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Astron
Technologies is a systems consulting organization providing full life cycle
design, development and project management services.
Astron Technologies utilizes leading design and development tools to
provide custom solutions for our clients. We also provide integration to
software packages.
Project Highlights
The following examples highlight the some of the experience of our consultants::
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Enterprise architect for major Canadian clothing retail
company. Worked closely with all development staff to establish the
use of agile development, modeling and configuration management best
practices. Included role as data architect to strategically link and
implement all front office and back office development projects utilizing a
shared database architecture and integration strategy. Primary
development language for this project is Java. Tools: Websphere,
Eclipse, iSeries DB2, DB2 UDB, ERwin, SQL. |
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Designed, developed and implemented technical
architecture for processing of HIPAA standard EDI transaction sets for a major
California based health care insurance organization. Included processing of
data sets from Gentran (OS/390) on iSeries (AS/400) to update production
applications as well as design/development of proprietary middleware. |
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Project manager/technical architect for migration of
large scale health care insurance application from Oracle to DB2/400. This
included database schema, stored procedures and architecture changes.
Introduced changes in methodology, configuration management and platform
management practices for both development and operations disciplines.
Mentoring of internal IS staff at client site. Application interfaces to
Legacy RPG applications and Lawson financial applications. Primary tools were
VisualAge for Java, C, SQL, Crystal Reports with Erwin and SELECT Enterprise
design tools. |
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Strategic assessment and IT realignment to support
corporate initiatives for an industry-leading manufacturing corporation.
Included hiring of IS management, selection of new CRM software, introduction
of business modeling and establishment of a framework for selection and
implementation of ERP software. |
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Design and development of virtual call centre application
for a start up company. This telephony based application was built using
object oriented development tools (Centura). The scalable architecture
supported multiple relational database back ends including Oracle, DB2, SQL
server, SQLBase and Access. |
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Development of Year 2000 impact analysis, assessment and
remediation tools. This included tools to analyze and reverse engineer Synon/2E
models, including preparation of automated task lists and work breakdown
structures generated in Microsoft Project. |
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Developed business plan for launch of e-Business
consulting services and development products for a large consulting/systems
integration firm. |
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Year 2000 assessment, analysis and remediation for a
group of major distribution and retail companies. |
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Enterprise database redesign initiative for a leading
U.S. based healthcare organization. This project involved requirements
gathering, re-engineering of current applications and databases, data
modeling, process modeling and project management. |
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Designed a real-time, transaction based communications
system for U.S. based healthcare provider utilizing a network of over 100
AS/400 computer systems. |
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Design/development of insurance application to process
application forms using SQLWindows development environment. System used a
Synon generated database on an AS/400. |
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Design/Development of a client-server engineering drawing
management and release system using SQLWindows. The application connects to
multiple databases on different platforms as required to facilitate specific
business processes, including interfaces to MAPICS. |
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Certified to train in the use of all Silverrun CASE tool
modules as well as data and process modeling. Conducted training sessions for
a variety of public and private sector clients including government agencies,
multinational consulting firms, large manufacturing and distribution companies
and an Ivy League west coast University. |
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Project manager/lead architect for modeling, design and
development of a comprehensive fleet maintenance template/package targeted
toward public transit and fleet organizations. The design included
maintenance scheduling, inventory management, parts tracking, traceability,
utilization tracking and full work order support for materials and labor. |
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Designed and developed a reverse engineering tool and
methodology to recover Synon models into Silverrun graphical process and data
models. |
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Project leader for design and development of a
comprehensive customer order management application for a major software
development company. This application is part of an integrated
manufacturing/distribution solution (MAPICS). Included underlying system
architecture and establishment of standards to be used for future
development. The package had an install base of approximately 15,000
customers worldwide. |
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Designed a unionized payroll application for a large
engineering and maintenance firm. |
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Project Manager responsible for the design and
development of a complete material management, inventory, and purchasing
system for a consortium of 30 hospitals. |
Skill Area Summary
Management
Strategic Planning, Operations Management , Budgeting, Administration,
Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Mentoring, Coaching. System Development
Methodology, UML, Business Modeling, Data Modeling, Process Modeling, Project
Management, Object Oriented design/development, Technical Architecture,
Computer Assisted Software Engineering, Client-Server, Structured Analysis and
Design, Relational Database, JAD, Configuration Management, Implementation,
Training. Modeling Tools
ERwin, Silverrun, Rational, LANSA, Visio for Enterprise Architects (.NET),
SELECT Enterprise, System Architect, ADW (Knowledgeware), Engage, EasyCase Hardware
iSeries (AS/400), S/36, Intel
Workstations/PC, NT Servers, Palm, IPAQ Operating Systems
OS/400, Windows (XP, 2000, NT,
98, 95), OS/2, AIX, DOS, PocketPC, Palm OS
Databases
iSeries DB2, DB2 UDB, Oracle,
SQL Server, SQLBase, Access, dbase, Foxpro, Paradox , Btrieve
Development Tools
Websphere, Eclipse, .NET, Centura Team
Developer, SQLWindows, Advantage(Synon,
Cool), LANSA, Access, Frontpage, Microsoft
Office, CL, Cobol, Crystal Reports, RPG, Newlook, VisualAge,
Turnover, dBase Software Packages
MAPICS, JD Edwards, Lawson, Discovery, PVCS Tracker, Visual Manufacturing,
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Project Workbench, Act, Maximizer, Janna,
ACCPAC, Quickbooks Industries
Retail, Health Care,
Manufacturing, Distribution, Insurance, Transportation, Aviation, Services, Job Shop, Rental,
Agriculture, Public Sector
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