Systems Specialist Resume

SUMMARY:

Experience in Information Technology using Mainframe and Unix platforms.
Developed, maintained, tested, implemented, supported applications for over twenty years.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network/Operating: MVS, OS/390, Unix, Windows

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SAS, Python, Easytrieve, Visual Basic

Databases: Teradata, Oracle, DB2, IMS

Other: CTRL - M, CICS, ChangeMan, HTML, VSAM, SYNCSORT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

Provided development, support, and analysis for legacy JCL and COBOL batch applications in an MVS environment.
Drove the team migration of thousands of mainframe datasets with varying copybooks to AWS S3 Buckets for converting legacy systems to the AWS Cloud.
Built JCL jobstreams scheduled in Control-M that included jobs that built other jobs depending of variable workload, contained condition steps, and utilized SYNCSORT and other batch utilities.
Extensive use of SQL in extracting and loading data to and from Oracle, Teradata and Snowflake databases.
Automation using MVS SAS, writing code to convert dynamic datasets between SAS layouts and COBOL copybooks.
Developed applications that transferred data using FTP and Connect Direct, both to internal servers, and to outside third parties.

Confidential

SAS Developer

Responsibilities:

Development of COBOL programs to digest variable Federal Reserve datasets.
Built tools for migration of variable COBOL datasets and copybooks into SAS datasets for downstream usage in building a data warehouse.
Converted Visual Basic/SQL applications to SAS in an automated Unix environment.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Automation of dozens of backend applications, using JCL, SAS and COBOL to create dynamic jobstreams for six lines of business with constantly changing layouts. This involved creating over fifty jobs and seventy programs. The functions ranged from formatting, partitioning, zipping, and transferring critical files to external vendors, to creating, loading and appended tables into Oracle, to the extraction and transfer of vital analytical files, to the emailing of mainframe reports for quality assurance

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Application programming using COBOL/370, VSAM and JCL in creating new interfaces and extracts for a general ledger application involving a major bank conversion effort.

Confidential

Information Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed, maintained, tested, and implemented applications for ten companies using JCL, COBOL/COBOL II, Easytrieve Plus, VSAM, SQL, Visual Basic, SQR, MQ Series, FTP, CLIST, CICS, IMS, DB2, and Crystal Reports.
Involved in the maintenance and support of applications such as Deposits, Customer Information, ACH, Loans, and Fraud Detection.
Assisted in the development and support of multiple Data Warehouse projects using Informatica PowerCenter v5.1.2.
Developed and implemented an application in Visual Basic for automatically receiving and approving electronic invoices. Processed thousands of invoices a month, saving hours of manual functions.
Involved in the maintenance and support of applications such as Deposits, Customer Information, ACH, Loans, and Fraud Detection.