SUMMARY:

To obtain a position as a senior programmer/analyst utilizing my extensive experience working in mainframe environments using COBOL, JCL, SAS and SQL while contributing towards organizational goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Experience designing and writing software in multiple industries: Financial, Insurance and Military Intelligence

Multiple Coding Languages: COBOL 370, JCL, PC/Mainframe SAS, SQL, Visual Basic.

Operating Systems and Tools: Z/OS, TSO - ISPF, DB2, SPUFI, NDM, CHANGEMAN, ENDEAVOR, RDz

Business Programs: Proficient in Microsoft Office - Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, AQT DB2 tool

Management Training: Six Sigma Greenbelt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Class Petty Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data processing technician second class responsible for designing, coding and implementing software applications as well as LAN administration and operations and supervisory duties.
• Formerly held a Top Secret SCI Clearance
• Recipient of Two Good Conduct Medals and Teh National Defense Medal
• Received Two Sea Service Ribbons

Senior Programmer Analyst 

Confidential, Lake Mary, Florida

Responsibilities:

• An indepth analysis of teh existing software and file systems
• Breaking down and documenting each COBOL program to see what they are doing and and how they are performing teh tasks. dis is essential for formulating teh plan to create teh  new system that we will be creating.
• Breaking down and mapping teh flow for each job in teh jobstream, documenting teh steps in teh jobs, what they do, input files and output files. dis is essential to understand teh  current system formulate teh new solution.

Programmer III 

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and modifying COBOL, Quick Job code and JCL to onboard mortgage loans between selling and buying clients in teh MSP mortgage loan management system.
• Modified MCP software depending on project requirements and data mapping to process Loans going from selling clients to buying client.
• Created software to produce extracts for bankrupcy and forclosure records from teh mainframe to teh desktop system.
• Created software to transfer MSP files to a DB2 test system.

Production Management Team Lead

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Lead and supervised a production management team responsible for trouble shooting and maintaining a COBOL/DB2 system. Worked on teh Metlife TRICARE project.
• Supervised all aspects of investigating software and data issues pertaining to teh Full Service Dental TRICARE and non-TRICARE batch and online systems.
• Supervised all aspects of creating and implementing COBOL/DB2 software solutions pertaining to teh Full Service Dental TRICARE and non-TRICARE batch and online systems.
• Managed teh creation, distribution and resolution of a wide variety of Remedy tickets.
• Supervised all aspects of creating and implementing SQL solutions for data corrections
• Held an ADP II clearence from teh United States Government.

Sr Analyst 

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and construction and maintenance of a vast variety of software
• products in support of Confidential online viewing tasks and databases.
• These viewing tasks are used to view and print a variety of reports and allows customers to view their statements online.
• These applications were created using COBOL370 and SAS.
• Team lead responsible for coordinating and implementing regular vendor code updates from Systemware for teh XPTR viewing tasks.
• Team lead in a project to convert all of our SAS applications and jobs to SAS v9.x.
• Served as a mentor, trainer and Subject Matter Expert (SME) to junior team members.
• Earned a Six Sigma Design for Six Sigma greenbelt as part of a team that redesigned teh method in which tapes are managed, used and ordered minimizing waste. Through dis effort teh company saved over $1M in subsequent years.
• Designed and built applications to automate maintenance of teh user databases for teh View Direct and XPTR viewing platforms, greatly reducing teh man-hours required to manually manage them, improving teh accuracy and increasing teh security integrity of teh platforms.
• Customized and rewrote COBOL programs to apply teh bank standards to teh view direct distribution database. dis reduced errors and rejects during nightly maintenance by over 95%, reducing teh need to correct and resubmit maintenance, saving over 100 FTEs and saving over $50K in CPU costs monthly.
• Maintained, updated and rewrote a large variety of feed files for various credit card and account statement reprints. Converted teh SAS modules to COBOL modules which run faster and more efficiently TEMPthan SAS, while increasing teh versatililty of teh file feed applications.
• Created a suite of COBOL and SAS jobs designed to gather statistical information on teh XPTR and View Direct platforms. dis tool was used to statistically show that teh department was meeting all Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and reflect teh volume of data that teh team manages. dis work eliminated over 100 FTEs by automating SLA monitoring and management.
• Created a system using Visual Basic, mainframe SAS and COBOL to import bank data from an obsolete CD ROM storage system to teh View Direct viewing task repository. Acted as Team lead for dis project originally estimated to be a 3 year effort and was completed in 7 months.