TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE/ SOFTWARE: IBM 30XX, AMDAHL V6, NAS9000, IBM PS/2 and Compatibles, OS/MVS/XA, OS/MVS/ESA, Z/OS, MS/DOS, MS/WINDOWS, OS/2 2.1, Unix, COBOL, COBOL II, PLI, IMS DB/DC, ADF/IMS, VSAM, CICS, DB2, DB2/2, UDB 7.0, DB2 for LUX, Oracle, 9i, SPUFI, QMF, XPEDITER, FILE - AID, FMDB2, Endevor, Changeman, IEF 4.1, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 Composer, Cool gen 4.1, 5.1 and 6.0. Advantage Gen 6.5. WordPerfect 6.0, MS Word, MS EXCEL, Kornshell, Perl, ESP, Control-M, Micro Focus COBOL, Toad, CA Harvest, Lotus Notes, CA-7, ESPBatch, ESPAuto., SQL Server

EXPERIENCE:

CONSULTANT - PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Confidential, Jackson, Mississippi

Responsibilities:

• Participated in a project to migrate the Department of Human Services from the Confidential Mainframe to the Linux server.
• Helped the operations staff convert the batch schedule from the CA-7 scheduler to ESPBatch/ESPAuto which was developed by Software AG and Cronus.
• Acted as a technical liaison between the operations staff and the developers at Cronus, which is based in South Africa.
• Helped convert a Microfocus COBOL based system that accessed four duplicate databases (based on an old system architecture), to one that accessed only one database.
• Wrote stored procedures in SQL Server, using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 17 as the interface/editor.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Using DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW), wrote native stored procedures in a Unix environment for the purposes of cleaning claims data for Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance companies, the purpose of which is to insure no duplicate claims be paid and that Medicare/Medicaid are the last payors of record.
• Toad was used as the database interface and CA Harvest was used for version control.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Using COBOL, DB2, IMS, MQ Series and CICS made enhancements to and supported several existing EDI and online systems for the purpose of exchanging and maintaining rate, station, junction and embargo information within the railroad industry.
• ChangeMan was used for version control.
• Used SPUFI, QMF, BMC and File Aid for DB2 for DB2 queries.
• Used Xpediter for debugging. Maintained jobs and catalogued procedures with JCL. Used ISPF for text editing.

Confidential, Washington

Responsibilities:

• Using COBOL, Micro Focus Cobol, IMS and DB2, supported a part number subsystem of a larger materials management system while an SAP materials management system was being implemented to replace the existing system.
• Endevor was used for version control.
• Used SPUFI and QMF for DB2 queries.
• Created jobs and catalogued procedures with JCL.
• Used TSO/ISPF for text editing.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Using COBOL and DB2, performed maintenance and enhancement tasks on a system to track subsidies for adoptive and foster parents.
• Wrote new programs to create letters for purposes of annually reviewing who was eligible for continued guardianship subsidies.
• Used SPUFI for queries/mass data updates.
• Wrote programs to track children who were removed from homes and still in the court system.
• Used CA Gen to create a system to allow users in the field to maintain security (passwords, etc.), thereby saving expenses related to a third party product which they used only once a month.
• Created jobs and catalogued procedures with JCL.
• Used TSO/ISPF for text editing.

Confidential, Amelia, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Using COBOL, DB2, CICS and VSAM, performed maintenance and enhancement tasks on a property and casualty system that was used to force place coverage on auto liens and mortgages.
• Created jobs and catalogued procedures with JCL. Used TSO/ISPF for text editing.
• Used SPUFI and QMF for queries/mass data updates.

Confidential, Jefferson City, Missouri

Responsibilities:

• Coded COBOL/DB2/CICS Webaware programs in support of contracts between Child Services and foster/adoptive parents and other child services providers.
• Used Dreamweaver to lay out web page design and then translated the Dreamweaver generated HTML to HTML that was actually usable in the application.
• Also modified COBOL/CICS Webaware applications. Used TSO/ISPF for text editing.
• Created jobs and catalogued procedures with JCL.
• Used SPUFI and QMF for queries/mass data updates.

Confidential, Westlake, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Participated in an effort to convert a COBOL/ADABAS system to COBOL/DB2.
• Developed COBOL/DB2 programs that interfaced with Software AG's EntireX communication broker, which, in turn, communicated with web pages developed in Java.
• Was involved in performance tuning of DB2 cursors that were used for search queries.
• Used BMC to run Explains in order to determine best use of table indexes.
• Used Desktop QMF, Endevor and Endevor QuickEdit.

Confidential, Malvern, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

• Participated in an effort to convert thirty Sybase stored procedures into DB/2 stored procedures.
• Stored procedures were COBOL programs with embedded SQL.
• Endevor was used as version control/compilation tool.
• Used MicroFocus Mainframe Express as a debugging too.
• Participated in daily scrum sessions as part of the Agile methodology.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gen 7.6, maintained a licensing and registration system.
• Tasks included changing server applications and generating Java EAR files/WAS servers.
• Worked with Component Based Development (CBD). Also made changes to COBOL programs and analyzed the system for changes resulting in detailed program specifications.
• Used GuardIEn and Access Gen for accessing the CSE.
• Specifically used GuardIEn for subsetting and model compares.
• Worked with Control-M for maintaining job schedule.

Confidential, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

• Gen 6.0, Advantage Gen 6.5 and Oracle, made changes to an existing cost accounting system used to track and allocate costs to various truck, plane and ship bound shipments. Using Kornshell and Perl scripting along with PL/SQL and ESP, I automated a previously manual batch process.
• Also was responsible for generating and testing the system in Advantage Gen 6.5 in anticipation for conversion from Cool Gen 6.0 to Advantage Gen 6.5.
• Toad and SQL Developer were used as the database interfaces .
• Sun Solaris Unix was the operating system.

Confidential, Lakeland, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Gen 6.0 wrote both GUI and batch programs to support a supply chain management system that interfaced with a.NET application through Websphere MQ.
• Wrote COBOL/DB2 programs.
• Also used FMDB2.

Confidential, Jefferson City, Missouri

Responsibilities:

• Made enhancements and performed maintenance duties with an existing Temporary Assistance and Food Stamps system.
• Analyzed and wrote specifications for development of new Medicaid interface Modules while also writing those new modules.
• Programming was done in Cool:Gen 6.0, COBOL DB2 and CICS under the MVS operating system.
• Used SPUFI and QMF along with Xpediter, Fileaid and Platinum as debugging tools.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Supporting a credit card promotions system, wrote DB2 stored procedures for table maintenance that were called via several Cobol conversion programs to take existing DB2 tables and QSAM files, convert record layouts and write the new format record to the Websphere MQ Queue for further processing in the job stream.
• Used MVS, ISPF, COBOL, DB2 and Websphere MQ Series on an Confidential mainframe under an MVS operating system.
• Used COBOL, DB2 Stored Procedures and Websphere MQ to write applications that interfaced with a Java rules engine that calculated points available to credit card customers as rewards for using their credit cards.
• Endevor was used for version control.

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Responsibilities:

• I made enhancements to a membership system to allow for flexibility in enrollments (e. g., higher deductible and lower premium or higher premium and lower deductible) of new customers.
• This was an effort to make the company more competitive in the market place.
• A mix of block mode and GUI were used.
• The target was CICS/MVS on an Confidential Mainframe. I also coded native COBOL/DB2 programs.

Confidential, Wilkesboro, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• I made enhancements to an existing inventory replenishment system.
• This was a GUI/Client Server and web based system.
• Component based development was used.
• I generated ASP and VB com proxies. OCX and OLE controls were used extensively.
• The server was an Confidential mainframe operating in a CICS region.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Responsibilities:

• I made changes to an existing block mode system which runs under MVS on an Confidential mainframe.
• My specific duties were to make changes to the advertisement planning and pagination systems so that the marketing department could track more closely the effect on sales of certain national advertisement campaigns.
• Other duties included writing COBOL programs to extract data from the DB2 tables for loading to the Teradata tables.
• Writing specifications, designing DB2 tables and testing were included in all these tasks.

Confidential, Madison, Wisconsin

Responsibilities:

• I worked on the team that rewrote the titling and registration system of the Confidential .
• My specific duties included the writing of the subsystem that calculated all fees for titling and registration. Part of my duties included training and assigning tasks to a person who was new to Cool:Gen.
• The environment was GUI/Client Server and batch on an Confidential mainframe under an MVS operating system using DB2 and CICS.
• I wrote both batch procedures and GUI clients, along with servers.
• UDB 7.0 was used for data manipulation and testing.
• I wrote JCL for executing batch procedures.
• TSO/ISPF, SPUFI and QMF were used for interfacing with and testing on the mainframe.

Confidential, Smyrna, Tennessee

Responsibilities:

• Wrote COBOL/DB2 programs to extract data from an Confidential mainframe legacy system and providing interfaces to an SAP system.
• The environment was Windows NT and 200, Confidential /MVS, using JCL, TSO/ ISPF, Fileaid and Xpediter.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Using Cool:Gen 4.1, performed maintenance/enhancement tasks on existing.
• Target was Confidential mainframe with CICS/DB2.
• As part of my tasks, I created my own aggregate sets and migrated my own code changes from model to model.