SUMMARY:

• Information Technology professional with extensive experience in systems infrastructure support, system administration, design, programming and support of business and health care applications, development of system documentation and supervision of technical groups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems: z/OS, CICS, DB2, IDMS, TSO/ISPF, VSAM

Languages: COBOL, Confidential Assembler Language, FORTRAN, JCL, SAS, FOCUS, SQL, XML, C#

Utilities: SMP/E, QMF, HSM, MICS, MXG, TDS, INTERTEST, BMC Recovery Utility for VSAM, ACF2, CAFC, LIBRARIAN, CVS, OMEGAMON for CICS, DB2 and MVS, INQUIRE, FDR, IAM, DumpMaster, InSync, TraceMaster, CICS AbendAid F/X, FileAid, QAHiperstation, MAINVIEW, MVS/QuickRef, SPUFI, Endevor, Xpediter, SOLA, DOMAPI, TMON

Applications: SMS Invision, Millennium

PC: MS Office, MS Project, Visio, Remedy, RUMBA, Reflections, TN3270, OpenText Socks, PCOMM, Host on Demand, HP ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Contractor/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded, tested and implemented online and batch programs for a project to enhance claims processing for the Emblem Health client by interfacing with the McKesson ClaimsXten system for claims adjudication. Software used included CICS, COBOL, FileAid and Xpediter. A callable API was used to communicate via Confidential MQ to the McKesson server while transferring data between mainframe fixed format records and server XML documents.

Confidential

Contractor/Technical Support

Responsibilities:

• Supported collection of SMF data and reporting from that data for several client accounts. Software used included MICS, MXG, TDS and SAS. Reporting included SCRT and Sysplex Verification Reports.

Confidential

Contractor/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded and implemented mainframe services used by the SOA based EAO (Enterprise Account Opening) system. The services are coded in COBOL, CICS and DB2 using SOLA DOMAPI as the interface between the mainframe programs and the distributed front end applications.

Confidential

Supervisor / Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Led group supporting CICS, DB2 (mainframe and UNIX platforms) and WebSphere on UNIX, and related software.
• Group responsibilities included: installation, upgrade and maintenance of system software, including CICS, DB2, WebSphere and related software; debugging and resolution of system problems; disaster recovery planning and testing; monitoring, analysis and tuning of system performance; and providing technical support to application developers and application DBAs.
• Supervisory responsibilities included project planning and coordination, status reporting, budget management, performance appraisals and hiring of staff.
• Major projects completed by the team that I supervised include:
• Migration from CICS 2.1.2 to CICS 4.1, then to CICS/TS 1.3 and then to CICS/TS 2.3.
• Migration from DB2 v3 to DB2 v4, then to DB2 v5, then to DB2 v7 and finally to DB2 v8. This included a CCSID conversion for all DB2 subsystems.
• Migration to QMF v7, and then QMF v8, including customization to the QMF Governor.
• Y2K preparations and support.
• Technical support for project to expand the length of the Medical Record Number (MRN) throughout the institution. (The MRN is the key field in dozens of applications and databases; its expansion had an impact almost as widespread as Y2K.)
• Support for migration from InterLink’s TCP/IP to Confidential ’s TCP/IP on the mainframe, including a rewrite of the CICS autoinstall program.
• Coding and implementation of a JES2 exit (exit 54) to add SYS1.PROCLIB at the bottom of a JCLLIB concatenation.
• Maintenance and support of a customized Confidential external writer (Qwriter) for report processing.
• Monitoring and tuning to improve mainframe application performance prior to upgrades.
• Installing, upgrading, maintaining and tuning DB2, DataStage and WebSphere to support a new Confidential t information data warehouse on an AIX platform.
• Implementation and support of Confidential Federated Server product, which is used to combine data from different platforms.
• Implementation and support of Confidential WebSphere Data Interchange and WebSphere Partner Gateway products.
• Implementation of Oracle Transparent Gateway for DB2 and Confidential DB2 DataPropagator to integrate data from a mainframe DB2 Clinical Protocol database and from an Oracle Biostatistics database.
• Implementation of Sybase Gateway product to allow integration of data from mainframe DB2 and UNIX Sybase databases.

Confidential

System Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained, supported and tuned CICS and related software.
• Debugged and resolved system problems.
• Conducted Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
• Monitored, analyzed and tuned for system performance.
• Provided technical support to application developers.
• Migrating VSAM files to IAM, resulting in substantial savings of DASD and of batch run time.
• Coded and implemented custom programs, in assembler language and COBOL, including:
• CICS exit to gradually lower the dispatching priority of a task as the task remains active for a longer and longer time.
• CICS exit to copy screen ID to SMF program ID field, to provide more information in performance reporting.
• Customized interfaces between ACF2 and various applications (including SMS Invision, Millennium and HR).
• Customized interface between CICS, ACF2 and the Solve (NetMaster) session - manager product.
• Customized interface between the SMS Invision application and the INQUIRE database product.
• Customized interface programs that process requests for demographic, insurance, allergy and chemotherapy data from the SMS Invision database and return the data via a CICS APPC interface to a UNIX/Sybase system.
• Customized problem-tracking system using CICS and DB2.
• Archive/delete program for VSAM files.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded, tested, implemented and documented Confidential t information database using COBOL, IDMS and CICS.
• Wrote user’s guide to accessing data in Confidential t information database.

Confidential

Application Programmer-Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded, tested and implemented programs for billing systems and Confidential t information systems, using COBOL, assembler language, CICS and IDMS.