SUMMARY:

During the last 35yrs of ITS development experience I worked with applications for many industries in Philadelphia and New York as Consultant, Project Leader, Lead Analyst, Senior Technical Specialist and Programmer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: IMS DB/DC, IMS DL - I, TELON, ANSI-COBOL, COBOL-2, CICS, FOCUS, DB2, SQL, RPG-3, DIF/DOF, DOS, MARK IV, CPCS, OS/MVS, VM/CMS/ OS JCL DOS/VSEIBM Utilities: MS WINDOWS, GUPTA SQLBASE, GUPTA SQLWINDOWS, SQLTALK, MICROSOFT SQL SERVER, ACCESS, DBASE-3,ORACLE DEVELOPER, SHAREPOINT, WEBFOCUS PAINTER, MICROSOFT OFFICE (Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel), JIRA,Agile, Confidential (POLICY MAINT SYSTEM), XML

MAINFRAME UTILITIES: IDCAMS, IEBCOMPR, IEBCOPY, IEBEDIT, IEBGENER, SYNC-SORT, IEBPTPCH|, DFSRRC00, ENDEVOR CHANGE MANAGEMENT.EASYTRIEVE

APPLICATIONS: Financial, Medical, Manufacturing, Banking, Insurance, and Casino environments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia

Senior Technical Specialist

Language: COBOL, IMS/DBDC, OSJCL, TSO/SPF, SHAREPOINT, ORACLE, ACCESS, ISPF, JIRA, ENDEVOR CHANGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Responsibilities:

• As a consultant for 4 years assisted in the conversion and maintenance of the Cash Letter System written in IMS DB/DC, and COBOL.
• Joined the FRB in 2004 and maintained the Cash Letter System (COBOL, IMS/DBDC), assisted in all applications for the consolidation of all Federal Reserve Banks in the United States. I was an active member of the team that converted the FRB Banks to Check 21 system which allows check information to come in to bank using ACH input.
• I trained in SharePoint and created a SharePoint POC (Proof of Concept) duplicating a Cold Fusion online application which was the system used for the environment. This helped users build a confidence level with SharePoint that was becoming a standard in the environment.
• Using SQL-SERVER’s report writer software (SSRS), designed and code all new report programs that could interface with a SharePoint online system. The reports accessed DB2 tables to access data. I converted the ACCESS SQL statements to interface with SSRS to access the data for the reports.
• Transferred in 2013 to the PPS (Post Payment System). I held two positions: Maintain the Treasury Control System which was written in COBOL, IMS DBDC, and CPCS and for PPS project accounting reports, was responsible for the development of 200 reports in WEBFOCUS interfacing with Oracle Developer. WebFOCUS responsibilities included:
• Assist with the gathering of report requirements for new reports and the conversion reports already in mainframe production environment.
• Converted 100 report programs written for Bank Fraud system that was originally written in WebFOCUS with an HTML menu into a more structured user friendly, maintainable system allowing the input of parameters to access database information to populate the WebFOCUS reports.
• Design and developed over 200 WebFOCUS programs using Info Assist and WebFOCUS painter. Programs included parameter driven menus, drilldowns, and detail summarization with minor and grand total generation.
• Create SQL queries to assist in programming development, and creating report solutions.
• Make modifications to XML generated by WF Painter where necessary.
• Modify Oracle Database to create data needed to unit test WF programs.
• Unit test and demo the finish product to the owner of the requirements.
• Assist QA with the quality testing of the programs which include trouble shooting testing issues. Many issues were due to the executing of old versions of the programs and the creation of QA data that was not constructed to correctly test the programs.
• Update JIRA with design, development and testing status.
• Provide production support for WF programs propagated to production environment.
• Create the executables required to launch the WF programs.
• Create reports in HTML, AHTML, Excel, and PDF formats
• Created Adhoc reports according to client requests. This was mainly done to review test results.
• Document requirements and procedures in a shared user drive.
• Worked with client community to in corporate requirement modifications when needed.
• Trouble shoots and review requirements, working with clients to reconstruct when necessary when in violation of standards or reports capabilities.
• Develop WebFOCUS based Business Intelligence solutions.
• Develop WebFOCUS components (V8.2), with custom developed user interfaces.
• Maintain awareness of the current product capabilities (Report Caster)
• Pro-actively suggest improvements/utilization of WebFOCUS modules for the betterment of the organization
• Work with Project Technical Lead to determine design approach of WebFOCUS-related components. Provide options and recommend ways to best utilize WebFOCUS in the solution
• Log/track issues with the IBI WebFOCUS support organization.
• Support QA in all testing of WebFOCUS programs.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Languages: COBOL, IMS/DBDC, ALL MAINFRAME UTILITES, TSO, ISPF, ENDEAVOR

Responsibilities:

• Design, program, test and document client request for changes to various systems written in COBOL IMS/DBDC.

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Language: COBOL, IMS, VSAM, OSJCL, DB2, MAINFRAME UTILITIES, Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Team Leader of a 5 person team responsible for the creation of marketing data for various product launches.
• Converted COBOL IMS programs to DB2, participated in the design of DB2 table in preparation for conversion.
• Aided in the design of the ARTIC marketing system written in DB2.

Confidential

Employee - Lead System Analysis

Language: COBOL, IMS, VSAM, OSJCL, DB2, Easytrieve, TSO, MAINFRAME UTILITIES

Responsibilities:

• Lead a 7 member team in the maintenance of Drug and OPL (Other Party Liability System.)

Confidential

Consultant

Language: COBOL, CICS, OSJCL

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a number of financial applications adding fields to online panels and modifying the programs to interface with the online system changes.

Confidential

Manager of Client Service Technology

Language: Gupta SQL Windows, SQL Base, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Marketed Gupta SQL WINDOWS software to various clients searching for Client Server Solutions to replace their mainframe environments.

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Language: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DOS

Responsibilities:

• Lead team in the effort to design, program, and test and install the newly marketed Emperor Card System.
• This system recorded coins in and coins out in slot machines.

Confidential

Consultant

Language: COBOL, Focus, CICS, VSAM, IDCAMS, OSJCL, MAINFRAME UTILITIES

Responsibilities:

• Design, program, test and document client request for changes to various COBOL programs

Confidential

Consultant

Language: COBOL VSAM CICS, OSJCL, IDCAMS

Responsibilities:

• Design, program, test and document client request for changes to various COBOL programs interfacing with Confidential (Policy Maintenance System), structure.

Confidential, NY

Consultant

Language: COBOL, CICS, Dbase, OSJCL

Responsibilities:

• Maintained CICS COBOL programs
• Designed and programmed a Dbase project management system.

Confidential

Consultant

Language: COBOL CICS, VSAM, OSJCL, IDCAMS

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a number of financial applications adding fields to online panels and modifying the programs to interface with the online system changes.

Confidential

Consultant

Language: IMS DBDC, TELON, COBOL

Responsibilities:

• Design program front end systems using TELON and IMS DBDC
• Design and code in COBOL programs to interface with online systems.

Confidential

Consultant

Language: COBOL, IMS, Confidential, OSJCL, MAINFRAME UTILITIES

Responsibilities:

• Support, Design, program, test and document modifications to the Confidential (Policy Maintenance System)

Confidential

Consultant

Language: COBOL, IMS/DBDC OSJCL, TSO, MAINFRAME UTILITIES

Responsibilities:

• Create JCL for input and output screens (DIF/DOF) to interface with COBOL programs
• Train employees in the creation of the input and output screen structure.
• Design and program programs to interface with online system