SUMMARY:

• Experience in the public school system, aircraft manufacturing, banking, credit card processing, the Government Medicare System and manufacturing distribution support, AT&T TIRKS & Offline Airline Ticketing System.
• Very familiar with Structured Programming, Top Down Design and thorough testing concepts.
• Have been involved in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
• Has functioned as a Senior Systems Engineer, Senior System’s Analyst, Design Analyst, Programmer Analyst, Testing Analyst & Documenter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Was a contract Software Systems analyst to Confidential . DXC assigned me to the group supporting the Global Payments group.
• Global Payments Inc. supported MasterCard & Visa credit card systems.
• My job was to support JCL & programming analysis and maintenance efforts to the systems supporting the Global Payments group.
• My expertise included JCL, COBOL, Assembler, Documentation, VSAM, Easytrieve, DB2 and trouble - shooting for this assignment.
• September 4, 2018 Confidential made Me a Full Time Employee. I continued in the same role.
• Loss of contracts by DXC forced layoffs.
• All work was done remotely from home.

Confidential, Plano, Tx

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Was a contract analyst to Confidential who assigned me to Sabre Airline Reservation system.
• Was assigned to the Offline Batch Ticketing System doing consulting & maintenance.
• Expertise that was needed was in Cobol and I was asked to provide assistance in Assembler & PL/1.
• Worked with a team in the United States & India.
• Work was helping with coding, trouble shooting, designing & testing Cobol, Assembler & PL/1 programs.

Contract was completed. Confidential Enterprises combined with Computer Sciences Corporation to form a new company called Confidential . The new company’s management decided to lay off many regular and contract employees.

Confidential, Louisville, Ky

Contract Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise needed was in Assembler & PL/1.
• Work was helping with coding, trouble shooting, designing & testing Assembler & PL/1 programs.
• Contracting company was InfoSys from New Jersey.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Software Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I was assigned to the Medical Review System with Confidential Systems in Louisville, KY for maintenance, upgrade & installation of the ICD10 codes for the new Medicare system. This system contains approximately 100 DB2 tables and programs. Worked closely with a small team of analysts to coordinate and install changes.
• Installed all of the short term projects that I was assigned.
• Skills used were: DB2, Cobol, CICS, ZOS-JCL, Xpediter and Panvalet.
• Contracting company was Smart IT in Indianapolis, IN.

Confidential, Bowing Green, KY

Senior System’s Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a mainframe analyst / programmer in Cobol, DB2, CICS, Assembler, Utilities, Librarian, Endeavor & Sequel Server Tables.
• Assigned to a Sequel Server project after a few months on the job to the Eagle project.
• Eagle used Sequel tables accessed by SQL code pretty much the same as DB2 tables.
• Work consisted of fixing user data errors and doing table analysis.
• 98% of all problems were solved and the project was then transferred to another group.
• Transferred back to the mainframe group supporting a manufacturing and distribution system.
• Solved & reduced many problems / trouble tickets.
• Was laid off because of lack of work since I fixed so many problems, and programming support was transferred to India.

Confidential, Atlanta, Ga

Software Engineer and Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Project involved Assembler, Cobol II, CICS, JCL, VSAM & DB2.
• Main emphasis involved converting Assembler programs to Cobol II.
• Worked as a W-2 contractor for Confidential to IBM.
• Project was cancelled prematurely by NASCO who was the client of IBM.
• This was for NASCO’s Blue Cross / Confidential System.
• All work was done remotely at my home in Plano, Texas.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Systems Engineer and Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Medicare Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (F.I.S.S.) maintenance programming team.
• Received development & maintenance programming requests from Business Analysts and implemented the changes into the mainframe system.
• Troubleshot system problems from the Users and fixed them. This system involved maintenance and development under the direction of our customer who was Pinnacle Business Systems Incorporated. Pinnacle BSI is in the business of maintaining Medicare Part A for several regions of the country. Pinnacle BSI is the provider of Blue Cross / Confidential for Arkansas.
• Programming effort was is Cobol & Assembler

Confidential, Addison, Texas

Systems Analyst and Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked at Confidential /MBNA Card Services for 3½ years on a $1,500K system.
• Performed application development for the following Credit Card Processing Systems: AMEX Card Processing, Authorization System, Promotional Points, Enhanced Customer Options, FM PACA & Enhanced Pricing (MORE Project)
• Brought on board because of Assembler proficiency. Worked also in Cobol.
• Utilized CICS programs to assist in program/system development.
• Used ENDEVOR for program migration and used EXPEDITER for Debugging.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Senior Programming Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed program enhancement & modification on existing bank lending systems.

Confidential, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• $500K per year savings.
• Worked on an Oak Ridge Tulsa Boeing Computer System Database Conversion, which eliminated a mainframe computer system.
• Developed CICS programs utilizing Command Level CICS.
• Hired primarily to do Assembler work. Also did much work in Cobol.

Confidential, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• $700K savings. Elimination of Y2K problems from mainframe system at D.A.C. Utilizing list of programs from group leaders researched and planned alternative system solutions. Reviewed programs and identified fixes, installed code and conducted testing.

Confidential, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided programming and production support of a production control system while regular employee was on maternity leave.

Confidential, Wichita, Kansas

Senior Lead Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Met with users to define new computer systems for the Student Records System
• Provided programming support both in the online and batch processing environments.
• Developed & debugged CICS programs utilizing command level CICS.
• Programming involved Cobol, Assembler & Fortran.