PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I have excellent MVS skills including JCL,Utilities and TSO/ISPF Dialog Manager. I have extensive (29 years) COBOL experience in project development and maintenance. Additionally, I have a vast working knowledge of how to write/enhance structured Cobol programs to increase speed. Having been in TECH SUPPORT for several years, I have vast MVS debugging skills as well as knowledge of MVS assembler language and internals,. I have used VSAM in PL/1,COBOl and VSAM internals in Assembler. Moreover, I have created several MVS panel driven GUI(s) using ISPF Dialog manager. I have also used CPI-C and VTAM/APPC for Cross-platform client-server operations between MVS and Windows systems. I have incorporated MVS assembler internals in C language. Also, I have developed C++ projects in Windows NT using Microsoft Visual C++. I am a motivated and driven person. I work well independently as well as in team-oriented environments. I am searching for a position that will afford me an opportunity to utilize my 31 years of programming experience effectively.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE 

CONFIDENTIAL 06/2008 - 11/2009Consultant Programmer/Analyst 
Maintained with some new development Client driven Credit (card) and/Debit (ATM) system. Written in Assembler (main system) and Cobol (minor systems and sub programs). Created several utilities to automate often requested Client changes via ISPF panels and JCL file tailoring. This made it possible to complete similar projects extremely fast. Heavy TSO, JCL and utilities. Good use of Endevor.

Confidential10/2007 – 05/2008
Consultant Programmer/Analyst

• Developing System to process Real Estate data over the internet via WinHttp. Written
• In C. Currently producing reports on selected data using MSSQL database.

Consultant Programmer/Analyst.

Participated in implementation of Federal required changes to the Claims financial system of the California health system. Changes made in Mainframe Cobol and Assembler. 6-month contract was extended to 10 months.

Confidential 7/2004 – 10/2006
Consultant Programmer/Analyst

• Developing System to process Real Estate data over the internet via WinHttp. Written
• In C. Currently producing reports on selected data using MSSQL database.

Confidential 1/ 1991 - 1/2004 
Programmer/Analyst: Design, develop and debug various company software products.

• Wrote the I-O routines for a mainframe resource management system, written in MVS assembler utilizing VSAM internals access routines and MVS internals
• Designed and developed MVS ISPF/Dialog Manager GUI which created selected options for Pen Plotter system. This system was written in COBOL , using ISPF panels and driven by TSO CLIST. Recognition for contribution included 2 weeks bonus vacation, free company classes and a gift
• Investigated two-year old Product problem ABEND (S0c4). Using MVS dump debugging, VSAM internals and MVS assembler skills, found cause and applied fix in 1 hour
• Performed ongoing modifications and changes to several COBOL projects
• Designed and developed MVS server providing resources to UNIX based client .Software written in C language, VTAM/APPC BAL sub-routines on mainframe, APPC LU 6.2 (SNA CPI-C) for access from UNIX... System made use of SAS-C inline code for several assembler macros (WAIT, POST, ATTACH etc)
• Designed and developed software system written in C language to download and identify assorted XEROX resource types from sequential files and dynamically create PDS library members. This was driven by ISP/Dialog Manager GUI panels which allowed Users to select options which generated download job JCL and displayed PDS member stats
• Using Microsoft Visual C++ ported C language UNIX based client code to Windows NT.
• Tested and debugged cross-platform code from Microsoft SNA to VTAM/APPC
• Maintained and made enhancements to Windows NT based resource management system that was written in C++.
• Responsible for all cross platform gateway methods
• Wrote SNMP test software

Confidential (2/ 1988 – 4/1990 )
Consultant Programmer/Analyst.

• Maintained and provided all new development for Stock/Bond dividend system, written in modular BAL (80%) and COBOL (20%).
• Wrote numerous software (in PL/I) utilities to fine tune existing software.

Confidential (1986 - 1988 )
Consultant

• Designed and developed MVS based ISPF GUI COBOL system to maintain international currency exchange for Stock and Bond system
• Wrote COBOL GUI disk pack monitor maintenance system. System provided stats by project usage

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems: Windows NT, VM, MVS
Languages: COBOL, PL/I, MVS Assembler (BAL), C, C++
Software: VSAM internals, OS/JCL and utilities, all OS access methods, TSO/(ISPF, CLIST), TSO DIALOG Management, IMS (DB, DC), CICS, VM/CMS, VTAM/APPC, Microsoft SNA, CPI-C
Other: Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Microsoft Visual C++, Panvalet, Endevor.

• Certificate in CICS programming
• Certificate in C programming
• Certificate in C++ programming
• Certificate in X-Windows programming
• Certificate in SNMP
• Some college credits.