PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over twenty years of experience in Data Processing utilizing Mainframe technologies
• Worked in many different industries, including manufacturing, retail, insurance and telephony
• Designer, Developer, Implementer and Production Support Programmer

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: DB2, Oracle, IMS, VSAM, DBASE

Languages: COBOL II, COBOL 85, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, CICS, BMS, MFS, MVS/JCL, FOXPROAPS, DYL280, Easytrieve

Tools: CICS Web Developer Debugging tool, Xpediter, Intertest, CEDF, Microfocus AnimatorTSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, SDSF, IOF, IDCAMS, TFS, e - change, ENDEVOR, Panvalet, FILE-AIDLibrarian/CCF, DATAVANTAGE, IMS XPERT, INFOMAN, N-SYNC, TraceMaster, SmartTestAbend-Aid, X-Ray, CONTROL-M, Syncsort, IBM Debug, IBM Fault Analyzer, Microsoft Word and Excel, Agile/SCRUM Methodology

Platforms: IBM Mainframe 3090, IBM OS/390, LAN, IBM Websphere Application Server, CICSIMS/DB/DC, VM/CMS, Windows 95/97/98/NT/XP/Vista/7/8, LAN

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Senior Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Traveled to Irvine, California for one week of Agile/Scrum training, then was released from the project as we received a reduction in funding.
• Attended Introduction to Bank of America session and training on how to get along with people from other cultures, then waited to be placed on a project.

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Senior Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of overseas consultants who were handling maintenance to and enhancements on a system that handled customer requests for modification to their investment accounts.
• Participated in daily SCRUM meetings to facilitate project handling.

Environment: Agile/SCRUM, COBOL II, MVS/JCL, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, File-Aid, Xpediter

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In an effort to modernize legacy software, the decision was made to convert all VSAM file processing to use DB2 tables instead.
• I was part of a team of consultants hired to resolve any inconsistencies found while running a full regression test.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, File-Aid, Xpediter

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on re-write of financial applications pertaining to state systems used to support the business portion for public schools within Texas’ Region 20.
• Designed, wrote rote and tested a new process to upload employee leave information from a flat file on the user’s PC.
• This process also produces a report detailing the uploaded information, and can be sorted by staff id or by name.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, Websphere, MVS/JCL, VSAM, Oracle, CICS Web Developer Debugging

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements to, Production support and reporting on MASK, previously a vendor-software product developed to establish and create electronic enrollment packages for new client companies wanting to offer health benefits to their employees.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, CICS, VSAM, Agile/SCRUM Methodology

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements to and production support of the Confidential Surveyor system, a vendor software system developed at Confidential and customized/used by Confidential to manage credit card and installment loan accounts. Part of my duties included downloading tables from the system and distributing them to Confidential clients.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, VSAM, Xpediter

Confidential, Concord, NH

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production support of the NewHeights system, a state computer system that creates and maintains public assistance data, including Medicare/Medicaid benefits, food stamps (SNAP) and cash awards for needy families.
• Coordinated with a team of developers to implement formatting changes for ICD-10.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2, Intertest, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Information System) as part of the ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion. Performed analysis of existing software and wrote specifications detailing the work that needed to be done. Participated in design and code reviews to ensure delivery of a quality product.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, VSAM, MVS/JCL, IBM O/S 390

Confidential, Westwood, MA

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of a production support team, responsible for answering trouble tickets via page between the hours pf 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the CIS electric and gas utility billing system.
• When not answering trouble tickets, I worked on enhancements to and maintenance on the system.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, CICS, IMS/DB, SOX, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In preparation for Confidential selling a portion of its business to Confidential led a team setting up a test environment suited to ensuring a smooth transition from Confidential ’s CBSS/RIBS billing data processing systems to Confidential ’s.
• Participated in testing of interfaces via NDM as well as making sure all of the entities required for the transition were present.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, IMS, TSO/ISPF, N-Sync, SOXIBM OS/390, IBM Debug

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead analyst in charge of designing, writing, testing and implementing 24 programs in 10 jobstreams to extract IMS data into flat files to be FTP’ed to an Oracle server for conversion to use in SAP. Upon completion of some software updates, participated in Mercury testing of the interface for a product line that was in the process of being converted to use SAP.
• Supported legacy software while the manufacturing portion was being converted to SAP.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS/JCL, IMS DB/DC, MFS, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, Eztrieve, IBM OS/390CONTROL-M

Confidential, Madison, WI

Lead Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead programmer in charge of a team who was developing a new system that would police providers in ther countries who were over billing for prescription drugs.
• This involved creating a new batch process that would run monthly and would take the rolled-up year-to-date charges by provider and validate them against a table detailing the threshold limits.
• When a provider is found to be over the yearly threshold allowed, an utput record is written to be passed on to the next step in the process that will flag them as an offender.
• Also, directed a team working on a series of CICS screens that will allow this to be done interactively.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2, Embedded SQL, VSAM, Intertest, MVS/JCL, IBM OS/390

Confidential, Maryland Heights, MO

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with users to first define theproblem they have identified and then design and implementa solution for them.
• The first assignment was tocorrectan out-of-balance condition on a vendor report that causedthemto have to spend unnecessary time researching.
• Subsequently, I worked on a project that dealt withbundled services to provide a discountfor theclient on fees.
• Also assisted on a project to convert useof IDMS databases to DB2.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, IDMS, DB2, Embedded SQL, MVS/JCL, VSAM, Xpediter/CICS

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential holds a contract with the federal government to rate telephone calls placed by various government agencies.
• They, as well as two other telephone companies, were developing a new system that adds several new features to ones that are in place today.
• Once the work is completed, the government will decide which company/companies to award which part/parts of the new contract to.
• I was part of a team of people that developed the new system.

Environment: COBOL II, DB2, SQL, MVS/JCL, VSAM, SOX