PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 28 years of progressive information systems experience in management, business analysis, mainframe development and programming, testing, and training on IBM platforms. I have an extensive background in state government financial and tax systems, experience with multiple software development methodologies including SDLC, JAD, Prince 2, Waterfall, DSDM and Agile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, DSDM, Agile, Scrum, Prince 2, JAD

Languages: COBOL, Natural, JCL, SQL, CICS, HTML, CSS, JAVA, Web Agent

Development Tools: FILEAID, QMF, CONTROL - M, Natural Engineer, Entire X, Construct, Predict, Endeavor, Xpediter, Easytrieve

Software: Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Visio, Project Manager, Front Page, WordPerfect.

Environment: OS/MVS, Windows, TSO/ISPF, COMPLETE, UNIX

Job Schedulers: ZEKE, UCC7

Databases: DB2, ADABAS, VSAM, MS Access, IMS

Communications: FTP, NDM/Connect:Direct

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Owner/Operator

Responsibilities:

• This was a side job to cover times when contracts form mainframe programmers were not available.
• Building custom gaming systems based off either Intel or AMD processors often using dual graphics cards.
• Building Media centers for clients which would exceed the capabilities and often with lower costs than those available from cable providers.
• Aid in hardware issues and repairs ranging from power supplies, drives, and memory issues.
• Aid in software selection and training.
• Aid in software error issues.
• Create in home network setups that were linked via wire cables using Cat 5E for 10/100 systems, Cat 6A for gigabit capability, or wireless.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Modification of Mental Health, Probate and Civil Court Applications systems phase three of project
• Improvement of the Mental Health System by automating the extremely manual driven process by adding Service Codes, Service location field, Case Numbers, Texas County and City codes, Warrant numbers, Affidavits and Waifer Fees, and Order numbers and Edit checks to online system.
• Use of JCL for job submission.
• Wrote and tested an email generating system in Natural/ADABAS/DB2 that consolidated multiple e-mail systems into a system where the delivery information was stored on an ADABAS file.
• Modified ADABAS files, Programs, and Locals to include new data elements.
• Created multiple Excel and Power Point presentations for management use.
• Made modifications to the reset programs to discontinue the use of CNTRFILE and then rewrote program to use ADABAS version of table files. Modified DB2 Child files to contain cross reference information.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records.
• Aided in sanity testing for the Public housing subsystem rewrite.
• Aided with installation testing on several in house rewrites of several Public Assistance subsystems.
• Aided in preforming compatibility, regression, acceptance testing by performing smoke test, regression, acceptance testing.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Improvement of the Probate system by automating the extremely manual driven process by adding Case numbers, elimination of dual entry issue in the INOVA segment of the system and adding the Attorney information allowing the phasing out of the AI screen entry.
• Use of JCL for job submission
• Wrote and tested an email generating system in Natural/ADABAS/DB2 that consolidated multiple e-mail systems into a system where the delivery information was stored on an ADABAS file.
• Modified ADABAS files, Programs, and Locals to include new data elements.
• Created multiple Excel and Power Point presentations for management use.
• Made modifications to the reset programs to discontinue the use of CNTRFILE and then rewrote program to use ADABAS version of table files. Modified DB2 Child files to contain cross reference information.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records.
• Aided in sanity testing for the Public housing subsystem rewrite.
• Aided with installation testing on several in house rewrites of several Public Assistance subsystems.
• Aided in preforming compatibility, regression, acceptance testing by performing smoke test, regression, acceptance testing.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Improvement of the Civil System by automating the extremely manual driven process by Automatically generate labels for certified mail and bond forfeiture, reduce time consuming application navigation by allowing automatically proceeding to the next screen, standardization of the Case number for use across all systems, making the case number match the Probate system, auto populating fields to eliminate the need to re-enter information like name, date, and address, elimination of Attorney information needing to be re-entered, Add case type (2 character code) for determination of what type of case to be generated
• Use of JCL for job submission
• Assisted in the conversion from Natural 3 to Natural 4.2
• Wrote and tested an email generating system in Natural/ADABAS/DB2 that consolidated multiple e-mail systems into a system where the delivery information was stored on an ADABAS file.
• Modified ADABAS files, Programs, and Locals to include new data elements.
• Created multiple Excel and Power Point presentations for management use.
• Made modifications to the reset programs to discontinue the use of CNTRFILE and then rewrote program to use ADABAS version of table files. Modified DB2 Child files to contain cross reference information.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records.
• Aided in sanity testing for the Public housing subsystem rewrite.
• Aided with installation testing on several in house rewrites of several Public Assistance subsystems.
• Aided in preforming compatibility, regression, acceptance testing by performing smoke test, regression, acceptance testing.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating the Business Analysis, system design and coding for the modification, updating, and conversion of COBOL/CICS and Natural mainframe systems to Natural One/Web Agent and HTML so that former Mainframe applications are now web based.
• Sole responsibility for the online mainframe and web based Employee Benefits system which was coded and maintained in Natural/ADABAS for the 3270 side and Natural/ADABAS and Web Agent/HTML/CSS on the web side.
• Created online help programs for entire web and mainframe Employee Benefits system.
• Created documentation and manuals for both web and mainframe segments of the Employee Benefits, and Total Rewards system.
• Made all documentation and manuals available online for use.
• Use of Task Manager, an internal tool similar to Infopac, to submit and maintain JCL for jobs
• Responsible for the Web based Total Rewards system in Natural, ADABAS, Web Agent, and HTML.
• Use of an internally created tool called Domambigrator for file management, uploading and downloading, and modifications of Web Agent modules.
• Maintained and processed all Department mass email mailings in thru HTML, Excel Spreadsheets, and Text with Lyris.
• Aided users in the field with modification of all employee benefits records.
• Aided users with system issues. Then identified and corrected Natural code errors in production.

Confidential

Application Specialist/QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Use of JCL for job submission
• Use of JES2 for form modification of outputs.
• Software test planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity
• Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and Verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Used Control-M/CNTL-M to set up job schedules for new jobs or modification of existing jobs by setting job dependencies, time, scheduling type of job if nightly, business week nightly, weekly, monthly, etc…
• Provide lifecycle management of automated testing projects on software and large database applications using assorted HP tools like LoadRunner, Quality Center, and Quick Test Professional and various monitoring and scripting tools.
• Aided DOW’s QC staff to maintain cooperative relationships with developers and communicate with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records for the 12 Export Controlled systems.
• Assisted automated test design and various automation framework improvements.
• On the mainframe side of applications I performed Destructive/Stress and other forms of testing using scripts in assorted HP tools like LoadRunner, Quality Center, and Quick Test Professional and various monitoring and scripting tools.
• On the Web side of applications I performed Destructive/Stress and other forms of testing using scripts in Rational tools like Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, and Rational Service Tester.
• Managed off shore teams around the world in Mumbai, New Delhi, Sao Paulo Brazil, Shanghai China, and several sites in Europe in the management of mission critical systems like the DOW Purchasing Receiving System for Latin America coded in Natural/ADABAS.
• Worked as a Business Intelligence Analyst to aid in creation of procedures of work on multi lingual and platform systems.
• Suggested and worked on the reorganization of system documentation for the Global Engineering Management Tracking System, GEMTS system.
• Handled coding in JCL, SQL, HTML, Natural/ADABAS/DB2 and COBOL/VSAM/DB2 in support of classified systems that used multiple languages and were unable to be handled off shore teams.
• Learned and started handling abends on 12 different Export Controlled systems on a ticket based system within two weeks of starting.
• Organized and ran weekly and monthly staff meetings for GEMTS Management.
• Documented and tested defects
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development life cycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Use of JCL for job submission
• Assisted in the conversion from Natural 3 to Natural 4.2
• Wrote and tested an email generating system in Natural/ADABAS/DB2 that consolidated multiple e-mail systems into a system where the delivery information was stored on an ADABAS file.
• Modified ADABAS files, Programs, and Locals to include new data elements.
• Created multiple Excel and Power Point presentations for management use.
• Made modifications to the reset programs to discontinue the use of CNTRFILE and then rewrote program to use ADABAS version of table files. Modified DB2 Child files to contain cross reference information.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records.
• Aided in sanity testing for the Public housing subsystem rewrite.
• Aided with installation testing on several in house rewrites of several Public Assistance subsystems.
• Aided in preforming compatibility, regression, acceptance testing by performing smoke test, regression, acceptance testing.

Confidential

BI Analyst/Senior Programmer/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Software test planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity
• Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Provide lifecycle management of automated testing projects on software and large database applications using assorted IBM Ration Tools like Clear Case, and various monitoring and scripting tools.
• Aided the state’s QC staff to maintain cooperative relationships with developers and communicate with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Assisted automated test design and various automation framework improvements.
• I performed Destructive/Stress and other forms of testing using scripts in Rational tools like Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, and Rational Service Tester.
• Use of JCL for job submission

Senior Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Use of JCL for job submission
• Use of JES2 for form modification of outputs.
• Upon completion of all coding I as a valuable asset and moved to the testing group where I performed Destructive/Stress and other forms of testing using scripts in Rational tools like Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, and Rational Service Tester.
• Used Zeke, similar to Control-M/CNTL-M and UCC7, to set up job schedules for new jobs or modification of existing jobs by setting job dependencies, time, scheduling type of job if nightly, business week nightly, weekly, monthly, etc…
• Used Endevor for version control.
• Worked as Business Intelligence Analyst to aid in creation of procedures on TIPS. from Mainframe based to client server based.
• Assisted in the conversion from Natural 3 to Natural 4.2
• Wrote and tested an email generating system in Natural/ADABAS/DB2 that consolidated multiple e-mail systems into a system where the delivery information was stored on an ADABAS file.
• Converted COBOL programs to Natural/DB2 on the Public Assistance system.
• Modified SQL statements for calls to DB2.
• Created SQL for data extraction and one time reports.
• Aided in conversion of excessively large ADABAS files into multiple DB2 files using utilities like ADASTRP to pull data for loading into DB2 files and tables.
• Created multiple Excel and Power Point presentations for management use.
• Made modifications to the reset programs to discontinue the use of CNTRFILE and then rewrote program to use ADABAS version of table files. Modified DB2 Child files to contain cross reference information.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records.
• Aided in sanity testing for the Public housing subsystem rewrite.
• Aided with installation testing on several in house rewrites of several Public Assistance subsystems.
• Aided in preforming installation, compatibility, regression, acceptance testing by performing smoke test, regression, acceptance testing.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Project Lead/QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Software test planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity.
• Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records.
• I performed Destructive/Stress and other forms of testing using scripts in Rational tools like Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, and Rational Service Tester.
• Use of JCL for job submission.

Project Lead/Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed and tracked project milestones/waypoints in MS Project according to SDLC methodology and JAD process for Natural 4 changes to the Multiple Forms of Payment system.
• Used UCC7, similar to Zeke and Control-M/CNTL-M, to set up job schedules for new jobs or modification of existing jobs by setting job dependencies, time, scheduling type of job if nightly, business week nightly, weekly, monthly, etc…
• Coded, tested, and documented all changes as reflected by best practices of SDLC methodology in Technical Request documents to the BARTS and SOFRS systems in Natural/DB2.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.
• Performed both Static by participating and leading on code walk through/reviews and Dynamic Testing on all code changes with preset input records.
• Use of JCL for job submission
• Use of JES2 for form modification of outputs.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Software test planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity
• Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.
• Provide lifecycle management of automated testing projects on software and large database applications using assorted HP tools like Load Runner, Quality Center, and Quick Test Professional and various monitoring and scripting tools.
• Assisted automated test design and various automation framework improvements.

Project Manager/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed outsourcing of Mainframe programming and aided in software choices for future JAVA development.
• Utilized modified version of SDLC/DSDM methodology and JAD process to define the scope of project and its deliverables across multiple platforms.
• Facilitated meetings and identified critical success points for track in MS Project.
• Used Control-M/CNTL-M to set up job schedules for new jobs or modification of existing jobs by setting job dependencies, time, scheduling type of job if nightly, business week nightly, weekly, monthly, etc…
• Managed the conversion from Natural 3 to Natural 4.2.
• Project Lead on rewrite of Email generating system in Natural/ADABAS/DB2 consolidating four email systems into one.
• Performed assorted testing using Eclipse with Natclipse plugin.
• Aided with conversion from ADABAS to DB2.
• Created Scripts and Performed Stress/Load testing with HP Load Runner on JAVA segment of project.
• Project was to aid workers in learning JAVA oriented coding practices utilizing the JAD process. Led following projects:
• Conversion of COBOL II programs to Natural.
• Creation of Development Procedural Manual for the Mainframe.
• Elimination of CNTRFILE usage and conversion to ADABAS table files.

Confidential

Programmer V/Project Lead/QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Software test planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity.
• Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Test automation interacts with many technologies including virtualization, blade server management consoles, and disk and volume managers.
• Use of SoapUI for testing of invoking, development, and Load compliance testing.
• Member of team reviewing COTS software packages for JAVA initiative like Silk Test by Borland for automated script testing.
• Provide lifecycle management of automated testing projects on software and large database applications using assorted HP tools like LoadRunner, Quality Center, and Quick Test Professional and various monitoring and scripting tools.
• Aided QC staff to maintain cooperative relationships with developers and communicate with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Assisted automated test design and various automation framework improvements.

Project Lead/Programmer V

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and coded the Plant phase of the Crude Oil & Natural Gas rewrite using SDLC/DSDM and JAD process with MS project to track waypoints in Natural and DB2.
• Performed Analysis and Coding of the Crude Oil & Natural Gas segments for the Audit History system in Natural and DB2.
• Used Word for creation of documentation for the Tax Audit History.
• Used Visio for flow charts/diagrams of Tax Audit History.
• Facilitated meetings and identified critical success points for tracking in MS Project.
• Collaborated with vendors and other users to develop new programming methods.
• Used Control-M/CNTL-M to set up job schedules for new jobs or modification of existing jobs by setting job dependencies, time, scheduling type of job if nightly, business week nightly, weekly, monthly, etc…
• Use of Endevor for version control
• Use of JCL for job submission
• Use of JES2 for form modification of outputs.
• Managed, analyzed, and maintained the Tax Audit History system and all tax code changes in Natural and DB2.
• Managed a team to increase efficiency in the Audit History system
• Managed and acted as QA tester in the conversion of an online/batch Audit history system from Natural and COBOL to JAVA with DB2 with a Mainframe Natural backbone using MS Project.
• Led Steering committee in the conversion from Natural 2.x to Natural 4.1 and from Natural 4.1 to Natural 4.2.
• Analyzed and reviewed work of subordinates to assure that specifications were met using workflow chart and diagram, applying knowledge of computer capabilities, subject matter, and symbolic logic.
• Directed revision of existing programs to increase operating efficiency.
• Trained subordinates.

Confidential

Manager/Owner

Responsibilities:

• Utilized SDLC/DSDM methodology and JAD process on numerous projects with clients in multiple industries.
• Software test planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity
• Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Test automation interacts with many technologies including virtualization, blade server management consoles, and disk and volume managers.
• Consulted with VPs, managers, and engineering/technical personnel to clarify program intent, identify problems, and suggest changes.
• Collaborated with vendors and other users to develop new programming methods.
• Directed the revision of existing programs to increase operating efficiency.
• Trained subordinates in programming.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.
• Performed testing ranging from Unit, Integration, Systems and Acceptance testing.
• Created scripts for use in HP Load Runner or SoapUI for Load/Stress testing.

Confidential

CONSULTANT/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Managed the merger of two completely different disaster recovery systems to allow the take over of Confidential by Confidential & Confidential .
• Used UCC7to set up job schedules for new jobs or modification of existing jobs by setting job dependencies, time, scheduling type of job if nightly, business week nightly, weekly, monthly, etc…
• Project Lead on creation of email generating system which allowed reports and/or output files to send directly to Confidential & Confidential instead of the FTP of files. This system was on a UNIX based system running Natural and DB2.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.
• Performed assorted support testing of Mainframe Natural applications using HP Quality Control Center using Waterfall methodology.

Confidential

Beta Tester/Programming

Responsibilities:

• Developed and tested programs ranging from simple to very complex in both a batch and online environment for the language to report flaws and errors directly to corporate managers. Product was a GUI version of COBOL II intended to run on a Client Server system.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.