SUMMARY:

Accomplished Senior Programmer Analyst with a broad based experience in several Information Systems environments. Adept in all phases of the systems development life cycle. Programming and analytical expertise in CICS, DB2, COBOL, VSAM and JCL in OS MVS, IBM Mainframe environments. Project experience in new and existing functionality analytical evaluations, new development, maintenance and enhancements in the integration of newly acquired companies, data and systems conversions, database, online and batch process systems architecture. 36 years’ experience in information Technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CICS Intertest: Online and Batch. XPEDEITER, ENDEVOR (CA), CHANGEMAN (Serena) COBOL, Fileaid, Filemaster, DB2 V9 & V10, IBM DB2 utilities, OS/MVS JCL, SUPERC SYNCSORT, TSO ISPF, TPX, STROBE, Application Performance Analyzer Attachmate Extra Enterprise, CICS Transaction Server v9.1, Symdump BMS MAPPING, Mercury Quality center, JCLSAFE, AQT, DB2 Connect, CICS Explorer, MQ Browser, VDI, LOTUS NOTES, LOTUS NOTES SAMETIME,PDSMAN, SCREEN PAINTER, EZTRIEVE, ISPF, IDCAMS FTP, NDM, Document Direct, VDR, SDSF, Microsoft Office 2016 SAR, SAPGUI / NETWEAVER in ECC6. CONTROL - M, XACT/XNET, ALM 12.0.1, IBM Data Studio 4.1.0.1 Client.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Mainframe Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a consultant, performed analysis and documentation, (via word or visio) of programs within the Confidential Mainframe CCIS application ACAPS .
• Translated some of the code so that the Java / MicroSoft services developer can translate the Cobol Code into the necessary language.
• Performed some Production Maintenance on batch jobs,
• Created some adhocs Cobol jobs to evaluate the data to determine if the applications were duplicate or possible duplicates.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a consultant, performed analysis and maintenance for a series of Medicare/Medicaid batch processes where the the data from an government provider sent to Confidential for processing, then sent to the associated Medicare or Medicaid provider.
• This included all phases of SDM including Unit/System/User Acceptance Testing, as well as Vendor Testing.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Mainframe Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and implemented UAT / Production reports into the associated UAT / Production XACT/XNET repository.
• Created a universal batch system summary report process, which reported on all batch jobs that completed successfully, and abended jobs with some detail on why the batch job abended for application to any of Confidential ’s batch systems.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Mainframe Application Developer/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead - team of approximately 25 mainframe and client server programmers and analysts.
• Conducted team meetings, code walkthroughs, programming and environment assistance.
• Responsible for conversion of and providing new functionality of ICD-10 with ICD-09 in the claim adjudication system along with all interfaces including CFE, RTIS.
• Conversion of Interplan Teleprocessing System (ITS) and National Accounts both batch an Online processing.
• Per requirements, developed and added two new green screens within the Bluechip Adjudication System (GCD4 and GCLX).
• Assisted in the Confidential application merging for the Confidential .
• Maintained Lotus Notes Team rooms and all documentation.
• Trained employees and contractors on the Bluechip Claim Adjudication process to assist their understanding of the functions of BlueChip claim processing.

Confidential

Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Provided support, maintenance and enhancements for both Bluechip online processes and batch National Accounts, ITS, LABOR, RTIS, Accums, GCPS processes.
• Responsible for nightly batch support.
• Assisted in Technical Bridge conference calls.
• Trained team members in use of DB2 detector, SCCF request processes.
• CICS triage techniques, system portals, and BlueChip Claim Adjudication processes.
• Resolved CICS abends such as Confidential, Short on Storage, Storage Violations, AEIV, and system induced abends as per user ABEND codes.
• Collaborated with CICS, and environment team in testing resolutions including use of Omeagamon, APA tool, CICS Explorer, MQ VISUAL BROWSER.
• Performed testing using CFE GUI, CLAIMS GUI, Provider finder, Member inquiry, real-time testing using RTIS (Dropping claims into both WTX and the RTIS QUEUES)
• Assisted other team members as needed. Participated in testing of enhancements to applications as well as new applications during Business Releases and off cycle releases.
• Assisted in both Production and Cycle CICS issues in both application and VSAM files issues.

Confidential, Madison, Wisconsin

Mainframe application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developing reports for client Confidential .
• Direct loan information, transactions and other detailed and summary reports.
• New development in COBOL and DB2.
• Data extraction from DB2 tables into mainframe XML files and transmitted to Confidential 's intranet and Confidential of client's email boxes.
• New Development for information regarding Federal Family Loan Program compliances.

Environment: Enterprise COBOL, CICS MAPPR, INSYNC for DB2, INSYNC for MVS, CHANGEMAN, IBM-DB2 Utilities, QuickStart recovery system, SAR/CA-VIEW TSO/ISPF, PLATINUM utilities.