SUMMARY:

• 20+ years of analysis / development experience in life insurance and annuity administration applications on all platforms with particular concentration in large mainframe systems.
• Concentrated system analyst experience with several home - grown and vendor life insurance administration systems, compensation systems, repetitive payment applications, and financial reporting systems.
• Heavy new product development including Term, Whole Life, ISWL, UL, VUL, Joint Life, COLI, and Fixed and Variable Annuities.
• Expert level data conversion experience including lead analyst, design and development roles on multiple Conversion Engines.
• Extensive application, data manipulation and testing tools experience.
• Strong business area knowledge of life products and business processes with the discipline to perform and document business level analysis to complement IT expertise.
• Excellent communication skills, works very well in team and independent environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, JCL, VSAM, Xpeditor, InterTest, Assembler, Endevor, Syncsort, MS Access, MS Excel, MS SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Mainframe COBOL Programer/Analyst

Confidential, Springfield, MA

• Worked on project to set up new company code in Trad Vantage system. Tools included COBOLVSAM, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, JCL, ENDEVOR, SYNCSORT, EZTRIEVE, XPEDITER, FTP, FILE-AIDEXCEL, WORD.

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

Confidential - Tyson Corner, VA

• Worked remotely from home on various customer annuity systems (RPS - Repetitive Payment System -- Vantage). Development, analysis, coding, testing.
• From September 2014 worked on a consultant basis (The Computer Merchant) and was hired as a permanent employee in June 2015
• Tools Include: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, Excel, Word, FTP, Syncsort.

Confidential - Roseland, NJ

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• (Consultant - Contech) Mainframe Programmer on investment system, clearing house conversion.
• One effort involved writing several COBOL programs to read multiple files both sequential and VSAM to produce variable length, CSV files.
• Another was to develop a process, using SYNCSORT to create a file by matching the keys on two other files.
• Software includes COBOL, TSO, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Syncsort, Changeman, Excel.

Confidential - Franklin Lakes, NJ

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Systems Business Analyst - Production Support (prescription drug claims).
• (COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, Intertest, Syncsort, TSO, MS Word, MS Excel)

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Team member on project called UPI - Unclaimed Property Initiative.
• About 40 states have been auditing company’s overall processes to find claims that it should have paid in the past 20 years.
• The states will send requests to once a month - each request contains policy info plus a date-of-death from the government’s data.
• Our team worked on building a series of processes and a database to help with the claims process - including automating death benefit valuation as of some past date-of-death.
• First assignment was to take a series of extracts from several Sunset Individual Life Systems and back off any Post Date-Of-Death transactions that have occurred in order to arrive at a Death Benefit.
• This involved building several new modules to process the extracts and create an output file that went go to a separate calculator that values the policy to a future date.
• Software tools included COBOL, TSO/ISPF.
• The next assignment was to process text files through MS SQL Server, using VB.
• Some transformation was done such as changing codes and parsing names and addresses to create XML files, which were reviewed by business analysts and then loaded to a relational database.
• Member of team working on projects for a 4-system integration.
• Project tasks included design, coding and testing of new accounting reports.
• Resolved defects discovered in testing.
• Fast paced, multi-tasking environment.
• Heavy contact with business customers.
• Software tools included MF Net Express (Client Based Microfocus COBOL), DB2 Command, DB2, SQL, TSO, MS Excel.

Confidential - Meriden, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Analyzed and implemented federally mandated changes to DCF (Department of Child & Family Services) system.
• Working with business customers, designed, developed and tested new tables using Access VB procedures.
• Software tools included MS Access, MS Excel, and MS Access VB.

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Maintenance and development on RPS (Repetitive Payment System) Vantage Annuity System.
• Software tools included COBOL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Endevor.

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Conversion of life insurance systems to the third party Andesa system.
• Elements of CIGNA, Utica Life, NY Life, and Confidential systems were converted using MS Access VB procedures.
• Designed and produced reports, procedures to assist in monitoring of effort.
• Designed and tested transactions to move data through the conversion system.
• Software included MS Excel, FTP, MS Access, MS Access VB.

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Member of team upgrading and converting John Hancock Vantage Life insurance system.
• Responsible for analysis, coding, and testing.
• Software tools included VSAM, TSO/ISPF, TSO/FILE-AID, Endevor, MS Excel, Mainframe Express.

Travelers - Hartford, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Project involved researching and documenting hundreds of programs, developing change alternatives and implementing and testing the changes.
• Software tools included COBOL, Endevor, CICS, InterTest, TSO/ISPF, Eztrieve, MS Excel, MS Word.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Designed and implemented changes to TOPS statistical system.
• Changes provide additional data elements to supplement monthly claims payment data relating to revenue code expansion.
• Software tools included COBOL, Endevor, Xpeditor, TSO/ISPF, TSO/FILE-AID, MS Excel, MS Word.

Confidential - Bloomfield, CT

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Developed Access database to assist in Earnings system migration using DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, VSAM, FILE-AID, VSAM.
• Analyzed technical specifications designed and implemented test plans.
• Assisted in testing and validation of CIGNA Healthcare release 2B, HFO Reporting using DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access.

Confidential

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Performed detailed analysis, design and coding in COBOL, DB2 and CICS programs in support of banking transformation project.
• Performed analysis and coding in converting secondary account number file from VSAM to DB2 using COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Eztrieve, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, MS Excel.

Confidential

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Member of a team responsible for supporting development and maintenance initiatives in VANTAGE 15 System using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, TSO/FILE-AID, Endevor.
• Created ad hoc reports for customers using various DB2 utilities such as SPUFI, QMF, with SQL, transferring reports to Excel spreadsheets.

Confidential

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Lead Programmer/Analyst responsible for the analysis, design, and programming to support company initiatives with VANTAGE One version 12 life insurance System. (COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, TSO/FILE-AID)

Confidential

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Member of team converting Aetna Property Casualty system to Travelers system (IDMS to IMS) using COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF, TSO/FILE-AID, Endevor

Confidential - Hartford, CT 6 /

Mainframe COBOL Programmer

• Originally started at Aetna as a junior programmer working on development and maintenance of their first UL system.
• Also, worked on Vantage I life insurance system which was also development and maintenance.
• Production support and development for ACAS Healthcare claims systems.
• Software tools included COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, Endevor, SDF2, QMF, Xpeditor, TSO/ISPF, MS Excel.