SUMMARY:

Senior mainframe consultant with extensive experience in analysis, design and development of business, manufacturing, billing and financial applications. Broad knowledge of e-business methods and systems. Experience converting mainframe legacy systems to server systems. Problem resolution and applications such as PL/I, COBOL, JCL and SyncSort. Seeking challenging analyst and technical lead roles in IT development and systems solutions.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Hardware: IBM Mainframe, PC, Sun
Software: PL/1 (PL1), JCL, z/OS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, SAS, COBOL, Relational and Hierarchical, DBMS (DB2, Oracle, IMS), SQL, SPUFI, QMF, REXX
Exposure and/or training: PowerBuilder, SQLServer, C, C++, Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Highlights:

10/2002 - 02/2008 Confidential, Oldsmar, FL
Programmer/Analyst - Consultant to Hire

Technical contact and advisor for offshore technical issues related to their code modification project. This included accuracy, timelines, quality review, and performance for performance critical business systems. New development and support for the business critical overnight systems at close of offshore project. Application lead for migration from O/S PL/I to Enterprise PL/I and LE. Interface using shared file systems between Sun servers to MVS/ z/OS using USS. Performed evaluations and recommendations for software product purchases and implementation. Reviewed current production software. Developed and implemented recommendations for continuous improvements in applications and data management across multiple platforms with upgrades to source/production code. Wrote test cases for any code changes. Worked side-by-side with User Acceptance Testing and Quality Assurance teams before implementation of any code changes. Worked with vendors and evaluated new productions for purchase consideration.

• Primary tools were PL/I, JCL, SyncSort, proprietary change control management, CompareX, USS, VSAM, IDCAMS in z/OS environment. Some JAVA, SAS, Korn shell and REXX. Project management and analysis tools were MS Project, MS Word, Sharepoint, Vizio, Crystal Reports

01/2002 - 08/2002 Confidential, New York, NY
Programmer/Analyst - Short-term Contract

Maintenance and documentation of legacy ISPF online payroll system. Some new development of ISPF, PL/I, COBOL and REXX. Developed PL1 applications to move online payroll applications to Web based Oracle system. Includes raw data and ISPF tables. Team member of conversion team to move legacy applications to Oracle on server system. Investigated and fixed mainframe application problems as it was still a live payroll system.

• Primary tools were PL/I, COBOL, JCL, SyncSort, ISPF, VSAM, IDCAMS in a mainframe environment. Some Oracle.

02/2001 - 07/2001 Confidential, Brooklyn, NY
Programmer/Analyst - Short-term Contract

Member of team to convert customer IMS data from newly acquired company to DB2. Project involved creating tools for data conversion, not application changes. Used ISPF, JCL and CLISTs to create batch jobs to retrieve data, convert and build DB2 tables of old data then integrate into new system. Involved mapping IMS field, data, and indices to current system. Data was extracted from IMS into files then these files were reconstructed into DB2 load files. Conducted unit and system acceptance test with implementation.

• Primary tools were JCL, SyncSort, ISPF, IMS, DB2 and CLIST in mainframe environment.

04/1998-8/2000 Confidential, Fort Worth, TX
Senior Consultant to Hire

Originally brought on as consultant for Y2K date checking and conversion of entire non-air billing system code. Consisted of about 300K lines of PL/I code. Most code was PL/I, but also involved some COBOL, REXX and PERL server scripts. Hire responsibilities for development of new PL/1 programs to extract non-air data, determine billing categories and create proper data format for invoicing and creating customer reports of consolidated data. Charged with maintaining code, JCL and PROCs to ensure the integrity of overnight and monthly batch processing. Created PERL scripts to move data from servers to MVS to remove manual process. Made an analysis of code and methods and made suggestions on improvements to save time and money that were later implemented. Moved to new department to create and maintain PL/I and SAS programs that gathered data from each corporate department to create finance reports for executive management.

• Primary tools were PL/I, COBOL, JCL, SyncSort, ISPF, VSAM, IDCAMS, ChangeMan in a mainframe environment.

05/1997-04/1998Confidential, Fishkill, NY.
Programmer/Analyst-Long-Term Contract

Worked on design, development and implementation of the Inventory Control System. Created PL/1 batch programs to extract data from DB2 tables and populate new DB2 tables with appropriate inventory data. Created PL/1 batch program to determine level of parts in Bill of Materials (BOM), incorporated embedded SQL for DB2. Involved in full project life cycle: preparing program specifications, coding and testing of various batch and on-line modules to perform inquiry and maintenance functions

• Primary tools were PL/I, DB2, JCL, SyncSort, ISPF, VSAM, IDCAMS in a mainframe environment.

01/1995-05/1997 Confidential, Poughkeepsie, NY
Operations Manager

Operations Manager responsible for day-to-day operations of start-up Internet Service Provider (ISP), telephony equipment and enhancement of an on-line Management Information System.

• Supervised customer tech support, server and telephony maintenance and enhancements.
• Taught several classes in Internet usage and techniques at local college.
• Responsible for new commercial customer accounts.
• High level UNIX and Windows-NT server (DNS, Apache, SMTP, NNTP, UUCP, sendmail, etc.) support and maintenance.
• Worked with suppliers for computer and telephone installations and upgrades.
• Represented MHVNet at trade shows, seminars, lectures and developed and taught adult classes at local colleges dealing with Internet usage.

1984-1994Confidential, East Fishkill, NY
Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for development and maintenance of library management system. Managed large volumes of data from semiconductor wafer Final Test.

• Developed and maintained PL/1 programs, CLISTs, JCL and PROCs to transfer manufacturing data from Series 1’s to 3090 MVS. SPUFI and QMF front end to DB2 and Embedded SQL.
• Extensive use of ISAM data sets, some BAL, tape library, OPC.
• Responsible for the integrity of the data: Tape backups, DASD usage, DASD defrags, recalls from tape, HSM and OPC production scheduling.
• Maintenance of COBOL and FORTRAN applications from previous versions of manufacturing code.
• Liaison between developers, manufacturing, engineering and IS.
• Advisor to external customers where their designs were manufactured at IBM. Advised on testability requirements and converting their data from HP systems to MVS.
• Wrote and taught courses for engineers to use IBM Mainframe TSO and batch job stream, primarily JCL and debugging.