Barry E. Abrahamsen
7548 Ravenna Avenue Northeast
Seattle, Washington 98115-4662
(206) 524-4731
Email: barry@abrahamsen.com
Summary of Qualifications
- Experienced with PC-based software development project management software, project budgeting, project communications, cost/benefit analyses, business systems
analysis, technical and business requirements definition, production of professional documentation, release management and software testing.
- Managed software and hardware acquisition, installation and conversion projects on PCs, mini and mainframe computers. Produced requests for proposals, evaluated
proposals, negotiated contracts, documented and implemented systems.
- Designed and developed telecommunications billing software, interactive voice recognition systems and LAN-based business processing for small businesses.
- Designed, developed and marketed internationally a minicomputer-based message control system for screen formatting, data collection, message routing and network
management.
- Designed and taught internal and external data processing classes at all levels of sophistication for PC, mini and mainframe software and hardware.
- Designed and wrote several published manuals, design specifications, computer-based instruction classes and promotional brochures. Directed the production
of two video training films.
- Managed the technical support for all mainframes in western Washington and Alaska for a computer vendor.
- Ten year’s experience with MS Project, fifteen year’s experience with MS Office.
Computers
- IBM: mainframes and personal computers.
- Unisys A Series mainframes, U6000 Unix-based minicomputers..
- Miscellaneous: AT&T Unix System V, VAX VMS, Macintosh OS, Microsoft
Windows 95 & NT, Novell Netware 4.x, AppleTalk, LINUX and BSD UNIX.
Computer Languages
- COBOL, C, HTML, Object Pascal, SQL, Unisys LINC (a 4GL).
Employment
- Project Manager, COMSYS (formerly Cotelligent.) Upgrade project for a
cellular telephone billing system. I assembled all the necessary hardware
and software for a test environment. University of Washington: software
upgrades. Y2K hardware and software upgrade project for a telephone banking
system. I participated
in
the Y2K
unit and
system testing for the new
hardware and software. Y2K hardware and software survey and documentation,
software acquisition for the Legal Department at the Port of Seattle. Y2K
Contingency Planning Team member, City of Seattle. I critiqued plans for
hardware, software, vendors and manual processes. Project manager for E.E.O.
contract compliance system
and consultant to engineering document management system acquisition for
the Port of Seattle. December, 1997 to present.
- Project Manager, TAD Technical Services then Project Coordinator, King County Department of Transportation. I managed three projects at Seattle Metro Transit;
a $3M project to replace all the hardware and software systems used by Transit in their daily operations, a project to replace the hardware and software used
to create employee IDs, bus passes and other photo IDs and a project to acquire and install a point-of-sale system. January, 1994 to July, 1997. (MS Project,
MS Excel, MS Access, Oracle 7.x, ODBC, Windows NT & 95, P.O.S., access control, employee management)
- Contract programmer, Western Data Corporation. I wrote VAX C, COBOL and IBI FOCUS programs for a new hospital Decision Support system and HL/7 data transfers.
I developed several interactive voice applications for Boeing, the Portland School District and a local insurance company. April, 1993 to September, 1993.
- Manager, Data Processing, MetroNet Services. I, and two programmers, developed and supported all the computer hardware and software for several small, related
companies (Object Pascal, C, VOS, Dbase, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Windows 3.1, Adobe PageMaker, SCO UNIX, TAS). We developed billing programs to process MCI,
AT&T and Sprint long distance charges, standard business applications and an advanced voice mail system. August, 1990 to April, 1993.
- Senior Systems Specialist, Unisys, first in New Zealand and then in Bellevue. I managed large customer projects, provided technical consulting, taught classes
and developed hardware and software capacity plans. I worked on a two-year project to automate the provisioning of the 5ESS switch in Bellingham, Washington and
an interactive voice application that would let customers turn service on and off themselves.(COBOL, LINK, report writing software). From September, 1986 to August,
1990 (with a hiatus during my return to the U.S.).
- Project Manager, Airborne Express. I worked on a national data collection network which will consist of about 2,000 PCs transferring data to 150 store-and-forward
minicomputers and then to a large IBM mainframe. I designed the system and did the hardware acquisition. The work involved producing a proposal, a detailed cost/benefit
analysis, a substantial amount of documentation and a training video tape. (Pascal, COBOL, Easytrieve, Super Project, MS Excel). From Jan., 1985 to Sept., 1986.
- Self-employed doing consulting, systems analysis, programming, computer-based course ware development, teaching and technical writing from April, 1982 to January,
1985. (C, Lotus 1-2-3, Adobe PageMaker).
- Project Manager, Hospitals' Management Information Systems, University of Washington. I worked on batch financial management systems and on-line, database
systems. From September, 1980 to April, 1982.
- Employed progressively as Programmer Analyst, Project Manager and Area Systems Manager for the Burroughs Corporation in Norway, England and Seattle. I developed
commercial applications and their accompanying documentation and taught training classes internationally and in the United States. I managed groups of two to
twelve people in marketing support, system conversion and installation projects. From July, 1974 to September, 1980.
- Teacher of English as a second language; Cicignon Ungdomsskole Fredrikstad, Norway. I taught English to children in grades seven through ten and American literature
to adults. From August, 1972 to July, 1973.
Education
- Graduated from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa in 1970. I received a B.A. in English with minors in mathematics and philosophy.
- Attended Washington State University, Pullman, Washington for graduate work in English literature 1970 to 1972. I held a research assistantship in linguistics
the first year and a teaching assistants hip the second.
- Attended training classes in project management, time management, negotiating, various applications, programming languages and project scheduling software.
Miscellaneous