Principal Software Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

Worked as a Principle and Senior Software Engineer, Product Developer and Senior Program Analyst. I have 30+ years of Mainframe experience.
In the process became well versed in multiple programming languages.
Designed, developed, and led teams in tool applications for the DB2 and mail ware industries.
Did consulting work writing custom software for small business applications. Primarily worked in mainframe, although versatile having worked in other platforms such as the AS400.
Led training efforts for fellow team members.
Trained in the AGILE process, participated in PI planning and in team project sprints.
Very experienced in problem solving, both in development and customer support.
Innovative, analytical, and holding a US patent.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Problem solving, Developing Project Plans, Programing, System design, Analyzing data, Customer Oriented, BAL (Basic Assembler Language) including 64 bit grand instructions
Mainframe Programming, Application COBOL programming on both the Mainframe and AS400 platforms, DB2, DBA tools, JCL
ISPF, VSAM, C++, AGILE, SDSF, Software AG Natural with ADABBAS, Knowledge of CICS, and IMS.
DB2 object creation, Utilization of DB2 utilities, Knowledge of DB2 page formats, Analyzing customer problems
Detailed knowledge of DB2 catalog structures, ZPARM implementation, HTML and JAVAscript as applied to WEB design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Lead product training for team members, developing and teaching with Powerpoint Presentations
Developed educational material including videos to be used for customer training.
Re - architected the Reorg product to attain a greater than a 30% zIIP offload, exceeding the team goals.
Implemented DB2 ZPARM functionality to allow for greater availability for the online option of the reorg utility.
Worked with 3rd party vendors to co-develop a better sort methodology attaining more than a 30% performance improvement in CPU and elapsed time.
Received a US patent, US PATENT 7,177,885 B2, Method and system for reorganizing a tablespace in a database.
Provided continual customer support, 24/7 for critical product outages involving utility tools.
Received numerous “Above and Beyond” awards for reducing the most technical debt within the company.