TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: TSO / ISPF ABENDAIDBMC SoftwareOS MVS / XA File - AidNCR TERADATA DW OS JCL / IBMVSAM files RACF COBOL CICSMS VisioCOBOL IISASMS OutlookInfomanDB2 / SQLMS Excel ChangemanDB2 File-AidMS Office SuiteLIBRARIANCA-7/11 Web page design / HTMLXPEDITERSPUFI/QMFAssembler IBM UTILITIESSYNCSORTLotus Notes DatabaseENDEVORNDMMQ SeriesAS400/RPGIVAS400/COBOLSDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ft.Worth, TX

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Present A print and mail business, with clients mostly in the financial industry. A DOS/VSE shop using VSAM flat files, Sync-Sort, mostly coding in COBOL and QUIKJOB. Confidential is a fast-paced, market-leading company that provides variable print, interactive, data and mail solutions to leading companies across the US, as well as internationally. Developed and supported custom applications, code fixes and developing new software features through the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Used skills include programming experience with COBOL, Sync-sort, QUIKJOB, JCL, VSAM flat files, BIM, and CICS.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Cobol Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with enterprise size systems in the financial industry, primarily banking and used the ability to quickly learn banking/business/financial complex requirements.And then finally translate these concepts into code changes to existing modules.
• Used skills include Mainframe programming experience with COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CMS, and CICS.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Sr. Cobol Developer

Responsibilities:

• I.T. personnel in analyzing system requests, developing specifications for new system development projects and for maintenance to existing mainframe-based applications. Adhere to System Development Life Cycle standards, including preparation of project-related documents as requested by the Project Manager. Made design changes to programs, either alone or in concert with other programmers. Prepared unit and integration test plans for program changes, and in cooperation with clients and other I.T. personnel, perform the testing. Communicated project progress and issues as needed with technical/non-technical audiences. Prepared user and operational documentation for programming work performed.
• Skills used include COBOL, TSO, MVS, JCL, ENDEVOR, CA Tools, SQL, DB2, VSAM, INSYNC, and Microsoft Suite experience (e.g., Word, Excel).

Confidential, Gainesville,Tx

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• A leader in the manufacturing of commercial airline passenger seats. Responsible for development supporting custom applications and their databases. To supporting business processes and improvements. Establish program interfaces for collecting, entering, processing and reporting of data to provide management and personnel with data to track program process, develop process and policies. Experience with HTML, AS400/RPGIV/COBOL, DB2, SQL, ODBC, MS Office, Lotus Notes Database, and Crystal Reports. Project manager over a rewrite of a pre-existing program called Resource Management
• Application. Organized, planned, and secured the resources needed to achieve specific goals. Set up meetings with users and our group of three contractors to establish unique goals and objectives. Oversee the development, testing, and final implementation of code. Arranged meetings with users to manage delivery correctness and to insure this was all done on a timely schedule.

Confidential, Dallas,Tx

Worldwide Securities Services - Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worldwide Securities Services is a leading securities custodian. WSS safe keeps, values, and clears services securities and portfolios for investors and broker/dealers. Supported and maintained a batch job process along with online series of CICS jobs/screens with over 1000 separate modules. Responsible for production support, performing root cause analysis, and providing solutions for various securities applications and sub-systems. Identify issues/improvements with tools and work with team leaders to develop solutions. Supported and enhanced COBOLII/DB2/SQL/CICS code as necessary and was responsible for design, development, implementation and documentation of new and/or existing systems. Endevor was used for change control and moving programs to production. XPEDITER was used to debug the programs and CA-7 was used for scheduling jobs.

Confidential, Santa Fe Railway Ft.Worth,Tx

Sr. Systems Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, designed, and programmed solutions to complex business problems according to user specifications. Tested and implemented system changes using techniques that preserve system integrity. Lead and participated in system and acceptance testing procedures for program enhancements. Provided technical assistance to users and other developers as needed. Performed Ad Hoc programming support for users as needed, providing information on DB2 table data or other data structures. Skills: COBOL II, technical writing, JCL, PROCS, Syncsort,PL/I, SAS, documentation, NCR Data Warehouse - Teradata, SQL, DB2, and Xpediter.

Confidential, Dallas,Tx

Sr. Cobol Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in conversion of trust accounts from major banks into a format acceptable for use by a Fidelity Investment trust accounting application that is also Y2K compliant. Used Cobol II and VSAM file structure in modifying existing code of Fidelity accounting application to accept clients input data files. After conversion a series of reports were created for reporting needed data back to the client. Skills: COBOL II, IBM Utilities, JCL, SYNCSORT, SAS, Microsoft Office, and technical documentation.

Confidential, Dallas,Texas

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining a batch telecommunications production billing application using COBOL II and VSAM files. Modify, rewrite and test existing modules of the application to meet user requests, company decisions and regulatory changes, as it becomes necessary. Finally to modify existing code whenever possible to take advantage of COBOL II improvements and to simplify otherwise complex code. Skills: COBOL/COBOL II, JCL, SyncSort, VSAM, FileAid, SAS, and IBM Utilities.

Confidential, Allen,Texas

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Participated in conversion of existing assembler exit routines for state car registration /title files into COBOL II sequential files. Created new files for new states, as data files became available to be converted. Improved existing COBOL II code to contain enhanced data conversion logic to take full advantage of all types of information available on each state's car registration / title files. Performed QA analyst on files as assigned for accuracy before making available to vendors.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design, programming, documentation, and support of the credit card billing system. In depth analysis of splitting the existing three VSAM files containing all of MBNA's credit card customer daily activity used for monthly billing. The project consisted of creating six VSAM files out of the existing three VSAM files, which could then be run concurrently saving batch processing time. System development methodologies were used as outlined by MBNA to conform to existing standards. Skills: Data Analysis, COBOL II, JCL, File-Aid, Syncsort, IBM Utilities, VSAM files, Microsoft Office 97, and technical writing.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintenance and troubleshooting of client data as part of the billing adjustment team. Analysis, designs, implements, and tests modules of application to meet user requests or problems in billing that the user may have found on a day to day basis.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Responsibilities:

• Supported existing clients by monitoring batch processing and by the design and coding of new applications to enhance the existing system. Also involved with establishing new clients and tailoring existing system by customizing any aspect of the batch run along with modifying any accompanying reports as needed by the client. Creation of new JCL job streams for new clients, which included the setting up as needed of GDG's, sequential files, and VSAM files. Also involved with coordinating the testing and scheduling of new job streams.

Confidential, San Angelo, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis of production run problems, develop appropriate programming codes, testing, documentation and installation of programs. Installation here refers to local testing and implementation, dataset maintenance (sizingplanning and setup etc.) JCL design and implementation, and scheduling. Other responsibilities include systems monitoring, on-site technical support for problem investigation and resolution, data recoveries, and initial analysis of operational problems.