SUMMARY

• 20 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Strong development, maintenance, and testing experience using Assembler, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS, as well as business experience such as meeting with users to gather business requirements, writing business and technical specifications, test plans, test scripts and design documents.
• Multiple years as a contractor and fulltime employee for applications in banking/finance, telecommunications, health/life insurance, manufacturing, billing systems, data management, data warehouse, retail sales and government services.
• Technical programming focus has been concentrated on a mainframe environment both batch and online, utilizing various data management systems. Additional software experience involves COBOL and CL on an AS/400. Hardware knowledge includes AS/400 and IBM 4700 series banking devices.

SKILLS

Languages: IBM Assembler, COBOL, CICS, JCL, Z COBOL, APS, Life 70
Database: DB2/SQL, VSAM, IMS DB, IMS MFS, IDMS
Operating Systems: MVS, VM/CMS, AS/400
Other: TSO, ISPF, ROSCOE,Syncsort,CA-Scheduler(CA-7,CA-11), Control-M, Easytrieve, Quikjob, Dyl280, NDM, FTP, QMF, Spufi, Endevor, Librarian, Panvalet, Expeditor, Intertest

Experience

Confidential, Birmingham, AL 5/2008 10/2008
Contracted to City of Birmingham Department of Revenue. Assignment was to maintain and enhance the Uniformed License and Tax Accounting System (ULTRA). This system was written in COBOL and IMS, utilizing CICS online transactions. Expeditor, VSAM and JCL were also used. User acceptance testing and system integration testing were also part of my responsibilities. Due to evolving technology, Birmingham planned to replace this system in the future. Therefore a large part of my responsibility was to document how the system currently worked.

Confidential,Alpharetta, GA 1/2008 5/2008
Contracted to Confidential, Wireless. Filled in for team leader in their collection system (CACS). Daily client interaction was required to overcome issues with FTPing files, adding changes to clients\' letter writing system, and reformatting/updating a client tracking report. The collection system consisted mainly of COBOL, JCL and VSAM processing with Endevor.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA 6/2007 12/2007
Contracted to The Home Depot. Designed and coded programs for a portion of a project that consolidated purchase orders. Wrote system development life cycle (SDLC) documents and programs/JCL for the EDI portion of this project using DB2 (SPUFI), VSAM, and COBOL. Test plans, test scripts, and implementation documents were emphasized greatly to prevent production errors. Participated in volume and regression testing of project with QA division.

Confidential, Columbia, SC 1/2007 - 6/2007
Contracted toConfidential,South Carolina. Applied enhancements and performed maintenance of programs contained in the Total Managed Care System. The system utilized COBOL APS, IMS, DB2, Endevor and CICS. Production support was a primary responsibility (CA-7 and CA-11). Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and HIPPA compliance guidelines strictly followed.

Confidential, Columbus, GA 6/2004 - 4/2006
As both a consultant and senior applications programmer for Aflac in Columbus, GA, my experience with IBM Assembler contributed to Aflac\'s Life 70 system. Member of the New Business unit working with modules written in Life 70, COBOL/DB2/VSAM, with JCL and Eztrieve. Team responsibilities involved software releases of enhanced modules, production support, UAT/QA/integration testing, and coordination with other units regarding new products offered by Aflac. Both Endevor - to manage software, NDM to send files were used. Major accomplishments included production support via the Emergency Change Control Board meetings, ISO 2001 changes due to mortality table industry changes, and statistical analysis of policies issued. Senior consultant for System Constraints Project designed to identify potential future growth problems with their legacy systems. Projects included: policy number remediation, claims archiving solution via DB2 vector table, and statement amount usage and storage modifications. SOX and HIPPA regulations were followed and required annual refresher courses.

Confidential,Atlanta, GA 1/2004 - 6/2004
Contracted to Confidential,. Utilized a UNIX System Z environment with COBOL software to enhance HO systems, a telecommunications subsidiary of Verisign. Previous experience with cellular and landline billing systems proved invaluable to a team I led to overhaul their promotions portion of the system. SDLC utilized paying particular interest to test plans and implementation documents.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA 8/2003 - 12/2003
Contracted to Confidential,Member of a new development project team dedicated to the implementation of a new Ambassador Club product. Work involved analysis, design, documentation, construction, testing, and implementation of their COBOL/DB2/VSAM, JCL and SQL invoicing and A/R system for this new product. Expeditor was also used.

Confidential,Atlanta, GA 5/2002 - 7/2003
Senior programmer/analyst at TSYS, Incorporated, a division of Synovus. Team member of several groups working on TS2 applications: Correspondence, System security, Ad Hoc, Customer Service. These units responded to our primary client: The Sears Corporation. Responsibilities included over-sight of junior team member’s work, production support, test script creation/execution, mastery of COBOL II, IMS, VSAM, and DB2, and supporting management through technical knowledge. Control-M used in job execution and Expeditor was used to debug applications.

Confidential,Spartanburg, SC 6/2001 - 9/2001
Contracted to Confidential, Mainframe support for a textile manufacturing and retail sales company utilized COBOL, CICS, DB2/VSAM, SQL, JCL and IMS in an OS 390 system. Responsibilities involved debugging, enhancing, unit/integration/system testing, and creating SDLC documents for the invoicing and inventory systems. Contract ended prematurely due to the events of September 11, 2001.

Confidential,Clearwater, FL 12/2000 - 5/2001
John Hancock set up a data center in Clearwater, Florida and I was a senior programmer/analyst for them. The new hires at John Hancock participated in many different areas of their Policylink system: system testing, production support, and training. This system used Merant Software’s Netexpress system to interface between UNIX and IT for development work. John Hancock was a CMM level 3 shop. UCC-7 and 11 were used in automated job execution.

Confidential,St. Petersburg, FL 4/2000 - 11/2000
Contracted to Confidential,Position was with a systems test group, utilizing Lotus Notes to track, document, and verify enhancements to their Sungard mutual fund system. Testing involved unit, system, volume and regression tests. Endevor and JCL were also used.

Confidential,Tampa, FL 3/1999 - 12/1999
Member of a twelve-person unit primarily responsible for the interaction between the magazine billing system and product promotions and agency subscriptions. Following CMM level 3 standards my primary responsibility was analyzing, enhancing and testing the agency system (IMS, VSAM, JCL, COBOL II, CICS); however, due to my knowledge of IBM Assembler, I worked on many different applications. Accomplishments included decreasing the number of production support issues by 30%, implementation of coding and JCL standards, and rapid implementation of efficient code changes for Sports Illustrated promotions. Control-M used as scheduler and Panvalet used to manage software.

Confidential,Tampa, FL 6/1997 - 3/1999
Contracted to Confidential, Three Y2K contracts with GTE Data Services. All contracts used COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, Endeavor, and analysis skills. Led conversion of their CBSS tables used in their billing system, contributed to billing unit coding and testing, and was exposed to a UNIX environment in a unit that manipulated statistical data via the mainframe and client server environments. Production support required knowledge of UCC-7 and UCC-11.

Confidential,Memphis, TN 10/1995 - 4/1997
Contracted to Confidential,Member of a large billing unit, but with primary responsibility for an online and batch IMS/VSAM//DB2/SQL/CICS/COBOL II/JCL system known as Powership Plus - a package rating system sold to large clients. Work involved extensive data editing and database manipulations, as well as working very closely with our user group to support the Powership Plus product. Billing and rating products required constant production support. Through efficient coding changes the error rate was lowered 70% for this system. My Assembler knowledge also allowed me to cut I/O\'s by 20 percent. Expeditor used as debugging tool.

Additional Work Experience 1995 - 1981
Contracts for Confidential, South involved COBOL, IMS, DB2, and CICS for billing and claim systems. COBOL, VM/CMS used at Cincinnati Bell in cellular billing system. IBM Assembler language, CICS, VTAM, and IMS experience contributed to Mead Data Central, Household Finance Corporation, and Sears Consumer Financing Corporation. At Mead - online LEXIS browse system, HFC - batch office balancing system, and at Sears - installation of IBM 4700 Branch Banking System. I began my career as a computer operator with G. R. Leonard and Company, a trucking data publishing company.

Education
Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics