SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated individual with over 30 years experience in multiple roles in the IT industry.
• 25+ years of mainframe programming experience followed by 7 years as an SAP ABAP developer after working through an ERP implementation.
• Strong SQL tuning skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills including project management with a strong background working both as team leader and team member.
• Willing and experienced in switching roles quickly as priorities change.
• My role in IT has always been as a service provider to the business with their strategic goals and initiatives at the forefront.
• Recent supervisory experience with off shore teams.
• Familiarity with all phases of SDLC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Project Lead/Senior Mainframe Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Project lead/lead technical analyst directing a team of 14 offshore resources and 8 onsite resources to remediate performance issues in 1600 Oracle COBOL programs due to mainframe move.
• Responsible for design of SQL tuning methods to reduce number of Oracle calls to remote mainframe, mentoring 14 team members in tuning techniques and tracking overall and individual work effort.
• Ultimate responsibility for acceptable performance standards and implementation to production.
• Led post - implementation stabilization effort.
• Work performed on an 80/20 mix of Cobol batch and CICS modules using Oracle and VSAM file structures on an IBM Z/OS mainframe platform.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Oracle, TSO/SPF, Syncsort, Changeman, File-Aid

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior SAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Member of original SAP implementation team. Responsible for SAP ABAP programming in multiple modules including FICO, PP, SD and MM, but mainly in HR developing and maintaining 70+ interfaces with third party benefit providers utilizing HCM programming techniques.
• Experience with BAPI’s, BADI’s, ALV grids and Smartforms. Prior to go-live, responsible for legacy ETL for Procurement module and customization of core SAP MM module.
• Was the SME for all general integration issues with legacy mainframe systems.
• In addition to developer role, I had oversight of off-shore development team with experience in day to day problem resolution and a liaison role between development team and business.
• Conducted detailed code reviews ensuring coding standard uniformity and use of best practices.
• Created change and request tickets via Service Now application and reviewed and coordinated all transports of all other team members.
• Global application experience in AU, China, UK and US.
• Enhanced and supported SAP Procure-To-Pay module including a design and development of a custom cost saving solution to reduce inventory levels by recognizing and enforcing transferrable surplus stock at other locations and preventing purchase requisitions for new stock.
• Experience relating FICO business needs to an off shore development team. Language and time zone barriers were obstacles in the development lifecycle. Without an intermediary, functional requests were not being met because of non-specificity to business needs. A disconnect was realized between functional specs and resultant ABAP code. I had the ability to anticipate user needs and suggested other, more efficient ways as it related to coding efforts. In one instance, a complex workflow solution was suggested with considerable development effort when, in the end, a simple report solved their needs.
• PP support experience in the coal preparation and shipping arena including coal train load outs and lab analysis and blending practices as they relate to getting coal to power plant clients via rail and barge.
• Served as sole SAP Workflow administrator dealing with day to day workflow issues in an environment with over 3 million work items per year. Had responsibility for event queue maintenance, substitutions of work items and re-starting workflows with agent resolution issues.
• Created and tracked change requests and transports via Service Now, all tickets and tasks related to enhancement and support events for a development team of 6-10.
• Served as backup support for all PI and FTP integrations.
• Experience with Smartform applications, most recently implementing a design for plant specific multi page purchase order terms documents in a global environment.
• Involved with planning and testing of annual data center disaster recovery simulation.
• Toolsets: DGN Transport Connect tool, Service Now change ticketing software, Datastage ETL tool.
• SAP Coursework including HR350 HCM Programming, BIT600 SAP Workflow, BIT601 Customer Specific workflow, BC400 ABAP workbench, BC430 ABAP Dictionary.

Mainframe Senior Programmer/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, implement and maintain Cobol batch and CICS programs using DB2 and VSAM file structures as well as IDMS on an IBM Z/OS mainframe platform supporting various applications including Accounts Payable, Materials and Purchasing, Fixed Assets and HR and Payroll systems reporting to the Director of Applications.
• Responsible for 24/7 support of real time and batch processing issues.
• Served as sole programmer working with DBA to design and convert our IDMS hierarchical database supporting multiple applications to a relational DB2 database. Tasked with creating custom tables to support a new, customized integrated Accounts Payable and Materials and Supply application at the same time.
• Conducted requirements and definition of the new AP and Materials and Supply application including Purchasing; responsible for project planning and code reviews; personally designed and developed the Vendor Maintenance, Invoice Entry and Invoice/Receipt matching processes.
• Designed a system to review suspended (held) invoices looking for new receipts for invoice line items and, when found, automatically created the invoice for approval.
• Supported and maintained VSAM based Payroll system running 8 different payrolls and their integration with DB2 sub-systems.
• Designed and wrote an online batch job creation and scheduling system to easily submit and retrieve previously run reports.
• Fluent in JCL. Developed all job control statements to support batch background processing.

Proficient in the following languages and tools: COBOL, CICS, DB2, IDMS programming. TSO/SPF, Intertest debugging tool, JCL, Easytrieve, Syncsort, PANVALET, Abend-Aid.

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintenance of the IDMS Data Dictionary (IDD), a repository of data definitions for the IDMS hierarchical database in use by the Income Tax division as well as general Cobol batch programming in same system.