Terry D Henderson

Education

Attended classes at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo but did not get a degree.

Also attended classes at Penn Valley Community College and Johnson County Community College.

Early Employment years

Started working with computers as a computer operator for United Missouri Bank at their Carthage processing center running an IBM System34. Transferred to the UMB Kansas City computer room running an IBM main frame system looking to transfer into a programming position.

Accepted a computer operator position with EDS at the GM Fairfax plant running a variety of equipment including IBM Mainframes, Vax and Dec equipment. He was a shift leader while a computer operator at Fairfax.

Electronic Data Systems.

Originally hired in as a computer operator at the GM Fairfax plant he went through the EDS SED training program and became an Information Analyst. His first assignment was with the USDA account or Cotton coding mainframe COBOL.

He was then assigned to the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority account. A small two man EDS team running an IBM System38, coding in RPG II that handled all of the KCATA's data processing needs. The last three years on that account he was acting Data Processing Manager for the KCATA with 2 KCATA employees and 1 EDS programmer under him. He was in charge of the procurement, installation and conversion to a new IBM AS400.

When the KCATA took their data processing back in house he was assigned to the GST Steel account. GST was running a home grown application using an Informix data base on an HP3000 box. That account was tasked with converting the GST system over to the Ross Renaissance application running in Oracle on a HP9000 box. He became a key employee on that account. He was the Oracle DBA, backup Unix System Admin and when GST closed down he was the last EDS employee working on shutting the system down.

After GST Steel he was assigned to what became the Verizon IXPlus account. The Verizon IXPlus account ran multiple IBM AS400's in a COBOL environment. He had a variety of roles at IXPLus. He worked on the Configuration Management team, he did Production Support and worked on call. After working in the CAC (Customer Assistance Center) team for a while he was put back on the Configuration Management team and was the main Configuration Management member when let go due to staff reduction after EDS was purchased by HP in 2008.

Due to a need to work from home once let go from EDS he went into business for himself doing web design and development.

Interests

Computers (of course)

CHIEFS & ROYALS fan

MIZZOU fan (Mainly because his step brothers are big Husker fans and it ticks them off)

Motorcycles

Hunting & fishing

Bowling

For more information about him including a look at his personal portfolio go to: TerryDHenderson.com

Terry and Multiple Sclerosis

He does not have Multiple Sclerosis but his wife does. She was diagnosed in 1984 and for the first 8 or 9 years did real well. You couldn't hardly tell anything was wrong with her. However her MS changed from what they call Relapsing-Remitting MS to Secondary Progressive MS. When that happened she went down hill fairly fast. By the late 90's she needed a wheel chair, by early 2000 she started getting tremors that made doing almost anything for herself impossible. In December of 2002 she got a bad case of pneumonia she has never really recovered from. Since then she has been totally disabled unable to do anything for herself and she has been in Hospice care since Sept 2007.

 

Her MS was the main consideration for Terry taking the Verizon IXPlus assignment because they allowed him to work from home which kept his wife from having to go into a nursing home. And when he lost that position instead of taking another office position he went into web development so that he could continue to care for his wife at home.

To see more about Jamie go to the about Jamie page. To see the websites that we have done, recently, go to the KC IT Guy Portfolio Page or just go back to the KC IT Guy homepage.