Word Macros, WordPerfect, SPSS
  • REXX, SQL, RPG, DCL, dBase, MS-DOS, RUMBA
  • AS/400, System/38, System/36, VAX, PC
  • Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Novell Netware

INSTRUCTOR, Data Processing (8/1983 - 6/1986)
Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District
Escanaba, Michigan

• Created and taught a two-year program in vocational data processing for high school juniors and seniors, including data entry, computer concepts and history, computer operations, and beginning programming in COBOL, RPG, and BASIC.
• Wrote instructional and system software to support both the DP program and the word processing classes. Wrote applications for some administrative functions, such as attendance.
• Software & hardware:
  • COBOL, RPG, BASIC
  • System/36, PC

BUDGET OPERATIONS SOFTWARE PROJECT LEADER (6/1980 - 7/1983)
Wisconsin Department of Administration (State budget office)
Madison, Wisconsin

• Converted the state's executive budget system from Assembler language, BTAM, and BSAM (with hardware-dependent code and home-grown access methods) to standard COBOL using CICS and VSAM KSDS.
• Integrated budget tables with computerized typesetting for the governor's budget books.
• Provided research support to budget analysts.
• Supported state population estimates and dissemination of federal census data.
• Wrote system software extensions to support application management.
• Software & hardware:
  • COBOL, Assembler language, CICS, PANVALET, SAS
  • MVS on IBM 3090

SYSTEM PROGRAMMER (6/1979 - 6/1980)
Wick Building Systems
Madison, Wisconsin

• Installed, maintained, and supported operating system, utilities, and third-party applications.
• Assisted application development staff with debugging and problem determination.
• Wrote system enhancements, utilities, and data dictionary.
• Software & hardware:
  • Assembler language, COBOL, CICS, ETTS (later ICCF), SYNCSORT
  • DOS/VS (later VSE) on IBM 370/138

INSTRUCTOR, Data Processing (9/1978 - 6/1979)
North Central Technical Institute
Wausau, Wisconsin

• Associate degree program in data processing: COBOL I/II, job control, system analysis and design, concepts. (One-year sabbatical leave replacement position.)
• Software & hardware:
  • COBOL, CICS, ETSS (ICCF)
  • DOS/VS on IBM 370

TECHNICAL WRITER (9/1977 - 12/1977)
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

• Programmer's guide for DABAL IV database access language. (Part-time position while working on my teaching credentials.)

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST (9/1975 - 9/1977)
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

• Automated parking ticket, legal complaint, court summons, and arrest warrant.
• Other applications for parking, facilities management, etc.
• Automated job documentation from JCL and procedures.
• Parsing and reduction for job scheduling language.
• Generated I/O routines for DABAL database access language.
• Software & hardware:
  • COBOL, Assembler language, IMS DB/DC
  • MVS/VS

PROGRAMMER (10/1974 - 9/1975)
OPERATOR (4/1974 - 10/1974)
Morley-Murphy Co.
Green Bay, Wisconsin

• Programmed purchase order subsystem including interface with inventory control.
• Supported inventory, picking tickets, invoicing, and statements.
• Automated job documentation from OCL.
• Software & hardware:
  • COBOL, RPG
  • System/3 Model 10

Substitute Teacher
Green Bay Area Public Schools
Green Bay, Wisconsin

• Substituted in mobile computer classroom.
• Worked 3 days.
• Software & hardware:
  • FORTRAN
  • IBM 1130
  • Keypunch, card sorter, accounting machine

Education Summary

B.A. in Analysis-Synthesis, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Additional work at University of Wisconsin - Madison (in education) and at St. Norbert College (in theology and in education).

I hold a Wisconsin substitute teacher license in mathematics (DPI 1400, entity 170552). I previously held a 5-year license for secondary mathematics in Wisconsin and was licensed for both math and English in Michigan.

Other Activities

Tutoring, teaching and preaching in local churches, church camping; biking; photography; visiting my woods.

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