OBJECTIVE:

• I am looking for a long term contract for the following positions:
• Mainframe (Natural ADABAS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Etc.) Programmer.
• Visual Basic Programmer
• Information Technology Qualify Assurance Lead, Project Lead, and/or Technical Manager.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I have more than 30 years of experience in the area of software design and development (both Mainframe and Window/Web Environments), Data Warehouse design and development, and the following technical skills and management (soft) skills.
• Have strong application development on IBM Mainframe computer systems with knowledgeable of these IBM application development tools (such as CICS, TSO, JCL, DB2/COBOL II, COBOL enterprise, File - Aid, Platinum, and Natural/ADABASE).
• Strong Client/Server application development utilizing various Windows programming languages such as Visual Basic (6.0 and .NET), PowerBuilder, C, VB Access, and basic static web page.
• Strong writing embedded SQL and PL SQL in C, PowerBuilder script, Visual Basic script, and COBOL.
• Strong Data Warehouse design and development on both Client/Server and Mainframe environments.
• Strong Project Lead/Technical Lead and/or Technical Analyst on both Client/Server and Mainframe environments.
• Strong systems analysis and design skills and communication skills.
• Many years of experience with the following software/tools
• SQL Navigator, and WinSQL
• MS Access
• MS Visio
• Oracle SQL Plus, and SQL Loader, DB2 load utilities
• TestDirector (Quality Center), and Confidential ITSM change control tools
• Remedy/PAC2000 change control tool
• Cognos Impromptu and Computer Associate Eureka reporting tools
• MS Office and Lotus Note.
• Worked on several large projects (see the list below) utilize full systems development life cycle (SDLC)
• NSP (Xcel Energy) Customer Services Systems Project
• Confidential Small Business Data Warehouse (ORANGE) Project
• Thrivent Data Warehouse Project
• Wells Fargo CEO Workstation Project.
• Current at Confidential MPS1 Systems

SUMMARY of SOFT (MANAGEMENT) SKILLS:

• Fifteen plus years of business knowledge in the area of financial services (insurance, and banking) industry.
• Eight plus years of business knowledge in the area of electric utility industries.
• Several years’ business knowledge in retail industry, and healthcare industries.
• Four plus years as Senior Consultant/Staff Manager/Project Lead.
• 15 plus years as Application Developer/Lead.
• One plus years as an adjunct faculty at Metropolitan State University.
• Ten plus years as community leader/advisor

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COMPUTER LANGUAGES : COBOL (COBOLII/DB2, COBOL 370), ADABAS/Natural,PL1, PowerBuilder, BASIC, Visual BASIC, C, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CICS/Cobol CICS, Micro Focus COBOL, SQL (PL SQL, Embedded SQL, DB2 SQL, and DB2 Stored Procedure Using SQL)

DATABASES: DB2, MS ACCESS, ADABAS, ORACLE, SYBASE, FLAT FILE and VSAM FIL

SOFTWARES: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint), TSO (ISPF, JCL, ENDEVOR, ChangeMan, XPEDITOR Debugging tool, PANVALET, File-Aid, INSYNC, and PLATINUM, BMC), Remedy (project tracking tool), Lotus Note, FrontPage, Web Studio, Micro Focus Workbench, Cognos Impromptu Administrator and Report Design tools, Computer Associates Eureka Metadata Manager and Report Design tools, Oracle SQL Navigator, VISIO, TestDirector (AKA Quality Center), PAC2000, ITMS (Change Request/Change Control Tool), Eclipse (DB2 Stored Procedure Testing Tool), ClearQuest, WinSQL, and Confidential IDE development Tool.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: ZOS, DOS, UNIX/SUN Solaris, VAX-VMS, MVS, WINDOWS 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7/8.

COMMUNICATIONS: CROSSTALK, PASSPORT, EXTRA, E-MAIL, LAN, NOVELL, Lotus Notes, and these Mainframe connection (Hummingbird, Extra, and Irma) tools

HARDWARES: IBM Mainframe (3090), PC, UNIX SUN/Solaris Workstation, VAX/11-785, and UNISYS 2200 mainframe systems

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS: Java, Smalltalk, and Object-Oriented Design and Programming

WORKS EXPERIENCE:

Technical Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate/manage the entire UAT Environment
• Manage the entire monthly QA refresh cycle
• Provide day-to-day support for all QA testing in the Test Environment
• Ongoing non-production batch jobs support

Technical Skills/Use: COBOL/DB2, TSO, JCL, ITSM (SM9) Change Control Tool, BR Track (Remedy) change control tool, Zeke job scheduling tool and IBM BMC (DB2 Utility)

Applications Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• General Software Development for Confidential Merchants (credit card) Processing Systems.
• Spend 50% of my time to work with Business Analyst and/or users to understand their business requirements
• Utilize Confidential SDLC
• Prepare/write technical design and specification
• Update existing DB2 and batch programs
• Write new B2 and batch programs
• Fix defects during systems/integrated testing
• Spend 50% of my time to
• Coordinate/manage production installation
• Create ITSM change request, and monitor until approved and implemented
• Prepare production installation process/procedure (game plan
• Ongoing production support

Technical Skills/Use: COBOL/DB2, TSO, JCL, ITSM Change Control Tool, and IBM BMC (DB2 Utility)

Computer Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Write COBOL/DB2 batch and stored procedure programs according to the technical specification given to me.
• Unit test and make sure implemented it to production according to the time line.

Technical Skills/Use: COBOL, DB2/Stored Procedure, TSO, Platinum, BMC, CA7, Endevor

Senior Application Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business Analyst and user to understand their business requirements
• Prepare/write systems design, and technical specification
• Time to time write programs to extract source data, unit test, participate in systems test, and integrate test.
• Fix defects during systems/integrated testing
• Prepare implementation plans
• Ongoing production support

Technical Skills/Use: COBOL, CICS, TSO, JCL, DB2, Access, WinSQL, Visual Basic (6.0/.NET) and Embedded DB2 SQL

Senior Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business Analyst and users to understand their business requirements
• Prepare systems design, and write technical specification
• Time to time code, and unit test
• Prepare systems test plans
• Prepare implementation plans
• Lead ongoing production support.
• Prior to that, I was an Application Developer Lead for Confidential small business section’s data warehouse project. My responsibilities were:
• Work with business users to gathered business requirements
• Prepare systems designed, designed data model, created and maintained data dictionary wrote technical specification for DBA to create and update tables and load data into the database.
• Time to time, I wrote programs to extract/format data from the source systems, unit test, take part of systems test and integrated test, prepare production implementation, and ongoing production support. Other responsibility were:
• Facilitate JAD sessions (occasionally)
• Define and wrote project plan (as needed)
• Estimate project scope (this includes cost estimate), as needed
• Manage project under Project Manager’s direction.
• Assist business users to define the best and less cost-reporting tool for ongoing reporting needs
• Train other IT staff and users how to use the tool for their day-to-day job.
• Ongoing assists user to design and create reports to fit their needs. These reports were Customer account benefits, premium, claims, dental and other healthcare related data.
• Report project status to the next level (Project Manager)

Technical Skills/Used: Visual Basic (6.0/.NET), PowerBuilder (9.0), COBOL, TSO, JCL, Oracle, Access, CICS, DB2, (UDB), XML, Visio, Cognos (Impromptu), Eureka (report design), PL SQL, DB2 Stored Procedure, and SQL