John Paul Castro's Resume

Professional Profile

JPC Picture A well-rounded business executive with a MS, MBA, and proven track record on highly successful management teams. Over nineteen years of progressively increasing technology and management responsibilities in the information technology, entertainment, telecommunications, injection molding, healthcare, computer software and education sectors. Goal oriented project manager with experience in leading teams through dramatic change and improvement. Thorough background in information technology, computer software development, MRP, customer relationship management (CRM), business management, training and development, forecasting, planning, financial control, and bottom-line attainment.

Significant Achievements

  • Information Technology Management

    • Overhauled entire IT departments. Installed and added new computers, setup and added new servers, instituted and added new software, established and documented new procedures for the entire company. Replaced a complete manual process to a complete computerized system to manage the entire operations for the company. This involved the setup of new procedures from Inventory Control to Production, QC procedures, then Work-In-Process (WIP) to Finished Goods.

  • Software Development

    • Led the software development of several mission critical applications and scripts for all clients. As many of the legacy systems were written in Clipper; organized, programmed and deployed more robust systems based on Web/Windows in .NET (C#/VB .NET) and AJAX with a SQL/DB2 backend. Also formed and headed a team in the development and implementation of a complete MRPII system.

Key Skills

  • Leadership, Team Building
  • Product Development
  • Communication, Presentations
  • Problem Resolution
  • University Instructor
  • Project Management
  • Financial Attainment, Control
  • Change Management
  • Information Technology

Business and Technical Skills

  • Software Development
  • Design / Implementation
  • Telecenters Management
  • B2B, E-Commerce
  • Process Development
  • MRP II
  • Entertainment Industry
  • Systems Management
  • CRM
  • Windows XP/2000/NT/95/98/Me/MS-DOS
  • Novell 4.1/3.12
  • Unix, Linux
  • C#, VB .NET, ASP.NET, T-SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, HTML, ASP, Clipper, FoxPro, RPGII.

Career History with Achievements

  • Senior Developer,
    Wesco Aircraft,
    Valencia, CA
    2006 to Present
    • Wesco Aircraft has been serving the aerospace industry for over 50 years.
    • Participates in the Analysis/Development of projects for the company worldwide.
    • VS.NET 2005, 2008.
    • C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C/C++, Visual Basic.
    • .NET Framework: 2.0, 3.0, 3.5.
    • AJAX.
    • SQL 2005, 2008 (T-SQL, Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, Business Intelligence).
    • JDE Edwards, running on iSeries with a DB2 backbone.

  • Consultant,
    JPC Enterprises-Migration Solutions,
    2001 to 2006
    • Participated in the Analysis/Development of software, using the latest technologies such as .NET, VB6, ASP, HTML, MS SQL, DB2, Sybase, Reporting Services and Crystal Reports. Created front-end applications (Windows Forms) in .NET using VB and many classes written in C#. These applications worked with a DB2 and MS SQL backend. Developed SQL views, stored procedures and functions in MS SQL that interacted with .NET applications and Crystal Reports.
    • Vast experience with MS SQL 2000 and 2005: T-SQL, Stored Procedures, Functions, Views and Triggers. Also used DTS and later Business Intelligence Development Studio to access data from other databases such as DB2 and Sybase.
    • Used VB .NET with the 2.0 Framework in conjunction with CSLA Robert Lhotka’s framework using N-Tier and Object Oriented concepts and used code generators to speed-up the development process.
    • Worked for Disney Corporation (www.disney.com) as a consultant from August 2005 through June 2006. Worked in large, enterprise scale applications over $50 million dollars, involved a conversion from PowerBuilder/Sybase to Java/DB2. The data was moved into a SQL Server database using t-sql prior to being pushed into DB2 via ADO.NET. Responsibilities included creating views, tables, stored procedures and functions in VB.NET and C# classes.
    • Worked through Jaguar Consulting (www.jaguartc.com) for companies such as: NBA, WNBA, Major League Baseball, Hallmark, National Geographic, NBC Enterprises, Liz Claiborne, Chorion, MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment and others. Project involved maintaining and modifying a robust, 3-tier “Rights Management Application”, with several web-based pieces. The application was used for tracking inventory, handling accounting and royalties, etc. and the primary technologies were VB, ASP, Sybase, Reporting Services, Crystal Reports and T-SQL.
    • Ongoing modifications, over 2 years, to an overhauled old system that used Gupta into a .NET, MS SQL system using .NET remoting. This company keeps track of the shipments of chemicals that are shipped around the globe.
    • Created 2 applications that replaced manual registration processes into automatic and computerized systems using .NET and MS SQL for a non-profit organization. Used barcode technologies and Crystal Reports .NET.

  • Instructor Information Technology,
    Learning Tree University Chatsworth Campus
    Chatsworth, CA
    2000 to 2002
    • Instructor for Microsoft Visual C++, Instructor for Programming in C, Language Basics, Instructor for Programming in C, Advanced Techniques.

  • Director of Information Technology,
    CyberRep (Formerly 800 Direct)
    Canoga Park, CA,
    1998 to 2001

    • CyberRep is a B2B electronic customer relationship management organization that leverages Fortune 1000 clients' ability to maximize lifetime customer value by acquiring, maintaining and enhancing relationships.
    • Managed IT for the California region comprised of 2 Telecenters with over 400 workstations. The IT department is formed by a team of 12 individuals that develop and maintain mission critical applications for over 30 clients.
    • Established needs and researched new technologies that could give CyberRep an edge among the many Call Centers around the country, and led the IT team in the implementation of the technologies.
    • Led the software development of several mission critical programs and scripts for current and new customers. Using Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro, HTML, Java, and Microsoft SQL to migrate all legacy systems written in Clipper and the Advantage Client/Server backend.

  • Manager Information Systems,
    Molding Corporation of America
    Burbank, CA,
    1992 to 1998

    • Company that is dedicated to the custom injection molding of quality parts in polymeric materials. Three sites with approximately 300 employees.
    • Overhauled the entire IT department: Installed and added new computers, set up and added new servers, instituted and added new software, established and documented new procedures for the entire company.
    • Replaced a complete manual process to a complete computerized system to manage the entire operations for the company.
    • Formed and headed a team in the development and implementation of a complete MRPII system.

  • Consultant, Analyst/Programmer
    Summit Health, Ltd. (Merged with Ornda 1994 and now Tenent)
    Burbank, CA,
    1989 to 1991

    • Company that managed 12 hospitals around the country and several nursing homes.
    • Developed several accounting and health-related programs utilizing RPG and Clipper.

Education / Certification

  • M.B.A. in Business, M.S. in Computer Science, B.A. in Biology. California State University of Northridge, CA
  • Professional Development Courses including management, production, HR and finance.