Programmer / Analyst Resume Chandler, AZ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

A senior mainframe programmer / analyst or contracting / consulting position.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

DL - 1 (IMS/DB); MFS (IMS/DC); SQL (DB2/UDB); VS COBOL-II; MVS JCL;

IBM Assembler Language; PL/1; VSAM; Easytrieve; Panvalet; Librarian; FTP;

File/Aid; File Manager; SPUFI; Platinum; Abend-Aid; CICS (light); ISAM;

MQ Series; DB2 Stored Procedures (light); CA-Dispatch; FTP; VISIO (basic);

ISPF/SDSF; SyncSort; Structured Analysis and Design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

For the first several months, contributed to enhancements and fixes to Driver’s License production system.
Confidential ’s legacy programs (new and established) are written in PL/1 and COBOL under Z/OS - JCL, accessing IMS Databases through DLI calls.
Current project assignment commenced October 2014, encompassing reformatting of hierarchical IMS segment tree data, converted from EBCDIC to ASCII and frequently requiring COBOL numerical edits, then internally reinterpreted with custom PL/1 text-, hexadecimal-, and bit-processing logic, to delimited interface flat files, copied to new receiving platform via File Transfer Protocol.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

Was employed in a 6-month out-of-state project for the Confidential in Springfield IL to update various state agencies’ payroll system formulas, and to provide other production upgrades. Under mainframe MVS JCL, this assignment utilized COBOL, DB2, MVS/JCL, Easytrieve Plus, and CICS.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

I modified was in COBOL-3 (under z/OS) processing DB2/ UDB tables and some flat files, both via batch JCL and online processing through SQL.
Most online applications within CIS worked through a network server notebook interface directly accessing these mainframe DB2 tables via SQL statements, with a few legacy CICS transactions / tasks still in production.
The Rate Case Project having been successfully implemented, continued under additional extended contract to provide further phases of electricity billing software enhancements, both to existing production programs, jobs, and tables, and through development of new billing modules, such as a high-kilowatt usage customer warning program for forecasted extreme heat days.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

Provided IBM COBOL 370 COBOL development under MVS/JCL for ongoing conversion of ADM's in-house agricultural commodities rail transportation system from IMS/DB and /DC to DB2, for the purpose of facilitating their front-end users' web access.
Project included completion of analysis, design, coding, documenting, and testing of a new purge/archival system for a network of over 30 of these new DB2 tables.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

This was primarily an IBM Mainframe MVS environment, also receiving and transmitting data to-and-from client/server, UNIX / Oracle, and web-based platforms.
Areas of responsibility include material and labor purchasing, payroll, repair order and materiel checksheet processing, parts inventory, finance / accounting, and the development of a new aviation product in-service performance review system. design, coding, testing, and implementation of customized mainframe application software for conversion of these legacy manufacturing and related applications to the client/server-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system of the SAP to which Confidential International was migrating all of their operations.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Claims Processing unit, providing production support and new systems development in the administration of this joint federal / state program.
Primary system responsibility was inpatient / outpatient pricing, developing methodologies for daily rate and fee-for-service reimbursement calculation based on such parameters as length-of-stay, diagnosis, procedure, revenue codes, third party liability, etc., via accessing of databases and external modules (as for Diagnosis Related Group), error handling, and retroactive rate adjustment.
Also wrote and/or maintained several other medical programs and sub-systems covering document editing, database cross-referencing, data conversion, and summary reporting, all in response to changes in either state legislation or federal mandates. On two separate occasions this required complete system rewrites for new billing documents (UB82 and UB92). The Medicaid / Medicare Hospital Claims Processing System operated within an IBM MVS/XA mainframe .
Most systems were programmed in VS COBOL-II, with IMS DB/DC utilized for database access and on-line transaction processing.