PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IT professional highly experienced with all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle on Mainframe Systems, basic knowledge of Client Server applications, and excellent problem solving and decision making skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools:COBOL/COBOL II, COBOL LE, COBOL Enterprise, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, JCL/Procs, CICS and BMS, Xpeditor, IBM Debugger, DB2, SQL, VSAM/IDCAMS, IMS DB/DL1, Eztrieve Plus, Librarian, Changeman, Endeavor, NDM:ConnectDirect, FTP, DFSort/SyncSort, Fileaid, File Manager, Outlook, Microsoft Project, Word, Access, and Excel.

Operating Systems: z/OS, OS390, DOS/VSE/VM, Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP/7/8, UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Consultant

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• As Program Technical Lead member of the Project to Convert IDMS COBOL programs to DB2, using most phases of the SDLC I completed analysis, wrote detailed specifications, coded programs, tested, validated and completed walkthrus, updated documentation, planned implementations using Endeavor, and provided post implementation support and operations support for multiple systems.

Legacy Systems Programmer/Analyst

Confidential - Albany, GA

Technologies: SDLC, COBOL, TSO/ISPF/MVS, JCL/PROCS, Endeavor, Infopac, Altiris Incident reporting tool.

Responsibilities:

• Using SDLC procedures completed Analysis, System design, detailed design, coding, unit testing and implementation support for new and existing COBOL programs, JCL/PROCS, Infopac reports, for the Automatic Identification & Data Capture Solution (AIDC) to the Mechanization Of Warehousing And Shipping Procedures (MOWASP). Converted Assembler and Natural programs to COBOL programs. Conversion of JCL/Procedures and FTP steps to meet secure established standards, using Endeavor for change management controls..

Legacy Systems Programmer/Analyst

Confidential - Albany, GA

Technologies: COBOL, SDLC, TSO/ISPF/MVS, JCL/PROCS, Infopac, Altiris Incident reporting tool.

Responsibilities:

• Using SDLC procedures completed Analysis, System design, detailed design, coding, unit testing new and existing COBOL programs, JCL/PROCS, and Infopac reports. Designed an Automatic Identification & Data Capture Solution (AIDC) for the Mechanization Of Warehousing And Shipping Procedures system, (MOWASP). Also presented to co-workers a beginning TSO/ISPF class they were using ROSCOE. Took over Program Lead when previous owner retired for Project to convert Assembler and Natural programs to COBOL. Used Endeavor for change management controls.

Confidential, Abilene, TX

Sr. Programming SME

Technologies: COBOL, SPUFI, QMF, DB2, Oracle, CICS Online Screens updates to numerous Tables mainly for billing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Update COBOL programs and JCL along with SPUFI jobs to update DB2 tables, utilize QMS and CICS screens to update and validate updates made to Oracle Tables utilized in the Billing System used for AT&T, Inc.

Specialist Systems Analyst

Confidential - Albany, GA

Technologies: Top Secret MVS utility from CA, TSO/ISPF/MVS, CICS, JCL, Infopac, Altiris Incident reporting tool.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical assistance to applications programming personnel and other appropriate user personnel.
• Monitor, analyze, and correct production job abend/issues quickly and efficiently.
• Monitored and completed daily incident tickets using Altiris incident management software. These include scheduling changes, JCL changes, security changes, and various types of software & hardware analysis.
• Maintained IBM mainframe printer configurations and reported mainframe status at weekly staff meetings.

Confidential, Columbus, GA ‎

Lead Programmer Analyst

Technologies: SDLC, Enterprise plus older versions of COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL/PROCS, Eztrieve Plus, Endeavor, IMS, IBM DeBug, MQ Series, Tandem, TS1, TS2, Document Direct.

Responsibilities:

• Provided analysis, design specifications, coding, unit testing, implementation and support using SDLC and Endevor change management system. Using Enterprise COBOL for batch and CICS programs, JCL, DB2, DFSort, IMS, IBM Debugger, Eztrieve Plus, MQ Series, IBM DeBug tool, and Tandem, using TMM software development methodology in multiple functional areas including Authorizations, Credit, TS1, TS2, ACE, and Financial Control Systems.
• Updated the Maintain Credit Limit data packet process utilizing the MQ Series App Server with new capabilities that had been added to the online MCL CICS application using Eztrieve plus, DB2, IMS, MQ-Series to extract data and update Tandem files and subfiles.
• Enhanced client capability to have a different Default Class Id field from all other clients. Created new DB2 table and new maintenance CICS screen to store new Default Class Ids, added new map to existing CICS program so clients could edit the Default Class Id on DB2, instead of having to use the default of 9999.
• Designed 3 new reports that gave clients' chargebacks and credit data from DB2, IMS and other data sources, and load to Document Direct for client usage.
• Provided analysis and made code changes for two VSAM files with timestamp key fields created incorrectly in COBOL programs.

Contractor

Confidential - Kansas City, MO

Technologies: COBOL Enterprise, JCL/Procs, CICS, DB2, Changeman, MQ Series, Eztrieve Plus, XML.

Responsibilities:

• Working on Supply Chain Management system upgrade project, to split facility/warehouse column into two separate columns and moving other columns to different DB2 tables and databases to enhance performance for batch and CICS programs using COBOL, JCL, Procedures, DB2, MQ Series, XML, Eztrieve Plus, and Changeman.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Senior Programmer Analyst

Technologies: COBOL LE plus older versions of COBOL, JCL/Procs, SLDC, Eztrieve Plus, Changeman, Fileaid, VSAM, DB2, MS Excel.

Responsibilities:

• As Project Manager, managed development of new system to allow new clients to send account management data, convert to DST and Industry standards thenadd to existing JCL/Procs, using Changeman, MS Project, Excell.
• Completed analysis, coding and testing of COBOL, JCL, Procs, Eztrieve Plus and Fileaid reports for events such as yearly Master/History purges, dealer deconversions, according to multiple client specifications and SDLC.
• Created ad hoc reports, updated DB2 tables and VSAM file maintenance for Daily Support Team.
• Developed a process to build account records from an Excel spreadsheet provided by the ETL group to be included in our nightly batch processing to be used to create missing account records.

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Technologies: COBOL LE plus older versions of COBOL, JCL, SDLC, Data Warehouse, VSAM, Changeman, QMF, Windows, Spufi, Eztrieve Plus, SQL.

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Planning Team worked on the Advanced Inventory Management System, wrote data extraction and validation COBOL programs and JCL, worked closely with the Project Manager for the Data Warehouse Project and the Data Warehouse ETL personnel, using SDLC, DB2 and Changeman change management system.
• Investigated daily load error reports and then determining root cause by running SQL queries using QMF for Windows, Spufi, and Eztrieve Plus to extract data from DB2 and VSAM files and use data analysis to determine whether data was bad or there was a programming issue and then make code changes to existing COBOL programs or have User Services to correct the data.
• Developed in coordination with ETL support group weekly synch up programs and jobs to ensure all systems had up-to-date accurate data using SDLC, COBOL LE, JCL, Eztrieve Plus and DB2.

Confidential, Fort Wayne, IN

Mainframe Programmer/Analyst II

Technologies: SDLC, COBOL LE plus older versions of COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IMS-DL/1, Librarian, DOS/VSE/VM, FTP, Xpediter for CICS and Simon for batch debugging tools, Telxon, Mobius/Document Direct, EDI, AS400, MS SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Organized small multi-platform team to create a sales and profit reporting system utilizing SDLC, new programs, JCL, SQL Server database, to evaluate Product Manager and Inventory Analyst performance.
• Spearheaded the efforts of a small team in developing and implementing an innovative system to automate purchase order processing procedures, using SDLC, COBOL LE for batch and CICS programs and Xpediter, resulting in decreased labor hours, improved in-stock rates, and an overall inventory cost reduction of $25M.
• Participated in User Friendly Item Description Project to split the manufacturers' part number from the item description data field on the IMS item database, adding the new item description to files, and CICS screens being utilized by Telxon handheld scanners. Worked closely with warehouse personnel at the pilot warehouse to ensure there were no interruptions to their replenishment, stocking and picking processes after implementation.
• Managed small team using the SDLC to add the Product Manager and Inventory Analyst data fields to the IMS item file database on the mainframe system, and extract sales data and load to a SQL server database.
• Implemented system changes to batch and CICS programs, JCL's, VSAM files, mainframe processes that had been made obsolete by our new InCom PC based GUI system.
• Made significant system changes for the Advanced Warehouse Replenishment project which created Purchase Orders on an AS400 and transferred back to the VSE mainframe, including Project Lead for the final implementation and cleanup phase that modified and/or deleted programs, online CICS transactions, JCL's, VSAM files and other mainframe processes that had been made obsolete.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Mainframe Applications Developer

Technologies: COBOL LE plus older versions of COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS-DL/1, VSAM, FTP, Eztrieve Plus, Informix, UNIX, Java, Retail Link, Librarian, Xpediter.

Responsibilities:

• Created new pricing reports for Puerto Rico using UNIX, BASH and Java.
• Logged on to UNIX boxes to check status of servers, run some scripts and start servers if needed and used DBAccess to access Informix Database and reset process timestamps for items to reprocess.
• Responsible for analysis, development and maintenance of COBOL batch and CICS programs used Xpediter debugger, running on OS/390, z/OS mainframe merchandising system, accessing and updating DB2, IMS and other data sources using Librarian change management system.
• Member of the Price Management Team developed COBOL LE and Eztrieve Plus programs to extract the data from mainframe IMS, DB2 databases, VSAM, and flat files. Ftp extracted data to be loaded to Informix databases, used Eztrieve Plus and Superc to validate the data was converted accurately after converting each department.
• Using SDLC, performed analysis, system enhancements and maintenance to the Vendor Managed Merchandising system, for the Y2K project. Coordinated Vendors sending Y2K compliant data to the Y2K Connect:Mailbox, running the job stream, gathered and validated results and presented them to auditors and Y2K core team for validation and signoff.
• Provided analysis, specs, coding, and testing for the Warehouse/PO Expansion Project, assisted consultants with the coding, testing, using Xpediter for debugging, validation, presenting walkthroughs to senior members, ensuring implementation was on schedule and validating results on the production system.