RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

• Multi-talented senior computer scientist with 40 years of expertise in system development and design emphasizing COBOL, compilers include Microfocus, Acucobol, RM/Cobol, Fugitsu NetCobol, isCOBOL, C, UNIX administration, Shell programming Korn-Shell, C shell and Bourne Shell , Data base experience includes DBII, Oracle, SQL Server, Access 2007, Informix, ODBC and imbedded SQL, PSQL. COBOL web based front end programming combined with an extensive understanding of large main frame migrations. Web site development, online training and customer support.

• Designed, wrote and implemented fully integrated account software including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, General Ledger, Inventory Control, Order Processing and Fixed Asset system for Phoenix Systems in San Antonio Texas. They later sold source copies to several dozen re-sellers. Packages were installed at Whole Foods in Texas and Springfield Sugar a grocery wholesaler.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Current Status I am currently available for assignment throughout the Confidential. I have liability and errors and omissions insurance. Available for Corp to Corp contracts.

Consultant

Worked with Microfocus COBOL, Unix , Oracle, Imbedded SQL. Duties included maintenance of legacy life insurance applications and new program creation.

Consultant

Confidential

Worked with Microfocus COBOL, Unix , SQL Server. Provided support in creating export programs to move data from ISAM to SQL Server. Crystal reports. I also worked on program maintenance and updates. Aultcare is part of Aultman Hospital. The contract was Robert Half Technologies. Contact Rod Mullins in the Akron OH Office.

Consultant

Confidential

Created online tag sale web site to allow individuals to list and sell items online. The site has several unique features. First, all ads and changes are manually checked. The company hires the handicapped to review and approve all ads and changes that have been posted to the site. Second, the fee is 8.0 per month to post unlimited items. At the time of sign up users have the option to select a local non-profit. GoTagSale.com will donate 50 of its fee to that charity each month the user remains active. All of the backend programs are written in Acucobol and interfaced to Access 2007 and Oracle with ProCobol..

Consultant

Confidential

Use Micro Focus COBOL using ProCobol with embedded SQL and Oracle programming skills in UNIX to modify programs for their inventory and shipping environment. Use my development experience with Micro Focus Cobol and embedded SQL for Oracle programming skills in Aix to modify and update PKMS warehouse software work with Manhattan WMS applications.

Consultant

Confidential

• Independent consultant performing COBOL migrations. Migrations from Tandem COBOL to MicroFocus COBOL. Designed testing procedures. Recently completed a migration tool to convert Microfocus GUI Dialog to Acucobol. It's always a challenging undertaking to migrate legacy applications to newer platforms. Especially when the legacy platform combines assembler routines specific to the source platform or worse proprietary modules. This was the case with moving an application written in Microfocus COBOL that utilizes its own graphical user interface.
• In this case Dialog is a very powerful GUI it embodies a rich set of instructions for dealing with user interaction. When it comes to moving the application to a new platform this is more of a curse than a blessing. They are a combination of COBOL and basic like statements.
• The tight integration between the Dialog procedures and the calling program rules out a simple call to a new GUI manager. The Dialog subprogram maintains detailed information as to the current state of things between the GUI and the COBOL program.

Senior COBOL Programmer Surf the Net

Confidential Integrated Oracle and UNIX applications to function in a web environment. UNIX shell programming, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server, MS/Access. MicroFocus SQL, embedded SQL using Oracle and Informix were used. Conducted research using business model analysis, projections, forecasts, market research, back end credit card and authentication programming, as well as web site design as part of several web-enabled business development projects.

Senior COBOL Migration Specialist Sector

Migration Consultant

• Fleet Bank of New York, Utilized filters I designed to convert:
• VMS to AS400 AIX
• COBOL
• OS/390 RDB to Oracle Migration, and
• DB2 390 to DB2 AIX

Developed these tools and filters as part of earlier projects and then modified for these projects for Sector 7.

Migration Consultant

Saskatchewan Retirement System

• Managed a team of 5 programmers to migrate approximately 3,000 COBOL program on an OS/390 mainframe to an AIX, MicroFocus COBOL and DB2 environment.

Network Database to Oracle and COBOL DBIO Functional Description

• I created a migration to convert COBOL programs using a Network database to interface Oracle.
• Applications accustomed to conversing with a CODASYL network database would maintain their I/O structure and their communications protocol, even though they would now be accessing a relational database.
• This design speeds up the conversion effort, lessens the potential for errors, and makes support easier for programmers accustomed to working in the IDS/II world.
• This is a unique plan and though it places significant temporary limitations on the benefits of moving to an RDBMS, the payoff in time saved is well worth it.
• At the heart of the new system is a ProCOBOL program called DBIO database I/O . ProCOBOL is a precompiler that allows RDBMS programmers to embed SQL statements in COBOL programs. A pass through the ProCOBOL precompiler translates the SQL into standard COBOL, which is then compiled by MicroFocus.
• The DBIO program acts as a bridge between existing COBOL applications and the RDBMS engine.
• Instead of talking to the database, each program talks to DBIO. Only DBIO knows that a RDBMS exists.
• Before the conversion the old source programs required a pre-compiler. Embedded in the COBOL code are database verbs that accessed the IDS/II data. A pass through a pre-compiler translated these verbs into standard COBOL.
• The precompiler step is no longer required to be run on the converted programs. The replacement for each data base verb is a CALL statement that looks like its predecessor but accesses DBIO. Thus, the COBOL code is easy to read and logically equivalent to the original code. For example, this embedded database statement: