Summary OBJECTIVE To gain employment by providing the technical expertise and effort required to assist my employer to achieve department productivity and quality goals as a mainframe applications programmer. My technical skills encompass knowledge of COBOL, Easytrieve, Assembler, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF, and Command Level CICS. Knowledge of IBM Utilities, FileAid, Xpediter, AbendAid, and MS Office. Scrum was the methodology used for managing larger projects. Software professional with 20 years of IT experienced in the system analysis, design, development, administration, testing and support of mainframe applications with emphasis on life insurance.. Highlights COBOL, Easytrieve, Assembler, Command Level CICS VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF IBM Utilities, FileAid, Xpediter, AbendAid, and MS Office SCRUM development methodology Requirements analysis, design phases, and testing Accomplishments Designed, developed and implemented a Training Bonus enhancement which was successful in calculating, reporting, and feeding accounting system with payment details of a bonus for General Agents, who qualified under company specifications, for a certain of training of their writing agents. Worked with an associate through divided assignments to develop and implement a GA Incentive Bonus enhancement which was successful in paying and reporting future 90 days bonuses when certain criteria was reached by their writing agents in their first 5 weeks. Key member of cross-functional team that successfully implemented a system enhancement that allowed insurance applications to be submitted electronically rather than submitting paper applications.

Experience Confidential Mainframe Application Programmer/Analyst on Agency team responsible for development, enhancements, and problem resolutions of system processing. Developed, tested, and implemented new bonus enhancement GA Training Bonus . Large role in enhancing additional bonus enhancements Incentive Bonus, Agency Bonus, Leadership Bonus,... . Setting up and running overnight test cycles for System Tests of several large projects. Modified online screens as requested by the Users for increased functionality. Several enhancements projects for LAWSON claims processing. Provided on-call support of overnight Agency batch processing. Confidential Contractor - Senior Mainframe Application Programmer responsible for system development, enhancements, and problem resolutions of mainframe application processing software systems for companies. Assigned to a 12 member team that applied various enhancements to the base administrative system to process policyholder policies and agent compensation in line with the client company's procedures and specifications in these areas of the system. Was able to quickly learn the client's modification procedures and applications. Provided updates on progress and completion of assigned base system enhancements during weekly status meetings. Confidential Senior Member/Technical Staff in the Financial Services Group responsible for system development, enhancements, and problem resolutions of life insurance traditional, Universal Life, and Variable UL and annuity processing to the base software system CyberLife . Mentored other programmer analysts on small size projects as assigned. System enhancements involve following the Project Development Life Cycle for implementation, inforce processing, and periodic updates. The tasks performed include: Gather information and gain consensus from clients and management to finalize business requirements. Analyze the system, prepare a general specification, and submit a time estimate for project completion. Conduct a design review walkthrough of the general specification before a review panel. Make logic, file, and report modifications as prescribed in the specification. Design test data/files, create test plan/test matrix, perform tests and analyze results. Regularly track hours accrued for each project to ensure that projects are delivered on time and produce timely status reports for project lead. Work with quality assurance business analysts performing system tests and provide any additional changes required to obtain quality assurance approval. Perform documentation updates for all system modifications. Confidential Lead Programmer/Analyst in the Development group producing business and technical enhancement specifications, testing and implementing enhancements and system corrections to the base CYBERTEK software system, which became the CyberLife system. Senior Programmer/Analyst in the Client Services group involved in implementing life insurance processing software enhancements modified to fit client needs through business requirements analysis, system analysis, and solution design. Performed tasks through direct interaction with the clients on the clients' site and from the home office by teaming with business analysts and other programming staff as needed. Was responsible for on-going customer support to tailor the software system installed at various client sites. Confidential Programmer/Analyst in the Development group implementing tailored software systems for various internal department needs. Also analyzed and implemented development tasks for enhancements not supported by our current software system. Provided on-call support on a rotating basis with other associates.