SUMMARY

• Mr. Viesturs Timrots has over 35 years of technical data processing experience in the support and maintenance of various production computer systems.
• He has worked closely with users, management, and staff to meet various requirements: designing and coding new and enhanced functionality according to business requirements, resolving technical issues, and providing high quality business and system support.
• He has managed tasks; supervised and trained personnel; analyzed requirements; developed specs, standards, and procedures; provided testing support; performed IV&V.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Application development, SDLC, COBOL, COBOL II, JCL
• Easytrieve, Dataquery, Access, SAS, Datacom DB, VASM, CICS
• Serena Dimensions (CM tool), Librarian, Remedy (trouble ticket tracking tool)
• Sterling Software EDI interface software
• Confidential mainframes and utilities, FTP, Syncsort,
• HTML, XML
• File - Aid, Intertest
• TSO/ISPF, Roscoe
• Excel, Word, Windows 2000, 95, 98, NT, MS DOS, Visio
• MQ, TSQ, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle ART Workbench, Oracle client server, Linux
• Functional skills include: Hardware, Software, and Equipment Acquisition, Installation and Maintenance
• Operations and Management Support
• Task Management: Requirements Analysis, time estimation
• Sterling EDI Development and Support
• IV&V and Testing Support
• Standards and Specifications Development
• User interface design
• Version One Agile methodology
• Software analysis
• Supervisory skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential. Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• Supported DHS contract to migrate existing US Customs and Border Protection COBOL programs from Datacom DB to Oracle using Tuxedo/ART Workbench.
• Work was performed as a member of an Agile team, providing expertise in inventory analysis, migration process development support, code migration, and code management.
• Attended and participated in all Scrum meetings including the Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review.
• Worked with team members to help estimate Stories and help Product Owner better define acceptance criteria.
• Provided input to Product Owner for possible new Stories for the Product Backlog. Provided tasks and estimated hours to complete those tasks.
• Participated in cross-functional to improve the team’s ability to manage workload.

Confidential, Springfield and McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• COBOL program development and system design documentation for US Customs and Border Protection Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and the Consolidated Secondary Inspection System.
• COBOL, MQ, CICS, and Datacom/DB back-end processing and overall functional design and requirements support for the Passenger Systems Program Office (PSPO) in general. COBOL/Datacom DB program development utilizing TSO/ISPF and Serena Dimensions LCM, system and program analysis, and administrative and field user maintenance support on the CBP border crossing enforcement z/OS mainframe computer system.
• Team lead for mainframe based pedestrian border crossing process and 2nd/3rd tier trouble ticket analyst.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Programming, analysis, and maintenance of various portions of the US Department of Health and Human Services mainframe financial grant and loan system including user interface, problem resolution, and testing support, and data conversion support during their COBOL/ADABAS to ORACLE conversion.

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

Responsibilities:

• COBOL program analysis, maintenance, testing support, and technical issue resolution for payroll calculations, health benefits, retirement, thrift savings, reporting, and other issues related to the United States Department of State’s payroll system utilizing Confidential OS/390, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, utilities, SAS, File-Aid, Librarian, FTP, JCL, Life Cycle Management, and some HTML/XHTML.

Confidential, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead on COBOL analysis, modification, and Q/A for Y2K date conversion projects and quality assurance for IV&V projects. Supervised 1 - 10 technical personnel, depending on project size and scope.
• Trained new employees and contractors on in-house software. Developed Y2K conversion standards and procedures and QA procedures.
• Provided customer and in-house management technical support.
• Utilized PC/network based in-house analysis tools, MicroFocus Workbench, Word, and Excel in support of business requirements.

Confidential, Frederick, MD

Responsibilities:

• COBOL mortgage reporting system maintenance programming and new program development in support of various mortgage sub-systems.
• As the EDI software upgrade lead, performed EDI interface program maintenance and development, in-house user and support, transaction validation and verification utilizing their Confidential OS/3090, TSO/ISPF, various utilities, File-Aid, Librarian, and FTP in support of these activities.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis of the Office of Personnel Management's procurement system to define EDI data elements and transaction sets for their planned ANSI X12 EDI procurement system, designed and developed COBOL/CICS/IMS data extract and interface programs per Sterling requirements, batch reporting programs for incoming vendor responses, and modified existing programs for any required EDI interface.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and user based testing support of the United States Customs Service’s Confidential mainframe based COBOL Seized Property Management System.
• Direct support of company operations via database query reporting.
• Equipment purchases, maintenance, and replacement.
• User and support both in-house and satellite offices.
• Supervised two LAN/PC technicians.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Developed, maintained, and tested COBOL programs for the USCS Seized Property Management System on an Confidential 3090 OS/MVS/XA using COBOL, CICS, DATACOM DB, and ROSCOE.
• Provided user related to system and program modifications to EG&G Dynatrend personnel, and performed problem analysis based on user and business requirements.

Confidential, Systems Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed, maintained, installed, and tested telephone usage tracking systems utilizing an Confidential 3084 OS/MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, VSAM system