Professional Summary:

• Detail oriented Sr. Programmer Analyst with over 20 years of experience developing solutions to business challenges by improving processes, increasing efficiencies and delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Designed, tested and implemented the interface between Payformance and GEAC as well as coordinating user acceptance and generating audit reports to insure data integrity.
• Analyzed and troubled shoot defects occurring during Customer Profile Load batch process running Unikix
• Utilized COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs with symbolics , FTP, OS/Syncsort and IBM Utilities and Access to facilitate the conversion of the Geac payroll system to Lawson on UNIX platform.
• Also responsible for Pension Reporting System, Employee Benefits Interface, General Ledger Interface, Budget Variance Online/Batch Processing System, Payroll Support and developing solutions for the Payroll department in a mainframe environment.
• Generated/coded Cobol II, and Easytrieve program modules as well as VSAM look-up tables and files for the purpose of converting payroll history to the Lawson system.
• Knowledge of IMS, SOA, Agile Methodology, MQ and WebSphere.

Skills:

• Applications: GEAC, Kronos, Comparex, Quick Charge, Intertest, Xpediter, Mapr, BMS, GroupWise, Visio, Excel, FTP, Pkzip, File Aid, Ditto, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server, Rumba-IGSI, Windows Communicator, Teradata, Windows Outlook, Endevor, Self Service/Request Access, Adobe Connect Login, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, working knowledge of IDMS, IMS and CA-7 Scheduler
• Software Languages: CICS, COBOL, OS/Syncsort, Easytrieve, IBM Utilities, RPG, JCL, VSAM, DB2,Spufi, QMF, MS Access, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Basic, C , JavaScript, SQL, MySql, Oracle, Lawson 4GL, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Librarian, Panvalet
• Operating Systems: IBM 390 Mainframe, AS400, TSO/ISPF, Microsoft, UNIX, Windows XP

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Programmer Mainframe

• Eligibility Team Projects included Fiesta Green Screens, Benefit Build Out, Customer Profile Load, Card Processing Sub-System and the BlueKc VBID Mapping and full file to changes only file.
• Utilized TSO/ISPF, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, Cobol, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, JCL, OS/Syncsort and IBM Utilities.
• Performed analysis, system flow, database/vsam, file design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Generated and executed test cases for CICS Fiesta Green Screens.
• Analyzed and troubled shoot defects occurring during Customer Profile Load batch process.

Confidential

Programmer Mainframe

• Commissions System conversions from VSAM file access to DB2 table access.
• Utilized TSO/ISPF DB2, QMF, SPUFI, SQL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, JCL, OS/Syncsort and IBM Utilities.
• Also performed analysis and Database design.

Confidential

Sr. Programmer

• Responsible for GEAC E-Series / Payroll, G/L Interface, and Budget System.
• Also responsible for Pension Reporting System, Employee Benefits Interface, Variance Online/UniKix Batch Processing System and developing solutions for the Payroll department in a mainframe environment.
• Utilized COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs with symbolics , FTP, OS/Syncsort and IBM Utilities and Access to facilitate the conversion of the Geac payroll system to Lawson on UNIX platform.
• Primary IT client services liaison for Payformance Application which allowed payroll to generate pay checks.
• Designed, tested and implemented the interface between Payformance and GEAC as well as coordinating user acceptance and generating audit reports to insure data integrity.
• Utilized Cobol, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs with symbolics , FTP, OS/Syncsort and IBM Utilities. Completed the project in the allotted timeframe while insuring 100 accuracy of data.
• Lead Programmer Analyst and developer of the in-house CICS GOLD General Business On-Line Database System On Line real time system. Project leader for the GOLD system managing 5 programmers.
• Utilized COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs with symbolics , Intertest, Mapr, OS/Syncsort and IBM Utilities as development tools.
• Gathered user requirements for the development of the CICS GOLD General Business Online Database System on-line database system to replace the batch process that was being utilized to update the Einstein policy file and employee SHV information.
• Designed all database files as well as on line screens and the functionality of the security.
• Insured that the system was expandable and maintained the integrity of data via an audit file and expedited the turnaround time for updating policy batch files.
• Recommended the purchase of Intertest CICS debugging tool and Mapr CICS screen development tool to improve application and programmer productivity.
• Trained employees how to code in the CICS environment and supervised the implementation of program modules and files to the subsystems under GOLD and migration to production.
• Conversion of existing payroll files to ASCII format so they can be imported into Oracle tables.
• Generated/coded Cobol II, and Easytrieve program modules as well as VSAM look-up tables and files for the purpose of converting payroll history to the Lawson system.
• Completed the project in the allotted timeframe six months and insured 100 accuracy of employee payroll data utilizing Cobol, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Easytrieve, JCL, JCL Procs with symbolics , FTP, OS/Syncsort and IBM Utilities.
• Performed maintenance/modifications on DB2 programs as well as generating general business reports utilizing DB2 Spufi and QMF.