SUMMARY:

Skilled COBOL Developer with 30+ years’ experience with a demonstrated history of working with various programming languages. Passionate about collaborating with team members to exceed company goals. Ability to work on large - scale technical projects as Team Lead and can successfully train others, as needed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Pasadena, CA

Mainframe Programmer V

Responsibilities:

• Working on the Tax system.
• Learning all aspects of the environment for Federal Income Tax, State Income Tax and Local Taxes. How these are processed for each client in various states in the USA.
• Currently working on writing a new program for two DB2 Queries. Taking existing queries and making them better efficient for processing. JCL will be written so that the output files will end up in a folder where the business can open the document as an XCEL spreadsheet document.
• Assigned to the Defects Team. Using all aspects of tools in solving technical problems such as Smart Test.
• Was assigned a defect in which no detailed information is given other than garbage is showing up on the CICS online screens at various points. In figuring out the problem, I was able to find other areas of CICS problems with defects and was able to fix these also. 7 roughly in total.
• Using Agile Rally for tracking work and keeping Scrum Master up to date on all aspects of work.
• Documenting all aspects of work.

Confidential - Phoenix, Arizona

Cobol Developer, Contractor Thru ntelicor

Responsibilities:

• Learning and understanding the work environment for AA’s Payroll system.
• Using Micro Focus Cobol on the Unix mainframe. Using VI to edit and run Scripts.
• Working on the FOS (Flight Operating System) which runs FA (Flight Attendant) hours.
• Currently working on Known Variances which compares hours worked from one system to another. AA is upgrading to a newer system due to the merger with USAir.
• Have written three COBOL programs which the end result reports the greater hours worked by employee number.
• Have updated several programs which will be used in the new process for FOS.
• Have setup scripts to execute jobs for testing and have documented all changes.
• Have reviewed many programs and scripts in following the process flow for FA’s.
• Attend meetings for related FA changes and updates.
• Work closely with team lead to get full understanding of what is needed and how the system works.

Confidential - Phoenix, Arizona

Tech Team Lead

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, JCL, TSO, ISPF, Agile, Sharepoint, Change Man, and Xpediter

Responsibilities:

• Learning and understanding the work environment for AMEX, all work was done using Rally/Agile.
• Worked on Submissions modifying existing program, copybook, and JCL as per requirements. Did Unit and UAT testing and code review on changes with manager of team.
• Worked on a project called YANKEE involving credit card processing. Taking a existing process, writing a new program and adding JCL steps to PROC. Running Unit, Assembly, SIT and UAT on this process along with another process that follows in which the end results sends a file to Submissions for processing. Ensuring changes are correct and meets requirement.
• Team lead over 3 other contractors. Assigning work as per required from project manager and ensuring these specifications are followed correctly and completed in a timely manner. Review all code changes with manager to ensure there are no errors.
• Set up forms for migration on change man packages. Setting up Implementation Plan. Daily stand up meetings at night with personnel from India.

Archer Daniels Midland - Decatur, IL

Software Developer

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, JCL, TSO, ISPF, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Sharepoint, infoman, Intertest

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the applications analysts, architects, peers, Mainframe DBA and to implement solutions based on standard approaches for Mainframe applications in learning all aspects of the system.
• Under direct supervision and using established procedures and policies, applies skills and knowledge to identify, document, investigate, research, and resolve software applications questions and problems in a timely manner.
• Provide training and assistance to users understanding personal limitations and refers more complex issues to higher levels for resolution.
• Supported other corporate applications as required.

Confidential - Denver, Colorado

Software Developer

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, TSO, ISPF, PLATINUM, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Sharepoint

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System within Government Solutions.
• Work closely with the applications analysts, architects, peers on the Midrange, Mainframe, DBA and QA Teams to implement solutions based on standard approaches for Mainframe applications.
• Learning the application architecture which is unique to this environment.
• Worked on an ACH project to write a complex COBOL/DB2 program to edit the incoming ACH file. There was a total of 51 edits which included duplicate file processing, multiple file processing, edits to insure the correct sequence of record types (1,5,6,8 and 9) are coming in correctly. This also included a report of all edit errors and an acknowledgement file of successful completion or errors which had occurred. This file was transmitted to the bank. This project completed on time and was successful.
• Was assigned a task to figure out a way to implement a solution to a process by using utilities instead of writing a new COBOL program.
• Worked on the Enrollment Enhancement project. This involves making several changes to various programs to bypass new letter processing when an additional enrollment is completed for the same client.

Confidential - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the state of Pennsylvania’s welfare system.
• Learning and understanding the SNAP and TANF process.
• Learning how to fix major online problems using the UNISYS mainframe tools.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, ASPEN Conversion, ISD2, JCL, TDD, TSO, ISPF, PLATINUM, Micro Focus Express, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the State of New Mexico FAMIS IV-A Welfare system: Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF and EBT. Responsible for design, analysis, and implementation of various change request(CR) and Incident Reports(IR).
• Make new enhancements and major modifications to system using COBOL, CICS and DB2/VSAM.
• The old legacy system was being replaced with a new Java point and click system. Took care of the interfaces files that go between ISD2 and various users. The ASPEN conversion was from the old legacy mainframe system to the new replacement JAVA/UNIX system. Worked on converting VSAM/DB2 files to something ASPEN can handle.
• All modifications or new programs are done using Micro focus. Comprehensive testing is done to ensure program integrity before any program, copybooks, JCL, PROCs and PARMs can be uploaded to the mainframe. MF is used strictly for User Acceptance Testing and Peer Testing. Once a week a job was run to keep all programs, copybooks, JCL, PROCs and PARMs in sync with production.
• Various projects worked on include: Education works program, Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), SCHIPS Co-payment, Welfare to work, 198C, Negative Food Stamps Samples, Continuous Eligibility, PFPC Reimbursement Cost Center, State funded TANF Aliens, School Non-Attendance Tracking, TANF two Parent/Work Mandatory and many others.