SUMMARY

• Accomplished programmer with over 19 years of experience in mainframe and PC environment.
• Proficiency in C#, .Net, Cobol, Micro Focus Cobol, DB2, CICS and JCL as well as knowledge of software tools that are necessary to develop projects.
• Self starter and a team player with vast experience in telecommunication, financial, collection and billing, real estate services, and automotive applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE: IBM Mainframes, IBM327x terminals, IBM PCs

SOFTWARE: C#, .NET, COBOL/COBOL II, MICROFOCUS COBOL, C, DB2, JCL, CICS, NATURAL/ADABAS, IMS, Oracle PL/SQL, Java, Endevor, FileAid, DataAger, DYL280, QMF, ISAM, Infoman, Pro - Edit, NDM, X-mit, Xpediter, Librian, Pegasys, Abendaid, Windows/NT, WORD, EXCEL, Outlook, Lotus Notes, VISIO, Power Point, Ultra Edit, SP2, MS-SQL Server, Sybase, ISQL

OPERATING SYSTEMS: OS/VS/MVS, TSO/ISPF, UNIX, DOS, Windows 95, Windows/NT, Windows 2000, XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Simi Valley, CA

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and enhancements of programs for new and current Skip Tracing systems including Accurint, Confidential, etc.
• Performed enhancements and maintained interface programs for Debt Resolve, Global Collections and Predictive Dialer 3rd Party Hosted Web-based Services such as Global Connect.
• Heavy coding, testing and data gathering daily activities performed on Account Receivable Management programs such as New Business, Debtor Update, Remittances and Payments.
• Solved production problem tickets.

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of the Financial Compliance Group (FCG) development team responsible in coding Cobol and DB2 programs utilized to audit the sales incentive paid to dealers to determine whether the transactions were in agreement with Confidential dealerships nationwide.
• The project has recovered $7.9 million of erroneous incentive paid to 1,265 dealers over the past 7 years that sells approximately 1.3 million Confidential or Confidential vehicles annually.
• Developed programs that extracted and updated Inventories, Billing and Return to Dealer ( Confidential ) daily activities using Cobol and DB2 for Incentive Audit System (IAS) that served as an efficient decision diagnostic tools for the early detection of suspected and questionable transactions.
• Responsible in the creation of Exception Report Queries that obtain specific information by Exception Category/Code or Dealer and Historical data for purposes of analyzing information associated with compliance validation as part of FCG’s audit analysis efforts that consist of Vehicle Owner and Address, Dealer Inventory, Incentive Payment Reversals (Chargebacks) and Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) data.
• Heavy and close interactions with System Analysts during coding and testing phase to make sure that Cobol and DB2 programs were delivered on time, free from defects, and in compliance with Confidential standards and specifications.

Confidential, Covina, CA

Programmer/Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and enhancements of new and current systems including Open Items, Escrow Bill Request and C-Service using Cobol.
• Converted Natural programs into Cobol programs with Adabas direct call that generates reports of all Open Items accounts and up to date information of payments and penalties.
• Performed data gathering, user interviews, and system requirement analysis that will assist in the completion of assign tasks known as Program Service Request (PSR).
• Performed daily production support including job restart and rerun, fixing job abends, emergency migration and email notifications for Open Items, Escrow Bill Request and C-Service systems.

Confidential Simi Valley, CA

Programmer/Analyst - Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead Programmer/Analyst of all data conversion projects involving Hospital Receivable Financial Systems, Automotive Account Management Systems and Credit Card Services generating $800,000 in revenue.
• Project Lead of all CollectOne Tiger RMS products for first party Collection companies that interface with the host system’s database producing efficient and accurate Debtor Information Update for active and non-active accounts which cut daily process by 65%.
• Developed major financial applications in MicroFocus environment for various collection services throughout the Confidential .
• Created and coded over 90 new EDI programs for 30 Collection Agencies using MicroFocus Cobol which generated approximately $400,000 in revenue over two-year period.
• Modified more than 60 Cobol financial applications involving remittances, payments and inventories.
• Managed over 70 projects from design to implementations for Tiger Collection software.
• Solved 15 complex production problem tickets over a one-month period.

Confidential, CA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed complex system analysis, coding and testing for 7 billing projects written in Cobol and DB2.
• Effectively analyzed, coded, tested and successfully implemented 5 projects at the same time for billing application with 100% accuracy, on time and under budget.
• Created and tested adhoc requests to update DB2 tables for 3 billing projects simultaneously with high quality prior to implementation.
• Provided 200 hours of production coverage, problem resolution and coding enhancements for invoice system.
• Solved over 50 complex problems and anomalies on short notice.
• Conducted 24/7 on-call production and warranty support during release.

Confidential, CA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted extensive Year 2000 analysis, coding, testing, documentation and implementation.
• Enhanced programs that handle the new Metro2 industry data format standard on MVS environment.
• Maintained and provided production support on Quality Metric Application that accumulates the Credit Report monthly statistics for File Address Check Service and Fraud Shield protection service concept.
• Designed support tools applications that build credit inquiries from LA351 transactions.
• Performed enhancement on several print utility tools programs directly impacting tables for database upgrade requirements.
• Maintained date roll program that has the ability to roll forward all the dates on 25 DB2 tables for easy use of the testers for system test data requirements.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Pension Field Auditor

Responsibilities:

• Traveled to client site on many occasions to examine records and obtain information regarding insurance premium payments and pension contribution to Teamsters Trust Fund.
• Conducted payroll test procedures pertaining to hours worked by client’s employees utilizing customized Audit Contribution System.
• Performed exit interview and provided detailed report about audit examination.