SUMMARY

• Senior information technology professional with extensive proven track record in mainframe and PC operating environments, languages, and business systems.
• Proven track record providing excellent Customer support and technical team leadership.
• Proficient communicator and dedicated team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: IBM 9000, 3090, 4341, IBM PC, IBM SYSTEM 36

Languages: COBOL, COBOL II, DL1, ASSEMBLER, BASIC, OS/DOS/JCL, RPGII, DB2, and FORTRAN

Operating Systems: OS/MVS/XA, DOS/VSE, VM, JES2, JES3, OS/2 V2.0, V2.1 AND V3.0, WINDOWS, WINDOWS 7

Software: COBOL 390,CICS VSAM,DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

CONTRACT PROGRAMMER

Responsibilities:

• Project to upgrade Assembler TCP/IP communications programs to Containers.
• Project to receive XML from vendor and update DB2 tables with valid input.
• Perform maintenance functions on program fixes.
• Provide support to employees with questions in areas me had expertise.
• Project to add container logic to teh on-line programs to reduce cost and enhance monitoring ability.
• Worked with CPI to enable sending large messages through teh message switch in teh test system.
• Worked in teh new Sex Offender registration creation project creating and implementing teh ACIC side of teh project.
• Programming to support Arkansas State Police new ATLAS system. Involves swiping drivers license and using that information to display drivers history and criminal history if it exists.
• This project involved converting several on-line COBOL CICS programs to use teh generate function of COBOL to produce XML output for this project.
• Worked on numerous other programs as assigned

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SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Project upgrading CICS command level Assembler programs.
• Participated in project upgrading 9901 Cyber Life system to 0401 release level.
• Participated in project adding new printers for selected reports causing massive JCL change.
• Designed and installed repetitive payment system into Claims.
• Added moving benefit period to Claims system.
• Project adding new on-line tables to Cyber Life 9901 system in Assembler.
• Added new functionality to teh new Claims payment system for cancer policies with an anniversary date other TEMPthan 01/01/yy.
• Added new functionality to teh Claims payment system allowing multiple payments to be defined in advance with teh additional functionality of using all existing system functions.

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SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Corporation paid down debt of $540 million to less TEMPthan $240 million in course of three years coz of change in treasury system allowing ResourceIQ2 ACH file to be sent to Corporate bank teh day after items processed by bank, also saved interest on above money.
• Provided support for ASI Accounts Receivable OS370 COBOL, CICS, VSAM package, Bassets Fixed Assets package, and SunGard Resource IQ2 package included scheduling, planning, preparation and installing software, testing and customer acceptance. Worked closely vendors and users. Merged two SunGard ResourceIQ2 systems into one system.
• Accounts Receivable is a mainframe VSAM application. Most of teh Accounts Receivable batch applications me wrote interfaced with COPS DB2 (ASI Order Entry System using CA-Datacom, CA’s version of DB2). Also used CA-IDEAL to generate programs with DataCom. Fixed Assets is a PC application. Resource IQ is a network application. My knowledge of these systems was self-taught. CA11 used for job scheduling. Intertest, Abend Aid and FileAid used for testing. XCOM used to download files from mainframe to network disk storage.
• Participated in project to interface ASI Accounts Receivable System to web site where customers could log in and view there invoices. Later step added ability to pay invoices directly without sending paper invoice.

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CUSTOMER SUPPORT ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for customer installations, support and software development of Bank Risk Management software. (VECTOR:Kite, VECTOR:Monitor, VECTOR:Detect).
• Teh above systems were developed ON PC’s, using SPF, Realia COBOL, Realia CICS, then moved to teh mainframe using COBOL II, CICS, and VSAM. EXPEDITER, INTERTEST, DYL280, Abend Aid and FileAid were used to debug and test fixes to teh systems when fixes were necessary. Endeavor used on customer sites.
• Customer Support was a large part of this job whether on teh installation side or on teh support side after production status was achieved.
• Customer suggestions were solicited and used to improve all products as well as workshops which me gave. Also new product ideas were developed this way.

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SENIOR ANALYST\PROGRAMMER

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and maintained mainframe Assembler, COBOL and CICS command level programs for control and monitoring of an on-line claims adjudication system.
• Promoted to team leader after 14 months where me was responsible for seven-member team working on claims control system.
• Evaluated remote DB2 tools for procurement tools.

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INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Consultant with Blue Cross of Tennessee, part of a six man team responsible for teh design and implementation of new Customer Information System (BCBST GROUP SYSTEM) using CASE TOOLS. Represented Tennessee. BCBS on 2-man team designing Coverage DB2 System. Senior Analyst on CIS Group Phase II System. Teh above Systems were written in COBOL and DB2 using APS code generating system.
• Teh development environment consisted of APS, COBOL II, DB2, EXPEDITER, ROSCOE, LIBRARIAN, Endeavor, EXCELERATOR and TSO. All programs were generated by APS using COBOL II. All documentation was kept in EXCELERATOR. Testing was done using Intertest, STROBE, Playback, Expediter, FileAid and ABEND AID.

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SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Solely responsible for teh design and testing of teh Guard Light System. This CICS, DL1 subsystem of teh Service Order System sets up accounts so that people with guard lights can be properly billed.
• This system was developed in CICS, DL1, and COBOL II with LIBRARIAN as teh source keeper. INTERTEST was used in teh TEST CICS system to debug all new programs. CEDF was available and used to track multiple task operation.
• Project leader of a six-man team responsible for teh design, code and testing of teh Transaction History System. This CICS, DL1 system real time updates to teh on-line Customer Information System.
• Member of a six-man team responsible for design through maintenance duties of teh Common On-line System, which allowed transactions to be written by only, coding two programs. Was responsible for insuring teh proper functioning of this CICS system.
• Assistant CICS Lab Instructor at El Centro Community College on volunteer basis working with physically challenged one afternoon weekly for two years with teh endorsement of TU Services.
• Conducted classes to train fifteen programmers to use Laptop PC’s. Also assisted in a CICS debugging class.
• Project Leader during COBOL to COBOL II conversion of code written on Customer Information System supervising three people including about 200 batch programs and 150 on-line programs.
• Worked as technical consultant on a TESSERACT Human Resource package. Helped develop DB2 tables to be loaded from TESSERACT IMS Data Bases. Attended DB2 table design classes in preparation for this assignment. Also worked with TESSERACT CICS on-line system.
• Testing tools used were Omegamon, Intertest, TDL1, File Aid, QMF, Comparex, Easytrieve in a Mainframe MVS TSO ROSCOE environment.