Senior Programmer Resume

OBJECTIVE:

Looking for a remote permanent Mainframe Programmer position that will leverage my strong technology expertise and allow for continued professional growth.

SUMMARY:

Senior IT Professional with more than 20 years of hands - on experience in system analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, documentation and user support in IBM Mainframe environment specializing in COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, SQL and JCL;
Experience in all phases of application development life cycle, strong analytical, coding, communication and problem-solving skills allow producing high-quality results working independently or in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE: IBM 3090, IBM 3080XA, IBM PC & Compatibles

SOFTWARE: COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, IBM OPTIM, SPUFI, QMF, TSO/ISPF, FTP, MVS/ESA, OS/390, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, ABEND-AID, DSFSORT, EASYTRIEVE, ENDEVOR, LIBRARIAN, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Office, SharePoint.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

Support of all the sub-systems of a VSAM based medical claims processing system.
Created new and made changes to existing batch and online COBOL programs, maps, PROCS, copybooks, runbooks and conversion jobs.
Performed unit and system testing, created test plans, set up test data, documented results.
Participated in coding, testing and documentation peer reviews.
Provided Production and UAT testing support, resolved multiple Problem tickets.
Used Abend-Aid, EDF, Expeditor and File-Aid to pinpoint exact causes of the problems, made the necessary changes, tested and implemented corrected modules, created and updated documentation.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Managed the full life cycle of application development to support development and enhancement of the Confidential Distribution system.
Created new and changed existing online and batch COBOL DB2 programs to support various applications in accessing DB2 reference tables in Sysplex environment.
Produced reports, loaded, unloaded and manipulated data on DB2 tables as per user requests.
Modernization of the Confidential Distribution system to run on SQL server and to update SQL databases using IBM OPTIM distributed environment.
Created new or altered existing objects (tables, views, indexes, etc) on SQL server database. Created processes to update data on SQL servers.
Rating System and Alternative Credit Based Insurance Scores project
Enhanced logic in various CICS and batch DB2 programs to use alternative credit scores calculated based on the input from multiple credit bureaus.
Identified affected modules, made modifications to the source code and SQLs, performed unit and systems testing, and implemented the modules.
Maintained Rating system by creating new and changing existing DB2 online and batch programs, SQLs, copybooks and JCLs.
Created and ran ad-hoc queries, used QMF to create reports.

Confidential, New York, NY

Programmer/Analyst I

Responsibilities:

Was involved in all phases of design, development and implementation of the CPF/COMTI system which allowed a real time updating of the Q/CARE VSAM files when provider information was changed on the primary Oracle based CPF system.
Wrote, tested, and implemented programs that accepted and validated the data passed from CPF, updated VSAM datasets and returned a completion code back to CPF. Facilitated communication between business customers and CPF support staff.
Made enhancements to numerous online programs and modules from various sub-systems to enable the programs to capture additional system information (execution keys, table pointers, etc) to be used later to identify the cause of serious abends such as data exception and storage violation.
Resolved dozens of Trouble Tickets for various Q/CARE sub-systems.
Was involved in creating and setting up CICS test regions: created VSAM datasets, defined CICS transactions, programs, and datasets in the system tables.

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