Application Programmer Iii Resume
Louisville, KentuckY
SUMMARY
- Quality - focused and strategic technical leader with more than 25 years of experience spanning software development and consulting.
- Known for identifying and gathering requirements, incorporating them into customized software packages that meet needs of end users.
- Offer consistent record of planning and executing highly complex projects, often simultaneously, within time and budget constraints.
- Possess diverse technical expertise, including COBOL and REXX, among many others.
- Diligent and articulate professional who collaborates across organizational lines to achieve stated goals.
- Demonstrate superior cross-functional communication skills coupled with ability to adapt to new technologies, concepts, and environments.
- Able to communicate with all levels of professionals within a culturally diverse company. Bridges technical and non-technical staff.
- Able to visualize cost effect and creative solutions to business challenges.
- Well experienced in providing top notch service and support to clients, coupled with diversified proactive experience in development, small project management and support.
- Takes pride in consistently delivering projects on time and under budget with minimal post-production defects.
- Working knowledge of systems development life cycle and use of structured methodologies and techniques.
- Strong analytical, technical, and decision making skills
- Builds trusting relationships through accountability and integrity in actions
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: z/OS, MVS
Software: TSO/ISPF, Intertest, Xpeditor, FileAid, Panvalet, Librarian, Changeman, XPTR, VPS, SPUFI, JCLCHECK, ZEKE
Languages: COBOL, COBOL II, Easytrieve, REXX, CICS, JCL, CLIST
Databases: DB2, VSAM, IMS
Networking/Protocols: Connect Direct, Connect Enterprise
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows (all versions)
Software: Microsoft Office, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, HP Service Center, Clarity
Languages: Visual Basic .NET, XAML, XML
Frameworks: ADO.NET, WCF, Silverlight
Databases: SQL Server
Networking/Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, SFTPIT
Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Application Programmer III
Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky
Skills: COBOL, CICS, z/OS, REXX, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, DB2, SPUFI, Changeman, JCL, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Change Management, Visual Basic, Silverlight, WCF, XML, FTP
Responsibilities:
- Assumed leadership of development and support duties for 5 additional lockbox sites, bringing total to 7 and adding 150 retail lockbox customers and more than 1,000 wholesale customers, all without increasing staff.
- Implemented VB.NET image transmission process for several customers, which was expanded to handle transmission of PDFs and Excel spreadsheets.
- Trained 3 replacements to support lockbox application upon current staff’s exit after conversion of Louisville lockbox site to Regulus.
- Expertly converted 10 individual Windows-based Visual Basic programs into single Silverlight web application.
- Enabled clerks to submit mainframe batch jobs by developing extensive REXX application which included edits to prevent most common submission errors.
Skills: COBOL, CICS, z/OS, REXX, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, Changeman, JCL, XPTR, Xnet, Requirements Gathering, Team Leadership, Analysis, Change Management
Consulting Analyst
Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky
Responsibilities:
- Ensured that manually submitted jobs ran in order and prevented unnecessary multiple submissions of jobs by developing related process; virtually eliminated bad transmissions and out-of-balance errors.
- Eliminated most manual uploads and 3 batch jobs that ran on mainframe for each file uploaded through creating VB.Net application to upload various types of files to mainframe using FTP.
- Took on accountability for electronic payment process during medical emergency absence of previous employee for 4-month period; quickly learned about process, maintained uptime, and eventually streamlined process to simplify and make it less prone to error.
Skills: COBOL, CICS, z/OS, OS/390, REXX, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, Changeman, JCL, XPTR, Xnet, Analysis
