PROFILE:

Senior Analyst / Programmer with over 20 years experience in Information Technology environments focusing on requirements gathering, design, projects and testing planning, development, testing and implementation of highly complicated mainframe application systems. Results driven individual with solid organizational, communication and team oriented skills. Positive “Can Do” and fast learning attitude combined with a strong work ethic.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM application analyst/developer with over 20 years working experience using JCL, TSO, ISPF, MVS, ZOS, Roscoe, Changeman, Endeavor, File - AID, QuikJob, Expediter, Intertest, SPUFI, QMF, SYNCSORT, Comparex, SDSF, CA7, ESP Proficient with Microsoft office suite.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Lead Developer Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Rsponsibilities:

• Worked on long term New Mexico Centennial project.
• Medicaid claim authentication and cost containment enhancements.
• Gathering requirements, analysis, logical design, physical design, coding, unit and system testing.
• Used full cycle systems development methodology.
• Worked close with business analysts.
• Provided knowledge transfer to and mentorship to new team members.

The environment is: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Endeavor, Intertest.

Technical Lead

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Working within project teams for a Missouri State Medicaid HLS system.
• Detailed functional analysis and design, spec writing, coding, unit testing, for a VSAM to DB2 conversion project, HIPPA and an ICD10 enhancement project.
• Supporting Production and Test data processing.

The environment is: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Expediter.

Software Engineer

Confidential, Winston-Salem, NC

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering, systems analysis and design, application development, UAT, ST, Maintenance and on call Production support.
• Functioned as interface between onsite team and offshore developers for Policy Management System.
• I was responsible for over sighting of knowledge transfer to contract staff and their adherence to standards.
• Reviews of product developed offshore resulted in downtrend in frequency of new problem tickets and an overall reduction in post-implementation.
• I was leading a team of myself and 3offshore programmers to maintain highly complicated rating system for auto insurance company.
• 3 years ago team of 8 have been doing the same job.
• I developed and implemented several system improvements, procedures, methods and testing tools to automate rate changing process and post development verification.
• That significantly improved the quality and speed of rating changes.
• As a result the business got ability to implement rating changes much faster and to better compete on the auto insurance market.
• Build mechanisms to automate DMV submissions processing across all Confidential does business.

Senior Analyst/Programmer

Confidential, Winston-Salem, NC

Responsibilities:

• Systems analysis and design, Application development, Maintenance, Production support. Used strong COBOL, CICS, JCL and DB2 analytical and development skills participating in numerous projects for Confidential.
• I was a team member of 8 experienced web and mainframe developers created new Web based Agency management system for auto insurance company.
• I was responsible for transformation and transmitting of a large volume of complicated insurance data between frontend SQL server database and Mainframe Policy Management database. Designed and developed this bridge from scratch.
• Build numerous jobs to consolidate data processing for two PMS systems.
• I implemented IBM Batch pipes technology in the nightly data processing cycle.
• As a result that caused 30% in reduction of CPU time and speeded up entire data processing cycle.
• Developed several interfaces between Web based applications and Mainframe VSAM data files using COBOL/CICS sockets and FTP.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Winston-Salem, NC

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, coding, unit and system testing, maintenance, 24/7 production support.
• Order Processing, Billing/Finance, Distribution, Inventory Tracking

Environment: MVS, COBOL, DB2, CICS.