PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over twenty years of comprehensive Information Technology experience in various industries, including telephony, manufacturing, oil and gas, banking, grocery, healthcare and insurance. Have successfully served in both technical and analytical capacities during the design, development, implementation and production support of many large and small-scale applications. Technical expertise includes mainframe COBOL II, COBOL 85, MVS JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM and Eztrieve. Have performed extensive testing utilizing both batch and online processes as well as interactive tools such as Xpediter, Intertest, TraceMaster and SmartTest.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Databases: DB2, IMS, VSAM, DBASE
• Languages: COBOL II, COBOL 85, Microfocus COBOL, CICS, BMS, MFS, MVS/JCL, FOXPRO, APS,
• DYL280, Easytrieve
• Tools: Xpediter, Intertest, CEDF, Microfocus Animator, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, SDSF, IOF,
• IDCAMS, ENDEVOR, Panvalet, FILE-AID, Librarian/CCF, DATAVANTAGE, IMS
• XPERT, INFOMAN, N-SYNC, TraceMaster, SmartTest, Abend-Aid, X-Ray, Syncsort, IBM
• Debug, IBM Fault Analyzer
• Platforms: IBM Mainframe 3090, IBM OS/390, IBM System 36, CICS, IMS/DB/DC, VM/CMS,
• Windows 95/97/98/NT/XP/Vista/7/8, LAN

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

• Production support, reporting and enhancements 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

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

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

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

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

• 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

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

• 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

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

• As part of a production support team, responsible for answering trouble tickets via page between the hours
• of 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

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

• In preparation for Verizon 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 Verizon'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, TSO/ISPF, N-Sync, SOX, IBM OS/390,

Confidential

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

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/390

Confidential

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

• Lead programmer in charge of a team who was developing a new system that would police providers in
• other 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
• output 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