SUMMARY:

Self - directed I/T professional with extensive experience developing, supporting and maintaining large complex mainframe Cobol, Confidential and DB2 applications for Confidential 500 Companies such as Confidential and Harford Life, along with large health insurer Confidential, and most recently for the Confidential . Excellent team leader known for dependability and resourcefulness, with a reputation for meeting daily demands and delivering solid solutions to satisfy business needs. Analytical, with a meticulous attention to detail, quality-minded and customer focused.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Z/OS COBOL V5.1, SQL, PL/SQL, JCL, Easytrieve, Assembler

System Environments: Z/OS V2.1 Mainframe, Confidential TS V5.2, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10

Databases/Access Methods: DB2 V10.5, Oracle 12c, IMS V9.1, VSAM, QSAM

Source Management: Endevor, Panvalet, ChangeMan ZMF, ISPF PDS

Data Management Tools: File-AID, IBM File Manager, Confidential Software Administrative Products for DB2, File-AID for DB2, Syncsort, DFSort

Debugging Tools: Confidential /TSO, Confidential, CA InterTest for Confidential, IBM Debug Tool for z/OS, IBM Fault Analyzer, Abend-Aid

Batch Job Scheduler: CA-7, Control-M

DB2 Stored Procedure Testing Tools: Eclipse

Confidential Web Services Testing Tools: soapUI

Development Methodology: Agile/Version One

Other: MQ Series Messaging, FTP, NDM, Microsoft Office Visio, Oracle SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Systems Consultant/Contractor

Confidential, Livonia, MI

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with taking a “ Confidential ” into 30+ Cobol based systems in support of a systems modernization project.
• This involved analyzing programs, jobs, cataloged procedures, reports and interfaces; much of which had been developed over the past 40 years.
• These 30+ systems were the culmination of what made up the Confidential payroll system.
• The majority of these systems were Cobol, Confidential and batch based applications, with a mix of more modern technologies sprinkled in, such as Oracle, PL/SQL, and XML based Web Services. My efforts identified 2000 reports being generated and over 250 interfaces in use.
• Technologies included Agile/Version One project management, z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, DB2, SQL, Oracle 12c, Oracle SQL Developer, PLSQL, VSAM, JCL, ChangeMan ZMF, Confidential Control-M, Confidential Control-D, Confidential Software Administrative Products for DB2, File-AID for DB2, Confidential /TSO & Confidential .

Senior Systems Consultant/Contractor

Confidential, Mendota Heights, MN

Responsibilities:

• Three individual 18-month assignments supporting the issuance and maintenance of Confidential ’s 46 million active Debit and ATM cards.
• Duties as a Senior Developer included: research and analysis, coding and unit testing, providing assistance and support for quality assurance testing and assisting in the implementation of quarterly software releases to production.
• The development spanned a variety of technical areas including: DB2 stored procedures; Confidential Cobol web services modules, Confidential 3270 screen development and maintenance, along with enhancements to COBOL batch processes, and troubleshooting production issues. Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, DB2, SQL, VSAM, MQ Messaging, JCL, Endevor, CA-7, Confidential Software Administrative Products for DB2, File-AID for DB2, Confidential /TSO, CA InterTest for Confidential, IBM Debug Tool for z/OS, IBM Fault Analyzer, Eclipse, and soapUI.

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Application Project Delivery Lead Senior

Responsibilities:

• Assumed a leadership role in the migration of Confidential membership claims data to Confidential.
• Worked closely with business partners, business analysts and subject matter experts to map Confidential membership data to new Confidential format for daily file feeds.
• Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, DB2, SQL, IMS, VSAM, JCL, and Endevor.

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis, design and development of corporate finance applications including general accounting, agent commissions, provider and vendor payments, check reconciliation, Confidential processing, billing and tax reporting.
• Provided subject matter expertise and took part in the technical aspects of major projects along with coordination of changes across functional lines.
• Worked closely with business partners, business analysts and team members to deliver solutions that were aligned with business needs and strategies.
• Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, DB2, SQL, IMS, VSAM, JCL, and Endevor.

Senior Systems Consultant/Contractor

Confidential, Champlin, MN

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in a large fund accounting application migration project that involved moving Confidential Invest One processing off of Hartford’s mainframe to Confidential ’s ASP UNIX environment.
• Up to this point Hartford had Confidential software installed on their machine and was responsible for support and maintenance; this project moved those functions back to the vendor, basically outsourcing the support of the application to Confidential .
• At a high level this project involved retiring programs, batch and online processes, while developing new interfaces and processes such as In-bound and out-bound file transfers to and from the vendor, new reports and changes to existing reports, new DB2 support tables, changes to production batch schedules in CA-7, etc.
• Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, DB2, SQL, VSAM, JCL, Panvalet, Confidential Software Administrative Products for DB2, File-AID for DB2, Confidential /TSO, Confidential and CA-7.

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business partners, business analysts and team members in the redesign and standardization of paper provider and institutional remittance statements.
• Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, IMS, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, File-AID, Confidential /TSO, and CA-7.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in the migration of five insurance applications from Fortis Financial Group to Confidential ’s mainframe.
• The project team was tasked with migrating all programs, jobs, files, batch schedules, online environments, and DB2, IMS and VSAM databases.
• Confidential required that all programs, several thousand, be recompiled or assembled on their system and tested.
• This posed one of the biggest challenges because many of the programs were 30+ years old and some no longer had source or hadn’t been compiled or assembled in years.
• I was brought in for my past Fortis experience with some of these applications and my familiarity with the environment, along with my troubleshooting skills and the ability to work well across functional lines (i.e. business and technical).
• Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Assembler, Confidential, DB2, SQL, IMS, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, Panvalet, Confidential /TSO, Confidential and CA-7.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Team member on a large-scale conversion, which included coding, testing and implementing programs that converted subscriber identification numbers social security number to a new system assigned number.
• Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, DB2, SQL, IMS, VSAM, JCL, and Endevor.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in a large application conversion from LifeComm to the LIDP Administrator, a mainframe Confidential on-line real time application written in OS/390 COBOL.
• Using my previous experience from Fortis Financial Group, I was tasked with troubleshooting environmental issues, working closely with the LIDP vendor on problem resolution, code fixes, file and database support, performance and tuning, and release management.
• Technologies included z/OS Mainframe COBOL, Confidential, VSAM, JCL, and Endevor.