SUMMARY:

• More than 35 years of IT experience primarily as a Mainframe COBOL Programmer/Analyst/Developer .
• Possesses excellent people skills and understand the total development life cycle including precise requirements, designing, coding, unit/system testing & implementation.
• Additional responsibilities include training/assistance, quality inspections, implementation support, on - call support and frequent supervisory duties.
• Also served as Project Manager, Technical Team Leader, and QA Tester.
• Other strengths include excellent writing/communication skills, leadership qualities displaying dedication and a calm attitude during stressful situations.
• Also a strong supporter of creating detailed technical documentation that can be easily understood between development and business teams.

SKILLS:

LANGUAGES: MVS COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL 370, MICRO-FOCUS COBOL, COBOL CICS, ASSEMBLER, VSAM, DB2/SQL, MVS BATCH JCL, MQ-SERIES, ETL-ABINITIO, KORNSHELL SCRIPT, BRIO, ORACLE PL/SQL, BASIC, UNIX, HTML

DATABASES: ORACLE, IMS, MS ACCESS, SQL, DB2/SQL, VSAM, ISAM

TOOLS: TSO/ISPF, MVS UTILITIES, ABEND-AID, ROSCOE, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, WEB GATEWAY TOOL, CAPEX ANALYZER/OPTIMIZER, STROBE, UDACS, EXPEDITOR, INTERTEST, IBM DEBUG TOOL, EASYTRIEVE-PLUS, RATIONAL ASSET ANALYZER, DUMPMASTER, FILEAID, INSYNC, VERSION MERGER, TCP/IP, FTP, FILE EXPRESS, DYL280, SYNC-SORT, ENDEAVOR, INFOMAN, CHANGEMAN, IBM FILE MANAGER, SUPERC, REXX, DITTO, UCC7, CA/7, TIVOLI SCHEDULER, TIVOLI OUTPUT MANAGER, VIASOFT, IDCAMS, NDM, IKJEFT01 (Extract data from DB2 table), CITRIX, MICRO-SOFT OFFICE (WORD, EXCEL, POWER POINT, ACCESS), WORD PERFECT, FACTS, SERVICE CENTER (PEREGRINE) ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT, EXTRA, LOTUS NOTES, OUTLOOK, TIME WIZARD, TEAMTRACK, EZDOC, TIMESITE, E-SERVICES, E-WORKS, HP QUALITY CENTER, RUMBA, EXTRA, STORED PROCEDURES, SHAREPOINT

SYSTEMS: IBM OS390, Z/OS and several IBM mainframe systems, OS/MVS, WINDOWS 3.1, WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP, JES/JES2, DOS

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Contract Programmer Developer

Confidential, St. Petersburg, FL

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the design and implementation of project specific environment to allow large projects to test together without impacted one another.
• An enhancement was requested for an old Cobol Report Writer program (no longer supported by IBM), so rewrote the Cobol Report Writer program (auto-generated) and applied enhancement changes. This successful enhancement was for the Monthly Goals Report for Demand Side management programs.
• Developed and implemented the company's first set of native stored procedure for the Enable project.
• Coded and tested several Cobol batch, DB2 stored procedures, JCL, CICS Cobol, VSAM, SAS, DYL280, Quality Center applications for the following projects:
• Asset Securitization Charge project modifying customer bills to add a charge to pay for nuclear plant malfunction.
• Paperless Billing - eBill Secure Email project.
• Residential Solution Optimize project.
• Bill Cycle Modification project.
• Paperless Billing project.
• CSS Bill Print Estimate vs Actual project.
• Common Payment Interface project.
• Proactive Communications Enhancements project.
• Non-Regulated Delinquency - CSS - Water Heater Repair Delinquent Process project.
• MDM and Smart Grid Integration project.
• Various Customer Contact small projects.

Senior Developer/Team Lead/Project Manager

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Chosen as one of three lead techs - to head up a twenty-plus team of Princeton developers, to accomplish specific projects for Health Plan Services in July of 2009 including creating tech to documents to ensure other recently hired developers - had key knowledge of basic & critical tasks.
• Promoted to technical Team Lead to serve as ADMIN TL for all inbound/outbound feeds.
• Served as chairman of daily early status meetings with and served as lead trainer with off-shore developers. Conducted training sessions for learning portions of the Health Plan Services system, CICS usage and maintenance, and IBM Debug (for batch and on-line).
• Completed development for ‘ Confidential - Any Day Processing’ project allowing the client more flexibility on policy dates; key developer in planning and identifying procedures in setting up a process to convert critical VSAM master files to DB2 tables; led development effort to identify a large list of obsolete modules that were no longer needed in the system and documented the procedure for archiving and removing the obsolete modules; lead developer on Assigned maintenance on critical on-line processing for the Confidential 10.4 Release making changes to four key CICS modules involved in the policy ‘issue’ process, in addition to various batch modules - this project included adding a new Health Care option the client; developed new outbound feed process for the Cigna 10.4 Release including redesign for 38 daily outbound feeds FTPed to client; lead developer for maintenance on critical on-line processing for the AVMA carrier including changes to five key CICS modules involved in the policy ‘issue’ process;
• Designed, developed, and provided support for the procedures related to HPS processing the Affordable Health Care carriers. This included accepting inbound feeds from the carriers and the CMS government entity (federal Centers for Affordable Health Care and Medicare and Medicaid Services); and sending the enrollment information in the industry standard 834 format back to the carriers and the CMS government entity.
• Designed, developed, and provided support for the procedures related creating an ad-hoc 834 enrollment file in the format requested by the CMS government entity, This process was driven off a query of our main enrollment file - the CASE MASTER and also grabbed all necessary from all other DB2 tables necessary for capturing and sending the ad-hoc enrollments files to the government entity.
• Lead developer for designing, coding and testing of a process for feeds using the DIF process (DATA INTERCHANGE FACILITY), which allows various inbound and out bound feed processing in a generic fashion, as opposed to hard-coding each feed - each time a new carrier is converted; identified and developed process regarding sending outbound files during client interface testing to new clients when new carriers are on boarded to the HPS System - this new system allows BTA’s to startup a Web page after test cycles are complete and review files prior to Ftp’ing to the client; designed and served as Team Lead/Project manager/lead developer for creating new Data Warehouse system - this system unloaded HPS DB2 tables to flat files and delivered to carriers; designed and served as Team Lead/Project manager/lead developer for creating new internal Data Warehouse system (known as DataMart) - this system unloaded HPS DB2 tables to flat files and delivered to an internal system to allow the DataMart system to provide HPS upper management with reports that score the HPS clients/carrier and also provided the HPS clients/carrier’s with scoring on their policy holders; provided support and wrote designs and served as Team Lead/Project manager/lead developer for enhancements to the HPS TRX system - this system provided feeds from DB2 tables to allow the TRX system (3rd party vendor) to generate custom reports for HPS clients/carriers

Contract Business Analyst

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in running test scripts using HP Quality Center for 2008-02 Treasury & Securities Services Enterprise Release
• Served as Business Analyst for Liquidity Intercompany Reporting System for the 2009-01 Treasury & Securities Services Enterprise Release. Closely worked with business team and developed the ‘Functional Requirements’ and ‘Functional Design’ documents for the project using QMF to query DB2 tables and reviewing COBOL & CICS programs for existing functionality. Created and ran test scripts using HP Quality Center. Identified defects and needed change controls - due to missing business requirements. Worked closely with developers and assisted in resolving defects and implementing change controls. Provided implementation support and ensured that project implemented with high quality results and minimal impact to the clients
• Identified process improvements and played a key role in the research & design of a process fix in regard to testing that required manually changing time stamp columns on DB2 tables in order to allow the system to accept accounts that are conditioned for testing through the on-line
• Assisted QA team in testing defects and documenting detailed testing procedures specific to the resolved defects

Contract Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Responsibilities:

• Various ad-hoc design, coding and testing for - Southern Legislative Conference Survey; Course Code Directory Print; Community College Request file dumps; AP High School Course Enrollment; completed AP-DE-IB request - Grads by Race, Gender, DOB request; developed Reading Intervention Report - Number of Students - Demographics; served as a project leader/lead developer for the Student/Teacher Survey projects; lead developer for FTE Null Development rewrite; completed design, served as project manager/lead developer for ‘Get School Name’ project replacing hard-code throughout sub-systems and centrally located all code into one place in regarding converting school numbers and accessing school names and related demographic information; provided training and assistance to programming teammates

Senior Contract Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded and tested new scorecard processing (credit scoring) for Experian, Equifax, Transunion and TRW Credit Bureau; wrote designs, coded and tested Credit Bureau Access application using COBOL CICS - this application takes credit requests for individuals from various financial institutions - formats, sends and receives the data to/from the Credit Bureaus and produces additional scoring before returning the data to the original financial institution using MQ-series
• Joined the Credit Bureau team at the time two teams were merged - Credit Bureau Access & Credit Bureau Reporting and took the initiative to write extensive technical documentation and combined it with existing documentation to provide a central technical documentation source to allow all programmers to become more independent while providing detailed documented procedures
• Provided excellent on-call service, learned the two systems quickly and provided training and help for less experienced programmers. Also took the initiative to create an on-call error job log that allowed on-called programmers to react quickly to reoccurring problems

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Involved in initial development of product. Wrote designs, coded and implemented various subsystems that used the ETL Abinitio tool which loads mainframe files to Oracle tables and allows clients to submit custom queries (using BRIO) to analyze their data with unlimited flexibility
• Responsible for setting up client startups which required various JCL/Proc modules and custom Micro-Focus COBOL code used by the Abinitio process
• Involved in the debit card ‘Activity Plus’ project. This product extracts info from the FDR mainframe to pass various data to Oracle tables for producing tracking reports on debit card usage. Handled mainframe-related issues and built a dependable reputation
• Designed and served as project manager for the entire rewrite of the Activity Plus product. Prior to the rewrite, there were 30 hour running jobs on the server with vulnerability to abends. The rewrite captured files daily on the mainframe and accumulated the totals on revolving files.
• Modified multiple Activity Plus modules (for this application and other debit applications) for YEAR-2000 compliance
• Designed and coded numerous bundled Debit Card projects and provided maintenance on Command Level CICS Cobol and Micro Focus batch programs. Also provided strong on-call support and served as a trainer and mentor to new programmers
• Designed and served as project manager for the rewrite of the entire conversion process. Modularized the process eliminating various duplicate code and thoroughly documented the process. Because of the success of this effort - Confidential uses the conversion team today for new hire programmers because the process is so well streamlined and documented - it allows less experiences programmers to become successful in a short period of time with limited direction or mentoring
• Designed, coded and developed the Agent Transfer process. This process requires changing the master key on every batch file in the system due to business realignment using Micro-Focus Cobol
• Used STROBE & CAPEX ANALYZER/OPTIMIZER to identify performance of on-line and batch processing applications and implemented enhancements
• Developed Micro-Focus batch and Command Level CICS Cobol programs
• Developed batch and Command Level CICS Cobol programs
• Participated in the initial design, coding and startup of product, which was the first Internet provider.
• Involved in initial design and coding for On-line Airlines Guide for the People’s Express Airlines in the 1980’s. Worked on conversion, maintenance & development

Programmer/Computer Operator

Confidential, Montgomery, AL

Responsibilities:

• Worked on development & maintenance teams for various insurance applications (Auto, Home and Fire) using COBOL, JCL, and other mainframe applications
• Completed an initial six month programmer training programming while taking computer related courses at Auburn University at Montgomery
• Spent the first six months at company as a computer operator