James Chapman

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About James Chapman

Software engineer with a proven track record of maintaining, designing, and producing solutions for Windows and OpenVMS. Technical expertise and excellent interpersonal skills produce leadership combination that has resulted in the successful implementation of innovative solutions in a wide range of challenging environments. I have nearly 40 years of experience in application development. I have worked primarily in the automotive and chemical industries. My work experiences have provided me with the opportunity to function at various positions in the project lifecycle. I have worked as the Plant Floor Systems Technology Architect where I was responsible for the architectural soundness of manufacturing systems throughout their development lifecycle, and provided support to the architects responsible for deployment and operational support. While working for a major automobile manufacturer as a product creation application engineer I was responsible for portions of applications across the systems lifecycle, from business requirements through development to implementation and support. As a Technical Consultant I provided technical consulting, led requirement definition and problem solving efforts with the business partners and vendors. I provided knowledge in product development methodology, business consultation on applications, and implementation support. Specialties: Applications: Manufacturing Monitoring System: Activplant, Cimplicity, BASEStar, BaseWay Networking Basics: TCP/IP, DECNET, NetBEUI, Named Pipes, Sockets, Samba/CIFS, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). OPC Languages: VAX Cobol, VAX Basic, Visual Basic, VAX C, Visual C++, C, C#(.NET), FORTRAN, SQL, PLI, VAX Assembler, VAX Basic, PDP Assembler, PowerHouse Database: MS SQL, Server, Oracle (Pro*C), ACCESS, RDB, RMS, DATATRIEVE(DTR) Operating Systems: OpenVMS, Windows (All), Linux and Unix