SUMMARY

• As a highly accomplished software developer with over 20 years of experience in a variety of environments from mainframe to pc - based platforms, I have developed and implemented technical business solutions, which have successfully met and exceeded the needs of past employers.
• These included companies in the Fortune 500 that used ISO 9000 and Capability Maturity Model methodologies.
• Attention to detail and a results-oriented character have led to a proven ability to design effective software deliverables and resolve problems resulting in increased productivity and profitability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM z9 (Z/OS); IBM 3090 (OS/MVS XA); IBM AS400 (OS/VSE); IBM PS/2 (MS-DOS); DEC 433 DX (DOS/NOVELL, WINDOWS); DEC VAX (OS/VMS); DEC VAX 11/780 (OS/VMS); DATA GENERAL ECLISPE C-300 (RDOS and BLIS)
• Endevor, MQ-Series (Websphere), COBOL II, CICS COBOL, TARADATA, DB2, SQL, VSAM, ORACLE, SAS, Gupta SQL WINDOWS, SQLBASE, IMS, FOCUS, Structured COBOL; MICROFOCUS COBOL, BTREIVE, LU6.2, TSO, SPF, JCL, DCL, CLIST, REXX, QMF, SPUFI, Endevor, XML, AFP AIP, PDF, BASIC, CBASIC, PL-1, FORTRAN, Assembler, DATAFLEX Relational Data Base.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was sub-contracted to Edaptive Systems (recently acquired by the ManTech Corp.), to build and maintain JCL/COBOL programs in the Mainframe system to extract health claims data and deliver requested health claims critical information to business users, troubleshoot SQL and extract processes for moving claims data from various legacy databases into an Teradata/Oracle - based data warehouse, to perform root cause analysis and business impact analysis for each issue under investigation while following CMMI Level 3 processes, to interact with both internal and external team members regularly to provide efficient and timely technical solutions for data and extract issues, provide cross functional support for testing, help desk, and database administrators.

Confidential, Towson, MD

Sr. Principal Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Prior to that I was assigned to the Medicare Secondary Payer System Contractor (MSPSC), which includes the applications: Coordination Of Benefits and Recovery (COB&R) and the Recovery Management and Accounting Systems (ReMAS).
• I planned, developed, tested, and documented highly complex applications programs. I generated new code and corrected, converted, and/or modified existing code to meet specifications. Prepared detailed specifications from which code was written.
• I conferred with end-users to analyze specified methods and procedures, identified problems, and documented specific requirements. Provided input to staff involved in writing and updating technical documentation such as users manuals, product specifications, and training materials. I performed a variety of testing procedures on assigned products, analyzed test results, and corrected problems.
• Prepared reports on analyses, findings, and project progress, and presented results to management and/or customer personnel. I performed research on emerging technologies to determine impact on application execution. I provided guidance and work leadership to less-experienced programmers.
• I maintained current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and participated in special projects as required.

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

Sr. Principal Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a System Analyst on the Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug System (MAPD), my responsibilities were to verify all available application components, that the requested production-like data conditions existed, made sure that transactions have been processed and reports generated, ensured that the scheduled table and database conversions have been executed and validated, used existing testing tools to provide reports to assist with test reporting and validation.
• I maintained the testing tools as required by system changes to ensure the accuracy and confidence. I used my expertise to execute test scenarios to satisfy test criteria as defined, and ensured that proper test data is obtained to satisfy the prerequisite setup for test execution. I assembled the test results and reporting deliverables.
• Analyzed approved client requested change request to provide a level of effort required for testing. Supported testing activities for system testing, performance and stress testing, system integration testing, volume and regression testing.

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Initially, assigned under sub-contract at Confidential, and later became a Confidential employee working on the Medicare Beneficiary Database (MBD) system.
• I have performed software configuration management activities, which are change control and configuration of all software components, configuration validation and auditing, maintenance of multiple development environments to support concurrent releases, and to interact with Project Managers, Project Leads and Team Leads. Also I have served as a company representative to the Production-Data-Assurance-Group that assures the correctness of production data across application systems.
• I have reviewed application change request to determine level of effort and impact analysis, reviewed test plans and test cases for adequate coverage of what is affected, converted technical specs to working COBOL, DB2 SQL, MQ-Series code for implementing requirements, worked closely with business analysts to clarify ambiguous requirements or to resolve coding issues. Developed functional specifications and coding of new modules or modifying existing modules.
• I have developed unit and integration test cases and conducted unit and integration testing, developed JCL and code package migration, investigated potential problems, debugged code and documented problems and resolutions, documented changes to tech specs, modules, problem reports, code-sizing metrics, and provide input to technical documentation. Participated and conducted reviews of design specs, functional specs, program code and other client activities as necessary.
• In conducting these tasks I followed CMMI compliant software development processes and procedures.