SUMMARY:

• Lenard Jamison is an accomplished IT Professional specializing in IBM Mainframe and N - tier Architecture design, development and systems analysis, with extensive experience in the full SDLC, including requirements definition, prototyping, and proof of concept, design, implementation, systems testing and post-production support. He has functioned in various roles over his career as a Software Engineer, Systems Analyst, Developer, CA Gen Model Manager, Project Lead, Deployment Manager/Coordinator and Onsite Offshore Coordinator
• Possesses expertise in Mainframe and N-tier Architecture Analysis, Design and Development
• Exceptional knowledge of CICS, 3270 Blockmode, TN3270 COBOL, DB2, SQL and VSAM
• Strong background in the use of CA Gen 8.5 - Block Mode and GUI Client/Server Development
• Solid exposure to WebSphere MQ and ANSI X12 EDI Transactions utilized by Health Insurance Providers and the most commonly used EDI Transaction Sets in the Transportation Industry
• Solid DevOps exposure including the use of Kanban for task management, utilized the Agile Software Development Life Cycle for source code build, in addition to being responsible for source code deployment for each monthly increment’s push to Production - as Onsite/Offshore Coordinator
• Onsite/Offshore Coordinator duties include the capture of detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, screen mock-ups, flow diagrams, and other associated project artifacts as needed. Functioning as the single point of contact between the Product Owner/Other Stakeholders, and the Development Team
• Responsibilities include negotiation/acceptance of the Backlog Items from the Product Owner in the Sprint Planning Event, having a Daily Scrum to drive productivity, facilitating the Scrum Review to allow stakeholders to collaborate with the Development team, and managing the Sprint Retrospective for continuous improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: CICS, COBOL, IMS DC/DB, REXX, PL/1, CA Gen, Easytrieve, ANSI X12 EDI Transaction Set, ANSI C

Databases: DB2, Oracle, VSAM, MS Access, NonStop SQL

Tools: TSO/ISPF, RACF, JCL, Endevor, Xpeditor, QMF, SQL, SPUFI, CICS, BMS, Tibco MDM, MS Office Suite, FTP, Waterfall and Agile SDLCs, Abend-AID, CEDF, File-AID, InterTest, ChangeMan, ISPW, Service Now ITSM, Abend Aid, Framework, MS Visio, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SCCM, IBM Data Studio, Platinum Tools, Omegamon, WSDL, CA Gen 8.5, GuardIEn, Debug Trace Facility, Test Director, SOA, DevOps, Scrum, CE-Access, XML, 3270 Emulators, WebSphere MQ, NDM, PL/SQL, SharePoint, File Manager

Hardware: IBM Mainframe, IBM PC, HP Servers, HP Non-Stop TMF (Tandem)

Systems: IBM z/OS, OS 390, MVS/XA, HP-UX, VM/CMS, TSO/ISPF, Windows, Guardian, IBM 3090, CICS Transaction Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Durham, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• Technical expert with the Customer Information File (CIF) System, Line of Business Owners, Testing Team and other team members to develop technical solutions to complex business problems.
• Functioned as Onsite/Offshore Coordinator to assign tasks, answer queries, test and quality assure the work of the developers prior to implementation into Production Environment.
• Provide central control over the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including creation of change requests and packages.
• The development of Low Level Design documents (LLD), impact analysis, testing approach, architectural solutions, peer reviews, coding development, test plan execution, capturing test results, migration requests, coding implementation and extensive documentation using SharePoint, the Microsoft TFS Transition process/flow and ChangeMan.

Utilized: IBM z/OS, ISPF, CICS, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, 3270 Block Mode Screens, TN3270 Emulator, File Manager DB2, MDM, Service Now, ChangeMan, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, MVS/TSO, JCL, Easytrieve, MS Office Suite, IBM Data Studio, MS Visio, Visual Studio, FTP and Abend-Aid.

Confidential, Lakeland, Florida

Onsite/Offshore Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included knowledge transfer to Offshore Technical Team, including communication of timelines, status, impediments, etc. back and forth between client and technical team to develop complex business solutions to outstanding business challenges.
• Responsibilities included requirements gathering (Requests of Information and Requests for Proposals) and production of Low Level Design Documents (LLD) and creating extensive test plans, as well as, Development of complex mainframe programs. The creation of test cases and test scenarios with FedEx Freight Line of Business Owners, including their review, approval and sign-offs.
• Additionally, DevOps was used to coordinate the planning, building, continuous integration and deployment of client/server applications from Development to Production, into a CICS/DB2 environment on the mainframe. Utilized Service Now for Change Requests & Package creation and ISPW for the Development, Compilation and General Source Code Management, in addition to Code Migrations.
• Simultaneously worked as a Mainframe Developer providing maintenance on several online transaction processing (OLTP) applications: Shipment Manifest, Shipment Build Queue, Freight Bill Create and queue processing of the following ANSI X12 Transportation Industry Transaction Sets: 211 Bill of Lading, 212 Delivery Manifest, 214 Shipment Status, 210 Freight Details, 820 Payment Order/Remittance Advice.

Utilized: GUI Clients, CE-Access, CA Gen 8.5, GuardIEn 8.5, DTF, IBM z/OS, CICS TS, COBOL, RACF, 3270 Block Mode Screens, TN3270 Emulator, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, File-AID, Abend-AID, WebSphere MQ, Xpeditor, Easytrieve, Service Now, MDM, MS Office Suite, IBM Data Studio, MS Visio, Visual Studio, FTP and ISPW Change Management.

Confidential, Madison, WI

CA Gen Model Manager

Responsibilities:

• designed to provide customers with the ability to “opt-in” via the internet (web) to receive electronic registration renewal notifications including the creation of appropriate web interfaces.
• Worked as a Software Engineer on the AMVAA CDLIS Modernization Project (#1352) which required enhancements to improve system effectiveness in proving timely electronic exchange of all Commercial Driver License information, including the posting of traffic convictions across all US states using ANSI X12 EDI Transaction 214.

Utilized: GUI Clients, CE-Access, CA Gen 8.5, GuardIEn 8.5, DTF, IBM z/OS, CICS, COBOL, RACF, 3270 Block Mode Screens, QWS3270 Emulator, VSAM, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CA-7, SCCM, Abend-AID, File-AID, ChangeMan, WebSphere MQ, WSDL, XML, Service Oriented Architecture, SOAP, Xpeditor, Easytrieve, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, FTP and SQL Server

Confidential, Durham, North Carolina

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced the Charitable Gift Trust process to allow for multi-day processing of online transaction processing and Adhoc Reporting to allow for real-time inquiry of transactions and processes for the Customer Service Units.
• Designed, developed, tested and installed new enhancements to the AutoCage Exceptions Processing systems on an on-going basis as needed for the Cleanup of Sends and Receives to DTCC.
• Areas of responsibility include DVP, RVP, Fail-to-Receive, Fail to Deliver & CNS processing.
• Designed, developed, tested and installed eh processes to accommodate the Fidelity Enterprise IT Continuity Management Gr requirements for business continuity in the event of a catastrophic loss of one of a Data Center Operations for the AutoCage - Trade Settlement Processing System.

Utilized: CICS, IBM z/OS, COBOL, RACF, Screen Definition Facility II (3270 Screens), DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, File-AID, Abend-AID, JCL, CA-7, WebSphere MQ, InterTest, FTP and VSAM

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis, Design, Development and the Implementation of the National Provider Identifier Project for the Texas Medicaid Claims Processing System, including maintenance of CMMI level 4 processes.
• Enhancements included modifications to the Phoenix Help Desk and Electronic Claims
• Designed, developed, tested and installed new component based development modules that allowed for the Cross-Walk of existing TPI’s to NPI’s and/or NPI’s to TPI’s for Texas Medicaid Electronic Claims Processing using ANSI X12 EDI Transactions 835 and 837.

Utilized: CoolGEN 6.5 on the Tandem (Unix), 3270 Block Mode screens, with Oracle 9i as the database, on a Windows XP Workstation, with CSE Access, GuardIEn, SQLCI, PL/SQL, Mercury Test Director and COP’s Debug Trace Facility

Confidential, Hartford, Connecticut

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Completed the design, development and implementation of numerous enhancements to the Work Management Subsystem a component of the ATLAS3/CDE system. Changes included maintaining CMMI level 4 processes while creating applications that used Websphere MQ to process CARS records for update of MVR records, Credit Reports & Auto Claims Records.
• Designed, developed and implemented new component based development modules to interface the CARS system with the MVR/CLAIMS Report Ordering System and Credit Report Ordering. The CBD design, along with MQ Queue processing, in both the batch and online environments using ANSI X12 EDI Transactions 124, 148, 155 and 272.

Utilized: IBM z/OS, DB2, Windows XP, SPUFI, QMF, Librarian, TSO/ISPF, File-AID, Abend-AID, JCL, Xpeditor, Websphere MQ, CICS, COBOL, 3270 Blockmode screens, DB2, SQL, VSAM.