Senior programmer analyst Resume

SUMMARY:

Extensive experience with data entry, billing and bill processing / reporting for health, dental, prescription, disability and cell phone systems. Created the design, functional and technical specifications for projects.
Coded, tested and delivered project components and end user documentation.
Supervised up to 4 programmers at different times. Worked 1 year for a grocery chain maintaining and expanding their customer bonus card system. From 2007 to 2014 I functioned as a site manager for our programming staff.
Modified many DB2 programs to improve performance issues by using monitoring tools to identify index and code bottlenecks. Wrote program code for various CICS data entry, batch claim adjudication, statistical reporting, data matching and fraud detection projects. Worked on the design and code for 2 VSAM to DB2 conversion projects.
Wrote a COBOL code generator that created COBOL programs that read and write DB2 tables using copybook and DCLGEN as input saving many man hours of work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware Platforms: IBM CICS

Operating System: OS/MVS, VM/CMS

Languages: COBOL, APS/SCOBOL, RAMIS, REXX

Software Products: TSO QMF IMS VSAM ZEKE APS Expediter debugger

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior programmer analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Served as lead programmer giving assignments to 3 programmers for a VSAM to DB2 conversion and maintenance of the claims adjudication system which used DB2 and MQ.
Worked with business analysts and architects to design the ALIM claim adjudication calculator interface.
Worked on the implementation team to in corporate the Blue Cross Associations system wide changes.
Spent 2 years in the Tri - Care government health insurance development project coding program changes.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Converted and upgraded a CICS VSAM system to a DB2 system adding DB2 access functionality.
Modified the Point of Sale system that prices merchandise for a large number of retail grocery stores.
Made changes to BMS maps, adding new fields and functionality.

Confidential

Consultant on assignment

Responsibilities:

Worked on the AMMS front end CICS and batch claims entry system coding changes, adding features and debugging customer issues. Added ITS claim interface and features.
Worked on all areas of AMMS and ITS Batch reporting.
Served as one of the lead programmers on the Wisconsin AMMS Batch Conversion project.
Developed programs to convert medical claims from an outside vendor to the Blue Cross Claim Format.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked on various claims adjudication systems including Medical, Dental and Disability.
Coded additions and changes to the adjudication subsystems, back end reporting, EOBs and check writing processes using COBOL, VSAM, DB2 and APS SCOBOL code to run Mainframe and PC based systems.
Developed, coded and implemented an internal task management system using networked PCs running CICS OS/2 front end entry screens running Microfocus COBOL software executables.
Developed, coded and implemented a CICS electronic storage and retrieval system that stored and retrieved in house documentation using APS code generator interfacing with Microfocus COBOL.