COBOL Mainframe Application and Legacy System Developer

A senior level technical professional with extensive Mainframe/Legacy Development skills, degrees in Data Processing and over 30 years of experience who has participated in large and small IT projects for many clients. He has worked on both development and maintenance projects in the mainframe world. His efforts have resulted in the establishment of COOP plans, major upgrades, cost savings and the meeting of project deadlines. He has maintained cutting edge knowledge of the industry and participated in many symposiums and conferences not only as an attendee but also as a guest lecturer and speaker. He has management experience ranging from project to organizational. He has specialized education in Novell and Microsoft networking, advanced EDI training and experience, a solid technical background and his long term experience in mainframe systems especially COBOL development, round out his broad and deep background. He has participated in many aspects of the industry including but not limited to: Software Development Project Management Business Process Analysis Information Engineering SWOT and Process Analysis Process Engineering System and Infrastructure: planning, analysis, design, construction, formalized testing and implementation data administration data base management software development, new program development, maintenance programming software and hardware evaluation, training LAN system design, installation, configuration, and administration Vendor Agreement and SLA negotiation and management.

Professional Career Highlights

• Software/Mainframe Developer for the State of Tennessee, Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development, Unemployment Insurance Administration, participated in the rapid deployment and upgrade of COBOL systems to handle the 2009 Federal Stimulus Program changes.
• Project Leader and Senior Developer for Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. I took over a COBOL, CICS coding project for a major mortgage processing company. The fist task had been working for 11 weeks and I closed it in 5 days. COBOL, TSO/ISPF, CICS
• Business Analyst/Developer who participated in the design and development of Data Warehousing schemas for BCBS of AR containing time sensitive membership information resulting in the ability to pull historical data that had not been previously possible. This was a COBOL II CICS based system with IMS and DB2 databases and BMS generated screens.
• COBOL Programmer Analyst on a COBOL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF Mortgage Payment Processing system.
• Sr. Business Analyst / Sr. Software Developer - COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB/DC, ADF, CA7, RUP, SDSF, SAR, and Intertest. Software development contract for parts inventory management system.
• COBOL Programmer for the Department of Interior's, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's, Branch of Systems User Support. Wrote over 100 data conversion and extraction programs against VSAM and QSAM data residing at USGS, Reston, VA.
• Legacy Application Renewal Consultant working with the updating and rewriting of Legacy application code and systems.
• Sr. Programmer Analyst COBOL II, CICS, DB2, BMS, SQL, ROSCOE, VSAM Reohr Group, GTE Health Systems, Phoenix, AZ. Wrote or performed maintenance on over 200 COBOL II CICS Programs.
• Task Leader / Sr. Programmer Analyst COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, MFS, DB2, SQL, TSO, IMS Data-Xpert, Blue Cross Blue Shield of VA, ARMS Incorporated. Assisted with User requirement definitions and gathering efforts. Wrote over 30 COBOL programs.
• Programmer/ Documentation Technician - COBOL IMS DB/DC Tax System, Montgomery County MD. DBM United States

Technical Skills Highlight Areas

Mainframe - COBOL VS/II/370/390/LE/Enterprise 26 yrs , IMS DB/DC 19 yrs , CICS 15 yrs , DB2 12 yrs , SQL 12 yrs , TSO/ISPF 22 yrs , JCL 30 yrs , VSAM 10 yrs , IDMS 3 yrs , Easytrieve 8 yrs , FOCUS 3 yrs , ADABAS/Natural 3 yrs , MQ Series 2 years , SOA 2 years , ChangeMan 7 years , Xpediter, Intertest, SyncSort, Dyl 280, File-AID, SAR, SDSF, Rational Platinum Tools, Endeavor, Panvalet, Librarian, Abend-AID, QMF, SPUFI, Eclipse, Data-Xpert, IMS Xpert, Control-M, CA-7, Telon, IEF, Cool:Gen, ROSCOE, Wylbur, ICCF

Technical Skills Highlight Areas Cont'd

• Operating Systems z/OS, OS/MVS, OS/390, DOS/VSE, DOS/VMSP, Windows 3.1X/95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, SunOS, BSD, DG/UX, HP/UX, Novell NetWare, DOS, MS Server 2000/2003, SBS 2000/2003
• Languages COBOL, SQL, JCL, Natural, OCL, System 38 CL, RPG II, BASIC, SGML VS Script , PL/I, ADF Audit Language, C, C , C , Visual Basic, HTML, XML, Java, J2EE, Java Script, VB Script, UNIX Shell Scripting, Fortran, AWK, Perl, PHP, CSS, ASP, xBase
• Databases DB2, IMS, IDS/II DM IV, ADABAS, DATACOM/DB, IDMS, Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Sybase, MS Access, PowerBuilder
• COTS - Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Lotus, Ami, ADOBE, GroupWise, Microsoft Mail/Exchange, MS Project, Visio

Professional Experience

Confidential

On contract to Deloitte Consulting in support of the Defense Health Information Management System EHR. Product Engineer for integrated single sign-on, a GUI front end for legacy information presentation and a theater based medical information database. Vista, Citrix, COBOL, Java

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On contract to IBM at Blue Cross of MN testing the FEP program HIPAA 5010 Federally mandated changes and updates. COBOL, SAS, TSO, ISPF, CA7, EOS, SoapUI, WebSphere MQ Explorer, COBOL II, JCL, Z/OS, AIX, Linux, Windows XP, VMware, FEP Direct

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Revenue Accounting System, using COBOL, Adabas, Natural, DB2, SQL, MS Office, SharePoint, HP Quality Center, JCL, z/OS, Panvalet, Writing and executing Test cases, HP-UX 11.23, Creating/manipulating/managing test data.

Confidential

EDI Programmer - COBOL II, Gentran 6.3, ANSI X12 4030, TSO/ISPF, IDMS, VSAM, FTP, Test Center, MS Office.

Confidential

Helpdesk Support Technician for the Computer Assisted Data Collection CADC hardware department of the Office of Field Operations. Assisted with configuration, deployment, and maintenance of tablet PCs. CheckPoint VPN, CITIRIX, POINTSEC, Entrust, Security, Windows Active Directory, Remedy, Datakey CIP, Smartcards, and pcAnywhere. Entrust Security Administrator

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Mainframe Developer - Performed COBOL software development for the State of Tennessee, Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development, Unemployment Insurance Administration. Programmed both on-line and batch programs using COBOL 74 in a TSS, IDS/II DM IV, TP8, Bull Honeywell GCOS environment.

Data Conversion Specialist Utilized various technologies and processes to convert data for special requirements projects.

Confidential

• Senior Computer Systems Analyst / Mainframe Developer / Business Analyst for the, on the LOTS Litigation Overview Tracking System conversion of a legacy dBase IV system to a CICS, DB2 and Java web based browser application.
• COOP Planning Assistant - COOP/Disaster Recovery Planning for the Office of Enterprise Support, Architecture and Engineering's Office of the Associate Commissioner OESAE OAC .
• Technical Analyst on the Comprehensive Work Opportunity Support System CWOSS prepared Detailed Functional Requirements DFRs and SWOT Analysis. Utilized CICS, DB2, COBOL II, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, Endeavor, CLIST, Control-M, RUP, JCL, z/OS, VSAM, Windows XP/Vista, Testbase, File-Aid, MKS, dBase, MS Office and the Metadata Analyzer.

Confidential

Various Projects and Contracts: COBOL Programmer for Retail Order Inventory System Onshore Project Leader for CICS, COBOL II Financial System Project Manager Project Leader SME Business Analyst/Consultant for Legacy Applications' Renewal Group Business Analyst and SME for COBOL Mainframe Programming project Lead COBOL Conversion Programmer for COBOL to COBOL LE project, Mainframe Developer EDI Project Manager on EDI conversion project Senior Computer Systems Analyst EDI Programmer Analyst Business Analyst Consultant Systems Administrator, Senior Consultant and COBOL Mainframe Developer. Projects included Health Care systems, HIPAA renovation and compliance, transportation logistic system, 800 billing system, inventory management, shipping, and freight tracking, POS, accounting/financial systems, SWOT Analysis and others. Utilized SOA Service Oriented Arechitecture , COBOL II, COBOL LE, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, IMS DB/DC, DLI, VSAM, Cool:Gen, CA-7, ChangeMan, TSO/ISPF, MQ Series, Visual Age COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, WebSphere, ADABAS/Natural, Panvalet, Endevor, File-Aid, Xpediter, Intertest, Infoman, z/OS, OS/MVS/390, CECI, CEDF, CEMT, IDMS, EDI, RUP, Easytrieve Plus, Oracle, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, MKS, Agile, Apache, Lucene, TomCat, Java, J2EE, Crystal Reports, FTP, Connect:Direct, MS Access/Visio/Project, Metadata Analyzer, HTML, ASP, Perl, Tcl/Tk, QuickBASIC, VBScript, IE, Telnet, IIS, MS Office, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Server 2000/2003/2005/2007. Built and configured servers and desktops.

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Managed IT support staff including Help Desk, UNIX and Novell support personnel. Responsibilities included staff management, time accounting, proposal writing, client interface and technical support. Technical areas of responsibility included GroupWise 5.5, NetWare 4.11, Solaris 7/8, SunOS, Red Hat Caldera Linux, Server 2000, Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, Oracle, MS SQL Server, C/C , Java, Visio, Legato, Tape Libraries, and RSA security. Administered Cisco routers, Sun, Dell, Compaq, Micron, other generic servers, and Sun desktops. Administered SAN and NAS units.

Confidential

• Sr. Business Analyst / Sr. Software Developer - COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB/DC, ADF, CA7, RUP, SDSF, SAR, and Intertest. Software development contract for parts inventory management system.
• Sr. Lead Programmer Analyst COBOL II, VSAM, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, ROSCOE, RUP, TSO/ISPF and Peoplesoft.
• Sr. Software Developer / Team Leader - EDI/EC, Harbinger TLC/TLE, Gentran, XML, Oracle, FTP, Connect:Direct
• Lead Programmer Analyst - HIPAA, requirements and renovations, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, FOCUS, VM, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB/DC, ADF, MQ Series, WebSphere, CA7, IEF, Cool:Gen, Oracle, Telon, File-Aid, Data-Xpert, IMS Xpert, Intertest, Abend-Aid, Visual Age COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL Workbench
• Programmer Analyst Retail Order Inventory Management System/B2B Portal COBOL, TSO/ISPF, DB2, CICS, BMS, C
• Systems Engineer - GroupWise 5.5 and 5 mail system administration, UNIX System Admin Linux, BSD, HP/UX, OSF/1 , Novell NetWare Admin 3.11/4.x/5.x , Y2K conversions
• Sr. Internet Desktop Technician - C/C , Visual Basic, Visual C, Java, MS SQL, MySQL, MS Office, Visio, MS Project, Internet System Design and Configuration, LAN, HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP, Java Script, VB Script, and Windows 95/98m/NT/ME/2000/XP networking. I configured and administered Cisco routers. I configured DSL Internet access points.
• Disaster Recovery Team Lead - Alltel International Mortgage - Participated in disaster recovery exercises.

Confidential

• EC/EDI Coordinator responsible for establishing and defining corporate strategies for electronic commerce. Performed project SWOT Analysis, trained users in Harbinger TLC NT/Windows . Established the Harbinger EDI program for New West Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the SRP in the newly deregulated California energy market.
• Sr. Project Leader - Responsible for three teams of five techs. Utilized MS Project to track goals, milestones and schedules.
• Sr. Web Architect Designed and created web pages and participated in the creation of B2B portal. HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP, CSS, JavaScript, and Apache Web Servers.
• Technical Interviewer - COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB/DC, FOCUS, Networking, Novell, Windows NT/95, Unix, JCL, Linux, SunOS, Solaris, Oracle, HTML, DHTML, XML, and Apache.