Mainframe Developer, Resum,e Minneapolis, MN

SUMMARY

Focused COBOL Developer offering over thirty years of experience in the Confidential mainframe COBOL environment.
Adept at all phases of the system development lifecycle from planning through post - implementation monitoring.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Developer,

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

Incident Manager,

Confidential Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

Researched system code to identify necessary COBOL changes to fix production issues.

Project Leader, Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Implemented new product enhancements in the Claims system for Life Insurance, Annuities, and Health Insurance.
Mentored new team members in Pacbase and Confidentialsystems that interfaced with the insurance systems; reviewed COBOL code for junior team members.
50% of time hands-on doing mainframe development using COBOL, CICS and DB2.

Designer, Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Used systems knowledge and expertise to design, develop, plan and coordinate activities to drive business results.
Mentored junior team members in COBOL; reviewed their code.
60% of time hands-on doing mainframe development using COBOL, CICS and DB2.

Application Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Used analytical and problem-solving skills to identify potential systems issues.
Researched and recommended software and system choices to meet business requirements.
Reviewed COBOL code with junior team members during code walkthroughs.
70% of time hands-on doing mainframe development using COBOL, CICS and JCL.

Pacbase Developer,

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Used the Pacbase Tool Suite with its data repository to generate structured COBOL CICS programs to move the business from batch data entry to online, real time data entry.
80% of time hands-on doing mainframe development using COBOL and CICS.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Defined, coded and tested enhancements (written in COBOL) to support business requirements for new products in the IRA financial products market.
90% of time hands-on doing mainframe development using COBOL and JCL.

COBOL Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designed and coded COBOL program modules on MVS mainframe to support the conversion of the IDS s System from Basic Assembler Language to COBOL.
95% of time hands-on doing mainframe development using COBOL and JCL.