SUMMARY:

• 22 years extensive experience on development and support of a variety of PC and mainframe Healthcare and Property and Casualty applications.

SKILLS:

CICS, COBOL, DB2, DOS, ENDEVOR, FTP, NDM, IMS, INTERTEST, ISPF, VSAM,JCL, MVS, QMF, SPUFI, FILE - AID, SOURCE SAFE, PVCS, TSO/ISPF, EASYTRIEVE, XPEDITER,VB6, MS VJ++, HTML, WINDOWS, VISIO, TEST DIRECTOR, MS ACCESS, MS PROJECT,MS EXCEL, CA7, ESP,TWS, UNIX, MQ Series, ENDEVOR, CA-SYSVIEW, SYNCSORT, SMARTTEST, SMARTEDIT, STARTOOL, CICSPLEX, TABLEBASE, COBOL Stored Procedures, SQL Server, XML,HTML,VBA, ESP scheduler, DataStage, HP Quality Center, MainView, Eclipse, Maven, STS, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, Spring MVC,BIRT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

IT Engineer

• Deployments to production for Commercial, Personal Lines.
• Support Development for production releases.
• Worked with BMC Mainview tool to research the overall health of the mainframe during performance issues and assists with resolution.
• Developing WEB based Abend Analyzer with input coming from Mainview and java Spring Technology to:
• Reduce Time and Resources for transaction abends analysis, Quickly and easily pinpoint IMS transaction abends having programs moved on specific release day (including releases ran in the past), Provide module names being part of the call, Retrieve transaction abends from the history matching the selection above, Provide transaction with high average response time and retrieves historical data for this transaction, Provide automatic report about mainframe batch abends(populated by night shift) and critical batch jobs runs.
• Performed research of jobs and seeing how Development can avoid consuming a lot of CPU by analyzing the Rolling 4 Hour Average.
• Created BIRT Audit and Abends Reports.
• Worked on numerous automation projects using Mainframe and Java tools.

Confidential, CT 01/2010, Bloomfield

Support Specialist/Analyst

• Developing new processes and being heavily involved in Support of TCC Strategic Roadmap Initiatives (DB2 Recovery, DB2 reports, CCDR for Release Environment, etc.).
• Facilitated CCDR meetings for setting DataStage environment in Release for Collaborative Accountable Care project. Worked on conversion IM for CCDR in DB2C (Release).
• Executed assigned environment preparation activities and tasks for Information Management.
• Assisted in environment preparation planning, by participating in the information collection process. 
• Developing new ESP Scheduler processes.
• Facilitated new Release meetings for setting Release for new Releases.
• Executed assigned environment preparation activities and tasks, including scheduling, JCL/PROC/COBOL modification, component migration, one shot/conversion batch execution, and ensures that task status is current within the plan document.
• Worked with Release leads to ensure tasks for overnight staff are included in the Turnover Document (TOD). 
• Maintained communications with application contacts to monitor and assist in delivery of application components for deployment into the test environment. 
• Worked collaboratively with various IT service organizations to resolve issues related to product change activities. 
• Executed setup activity for online and batch processing.  Initiates and monitors assigned batch execution responsibilities.
• Performed initial problem analysis for batch and online issues and communicate with application support contacts for resolution. 
• Escalated issues in a timely manner to ensure minimal impact to batch and online deliverables.
• Monitored team mailbox to ensure timely response and batch request execution.  Assist in development and maintenance of process and batch processing documentation.  Communicate appropriately for the audience

Confidential, East Hartford, CT

Consultant. Information Analyst/Programmer

• Support of the CMS (Medicare) Enterprise Data Center Contract working on the data transfer and migration project.
• Defining batch production and test jobs on the CA7 and TWS.
• Utilized COBOL batch and CICS with VSAM (KSDS) and IAM files.
• Solving application related abends using Abend-AID.
• Data transfers using Connect:Direct (NDM) and FTP.
• List of tools I have been involved with: Endeavor, TWS, CA-SYSVIEW, Fault Analyzer

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

Consultant. Mainframe developer

• Analysis, programming and implementation of Healthcare programs.
• Strong systems analysis skills - experience taking business requirements and turning them into system requirements. More than 60 System specifications have been written.
• Analyzed coded test and implement COBOL batch and CICS programs according to the specifications.
• Unix scripting (Korn) was used for testing Oracle Intracorp ICMS updates.
• Defining and maintaining batch production and test jobs on the CA7.
• Setting up test jobs, triggers, requirements, schedules and calendars.
• Data transfers using Connect:Direct (NDM) and FTP.
• Wrote, modified and test DB2 modules using SQL and imbedded SQL for batch programs.
• Solving application related abends using Abend-AID and Expeditor.
• Handling DB2 Stored procedures.
• The list of major projects I have been involved with:
• Incentive Program - drove healthier behavior,
• Refill Reminder Program - specialty pharmacy services,
• Medication Therapy Management Program - identifies problems or gaps in prescription drug therapy.
• List of tools I have been involved with:
• Endevor - an integrated set of management tools,
• File Aid - tool for file edits, DB2 edits, extract and load,
• DB2 tools - SPUFI & QMF, interaction with Batch jobs, CICS applications and
• TSO, catalog tables, REORG & RUNSTAT jobs,
• XPEDITER – tool for debugging CICS and batch applications.

Claim Systems. Mainframe Developer

• Analysis, programming and implementation of COBOL CICS, IMS & batch programs for Worker Compensation, Personal and Commercial lines.
• Analyzed coded test and implement online (IMS and CICS) and batch programs according to the specifications. Performed batch monitor duties for production support.
• Modified online screens (IMS) and tested online applications (IMS and CICS) and verified the test results. Responsible for performance tuning the programs.
• Wrote interfaces to CICS to support the web applications. Researched, evaluated and replaced an IMS database with DB2. Transform programs to use DB2 tables in place of IMS calls.
• Performed innovative upgrades to various legacy systems. Researched and developed modifications to existing systems. Used FTP to transfer data.
• Wrote, modified and test DB2 modules using SQL and imbedded SQL for online/batch programs. TableBase experience,
• Exposure in VB.NET and XML testing with Rules Engine and Actuarial Reserves projects.
• The list of major projects I have been involved with:
• Synchrony – project with Metlife partners to synchronize Work Comp, STD, LTD & FMLA claims,
• Actuarial Reserves – Host part to speed up Actuarial process,
• Rules Engine – events to trigger Rules Engine,
• Defining and maintaining batch production and test jobs on the CA7.
• St Paul Confidential Conversion – Insured Retention project, feed Rules Engine with IMS database & DB2 data with MQ Series output to SPC
• and sending Insured Retention Rules to Loss DB.
• Cross-platform communications using MQ Series with IMS, batch and CICS.
• Monitor nightly production batch cycle; perform on-call duties as necessary.
• List of tools I have been involved with:
• Endevor – an integrated set of management tools,
• File Aid – tool for IMS database browse, edit, extract & load,
• DB2 tools– SPUFI & QMF, interaction with Batch jobs, CICS & IMS applications and
• TSO, catalog tables, REORG & RUNSTAT jobs,
• Intertest – tool for debugging CICS applications,
• Smart test & Smart Edit - this tool gives the ability to watch a batch program.
• Visio – diagramming software for flowcharts.