SUMMARY:

Expert mainframe programmer with over 35+ years’ experience in various term consulting projects for Confidential 500 companies. Specialist in both batch and on - line business systems on large Confidential mainframes. Reputation in the field as the person to resolve planning/design issues and simplify/standardize complex projects. Known for determination, tenacity, and extreme high quality of work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• 370/168, 3033, 3090, 4341; OS/VS2, MVS, VM, DOS; WANG 2200 MVP, AIMS;
• BAL, COBOL, Micro Focus APS, NOMAD, EXEC2, REXX, BASIC; IMS DB/DC, IDMS, CICS, SQL/DB2, SPUFI, POWERBUILDER, VB, EASYTRIEVE PLUS; TSO SPF,
• INTERTEST, EXPEDITER, SMARTTEST, Confidential DEBUG, UCANDU, QUICK JOB, Confidential UTILITIES, OS/JCL, DOS/JCL; PANVALET, ROSCOE, LIBRARIAN, CHANGEMAN,
• ENDEVOR, CRYSTAL REPORTS, Waterfall, SDLC, Agile.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Production support, monitor batch and on-line environments, resolve defects in auto and policy insurance systems.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software development for stock traders using the TD Ameritrade platform and proprietary trading strategies.
• Software original development was in 2010, these are ongoing modifications requested over the years.
• I currently use the software in my daily trading activities.

Confidential, Ridely Park, PA

Responsibilities:

• Re-host batch and on-line Confidential mainframe application DB2 to SQL running on Windows Server 2012-R2 & SQL Server Database.
• Duties include DBA activities including file transfers DDL setups, analysis of system interfaces.
• Development was with Microsoft Visual studio IDE and Micro Focus Enterprise Developer..

Confidential, Madison, WI

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved changes to stored procedures, batch job streams, and on-line programs. Rewrote three of the primary API's image pop, add notes, list notes.
• Wrote CICS socket program to interface with Host Explores and the workstation listener.
• Documentation included the PD-Processing Documents, TS-Technical Specifications along with the Test Resulting using a case study approach.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating system specifications for CICS transaction processing programs working with line of business, developers and assisting in system testing. (Agile/Scrum)

Confidential, West Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• Heath care maintenance for the Confidential .
• Daily stock trading hobby turned into full time job.
• Daily classes (3 sessions a day) that supplement my own decades of investment studies.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Lead Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mainframe support of the posting batch cycle consumer banking/credit card system for major Confidential .
• Various support/adhoc project for Confidential .

Confidential, Birmingham AL

Lead Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design, writing CICS programs for file maintenance on CardPac VSAM files, accessing MQ and batch systems that relate to the credit card processing systems and interfaces.
• Created multiple Draft5 and Standard Batch job streams to push data to Confidential for daily and on-request processing.

Confidential, Little Rock

Senior Software Consultant Lead

Responsibilities:

• General mainframe maintenance to batch and on-line programs.
• Created two new job streams with related run-books and JCL.
• The weekly and monthly streams consisted of an extract along with the corresponding report programs.
• Project canceled/outsourced to Canadian firm for turn-key system

Confidential

System Engineer / Online Lead Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Settlement rewrite.
• Wrote technical specification.
• Coded on-line CICS/DB2 summary & detail programs/maps.
• Took the leadership role to develop common I/O and functional stubs (subroutines).
• Assisted with the batch migration processing for DB2 records moving from quality assurance environments to production.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

System Engineer / Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Replaced IDMS calls with calls to common modules accessing DB2.
• Includes both batch and on-line processing.

Confidential, Augusta, GA

System Engineer / Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed MQ/DB2 programs and did maintenance on an order processing package brought in-house.
• Includes both batch and on-line processing.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Lead Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote two on-line paging programs where the old source was missing & needed an E-COBOL load.
• Expanded field sizes, added new entries to DB2 & Oracle tables to increase the precision of calculations regarding weight and volume across systems.
• Also wrote the programs and put together the monthly job streams to load SQL tables for the Product Supply system.

Confidential

Lead Programmer Analyst, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Various projects, enhancing the DLS mortgage processing system.
• The enhancements range from changes to the billing/statement process, audit trail for escrow analysis, fee enhancement and field expansion for all core files.
• COBOL programming included MQ, CICS, DB2/VSAM and batch processing.
• This also included support/interfaces for two acquisitions.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Lead Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Convert VM Nomad Media Buying Budget System to Visual Basic 6.0 accessing an Oracle database.