PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Detail oriented Sr. Programmer Analyst with over 20 years of experience developing solutions to business challenges by improving processes, increasing efficiencies and delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Utilized COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs (with symbolics), FTP, OS/Syncsort and Confidential Utilities and Access to facilitate the conversion of the Confidential payroll system to Lawson on UNIX platform.
• Analyzed and troubled shoot defects occurring during Customer Profile Load batch process running Unikix
• Designed, tested and implemented the interface between Payformance and Confidential as well as coordinating user acceptance and generating audit reports to insure data integrity.
• Also responsible for Pension Reporting System, Employee Benefits Interface, General Ledger Interface, Budget Variance Online/Batch Processing System, Payroll Support and developing solutions for the Payroll department in a mainframe environment.
• Generated/coded Cobol II, and Easytrieve program modules as well as VSAM look - up tables and files for the purpose of converting payroll history to the Lawson system.
• Knowledge of IMS, SOA, Agile Methodology, MQ and WebSphere.

SKILL:

Applications: Kronos, Comparex, Quick Charge, Intertest, Xpediter, Mapr, BMS, GroupWise, Visio, Excel, FTP, Pkzip, File Aid, Ditto, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server, Rumba-IGSI, Windows Communicator, Teradata, Windows Outlook, Endevor, Self Service/Request Access, Adobe Connect Login, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, working knowledge of IDMS, IMS and CA-7 Scheduler

Software Languages: CICS, COBOL, OS/Syncsort, Easytrieve, Confidential Utilities, RPG, JCL, VSAM, DB2,Spufi, QMF, MS Access, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Basic, C++, JavaScript, SQL, MySql, Oracle, Lawson 4GL, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Librarian, Panvalet

Operating Systems: Confidential 390 Mainframe, AS400, TSO/ISPF, Microsoft, UNIX, Windows XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Programmer

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, COBOL, CICS

Responsibilities:

• Eligibility Team - Projects included Fiesta Green Screens, Benefit Build Out, Customer Profile Load, Card Processing Sub-System and the BlueKc VBID Mapping and full file to changes only file.
• Utilized TSO/ISPF, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, Cobol, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, JCL, OS/Syncsort and Confidential Utilities.
• Performed analysis, system flow, database/vsam, file design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Generated and executed test cases for CICS Fiesta Green Screens.
• Analyzed and troubled shoot defects occurring during Customer Profile Load batch process running Unikix

Confidential, Reading, PA

Programmer

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, COBOL, SQL

Responsibilities:

• Commissions System - conversions from VSAM file access to DB2 table access.
• Utilized TSO/ISPF DB2, QMF, SPUFI, SQL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, JCL, OS/Syncsort and Confidential Utilities.
• Also performed analysis and Database design.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Confidential E-Series / Payroll, G/L Interface, and Budget System.
• Also responsible for Pension Reporting System, Employee Benefits Interface, Variance Online/UniKix Batch Processing System and developing solutions for the Payroll department in a mainframe environment.
• Utilized COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs (with symbolics), FTP, OS/Syncsort and Confidential Utilities and Access to facilitate the conversion of the Confidential payroll system to Lawson on UNIX platform.
• Primary IT client services liaison for Payformance Application which allowed payroll to generate pay checks.
• Designed, tested and implemented the interface between Payformance and Confidential as well as coordinating user acceptance and generating audit reports to insure data integrity.
• Utilized Cobol, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs (with symbolics), FTP, OS/Syncsort and Confidential Utilities.
• Completed the project in the allotted timeframe while insuring 100% accuracy of data.
• Lead Programmer Analyst and developer of the in-house CICS GOLD (General Business On-Line Database System) On Line real time system.
• Project leader for the GOLD system managing 5 programmers.
• Utilized COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs (with symbolics), Intertest, Mapr, OS/Syncsort and Confidential Utilities as development tools.
• Gathered user requirements for the development of the CICS GOLD (General Business Online Database System) on-line database system to replace the batch process that was being utilized to update the Einstein policy file and employee SHV information.
• Designed all database files as well as on line screens and the functionality of the security.
• Insured that the system was expandable and maintained the integrity of data via an audit file and expedited the turnaround time for updating policy batch files.
• Recommended the purchase of Intertest (CICS debugging tool) and Mapr (CICS screen development tool) to improve application and programmer productivity.
• Trained employees how to code in the CICS environment and supervised the implementation of program modules and files to the subsystems under GOLD and migration to production.
• Conversion of existing payroll files to ASCII format so they can be imported into Oracle tables.
• Generated/coded Cobol II, and Easytrieve program modules as well as VSAM look-up tables and files for the purpose of converting payroll history to the Lawson system.
• Completed the project in the allotted timeframe (six months) and insured 100% accuracy of employee payroll data utilizing Cobol, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs (with symbolics), FTP, OS/Syncsort and Confidential Utilities.
• Performed maintenance/modifications on DB2 programs as well as generating general business reports utilizing DB2 Spufi and QMF.