SUMMARY
I am looking for a Software Engineer/Team Lead position with a progressive organization offering challenge, opportunity for advancement and career growth. For the past 30 years I have been in the role of Team Lead/Programmer Analyst/Software Engineer in industries of banking, insurance, payroll, health care pharmacy claims processing. I am best known for solving problems and taking the lead on projects. I have the intuition to see problem areas and propose solutions. I am a citizen of the United States.
· 30 years experience in data processing dealing directly with customers ensuring their goals and expectations were accomplished.

• Technically proficient in COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, DB2,VSAM, IDCAMS, JOB

CONTROL LANGUAGE, INTERTEST, FILE-AID, EXPEDITER, EZTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, ENDEVOR

• Extensive proven ability to lead, build teamwork, and motivate others to excellence.
• Exceptional communication and human relations skills. Very comfortable dealing with senior management, technicians, and able to draw out customers to meet exacting specifications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Lincoln, Nebraska – CONSULTANT Oct 2011 – Nov 2011
DHHS, Nebraska. Working as a Senior Technical Analyst on the new 5010 HIPPA compliant system. This involves trouble shooting COBOL code and modifications to ensure HIPPA compliance. This is batch COBOLII, JCL, DB2 SQL, Expediter, SYNCSORT. The person I replaced returned and I was no longer needed.

Confidential,Overland Park Kansas – CONSULTANT June 2011 – October 2011
JP Morgan. Working on a project to create new confirmations for a new model of accounts, and eventually put out paperless confirms. Utilizing COBOL II, DB2, and JCL for the programs, I am also writing the technical specifications for the programs I am developing.

Confidential,Kansas City, MO – Software Engineer October 2007 - March 2011
Created, modified COBOLII/DB2/CICS programs for pharmacy claims processing for major medical insurers. I Created JCL, procedures and sort control cards to execute those programs. I was instrumental in moving the Planfinder Project (a project to find the lowest cost of a drug ) forward by offering solutions to enable the errors screens to be populated with the correct information page after page. This project utilized a lot of DB2 (new tables) requiring a lot of joins, this enabled me to interact with the DBA’s to make the tables efficient. I also modified CICS programs to use temporary storage queues. I also wrote specifications from business use cases. When the projects I worked on went into user acceptance and production, provided a warranty period 24/7 for the first 3 weeks after installation.

Confidential,St Louis, MO – CONSULTANT February 2007 - October 2007
Ameren Power Company. As a consultant I created, modified COBOLII/DB2 and CICS COBOL programs. My accomplishment at this client site was to tune programs to the greatest efficiency.

Confidential,Dallas, TX – CONSULTANT April 2006 - November 2006
Bank of America (BOA). As a consultant I Created, modified COBOLII/DB2 and CICS COBOL programs. Created JCL, Procedures, control sort cards for the largest financial conversion
thus far in America, Bank of America’s acquisition of MBNA required the conversion of BOA’s accounts to the MBNA format for credit card processing. This was an exciting job enabling me to use Batch Pipe processing (running many programs at the same time in the same job step).

Confidential,North Wilkesboro, NC – CONSULTANT June 2005 - March 2006. Lowes Inc. As a consultant I participated in a major project for distribution Trans Load Facilities. I utilized COBOL II, JCL, DB2, STROBE, EXPEDITER, EZTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, and VSAM working from company provided specifications, Provided detailed unit and system testing.

Confidential,Kansas City, MO – CONSULTANT August 2004 - April 2005
DST Systems Inc. As a consultant I participated on the American Express Conversion Team converting data to the TA2000 system. I utilized COBOL II, JCL, DB2, EXPEDITER, EZTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, and VSAM. I created a process to rerun the input queue process modifying production JCL utilizing symbolics as well as programs for conversion. Unit and System tested. This later resulted in the savings of significant time in rerunning the front end.

From July 1992 to April 2005 I worked as a consultant at 9 different consulting firms, I also worked as a programmer/analyst at DST Systems Inc and subsidiary for 5 years. Full resume to be provided upon request.

Confidential,October 1971- July 1992
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER/ANALYST June 1981 to July 1992
As a Master Sergeant, Managed from 2 to 12 analyst/programmers in the development and maintenance of payroll and personnel systems. I worked on a variety of systems such as totally rewriting and documenting the W2 System that produced tapes for IRS, reports and tapes for individual states, and W2 forms for the entire U. S. Marine Corps. I utilized COBOL, JCL, Expediter, and CICS. I was responsible for many Systems and hundreds of projects over an 11 year span.

OFFICE MANAGER - October 1971 to July 1992
Administrative duties from the Company level to the Battalion Level. I supervised preparation of Personnel Records relating to payroll, legal, and manpower computer records. I accomplished various other duties such as Squad Leader, Platoon Sergeant.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Business Administration with a Minor in Information systems

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Computer Science School (USMC), Quantico, VA. COBOL programming, Job control Language, ADA.
• IBM AIX Advanced Administration, Dallas, TX
• Local training in Natural, VSAM, LOTUS, Word Perfect, ENABLE, SAS, CICS (USMC).
• DB2 Basic, DB2 Intermediate, ETRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, INTERTEST (DST Systems Inc.

Training).

• Front Line Leadership (Basic Course) (DST Systems Inc. Training).
• HIPPA Certified (Argus Health Systems) 2010