SUMMARY

• Accomplished Software Developer – Diverse technical expertise and solid track record of producing quality deliverables, from inception through implementation (and post-implementation support). Strong attention to detail.
• Experienced Systems Analyst – Background in reconciling user requirements with technical specifications, identifying potential design gaps and omissions, and recommending alternative solutions.
• Valued Tech Lead and Project Contact – Experienced in interfacing with Business Analysts, Application Managers, and user community. Takes ownership of an issue and manages it through proper resolution. Strong communications skills.

• COBOL
• TSO/ISPF, O/S JCL
• DB2 (QMF/SQL, SPUFI)
• VSAM/IDCAMS, FAVER
• MQSeries MQI
• Mainframe MVS
• Changeman, SCLM
• Syncsort
• Fileaid
• CICS
• CA View/SAR
• $AVRS
• ZEKE/ZORS/UCC7/ESP
• EasyTrieve
• FTP and NDM
• MS Excel, MS Word
• Lotus Notes, Sharepoint
• IMS (api - programming)
• MS Outlook
• DatsetFacilities
• MS Office Communicator

BUSINESS APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS

• Bank Commercial Account Analysis (Billing & Pricing)
• Insurance (Property & Casualty)
• Government/Human Services
• Lease Financial Accounting
• Sales Compensation Tracking
• Medical Registration
• Outpatient Services Tracking
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential,Columbus, OH (2011 – 2012)

Consultant (At Nationwide Insurance)

• Key developer of critical modules for Paperless Print enhancement to Fire Processing System (COBOL/JCL)
• Performed analysis and enhancements to insurance Rating modules (COBOL/JCL/Excel/Changeman)
• Provided software fixes to correct discrepant modules/data in the core Personal Lines system/database (COBOL/JCL/IMS/Changeman).

Confidential,Columbus, OH (2002 – 2010)
Application Developer/Analyst III
Developed, enhanced, maintenanced, tested, installed, and supported application software for complex hybrid Trisyn Corporate Analysis Product (Billing Account Analysis). Performed analysis and proposed recommendations to correct and improve functional components. (COBOL, JCL, CICS,VSAM,TSO,ZEKE/ZORS/FTP/NDM, $AVRS,SAR,Changeman; some Easytrieve and DB2/SPUFI)

• Designed and coded complex process to capture and report service adjustments, allowing enhanced adjustment reconciliation and expanded input identification for end users. Guided this (and other) projects through the entire software development life cycle, being proactive to keep phases on schedule.
• Worked with user/operations team to meet detailed and evolving requirements of financial reporting subsystem, and implemented successfully on schedule despite aggressive time constraints - mapping design back to requirements, collaborating with project managers & upstream/downstream applications, application managers & interfacing techs, while identifying gaps/omissions/discrepancies, proposing alternate solutions, and managing scope creep & risks in order to provide key deliverables on time.
• As tech lead responsible for revised Lockbox Interface enterprise release, created new detail design specification (on short notice) and developed code rewrite and oversaw testing to successfully meet overly aggressive deadline, even as requirements specs changed.

Confidential,Columbus, OH (1999 – 2001)
Consultant (at Ohio Dept. of Jobs & Family Services)
Developed and implemented software for mainframe/database application interfacing with web front-end capture system and Client Registry database. (COBOL with DB2 & MQSeries; SQL/QMF)

• Developed and maintained core database component for complex/critical path CICS/DB2 process which retrieves disparate Client Registry maintenance transactions from an MQSeries message queue (approx. 40,000/day), analyzes and translates the transaction data, and applies updates to the appropriate ICMS (DB2) database tables, providing intricate synchronization with the feeder IMS Client registry database.
• Implemented and optimized software solutions amidst a myriad of database contention situations where any significant stoppage of processing input would pose serious synchronization problems for the user base.
• Performed ongoing analysis of database tables involved with the interface, identifying discrepant data and other inconsistencies, while proposing pertinent corrections and improvements.
  

Consultant Confidential
Developed and implemented software interface code.

• Developed an interface application (JAVA & MQSeries, Windows NT server platform) to process intake (welfare/child protective services) county data from a message queue, perform proper validations and edits, and update target ORACLE database tables (using JDBC API).
  
  (noteworthy: Was able to step in and successfully develop and implement this application within a tight timeframe, despite having no prior experience with the interface target system, the environment, nor the required programming language)

Computer Power Group/Interim Technology – San Francisco, CA (1992 – 1999)

Consultant Confidential
IT Liaison with County DA Office for special project

• As sole IT resource, worked directly with District Attorney’s office to rework requirement specifications and develop subsystem to perform statistical analysis and reporting on the Family Support Database files to fulfill the California State CS157 reporting mandate. (COBOL, JCL, VSAM)
  

EDUCATION
Computer Science Major

• Other training:
• MQSeries Application Programming; Advanced DB2 Programming;
  Java Programming using Visual Age for Java.