Resume of: James C. Provensal
OBJECTIVE | CURRENT EMPLOYMENT | TEACHING | EMPLOYMENT HISTORY | EDUCATION | MILITARY | CONTACT

[IMAGE]                           Resume of: James C. Provensal

                      Germantown, TN 38138   901-756-1984

       

                                        

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OBJECTIVE: Creating and implementing Innovative Information Services, System Design & Programming contracts with companies interested in entering the 21st century using “State-of-the-Art” methods in effective and cost efficient enterprise-wide management.
 

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:

January 1992 to Present - Owner of Innovative Systems Management, a  corporate systems design & programming service with customers through out the United States, using Microsoft Office Professional™ products placing emphasis on:

Company-wide productivity in handling information
Providing management with crucial information
1. Timely
2. With greater accuracy
3. With cost containment in mind

Company-wide training in MSOffice Pro Products                        
Providing employees with
1. Productivity skills
2. Major time-saving steps
3. Data acquisition techniques
4. Communication through enhanced reporting techniques

Currently working with:
· MSDos
· Windows98, Windows 2000, Windows XP (ver 5.1 sp3)
· MAC System 4 thru 9.x   (I have used System X)


Major applications have been designed using:

IN ADDITION:

From July 2001 to Present - Adjunct faculty member at the University of Memphis, Continuing Education Department, teaching Advanced Microsoft Access.
 

From July 1994 to Present - Adjunct faculty member in several divisions of the State Technical Institute of Memphis (effective July 1, 2000  Southwest Tennessee Community College) teaching Microsoft Office for Windows™ including Microsoft Access™.

 

From July 1994 thru December 1994 assisted in the development of the Microsoft Access™ course in the Information Technologies Department now in place at  Southwest Tennessee Community College and have taught various workshops for private industry and the STCC Computer Resource Center.

November 1998 completed a course in Character Programming in PROGRESS at the Progress Education Center in Bedford, Mass.

January 1999 developed a course in Character Programming in PROGRESS for State Technical Institute of Memphis in partnership with the Progress Software Company.

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

July 1986 to January 1992 - Chief Financial Officer of B'Nai B'Rith Home (now Memphis Jewish Home) in Memphis, Tennessee; a 159 bed skilled & intermediate care nursing facility certified for Medicare & Medicaid. Responsible for all financial functions of the home including all Medicare/Medicaid Skilled Nursing cost reports and Medicaid Intermediate Care cost reports and all data processing functions.

At B'Nai B'Rith, designed and implemented a 30 node (workstation) network system, using MS DOS and Novell Netware 3.11, in order to improve internal communications and process increased paperwork, without increasing staff. The system includes all accounting, billing, pharmacy and dietary functions, word processing, spreadsheets, database, desktop publishing and E mail.

March 1983 to July 1986 - Vice President / Fiscal Management at United Hospital Corp. in Memphis, Tennessee, a proprietary hospital management company. During this time, worked with programmers from the wholly owned data processing subsidiary of United in developing the company owned central data processing system used by the home office and all affiliated hospitals.

July 1979 to March 1983 - Regional Controller at United Hospital Corp., designed and implemented the standardized general accounting system for all United affiliates; responsible for all third party reimbursement; coordinating hospital audits (managed & owned) and the financial marketing surveys for possible acquisitions and new management contracts.

1977 to July 1979 - Controller of Smith County Memorial Hospital in Carthage, Tennessee; a 66 bed proprietary hospital owned and operated by Hospital Corporation of America. Responsible for all fiscal functions of the hospital.

1971 to 1977 - Director of Fiscal Services at the Brattleboro Retreat in Brattleboro, Vermont; a long term care psychiatric hospital and nursing home. Responsible for all business office functions, budget, general accounting, third party reimbursement, coordinating all audits and other financial functions. In 1976 converted the accounting system from manual to computer, using an IBM System 32 and RPGII. Attended RPGII Programming classes in Coral Gables, Fla.

 

EDUCATION:

MBA - American International College; Springfield, MA, May 1976
BA - Franklin Pierce University; Rindge, NH, June 1971

High School  -  Bennington Catholic High School; Bennington, VT, Class of 1967

 
   
  1st computer application (an accounts receivable program)
written in the original BASIC in March 1971
at Franklin Pierce College using a tele-terminal connected
to the Kiewit Computation Center at Dartmouth College.
(a large amount of RAM was available to students - 64kb)


MILITARY:  -  114th Public Affairs Detachment of the New Hampshire Army National Guard

                        Manchester, New Hampshire  1971 thru 1977

                 

                            118th Public Affairs Detachment of the Tennessee Army National Guard

                        Nashville, Tennessee  1977 thru 1978

 

                              Military Occupation Specialties  (MOS) in both of the above:

                                 71R20 Senior Broadcast Specialist

                                 71Q20 Information Journalist Specialist

                                 84B20 Still Photographer

 

                              Completed the Army National Guard Recruiter Training Course and

                              received the designation of Recruiter, Army National Guard in NH.

 

 

Strengths are in:
Corporate information systems design
Programming with Microsoft Office™
Staff Education
General accounting, Budgeting and Proformas
 

 

for more information - write to:     James C. Provensal 
                                                        Innovative Systems Management
                                                        7252 Great Oaks Road
                                                        Germantown, TN 38138       

                                                    

 

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