JAMES R. DAVIS
10811 Greenwillow, No. 24
Houston, Texas 77035
(713) 729-3395
[email protected]

SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
30+ years IT/business experience in hardware and software. Strong skills in quality assurance, training and public speaking. Designed and taught classes on internals and externals for PL/1, COBOL, JCL, FORTRAN, Assembler, Basic and ALGOL languages. Designed and taught classes for Field Engineers and Technical Specialists in the use of software to diagnose and repair hardware systems, including mainframes and PCs. Designed and built business models for the banking and securities industries used to identify and analyze potential strategic and tactical problems (compliance exposures, subtle trends, proforma insufficiencies and workflow inconsistencies). Managed a one-year beta test of a major banking product located in the five largest U.S. markets. At IBM served as Field Engineer, Technical Specialist, Field Engineering Manager, Course Author and Instructor, Diagnostic Programmer (TSS/67 and MVS), Salesman, Staff Services Manager, Financial Industry Strategist and Industry Product Support Manager.

1996-98 PROJECTS
Designed, sold and installed original interactive business software for clients in New York and Texas; developed static and interactive Web sites; designed and installed Windows 95 and Internet interfaces for HAM radio equipment; analyzed Novell LAN upgrade requirements for a major law firm; converted client systems from MS-DOS to Windows 95 and Windows NT applications; recommended, purchased, and installed system upgrades (firewalls, WINS, DNS, Access, HTML, Lotus Notes and MS Exchange); Project Manager - mainframe hardware/software inventory; Project Manager - Year 2000 (client/server) at major finance company; Project Manager - Year 2000 (embedded systems) at Major Oil company.

HARDWARE EXPERTISE
Unit Record, Printers, Tape and Disk Systems, Mainframe Systems (14xx, 360, 370, and 390), Personal Computers (Workstations and Servers), Modems, Network Interface Cards

SOFTWARE EXPERTISE
Windows 95, Access, Foxpro, 1-2-3, Excel, Word, MS Project, Lotus Notes, MS Exchange, Ventura Publisher, Adobe Illustrator and Windows NT (in process)

SUMMARY OF CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
SIG, Inc. (1997-present)

Project Manager - Five month hardware/software inventory effort including all mainframe and network components for international OIl company. Project Manager - Year 2000 client/server effort for major finance/insurance company, Year 2000 embedded systems, process control at major oil company.

The Master Strategy Group (1989-1997)

IT/financial/legal consulting. Designed, installed, published and trained users of specialized commercial software for the printing industry; designed and installed software for consumer credit litigation support; served as expert witness in federal and state court cases; designed, installed, published and trained users of communications software for BBS support; designed and installed management tools for marketing organizations; analyzed data, made presentations and consulted on business acquisitions; beta-tested PC systems for North Star Computers, mass storage devices for Century Data, graphic systems for Adobe, and Operating Systems for North Star Computers and Microsoft.

Treasury Advisory Services Group (1985-1989)

Institutional portfolio management and analytical services for banks. Designed and implemented computer models needed to track, analyze and recommend U.S. Treasury bond portfolio transactions.

MicroMethods, Inc. (1981-1984)

Development and support of business and education administration systems in LAN environments.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Marketing of securities in public and private offerings. (1978-1981)

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