PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over twenty years of comprehensive Information Technology experience in various industries, including telephony, manufacturing, oil and gas, banking, grocery, healthcare and insurance.
• Have successfully served in both technical and analytical capacities during the design, development, implementation and production support of many large and small - scale applications.
• Technical expertise includes mainframe COBOL II, COBOL 85, MVS JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM and Eztrieve. Have performed extensive testing utilizing both batch and online processes as well as interactive tools such as Xpediter, Intertest, TraceMaster and SmartTest.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: DB2, IMS, VSAM, DBASE

Languages: COBOL II, COBOL 85, Microfocus COBOL, CICS, BMS, MFS, MVS/JCL, FOXPRO, APS,DYL280, Easytrieve

Platforms: IBM Mainframe 3090, IBM OS/390, IBM System 36, CICS, IMS/DB/DC, VM/CMS, Windows 95/97/98/NT/XP/Vista/7/8, LAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Production support and enhancements on financial applications pertaining to state systems used to support public schools wifin Texas’ Region 20. Gained some exposure to Websphere while working there.
• Developed a new process to upload employee leave information from a flat file on the user’s PC. This process also produces a report detailing the uploaded information, and can be sorted by staff id or by name.
• Currently working on development of several new processes to the financial systems.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, Websphere, MVS/JCL, CICS Web Developer Debugging tool

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Production support, reporting and enhancements on MASK, previously a vendor-software product developed to establish and create electronic enrollment packages for new client companies wanting to offer health benefits to their employees.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, CICS, VSAM

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Production support and enhancements to the EDS Surveyor system, a vendor software system developed at
• EDS (Electronic Data Systems) and customized/used by GE Capital to manage credit card and installment loan accounts.
• Part of my duties included downloading tables from the system and distributing them to GE clients.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, TSO/ISPF/CICS, VSAM, Xpediter

Confidential, Concord, NH

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Production support of the NewHeights system, a state computer system dat creates and maintains public assistance data, including Medicare/Medicaid benefits, food stamps (SNAP) and cash s for needy families (TANF).
• Coordinated wif a team of developers to implement formatting changes for conversion to ICD-10 billing codes from ICD-9

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2, Intertest, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team of consultants designing and coding modifications to the MMIS (Medicaid Management
• Information System) as part of the ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion.
• Performed analysis of existing software and wrote specifications detailing the work dat needed to be done. Participated in design and code reviews to ensure delivery of a quality product.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, VSAM, MVS/JCL, IBM O/S 390

Confidential, Westwood, MA

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of a production support team, responsible for answering trouble tickets via page between the hoursf 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the CIS electric and gas utility billing system. When not answering trouble tickets, me worked on enhancements to and maintenance on the system.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, CICS, IMS/DB, SOX, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In preparation for Verizon selling a portion of its business to Frontier Communications Corporation, led a team setting up a test environment suited to ensuring a smooth transition from Verizon’s CBSS/RIBS billing data processing systems to Frontier’s.
• Participated in testing of interfaces via NDM as well as making sure all of the entities required for the transition were present.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, TSO/ISPF, N-Sync, SOX, IBM OS/390IBM Debug

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead analyst in charge of designing, writing, testing and implementing 24 programs in 10 jobstreams to extract IMS data into flat files to be FTP’ed to an Oracle server for conversion to use in SAP.
• Upon completion of some software updates, participated in Mercury testing of the interface for a product line dat was in the process of being converted to use SAP. Supported legacy software while the manufacturing portion was being converted to SAP.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, IMS DB/DC, MFS, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, Eztrieve, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Madison, WI

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead programmer in charge of a team who was developing a new system dat would police providers in ther countries who were over billing for prescription drugs. This involved creating a new batch process dat would run monthly and would take the rolled-up year-to-date charges by provider and validate them against a table detailing the threshold limits.
• When a provider is found to be over the yearly threshold allowed, an utput record is written to be passed on to the next step in the process dat will flag them as an offender.
• Also, directed a team working on a series of CICS screens dat will allow this to be done interactively.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, VSAM, Intertest, MVS/JCL, IBM OS/390

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings wif users to first define theproblem they have identified and then design and implementa solution for them. The first assignment was tocorrectan out-of-balance condition on a vendor report dat causedthemto have to spend unnecessary time researching. Subsequently
• me worked on a project dat dealt wifbundled services to provide a discountfor theclient on fees. Also assisted on a project to convert useof IDMS databases to DB2.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, IDMS, DB2, Embedded SQL, MVS/JCL, VSAM, Xpediter/CICS

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Sprint holds a contract wif the federal government to rate telephone calls placed by various government agencies. They, as well as two other telephone companies, were developing a new system dat adds several new features to ones dat are in place today.
• Once the work is completed, the government will decide which company/companies to which part/parts of the new contract to. me was part of a team of people dat developed the new system.

Environment: COBOL II, DB2, Embedded SQL, MVS/JCL, VSAM, SOX

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• HealthPlan Services is in the business of providing sales, claims processing and a variety of other services to insurance companies dat offer life, health and AD&D insurance to their clients.
• They were bringing in a new client, Kemper Insurance, and me was lead analyst on the project team assigned to design, code, test and implement the programs required to get them up and running.

Environment: COBOL II, DB2, SQL, CICS, MVS/JCL, X-ray, N-Sync, Eztreive, IMS, Roscoe, Librarian