SUMMARY:

• Software developer with extensive experience in small, medium and Fortune 100 companies in the wholesale, insurance, communications, pharmaceutical (PBM) and banking industries.
• Experienced in designing systems, analyzing business requirements, systems analysis, process and information flow, process improvement, and implementing and maintaining complex systems in COBOL mainframe and JAVA environments. Unique ability to 'think outside the box' to create solid and usable systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL II, SDLC, DB2, Oracle, SQL, MVS, JCL, ISPF, TSO, Endevor, File Manager, SyncSort, FileAid, CICS, VSAM, BAL / Assembler, data warehouse, data conversion, information flow, data mapping, data extracts, some data modeling.Java, J2EE, JSP, Eclipse, HTML, Ant, CVS, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Mainframe COBOL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Made multiple enhancements and fixes to the Electronic Warehouse system
• Designed and wrote new programs to add new data feeds for Electronic Windows system.
• Wrote Technical Design documents for new programs and programs with significant changes
• Worked with the Data Management Team and QA during the different testing/QA phases
• Modified, recompiled and tested many COBOL programs to bring them up to standards and COBOL 5.2.

Confidential Minneapolis, MN

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Learned and used Active Directory (AD). Changed many applications so they would continue to work after AD groups and domains changed.
• Redesigned the Online Billing / Batch process to catch and alert if the daily and monthly process was missing daily files.
• Converted applications from SOAP to Message Broker.
• Learning Grails so a current application can be updated for AD. Future applications will be written in Grails.
• Converted source code manager from Serena Changeman to Dimensions.
• Worked with various 3rd party vendors for incoming and outgoing information transfer.
• Made changes to the TCF website
• Currently converting department documentation and notes from XWiki to SharePoint.
• Worked on many changes to batch Accounts Payable system.
• Made changes to A/P online systems (Vendor purchased system).

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Applications Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Used Business Requirements and Specifications to design first phase of the Latin America (Brazil) credit card processing system.
• Designed the information flow for and wrote many reports for credit card installments
• Designed a process to split current reports into separate reports by region for data security purposes

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Information Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, wrote and implemented the Compound Drugs extension to the current Data Warehousing system to meet HIPAA compliance.
• Wrote and implemented many HIPAA upgrades for Commercial and Dept of Defense systems.
• Designed and rewrote FTP password change process. It was manual 40 - 50 hour error prone process, and now no longer involves any developer effort.
• Designed and wrote multiple Medicare part D and non-Medicare part D data extraction reports vital to meet the needs of our clients.
• Worked with IT Operation Analysts, Job Scheduling and Client Connectivity teams to set up JCL and job schedules to run and FTP reports and files to internal and external clients.
• Wrote test cases and test plans and did unit testing and system integration testing.
• Mentored and worked with QA to get procedures and test data set up to properly QA our systems.
• Collaborated with DBAs when setting up or enhancing SQL data access modules to improve database performance.
• Coordinated efforts between Business Analysts and other technical teams for projects that involved cross functional areas.

Information Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensive modifications to add new functionality to a Java / JSP / HTML based system (PopShop) used by system administration to add clients and users, and define groups. Used to control access to data and define different levels of groups of employees at the client company.
• A key team member that designed a new midrange system (Client Guarantee System) which allowed management to monitor and alter drug pricing strategies to optimize business results with respect to client contracts.
• Designed and wrote a HierarchyTree Java class that would build a hierarchical data structure of control nodes and data nodes. Data could be easily be added, updated and deleted in the data structure and keep sorted if desired. This data structure replaced existing code in PopShop that took many weeks to alter and retest and was nearly impossible to maintain. This data structure could also be used in the Client Guarantee System to control and process levels of offsets.
• Modified and implemented customized front ends for multiple releases of Business Objects
• Added functionality to PopShop to control user access roles in the Client Guarantee system.
• Converted all DB2 access in PopShop from CORBA to SQL based
• Helped convert from Together IDE to Eclipse, and move all programs to CVS
• Maintained XML files that defined reports and report options
• Wrote and used ANT files to compile Java and create JAR files to deploy on a UNIX system
• Used some JUnit for basic testing of new Java classes using SQL to access database

Information Engineer - Mainframe

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed a system to report pharmaceutical claims back to the client on a daily basis, currently being used by 220+ clients. This allows external clients to maintain indemnity information in near real time.
• Added functionality and maintained an in-house written “Crystal Reports” style reporting system which dramatically reduces the number of special and re-occurring reports needed to be written for clients. This system uses dynamically generated COBOL and JCL.
• Wrote performance guarantee reports which dramatically helped account managers meet goals on percentage and turnaround requirements.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Senior Development Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Rewrote a report program reducing run time from 96 hours down to less than 2 minutes.
• Upgraded and maintained all batch and CICS programs for the Automobile Glass Replacement system.
• Converted Automobile Glass Replacement system over to work with a different glass vendor.
• Found and fixed a Y2K error in a program that had been certified Y2K ready.
• Mentored less experienced programmers during redesign and rewrite of a new complex report.

Star Tribune Newspaper, Minneapolis, MN

Designer / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for installing Confidential Purchasing module.
• Supervised the work of one consultant writing a Confidential Purchase Order interface module.
• Converted VSAM files to Confidential tables for the A/P bank reconciliation system.

Confidential Burnsville, MN

Responsibilities:

• Prior related experience as a Senior Programmer Analyst for 18 years.