Senior COBOL Software Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

He has over 35 years of technical data processing experience in the support and maintenance of various production computer systems.
He has worked closely with users, management, and staff to meet various requirements: designing and coding new and enhanced functionality according to business requirements, resolving technical issues, and providing high quality business and system support.
He has managed tasks; supervised and trained personnel; analyzed requirements; developed specs, standards, and procedures; provided testing support; performed IV&V.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior COBOL Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Supported DHS contract to migrate existing US Customs and Border Protection COBOL programs from Datacom DB to Oracle using Tuxedo/ART Workbench.
Work was performed as a member of an Agile team, providing expertise in inventory analysis, migration process development support, code migration, and code management.
Attended and participated in all Scrum meetings including the Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review. Worked with team members to help estimate Stories and help Product Owner better define acceptance criteria.
Provided input to Product Owner for possible new Stories for the Product Backlog.
Provided tasks and estimated hours to complete those tasks.
Participated in cross-functional training to improve the team’s ability to manage workload.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

COBOL program development and system design documentation for US Customs and Border Protection Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and the Consolidated Secondary Inspection System.
COBOL, MQ, CICS, and Datacom/DB back-end processing and overall functional design and requirements support for the Passenger Systems Program Office (PSPO) in general.
COBOL/Datacom DB program development utilizing TSO/ISPF and Serena Dimensions LCM, system and program analysis, and administrative and field user maintenance support on the CBP border crossing enforcement z/OS mainframe computer system.
Team lead for mainframe based pedestrian border crossing process and 2nd/3rd tier trouble ticket analyst.

Confidential

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

Programming, analysis, and maintenance of various portions of the US Department of Health and Human Services mainframe financial grant and loan system including user interface, problem resolution, and testing support, and data conversion support during their COBOL/ADABAS to ORACLE conversion.