I am seeking employment in the Information Technology area because I love to work in this industry. Project experience in Mainframe and Open System Application Delivery. Industry expertise in Banking, Healthcare, and Supply Chain Retail and Procurement Grocery (Purchasing, Billing, Inventory, Data Warehouse, TeraData). Software Development Life Cycle in Banking Credit, Brokerage, Dun and Bradstreet, and finance.

Technical Skills: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, MVS, VSAM, IMS, DL/I, IBM /OS, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, FILEAID,
XPEDITER/IMS, IDMS, ADABAS, ASSEMBLER, ORACLE, UNIX, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, INSYNC
CEDF, CA-INTERTEST, SMARTTEST, DUMPMASTER, IBM UTILITIES, MQ SERIES, XML, 
MS EXCEL, ACCESS, VISIO, Project, and PowerPoint, MERCURY TestDirector /HP QualityCtr,
Scheduling Software I have worked with is BMC Control-D & Control-M for z/OS, and CA-7.

Experience: Mainframe & Open System Appl. SME at Confidential, FL Mar. 2012 - June 2012 
Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, XPEDITER, JCL, DB2, Web Applications 
Responsible for the expertise of support to identify, document, and create Visio diagram process flows in driving out the clients\' disengagement and migration of its Medicare Applications. A four month project that is set in driving out the disengagement from one site and migrate it to another location, and merge with their existing Medicare Application processes and functions. Microsoft Tools used are: Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

Accenture : Consultant assigned to following projects: March 2010 - November 2012

• Experience: Hands on Technical Project Manager Confidential Peoria, IL

Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, XPEDITER/IMS, JCL, DB2, iLog, Web Reporting
Develop and execute activities related to end-to-end technical project management, including project plans and estimates, scoping and requirements through implementation and deployment. Proactively monitor, manage and report on execution of deliverables. Was hands on, in deep diving into code of IMS programs, copylibs, DCLGENS, PSB's, PCB to view database definitions for the above requirements. Coordinated these activities with Off shore Team leads and client project leaders.

• Experience: Deployment Lead Confidential Houston, TX & Little Rock, AR

Technical Skills: Visio, PowerPoint, MS Word, Excel
Client is beginning the IT Planning and Analysis work to support the transition to an RTO. 
Key activities of this role include: Coordinates with the Entergy IT Solution Architects and business resources to define deployment requirements; Leads RTO Implementation Deployment planning including work planning, resource planning, cost planning and deployment approach planning; Defines and documents the deployment approach to support the deployment requirements.

• Experience: IT Strategy Solution Architect Confidential Toronto, Canada

Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, JCL, DB2, Web Reporting
Lead on the Current State assessment, identified the high level customer Current State, defining the business requirements, solutions and opportunities for the future Target State. Identified the current state assessment with access to the Programming team for current workflow and proposed 'wish list' for the future state technology of TSYS, TeraData, and its future solutions. Knowledge on Value Chain, Business Capability Model, Application Component Model, ACM Service Mapping, for Credit Card Strategy Roadmap. Working with the TD Bank Line of Business to review and understand the requirements and changes requested as part of their 5 year strategy plan. Attended meetings, created ppt documents for our ongoing ghost deck deliverables. Act as a liaison between the Business groups and the Technical Systems groups. Working with the Programming team to create a process map as a foundational business framework for the assessment. Provided Credit card and Banking expertise and understanding in support when needed during our assessment of Current and future Target State approach. 
Aggressive timeline in Current state and Target state discovery process interviews. These sessions where with TD Bank resources and with Accenture resources that had or is current on Application components / products, Business capabilities, and services for the Credit Card Technology Assessment.

• Experience: Programming Lead/Tester Confidential Columbus, OH

Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, XPEDITER/IMS & TSO, JCL, DB2, Web Reporting
Programing lead, Tester, Quality Control person for the ATM Debit Card processing Retail Business team. 
Provided direction by working with the Business partners / LOB for the retail suite of applications. Programming IMS DB programs with another onshore associate. Supported our UAT testing activity to validate defects that were raised against the original requirements. Working with the application / Line of Business to review and understand the requirements and changes requested. 
Attended meetings, review action items, communicate project test plans and status to the developer and myself.
Act as a liaison between the Business user group and the technical systems groups. Working with technical staff and LOB partners on gathering and executing business requirements. Provide expertise and understanding in support when needed during our testing. Created Test plans with the developer and setup JCL to be run and validated through the SIT and UAT testing phase. Programming and Test of this Project during the first two quarters of the year. Additional work was in the creating & tracking the test scripts and its execution in Quality Center. Coordination this process during our weekly status meetings.

• Experience: Test Lead Confidential Toronto, Canada

Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, XPEDITER/IMS & TSO JCL, File-Aid
Programming Test Lead, a Manager level role providing direction and technical oversight to the team. Responsible for the analysis, clean and shine of Cobol IMS programs and redesign, build, and test of the infrastructure for development, test, and production environments across multiple operating system platforms. Technical expertise in the areas of the source code, programs, copylibs, DCLGENS, PSB, and PCBs for the testing integration, and data creation, serving as a key client interface with TD technology management to assist in the requirements to identify ways of creating adequate volume of valid data, data validation and the tools for processes to assist in the form of VBasic programs, and Test Metrics. Work Plan Development for my team as the offshore team requests. Providing day-to-day technical leadership and execution direction, and tracking and reporting progress and issues. Reviewed and designed documents on the following: 1) High-Level Test Harness (test scripts and custom stubs), 2) Test and Compare Checklist (manual and later automated via software tools of BTS and QTP) and 3) Test and Execution Metrics where the testing was automated (per Compare Checklist and Excel). Testing included the following: Baseline Testing, Unit Testing, Compares with Baseline and Unit Test (the number of Cycles or Loads), Performance Testing of the CPU usage and savings (main focus of project was having the programs run on Linux; savings on CPU usage from MIPS to the IFL). Volunteered to move on to the PMO area within our group to work directly with leadership and develop SharePoint Lists, Maintain and upgrade a VB program within MS Excel to load data (.net files) into MS Access, and then loaded on SharePoint to create \'Lists\' for our Leadership and Functional Leads to access and create \'Views\' for their presentations.

Experience: Lead Developer and Support Specialist Confidential, MN 
Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, JCL, File-Aid, Endevor, XPEDITER/IMS & TSO
Migration Support Specialist for a Manager and the Senior Manager on the Express Scripts Assessment Project. Role was to develop and deliver. Programming Lead, tasked with leading the design and implementation of the Medicare Run Out on several large scale data feeds, enhanced analytics, reporting capabilities and data quality solutions to improve their existing application in the Claims, Prior Auth, FIR, NX, and Indemnity Adjustments. Responsible for being the first on team to get ID to get acclimated with ESI environment, IDC setup, SharePoint and Citrix Access, Lead on Design and Build Team, created Program Specs from Detail Designs, Coded Mainframe IMS & DB2 Batch Driver, Load, and Subroutine Cobol IMS programs, JCL, Unit Test cases, and test data for Functional and QA testing. Primarily the Build and Testing Lead. Confirm the completeness of each detailed design document in terms of its granularity to do the coding. Identified the factors with the corresponding inventory; that is, programs, copybooks, JCLs, DCLGENS, screen definition modules, that will need to be created within the scope of each detailed design and to flag the complexity of each factor. Assist using PowerPoint for Project Scope Confirmation.
Dependency Catalog using Excel, Effort Estimate Workbook using Excel, draft Detailed Work Plan using Excel initially to create the MS Project version. Manage the onshore and offshore resources using SharePoint; held two standing meetings. Early mornings and late evenings to discuss in detail the status of each deliverable and version the updated tracking and questions logs. Joined the Testing team to start the SIT effort.

Experience: Lead Programmer / Business Analyst EDS / Tops Account Greenville, Mar. 2008 - Mar. 2009
Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, JCL, DB2, UNIX, Oracle SQL w/SAS, MERCURY TD/QC
Data gathering creating application and component interface documents, creation of Technical Specs for Tops Food separation from the Ahold Integrated System. IMS conversion to DB2; a lift and shift. Tech Lead for the Supply Chain Tower gathering technical requirements of multiple applications; TeraData and DataWarehouse and assisted in problem solving and decision making across these applications. Business Analyst for Tops BSAs gathering Functional aspects; developed task plans and the resources needed to accomplish these requests. Application leadership, both in delegation and support for onshore; technical support in security, testing, and installation issues. Programmer Analyst for the offshore Testers; assisted with offshore group in troubleshooting SIT cycles and in final UAT testing with the Subject Matter Experts and Business Users. Web reporting experience during UAT phase; working knowledge and understanding of web application testing using Oracle Platform and running java scripts and SQL w/SAS steps to validate data integrity throughout the System. Developed MQ series process with Web server group by validating the store data and messages to the new MQ server. Proven ability to provide and maintain test case documentation using Mercury TD/QC and MS Project for final Acceptance Testing with Management Team.

Experience: Programmer Analyst Confidential Greenville, SC Dec. 2004 - Mar. 2008 
Technical Skills: COBOL, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, JCL, TSO, MQ SERIES, SQL w/SAS 
Coded, tested, and maintained the Post Pay Systems for Medicare Plan B using COBOL II in an IBM z/OS environment.
Completed project of creating new Vendor Extract file for PSC. Experience working with Clinical Analysts to determine reporting criteria of their business needs. Role was shadowing the Lead Analyst on Team to free her up on Technical Issues; was then able to take an active role working with the Business Analyst and Subject Matter Expert on team to provide Functional specifications in the existing and creating new PSBs, IMS and COBOL programs. Proven ability to provide and maintain Post Pay System changes to JCL, Sys Ins / NDM's & CA-7 scheduling modules of several carriers in multiple datacenters for Medicare Healthcare insurance claims. Creation of Technical Designs using Microsoft Access and Excel for Long-Term Supplemental care guidelines and Medicare policies and procedures which involved maintaining several existing report modules.

Experience: Senior Lead Developer Confidential Greenville, SC Mar. 2000 - Nov. 2004
Technical Skills: COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, DB2, CICS, JCL, TSO, IBM UTILITIES, QMF, MQ, ENDEVOR
Coded, tested, debugged, and maintained the Procurement and Invoice Reconciliation applications using COBOL II and CICS in an IBM z/OS environment. Responsibilities include Production Support, Test Trail Support, Customer Problem and Service Requests within the Purchasing, Billing and Prompt applications in the Supply Chain / Trilogy Biceps System. Production Support experience in a large environment consisted of utilizing COBOL, IMS, DL/I, VSAM, CICS, DB2, EDI, UNIX , & WEB reporting; working experience in troubleshooting production problems with EDI and UNIX scripts for order processing. Maintained MQ series interface with our Peapod Grocery Service. Production support for our Web server group on any MQ server issues. Worked as the Service Request Lead for an 18-month project responsible as the backup resource for all of the development test trails. Was the Lead Programmer Analyst and lead escalation point for resolving all issues that jeopardized the test trails. Was the Team Leader of 3 highly motivated individuals to successfully lead, delegate, and mentor the Perishable Purchase Order (PPO Agribuys) Project and opening of the GL Fresh Food Facility DataWarehouse using TeraData. Experience with MS Project for project tracking, communication and interaction with Management Team on progress and status; responsible in handling all of the PPO retrofits, fixes, and new development within the Trilogy System.

Experience: Consultant Confidential Spartanburg, SC July 1998 - Dec. 1999
Technical Skills: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, TSO, IBM Utilities, SQL Client Server, MQ, Lotus NOTES
Coded, tested, debugged, and maintained the Dennys Payroll System using COBOL II and CICS in an IBM z/OS environment. Responsibilities include meeting customer problem report requests within the Payroll Mainframe Processing System. Performed the Functional aspects of data gathering for the new Client Server system using Lawson Software. Completed several major assignments in the phase out of the Mainframe system. Worded with Project teams to develop task plans with the users on this new system. Performed the Technical requirements for the Application teams installing the Lawson Software. Technical support in the security, testing, and the installation issues for the Client Server group. Was part of a team developing the MQ series interface for the Lawson Software. Post Implementation on required backups for the Mainframe System.

Experience: Consultant Confidential Columbia, SC Jan. 1997 - July 1998
Technical Skills: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, APS, IBM ASSEMBLER & Utilities, MQ series, ENDEVOR
Coded, tested, debugged, and maintained the Companion Health Care System using COBOL II and CICS in an IBM z/OS (version 1.0 or higher) environment. Responsibilities include meetings within the Companion Health Care (CHC) Claim Processing System. Provided quality experience working in the Private Business System (PBS) using Easytrieve to perform research for our BSAs on the results found. Completed several major assignments in Assembler and Cobol code and testing system changes. Maintained MQ series processes with the Wisconsin State data validation process. Used APS processing application tool on several Data Processing development projects, in particular provided pre-HIPAA format changes in both the claims submission and reporting formats. Compliance with business rules and the ability to manage and achieve the data and order within the Medicaid Management Information System - MMIS.

Experience: Consultant Confidential Largo, FL May 1994 - Jan. 1997
Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, IMS, DL/I, VSAM, CHANGEMAN, JCL, SQL w/SAS, MQ process & reporting
Provided Production Support for the Third-Party Claims and Pharmacy System using COBOL II (version 1.0 or higher) and CICS (version 2 or higher) in an IBM /OS (version 1.0 or higher) environment. Responsibilities included programming system enhancements, small development projects and handling abends during the day and on evenings / weekends when on beeper support. Experience in Public sector procurement within Eckerd Pharmacy POS system. Project experience in using SQL to create technical specs in SAS for our Programming team on the Healthcare and Pharmacy Fraud and Abuse detention application. Developed MQ series process with our Web server group by creating a bridge to put messages to a new MQ server which then ran the transaction and return the results from the queue. This new automated online process for our Clinical Analysts assisted them and validated any fraud or wrongdoing for the application. Experience in SAS to pull clinical and medical data from our OC database to perform research in design and developing reports.

Experience: Consultant Several Companies in both New York and Tampa, Florida area. Oct. 92 - May 94.

Experience: Programmer Analyst Confidential Manhattan, NY Jan. 1992 - Sept. 1992
Technical Skills: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IBM ASSEMBLER, IMS, TSO, QMF, & ENDEVOR
Designed, coded, tested, documented, and debugged Mainframe Cobol, CICS, DB2, Assembler, & IMS code in the
Memo Expansion System. Work included analysis, wrote detailed specs for batch and online CICS & DB2 programs.

Experience: Programmer Confidential Manhattan, NY Mar. 1987 - Jan. 1992
Technical Skills: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, IMS, DL/I, IDMS, IBM ASSEMBLER, JCL, TSO, QMF, & ENDEVOR
Designed, coded, tested, debugged and maintained the International Credit System using COBOL, CICS, DB2, Assembler, IMS, DL/I, & IDMS code. Work included system abends, ad-hoc reporting, production support, upgrades. Sent to London, UK as a special team member to troubleshoot their IDMS system and installing upgrades to match our IMS system in NY.

Experience: Programmer Confidential Woodbury, NY Aug. 1984 - Mar. 1987
Technical Skills: COBOL, VSAM, IBM ASSEMBLER, PL/1, JCL, TSO, & PANVALET
Designed, coded, tested, documented, and maintained the Respond and the Work-in-Process (WIP) System using Cobol, Assembler, & PL/1 code. Work experience in writing Proposals for new and existing batch and online programs, and writing output extract reports. Was sent to Boston, Mass. for training as part of a team responsible for analyzing new and existing database design software, data modeling methodology, and a data dictionary system to guide and support our users.

Education: 1986 Confidential, NY B.S. Management Info Sciences, Finance. 
1984 Confidential, New York Bachelor Science Degree: Computer Science