Alan Smith

Jim Tripp

EDI Specialist

Personal Profile

Technology enthusiast. EDI Expert. Entrepreneurial spirit. Someone who truly loves working on hyper-automation.

Education

University of Iowa

1991-1996

Bachelors of Science, Computer Science
ACM Big Ten Programming Competition Competitor 1992-1994.

Work Experience

EDI, B2B, API Partner Manager at Cisco

October 2012 - 2020

Managing partners with additional functionality on a solution space of EDI, B2B, and APIs. Maintaining EDI/B2B/Webservice Implementation Guides. Project managing external vendors relationships, working with gateways,Ariba, Tungsten, e2Open, OpenText, Axway, etc..

EDI Partner Manager at Lenovo

January 2011 - October 2012

Testing Functionality of EDI maps to and from new backend order system. Gathering requirements for feature gaps and enhancements Maintaining EDI Implementation Guides. Pilot programing implementing EDI maps with pilot program using Axway. Project managing external EDI vendor E2Open van connection and messages. Communicating with Trading Partners and coordinating testing and migrations.

Digby Consulting

December 2006 - January 2011

Gathering requirements of client needs. Managing team of programmers. Negotiate support contracts. Implementing EDI and B2B solutions. Developing lifecycle of Java, C, C++ programs.

UPS

August 2005 - December 2006

Migrating EDI datacenter from acquired datacenter to strategic datacenter, Integration of WebSphere DataStage (Mercator) to Unix and Windows Environments from Mainframe. Interpreting legacy Perl, Korn Shell, Java and C programs and migrating functionality to strategic platform.

IBM

July 1998 - August 2005

Y2K migration on EDI maps for supplier messages, integrating new features to SAP backend. VAN to direct AS2 migration for partners to lower costs. Websphere MQ integrations to backend SAP and bespoke solutions.

Key Skills

  • API
  • EDI
  • B2B
  • Rosettanet
  • EDIFACT
  • Ariba
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • Unix

Education and Achievements

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa.

BS Computer Science.

Eagle Scout

West Branch, Iowa.

Project involved adding street markings for emergency vehiles in rural Iowa in response to delays finding addresses prior to GPS.