Executive Summary

Technology

Earl is a senior IT mainframe professional with twenty-five years of experience. His background includes all aspects of the SDLC. In particular he is very knowledgeable in the areas of: application development, Project Management, Change Control Management, Production Support and Business. His career has afforded him the opportunity to program various languages and file structures. His ability to promote all aspects of the SDM lifecycle and lead his teams to do the same, have resulted in implementations on time and on budget. Integrating newer technologies into legacy mainframe applications has been another area of focus. Earl has industry experience in Insurance, Telecommunications, Credit Card processing and Utility, and his many years of experience make Earl a very valuable team member.

Professional Experience

Confidential,
Jacksonville, FL
Mainframe Developer II
October 2009

• Provided contractor support of a batch DB2 mainframe Customer Information Platform application at Blue Cross Blue Shield of FL.

Confidential,
Milwaukee, WI
Application Engineer
June 2005 – September 2008

• Created and reviewed all documentation to support SDLC from functional specs through implementation plans in support of multiple million dollar projects
• Highly involved with CCB (Change Control Board)
• Utilized SharePoint as a means of tracking and storing project deliverables
• Advised project managers of contractor development costs and progress of tasks and updated MS Project files
• Designed, coded and tested batch and CICS online PL/I modules in support of legacy Field Compensation application
• Assisted in re-architecture from a flat file application to utilizing DB2 as the primary data structure
• Used MQ Series to access needed data from Sybase for processing on mainframe application
• Produced adhoc reporting using SAS
• Provided 24X7 oncall production support
• Utilized SQL, QMF, Fileaid and Comparex for data Analysis

Confidential,Madison, WI

IT Contractor March 2005 – June 2005

• Provided contractor support at WPS Health Insurance for a batch health insurance application using COBOL, JCL, and Easytrieve

Confidential,
Des Moines, IA

IT Contractor July 2004 - March 2005

• At Amerus, developed 100+ scripts to perform loading, exporting or importing of data from DB2 tables on the mainframe to a server. Built MQT tables in DB2 for Windows v8. Created numerous jobs to FTP data from mainframe to server which included DYL280 steps to convert packed decimal data to character data. Modified bind cards to allow COBOL programs to execute against the tables on either platform
• Worked with DBA to monitor and tune process for peak efficiency
• Provided oncall support for all modifications

Confidential,
Des Moines, IA

IT Application Analyst

January 2003 - July 2004

• Developed and maintained batch and online COBOL, CICS, VSAM, and DB2 programs associated with document imaging and storage of residential mortgage documents on microfiche, microfilm, CD/DVD and IBM Content Manager
• Converted all document imaging programs from 7 digit to 9 digit loan numbers (key)
• Utilize XML to communicate with server based applications
• Monitored and maintained small JAVA application that was used to retrieve copies of documents from vault storage at another bank
• Created numerous data files for Mortgage sales to other servicing companies
• Provided 24X7 on call production support

Confidential,Cedar Rapids, IA

Sr Staff Specialist IV September 2000 - July 2002

• Developed and maintained batch and online COBOL, CICS, DB2, and QMF programs associated with long distance corporate billing systems
• Created adhoc QMF jobs for data fixing to recover lost revenues averaging $70,000 per month and data conversions associated with various releases
• Provided assistance with Endevor related issues for the Mega development staff
• Shared oncall responsibilities

Confidential,Cedar Rapids, IA

Project Manager / IT Consultant May 1996 - September 2000

• Managed project to migrate all MCI MEGA Commercial Billing software onto Endevor from Panvelet and provided user training and assistance for this change control software to a staff of 100+ personnel. This project spanned 9 different teams
• While managing the Endevor migration project, I also provided programming support of CICS online COBOL modules and BMS maps to allow for on time project implementation
• Coordinated efforts of Commercial Billing teams to insure that all programs met Y2K requirements. This resulted in zero outages when year 2000 began. This also included delivering over 50,000,000 lines of code to third party vendors for independent verification. Built and maintained DB2 tables to track entire inventory of software
• Downloaded all source code to vendor for Independent Validation and Verification phase of Y2K project
• Instrumental in the integration of Oracle into Legacy COBOL programs for a utility company
• While assigned to IES, developed and maintained batch and online COBOL, CICS, and VSAM programs associated with utility billing and customer service
• Created or modified BMS maps using a product called GTB
• Provided first level support to customer service call center staff

Confidential,Cedar Rapids, IA

Project Manager April 1995 - May 1996

• With no formal project management training, accepted Project Manager responsibility for MCI Mega Commercial Billing teams moving entire application from their data center in Cedar Rapids, IA to a data center in Omaha, NE while maintaining on time billing. This included the stopping of the billing application after calculation of statements in batch cycle, physical transportation of storage media, verification of data in the new data center, and restarting of the application with minimal effect to the users and no delay to printing customer statements that billed >$200 million per month
• Used MS Project to monitor and track progress of project.
• Assisted the NCBS application teams with movement of software and data from one development LDC to another LDC with no disruption of new releases. This included creating Easytrieve programs to read tape catalogues and use balk data transfer methods to transfer data to the new data center programmatically

Confidential,Omaha, NE

Endevor Administrator / Sr Software Developer/Analyst November 1989 - April 1995

• Instrumental in the installation of Endevor and migration of Credit Card software onto a formalized version management tool. This included setting up all parameters to allow this automated change control system to be integrated into existing methodology and building COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL 370, CICS, DB2, BMS MAP, and BAL compilers. Eventually lead team of 5 administrators
• Provided 24X7 support of the Endevor application, I was only person supporting for the first year
• Responsible for the training of 1200+ developers and managers in multiple locations on the use of Endevor
• Assumed responsibility to enhance and maintain Credit Card Registry batch and online COBOL, CICS, and VSAM software after only one week of application training with no previous CICS experience
• Modified numerous CICS screens using native BMS map coding
• Using DYL280 and other utilities, created numerous adhoc jobs to produce needed reports

Confidential,Dallas, TX

Programmer/Analysis III February 1989 - November 1989

• Developed and maintained batch COBOL and VSAM telephone billing programs
• Created adhoc reports using DYL-280 to assess the impact of possible errors
• Provided 24X7 on call production support

Confidential,Dallas, TX

Business Ptogrammer/Analysis October 1987 - February 1989

• Analyzed billing application to identify and remove all dead code using Recoder for US Sprint
• Provided contractor support to complete year end reports for Annuity Board of Southern Baptist

Convention using Natural/Adabas

Confidential,Dallas, TX

Business Ptogrammer/Analysis May 1984 – February 1989

• Designed, coded, and tested COBOL, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, and DL1 programs to track and bill for telephone equipment which resulted in the recovery in excess of $1 million per year
• Modified internal email message request screens to automate the process and reduce errors due to manual processes
• Automated the internal billing associated with cellular phone charges

Designed, coded, and tested COBOL, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, and DL/1 programs in support of an automated warehouse inventory application that executed on six different datacenters around the world


Expertise
Programmer/Analyst
Project Manager
Business Analyst
Change Control Management
Production Support

Languages
COBOL, CICS, PL/I, EASYTRIEVE, DB2, QMF, SQL, MVS JCL, VSAM, SAS, DYL-280, XML, IMS DB/DC, DL/1, HTML, UDB DB2, MQ SERVER
Tools & Other Products
TSO/ISPF, LIBRARIAN, PANVALET, SYNCSORT, TABLEBASE,SDFII, FILEAID, DATA-XPERT, ABENDAID, COMPAREX, XPEDITER, CA-ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, INTERTEST, GTB, TIQ, SYSD, LOOK, ROSCOE
Other Software
MS Office, MS Project, MS Outlook, MS Sharepoint, Serena Team Track, Serena Version Manager, Lotus Notes

Education
Business Administration
Continuing education classes JAVA, C, C++, SQL Server Programming