Career Summary:

Total of thirty years of mainframe COBOL development experience with the last 12 years in both UNISYS A Series mainframe environment. I am very comfortable in all aspects of SDLC's and IT development with several companies working very closely with in house programming staffs and non IT departments as well.

SKILLS:

UNISYS A Series Mainframes w/Clearpath MCP, COBOL85, WFL, CANDE, COMS, DMSII, MARC, BLSource, Changeman, PVCS, and most recently TFS source mgmt systems.

IBM Mainframes 370/145, 4341, 4381, OS390 COBOL MVS TSO DB2 ISPF CICS VSAM JCL VTAM Panvalet Vollie ICCF Changeman.

Work Experience:

Confidential

Sr Programmer/Analyst

• Assigned as a Sr Programmer/Analyst to the IS Underwriting team I worked with a small project team responsible for membership enrollment Discrepancy systems. Including rewriting of HIPAA 834 enrollment system due to government mandate.
• Due to a company reorganization in April 2011 four months after I started fulltime I was re-assigned to the Production Support team for 15 months.
• In January 2013 went through another company reorg and I was re-assigned to a new Transaction Team .
• Responsibilities on this team include developing solutions for all plans BCBSND, BCBSNE, BCBSWY . Current major project underway includes all phases of the SDLC for the creation of the Affordable Care Act public exchange Obamacare .
• Company is in the process of moving from Waterfall SDLC to Agile SDLC and VS ALM source management system on windows 7 platform on the Unisys mainframe.

Environment:

Unisys A-Series Mainframe using Cobol 85 , Marc, CANDE, DMS II database, WFL, and COMS.

Confidential

Sr Programmer Analyst

• As a contractor I was assigned to a ten person IS Underwriting team. I worked primarily on a three person development/maintenance team responsible for membership enrollment Discrepancy systems. Worked on six month renewable contracts but contract was renewed three times and then I was offered a full time position with Corelink, telecommuting full time from home in Cincinnati area.

Confidential

Village Administrator

• Responsible for the day to day operations of the fastest growing community in Clermont County , OH of 3500 residents
• Responsible for developing, approval, and management of annual budget of 2.7 million
• Was able to cut workers comp costs by 40 by implementing company wide safety program saving 20k/yr
• Implemented new Court/Police software package which saved community 50k/yr by eliminating one full time position

Confidential

Sr Application Developer

• Assigned to the financial services team with primary responsibility for developing and maintaining a series of month end report programs that were integrally used by the accounting and marketing departments using a series of copybook tables that could be modified for agents, depts, and state and company requirements. This copybook minimized the need for massive programming changes each month
• Developed and maintained a series of monthly programs for the marketing department that would allow them to spot sales trends by policy holders and agents
• The development and maintenance of these programs required significant time working with business users to determine their needs/desires for creation and maintenance of these programs
• Assigned to a Migration Team for one year to migrate legacy Unisys applications to an IBM OS390 mainframe

Environments:

Unisys Series A Mainframe using Cobol 85 , Marc, CANDE, COMS, BLSOURCE, DMS II database, WFL and COMS 1999-2006

IBM OS390 Mainframe using MVS, TSO, ISPF, DB2, and CHANGEMAN 2006

Confidential

Project Lead

• Confidential
• Solely responsible for upgrading several Geac E Series Y2K versions financial packages including Accounts Payable/Purchase Order AP/PO , Financial Controller FC , Information Expert IE , General Ledger GL , and

Payroll/Personnel HR

• Performed simultaneous upgrades for priority modules including: AP/PO, FC, and IE and installed into test environment as company had infrastructure limitations to production deployment before my contract was up. Company offered me a permanent position and also offered to renew my contract at a sizable increase but I declined the opportunity due to long commute 1.5 hr each way daily
• Determined that client needed to upgrade with a new release of Data Control Interface DCI and finish install of IE9601 into the test region, installed DCI and IE into test region
• Responsible for installation of Geac E Series Y2K versions Payroll/Personnel release HR9820
• Confidential
• When client was able to later upgrade the production environment to allow upgrades to be installed into production I assisted the new company resource by phone during my off time to complete the project
• Client wanted in house staff to do own testing of updates before putting updates into production
• Worked with in house staff to apply user changes and began testing HR9820
• When contract was up in February, client still had a total of five 5 in house programmers working on making the user changes in test region. Client wanted to renew my contract but my contract company had another client waiting
• Confidential
• Acted as a project lead with in house programming staff responsible for managing and scheduling programming tasks defining technical needs, expectations, and testing scenarios and output needed for upgrading GEAC E Series software which included Accounts Payable/Purchase Order AP/PO , Financial Controller FC , Information Expert IE , General Ledger GL , Payroll/Personnel HR
• When arrived at client site these projects were two months behind schedule with a planned completion date of July 31 but projects were not even started yet
• Met on a daily/weekly basis with upper management to provide project status updates, address concerns, and scheduling issues
• Worked with various business users, including Quality Assurance QA Auditing contractors, on a daily basis to advise them of status of projects, testing expectations and results, and verification of test outputs
• Completed project two weeks ahead of schedule and began assisting as a project lead on a couple of smaller projects before contract ended. I decided to not continue contracting as I preferred to pursue fulltime position with another company

Environments:

Various IBM Mainframes with MVS/TSO/ISPF/DB2/Panvalet/Roscoe

Confidential

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

• Promoted to Sr. P/A in May 1990. Responsibilities remained about the same but with a lot less direct supervision, more analysis 60 , more direct user contact, and more project mgmt responsibilities
• Worked on a team to convert Dun Bradstreet GEAC E Series Payroll/Personnel to D B M series software
• On a IBM OS390 mainframe with MVS/TSO/ISPF/DB2/Panvalet. This was necessary due to a merger between Bethesda and Good Samaritan Hospitals to form Trihealth Hospitals, Inc.

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential

• Worked on financial applications team which included payroll/personnel, general ledger, financial planning, materials management, and general accounting development and support
• Primary responsibilities included 25 analysis of new projects and problem determination and daily involvement with all aspects of the project life cycle including significant direct communication with end users regarding exact needs and specifications, coding program logic, testing and verification of results, creating production jcl and documentation
• In charge of installing all payroll and personnel updates from MSA later known as Dunn Bradstreet and later became GEAC-E Series software
• Part of two man team that developed in house process for Family Leave Act federal mandate
• Developed, coded, tested, implemented and documented batch Patient Opinion Survey system

Environment:

IBM 4381 Mainframe with DOS/VSE, CMS, VTAM, VSAM, CA/LIBRARIAN, CA/DYNAMT, CA/DYMNAMD

IBM 390 with MVS/TSO/DB2/Panvalet, COBOL, CICS Cobol for 1 year after merger

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

• Primary responsibilities included maintaining and enhancing financial applications with 25 analysis of new projects and problem determination including daily involvement with all aspects of the project life cycle including significant direct daily contact with end users regarding exact needs and specifications, coding program logic, testing and verification of test results, and creating production JCL and documentation
• Primary programmer responsible for installing and maintaining McCormick and Dodge M D AP/PO and GL systems later known as GEAC-M Series software
• Developed a process for electronic tape patient billing system replaced manual tape archive system

Environment: IBM 4381, DOS/VSE, VSAM, VTAM, ICCF

Confidential

Programmer

• Promoted to Programmer after taking COBOL programming classes during free time.
• First assignment as a programmer was to completely rewrite the operations program documentation for over 200 programs and systems
• Responsibilities included maintenance and enhancement of all financial application COBOL programs
• Primary programmer responsible for maintaining MSA later known as GEAC-E Series Payroll/ Personnel package updates
• Worked on a three person team to write a General Ledger system using CICS COBOL

Environment: IBM 370/145 and IBM 4341 mainframes w/CICS, DOS/VS, DOS/VSE, ICCF, COBOL, with some exposure to CICS COBOL, VOLLIE, CA/Librarian, CA/DYNAMT, DMS