Thomas Pate

Past

• consultant at Kforce Technology Staffing
• EDI Consultant at ADP
• EDI Consultant at ConAgra Foods

• EDI Consultant at Schneider National
• EDI Consultant at Schneider National
• EDI Consultant at Wordwide Retail Exchange
• EDI Consultant at GE Global Exchange Services
• EDI Consultant at ConAgra Foods
• EDI Consultant at Harcourt
• Technical Specialist at Walt Disney Company
• EDI Consultant at Department of Energy
• Software Consultant at AT&T
• EDI Consultant at Martin Marietta Information Systems
• IMS DB/DC software consultant at Cincinnati Bell
• Principal Computer System Designer at Martin Marietta Information Systems

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Education

• University of Arizona

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Thomas Pate’s Summary

A highly motivated Senior Consultant with many years of business and technical experience in various industries. Experiences have encompassed many aspects of the enterprise. Have led many software development projects managing all facets of the software development life-cycle. Specific areas of expertise include, Ecommerce, Transportation, Logistics, Material Handling, Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, eProcurement and Financial EDI.

Thomas Pate’s Experience

• consultant

  Kforce Technology Staffing

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; KFRC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• EDI Consultant

  ADP

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADP; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2008 — June 2008 (1 month)

  Upgraded Gentran MVS 6.0 to Gentran MVS 6.4. Modified all JCL for 6.4. Tested 6.4 environment with production in parallel.

• EDI Consultant

  ConAgra Foods

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAG; Food Production industry)

  August 2002 — May 2008 (5 years 10 months)

  Migrated mainframe Gentran 6.x to Gentran Integration Suite. Developed all mainframe interface software (Cobol II / REXX) processes (Connect:Direct) to Unix environment. Developed all mapping and processes within GIS to mainframe legacy systems. Partner setup and specialized BPs.
  
  Managed and completed an enterprise-wide VAN migration from Kleinschmidt to Sterling Commerce.
  
  Used XML Spy to develop Advance Ship Notice schema to build corporate ASN process.

• EDI Consultant

  Schneider National

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)

  Developed Cobol II source code (CICS) to support interfaces from mainframe Gentran 6.x to legacy enterprise-wide applications. Developed new X12 and EDIFACT maps to support business requirements.

• EDI Consultant

  Schneider National

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  August 2001 — October 2001 (3 months)

  Hired to analyze and document the Electronic Commerce infrastructure of a recent acquisition. Designed a common interface protocol to interface the acquired system to the corporate EDI gateway. Presented results to executive management.

• EDI Consultant

  Wordwide Retail Exchange

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)

  Gathered business requirements and wrote technical specifications for eProcurement and Supply Chain Visibility initiatives. Used Specbuilder to document both X12 and EDIFACT transaction sets. Used XML SPY to develop schema definitions for XML interfaces.

• EDI Consultant

  GE Global Exchange Services

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1999 — February 2001 (2 years 1 month)

  Developed X12 Pre-Order transaction set specifications for documents processing through the Telco clearinghouse, ExchangeLink. Performed gap analysis duties for customer requirements.

• EDI Consultant

  ConAgra Foods

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAG; Food Production industry)

  July 1998 — February 1999 (8 months)

  Hired to organize and support the EDI Coordinator function for the Frozen Foods division, by establishing procedures and developing guidelines for new trading partner implementation. Analyzed business requirements and wrote business and technical specifications for interfaces to Manugistics for transportation transaction sets.

• EDI Consultant

  Harcourt

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  Developed Cobol II IMS DB/DC software to support the interface of EDI to legacy systems. Developed interface protocol between the NT EDI environment and the mainframe legacy systems. Worked with internal audit to endorse interface protocol design and implementation.

• Technical Specialist

  Walt Disney Company

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Entertainment industry)

  July 1993 — June 1997 (4 years)

  Served as the primary architect to design and develop the technical EDI solution for the corporation as well as the architect for how the EDI program would interact with the technical and business components of the enterprise.
  
  Grew the EDI program from 0 to 100 + trading partners across many business units within the organization.

• EDI Consultant

  Department of Energy

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

  July 1991 — October 1993 (2 years 4 months)

  Hired to develop an EDI prototype for the transportation / logistics unit of the Department of Energy. The proof of concept solution was PC based and processed via EDI, 98% of the freight volume for the prototype site, Westinghouse Hanford Company.

• Software Consultant

  AT&T

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

  October 1992 — July 1993 (10 months)

  Coded various DB2 programs in Cobol II to support several payroll initiatives, such as; database conversion, salary adjustments and other miscelleneous table updates.

• EDI Consultant

  Martin Marietta Information Systems

  (Information Services industry)

  December 1991 — October 1992 (11 months)

  Hired to enhance the EDI transportation application. Coded in an IMS DB/DC DB2 Cobol II environment. Re-created the system environment is Microfocus Cobol to allow all development to be done without the mainframe.

• IMS DB/DC software consultant

  Cincinnati Bell

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1990 — December 1991 (1 year 7 months)

  Hired as a IMS DB/DC Cobol II software developer for a telephony back office application. Responsibility for analyzing business and system requirements and writing specification documents for several modules. Assisted in a pilot project to utilize Microfocus Cobol to reduce dependency on the mainframe.

• Principal Computer System Designer

  Martin Marietta Information Systems

  (Information Services industry)

  November 1980 — June 1990 (9 years 8 months)

  Provided technical leadership for many IMS DB/DC mid to large-scale development projects within the logistics operation of the company. Responsible for the entire development life cycle from gathering requirements to writing business and technical specifications. Responsible for the coding, testing and implementation of all projects.

Thomas Pate’s Education

• University of Arizona

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