RICHARD J. WESTCOTT, III
215 Roxbury Road, 2FL
New Britain, CT  06053-3124
Home: (860) 224-8477 Cell: (860) 978-3991
E-mail:  rjwiii@99main.com

SUMMARY

Computer professional with 12 years experience in the direct mail and printing industry.  Developed and maintained data merges for direct mailing companies.  Strong experience in writing multi-step programs to process data for merging.  Demonstrated success in solving complex data merge set-up challenges.  Proficient with development tools (such as Visual Basic, Delphi and others) that ensures efficient direct mail data processing.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Developed and maintained a complex EZ-Letter data merge system for a nation wide automotive service reminder program involving over 50 different letter texts, 750+ coupon setups and 4000+ dealership logos.  Resulted in moving the clients program from an unprofitable position to a significant profit level.
Developed and maintained software systems for processing data in IBM 370 assembler and data and merges in the EZ-Letter macro language for magazine gift renewals and premiums.
Developed exit routines (plug-ins) in IBM 370 assembler for the EZ-Letter macro language for custom reporting and random number generation, saving the data center print job setup time.
Solved a problem of postal barcodes being too long to fit in short envelope windows and not passing postal specifications by editing a line mode font file and creating a barcode font that fit the Postal minimum with requirements exactly, reducing rejection rate of bar-coded mail by the Post Office.
Developed and maintained a Microsoft Word data merge to follow up on auto e-mail service reminder program customers whose e-mail address came back as invalid.
Developed and maintained a CGI Perl script to aid management in tracking and distilling employee monthly highlights.  Saved management administrative time when compiling monthly achievement reports.
Developed and maintained a Delphi application to read raw Scitex font files and display the characters in a GUI application, thus saving the font developers from having to use an old DOS application.
Successfully resolved advanced level technical software problems for Scitex clients.
Worked at the Computer Department's help desk while a student at Albright College.
Volunteered to teach grade school students basic computer skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE

DATA-MAIL, INC., Newington, Connecticut	2002 - 2003
Senior Production Programmer

SCITEX DIGITAL PRINTING, INC., Dayton, Ohio	2000 - 2001
Software Support Engineer

HARTE-HANKS DIRECT MARKETING, Cincinnati, Ohio	1993 - 2000
Laser Programmer

JETSON DIRECT MAIL, Hanburg, Pennsylvania	1990 - 1993
Data Prep Programmer


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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
Coursework in Pre-Computer Science, Penn State, Berks County Campus, Reading, Pennsylvania

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware:

PCs (Intel)
HP 9000
DEC VAX
IBM 370/390 Mainframe
Oce' 2140 2240 & PS371 (pin fed & pinless) printers
HP LaserJet printers

Software:

EZ-Letter
Microsoft Word
Visual Basic
VBA
Elixir Print Driver
Photo Finish
Star Office
Extra!
Scitex Composer
Scitex Dijit
Scitex MPC4/Prep
Quark Express
Lotus Group Wise
Group1 Liat Convert
Group1 GenSel
Group1 MailStream

Operating Systems:

Windows 9x/NT/2000
VM
VSE/ESA
HP UX
Solaris
OS/2
Linux
FreeBSD
BeOS
DOS
VAX
SCO

Languages:

EZ-Letter (macro)
Visual Basic/VBA
Delphi
Pascal
Modula 2
BASIC
PC Assembler
IBM 370 Assembler
Perl
HTML
QuickJob (COBOL subset batch language)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/INTERESTS

Former member and Board Member of the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group
Hand built two PCs I currently use including a duel processor machine
Successfully visited three Degree Confluences (www.confluence.org) and attempted a forth