Software Consultant Resume
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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.