SUMMARY:

• 20 years of COBOL, JCL and VSAM primarily in a Batch Environment. 3 years of IMS and DB2 and some exposure to CICS. A seasoned COBOL programmer working primarily in Healthcare and State Government.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: COBOL (18 years), JCL (15 Years), VSAM (12 Years), DB2 (5 years), IMS (DL/I) (5 years) MVS/OS, (12 Years), IBM z/VSE (1 Year), TSO/ISPF (8 Years), MPE/iX, FileAid, XPEDITOR(6 Years), ENDEVOR(6 Years), EZTREVE(2 Years), CICS (2 years), EDI (X12, 837, NSF, UB92)(6 years), HP Mainframe Cobol (1 year), Oracle (1 year), SQL & PL SQL (1 Year ), Visio(2 Years), Word(12 Years), Excel(12 Years), Access (1 Year).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Application Developer (COBOL)

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead for Offshore COBOL Trouble Ticket Resolution Team (quick COBOL based fixes - liaison with Filipino Offshore Team with Systems Team in Florida. System: IBM z/OS VSE.

Confidential, Olympia, WA

COBOL Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• FICS (Financial) Cobol, DB2, DL/I IMS. Quarterly assignments to fix code or write new programs. Assigned approximately 5 per cycle. Projects involved working with clients, file analysis within TSO/ISPF. Good renewal of my DB2 and IMS skills. Primarily IMS. New Programs and Maintenance writing, testing, debugging. Also, IBM Online in IMS & DB2 (Think40). IBM z/OS MQ Series.

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Contract COBOL Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Performing various assigned programming projects for the Employer Contributions System.
• Extensive assignment to update the Setoff System (determines when and how much Employers have to set aside funds for their Unemployment Contributions).
• Updated programs related to date processing.
• Set up JCL for FTP email of reports.
• Standard set of IBM COBOL / JCL / VSAM / ISPF / FTP.
• Skills: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, XPeditor,TSO/ISPF, FTP, Excel, Word, OnTrac (Project Tracking)

Confidential, Wichita, KS

Office Manager

Responsibilities:

• Joined my brother's company as the Office Manager. Tracking Residential Home Repairs, Worker Assignment,
• Financial Statements. Preparing Estimates.
• Company closed business in August.
• Skills: (2 Years): Windows, Quickbooks, Excel, Xactimate, MS Word.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to install the Checkpoint/Rollback system on a Honeywell Bull Mainframe.
• Responsible for code changes, testing and implementation of the Checkpoint/Rollback system.
• This involved extensive testing of data and logic to ensure that the databases and flat files were properly handling rollback conditions in the event of abnormal termination.
• Weekly meetings to resolve outstanding issues. COBOL 74, IMS DB. VSAM. 6 Month Contract.
• Skills (6 Months): COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, VSAM, On Call (2 weeks every 3 months)

Confidential, Franklin, TN

HP Cobol Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Cobol Programming on an HP3000.
• Primarily duties were involved in Report Creation/Maintenance (3A Reports), Key Data Edits, Data / Mailing List manipulation (Conversions, Matching to Master Files, Providing output files to Account Execs to process their clients (publishers) data.
• Additional software tool used: Matchup (Data/List Management/WinNT).
• Extensive experience with MPE/iX OS and EDITOR, COPYLIB and other tools for implementing COBOL programs.
• Skills (1 Year): HP3000, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, MPE/iX OS, ETL Development, Editor

Confidential, Wichita, KS

Claims Adjuster Contract Position

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for obtaining information to prepare claims for individuals affected by the Katrina disaster.
• Set up a network to process claims and adjustments.
• Worked closely with insurance companies. This contract position was temporary until I found suitable work within my programming field.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Senior Computer Analyst/ COBOL

Responsibilities:

• Extensive Maintenance on Large Scale Medical and Hospital Claim Validation Systems Coding, Testing, Implementation of approximately 200 Change Requests per year of varying degrees of complexity. These are primarily requests from Insurance payers (nationwide) that need to make changes to their edits to validate their submitter data or have new ones installed.
• Additionally, there were several system-wide changes of even greater magnitude of difficulty that I was the primary author.
• Worked on HIPAA COMPLIANCE with emphasis on the submitter side.
• Significant work done in strengthening and formalizing QA Standards and Practices.
• Performed Client based procedural editing for all fields involved in X12 835 and NSF mapping on a daily and emergency basis.
• FTP & NDM Processing - JCL Setup on several systems for File Transfer to relevant customers.
• Client list was practically all Medical Insurance Companies. WebMD (Emdeon) is the nation's clearing house for claims processing.4/2005
• Skill Set(7 Years) COBOL2, DB2, CICS, MVS/OS, VSAM, JCL, JES3, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, TSO, ISPF,NDM,FTP.
• Additional tools: XPEDITOR,ABENDAID, RUMBA,NDM, REXX, CLIST,EZTRIEVE
• Supplementary Skills: EDI, Medical Claims Processing, KRONOS, MTTS, Microsoft Office, Excel, Visio, MS Project, Windows 2000 and XP, Mapping: X12, 837, NSF, Production Support (On Call).
• Hardware: IBM 9021-9X2, 3090, 3084,IBM PC

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Computer Programmer/COBOL

Responsibilities:

• COBOL Coding/Testing for various state dept. requests. The DMV Tag Division and the TDOT Work Estimations were my primary areas of interest.
• Skill Set(1 Year): COBOL, JCL, ROSCOE/IBM, REXX

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Programmer Analyst/COBOL

Responsibilities:

• Various projects related to the Managed Care Network's Data Systems (Medicare).
• Primary focus was on their Quarterly Reporting to the State.
• Skill Set(1 Year): COBOL, JCL, VSAM, EZTREVE, OWL, IBM 370

Confidential

Technology Resources/Contract Programme

Responsibilities:

• Contract Programmer for American General Insurance System Migration. month programming project to migrate American General's System and Data to a new operating structure.
• Skillset(1 Year): COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF, IBM 370