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Resume addendum: Other Mobil Systems

DUREC - Mobil's check balancing system, which reconciled up to $4 billion in Mobil checks per month.

MOSS - Mobil office supply purchasing and invoice pre-approval system, which issued purchase orders for office supplies and checked the resulting invoices and credits for accuracy.

MMP - Mobil's Multimedia marketing system, which analyzed, processed and allowed user initiation of marketing invoices.

1099 - Mobil's one time use system to correct 1099 payments at the request of a particular State's attorney general.

Specific responsibilities included:

1. (DUREC) Emergency support on this (old) system when (on two occasions) the system stopped balancing Mobil's primary payment account after working with out incident for many years with the same users. When the project was given to me, no one knew anything about the system (i.e. file names, programming language, processing logic, etc.) The problem was traced to data entry on both occasions.
2. (MOSS) Emergency support on this (discontinued system) when the system was shut down and it was discovered that a thousand invoices and credits had never processed through the system. I incrementally modified the batch system to process groups of invoices and credits in a non production mode in order to obtain general ledger data and make recommendations on which invoices could be paid. In addition, I discovered that the system had incorrectly calculated payments for over two years due to a flaw in the tax logic and I developed an algorithm to calculate underpayment amounts from the incorrect payment and the sales tax rate for that payment jurisdiction.
3. (MMP) Special Project support to correct the batch side of this system when it was unable to process invoice addendum data. The problem was traced to a single line of code and the system worked fine after that line was modified.
4. (MMP) Special Project support to correct the on-line side of the system after the normal maintenance person had spent two weeks (part time) trying to trace the problem and an analyst had spent three weeks (part time) trying to trace the problem. The data problem was traced to an upstream system coding change.
5. (1099) Special Project support to correct 1099 reported data. The effort required coding of a new COBOL program and associated JCL to sort, retrieve, modify and write previously reported 1099 data.

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07/14/98 Howard Powers

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