Ken A Collins, LLC

Advising, then making your Information Technology visions a reality

Documentation & User Training...
Many times IT professionals have jobs only because bosses are afraid to fire them -- no one else knows the system.  You won't be left in the dark when you hire me.  I can produce documentation that explains how everything works.  I will sit down with your staff and train them to take over day-to-day operations.  Below are some of my accomplishments in the areas of documentation and user training.

  • Authored 14,235 lines of well-commented code + 100 pages of step-by-step documentation covering all aspects of responsibility, enabling staff to become self-sufficient.  [IMP]

  • Simplified complex jargon when communicating with non-technical marketing personnel and senior management.  [All]

  • Assembled website support team, taught programmers how to code in Net.Data CGI language.  [Infocrossing]

  • Trained Marketing dept to update online product catalog, maintaining pricing and offerings of e-commerce cookbook website described in  "IT Architect" section.  [IMP]

  • Directed 46 IBM S/390 customers through process of configuring their own OS/390 UNIX web servers (IBM HTTP Server) with e-business connectors (templates, Net.Data) to access host data (CICS, DB2) via a web browser.  [3 day lab training we developed at IBM]

  • As self-appointed usability crusader, coded PC-to-mainframe productivity enhancement tools benefiting 500 person third line organization.  Received Peer Award, June 1996.  [IBM]

  • Documented a simple procedure for code rollup, rebasing, and reversioning, which expanded role of non-technical librarian and freed developers to focus on programming, not packaging.  [IBM]

IBM = International Business Machines Corporation based in Armonk, NY; 1989-2000
IMP = International Masters Publishers, Inc. based in New York, NY; 2000-2002
Infocrossing = Infocrossing, Inc. based in Leonia, NJ;
6 month contract in 2000

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