SUMMARY:

• I offer thirty - three years of mainframe application development, systems analysis and business analysis experience.
• A highly skilled and dedicated professional, my experience includes 20 years as a consultant and 10 years as a fulltime employee.
• The vast majority of my experience was acquired while developing and supporting mainframe systems in several different lines of Insurance, as well as some experience in Manufacturing and Retail.
• I have been heavily involved in several different aspects of mainframe systems development, including functional design, spec writing, systems analysis, database design, application design, application coding, and all stages of testing and production implementation.
• My years of experience in the consulting arena have provided me with significant exposure to many different applications and working environments.
• As a consultant, I have proven my ability to very quickly adapt to, and be effective working in, many diverse and unfamiliar environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, MVS/SP/XA, OS/2, VM/XA

Languages: COBOL, VS COBOL II, COBOL 390, ASSEMBLER, EZ-PLUS, JCL, SQL

Program Products: AADF, ABEND-AID, CECI, CEDF, CHANGEMAN, CICS, CMS, DB/WORKBENCH, DB2, DB2-EXPERT, ENDEVOR, EXPEDITER, FILE-AID, FILE-AID for DB2, HUMMINGBIRD, IDMS, IMS DB/DC, ISPF, MQ Series, MICROFOCUS WORKBENCH, PANVALET, QMF, REVOLVE, SDF, SMARTTEST, SPUFI, TELNET, TELON, TSO, WEBSPHERE, XEDIT

Mainframe Platforms: IBM 3OXX

Micros and Workstations: IBM PC/XT/AT & PS/2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, DB2, JCL/PROCS, ChangeMan and SmartTest

Responsibilities:

• Developed a Debt Consolidation system to automatically consolidate all of an individuals student loans into one loan and recalculate the combined interest rates into one rate.
• Developed a system to process student loans at a reduced interest rate for military personnel.
• Involved in design, coding, testing and production implementation for these two projects.
• Key member of the Resolution Team. Responsibilities include trouble-shooting, fixing, testing and implementing changes to correct production problems.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, DB2, JCL/PROCS, SCLM and EXPEDITOR

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead for the contractors working on the Benefits Applications.
• Involved in systems analysis, functional design, specification writing and COBOL/DB2 coding for new application development, and maintenance of existing applications, for the mainframe Benefits systems.
• Work very closely with business community in the analysis, design and testing phases of these projects.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, DB2, JCL/PROCS, ENDEVOR and EXPEDITOR

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis, development, execution and verification phases of masking data to comply with HIPAA data confidentiality requirements.
• Masked DB2 tables, flat files and VSAM files.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, CICS, DB2, JCL/PROCS, ENDEVOR and EXPEDITOR

Responsibilities:

• Involved in systems analysis, functional design and COBOL/DB2 coding for 3 projects that accept Vendor Feed data into the Confidential systems environment, edit the data, report errors back to the vendors, perform Agent Commission calculations and store the data in Confidential ’s Sales and Underwriting DB2 databases.
• Worked very closely with business community in the analysis, design and testing phases of these projects.
• Involved in all phases of the unit, systems and acceptance testing.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, CICS, DB2, JCL/PROCS, ENDEVOR and EXPEDITOR

Responsibilities:

• Developed Debt Recovery application to automatically identify and recoup completed commission payments to agents for policies that subsequently lapsed.
• Provider system Disaster Recovery test planning development and implementation.
• Added new Comp Type logic to several modules to automate the payment of agent and broker commissions for several new products.
• Automated the 409A Transaction which involved adding calculation and commission payment logic to several different Provider applications.
• Researched several systems in order to develop fourteen Disaster Recovery test plans.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, CICS, DB2, JCL/PROCS, ENDEVOR and EXPEDITOR

Responsibilities:

• Significant Systems analysis and architecture design in order to identify needed modifications and the most effective method(s) of implementing these changes.
• Designed and coded 20-25 COBOL/DB2 modules to convert Confidential DB2 tables to Prudential DB2 tables.
• Made significant modifications to over 175 COBOL/CICS/DB2 modules in order to correctly process utilizing the new Prudential DB2 tables.
• Involved in all phases of the unit, systems and acceptance testing.
• Involved in all phases of Production implementation.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, CICS, DB2, ENDEVOR, EXPEDITOR, WEBSPHERE and HUMMINGBIRD

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and/or perform all Server maintenance for Production and Test Servers.
• Responsible for ensuring that the web based HIPAA Interactive Gateway system is active and available to National Clearinghouses 24 hours a day.
• Responsible for researching and fixing all production issues for both the interactive front-end and mainframe back-end components of the system.
• Responsible for assisting National Clearinghouses in troubleshooting and resolving all transaction send and receive performance issues/problems at the Clearinghouse’s source system.
• Design, code, test and implement all mainframe modifications to the system.
• Work with Confidential Business Analysts to track and report on all transaction activity.
• Work with Confidential Business Analysts to determine cause of, and report on, all production issues/problems.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, CICS, DB2, ENDEVOR and EXPEDITOR

Responsibilities:

• Systems analysis and architecture design for the PSS Claim Inquiry process.
• Designed and coded 10-15 COBOL/CICS/DB2 modules.
• The function of each module is to select and return data from various Claim source systems to a WEB interface front-end system.
• Designed, coded and tested COBOL Adapter modules to interface with the Information Bus (IBUS) which utilizes MQ Series services.
• Wrote several Business System Designs, Functional Specifications and Programming Specifications.

Confidential

Consultant

Utilized: COBOL 390, SQL, CICS, EXPEDITOR, ENDEVOR and DB2

Responsibilities:

• Designed and coded COBOL Adapter modules to interface with the Information Bus (IBUS) for both Event/Message and FileMover utilizing MQ Series services.
• Architect of the PAL Replay and Audit/Resynchronization processes required between an IBUS Event/Message publishing application and subscribing application.
• Designed and coded COBOL modules for the PAL Replay and Audit/Resynchronization processes.
• Designed and coded COBOL modules to track and log all IBUS activity related to PAL transaction processing.
• Intricately involved in all phases of IBUS Event/Message and FileMover testing as related to PAL and all interfacing applications.