OBJECTIVE:

Senior Mainframe COBOL Programmer/Analyst

SUMMARY:

A diligent employee offering 35 plus years of substantial experience in the field of computer programming. Skilled in troubleshooting program problems, performing analysis tasks, developing detailed program specifications, writing system and user documentation, coding programs using structured approach, creating test plans, conducting system tests, and finally coordinating implementation strategies and schedules. Detailed oriented, focused, and reliable team player with strong leadership skills and ability to quickly establish rapport with end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM Z13, Z990, Z900, Z800, Multiprise 3000 Model H30, 3090, 3091, 3270, 3084Q, 3081K, 3083 (models J, B, and E), 4341, and 4331.

Operating Systems: Windows 7 Professional, Windows XP Professional, z/OS, MVS/OS 390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA/SP, DOS/VSE/VM, DATAGENERAL.

Languages: MVS/JCL, COBOL 4.2, COBOL 390, MicroFocus COBOL, COBOL II, Standard ANSI COBOL, ACCU - COBOL, Ryan McFarland COBOL, IDEAL, Assembler and DOS JCL.

Database/File Structures: VSAM, IMS, DB2, SQL, ADR/Datacom.

System Software: TSO z/OS ISPF, Rumba, CA/View, CA/PDSMAN, CA7, MVS/SDSF, VPNCA/Librarian ELIPS, ISPW, Remedy, JIRA, Confluence, IPSwitch, CyberFusion, WinSCP, NDM, FTP, JHS, WSF2, ITSM, INFOMAN, IBM Utilities, ROSCOE, PROFS, CQCF, ICCF. File-Aid/IMS.

Productivity Too ls: Agile Scrum and Kanban Methodologies, File-Aid/MVS, Abend-Aid, Xpediter, Bookmanager, QMF, DB2 Catalog Manager, DBD/PBS Mapper, Princeton Softech Relational Tools, Version Merger, File-Aid/IMS, IMS-Xpert, IMS/ESA Batch Terminal Simulator, DataExpert, Dyl-280, ADR/Dataquery, ADR/Datadictionary.

PC Software: MS Office 365, Office 2000, MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS VISIO, Lotus Notes, Domino Doc, NetExpress 3.1, PVCS, Team Workbench, WordPerfect, NIKU Clarity Workbench.

Application Software: Specific vendor based systems include FISS, Information Expert, and MSA. General system knowledge spans, Cable Billing, Claims Processing, HIPAA, EFT, EDI, Adjustments, Financials, and Credit Card Conversions.

On-Line/Interactive: Command level CICS (maintenance)

FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support in a fast paced environment for the Confidential Development/Support Team.
• Mainly responsible for supporting the batch Confidential Billing system on the mainframe with regard to production maintenance and system enhancements.
• Majority of assignments are comprised from projects requested by our client to in corporate new functionality into the Billing
• System to provide for the clients business needs. Committed to eight projects a year with each project cycle running six weeks using Agile (Scrum) Methodology.
• Responsible for design review, unit test plan development, coding, unit testing, code quality inspections, turnover to QA and Production, support QA testing and production implementation.
• Also, accountable for troubleshooting and rectifying issues documented in problem tickets along with supporting production and QA batch cycles with 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Worked into new opportunity with Confidential Passer projects to develop, test and implement "passer" modules to manipulate data on production files at the client’s request.
• These requests are very high profile and can significantly impact a subscribers billing statement.
• Transferred to the Passer/Mass Update team in 2011 to consolidate the Confidential Passers over to the team in charge of passers for the other Confidential cable provider clients.
• Initial responsibility was to assist with the development of the Item Passer process for Confidential with new JCL and common PROC features to improve the efficiency of passer installations. Later took ownership applying new Item Passer approach to the Item Passer install process for the other Confidential Cable clients.
• Continued in role as the team JCL and CA7 expert applying additional improvements as needed.
• Primary objective on this team was to balance a typical workload of 3-4 passers concurrently for various Confidential clients, with multiple iterations of spec changes, code development, string tests, output review, and quality inspection milestones.
• Used multitasking skill to meet the passer milestones with quality results yet remained flexible when clients made last minute updates impacting milestone delivery. Accountable for monitoring live install jobs during three phases of batch cycle and verifying that each job ran successful.
• As a dedicated team player, with a strong attention to detail, took responsibility to review the work and install setup for passers done by my peers to ensure flawless installs, also frequently volunteered to cover for peer passers when they took vacation or had other commitments the night of their install.
• Passer life cycle tracked with Scrum methodology recently changed to Kanban.

Environment: IBM Z13, z/OS, Windows 7 Professional, Agile Scrum/Kanban, COBOL 4.2, VSAM, MVS/JCL, TSO z/OS ISPF 7.1, Rumba 9.4.1, MVS/SDSF, CA/View 12.2, CA7 11.3, CA/PDSMAN 7.70, VPN Client, ISPW, Remedy, JIRA, Confluence, IPSwitch, Cyberfusion, WinSCP 5.13.5, MS Office 365, MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, IBM Utilities: IDCAMS, UDACS, SYNCSORT, File-Aid/MVS 17.2, MVS Abendaid 17.2, Xpediter 17.2, CA/Roscoe 6.0, CA/Librarian ELIPS 4.4, INFOMAN, ITSM.

Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support during the Confidential Medicare Claims Processing System installations.
• Responsibilities included the Batch Standardization and Single Copy Load Confidential enhancement projects.
• Also primary IS resource for the original 270/271 project install and test of the HIPAA compliant Health Care Eligibility Benefit inquiry/response transactions using TCP/IP, EDI and CICS.
• Other HIPAA transaction responsibilities include the production implementation of the 276/277 Health Care Status transactions.
• Also worked extensively with the EDI frontend and backend processes for 835, 837, and RA (Remittance Advice) transactions.
• Mainly accountable for daily production support maintenance, including 24 X 7 fire-call support for batch and online processing.
• Areas of concentration within the Confidential system include MedATran, Financial, and the Medicare (VRU) Voice Response Unit.

Environment: IBM Z900, Z990, OS/390, Windows XP Professional, COBOL, VSAM, MVS JCL/Utilities, z/OS ISPF, CA/Librarian 4.3, IOF, CAl 1, Xpediter 7.4, CA/PDSMAN 7.51, Office 2000 SP3, Lotus Notes 6.5, File-Aid/MVS 8.9.0, Abend-Aid 9.5, NDM, CA7, WSF2, JHS, IBM INFOMAN, Bookmanager 3.0, Domino.Doc, NIKU Clarity Workbench, MS Word, MS Excel, MS VISIO Professional 2002.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Main focus of this assignment was to support the project for HIPAA Readiness and Remediation in relation to the 837/835 electronic claims.
• Primarily responsible for code modifications and unit testing of the front-end Institutional Claims Edit and Reporting modules to meet the requirements for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• Also analyzed, designed, coded, and tested hundreds of front-end edits for the legacy system on X12 data after conversion to the UB92 format.

Environment: IBM Z800, MVS/OS 390, COBOL, IMS, VSAM, MVS JCL/Utilities, TSO/ISPFCA/Librarian 4.2, File-Aid/MVS 8.8.1, File-Aid/IMS, Xpediter/TSO 7.1, IOF, TAO 4.04, VISIO

Confidential

Consultant/Information Services Division

Responsibilities:

• Given primary responsibility for redesign, recoding, testing and documenting the Pension Estimate Reporting System for the Lincoln Police and Fire Division.
• Purpose was to eliminate redundancy within the system code causing maintenance difficulty, remove End-User's previously identified errors from the system, and analyze the system for additional potential problems that would create inaccurate reporting of the pension estimates.
• Work effort essentially consisted of batch COBOL/DB2, and XPEDITER.
• The new Pension Estimate Reporting System resulted in a significant code reduction, from 1 3 lines, the correction of various faults found in the original code, and updated documentation outlining the new system flow.
• Second assignment was later requested to apply additional enhancements to the improved Pension Estimate Reporting System.

Environment: IBM Multiprise 3000 Model H30, ZOS 1.1, TSO 7.1, ISPF 5.0, Librarian/ELIPS 4.2, COBOL OS/390, DB2, SQL, XPEDITER, MVS JCL/UTILITIES, QMF Ver.6 Rel.ISYSVIEW 7.5/ESAl, VISIO, Lotus Notes.