Systems Engineer / Programmer Analyst Resume

SUMMARY:

Accomplished senior IT Senior Systems Engineer and Programmer with extensive experience in program design, development, coding, and testing in Confidential mainframe environments.
Experience since 1990 spans such industries as health insurance, property and casualty insurance, workers’ compensation, banking, telecommunications, and healthcare administration.
Proven ability to assemble and lead talented teams of programmer analysts and engineers in the design, development, and implementation of effective and efficient solutions to very complex business requirements in complicated operational settings.
Earned reputation for turning around troubled projects and bringing complex projects to completion on time and within budget.
Excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal communication, and presentation skills.
Environments: COBOL2, DB2, CICS, IMS, Syncsort, JCL, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, APS, Easytrieve, EDI, JCL, VSAM, BMS/TS, XPEDITER, CA7, Quality Center, SDLC, Easytrieve, JOINS, Smart Test, MAX Utilities, MQ Exposure, Freezeframe, Dump Master, Agile, FTP, Visio, File - Aid, Stored Procedures, Easel, Adabase Natural, QMF, HTML, Librarian

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Systems Engineer / Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Consistently receive superior performance reviews and complete all projects within schedule.

Senior Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Cloned more than 400 elements such as JCL, Procs, Control Cards, DB2 plans, and Packages to the new T2017 Tricare contract.
Rewrote a large program with calls to in-house APS subroutines that would access the VSAM file to obtain report headers and break points.
Became the primary Endeavor migration contact and go-to person for problem resolution.
Wrote multiple COBOL programs and created Easytrieve programs to process new formats of government files.
Modified 3 CICS online subprograms to include additional fields from DB2 SELECT and participated in weekly peer review code walkthroughs.

Confidential

Systems Engineer / Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Assumed control of the troubled Purge Process project, which was 1 year behind, and returned it to schedule within one year.
Enhanced the Purge Process to include an Confidential utility, Confidential, a 400-hour project.

Contract Senior Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Wrote multiple batch processing programs including released claims from the ORDERS DB2 table, matching records on the new ORDER DB2 table, and deletion after writing.
Developed the main batch program and made enhancements to 2 other large programs.
Developed a new program to process new functionality and minimize effect on the main Batch Claims.

Contract Senior Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Created a department-wide training guide on Smart Test, a mainframe-debugging tool.
Worked with DBAs to identify and remedy a performance issue on a DB2 SELECT application.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Migrated about 1300 elements for the 3rd Quarter 2008 releases, validating and applying changes to existing code and tracking and updating the release process through multiple documents.
Developed a custom report to identify incorrect data within the Main Claims File to fix errors that were more than 1 year old.
Volunteered to reengineer an important summary report, developing a COBOL program that read and summarized data from 16 other report files.
Enhanced the 2rd Quarter Cycle Process with a series of jobs that included biweekly recycles, lockdown and Final Payment Cycle, which cut checks for about $30M each quarter.