JOHN COSMAS
Program Manager
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Here is a list of projects, initiatives and customers
who have been satisfied with work efforts and solutions
developed over the years. Projects range from business development, application development, solutions design,
architecture, business process engineering, testing, methodology development, quality assurance, test automation, load testing,
web design and change management.
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After having heard about my work at Uline and HanesBrands, I was invited to build a business intelligent client-server based SQL solution at M&T Bank to support their
Business Banking operations involving the buyouts of commercial and retail loans as the bank mergers and aquires smaller operations in the NY region.
The solution offered the bank the ability to import ad-hoc and timely feeds using native SSIS services, and access to a host of
pivot reports, and users to highly functional dashboards. Underlying business rules evaluate new or emerging account loans to enable
officers to process and tend to growing consumer inquiries, therefore, lowering incidents and increasing repayments on schedule.
Uline provided me with the greatest oppurtunity to deliver a cohesive set of database frameworks, architectural solutions, documentation, and
a collection of intelligent business applications that improved their existing data access and reporting capabilities. Plagued with continuious bottleneck and
performance problems over time due to high demands on shared database requests, underlying practices and database designs were modified to alleviate the
number of commonly shared access objects that were requested simultaneously by data users. Some of their existing applications were also modified to adopt
true client-server models to overcome locking, overwriting and oversized archives. Cumbersome code, disorganized stored procedures and repetitive procedures
were updated to provide the best performance solution and overcome old design constraints.
St. Bernard Preparatory School
Full House Restaurant Marketing Full House Restaurant Marketing is a one-stop marketing solution for restaurants whose target market is focused neighborhoods and integrated communities. The last few months has seen a rise in an effort to drive business in known market segments and neighborhoods who demographics are in alignment with cuisines, specialties and ethnicity, which gave rise to a focused model that is both affordable and has a high rate of success. Full House Marketing offers a successful, low risk campaign based solution to help neighborhood or mall based restaurants to reach out to its consumers. I have offered them a web service based application with full affiliate based support and field agent CRM functionality. Their site is available at http://www.fullhouserestaurantmarketing.com
Shelby County Treatment Center A local clinic using an established case management system
needed critical assistance with their business processes and
applications. We successfully extended their hierarchical
MS Access application into a DESKTOP/OUTLOOK model using VB.NET which now
features a long awaited payment collection, treatment charging
and scheduling system with embedded automation features.
A business diversification initiative was
created by commission of the president of the
company with the sole purpose to extend current
assets to enable new lines of business and
opportunities resulted in the creation of Lawler
Logistics. In addition to a series of
marketing campaigns that now allows a new
household line to be sold through local sellers,
the revamp of their website now features sales
automation and marketing solution previously
unavailable to their market. 
The CXT Concrete Products subsidiary of L.B.Foster
provides a line of concrete building products that range
from shower, restroom, vault, utility, storage and
concession everyday facilities that are both economical,
efficient to maintain and highly durable. Equipped
to both customized needs and common operational
requirements, the buildings can easily accommodate
water, power, sewer and other utilities that makes these
facilities highly functional. Their operational
system which is based on a J.D.Edwards enterprise
application requires additional applications
that is customized to serve various day-to-day
services that cannot be achieved easily through
the proprietary system.  
A group of health professionals in Birmingham commissioned
my help to develop the operations, programs and the
business model that is designed to combine three (3) core
aspects of living that results in an innovative organization
known as Harmony In Motion. This group combines
PROSPERITY, HEALTH and FITNESS which emphasizes the need for
a focused regimen of diet, exercise and mental training that
would help an individual to achieve a level of success that
traverses all areas of their life. The site is
viewable at http://www.myharmonyinmotion.com/
After developing a legacy interface with their
national customers, sales, quality assurance and
shipping department required a simple
application to track products and orders.
A MS Access client-server application was built
quickly and used to track production of steel
pipes, coating products and generate performance
reports. Also featured are automation
functions to keep track of materials,
measurements and costs that provides cost
periodical reports. A second application
using the same model was developed to support
their national sales force, which features
remote SETUP and SYNCHRONIZATION. 
A replacement site was built with enhanced
ASP.NET features designed to leverage an underlying SQL
Server and connect with SharePoint services. The
monastery is equipped with contemporary Windows 2003
services also features monastic services such as a VOTIVE
CANDLE gallery designed to receive, route and offer status
of prayers intentions received from the internet. The
database driven service also serves novices and guests who
are interested in vocations offered by this century old
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My background in developing intelligent
business solutions lead to the project at Hanesbrands where
I became involved in migrating an existing collection of
ACCESS based reports to create a cohesive BI solution.
The customer benefited from this solution because it
combines the disjointed reporting tools into a highly
manageable application that support automation, report
dispatching, cohesive AS400 and manufacturing host database
extractions to provide a solution that is quick, seamless
and easy to maintain. This process streamlined
existing processes, reduced devoted overhead and created a
solution that has been compared with ESSBASE functionality
with all of its inherent extraction complexities but the
added simplicity of a user-friendly and wizard driven tool. 
The most socially significant undertaking by the Nov Ortos Foundation for Life has been assigned, to enable our principal architect to engage international sponsors, local unversities and botanical societies in an effort to create the very first of its kind botanical gardens in the city of Cullman. The city was generous enough to offer support and interest, in the great home that this multi-national program pioneered by our very own architect in conjunction with the TOPEI group will result in a community effort that will boost the local economy and ecology to new and promising heights. 
The Highest Call of Birmingham Due to my many years of building teams,
communities and groups for the church, has resulting in my involvement
with The Highest Call of Birmingham. I was charged
with the responsibility of building a completely functional
site to enable for the rapid registration, conference and
content management of the site that is designed to attract
Catholic Men in the Birmingham area to a spiritual
fellowship. My work also includes art work,
photography, cover designs, theme and communications.
As a liturgist, I'm also charged with the maintenance of all
content to ensure its authenticity and to reflect the
liturgy of the church. The site is viewable at http://www.thehighestcall.org/ 
In an attempt to begin a new line of business for the St.
Bernard Abbey, I was commissioned to help develop the business,
and implement a manufacturing process that keeps close track of
costs, bill of materials and resources. The system in place also
features analytical processing in the hope that series and
collections can be measured for success and demand rates so we
may anticipate seasonal trends and performance. 
The IT department required assistance in developing a Student Information System which features a suite of on-line and DOT.NET application. The result of a long range initiative planning effort sought the need for a RFID system, library student logging, lunchroom payment, PayPal student commerce; all of which interfaces with the Alabama State Registry. A trouble-ticket system for IT, faculty and maintenance were complete in planning and a prototype for the student system was created. Numerous features such as photo albums, a registry, queuing, logging, alerts, teacher-parent reporting and an event notification system were also integrated and demonstrated. 
A dive shop and scuba teaching school based in
Birmingham, the website that features
ScubaVentures has been a long-time customer.
Their ASP.NET web service application features an automated
event scheduling, student logging, story board
controls and a notification system designed to
enhance enrollment and subscription retention.
Also featured are sales automation functions
designed to secure tickets and sales for time
critical featured dive trips and events. A
new release using AJAX is scheduled shortly.
The completed application will interact with MS
Accounting and PADI web services. 
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Due
to growing interests from benefactors, students and affiliate
institutions, a revamp of the existing website and underlying
services is implored. This undertaking will employ the
latest AJAX, VS.NET TEAM and ASP.NET, SharePoint technology to enable both
administrators and end-users to easily conduct frequent updates.
The new site will feature numerous photo albums, a registry,
trouble ticket system, teacher-parent reporting and an event
notification system.
As
a commissioned officer of the group, I have successfully used MS
Project Central to plan, manage and forecast all activities in
and across the councils. A premiere web application that features an automated event
scheduling, membership logging, story board controls and a
notification system designed to enhance membership recruitment
and retention. Also featured are sales automation
functions designed to secure tickets and sales for time critical
fund-raising events. A new release using AJAX is scheduled
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