PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I have over 15 plus years of extensive Information Systems experience in full life cycle developing commercial and system applications with exclusive knowledge in an array of Applications. Experience includes Analyzing, design, Program Coding, Testing, Implementation, and Maintenance of large applications on IBM Mainframe machines using MVS/JCL, VS/COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF.
I have the ability to work well in a team environment or independently with minimal supervision and the ability to meet deadlines and complete assigned task accurately in a prompt and proactive manner.

SKILLS SUMMARY, (#) = Years Experience, (E) = Exposure Only

Platform: IBM Compatible PCs (10+), IBM 3090/4381/ES 9000 (10+),
IBM OS/390 (6+), Z/OS (3+)

Operating Systems: MS-DOS (9), MVS/ESA (10+), WINDOWS NT/WINDOWS 3.1/95/98/2000, XP (10+), UNIX (E)

Languages: COBOL (10+), VS COBOL II (10+), MVS/JCL (10+), CICS (10), EASYTRIEVE PLUS (10+), IMS DB/DLI (6+), VSAM (10+), CLIST (E),
HTML (E), VISUAL BASIC 6 (E), PEOPLESOFT 7.5 (E), VISUAL C++ (E), DB2 (5), SYNCSORT (10+)

Productivity Tools: FILE-AID (10+), EXPEDITOR (10), FRONTPAGE (E), HOMESITE 4.0 (E), SDF(10+), COLDFUSION (E), PANVALET (10), DATA EXPERT (6), IMS EXPERT (6), MQSERIES (2) TSO/ISPF (10+), LIBRARIAN (E), CHANGEMAN (E), ENDEVOR(3+), DYL280 (E), FILEMANAGER(3), OUTLOOK(4+), IBM DEBUGGER (1), WORKBENCH (1), SPUFI (2+), PLATINUM TOOLS (1), VISIO (3+) LOUIS (1), QMF (2+), BMS (10)

Office Tools: Word (10+), Excel (6+) Power Point (6+), Microsoft Project (6), WordPerfect (10)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001 - Present Independent Consultant
Company: Confidential,
Sept 2010 – Present
Client / Industry : Confidential,North Carolina
Position / Title: Programmer Analyst
Programs Used : 100+
Team Size: 30+ Mainframe
Tools Utilized : IBM ZOS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL, 85, IDMS, DB2, XPEDITOR, VSAM, QMF, SPUFI

Application Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services protects the health and safety of all North Carolinians and provides essential human services to individuals and families experiencing health and safety needs.
Project Summary: NC Tracks is provided as a service for North Carolina\'s health care providers and consumers as part of the new, multi-program NC Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). As part of the application process for MMIS, one of the functions will allow consumers to be reassigned to other providers when a provider is no longer part of the Medicaid system. This function is called the Mass Change process.
Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, design, coding, development and implementation of modules for the Mass Change process. Developed unit test case procedures, execution and documentation of test cases and test results for functionality. This was accomplished using DB2, COBOL, and CICS functions. JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules were also put in place as part of the application process.

Company: Confidential,
July 2009 – July 2010
Client / Industry: Confidential,Tennessee
Position / Title : Programmer Analyst
Programs Used : 1000+
Team Size : 30+ Mainframe
Tools Utilized : IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL 74, 85, GROUPWISE, IDS, DB2, XPEDITOR, LOUIS, VSAM

Application Summary: The Department of Labor and Workforce Development is a large, diverse department with dual areas of focus - providing both workforce development and Employment Security; Employment and Workforce Development provide a wide variety of workforce development services: Employment Security administers Tennessee’s unemployment insurance program. The division takes and processes unemployment claims, pays unemployment benefits to eligible claimants, and collects wage information and unemployment insurance premiums from employers.
Project Summary: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act authorized states to pay Federal-State Extended Benefits (EB), Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) and Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) to unemployed workers because of the economic instability. This had to be done in a timely manner so that monies could be provided to those that qualified for these benefits.
Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, design, coding, development and implementation of modules for the unemployment insurance benefits system. Developed, modified and tested online screens for functionality after batch process loaded DB2 tables with new data from modules that were developed in the modified batch process. This was accomplished using DB2, COBOL, IDS, IDMS and CICS functions. JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules were also put in place as part of the modified process.

Company: Confidential,LLC
May 2008 – December 2008
Client / Industry : Confidential,Missouri
Position / Title: Software Consultant
Programs Used: 1000+
Team Size: 30+ Mainframe
Tools Utilized: IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, WORKBENCH, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL 370, OUTLOOK, IDMS, DB2, SPUFI, PLATINUM TOOLS, XPEDITOR

Application Summary: Edward Jones is an investment firm that supplies financial services to investors throughout the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. It has over 10,000 offices worldwide and growing. With the demand of services that are needed, they are fine tuning the current IT applications and adding additional software applications to meet the demand of there ever growing client base.
Project Summary: Currently, Edward Jones is using the services of NBCN and IBM as a carrying broker in Canada. Their contract with these third party vendors will expire in 2009. As a result of this, EJ will take over the day to day operations of brokering with the help of another vendor that currently provides books and records services for the firm here in the U.S.
Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, design, coding, development and implementation of modules for the Rankstocks system. Tested online screens for functionality after batch process loaded DB2 tables with new data from modules that were developed in the modified batch process. This was accomplished using DB2, COBOL, IDMS and CICS functions. JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules were also put in place as part of the modified process.
Secondary duties included instruction, mentoring of junior/senior technical team members on in-house utilities of the change management system and other software applications. Able to handle stress and meet deadlines in a proficient manner.


Company: Confidential,
Saint Louis, Missouri
Apr 2007 – Apr 2008
Position / Title : Application Developer IV
Programs Used : 100+
Team Size : 6+ Mainframe
Tools Utilized : IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, MARK IV, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL, ENDEVOR, FILE MANAGER, OUTLOOK, IMS, DB2, IBM DEBUGGER
Application Summary: Customer Information System (CIS)

The utility company uses a system to accommodate customer needs for services provided by the customer information system. The expansion and growth of service and customers that had been accumulated over the past ten years, requires a heavy demand on a system that has been fulfilling the needs of the state of Missouri and the surrounding Saint Louis area.
Project Summary: Requirements were put in place for major enhancements, updates and modifications to maintain the system, in its current state, are needed to ensure functionality and performance.
Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, programming, design and development of modules that will allow the CIS system to process its nightly batch runs and online transactions. Responsible for nightly and daily on call support. Also responsible for constructing JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules.

Company: Confidential, Mar 2005 – Nov 2006
Client / Industry : Confidential,California
Position / Title : System Engineer
Programs Used : 1000+
Team Size : 20+ Mainframe
Tools Utilized : IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL 370, ENDEVOR, FILE MANAGER, DYL280, OUTLOOK

Application Summary: Health Care System. The Department of Health Services (DHS) for the state of California supports and operates California’s Medicaid program (Medi-Cal). The U.S. government has mandated that all health care providers must adhere to the policies and procedures of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). As an addendum, policies were put in place that would allow Medi-Cal to handle electronic transactions, security safeguards and standards.
Project Summary: Requirements were developed to include certain data elements, standard code sets and unique health identifiers that would be incorporated into the Medi-Cal application.
Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, programming, design and development of modules that will allow electronic claims transactions and coding unique identifiers in key programs that will meet HIPAA standards. Constructing JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules. Also performed System Test by extracting health claims and validating test results as a result of coding changes made to modules as required by project scope.

Company: Confidential,
Jan 2004 June 2004
Client / Industry : Confidential,Wisconsin
Position / Title: Project Consultant
Programs Used: 1000+
Team Size : 50+ Mainframe
Tools Utilized: IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, DB2, CHANGEMAN, LIBRARIAN, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, SYNCSORT JCL

Application Summary: Health Care System. The U.S government provides health care for the U.S. armed forces. The health care system needed an upgraded because the current system was outdated and could not handle the demand and the volume of military personnel. The client was designated to design and implement a new health care system that could accommodate and insure stability for prior, current and future U.S government and military personnel.
Project Summary: Because of the complexity and vastness of the project, a team was given the task to analyze, convert and implement enrollment and disenrollment of military personnel that had and active and non active status.
Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, programming, and development of conversion of disenrollment application from legacy system to new health care system. Developed and designed modules for disenrollment applications using EASYTRIEVE, DB2, and COBOL II. Developed JCL streams for conversion of legacy system to new health care application.

Company : Confidential, Feb 2002 Nov 2003
Client / Industry : Confidential,
Chicago, Illinois
Position / Title: Sr. Technical Consultant
Programs Used: 450 +
Team Size : 14 Mainframe and UNIX Platforms
Tools Utilized : IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, MVS/JCL, CICS, COBOL II, DB2, IMS/DLI, FILE AID and PANVALET

Application Summary: Merchandising Systems. The merchandising systems data warehouse was developed to efficiently track invoicing, movement and reconciliation of company wide product and outside vendors. The application also provided warehouse and store management teams, an ability to develop drill down queries and daily, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting functionality.
Project Summary: Requirements were developed to extract, cleanse, transfer and load merchandising systems data in an on-line real time environment. CICS on-line processes were developed to capture merchandising applications data as it became available. Captured DB/2 table data was then reformatted as QSAM files and transferred to the UNIX platform using NDM TCP/IP as the file transfer protocol.
The transferred merchandising data was finally used to populate the UNIX platform data warehouse DB/2 tables.

Responsibility Summary: Senior developer responsible for analysis, specification development, new design and major enhancements to the merchandising systems data warehouse applications. Duties included programming and implementation of the mainframe to Unix CICS on-line extract and transfer and load of merchandising systems DB/2 tables.
Secondary duties included instruction, mentoring of junior technical team members and acting as a technical liaison for clients and associates concerning all aspects of hardware and software purchases for small business solutions and personal computing home usage.

Company : Confidential, July 1998 March 2001
Chicago, Illinois
Client / Industry : Confidential,
Position / Title: Application Development Specialist
Team Size : 14
Programs Used: 1000 +
Tools Utilized : IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, MVS/JCL, CICS, COBOL II, DB2, FILE AID and VSAM

Application Summary: The payroll and human resources system needed to be maintained on a daily basis because of the sensitivity of the material that was stored in the database. A conversion from the legacy system to a client server system was preparing to be implemented. In addition to maintaining this information for BP/AMOCO, services were contracted out to maintain savings plans for external clients.
Project Summary: The scope of the project was to meet Y2K compliance for the human resources / payroll system and develop, design and implement savings plan for the ALTURA corporation using the TESSERACT human resources application as a model.
Responsibility Summary: Responsible for development, designed and implementation of application for the Altura Corporation and made enhancements to the application to meet Y2K compliance using COBOL II and DB2.Updated and maintained other applications for the Human Resources department and payroll system using TESSERACT software. Maintained savings plan for Altura and heritage Amoco employees. Analysis was performed on data from legacy system in preparation for transition from legacy system to client/server.

Company : Confidential, Jan 1997 July 1998
Chicago, Illinois
Client / Industry : Confidential,
Position / Title : Software Engineer
Team Size : 16 - Mainframe and Unix Platforms
Programs Used : 900 +
Tools Utilized : IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID VSAM, MQSERIES and SYNCSORT.
Application Summary: Software was developed in house to be distributed to automotive repair vendors and automotive insurance agencies so that they could get faster estimates to potential clients on damaged vehicles.
Project Summary: The project consisted of a batch and online procedure to deliver information to the insurance companies and automotive repaired companies in a timely manner that was specifically unique to those vendors.
Responsibility Summary: Developing Software applications to accomplish the task of communication between client and application. Provided production support for nightly batch and on-line job streams; interacted with team members to provide solutions for client interfaces and provided analysis for new development. Developed modules that extracted data from UNIX platform using MQSERIES API which allowed data to be translated in batch environment and transferred to client for Data Warehouse project.

Company : Confidential, Dec 1985 Jan 1997
Lexington, Kentucky
Client / Industry: Confidential,
Position / Title : Programmer Analyst
Team Size : 40 Programs Used 900 +
Tools Utilized : IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, PANVALET, SYNCSORT, SDF, CRYSTAL REPORTS., IMS/DLI and EXPEDITER

Application Summary: Material Information Management/Power Plant Maintenance System.
The System was developed to track inventory and material that was stored in various facilities throughout the state of Kentucky.

Project Summary: Requirements were developed to keep count of items and materials. On-line CICS Modules were developed to input data and batch modules were used to output data that would produce reports to be delivered to various facilities.

Responsibility Summary: Developed, designed and implemented on-line screens and
batch modules. Designed, developed and implemented job streams and provided on-call
support for nightly batch. Generated reports using fourth generation report writer.
Position / Title : Programmer Analyst
Tools Utilized: IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID VSAM, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, PANVALET, SYNCSORT, COBOL 370 and EXPEDITER

Application Summary: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) project
Provides capability of making company payments using a method of payment know as
Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT), which allows to automatically send payments directly to
a payees bank account.

Project Summary: This project consisted of several on-line and batch modules:
maintenance of EFT accounts, making payments to EFT accounts and generating various
reports. Involved In all the modules.

Responsibility Summary: Successfully designed, developed, analyzed, tested and
implemented CICS On-line screens and batch modules. Involved in enhancements and
development of VSAM files and JCL for batch modules and nightly updates. Assisted
project team with implementation and presentation of system to clients. Responsible for
nightly support of EFT system.

Position / Title: Programmer
Tools Utilized: MVS/ESA, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, JCL,
TSO/ISPF, IMS DLI, FILE-AID, EXPEDITOR PANVALET,
SYNCSORT and SDF.

Application Summary: Customer Information System (CIS) project
The utility company was in need of a new system to accommodate the expansion and
growth of service and customers that had been accumulated over the past ten years. A
software system had been purchased from IPS(Iowa Public Service) that would fit the
needs of the company and clientele. Major enhancements were needed to customize the
system since it was tailored to specifically for IPS.

Project Summary: This project consisted of major modifications to the system that was
purchased from the vendor. IPS provided service for electricity, water and gas customers.
Kentucky Utilities provided only electricity to its customers so the gas and water modules
had to be stripped out of the system and the electricity modules were kept and modified
to fit the needs of the company.

Responsibility Summary: Designed, programmed, implemented, analyzed, developed and tested on-line screens and batch modules. Constructed JCL job streams and provided on-call support for nightly batch. Responsible for automated report distribution for company. Modified and maintained batch modules as system enhancements were needed.

EDUCATION
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science