Provided telephone and online computer support to other SSM Health Care employees for both hardware and software. Provided programming support for MS Access databases to other departments including Rehabilitation and Work Health.

Designed, implemented and maintained support systems for the Missouri Hospital Association including the contact databases, legislative bill tracking, accounting, hospital employee background checks, and other systems using Universe, Pick Basic, Pixie Web, Microsoft SQL, Access and Microsoft Visual Basic. Responsible for the design and development of programs to collect, edit and report hospital discharge data from all Vermont hospitals and provide those reports to the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. Responsible for the collection of the data, correction of errors and preparing reports.

Employed as a contract programmer for Trans World Airlines (TWA), 1995-1996. Responsible for the redesign and implementation of a system to calculate travel agency commission statements using COBOL and IMS. Employed as a contract programmer for Sprint (1996-1997). Performed maintenance at the corporate level for local telephone billing using COBOL and IMS.

Responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of a temporary system to print combined mutual fund statements for share-owners using COBOL, VSAM, JCL and DB2. The programs were designed to allow multiple mutual fund companies to use the same programs to generate statements. Assisted with the conversion of the temporary programs into the more permanent Multimedia Information Management System (MIMS), a system which built statement programs from code stored in DB2 tables.

Specializing in adapting clothing for the physically challenged, I also do repairs and alterations, home decor and sewing patches onto uniforms. http://www.sewpaula.com

Serving as database administrator for McKesson HBOC SQL reports for the St. Louis area. Primary responsibility is to develop and maintain SQL reports to be distributed throughout St. Louis network of SSM hospitals. Develop and maintain Clarity reports for Clinical Applications from the Epic EHR system.