Relevant Skills

• TSO / ISPF ABENDAID BMC Software OS MVS / XA File - Aid NCR TERADATA DW OS JCL / IBM VSAM files RACF
• COBOL CICS MS Visio
• COBOL II SAS MS Outlook Infoman DB2 / SQL MS Excel
• Changeman DB2 File-Aid MS Office Suite LIBRARIAN CA-7/11 Web page design / HTML XPEDITER SPUFI/QMF Assembler
• IBM UTILITIES SYNCSORT Lotus Notes Database
• ENDEVOR NDM MQ Series
• AS400/RPGIV AS400/COBOL SDLC

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Contractor Sr. Cobol Developer

• Worked with enterprise size systems in the financial industry, primarily banking
• and used the ability to quickly learn banking/business/financial complex requirements. And then finally translate these concepts into code changes to existing modules.
• Used skills: Mainframe programming experience with COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CMS, and CICS.

Confidential

Contractor Sr. Cobol Developer

• Acquisition of the Dollar / Thrifty Automotive Group has made it necessary to integrate the Dollar / Thrifty billing system into the Hertz existing billing system. Coordinate with Business Analyst's and other I.T. personnel in analyzing system requests, developing specifications for new system development projects and for maintenance to existing mainframe-based applications. Adhere to System Development Life Cycle standards, including preparation of project-related documents as requested by the Project Manager. Made design changes to programs, either alone or in concert with other programmers. Prepared unit and integration test plans for program changes, and in cooperation with clients and other I.T. personnel, perform the testing. Communicated project progress and issues as needed with technical/non-technical audiences. Prepared user and operational documentation for programming work performed.
• Skills used include COBOL, TSO, MVS, JCL, ENDEVOR, CA Tools, SQL, DB2, VSAM, INSYNC, and Microsoft Suite experience e.g., Word, Excel .

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst

• A leader in the manufacturing of commercial airline passenger seats. Responsible for
• development supporting custom applications and their databases. To supporting business processes and improvements. Establish program interfaces for collecting, entering, processing and reporting of data to provide management and personnel with data to track program process, develop process and policies. Experience with HTML, AS400/RPGIV/COBOL, DB2, SQL, ODBC, MS Office, Lotus Notes Database, and Crystal Reports. Project manager over a rewrite of a pre-existing program called Resource Management Application. Organized, planned, and secured the resources needed to achieve specific goals. Set up meetings with users and our group of three contractors to establish unique goals and objectives. Oversee the development, testing, and final implementation of code. Arranged meetings with users to manage delivery correctness and to insure this was all done on a timely schedule.

Confidential

Worldwide Securities Services Application Developer

Worldwide Securities Services is a leading securities custodian. WSS safe keeps, values, and clears PRIVATE TYPE PICT ALT services securities and portfolios for investors and broker/dealers. Supported and maintained a batch job process along with online series of CICS jobs/screens with over 1000 separate modules. Responsible for production support, performing root cause analysis, and providing solutions for various securities applications and sub-systems. Identify issues/improvements with tools and work with team leaders to develop solutions. Supported and enhanced COBOLII/DB2/SQL/CICS code as necessary and was responsible for design, development, implementation and documentation of new and/or existing systems. Endevor was used for change control and moving programs to production. XPEDITER was used to debug the programs and CA-7 was used for scheduling jobs.

PRIVATE TYPE PICT ALT

Confidential

Sr. Systems Developer

Analyzed, designed, and programmed solutions to complex business problems according to user specifications. Tested and implemented system changes using techniques that preserve system integrity. Lead and participated in system and acceptance testing procedures for program enhancements. Provided technical assistance to users and other developers as needed. Performed Ad Hoc programming support for users as needed, providing information on DB2 table data or other data structures. Skills: COBOL II, technical writing, JCL, PROCS, Syncsort,PL/I, SAS, documentation, NCR Data Warehouse - Teradata, SQL, DB2, and Xpediter.

Confidential

Sr. Cobol Developer

Participated in conversion of trust accounts from major banks into a format

acceptable for use by a Fidelity Investment trust accounting application that is also Y2K compliant. Used Cobol II and VSAM file structure in modifying existing code of Fidelity accounting application to accept clients input data files. After conversion a series of reports were created for reporting needed data back to the client. Skills: COBOL II, IBM Utilities, JCL, SYNCSORT, SAS, Microsoft Office, and technical documentation.

Confidential

Contractor

• Responsible for maintaining a batch telecommunications production billing
• application using COBOL II and VSAM files. Modify, rewrite and test existing modules of the application to meet user requests, company decisions and regulatory changes, as it becomes necessary. Finally to modify existing code whenever possible to take advantage of COBOL II improvements and to simplify otherwise complex code. Skills: COBOL/COBOL II, JCL, SyncSort, VSAM, FileAid, SAS, and IBM Utilities.

Confidential

Contractor

• Participated in conversion of existing assembler exit routines for state car
• registration /title files into COBOL II sequential files. Created new files for new states, as data files became available to be converted. Improved existing COBOL II code to contain enhanced data conversion logic to take full advantage of all types of information available on each state's car registration / title files. Performed QA analyst on files as assigned for accuracy before making available to vendors.
• Skills: COBOL/COBOL II, JCL, SyncSort, VSAM, FileAid, SAS, and IBM Utilities

Confidential

Contractor

Responsible for analysis, design, programming, documentation, and support of the credit card billing system. In depth analysis of splitting the existing three VSAM files containing all of MBNA's credit card customer daily activity used for monthly billing. The project consisted of creating six VSAM files out of the existing three VSAM files, which could then be run concurrently saving batch processing time. System development methodologies were used as outlined by MBNA to conform to existing standards. Skills: Data Analysis, COBOL II, JCL, File-Aid, Syncsort, IBM Utilities, VSAM files, Microsoft Office 97, and technical writing.

Confidential

Contractor

• Responsible for maintenance and troubleshooting of client data as part of the
• billing adjustment team. Analysis, designs, implements, and tests modules of
• application to meet user requests or problems in billing that the user may have
• found on a day to day basis.

Confidential

• Maintained a health claims third party administrators package for various clients.
• Supported existing clients by monitoring batch processing and by the design
• and coding of new applications to enhance the existing system. Also involved
• with establishing new clients and tailoring existing system by customizing any
• aspect of the batch run along with modifying any accompanying reports as needed by the client. Creation of new JCL job streams for new clients, which included the setting up as needed of GDG's, sequential files, and VSAM files. Also involved with coordinating the testing and scheduling of new job streams.
• Confidential Responsible for the analysis of production run problems, develop appropriate
• programming codes, testing, documentation and installation of programs. Installation
• here refers to local testing and implementation, dataset maintenance sizing,
• planning and setup etc. JCL design and implementation, and scheduling. Other
• responsibilities include systems monitoring, on-site technical support for problem
• investigation and resolution, data recoveries, and initial analysis of operational
• problems.