Career Summary:

An IT professional with more than 12 years of experience in mainframe environment. Involved in all phases of the development life cycle including requirements gathering, detailed analysis and design, development, unit, integration, and acceptance testing, implementation, production support, and documentation. Industry background includes Telecommunications, State Government and Banking.

Skills Summary:
Hardware/Operating Systems: IBM Mainframes 3090, 4381, 9121, 9672, IBM PC and compatible; AS/400, MVS/ESA,, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 95, MS-DOS, OS/390

Languages and Software: COBOL, COBOLII, OS/390, JCL, MVS JCL, CICS, CICS-WEB, IMS COBOL, VSAM, FOCUS, TSO/ISPF, TSO/SDSF, MVS Utilities, Roscoe, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Expediter, Easytrieve Plus, Panvalet, Systematics, Softfactory/2000, Date Ager, SPF/PRO, OS/390 Work Scheduler, CA Tools, CA-File Master Plus, CA-SysDump, CA-InterTest, CA-1 Tape Management, CA-7 Scheduler, Version Merger, SQL, SCLM, QA Batch, SPM, FTP, NDM, Connect Mailbox/Enterprise, Obsydian, Merant, Toad, Oracle 8i/9i, Tivoli, Microsoft Access

Database: IMS DB, VSAM, DB2

Experience:

Confidential, Information Systems Specialist 6 May 2007 - June 2009

Assigned to the maintenance and support of the Oregon State Position and Personnel Database, Application Certification System, and the interface with the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System. Performed conversion of the Application System's SSN to Applicant ID. Duties include maintenance, enhancement, coordination with users, analysis, modification, and coding of existing or new batch and online programs, unit testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, documentation of changes and test results. Environment: OS/390, Easytrieve Plus, COBOL, CICS, CICS Transaction Server, VSAM, Panvalet, DB2, SQL, FTP

Confidential, Programmer Analyst III April 2006 - May 2007

Confidential, Jul 2006 - May 2007
Assigned to the National Provider Identifier project of the Office of Medical Assistance Programs to adopt a standard unique health identifier for health care providers. Duties include coordination with users, analysis, modification, and coding of existing or new batch and online programs, unit and system testing, quality assurance, documentation of changes and test results. Environment: OS/390, Easytrieve Plus, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Panvalet, DB2, SQL, FTP

Confidential, Information Specialist 7, Apr 2006 - Jul 2006
Assigned to extract 6 years of historical data for the Children Adult and Families - Self Sufficiency programs. Duties include preparing and running extract jobs, coordination with users, documentation of data used in running the jobs and test results, transmitting data via FTP, modification of extract programs and quality assurance. Environment: OS/390, Easytrieve Plus, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Panvalet, DB2, FTP

Confidential, Senior Software Consultant Aug, 2005 - Dec 2005

Confidential, Information Specialist 6, Aug, 2005 - Dec 2005
Assigned to Medicare Modernization Act project of the Office of Medical Assistance Programs. Duties include analysis, modification and coding of existing or new programs, unit and system testing, quality assurance, documentation of changes and test results and coordination with users. Environment: OS/390, Easytrieve Plus, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Panvalet, DB2

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst Oct, 1998 - July, 2005

Confidential, Analyst/Consultant, May, 2005 - July, 2005
For user acceptance/quality assurance testing of an acquisition project, assumed coordinator role for tracking, reporting and follow up of issues reported during this testing phase. Interfaced with users to follow up on the status of the testing activities and documented minutes and action items to ensure UAT completion. Environment: Merant, Toad, Oracle 8i/9i, MS EXCEL, MS Word.

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst, June, 2000 - April, 2005
Provided maintenance, enhancements, helpdesk and production support for the client's Legacy systems, which include Service Order, CASH, Poll, Toll, and Billing systems. Coordinated with users in addressing issues.

Analyzed change requests, prepared design specifications and development estimates in working with system maintenance and development projects. Analyzed, developed and revised programs, performed unit and system testing, quality assurance, documented changes and test results and coordinated with requestors for user acceptance testing. Environment: IBM Mainframe, MVS/TSO, MVS JCL, SCLM, COBOL I/II, CICS, FOCUS, FileAid, Expediter, CA-7 Scheduler, Abend-Aid, Version Merger, Connect Mailbox/Enterprise, FTP, NDM, IMS, DB2, VSAM, QSAM, CA-File Master Plus, CA-SysDump, CA-InterTest, Ca-1 Tape Management, Merant, Tivoli.

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst, June, 2001 - Sept, 2004
Client's transition from Legacy systems to the new application was rolled out in phases by region. Throughout this transition process, was responsible for developing and performing balancing procedures of the converted customer base. Responsible in ensuring that the converted customer base can only be viewed on the Legacy systems and users are unable to apply online updates. Duties included analysis of remaining interfaces, modification and implementation of modules that split converted from non-converted records. Environment: COBOL I/ II, VSAM, ISPF, File-Aid, SCLM, Expediter, DB2, MVS/TSO, MVS JCL, MS EXCEL.

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst, Jan, 2002 - Nov, 2002
As a Programmer/Analyst, worked on the conversion of more than 500,000 access lines from Verizon. Responsibilities included analysis and design of the conversion process for Service Order and Toll Systems, maintaining and revising existing programs, performing unit, system and user acceptance testing, documenting test results, validating and comparing bills, implementing the changes and providing production support. Environment: IBM Mainframe, MVS/TSO, MVS JCL, Windows NT, SCLM, COBOL I/II, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, QSAM, FOCUS, File-Aid, Expediter, Ca-7 Scheduler, CA1-TMS, Abend-Aid, Version Merger, MS Office.

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst, Dec, 1999 - June, 2000
As a Programmer/Analyst, worked on the conversion of access lines from GTE. Responsibilities included field mapping of copybooks, set-up of JCL, coding of conversion programs, performing unit, system and user acceptance testing, documenting test results, validating and comparing bills, implementing the changes and providing production support. Environment: IBM Mainframe, MVS/TSO, MVS JCL, Windows NT, SCLM, COBOL I/II, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, QSAM, FOCUS, File-Aid, Expediter, Ca-7 Scheduler, CA1-TMS, Abend-Aid, Version Merger, MS Office.

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst, July, 1999 - Nov, 1999
Analyzed programs, prepared test jobs, executed baseline and regression testing, and documented test results. Environment: IBM Mainframe, MVS/TSO, MVS JCL, COBOL I/II, Version Merger, Revolve/Softfactory 2000, Date Ager 2000, MS Office, VSAM, QSAM.

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst/QA Analyst, Feb, 1999 - July, 1999
As QA analyst, worked on revision and analysis of technical test plans and system deliverables documents. Responsible for ensuring that all remediated programs are included in the test. Responsible for analysis and review of test results. Responsible for coordinating with developers and users with regards to issues found during testing. Developed process that will be used for efficient identification of date fields and modules that will fail in the year 2000. Attended training and conducted training to other developers.

As a Programmer/Analyst, worked on analysis and identification of date fields in data files using REVEAL2000, forwarded date fields using DATEAGER. Revised affected modules and performed baseline and regression testing using QA Batch. Documented test results for user's review and approval. Environment: IBM Mainframe, MVS/TSO, MVS JCL, SCLM, COBOL I/II, CICS, File-Aid, Expediter, Version Merger, Reveal 2000, Date Ager 2000, IMS, VSAM, QSAM, MS Office.

Confidential, Programmer/Analyst, Oct, 1998 - Feb, 1999
For the client's Y2K remediation project, was responsible for the analysis of client's Driver's system. Duties included review of inventories and annotation responses; automated remediation of the system using Smartfix; application of manual date fixes and documentation of the remediation involved. Performed unit testing, quality assurance, and documentation of test results. Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL I/II, CICS, VSAM, MVS/TSO, MVS JCL, ISPF, SYNCSORT, Softfactory/Revolve.

Confidential, May, 1996 - Sept, 1998
Confidential, Associate Programmer/Analyst, Oct, 1996 - Sept, 1998
Assigned as a Programmer/Analyst for BPI Loans Department responsible for the maintenance and development of SYSTEMATICS Real Estate (SIRE) application and associated interfaces. Duties included analysis of change requests, development of design specifications, development of new programs, maintenance of existing programs, performing unit and system testing and providing production and helpdesk support. Environment: IBM Mainframe, MVS ESA, MVS JCL, COBOL I/II, CICS, Easytrieve Plus, VSAM/QSAM, Windows 95.

Confidential, Associate Programmer/Analyst, May, 1996 - Oct, 1996
Performed system analysis, requirement analysis, project scheduling, database design including normalization, and object oriented programming. Assisted the Project Manager in coordinating/interfacing activities with software support and users, testing and implementation of application and preparation of document deliverables. Environment: AS/400, MS Office, Obsysdian.

Education/Training:
BS Computer Science

Training:
Microsoft Certified Application Developer Training, PSU 2006
CA-File Master Plus, CenturyTel, Vancouver, WA 2005
CA-InterTest, CenturyTel, Vancouver, WA 2005
CICS Programming Fundamentals, Bank of the Philippine Islands 1997
CICS Overview, Bank of the Philippine Islands 1997
Production Control Services and Standards, Bank of the Philippine Islands 1997
VSAM Concepts, Bank of the Philippine Islands 1997
Advanced COBOL Fundamentals, Bank of the Philippine Islands 1997
COBOL Fundamentals, Bank of the Philippine Islands 1997
MVS Fundamentals, Bank of the Philippine Islands 1997