SUMMARY

20+ years of experience in the Information Technology Industry. He has worked as a Programmer Analyst and Systems Analyst in the manufacturing and finance industries. His prior positions have included the following job functions:

• Systems Analysis
• Programming
• Program Design
• Documentation

Software/Tools/Languages

COBOL

MVS (OS/390)

PHP

CICS

Unix (Linux)

DB2

Chronology of Experience

Confidential, December 2006 – October 2010

Industry: Confidential, Duration: 3 years
Position: Programmer/Analyst
Environment: OS/390, Windows
Tools: Cobol, VSAM, DB2, RP, PMM, XSLT
Updated and tested billing programs for a policy number expansion project. Maintained and tested programs for cash applications group. Maintained and developed various insurance forms for the Document Management Group. Created project design, development, and unit testing documentation per department standards.

Industry: Confidential, Duration: 9 months
Position: EDI Programmer/Analyst
Environment: OS/390
Tools: Cobol, VSAM, CICS, JCL, Easytrieve
Wrote and tested applications for EDI 820 remittance system. Maintained and troubleshot issues with overnight batch processing. Worked with cash appliers to create remittance reports for new customers as well as enhancing existing reports to facilitate cash application to remittances. Maintained and developed tax reporting programs for the Tax Department. Documented existing procedures for maintaining batch processing.

Confidential, June 2005 – December 2006

Industry: Confidential, Duration: 1 year
Position: None
Environment: Internet
Tools: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access
Pursued various business opportunities, including ecurrency commerce, internet marketing, affiliate marketing, and foreign currency investing.

Confidential, January 2004 – June 2005

Industry: Confidential, Duration: 1.5 years
Position: EDI Programmer/Analyst
Environment: OS/390
Tools: Cobol, VSAM, CICS, JCL, Easytrieve
Wrote and tested applications for EDI 820 remittance system. Maintained and troubleshot issues with overnight batch processing. Worked with cash appliers to create remittance reports for new customers as well as enhancing existing reports to facilitate cash application to remittances. As part of a team, analyzed and developed methods of allowing users to generate new remittance reports. Documented existing procedures for maintaining batch processing.

Confidential, November 1997 to December 2003

Industry: Confidential, Duration: 4 years
Position: Programmer/Analyst
Environment: OS/390, VSE, Windows
Tools: Cobol, CICS, JCL, SQL, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic
Wrote test case and tested applications for Y2K problems. Combined the deduction management system at the client’s USA headquarters, with the mainframe system in their Solon plant, and created an interface to receive deduction credits from Glendale into the Solon system as part of this combination. As part of the client’s strategic goal to move as many applications off the mainframe and into SAP as possible, leaving only the necessary legacy applications behind, worked on several projects to create mainframe interfaces to transfer data between SAP and the legacy systems. Completed Bill of Material and Deduction Management data archival, and developed forms, queries, and reports in MS Access for users to access the archived data.

Industry: Confidential, Duration: 6 months
Position: Web developer
Environment: PC, Windows 2000
Tools: Microsoft Front Page, ASP, Javascript, VBScript, ADO, Microsoft Access 97
As part of a team, helped to create an inventory application for the branch office’s training materials. Using a Microsoft Access 97 database as the repository for the data, the team developed an application that used VBScript, Javascript, and ASP to maintain items from the inventory, and to track the availability of a particular item. As an extension to this application, and integrated within it, developed a VBScript/ASP news and event application allowing the user to enter, change, or delete information about various company news and events. News information, which could be of a general nature or tailored to a specific group of people (consultants on the bench, in-house developers, etc.), is accessed by clicking an appropriate icon or link on the main menu page of the inventory application. Another menu page link takes the user to the event calendar page, where the user can see what’s happening during the month desired.

Industry: Confidential, Duration: 15 months
Position: Testing Analyst
Environment: OS/390
Tools: CICS, OS/390, IMS, DB2, SPUFI, Xpediter, Hiperstation, File-Aid, REXX, QMF
Analyzed applications, with client analyst responsible for that application, to develop testing strategy and methodology. Using information gained from analysis, created an appropriate test environment for the application. Tested applications for Y2K compliance, with particular emphasis on programs changed by the COSMOS factory and on business-critical functions. Corrected any non-compliant programs and re-tested them to ensure compliance. Verified results with responsible client analyst.

Confidential, November 1995 to October 1997

Industry: Confidential,
Position: Programmer/Analyst
Environment: OS/390
Tools: CICS, IMS, ROSCOE, TELON, OS/390
Worked with the Tube Fittings IS Coordinator to maintain and improve existing programs as necessary to facilitate production and sales of parts. Developed new software for automatically generating new purchase orders for parts and components whose inventories were below reorder point, removing the need for buyers to do this manually. Developed new software for determining oldest and most critical part backorders, enabling plant managers to reduce their backlog and improve service.

Confidential, April 1991 to August 1995

Industry: Confidential,
Position: Programmer/Analyst
Environment: PC/LAN, MVS, OS/2, AIX
Tools: C, AIX, TCP/IP, COBOL, MVS, OS/2
As part of a team, helped design the Rights Manager system. Major areas of responsibility included analysis of the interface between the RM system and the campus online bibliographic server, and prototype development of the RM server. Developed client-server prototypes of portions of the RM system in C on MVS and AIX platforms. Installed and customized software to interface with online bibliographic catalogs using the Z39.50 information retrieval standard. Installed and customized mainframe software, including CICS, C/370, and COBOL/370. Was trained as systems administrator of an RS/6000 machine, and installed and customized AIX software on it. Gained familiarity with the customization of HTML forms and CGI applications.

Ancillary Skills

Java

Microsoft Access

Javascript

Microsoft Front Page

VBScript
Visual Basic

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word

Linux administration

Apache web server

XML

Tomcat

Associate’s Degree in Computer Programming.