SUMMARY OF KEY STRENGTHS

Analysis: Root cause Impact/requirement

• Resolution: Problem Resolution Client research request
• Relations: Client/Vendor Off-shore Liaison and Mentor
• Experienced: New Development Enhancements to existing application
• Support: Implementation 24/7 production support

Detail: Oriented Regulatory compliance

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
COBOL/COBOL II EzTRIEVE DB2/SPUFI IMS TSO/ISPF OS/MVS/ESA JCL/PROC VSAM
UTILITIES VISO

Professional Experience and achievements
Confidential, Abilene, TX 2/2011 – 1/2012 Genesis Network Solutions is an IT solutions company to diverse industries. Software Analyst

COBOLII, IMS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, JCL, UTILITIES, VISO, WORD
Full-Life-Cycle responsibility for CREDITS, DEPOSTIS, COLLECTIONS components the Billing application
Analysis of Business requirements for best fit into the existing application
Impact analysis and cost estimations
Translate business requirements into technical specifications
Production Implementation support to ensure successful deployment of change package
Review Off-shore unit testing documents
Post production support
Liaison between Off-shore IT staff and client.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
Conversion of non standard DB2 and IMS names to standard names. Prevented 600 job stream abends by detail analysis that uncovered JCL INCLUDE statements with non standard IMS database names.

Confidential,

Dallas, TX 7/2004 –11/ 2009 Capgemini is a consulting and IT solutions company to diverse industries, including the energy and utility companies.

Application Architect
COBOLII, IMS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, JCL, UTILITIES, SPUFI, VISO, WORD, CICS

Full Life Cycle responsibility of the Oncor Electric Billing application.
Analysis of Business requirements, translate requirements to technical specifications
Impact analysis and cost estimations
Code, unit test and document changes on critical project or as requested by client
Implementation support to ensure successful deployment of change package.
Production support
Collaborate with Integration test teams to ensure complete testing
Liaison between Off—shore IT staff and client.
Mentor of Off-shore and Jr. staff
Review Off-shore Unit testing documents
Review Integration test team’s scripts if requested
Review and resolution or entries on the error files output of night time batch processing. .
Analyze requirements set by ERCOT (regulatory governance) for best fit.
Ensure regulatory requirements and business requirements are not in conflict
Research assistance to client to resolve account issues.
Collaborate with client on application changes.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
Reduced the risk to the system and reduced cost of a proposed code change by offering an alternate solution.
Succeeded in the knowledge transfer of the Billing application to Off-shore It staff that allows Capgemini to maintain a 35/65 personnel split between front-office and off-shore resulting in greater revenue. Developed a Unit test document for Billing application developers to follow. This document was referenced by the Integration team for the test scripts creation. The Document was designed so that an auditor can follow and understand the changes and test results.

Confidential,

Dallas, TX 7/2002 – 6/2004

Oncor is a regulated electric distribution and transmission business and operates the largest distribution and transmission system in Texas,
Application Analyst
COBOLII, IMS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, JCL, UTILITIES, SPUFI, VISO, WORD, CICS
Full Life Cycle responsibility of the Oncor Electric Billing application.
Analysis of Business requirements, translate requirements to technical specifications
Code, unit test and document changes
Implementation support to ensure successful deployment of change package.
Production support
Collaborate with client on application changes
Review and resolution or entries on the error files output of night time batch processing. .
Analyze requirements set by ERCOT (regulatory governance) for best fit.
Ensure regulatory requirements and business requirements are not in conflict
Collaborate with Integration test teams to ensure complete testing.
24/7 support of the application.
Research assistance to client to resolve account issues.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
Succeeded in maintaining the ONCOR Billing application by applying ERCOT industry mandated changes and through applying the client’s business requirements.
Mentored at risk new-hires and prevented their termination by strengthening their coding and analysis skills that produced a productive employee.

Confidential,

Dallas, TX 6/2000 – 6/2002

Keane is an IT services firm with more than 12,000 professionals worldwide.
Application Analyst
COBOLII, IMS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, JCL, UTILITIES, SPUFI, VISO, WORD, CICS
New development of ONCOR’s Billing application.
Coding, unit testing and documentation.
Collaborate with Integration test team to ensure complete testing.
Respond to changes in business requirements and ensure compliance with regulatory governance.
Support application through the initial Market Open (deployment) to resolve unexpected issues.
Research assistance in the resolution of account issues.
24/7 support of application
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
New development of ONCOR’s Billing application.
The existing TXU database was used and was not designed to handle the new requirements of ERCOT. The results of intermediate calculations were not stored on the database, but were required by ERCOT. Through creative construction of the computer code the intermediate calculations were saved to a temporary file and retrieved for reporting to ERCOT.

Confidential,

Dallas, TX 8/1999 – 12/1999

IT Solutions and Consulting firm.
Application Analyst
COBOLII,TSO/ISPF,JCL,UTILITIES, WORD
Review programs for YEAR 2000 compliance.
Located date-fields and review the field for conversion code that may be affected by Year 2000 such as conversion from a mm/dd/yy to a yy/ddd, etc.
Updated programs to bring them into compliance and code, test and document the changes.
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
Updated both CICS and batch programs for Year 2000. The source code was no longer available for many programs. The source code was restored by a third party vendor, but often the code did not compile. The scope of the contract widened with the necessity of regression testing of programs many of which did not have Year 2000 changes. The contracted was completed on time with a couple of weeks to execute in production while still in year 1999.

ADDITIONAL WOK HISTORY:

01/00 to 05/00 Application Analyst , Confidential,

• Dallas, Texas - Consultant (Insurance)
• COBOL, JCL, VSAM, TSO,ISPF

Applied enhancements to insurance programs. Code unit test and document.

08/99 to 12/99 Application Analyst, Confidential,

• – Consultant to Provident America (Insurance)

COBOL, JCL, DOS
Up dated CICS and Batch programs for year 2000 compliance.

• 06/99 to 07/99 Bench time between contracts.

07/97 to 05/99 Application Analyst I Confidential,

• Consultant to Insurdata (Insurance)

COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, EASYTRIEVE
Assigned to the Policy Master System (PMSC) on the Rerate structure. Rewrote a section of the
Rerate structure, tested documented

05/96 to 07/97 Application Analyst, Confidential,

• Consultant to UNISYS CORP MEDICAID

COBOL, JCL, TSO/SPF
Confidential,
Second contract.

09/95 to 03/96 Application Analyst, Confidential,

• Consultant to The Insurance Center (Insurance)

COBOL, JCL, TSO/SPF
Converted an acquired block of business . Developed programs for data conversion, Full testing.

10/92 to 09/95 Application Analyst, Confidential,

• Consultant to1UNISYS CORP MEDICAID

COBOL, JCL, TSO/SPF
Enhance the Okla MEDICAID system. Assisted client in testing UB92 data collection.

• 11/90 to 07/92 Application Analyst, Confidential,

COBOL, JCL, TSO/SPF
Meet with End-User for requirements and product sign off. Assigned to Property. Code, test and document

• 07/85 to 11/90 Programmer Analyst Confidential, COBOL, JCL, IDMS, TSO/SPF

New development . Assigned to Rate structure. Requirement gathering, code, test and document.

• 10/84 to 04/84 Programmer Analyst Confidential,– contractor

COBOL, JCL, TSO/SPF
Applied enhancements Confidential,

• 12/83 to 10/84 Programmer Analyst, Confidential,

COBOL, JCL, PLI, TSO/SPF
Applied enhancements Confidential,document and obtain signoff from end-user.

• 05/81 to 12/83 Programmer , Confidential, COBOL, JCL, TSO, IMS, TSO/SPF

New development . Flowchart, code, test, document , after hours support, meet with Military staff on status
of project. Other duties included training of existing staff on SPF full screen editor.