SUMMARY:

A Senior Mainframe Consultant with over 15 years experience in Full System Development Life Cycle including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation. Skills and experience include Project Management, Conversion, Production, Maintenance, Enhancement, Modification, Business & Systems Analysis, Documentation, and Technical Requirements Documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AMDAHLABENDAIDDYL280PANVALET

COMPAQ 486/VARIOUSADABASEASYTRIEVE+PATHWAY

IBM 30XXADSOENDEVORPL/1

IBM 43XXADW/CASEEXCELLERATORPROJ. MGMT.

IBM 360/370ASSEMBLERFILEAIDQMF

IBM 8100BALFTPRACF

IBM PC - VARIOUSBMSIDMSSDF II

S/3“C” - COURSEIMSSMARTEST

TANDEMCA1/CA7INTERTESTSYNCSORT

CEDFOS/JCLTSO/ISPF

CICSMS/DOSVM

COBOL IIMS/WINDOWSVSAM

DB2/SQLMVS/ESAVS1

DOS/VSEMS/OFFICEWINDOWS/NT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Senior Applications Developer

Responsibilities:

• Update existing screens/programs used by CSRs in the field.
• Preparing for Major conversion and enhancement of Customer Claims systems.
• Designed, developed, tested and deployed interfaces for management reporting and CSRs use to increase efficiency in tracking customer packages and satisfaction.
• Enabled On-Line Look-Up procedures for CSRs to look up their accounts.
• Prepared for Major enhancement of Customer Claims systems.
• Ensured code compliance to “Enterprise” cobol, extracted and converted data to XML, and transported the data to another platform utilizing MQ.
• Generated comprehensive documentation for future maintenance, audit and assistance for all systems affected.
• Conducted weekly project status meetings with management to ensure project deadlines were met or exceeded.

Utilized: COBOL II, CICS, IMS, PANVALET, Easytrieve+, FILEAID, EXPEDITOR, MQ, and XML:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• For various clients of this consulting firm, I was called on to perform one or more of these skills - design, development, maintenance, implementation and/or testing of mainframe (including OS/390 base) applications.
• Clients were in insurance, financials/credit cards/banking, retail, and telecommunications.
• Utilized COBOL/II, CICS, DB2, SQL, and Easytrieve+, FILEAID.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Sr. Applications Developer/Environment Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis, design, programming and implementation of informational messaging using CICS and COBOL, ABENDAID, etc. Documented changes using Visio.
• Converted Natural programs to COBOL, along with new development. Responsible for unit and regression testing, developed test plans.
• Assumed the role of problem resolution in production, test, or development areas, either fixing the problem or coordinating the efforts needed. This might be Regions, CICS, DB2, ADABAS/NATURAL, tables, etc.
• Used Cobol, Natural, DB2, PLATINUM, CICS, JCL, CA1/CA7, SAS, FILEAID, EXPEDITOR, JES2
• Became involved in GUI interfaces/conversions. This assignment was to convert, rewrite, and system test COBOL or Natural applications to non-3270 reliant code. I used JAVA applets and HTML thru IBM’s Visual Age for Java.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Co-team leader for a Confidential project.
• Conducted "remedial" analysis.
• Converted programs, parms, JCL, etc.,
• Coordinated parallel testing, and processing to ensure that the systems (Payroll and A/R) were Confidential compliant.
• Responsible for system tests and implementation.
• Utilized COBOL II, CICS, EZ+, JCL, SUPRA(an IMS-type data base

Confidential, Aurora, CO

Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production support - problem resolution (Program, JCL, or design changes), and new enhancements.
• Production parallels were signed off for Confidential compliance and regression testing and programming for both systems.
• Trained my replacement (an EIS employee).
• Utilized COBOL, CICS, EZ+, JCL, Dyl280, SQL, and UNIX interfaces.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Project Lead - Data Warehousing

Responsibilities:

• Worked with and got assignments from my assigned Confidential team lead/business analyst.
• Then performed as the only Systems Analyst/Programmer/Team Lead for these systems, which are used by Confidential, Concert, and BT. FTP’d data to a UNIX table/data base, and BCP’d to the data warehouse, which uses a Sybase engine.

Tools: COBOL II, EZTRIEVE, JCL, DB2 modifications, CICS, SQL, UNIX interfaces.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Sr. Consultant/ Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and managed the efforts (cooperation) of six Confidential people.
• Areas of responsibility included Print Center and Prospect data base.
• I prepared a Technical Requirements Document which detailed specifications needed for invoice printing, fulfillment, auditing, etc.
• Visited two print centers in Mexico City to evaluate strengths and weaknesses.
• My recommendation for a print center was used for the selection.

Skills utilized: MS/WORD, EXCEL, Email, COBOL II, etc.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Headed a team (4 people) which was responsible for “releases”, by finalizing Design Documents, and assisted with the code/test phase. coded and tested various enhancements to this scheduling and provisioning system.

Tech Skills utilized: ADABAS/SQL, DB2/SQL, COBOL II, CICS, MVS/ESA, FILEAID, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, MS/WORD, Email, etc

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) call records.
• Participated in /or chaired JAD sessions, as required; Assessments, Analysis Documents, General Design Documents; assist coding and unit testing effort as necessary, coordinate Acceptance Testing, oversee Implementations.
• Technical Skills used: OS/MVS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, FILEAID, MS/DOS, MS/WORD, WORD PERFECT, MS/WINDOWS, OS/2, et al.
• To satisfy the user requests, we acted in the roles of customer liaison, systems analyst, and programmer.
• Our assignments often called for sending or extracting over 100 million records at 3 major processing centers nationwide.
• To do this, I learned and used NDM and TELEVIEW (enabling me to logon and work in other data centers).
• I had to act in whatever capacity needed or expected.
• Required use of the above as well as - CODE1/GROUP1 (for standardizing names/addresses), EZTRIEVE +, LOTUS EXPRESS, etc.

Confidential, West Los Angeles, CA

DIRECTOR, Consulting Services

Responsibilities:

• I submitted a "Business Plan" to this company showing how Contract and consulting services could work in conjunction with their other offerings.
• While working closely with the President of this firm, we established policies, procedures, and billing structures.
• The new "leg" of the operation then marketed these services to several new clients as well as some existing Confidential customers.
• Additional responsibilities included: recruiting, selecting, interviewing, and preparing consultants for contract assignments, along with full accountability.

Confidential, Huntington Beach, CA

Senior Applications Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, tested and deployed interfaces for management reporting and CSRs use to increase efficiency in tracking customer packages and satisfaction.
• Enabled On-Line Look-Up procedures for CSRs to look up their accounts.
• Prepared for Major enhancement of Customer Claims systems. Ensured code compliance to “Enterprise” cobol, extracted and converted data to XML, and transported the data to another platform utilizing MQ.
• Generated comprehensive documentation for future maintenance, audit and assistance for all systems affected.
• Conducted weekly project status meetings with management to ensure project deadlines were met or exceeded.

Utilized: COBOL II, CICS, IMS, PANVALET, Easytrieve+, FILEAID, EXPEDITOR, MQ, and XML:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• For various clients of this consulting firm, I was called on to perform one or more of these skills - design, development, maintenance, implementation and/or testing of mainframe (including OS/390 base) applications.
• Clients were in insurance, financials/credit cards/banking, retail, and telecommunications.
• Utilized COBOL/II, CICS, DB2, SQL, and Easytrieve+, FILEAID.