SUMMARY:

• Profile Highly skilled in analyzing, designing, specifications, programming, testing, documenting, instructing, implementing and maintaining CICS/DB2/MQ/VSAM on - line and Cobol II batch systems with complete

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Programming CICS 20+ Assembler 18 IDMS 2COBOL 20+ MQ 8 RPG II 2 VSAM 20+ Stored Procedures 3 Channels/Containers 1 DB2/SQL 15 REXX 2 CWS 1 Skills Z/OS OS/390 MVS/ESA DOS/VSE Excel Powerpoint TSO/ISPF OS/JCL DOS/JCL Endevor Changeman Librarian Xpediter Intertest Agile BMC AppWatch MQmenu File - Aid SPB Syncsort Word Easytrieve HTML/XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, N.J

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and wrote aprocess to swing physical s from participant Merrill Lynch to become a new retail participant as part of Confidential ’s separation of retail and institutional broker dealer activities. The processing consisted of identifying and capturing the pertinent physical records, translating their old boxes to new boxes, and placing them on an AIMCDI-formatted file to be transmitted to DTCC for swing consummation. Multiple excel reports documented the audit trail, both pre-DTCC and post-DTCC. Coding was batch COBOL II/DB2 .

Confidential, Basking Ridge, N.J

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Logging of ACA-mandated ERAs and EFTs: Created programs for logging of electronic remittance advice (ERA) and electronic funds transfers (EFT) events, as part of the monitoring needed to meet government-mandated requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These were CICS/MQ and
• COBOL II/MQ batch called programs, complemented by an MQ ‘listener’ program utilizing MQDB2 and VSAM processing. Logging is initiated from both distributed and mainframe which results in the calling of my programs, to edit and put the events to MQ, where a ‘listener’ (written by myself) gets the messages and populates a DB2 repository table used for government reporting.
• Parsing of XML DB2 logs to a variable file of multiple-formatted records using COBOL XML parse.
• Created Fileaid access to the file, using XREF functionality, as an aid for users data readability.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, N.J

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Claims capturing for retesting: Conceived, designed, wrote specifications and coded a claims capturing system MUM (Multiple User Method) for in-flight MQ claims flowing from distributed users into the mainframe. The system allowed multiple expeditor testing sessions and infinite retesting of claims. Real-Time-Processing of claims: Real-time pricing for both batch and online claims using CICSDB2, MQ, Channels and Containers. TRICARE Military health program: Interfacing U.S.TRICARE military southern region medical contract into a current UHG claims processing system using 4th-generation language XGEN interfacing with CICS and COBOL II.

Confidential, Somerset, N.J

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• HIPAA implementation for prescription eligibility: Implementation of HIPAA conformity throughout a major medical company’s (MEDCO) prescription-processing eligibility system. Analysis of changes needed for both Batch and CICS with changes incorporating source, JCL, PROCS, control cards, CICS commareas and file structures.

Confidential, Weehawken, N.J

Sr. Associate

Responsibilities:

• Financial Services - Wealth Management: Coded the original application of online intra-day trades and transactions for their timely dynamic presentation to clients via a client/server configuration. This was the first time that intra-day techniques came into existence, at Confidential . This included all types of wealth management holdings information. Also, developed and maintained batch, MQ, CICS, DB2 and Stored Procedures software in support of client enrollment and client inquiry systems for use by field agents.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, N.J

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Name/Address deciphering.: Batch DB2 programs to decipher/reformat names and addresses from different unformatted combinations, and file sources, into a standard Confidential -regulated format for proper storing and future interpretation by both system software and Confidential customers.

Confidential, Montvale, N.J

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Formulary eligibility for third-party claims: Implemented CICS drug copay functionality into a formulary system. Integrated Drug CWS System: Part of a 3-person team which designed and created a CICS-to-
• Web Support pilot system (CWS), supplying data communication abilities between users on the internet and the CICS mainframe which used DB2 tables. The internet medium was in the form of
• HTML web pages communicating with mainframe CICS. This included inquiry, browse and update functionality and was the first CWS processing developed within the Integrated Drug group.

Confidential, Roseland, N.J

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Court-mandated remediation of misrepresented insurance policies: Analyzed, designedprogrammed, tested, debugged and documented CICS/DB2/VSAM maintenance programs to allow for policyholder-selected compensation packages. Enhanced COBOL II/DB2 batch programs to generate maintenance transactions to be used to update the Prudential main master file along with programs to monitor the policyholder selection’s status.

Confidential, Fairfield, N.J

Senior P/A

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a major rewrite of a unique municipal courts ticket and criminal CICS/DB2 system to enable interfacing of Confidential ’s system with the State of New Jersey's Administration of the Court's System in compliance with state regulations. Interviewed state personnel and analyzed state court system. Determined how to transmit the privately-entered data to the state system so as to maintain compatible parallel systems with enforced data integrity. This system was the only private system in New Jersey that was allowed to process tickets outside the state system. I documented the private system and trained users. I worked independently as the CICS/DB2/VSAM programmer analyst on this project only occasionally enlisting a consultant to help meet deadlines.