SUMMARY

Innovative, IT technical leader with extensive experience developing projects and production support solutions within legacy mainframe applications. Adept at analyzing, designing, developing and testing processes that resolve complex issues using technical expertise. Experienced in all roles within System Development Life Cycle SDLC . Consistently produces reliable and measureable solutions which mitigate risk, improve maintainability, and cut costs that contribute to the bottom line.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Confidential

Contractor working at Confidential on the Eligibility systems

Contractor Consultant/Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Created new COBOL programs. jobs, sorts and procs to rewrite current processes that use unloads and sortjoins in the Eligibility systems
• Used Iceman sort tool to create SQL statements to update 4 tables for 25,000 groups
• Production support for Eligibility systems

Confidential

Contractor working at Confidential IT Headquarters providing report development for conversion systems

Contractor Consultant/Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Created new COBOL programs. jobs, sorts and procs that replaced current Confidential report processes for the portfolio conversion team where other processor credit card systems were converted to US Bank systems
• New process accessed DB2 tables directly old process depended on unload file from test system instead of live production data

Confidential

Contractor working at We Energies Headquarters providing production support and maintenance for the Billing Systems

Contractor Consultant/Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provided production support for daytime shifts
• Developed modifications using MicroFocus COBOL, UNIX scripts and SafeSql against Sybase DB2 tables
• Created design documents and test scenarios
• Analyzed incidents and provided solutions
• Coded and unit tested system enhancements
• Improved purge job efficiency and runtime significantly
• Implemented Rate Case changes for Confidential Rate Case

Confidential

Contractor working at Confidential Family Insurance National Headquarter providing production support and maintenance for the Billing Systems

Contractor Consultant/Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed modifications in CA:GEN, COBOL and DB2 for Billing Systems modifications
• Developed solutions for Production Backlog Requests supporting quarterly releases
• Primary coding in DB2 using CA:GEN version 8.0 presently
• Provided production support for daytime and nighttime shifts
• Made JCL modifications to existing jobs
• Created test scenarios for integration testing
• Used SQL skills to find accounts to fit appropriate test scenarios
• Automated a process to FTP a file to an outside vendor

Confidential

Employee in the data warehouse group for the Confidential credit card systems

Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed COBOL and DB2 applications to support enhancements to the data warehouse processes.
• Filled multiple roles during project cycle including designed, developer, tester and technical lead.
• Created special processes to unload the data from the Confidential tables, reformat it into the Bank of America format and load it into the Bank of America tables. On the conversion weekend, these special processes ran without a problem and successfully moved the data to the Bank of America tables.
• Created a new daily upsert process for warehouse DB2 tables as a way of only updating rows that had changed.
• Developed a process that took the feed of all parameters for the customer account and determined those currently in effect for daily processing.
• Utilized the Confidential tool to examine and evaluate each of the subroutines within the daily process. Reported problem areas and made recommendations on improvements. Resulted in test efficiency improvement in the process by 25 and the new process performed well within the expected parameters.

Confidential

Employee supporting Confidential customer loyalty systems and Confidential marketing systems

Software Engineer, EDS / Software Development for Confidential

Software Engineer, Sabre / Travel Industry Software Development

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed COBOL, COOL:GEN DB2 applications as a member of the Confidential Airlines loyalty systems support team.
• Prepared project documents including analysis and design, coding and testing documents using MS Word and MS EXCEL.
• Held technical lead role for Y2K changes for marketing sales systems for Confidential Airlines
• Served as developer, test coordinator and technical lead for a system of marketing applications for US Airways system consists of Confidential on-line and batch applications .
• Developer for the maintenance team that administered the edits for the state of Texas Medicaid Claims Engine program using CoolGen to develop C code.
• Conducted classes for Continental Airlines personnel on use the Service Center reporting application. Conducted two classes a day for eight weeks. These classes were taught in a virtual classroom using bridge lines and Live Meeting. Over 1000 Continental employees successfully completed the courses.

Confidential

Employee supporting Confidential planning systems for the F16 fighter program

Developer/Group Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed Confidential applications for the Planning Systems supporting the F16 and F22 projects.
• Maintained and developed both batch COBOL and on-line Confidential applications.
• Maintained and developed solutions supporting both DB2 and IMS databases.
• Made changes to JCL, SyncSort statements, MFS CA7 job schedules.
• Created new and updated existing system documentation.
• Led a major recovery project involving the planning systems for the F16 and F22 projects. Assembled a team to repair and retest the software that had failed. Worked as one of the primary coding resources and oversaw testing and status reporting to management. After thoroughly system and user testing and installation, the revised version achieved desired performance.
• Created a restart logic using the Confidential tool which allowed the process to continue beyond the normal time constraints imposed by IMS. Resulted in zero abends due to the process timing out.