SUMMARY:

• Have over 30 years of Data Processing experience with the majority in an IBM mainframe environment.
• Performed full lifecycle development, support, and conversions including gathering systems requirements, analysis, process definition, specification description, design, development, testing, installation, documentation and .
• Successfully fulfilled the positions of Systems Project Leader, Data Processing Supervisor, Systems Analyst, and Programmer/Analyst.
• Managed technical system development teams varying in size from five to 24 programmers in new systems development and program maintenance for applications supporting a variety of diverse systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE: IBM, AMDAHL, WANG, NCR, and Honeywell mainframes, IBM and compatible PCs.

SOFTWARE: MVS390 COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL, CICS, MICROFOCUS COBOL, DB2, IDMS, JCL, ADSO, SQL, BASIC, TSO/ISPF, DMLO,OLO, OLM, ADS/G, XPEDITER, Stored procedures, SPUFI, VISIO, FILEAID.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - St. Louis, MO and Laughlin, NV

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Modified JCL, Procs and programs to process on the new mainframe
• Tested all modifications through batch processing

Technology used: COBOL, DB2, FILEAID, Xpediter, Changeman

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Correctly calculated and displayed in bar graph form the types of securities held by each client.
• Modified a program to display the estimated interest and dividend rates when a security was in default but was insured.
• Modified a program to combine interest and dividend rates when both had the same pay date.
• The aforementioned changes had previously been placed on hold due to the complexity of the coding to allow it to function in the current programming environment.
• Converted programs to process DB2 instead of IDMS database access logic.
• Assisted other team members in design, coding and testing.

Technology used: COBOL, DB2, IDMS, JCL, FILEAID, Xpediter, Workbench, IBM.

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and modified programs to display correct billing codes.
• Designed and modified programs to correctly process customers who had multiple claims and/or traffic violations, so that the policy could be rated properly.
• Worked with Quality Control personnel mapping out an accurate test plan.
• Supported production problem resolution

Technology used: COBOL, ADABAS, NATURAL, JCL, FILEAID, Xpediter, ChangeMan, IBM.

Confidential - Lincoln, NE

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Took full responsibility while leading a group of personnel supporting the State of Nebraska Department of Labor Tax, Benefits and supporting systems while a new Benef Confidential is being created.
• Modified and installed system to transmit to and receive data from the Social Security Agency for verification.
• Created a system to provide data on a monthly basis to Home Land Security.
• Supervised and took part in converting supporting programs from VSAM to DB2 file access for data transfer to and from the newly written Benef Confidential .

Technology used: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, FILEAID, Xpediter, Librarian, IBM

Confidential - Lincoln, NE

Business Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote conversion programs using written in Microfocus COBOL for Payor Ledger tables from the Charts I to Charts II system to meet federal mandate.
• Wrote SQL queries to assist the Business Analyst using SPUFI.
• Wrote reporting programs using Microfocus COBOL and DB2.
• Wrote technical specifications for table conversions.
• Streamlined a job through data analysis, flowcharting, program coding, and testing, which reduced the processing time from 12 hours to 3 hours.
• Microfocus COBOL was used for the 2 years on this contract.

Technology used: MICROFOCUS COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Xpediter, Librarian, JCL, SyncSort, IBM

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing specifications for program modifications to Confidential Commodity System and New Trades System using COBOL, allowing online trading.
• Wrote specifications for a program to enables the system to take orders from the clients through a website and enter them into the Honeywell mainframe for batch processing for trades reporting.
• Wrote specifications on the Commodity system to set up the jobs to accept settlement prices for update to the master files.

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed Y2K modifications to the Walker Accounts Payable support programs in COBOL.
• Modified and tested programs to handle the new date configuration necessary for Y2K and Confidential processing.
• Wrote a COBOL program to extract addresses of all US Postal Contractors on the Walker A/P system, standardize the information for bar coding, and update the Contractors files.
• Assisted other staff members in problem identification and/ correction of any COBOL/DB2 programs in the MVS/390 environment.

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documented the Claims systems for the pending takeover by another company.
• Created VISIO flowcharts based on system JCL to document the company’s closing information system.

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As Sr. Systems Analyst, designed a portion of the Price Control System to ship price change information to each store overnight.
• Performed enhancements, modifications, and testing on the Price Control and Acknowledgment Systems using COBOL II and ADABAS/Natural.
• Assisted other programs in the design process and maintenance issues.

Confidential- St. Louis, MO

Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Walker Accounts Payable conversion.
• Trained and evaluated new Postal employees.
• Modified existing West Coast center modules to process for St. Louis accounts.
• Wrote a program to clear obsolete transactions from the Walker Accounts Payable database.
• Wrote programs to extract and report authorized contracts and payments to be reviewed by top postal management for planning.
• Wrote programs and input screens using 4GL CSP for a money order inquiry system.

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Selected to work on the IDMS 12.0 conversion by Postal management.
• Wrote and maintained IDMS reporting and update programs.
• Taught self using the Computer Based IDMS and DB2 on own time.
• Prior to April 1991, worked on programs running on the Wang VS computer.
• Wrote the pilot module for the Document Generation System, which created contracts for all of the contractors working for the U.S. Postal Service.

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Specialist/Business Applications

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Third party Healthcare billing, Labor accounting with associated subsystems, MSA Fixed Assets.
• Was a supervisor for up to 24 employees.

Confidential - Newburgh, NY

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Auto insurance, Profit and Loss reporting

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Systems Analyst/Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Did analyst work on Corporate Trust system. Was Project Leader on DDA, Corporate Trust, Personal Trust, Savings and Lockbox.

Confidential - Springfield, IL

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Auto insurance programs and Accounts Receivable conversion programs