SUMMARY:

• More than 30 years experience in programming including conducting user interviews for system design, creating specifications, program design, coding, testing, documenting, user and implementation in financial and business industries. My forte is designing new applications or coding enhancements from the users perspective, resulting in a faster, more effective solution. Satisfying the needs of the user and bringing higher productivity to the company is my goal.
• You have not finished reading this resume until you have read the last paragraph.
• Programming for insurance, banking, stock brokerage, and accounting verticals
• Coding COBOL, RPG, Natural/Adabas, Easytrieve Plus (EZ - Trieve), Assembler
• Using a variety of systems including IBM Mainframe, OS390/ZOS/JCL/TSO/ISPF, VSE/ESA, ISAM, VSAM, DITTO, AS400 iSeries, OS/400, DB/400, S/36, OCL/CL/ILE, SEU/SDA/PDM/DDS, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Word/Excel/VISIO, Turnover, Gentran, FTP
• Create structured coding specifications from user and management interviews
• Coding, testing, supporting, and maintaining mission critical programs
• Adept at end user on program usage
• Preparing concise user documentation and detailed programming documentation
• Superb analytical ability
• Excellent interpersonal skills including communicating with end users
• Excellent verbal/written & analytical communication skills, including preparing structured programming specifications, users, writing both user and programming documentation and coordinating program implementation
• Outstanding at responding to constantly changing requirements and conflicting deadlines
• SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Olympia WA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installing Legislative Mandates as approved & identified
• Converting Old Payroll Files Project from CD’s to the Network
• Identifying COBOL programs with reports, as part of the System Modernization Project
• Processing HR Changes as needed (New Hires, Transfers and Retirees)

Confidential, Burien WA

Church Manager

Responsibilities:

• Advertised for a new Pastor, evaluated resumes, sermons, brought them to church to preach and hired one.
• Researched available Pastors for pulpit supply Sunday mornings and evenings.
• As Treasurer, made sure offerings were deposited and all the bills paid on time.
• Maintained the continuity of the church for the time that we were without a Pastor.

Confidential, Seattle WA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contractor w/MACROSTAFF
• Modified a variety of Cobol programs and CLs according to specifications for the Medical/Health Care (Healthcare) claims applications
• Designed and Coded extract applications / FTP procedures for third party processers.
• Analyzed and improved reporting procedures and computer run times.
• Researched and fixed operations / programming problems.
• Created and distributed Excel files to the LAN for user departments
• Tested / Implemented code changes.
• Created / updated Turnover documentation.
• Communicated on a regular basis (verbally & emails) with supervisors, project managers and business systems analyst
• AS400 - iSeries / COBOL / CL / VSAM / Batch / Outlook / Word / Excel / Turnover / Gentran / ROBOT / OS/400 / DB/400

Confidential, Mercer Island, WA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contractor w/AETEA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• Life-comm
• Maintained mission critical package with zero downtime.
• Coded & tested a brand new Agent Reporting System according to new Federal reporting requirements.
• Coded a variety of adhoc reports.
• Mainframe / COBOL / EASYTRIEVE / JCL / VSAM / Batch / Lotus Notes / Visio

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contractual on an as need basis
• Utilized RPG programming expertise to maintain a variety of programs including DDA, SAV and CD applications.
• Increased the Money Order Sys report totals & file sizes to handle a national sales campaign.
• Upgraded federal funds to meet the expanding needs of our customer to deal with more banks around the country.
• Researched, and applied annual IRS changes to all applications and IRS record formats.
• AS400 / COBOL / RPG (RPG II / RPG 2 ) / OCL / CL / Batch / On-Line / SEU / SDA

Confidential, Enumclaw, WA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• (Heritage) Personal Auto / Homeowners (Property & Casualty)
• Completed numerous code changes resulting in improvements to the printing and mailing of insurance policies
• Managed conversion from line printer to XEROX printers, saving money by eliminating older expensive printers
• As part of a team, modified applications by replacing hard coded criteria with user defined tables providing easier maintenance of applications
• Designed and implemented forms for various printers allowing easy attachment of new and changing insurance forms to the policies.
• Established user defined parameters to direct the printing of policies to internal printer or outsourced by FTP methods to external printers.
• Mainframe / COBOL / Natural / Assembler / DOS/VSE/ESA / VSAM / Batch / Outlook / Word / DITTO

Confidential, Seattle, WA & Redding, CA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contractor w/PROGRAMMING & CONSULTING SERVICES
• Standardized data format for uploading from IBM Sys/36(OCL) to IBM mainframe for GL Conversion Project.
• Mainframe / COBOL / JCL / Batch / SYS36 / RPG / OCL / OS

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared coding specifications, designed, coded, wrote, tested and implemented a variety of programs including Money Orders, Bad Check Collections and Bank Conversions.
• Had primary responsibility for maintaining mission critical DDA programs for Checking (Banking Department Financial System) and Demand Deposit Accounting with zero downtime.
• Maintained Ready Reserve (backup to checking, revolving line of credit like credit card), Savings, CDS, IRA, Safe Deposit Box (locbox), Account Reconciliation, Federal Funds, General Ledger (G/L), Automated Clearing House (ACH), Auto Transfers and Customer Info File, Calc and apply interest.
• Designed and maintained an IRS application and all of the connections with all of our banking applications and reporting this info to the IRS every year in their record formats.
• Modified all screen input programs to meet customer’s needs nationwide.
• Coded all modifications required by government/regulation changes.
• Modified all pre-posting and posting programs.
• Coded changes to all reporting and screen inquiry programs. Modified customer notices (i.e. OD/NSF) and statements as required.
• Rewrote customer statements to include a combined statement with expanded ACH descriptions.
• Created and built interfaces for Ready Reserve & Account Analysis sub-systems.
• Created new, and modified existing interfaces, for all ACH transactions, both for received and newly generated items.
• AS400 / COBOL / RPG (RPG II / RPG 2 ) / Assembler / OCL / CL / SYS36 / Batch / On-Line / SEU / SDA

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and coded new applications for Statement System, Dividend System (includes proxies), Stock Loan/Borrow, and Research Reporting.
• Maintained a very sophisticated Commission Statement / Reporting System (rates/fees for states, exchanges, products, etc), Brokerage Accounting (GL), Margin Account programs, Stock Transfers / Vault Reconciliations and Regulatory changes.
• Mainframe / COBOL / RPG / DOS/VSE / BATCH / Word