PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- More than 20 years of Mainframe coding, modification and enhancement experience.
- Experience completing the entire Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Extensive experience gathering and documenting requirements.
- Experience includes unit, system, user acceptance testing (UAT), and integration testing.
- 15+ years FOCUS
- 20+ years Cobol experience
- 20+ years DB2 experience
- 20+ years IMS experience
- 20+ years JCL experience
- 20+ years Panvalet experience
- 10+ years Abend Aid experience
- Experience using EZtrieve, converting EZtrieve reports to Cobol code
- Using Endeavor as a library to store code
- Experience with scheduling
- Experience mentoring junior team members
- Experience providing documentation for systems
- Experience at Federal - Mogul and Confidential Credit creating Sarbanes-Oxley documentation
- Experience with CICS
- Worked many years at Federal Mogul with 10 or more Plants on interfacing edi Processes such as:
- ASN’s (advance shipping notices)
- Invoices
- Reconsolidation of invoices
- Also communicated with the plants internal and external plants to resolve issues.
- Some plants were on AIAG formats and some were using proprietary processes
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Hardware/Software Experiences: Abend Aid, COBOL, DB2, FOCUS, IMS, JCL, Panvalet, Endevor, TSO/ISPF, UCC7, UCC11, Microsoft Office, Crystal reporting, Visual Basic, EXCEL, Microsoft Project, Lotus notes, PC software knowledge, PC hardware knowledge, SAP-SD, PUPS, IBM Debugger, CICS, Unicode UTF-16.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Confidential
Programmer Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining and developing Cobol DB2 programs
- Creating JCL
- Creating specifications and documentation to support the changes made to the systems
- Implemented a CICS/DB2 Telephony system for Europe and North America
- Unicode for COBOL and DB2
- Worked on project to convert all db2 tables from Confidential to Unicode format.
- Installed an FTP mainframe process between Confidential and three of it’s vendors.
- Worked on production support when processes went down.
Confidential
Programmer Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Working on a state Medicaid project, working with a Health Insurance company
- Analysis of existing code
- Gathering and documenting requirements
- Designing and developing Cobol Code
- Modifying and enhancing existing Cobol Code
- Performing unit and system testing
- Provide documentation on an ongoing basis
- Using Endeavor as a library to store code
- Volunteered at a local computer store to learn more about P.C. hardware and software.
- Volunteered for a local organization that recycled old computers.
Confidential
Senior Systems Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Served as a team lead on many projects.
- Facilitated many brainstorming sessions to come up with the best solution for the problem at hand.
- As team mentor, also mentored several junior team members.
- Ran disaster recovery tests on many critical mainframe applications.
- Trained new programmers in ISPF/TSO, JCL, COBOL and FOCUS techniques and helped them to understand Confidential computer systems.
- Worked with scheduling to put jobs into production.
- Analyzed, wrote and tested many programs using COBOL and FOCUS during career.
- Moved Jobs into Production on a daily, weekly, monthly, semi - annually, and year basis.
- Did unit, integration, system and user acceptance testing for the project.
- Responsible for the system and programming specs.
- Designed DB2 tables.
- Wrote, tested and put into production the FOCUS programs needed in the project.
- Created many Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) documents for Confidential s Audit department and Confidential Credit systems .
