Application Developer III/Consultant Resume

Professional Summary

Sixteen years of information technology experience as a developer, production support and administrator.
Experience in REXX, DB2, CICS, SQL, TSO/ISPF, UNIX and COBOL.
Developed tools for internal customers to process their applications and administrator for several third party tools.
Database experience includes DB2 and IMS.
Working knowledge of SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and Linux.
Programming classes taken in C# and VB.Net using Visual Studio.Net.
Experience in software development life cycle.
Business application experience includes financial and retail.

Professional Experience

Confidential, Morristown, NJ (July, 2010 to March, 2011) (Confidential)
Application Developer III/Consultant

Designed and documented a weekly batch driven process to extract all CICS resident programs to an ISPF table based on the platform.
Designed and documented a semi-annual table and batch driven process to remove obsolete data that is older than 1.5 years.
Redesigned and maintained an in-house weekly batch driven process that captures deleted Endevor members and copies them to a PDS.
Development of mainframe automated migration processes.

Technical Environment: REXX, COBOL II, MVS, IMS, DB2

Confidential, Morristown, NJ (May, 2005 to January, 2008)
Developer/Consultant - Computer Information Systems Team

Development of mainframe automated processes for building testing environments.
Conducted requirement sessions to determine customer(s) data requirements for testing.
Coded and maintained the SQL query generator tool. This in-house tool generates batch driven SQL statements to extract data for internal customers to use during their testing.
Created and maintained several level SQL statements to access IMS tables.
Identified, documented and designed a QMF report to list all defined tables and relationships based on users input of table owner.
Utilized Quality Center for recording defects, proposed user upgrades and test scenarios.
Assisted in conducting interviews for potential new hires.

Technical Environment: REXX, COBOL II, TSO (Library Management), ISPF (Panels, Procs, Macros and Skeletons), MVS, Quality Center

Confidential, Corporate Offices - Atlanta, GA (July, 1992 to July, 2003)
Chief Systems Engineer - MVS Architecture & Tool Development Team

Brownstone Data Dictionary repository administrator. Responsibilities include defining or modifying meta-models, developing and implementing user tools, conducted training classes and daily maintenance tasks.
Development of mainframe automated processes to edit, compile, migrate, build and support for end users and DB2 administrators.
Endevor administrator assigning security to users, modifying change decks, creating/modifying types for each system and environment, CCIDs and perform upgrade duties.
Researched and completed tool code changes to support multiple LPARS nd SYSPLEX. This required Data Dictionary meta-model changes, crating of PDS', COBOL programs and JCL jobs.
Developed a web page for standard abbreviations. This web page was designed to allow developers to search or page through defined standard abbreviations without having to log into a TSO session.
Identified, designed and documented several interactive QMF reports for end users to extract information from DB2.
Assisted in working the help desk with a a staff of five members for 200+ mainframe users on all 3rd party and in-house created tools. Answered calls, walk-ups and off-hour support during on-call rotation.
Project leader for Y2K working with five team members. This included analyzing data, supervising a team of four, creating team test workplans, assigning tasks, reporting progress to the Y2K team, assisting in setting up Y2K testing CICS regions and creating an automated process to migrate changes to the Y2K regions for verification.
Conducted application support liaison meetings that informed the users/developers of any problem change requests (PCR) that were accepted, any Brownstone tool SIR enhancements to improve functionality and upcoming third party upgrades or system outages.

Technical Environment: REXX, COBOL II, TSO, ISPF, MVS, CICS, Easytrieve, JAVA, UNIX, Data Dictionary

Technical Summary

Programming Languages: COBOL II, REXX, CICS, QBASIC, Alice, Easytrieve
Operating Systems: OS/390, Z/OS, UNIX
Test Management Tools: Quality Center, Vantive
Versioning Tools: Endevor, ChangeMan, PDSMAN, Brownstone Repository
Database Experience: DB2, IMS, Oracle, SQL Server, RLX, MYSQL
Utilities: QMF, SPUFI, Dialog Manager, TSO, ISPF
Productivity Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Visual Studio .Net

Education and Certifications

Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems

Dale Carnegie Management
I.T. Leadership Fundamentals

Introduction to JAVA Programming; Certificate, Introduction to Microsoft Visual Basic.NET; Certificate, Introduction and Intermediate PHP and MYSQL; Certificates

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