Michael Mc Laughlin

Experience

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  Market Day

  Oct 1990 - Jul 1999

  System Administrator

  A food co-op charity selling through schools and churches, with offsite locations throughout Midwest, Northeast, South, and Southwest. I was their closet geek. I started with the company as a warehouse clerk. Transferring into the M.I.S. department, became a print operator.First person of I.T. support contact for all offsite locations and local O.P. department.Granted access and removed users from Digital/DEC VMS Network. Organized user "ID"s by district and department numbers converted to octal number system. Supported Xyplex WAN/LAN network. Setup workstations and printers on network. Implemented and maintained user menuing system. Developed and maintained various Digital Command Language, DCL scripts. Participated in various upgrades and projects :MicroVAX to Xyplex WAN, VAX 8600 and 8800 to Alpha AXP, Character Recognition Software into Order Processing department, workstations and printers to PC network running TCP/IP, "Reflections" emulation software. Show less

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  Every Day is Christmas

  Aug 1998 - Dec 2019

  Retail Sales

  Raised in an entrepreneurial house hold, "EDIC" was a family owned company that crafted hand-made clay ornaments, with free personalization. Ornaments would be sold at various fairs, mostly in the Illinois area. Furthest and largest fair attended was in Birmingham, Al.Set-up sales booth. Face product for customers.Act as point of sales clerk with customer.coordinator personalization with artist.

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  Matrix Machine & Tool MFG Inc.

  Jan 2002 - Jul 2002

  Visual Basic Developer/Access DB Designer

  A family owned company, in the manufacturing industry. If you need a high precision part made out of high quality steel, Matrix an emigrant owned business, is the company to talk to.Visual Basic front end, that printed out Purchase Order, Packing and Shipping.Access DB was backend to VB front end, multiple related tables.

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  Print Soft Americas

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  System Engineer Level 1

  A software company the specialized in desk top publishing for highspeed printers. Clientele mostly mass mailing printing. Purchase by the Australian Post.Developed print jobs for clients using PrintSoft proprietary software.

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  Abbington Distinctive Banquets

  Oct 2017 - now

  A family owned banquet hall. Specializing in Weddings, Proms and other special occasions. Located in the Western suburbs. Events attended by 100 to 1300 quests.Position: WaiterEarly Shift Responsibilities:- Setup room: Flatware, Glassware.- Serve event: Happy Hour, Meal Service, Final Clear.Late Shift Responsibilities:- Late Night Buffets.- Sweet Tables.- Clean room: Glasses and B&B Plates.- Breakdown room: Clear all buffets, tables, top linen.Off and on, I have work as a banquet waiter since my college years. I have worked both shifts over the years. The flexible hours and position difficulty made studying easier.It allowed me to help my sister, with four children, as she finished law school.Finally, it allowed me to take care of my mother. Passing: September 2022. Show less A family owned banquet hall. Specializing in Weddings, Proms and other special occasions. Located in the Western suburbs. The Abbington can accommodate 100 to 1300 guests. With 20,000 square feet of banquet space, a 5,500 square foot foyer, and 15,000 square feet of ballroom space.Purchasing the Banquet hall in 2003, the Fabbri family inherited a “Cbord EventMaster 4” software, never set-up. Sold on the idea that the programs would communicate with each other, they purchased “TracRite Optimum Control” inventory system.Not being a trained DBA, the Chef, created a junk drawer of a category titled "Food".Analysis of sales paper and inventory data. Normalization of inventory data.Creation of “Cbord EventMaster 4”: Categories, Items, Packages, Super-Packages, Resources, Prep Areas, Vendors, Outside services.Development of MS Word VBA macros for "Contract" and "Event Sheet/BEO". Show less

  • Non-Technical Position

    Jul 2009 - now

  • Mike Fabbri

    Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
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  MDL

  Jan 2023 - Jul 2023

  Oracle Programmer

  A software company specializing in chemistry assays.A cancelled data migration project on-site with Abbot Laboratories. Spreadsheets into an Oracle database.