OBJECTIVE:

• To secure a position as a Technical / Team Lead or Sr. Programmer Analyst with an established organization utilizing my technical knowledge and experience.

SUMMARY:

• I have many years of experience working in the IT industry as Technical Lead, Senior Developer, Programmer Analyst, Business Analyst, Mentor and Trainer. I have worked in a variety of technical and functional environments including finance, retail and wholesale distribution, insurance, claims processing, order entry, and manufacturing systems. I have strong technical skills, and I work well as a leader, part of a team, or on individual assignments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, zOS/390, OS/MVS, MVS/XA, MVS, MS - DOS, WINDOWS

Programming Languages: COBOL, COBOL II, Microfocus COBOL, SAS, Assembler, Eztrieve, FTP, XMITIP, UNIX Korn Shell Scripting, MS SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle SQL Plus, Visual Basic, C++, HTML, Dyl280

PC Applications: PC SAS, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, EDGE, Toad, DbVisualizer

Online/Interactive: CICS (command-level), SDF2, BMS-GT, BMS, DMS, EDGE

Databases and File Structures: DB2, IMS DL/1, VSAM, ISAM, MS Access, MS SQL Server, and Oracle.

Productivity Tools: TSO, INSYNC, FILE-AID, SyncSORT, IDCAMS, JES 2&3, JCL, AFP, LIBRARIAN, ChangeMan, Panvalet, DEBUG, Endevor, Intertest, Xpediter, CMS

Editors: UNIX VI, TextPad, TSO/ISPF

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Senior Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business users to enhance existing and create new programs for business reporting.
• COBOL 370, Assembler, DB2, Dyl280, File-Aid, zOS/390 MVS JCL, TSO, Changeman, FTP.

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

Applications Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the users in the Billing department as well as Confidential and CSC to support customer billing software. This involved interacting with several groups within Confidential 's IT department as well as CSC to maintain and stabilize existing programs and procedures and develop new ones.
• COBOL 370, DB2, DbVisualizer, Eztrieve, MQ, File-Aid, zOS/390 MVS JCL, TSO, Endevor, SmartTest, and FTP.

Confidential

Senior Developer / Analyst - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the users in Confidential 's Sales Commission department to support their mainframe systems. Developed, maintained, and tested programs and JCL as needed. Developed programs to extract data from VSAM files and load DB2 tables

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Senior Developer / Analyst - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business users to create reports. Evaluated data to write programs, define copybooks and create JCL to convert data for input into data warehouse (ETL). Convert Assembler on-line and batch programs to COBOL and test results. Created a process to automate testing of data files from other business areas, this saved the team over 40 man hours a week.

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

Senior Programmer / Analyst - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with unit managers and business users to integrate Federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) regulations into into existing government reporting processes. Created and tested new CICS and batch programs that brought the mortgage application processes into compliance with federal HMDA regulations. The code included functions for reporting, data extraction and auditing. Created ad hoc reports to test and verify compliance. The result brought WFHM into compliance, streamlined reporting and improved auditing functions. The programs cut paper output and employee work loads. This resulted in receiving an outstanding service from the WFHM HMDA Compliance Group.

Confidential, Marshalltown, IA

Senior Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from business unit managers. Analyzed current processes for their parts warehouse distribution centers, and created a new program to retrieve information from an existing database for a parts-specific distribution center. This included adding code to the existing programs, new CICS screens, new commission reporting and inventory tracking. Also worked with the program manager of the new center to create new programs, reports and databases.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Information Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with end-client managers to create and maintain data entry screens, reports, and data extracts for order fulfillment processes. Advised UNIX tech support to set up new servers, and to resolve program conversion, security and other technical issues.
• UNIX Korn shell scripting, FTP, EDGE, ORACLE PL/SQL and SQL Plus, Toad, COBOL, Eztrieve, and PL/I

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintenance and support of the Annuity Leverage System (ALS) As team technical lead, responsibilities included team members and system users, coordinating team efforts in resolving outages and support issues. Coded and tested program changes requested by users. Worked with Unix Support to resolve security and other technical issues. Completed CMM . Co-authored and implemented coding and implementation standards. Responsible for 5 person QA team and program migration using ChangeMan.

Confidential, Marshalltown, IA

Senior Business Systems Analyst / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from business manager and functioned as a data warehouse analyst/developer for the data extract, transformation, and load of various internal and external data sources. As team lead, worked with tech. support, and users to ensure tasks were completed and problems resolved. Other responsibilities included analysis, design, implementation of programs and managing the ongoing support of Data Warehouses . Designed MS SQL and Microsoft Access queries and updates.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAS to COBOL conversion project. Wrote programs and enhancements for on-line and batch software applications to support customer inquiry, purchasing, inventory, financial, and commission reporting systems using. Designed and enhanced invoice and billing forms using AFP.
• COBOL, SAS, JCL, CICS, IMS, OS/MVS, FTP, Librarian, SyncSort, AFP, RPG, Assembler, Mark IV and DEC / VAX.