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Rochester, NY

OBJECTIVE:

A position as a mainframe programmer/analyst.

CAREER SUMMARY:

  • Results - driven professional with ability to impact the effectiveness and productivity of application systems through innovation, cooperation, and dedication.
  • Extensive knowledge of mainframe languages and tools and all phases of system and client support.
  • A general knowledge of emerging technologies and their commercial applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  • Cobol and PL1
  • IMS and DB2
  • VSAM
  • EASYTRIEVE
  • Basic CICS knowledge
  • Batch and online
  • TSO, ISPF, JCL, SYNCSORT, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, MQ, FTP, Confidential
  • Continuous interaction with business clients. Quality and Performance improvement. Change and crisis management.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Contract position working from home to assist in special projects maintaining a large medical insurance system.
  • Programming and testing Cobol and Confidential batch programs and the associated JCL and procedures. IMS intensive. Some VSAM programs.

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Contract position to support a large statement section.
  • Programming and testing Cobol, Confidential batch programs and the associated JCL and procedures.
  • Many VSAM programs.
  • Developing a Control-M test system.
  • Working with 1 other contractor and 5 full time.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Programming and testing Cobol and Confidential batch programs and the associated JCL and procedures.
  • Some VSAM programs.
  • Worked with 2 other contractors and one full time.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Used Changeman for release coordination. Comfortable in defect fixes and overnight production support.
  • This is a 30 year old system that requires frequent updates, working and coordinating with 30 other programmers.
  • I was the driver in a project that reduced CPU usage 6% in 150 batch programs. Often used in special investigations of problem bugs.

Confidential, Westwood, Ma

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Contract position to assist in modifying the billing programs for a large energy company.
  • Programming and testing COBOL programs that use IMS databases.
  • Some limited CICS exposure.
  • Coordinated changes with 10 other programmers to accomplish changes in billing features.

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • 16 years of extensive COBOL programming experience maintaining a large mainframe application.
  • 16 years of writing, updating and maintaining the JCL associated with that application.
  • Planning, design, implementation of development and changes to the main database of commercial accounts and policies
  • Write and maintain the 250 batch and online programs for data entry and integrity and integration with other system interfaces
  • Periodic reporting of input data errors, interface problems, and tickler files for actions due. Reports are vital for monthly book-closing financial totals and office processing efficiency.
  • Reports are printed directly or FTP'd to servers for processing with macros written by me.
  • Ad hoc writing of data queries on this 6 million policy database
  • Facilitated consolidation of Confidential Insurance Companies multi-million policy into Liberty's. Received individual award for this large project.
  • Headed up testing and implementation of new software from outside vendors.
  • Programmed the extraction of the entire database for a new web-based front end. Programmed the entire mainframe interface for this new front-end.
  • Continually monitor and improve reporting through user suggestions or self-generated reports.
  • Developed IBM mailbox interfaces with governmental agencies.
  • Developed training plan for co-workers to support this system.
  • I have worked in mainframe programming for 16 years maintaining a system that consisted of 10 IMS databases and 2 DB2 databases.
  • My system consisted of 150 online and 100 batch programs, nearly all of them using IMS database calls.
  • I was the sole support of the Confidential account and policy databases for all business accounts.
  • Over the years I have collaborated with other Confidential business systems to produce data interfaces between their system and mine, in nightly batch and real-time mode.
  • My system was the backbone of all Confidential business data.
  • Four years ago, Confidential acquired Confidential Insurance
  • . I was instrumental in writing the conversion of all their databases, and daily updates for the data.
  • Last year my system was rewritten to a web-based front end.
  • I helped them with data definitions, screen edits, and screen evaluation and suggestions.
  • My databases had to be converted to flat files by me, and loaded onto the new system.
  • I wrote the programs that would update my database using an MQ data pass from the new system.

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