2007 - 2008 Option Trader (overwrite calls on Alternative Energy Stocks)
2005 - 2006 Active speculator, Alternative Energy stocks
2004 - 2006 Full time pro bono caregiver
2002 - 2005 Active speculator, private placement market

1999-2007 HowardPowers.com
Developed personal web site with the combined purpose of promoting and supporting professional services, exploring the technical aspects of the world wide web and gaining an understanding of the viable commercial uses of the internet.

2000 Wyndham International, Dallas, TX
Developed and executed the methodology for wellformedness validation for SAP 4.6a FI-CO legacy data loads. Responsible for loading over 2,500 conversion data files containing GL actuals, stats, budget and budget stats data for over 400 defined decentralized, centralized and corporate company codes. This ASAP data conversion effort consumed 1,317 billable hours over a four month period. (Contract)

1999 Sabre, Vancouver, BC (Canada) Telecommute from Irving, Texas
Full technical responsibility for developing and executing the methodology to bring Canadian Air materials management (MEP-DDP) into Y2K compliance. The effort included full system regeneration. (IMS/DB2, Composer by IEF 5.31, Cool Gen 4.1a (aka AdvantageGen, CoolGen, AllFusionGen)) (Contract)

1996-1998 Mobil Oil, Dallas, Texas
Coordinated legacy mainframe materials management data transfers into SAP. Developed contingency routines to convert legacy mainframe invoice data into SAP-IDOC format. Responsible for maintenance on an EDI Invoice Processing System (PIP). The system contained IEF (5.2) batch and block mode online components in an IBM mainframe (MVS-DB2) environment. Backup support on other payables and procurement systems (MVS-COBOL, CMS-Focus) (Contract)

1993-1994 and 1995-1996 University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
Graduate Level MIS, Finance, Accounting, Management and International Management Courses.

1994 Norwest Mortgage Inc., Des Moines, Iowa
Utilized IEF-BAA tool set to develop a logical process model of secondary marketing mortgage banking product and pricing activities. The system included retail, wholesale and correspondent banking activities in a client server/ mainframe environment. (Contract)

1991-1993 International Aviation and Travel Academy, Arlington, Texas
Occasional technical support and maintenance activities on invoicing and accounts receivable aging. (DBA Powers-Herrington)

1989-1990 International Aviation and Travel Academy, Arlington, Texas
Documented, redesigned and coded a sales commission reporting system. Restored company credibility after two changes in contract staff. The job resulted in additional client assignments. (Contract)

1989 Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Glen Rose, Texas
Reviewed MIS standards, procedures and software quality assurance. Drafted new standards manual. Utilized CASE tools for comparative life cycle and methodology studies. (Contract)

1988 United Texas Transmission Company, Houston, Texas
Enhanced and/or rewrote and documented mainframe gas purchase, cost of gas, gas sales, transportation revenue and expense, and margin analysis models. Provided troubleshooting support for consolidated finance software. (DBA Howard Powers)

1986-1987 Centerior Corporation, Oak Harbor, Independence, Toledo, Ohio
Developed a cost control and budgeting system for a nuclear power plant. Designed inputs for the system including data entry screens GL and EIS interfaces. Developed system test plan and script. Assumed lead analyst and key user interface responsibilities for the coding and enhancement phase of the project. Coordinated programming departments in a multi-company, multi-city, politically charged environment. The effort required dealing with three levels of programmer management representing over thirty programmers in two different cities. Represented the plant in the corporate development of a contractor and employee time entry system. Developed project plan, schedule, specifications and test plan for the plant's requirements. Coordinated data transfers, sister company and vendor-provided support. Directed testing, training, documentation and presentation efforts. (Contract)

1981-1986 Planmetrics, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Responsible for mainframe full development life cycle on numerous corporate planning, strategic planning, capital budgeting and process modeling decision support systems for the electric and gas utility industry. Tasks on a typical four-to-nine-month project included supervision and training of MBA level management consultants or client personnel, requirements analysis and specification, logical and physical design of data and programs, user and technical documentation, coding, and unit, system and acceptance testing. Each project required rapid development of professional level skills in new hardware/software environments, development of very high quality maintainable code and the ability to effectively interface with clients from the executive offices to programming departments.

1978-1980 University of Houston - Department of Economics, Houston, Texas
Conducted ten courses in the principles of economics at the sophomore level. My students consistently outscored those of other teaching fellows and professors in the departmental final.

1978-1980  University of Houston - Department of Economics, Houston, Texas
Full time student focusing on micro-, macro- economic theory, international economics and econometrics.

1973-1978 Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas
Supply chain management and production forecasting; raw material, semi-finished and finished product inventory control, scheduling and expediting product manufacture, inside sales and costing.

1967-1969 U.S. Army, Worms, Germany
Secure Teletype Communications

Graduated Commodity Education Institute brokerage course, 1983 and 1985
Series 3 Commodity Brokerage License, 1983 - 1985
Active speculator in currency futures market, 1983 - 1985

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