SUMMARY:

• More than twenty five years experience in developing business systems including analysis, design, programming and documentation.
• Possesses strong expertise in COBOL, DB2, Confidential, IMS, JCL, STORED PROCEDURES with emphasis in banking, brokerage, healthcare, billing and telecommunication applications.
• Senior programmer/analyst, project leader.
• Excellent inter - personal and problem solving skills with a proven ability to take projects from requirements through implementation.

SOFTWARE:

COBOL, COBOL II, DB2/SQL, SPUFI, QMF, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, Confidential, SAP/R3, ABAP/4, MVS, BMS, IMS DB, IMS BMP, VSAM, TSO/SPF, JCL, PANVALET, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, MQ Series, EASYTRIEVE, APS, AFP, INTERTEST, XPEDITER, FILEAID, IBM DEBUG, SQL Builder, SYNCSORT

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the development and modification of Confidential ITS software which was distributed to all of the Blue Cross plans nationwide on a release basis.
• Participated in the migration of the old Chicago mainframe to a new mainframe based in South Carolina.
• The tasks involved in the migration of the mainframe consisted of identifying all datasets, JCL,DB2 and IMS databases with the relevant COBOL programs.
• Participated in the analysis, development, unit and system testing of several new enhancements for existing HIPAA related systems including new development for the government mandated ICD-10 HIPAA expansion of medical records.
• Each enhancement was implemented at thirty seven different Blue Cross/Blue Shield installations nationwide.
• Responsibilities apart from program development included leading a team of developers who were assigned various tasks and reporting the status to the Confidential directors located in Chicago.
• The consulting team is based in Columbia. South Carolina and functioned as an off-site team.
• Provided technical support via Service Now ticket system for Confidential customers.
• Analyzed, researched, and resolved any production issues and problems for various plans.
• The system operated in online and batch modes using COBOL II, DB2, IMS, CICSXPEDITOR, SMARTEST,FILEAID, MAX DATA, CHANGEMAN, AGILE, XMLSERVICE NOW and ENDEVOR

Confidential

Lead Associate

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the analysis and programming development of a new personal wealth management system.
• The system accepted investment information from the client and based on various risk models generated a custom portfolio.
• The system used a JAVA front end which interfaced to the mainframe via stored procedures, Confidential and MQ Series.
• The wealth management system included several sub-systems such as auto balancing of the securities, generating letters to the clients and interfacing with the firms internal systems such as trading and accounting.
• Responsibilities included writing functional/program specifications, development of complex stored procedures, batch and Confidential programs, leading both on-shore and Off-shore development teams.
• The on-shore development team comprised of 2 to 4 senior programmers who directly reported to myself during the various releases of the system. The off-shore team was shared between myself and other team leads depending on the on-going tasks
• Participated in the analysis, programming, system testing and implementation of a new Client Segmentation System.
• The system calculated account assets and household assets for individual investors and Confidential ’d the results to a WEB based front end.
• The information was used by the Financial Advisors to determine the net worth of investors for marketing purposes
• The system operated in both online and batch modes using COBOL IICICS, DB2/SQL, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, VSAM, XPEDITER, JCLIBM DEBUG, SQL BUILDER, MQ Series and CHANGEMAN..

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the analysis and conversion of an existing sales forecasting system based on a fixed accounting period of 20 days into a forecasting system based on a business calendar. Modified over one hundred modules including online, batch,DB2 and corresponding JCL.
• The system operated in online and batch modes using COBOL II, Confidential, BMS, VSAMDB2/SQL, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, BMC, INTERTEST, SYNCSORT and ENDEVOR.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the analysis and development of the 837 Claim Processing for HIPAA requirements.
• Wrote several program specifications, together with coding, unit and system testing of both batch and online programs.
• Was also responsible for merging a smaller health care provider into the claim processing at Confidential .
• All applications were written in COBOL II, APS, MQ SERIESDB2/SQL, Confidential, IMS, VSAM, SMARTEST, MAX VSAM/IMS, DUMPMASTER and ENDEVOR.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Was solely responsible for writing several extract programs to create interface files from a Customer Care System on the IBM mainframe for input into a new SIEBEL CRM system.
• The extract files consisted of an initial load of the CRM system and several daily interface files to synchronize the SIEBEL system with the mainframe.
• Wrote a real time application that processed a request from the SIEBEL CRM system and returned Vehicle Sales information held on the mainframe. Was responsible for all data mapping and data conversions on the mainframe.
• All applications were written in COBOL II using Confidential, IMS, DB2/SQL, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, MQ SERIES, JCL and PANVALET.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the initial analysis, programming, testing and implementation of a Foreign Exchange Options trading system.
• The system allowed trades to be made in foreign and US currencies worldwide, generated SWIFT/FAX confirmations together with general ledger cash postings and trading extract files to feed the SAP global general ledger application.
• Programmed and supported the many enhancements to the system both in the US and in Europe together with several mergers to the bank which resulted in making Confidential
• Warburg the second largest investment bank in the world.
• The system operated in both online and batch modes using COBOL II, CICSDB2/SQL, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, IMS/DB, IMS BMP, MQ SERIES, VSAMMVS, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, FILEAID, EASYTRIEVE, JCL, PANVALET and ENDEVOR.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the design, analysis, programming, testing, documentation and implementation of a billing system.
• The system processed and validated shipper transactions from a variety of data sources, applied discounts, recorded history and produced bills which were mailed directly to the shippers.
• Responsibilities included supervision of several programmers on the various releases of the project and production support.
• The system operated in online and batch modes using COBOL IICICS, DB2/SQL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, MVS, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, FILEAID, JCLSYNCSORT and CHANGEMAN.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the design, programming, testing, documentation and implementation of a sales order interface system.
• The system processed and validated an external DB2 daily transaction file which replaced the existing online Confidential system and updated the VSAM and ISAM customer master files. All applications were written in COBOL II using Confidential, DB2/SQL, VSAM,ISAM,XPEDITER, FILEAID, TSO/ISPF and MVS .
• Was solely responsible for the account synchronization of two large customer master files for sales analysis and forecasting.
• Responsibilities included user contactpresentations, design, programming, testing documentation and implementation.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted all aspects of analysis, design, programming and implementation of a major enhancement to a telephone billing collections system using COBOL, JCL, VSAMIMS DB/DC/BMP, JCL, TSO/ISPF, MVS, XPEDITER, FILEAID and Librarian.