SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished Programmer and Lead Analyst with 20+ years of demonstrated achievements in delivering superior x service, technological and operational improvements for multimillion - dollar companies and clients.
• Results-driven professional known for successfully leading/building teams to impact operational capability, database management and critical processes.
• Creative problem solver, team mentor and communicator with a proven ability to develop cutting-edge approaches to resolve issues, capitalize on emerging technologies and design effective database solutions.
• Problem Solving Data & Design Relationships Application Infrastructure Customer Relations
• Program Development Team Building, Leadership & Mentoring Emerging Technologies
• Cost Control Project Management Programming & Analysis Business Requirements
• Pharmaceutical Applications Information Technology Development & Deployment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL CICS EASYTRIEVE VSAM VM DOS/VSE Environments DOS/MVS TSO/SPF CMS PANVALET Intertest SyncSort FTP DB2 Databases Quality Center Clear Qwest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Conversion Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Supply the programming necessary to assist financial institutions in converting debit and credit cards from magnetic strip to EMV chip.
• Development environment is Cobol on a Tandem mainframe with much use of Access database data manipulation.

Confidential

Sr. Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain mainframe GroupFacts applications, interfaces and dependencies with FACETS client server application.
• Group Facts is a VSAM, CICS & COBOL based insurance application with batch components produced by Confidential that is compatible in an IBM / DOS-VS or OS-VSE operation environment.
• Facets is Confidential ’s client-server replacement as they have stopped providing maintenance for Group Facts.
• My duties was to create a Membership extract from numerous VSAM master files for the Extract-Transform-Load process and manage the remaining mainframe systems until the conversion is complete, and then oversee the sunsetting of all mainframe applications.

Confidential, Salem

Information Systems Specialist 6 (Analyst)

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, development and design for Oregon Health Authority across the spectrum of government social services applications in a mainframe environment using TSO/SPF, DB2, Cobol, VSAM, CICS,EZtrieve, JCL.
• All of the applicsations I worked on used batch COBOL with VSAM and flat files, batch DB2 interfaces, Easytrieve programming and CICS online processes as well.

Confidential, Salem

Information Systems Specialist 5 (Analyst)

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, development and design for Oregon Health Authority across the spectrum of government social services applications in a mainframe environment using TSO/SPF, DB2, Cobol, VSAM, CICS,EZtrieve, JCL.

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to Confidential Group for conversion of Government Employees
• Development of a Future State design document via analysis of the Current State designs of Interface and Extract processes in preparation for offshore development. Included mapping the Facets environment data sources to the reports and files created for transmission to trading partners to replicate what is expected by clients. Design also included selection critera, dependencies and report and file specifications such as file names and storage paths.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis or ‘reverse engineering’ and documentation of Confidential ’s legacy Claim Facts/Group Facts Interface and Extract processes (received from and transmitted to clients and trading partners) for the purpose of translating the COBOL/MVS processes into non-technical English to be used by Future State designers not familiar with the legacy application.
• Included the explanation of the program logic and the data manipulation and transformation via MVS tools and utilities such as SORT and IEBGENER used to create the files and reports.
• Also included was the mapping of all reports and files created by the processes for future translation to the Facets environment.

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop, document and execute test plans, test scripts and test labs using Quality Center and Clear Quest (for defect tracking) software tools to ensure application changes to the ALS mainframe application were validated via thorough testing methods to avoid post installation problems in production.
• I was a test lead one of my two projects responsible for developing an integrated test plan of all contributing testers and reporting results using Power Point.

Technical Summary: TSO/ISPF, VSAM, COBOL, BMS, Quality Center, Clear Quest, Excel, Power Point

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership for system conversion project converting Group Facts mainframe membership application and added ad hoc programming to FACETS client-server package.
• Develop application procedures for extracting data from VSAM legacy files using primarily COBOL programs developed in a Volley environment within a DOS/VSE operating system, transforming it to match new environment and loading the data onto new system.
• Create innovative processes to repair problems as they are encountered while transferring load.
• Coordinated file conversions to Pharmacy Benefit Manager, MedImact MDI program and installed E*Enroll Application interface.
• Led high value pharmacy application project implementing Medicare Part D Benefit, completing project by January 2nd.
• Elevated company market presence and footprint by successfully completed Medicare project, receiving national media attention.
• Optimized operational capability by guaranteeing that all ad hoc requests are completed as soon as possible.
• Served as point person on all last minute requests and conversions for company.

Technical Summary: DOS/VSE, VOLLIE, VSAM, COBOL, BMS, XRAY, Easytrieve, SYNC Sort, Excel

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Outsourced from Blackwells where I performed identical duties detailed immediately following

Technical Summary: VM/CMS, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, DB2, Universal Database, Visual Basic, MS Access, VSAM, COBOL, BMS, Intertest, CEDF, Easytrieve, SYNC Sort

Confidential, Lake Oswego, Oregon

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded mainframe-to-client server conversion for customer, converting major subsystems for invoicing, orders and financials.
• Devised temporary fixes to convert systems on mainframe application to new client-server application until final conversion.
• Transitioned table of contents service from VSAM to DB2 by converting files to tables and reprogramming systems to utilize DB2 tables.
• Created VB6 application to access and update table maintenance history log.

Technical Summary: VM/CMS, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, DB2, Universal Database, Visual Basic, MS Access, VSAM, COBOL, BMS, Intertest, Easytrieve, SYNC Sort

Confidential

Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Ensured continued functionality of EDI software during Y2K changeover by recruiting superior personnel at a low cost to company.
• Maximized company productivity by ensuring best personnel were on staff and replacing underperforming resources.
• Increased customer service levels by eliminating back log of customer requests and reducing active list.
• Created enhancement for TOC application allowing company to receive TOC records to upgrade existing files.