SUMMARY:

An energetic, productive, highly technical mainframe systems professional with over 25 years of diverse experience in the insurance, telecommunications and gas utility industries. Expertise in DB2, MQ, CICS, COBOL, IMS, and managing and leading people. Strengths include leadership, mentoring, providing technical direction and an ability to work independently and as a team member. I am available for contract work part - time or for short term (3-6 months) full-time contracts in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• DB2
• SQL
• CICS
• CLIST
• IBM IMS
• VSAM
• COBOL
• JCL
• VS COBOL
• Easytrieve
• RPGII
• Model 204
• Assembler
• TSO
• VM/CMS
• DOS/VSE
• Endevor
• Expeditor
• FTP
• Syncsort
• QMF
• SPUFI
• Fileaid/DB2
• PVCS
• COOL:Gen
• IMS-XPERT
• Abendaid
• Startools
• Panvalet
• NDM
• Intertest
• PC DOS
• Windows admin
• JAVA (training)
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Oracle DBA (training)
• Micro Focus COBOL
• Visio
• Linux
• Quick Books
• Lotus Notes
• Unix

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Middletown and Hartford, CT

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked for 3+ years in the MQ/Middleware environment and an MQ admin. Mainly responsible for upgrading MQ on both z/OS, Linux/Unix, and Windows servers.
• MQ support provided to application staff on a daily basis and primary on-call duties every 10 weeks. Also made familiar with Datapower and IIB interfaces with regard to MQ.
• Worked for 5+ years within the CICS administration area. Mainly responsible for adding entries to CICS RDO (i.e. PCTs, RCTs, FCTs etc.), for new projects within the CICS infrastructure and working with the various application areas to debug issues with their CICS coding.
• Worked as a applications programming technical consultant on Confidential ’s framework services systems. These systems were generic tools that could be used by any application to enhance their own systems (e.g. logging, MQ interfacing with CICS, enterprise service bus etc.)

Confidential, Manchester, CT

Application Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed programs that interfaced with outside vendor Itron which converted Confidential data to Itron format and accepting return files from Itron and converting them back to the format needed to be accepted by Confidential billing systems.
• Designed process by which the access to Itron was developed.
• Work as key technical member of application support staff to develop and promote system development projects to the Customer 1 production arena.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Systems Applications Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• Served as team lead for 4 developers.
• Worked on the banking and claim accounting systems within the financial systems area of Confidential .
• Worked on development projects and in production control.
• Developed, maintained and enhanced technical specifications for new development projects.
• Made COBOL coding changes to current applications and wrote new COBOL applications.
• Mentored other system personnel and provided assistance with day to day problems.
• Provided invaluable technical support help to outsourced developers on projects and within the production batch environment.
• Maintained and enhanced/updated existing system documentation.
• Coordinated technical testing of new development projects.
• Served as production control lead serving as approver of new coding migrations using Endevor.
• Maintained coding changes in QA environment.
• Served as application systems RACF administrator providing RACF security and DB2 security access to the applications systems programmers with the system.
• Served as DB2 performance tester making changes to SQL and COBOL coding where necessary to provide for better performance and tuning.
• Designed application system DB2 table changes.
• Functioned as a key technical resource for the self-insured funding system’s interfacing with large banks.
• Worked as team member of the claim accounting mainframe COBOL system coordinating and coding system enhancements.

Confidential, Farmington, CT

Application Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked Confidential in Hartford in the financial reporting area developing new applications.
• Provided maintenance and enhancement support to current development projects.
• Worked with business partners developing SQL that provided key reserve information.

Confidential, Woodbury, CT

Application Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to Cigna developing new DB2 systems within the healthcare financial reporting area.
• Worked on mainframe side of transformation project, developing new COBOL applications to access DB2 databases for financial reporting systems.
• Interfaced with business partners daily while executing project test plan. (a 6-month contracting opportunity).

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Production Control Manager/Information Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to Confidential Non-Standard Auto system within Travelers as a team/project leader.
• Designed and wrote conversion programs from Confidential system to other Travelers application systems.
• Made COBOL coding changes to current applications and wrote new COBOL applications to specifications of business partners.
• Coordinated technical testing of monthly development enhancements/releases.
• Served as the production control lead serving as approver (Endevor) of new coding migrations.
• Maintained and enhanced/updated existing system documentation.
• Maintained coding changes in QA environment.
• Designed application system DB2 table changes.
• Served as RACF administrator providing RACF security and DB2 access to the applications systems.
• Mentored other system personnel, providing invaluable technical support to other COBOL developers on the Confidential project.
• Worked on many technical tasks within these projects, which involved working closely with the client to bring projects to successful conclusions, also maintaining and enhancing technical specifications.
• Management responsibilities included appraisals, directing staff and budgeting.
• Involved in new development process using the Cool:Gen product within Travelers Auto systems that took information from the client side (customer web pages) of the systems to the host (mainframe) side.

Confidential, Newington, CT

Principal/Owner

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as a contract programmer Confidential .
• Managed projects to support a new DB2 Billing and Guiding system.
• Through user interface and system analysis, provided the new system designers with accurate information from the existing account billing system.

Confidential, Wallingford, CT

Applications Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to many different areas within Confidential in different capacities including project leader, team leader, and technical positions on project teams.
• Worked on accounts billing system Confidential doing various support work within new product development teams, most notably transitioning Confidential into a wholesale provider of telecommunications services.
• Integral technical team member of the combined billing project, the effort that combined Confidential ’s cellular products (LINX, Personal Phone) with existing billing services Confidential ; had key role converting EMR data into text for billing.
• Team leader of WATS (800) system during the area code split project ( Confidential ); coordinated programming changes to WATS system, as well as being key member of project’s integration testing team.
• Technical member of ‘invoice ready’ project team; integrated billing data from Confidential & Confidential and Confidential into the toll billing systems and through Confidential billing systems.
• Project leader for rate increase project for billing presentation systems.
• Worked on service requests from outside vendor ( Confidential & Confidential ) to make changes to Confidential systems, added several new products (call plans) for Confidential & Confidential to billing presentation systems and to the account billing system.