SUMMARY:

• Broad range of experience includes the development of new systems, problem solving of existing systems, project planning and customer contact. Developed a company System Development Standard Practices procedures book.
• Proficient in writing functional and implementation specifications, proposals from customer requirements, cost estimates for new development, coding and testing of programs and systems, and final reports to management. One manager said “His user communication skills are a strength and he is often assigned the most difficult users”.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and code new programs for extracting health care claims submitted by professional/institutional providers. Assemble an Impact Analysis for the next scheduled changes in the Claims System. Code or modify programs to access specific portions of a claim file to be inserted into new reports. An understanding of Medicaid systems, claims processing, financial or subsystem experience.

Environment: IBM/ ES9000, MVS/ESA and OS/390 operating system, using COBOL, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, CA - 7, MS Office, Windows 7

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Senior Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop, code and monitor funds transfer applications and on-line screens in production. Support and participate in systems & program testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), funds transfer, Disaster Recovery testing and error reporting. Support application implementations, recovery and contingency planning. Informing the data center and other concerned personnel of problem outages. Re-establishing and reconciling applications after a line or systems failure. Monitor batch and screen programs in the Tandem environment.

Environment: IBM ES9000, MVS/XA/ESA/zOS and OS/390 operating system, using COBOL, CICS, JCL, IBM Assembler, TSO/ISPF, IOF, SDSF, DB2, CA-Endevor, CA-Intertest, CA-7, Omegamon, SAP/SAS, MS Office, Windows XP, 7

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create new programs to convert incoming records that will be compatible with existing in-house programs. Contact with internal user departments for additional requirements. Compiled and tested changes.

Environment: AS400, VSE/ESA operating system, using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, ICCF and Windows.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Programmer Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Modify existing programs for Bank One, to execute with the newest releases of CA software. Compiled and tested changes in mini-company production environment.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA and OS/390 operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, IBM Assembler, CMS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, and Windows.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop new or modify existing programs in support of a contract with US Department of Labor, to interface unemployment compensation transactions between states. Provide detail reports on customer compliance, editing incoming & outgoing files, and customer contact. Developed documentation for Programming, System and User Guides.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA and OS/390 operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, CICS, InterTest, Windows, and MS Office 97/2000.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Senior Programmer Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of new programs, to processing audit records from outside client companies. Programs developed to expand the records into a compatible format, calculate the amount of taxes to be paid, create internal audit records, and reformat the records, to be transmitted in an Oracle environment. Prior position was support of front end billing systems processing. Code programs for special reporting of input, intermediate processing of files, and one-time requests. Develop a testing environment for locating possible problems, before placing programs or utilities into production. Document current jobs that are in production, with backout procedures. Contract is with Confidential &T.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA & AS400, VSE/ESA operating system operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, IMS DB/DC, DB2(SQL), Eztrieve Plus, TSO/ISPF, Librarian, REXX, Windows.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Senior Associate Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, develop requirements and code new programs for Oregon Department of Motor Vehicle. Develop documentation in support of current legislative measures, project estimates, and design requests from user departments. Develop programs for automated insurance reporting, automatic listing of driver’s license suspended, with a history, and support of existing driver licensing systems. Conduct meeting with user departments for new projects. Implementation of systems within guideline of standards and procedures Recommend and develop enhancements to current applications.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, DB2(SQL), Eztrieve Plus, TSO/ISPF, Panvalet, OS/2.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, develop and code new programs for incoming claims processing and editing. Develop documentation for project estimates and design requests from user departments. Conduct meeting with user departments for new projects. Develop test platforms for testing new projects and standard modification to existing systems. Implementation of systems within guideline of standards and procedures. Recommend and develop enhancements to current applications. Some development is being done using Micro Focus COBOL and WorkBench utilities. Modify existing screen programs to accept and display requested enhancements.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, IMS/DL/1, DYL280-II, TSO/ISPF, LIBRARIAN, VIASOFT, OS/2

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Technical Programming Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Contract with Allied Signal Engines to analyze, develop and code new programs for aircraft engine sales, rework requests, estimating pricing, and quotes for work in process. Code new programs for retrieval and inserting onto existing databases. Modify existing screen programs to accept and display new menus. Analyze and coordinate with remote site staff on testing and implementation. Code EZTRIEVE PLUS programs per client requirements, and report generation.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, IMS/DL/1, EZTRIEVE PLUS, TSO/ISPF, LIBRARIAN.

Confidential, Santa Fe, NM

Information Systems Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and code new programs for operational claims processing system. Analyze and document system problem alerts generated internally and by the client. Coordinate with remote site staff during problem resolution, testing and implementation. Code EZTRIEVE programs per client requests.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, EZTRIEVE PLUS, TSO/ISPF, LIBRARIAN, VSAM.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Information Systems Staff Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and code new programs for extracting out-of-area health care claims submitted by professional/institutional providers. Code drivers and call programs to create specific portions of a claim file to be inserted on databases.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, DATACOM, SAS.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Systems Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide primary support for daily production process management. Activities include investigations for data fixes and drop record recoveries, error suspense and table analysis, and software configuration management. Programs coded for special reporting requirements, balancing cycle files, and search for duplicate records on a billing file. Attend weekly user meetings to prioritize work requests.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB, PANVALET, IBM Utilities, VSAM, SYNCSORT, FILEAID.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Staff Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported Software (FLSS) code through IMS, Assembler, COBOL and CLIST skills. Document functions and identify users of code. Compile code for existing object matching. Reassemble source code for non-matches. Source code search extends to seven regional data centers.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL II, JCL, Librarian, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Associate Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, code and test new programs for air miles accounting and billing, fraud prevention and tax accounting. Develop production JCL and procedures for installation. Input and output databases are VSAM clusters and IMS databases. Some testing requires command level CICS, and BTS.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA operating system, using COBOL, COBOL II, JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, BTS, DB & DL/1, in an IMS environment.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Associate Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for telephone Universal Measured Services (UMS). Install new or modified programs in system, test in mini-company production environment, check programs, input files and JCL, for correctness. Effect minor modifications as required. Answer immediate action reports submitted by user groups.
• Develop new and modify existing software in support of Contract Billing Systems for private line and rental equipment. Redesign, code and implementation of new bonus points coupon page and programs for rental equipment. Rewrote programs to print invoice voucher pages and coupon pages using new Advanced Function Print technology from IBM.

Environment: IBM 3090, MVS/XA/ESA, using COBOL, JCL, LIBRARIAN, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF.

Confidential, Everett, WA

Information Management Senior Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and coded applications to support secondary editing of input files, release of corrected files, and methods to do special data extracts for verification. Analyze data processing service requests to interpret and prioritize requirements, and translate into specifications required for development or enhancements to existing systems. Other projects include: interfacing of coin counting machines to modified programs for accounting and reporting purposes and adaptability of work stations; design and developed SAS programs to report network trouble notifications; develop programs to provide error report on customer master file based on location codes and automatic transmission of reports.

Environment: IBM 3080 and 3090, MVS/XA, using COBOL, IBM Assembler JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, DB/DC and DL/1 in an IMS environment. IBM PS/2, RBASE, MULTIMATE III.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project lead to analyze code of unstructured logistics system. Converted government provisioning system from dedicated to shared system. Developed and maintained systems including facilities property management, logistical support and calibration.

Environment: IBM 370/165, 3033, 3080 and 3090, MVS/OS/XA, using COBOL, JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, MFS, BTS, DB/DC and DL/1 in an IMS environment.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Consulting Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop new software for County Tax Assessor. Document changes and place applications into production.

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA

Military Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated engineering requirements. Coded modules to transmit information for military computer systems.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Operating Systems Support Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed applications for telecommunication software, manufacturing database and VRX operating system.