SUMMARY

• Over twenty years of experience in Data Processing utilizing Mainframe technologies
• Worked in many different industries, including manufacturing, retail, insurance and telephony
• Designer, Developer, Implementor and Production Support Programmer

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: DB2, Oracle, IMS, VSAM, DBASE

Languages: COBOL II, COBOL 85, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, CICS, BMS, MFS, MVS/JCL, FOXPRO, APS, DYL280, Easytrieve

Tools: CICS Web Developer Debugging tool, Xpediter, Intertest, CEDF, Microfocus Animator, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, SDSF, IOF, IDCAMS, TFS, e - change, ENDEVOR, Panvalet, FILE-AID, Librarian/CCF, DATAVANTAGE, IMS XPERT, INFOMAN, N-SYNC, TraceMaster, SmartTest, Abend-Aid, X-Ray, CONTROL-M, Syncsort, IBM Debug, IBM Fault Analyzer, Microsoft Word and Excel, Agile/SCRUM Methodology

Platforms: IBM Mainframe 3090, IBM OS/390, LAN, IBM Websphere Application Server, CICS, IMS/DB/DC, VM/CMS, Windows 95/97/98/NT/XP/Vista/7/8/10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Onsite Coordinator Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate enhancements needed and incident reports documented as designated by the project team and the offshore programmers handling the work.
• Participated in daily SCRUM meetings to facilitate project resource handling.

Environment: Agile/SCRUM, COBOL II, MVS/JCL, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, File-Aid, Xpediter

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In an effort to modernize legacy software, the decision was made to convert all VSAM file processing to use DB2 tables instead.
• I was part of a team of consultants hired to resolve any inconsistencies found while running a full regression test.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, IMS/DB, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, File-Aid, Xpediter

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on re-write of financial applications pertaining to state systems used to support the business portion for public schools within Texas’ Region 20.
• Designed, wrote and tested a new process to upload employee leave information from a flat file on the user’s PC.
• This process also produces a report detailing the uploaded information and can be sorted by staff id or by name.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, Websphere, MVS/JCL, VSAM, IMS/DB, Oracle, CICS Web Developer, Debugging tool

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements to, Production support and reporting on MASK, previously a vendor-software product developed to establish and create electronic enrollment packages for new client companies wanting to offer health benefits to their employees.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, CICS, VSAM, Agile/SCRUM Methodology

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements to and production support of the EDS Surveyor system, a vendor software system developed at EDS (Electronic Data Systems) and customized/used by Confidential Capital to manage credit card and installment loan accounts.
• Part of my duties included downloading tables from the system and distributing them to Confidential clients.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, VSAM, Xpediter

Confidential, Concord, NH

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production support of the NewHeights system, a state computer system that creates and maintains public assistance data, including Medicare/Medicaid benefits, food stamps (SNAP) and cash awards for needy families (TANF).
• Coordinated with a team of developers to implement formatting changes for ICD-10.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2, Intertest, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team of consultants designing and coding modifications to the MMIS (Medicaid Management Information System) as part of the ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion.
• Performed analysis of existing software and wrote specifications detailing the work that needed to be done.
• Participated in design and code reviews to ensure delivery of a quality product.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, VSAM, MVS/JCL, IBM O/S 390

Confidential, Westwood, MA

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of a production support team, responsible for answering trouble tickets via page between the hours 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the CIS electric and gas utility billing system. 
• When not answering trouble tickets, I worked on enhancements to and maintenance on the system.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, CICS, IMS/DB, SOX, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In preparation for Confidential selling a portion of its business to Frontier Communications Corporation, led a team setting up a test environment suited to ensuring a smooth transition from Confidential ’s CBSS/RIBS billing data processing systems to Frontier’s.
• Participated in testing of interfaces via NDM as well as making sure all of the entities required for the transition were present.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, IMS, TSO/ISPF, N-Sync, SOXIBM OS/390, IBM Debug

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead analyst in charge of designing, writing, testing and implementing 24 programs in 10 jobstreams to extract IMS data into flat files to be FTP’ed to an Oracle server for conversion to use in SAP.
• Upon completion of some software updates, participated in Mercury testing of the interface for a product line that was in the process of being converted to use SAP.
• Supported legacy software while the manufacturing portion was being converted to SAP.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, IMS DB/DC, MFS, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, Eztrieve, IBM OS/390CONTROL-M

Confidential, Madison, WI

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead programmer in charge of a team who was developing a new system that would police providers in ther countries who were over billing for prescription drugs.
• This involved creating a new batch process that would run monthly and would take the rolled-up year-to-date charges by provider and validate them against a table detailing the threshold limits.
• When a provider is found to be over the yearly threshold allowed, an utput record is written to be passed on to the next step in the process that will flag them as an offender.
• Also, directed a team working on a series of CICS screens that will allow this to be done interactively.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, VSAM, Intertest, MVS/JCL, IBM OS/390