SUMMARY:

• Accomplished COBOL Senior Developer in MF and UNIX environments
• Healthcare, banking, wholesale grocery and supply chain retail industries experience
• Experience in all SDLC aspects, from business process mapping to deployment and support
• Demonstrated SME and lead experience includes training and mentoring team members

MAIN TECHNICAL SKILLS (YEARS):

Languages: MF COBOL (10), MicroFocus COBOL (7), JCL (10), Perl (1), Assembler (1)

Operating systems: Confidential MF (z/OS, MVS, VSE - 10), AIX/UNIX (7)

DB: DB2 (13), IMS (5), VSAM (7), SQL (14), Informix (1)

Transactions processing: CICS (10)

Tools: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Intertest, Confidential utilities, Xpediter, Endevor, QMF, MQ, Syncsort, Panvalet, Intertest, Control-M, ChangeMan, EZtrieve, shell scripts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Decatur, GA

COBOL Developer - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Microfocus COBOL code on AIX UNIX platform that required federally - mandated changes
• Researched programs in order to develop program documentation
• Project was terminated soon after it started due to lack of funding.

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Senior Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of ETL team tasked with fixing errors while loading historical pharmacy claims data from Medco platform to Confidential one as part of the two companies’ merger
• Production support/triage of issues on several large data feeds, then analysis and fixes implemented
• SME level role providing analysis, technical oversight and direction in particular area of expertise
• Modified existing COBOL/DB2/CICS/JCL code to comply with new merger requirements
• Work environment was z/OS Confidential mainframe using COBOL, JCL, CICS and DB2.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Developer - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded and tested new MicroFocus COBOL programs, UNIX scripts and SQL (Informix) cards for projects such as the OMS Perishable Project.
• Used SQL and Informix extensively to create and run queries and make various table changes.
• Modified existing programs, scripts and SQL as part of enhancement projects such as adding new vendors to the system.
• Learned on my own and then created packages in SSIS to do Informix-database to Excel data transfers.
• Used MicroFocus Cobol, SQL, Informix, Perl, XML, SSIS and Intertest in an AIX UNIX and Windows environment.

Confidential, Providence, RI

Senior Developer - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed design, specifications, program development and testing for various areas within the RI DMV.
• Used MicroFocus COBOL, SQL and DB2 on a daily basis to create, modify and test programs and tables.
• Designed, wrote and implemented a new approach to the Social Security Driver checks that is saving the
• Rhode Island Confidential over 75% of the amount previously spent (project lead).
• Created extensive modifications to an entire subsystem (School Bus) in order to comply with new US federal requirements regarding the S endorsement for the CDL license.
• Used MicroFocus COBOL, SQL, MSSQL, DB2 in an AIX UNIX and Windows environment.

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

Developer - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed various Microfocus COBOL programs that were part of a healthcare claims processing system.
• Created and implemented large-scale system enhancements for compliance with HIPAA requirements.
• Worked closely with JAVA developers to ensure complete compatibility between the COBOL programs and the screens where JAVA was used.
• Used MicroFocus COBOL, DB2, SQL, JAVA, XML and shell scripts in a AIX UNIX environment.

Confidential, New York City, NY and Newark, DE

Team lead - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of programmers and was in charge of the Reporting system, a DB2-based application within the General Ledger system.
• Used COBOL, DB2 and QMF on a daily basis to create and modify programs and queries.
• Wrote and executed test cases to ensure error-free future processing; an example of that was year-end processing where we first created test data ad then ran a complete simulation covering 5 days.
• Led the successful Reporting system migration as part of the JP Morgan - Chase Manhattan merger.
• Created detailed documentation of the Reporting system before and after the merger.
• Mentored the team members and communicated constantly with them and with management and users in rder to increase our reaction time and response quality.
• Completed JP Morgan CMM training up to level 5.
• Used mainly COBOLII, DB2, IMS, SQL, PL/1, QMF, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, EZtrieve, Confidential mainframe and tools (ICETOOLS, DFSORT), Stored Procedures, File-Aid, Endevor, Xpediter in Z/OS.

Confidential, Spartanburg, SC

Developer - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Was part of the team whose mission was to make all necessary changes to COBOL and CICS programs, screens and databases and thoroughly test them in preparation for Y2K.
• Led a team responsible for creating a comprehensive system manual as part of that conversion effort.
• Changed, tested and implemented COBOL and JCL programs as required for other on-going projects.
• Used mainly COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Panvalet, TSO/ISPF, Confidential Mainframe, Confidential utilities