Senior Mainframe Programmer

Professional Profile:

• Over 30 years as a Senior Mainframe Programmer, developing and modifying applications, performing tests in a test and model environment in preparation for moving programs/JCL/transactions to production using Endevor and Panvalet. Very experienced in all phases of the product development lifecycle, performing unit, system, and regression testing on a regular basis.
• Very familiar with DB2 and have worked with VSAM structures as well
• Can master in a very short time as I have any programming language or other requirement. In fact, I relish new challenges.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, while meeting all time deadlines.
• High attention to detail with a prioritization on quality and careful coding, while maintaining focus to meet deadlines.
• Have documented in detail all programming systems or changes, so that those systems or modifications can be easily tracked. I have used such tools as Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF's, and Visio to do so.
• Authored four books for Que, a leading publisher of computer books.
• Have developed complete business solutions, including order entry, customer service inquiry, production, order tracking, labels, packing slips, clearing, and billing.
• Have written and maintained many very sophisticated applications, in both COBOL and 4th generation languages such as VAGEN, CSP, and EGL. Those include: A. intricate printing programs, that varied the control sequence of commands depending on the type of machine or technology method that was to be used B. order entry and production applications C. production and billing software, including General Ledger and other accounting programs.

Technical Skills:

• Platforms: Mainframe z/OS390, COBOL, CICS, CSP/VAGEN/EGL, TSO ISPF, ROSCOE, SDSF, JCL, DB2, DATACOM, VSAM, SQL, IBM Utilities, Lotus Notes , Windows 98/2000/XP/7 and network storage.
• Languages: COBOL II, SQL, CSP/VAGEN/EGL, RPG familiarity with FORTRAN, BASIC, IDEAL, and FOCUS.
• File Types: DB2, DATACOM, VSAM, ISAM, KSAM.
• Other Tools: CICS, Endevor, CA-Realia COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, RJE, FTP, Mainframe to PC and PC to Mainframe file transfers, SPUFI and live Data Queries, including QMFE, ADHOC reporting, File-AID, PKZIP, XCOPY and other backup methodologies. The most important needs as determined by the business owner, stakeholders, and team members through daily communication were attacked first.

Professional Experience:

Cerro Wire, Crothersville, Indiana Contract as Senior Systems Engineer 2014-present I have fulfilled the 6 month contract at my present employer. They will not be retaining their current hardware an HP 3000 minicomputer . Thus my availability can be at any time.

• Since in the 1980's I had worked with an HP 3000 at Kentucky Lithographing and Printers Encoders, and in the 1990's for Harland Clarke, I have been able to meet their needs here. At Cerro Wire, I have worked with HP 3000 tools, databases, and sending reports via email, using the product byREQUEST.
• KentuckyOne Health, Louisville, Kentucky Contract as Senior Systems Engineer Was at this position as Senior Analyst until 6/30/2014. I describe this position in greater detail in my cover letter. Provided support to senior management and hospital administrative support staff utilizing ADHOC tools for the Siemens Invision IBM mainframe system. Also provided JCL, IBM utilities, and COBOL programming expertise to develop the needed reports for management.
• Primary projects have included: a . development of a report to help identify revenue for all hospitals that would otherwise be written off. b . reformatted dietary reports for Frazier Hospital Dietitians so that these daily reports were more readable, safer, and more useful. c . created a 777 report that runs automatically every Saturday. This run, combined with the report described in a above, causes accounts that would otherwise hang in the system and be written off to be moved on and billed in the system. d . created the Revenue Usage report for Frazier, Southern Indiana Rehab, and Shelbyville.

Senior Systems Engineer

• Was at this position for many years did all mainframe programming in z/OS390 using the tools described above COBOL/CICS/EGL/ISPF/TSO/SDSF/JCL/ENDEVOR/SQL/DB2/VSAM/IBM Utilities/Lotus Notes was the primary systems programmer for the Jeffersonville, IN, plant in the metropolitan Louisville, KY, area, where I now reside . Maintained all code for Harland Clarke's Forms System plants of which Jeffersonville was the primary location . Any important change or addition had to pass through me. Even though about 12 years ago two other programmers were added to the Forms team they were located in San Antonio, TX , I still remained as the primary programmer for all Forms' systems.
• Worked with JCL, both correcting existing and creating new JCL as required.
• Used Microsoft Office tools, notably Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Also used Visio to diagram system flow.
• on call 24 hours per day 7 days a week when that was assigned to me. Prior to members being added to my Forms team, I was, in fact, on call 24/7 for a 6 year period from 1994-2000 .
• During the last 5 to 10 years, I was also involved in Harland Clarke's ticket management system, resolving tickets as established by customers, in addition to working on other assigned projects. I was
• I worked with SDLC, the System Development Life Cycle, in gathering requirements for projects, design and implementation, and performed maintenance and support for all programs.
• I documented and defined the technical requirements of applications, maintained and repaired applications in accordance with specifications.
• I performed peer reviews of other programmers' change control test scripts, making sure that applications as changed or written met technical requirements. Likewise, all test cases/procedures I developed ensured both that the applications worked according to specifications and that program changes did not introduce application errors or deficiencies.
• Developed new technologies, tools, and software as required.
• Applied inter-personal communication to understand and successfully complete projects.
• Worked well with management, peers, and team members to ensure project goals were understood and met.
• Worked on various process control programs particularly that dealt with Xerox laser printing machines, Autologic typesetters, and ECRM plate machines . All of these programs were very intricate in nature and vital to the Jeffersonville, IN, plant's operation . Tested all changes and new programs using Quality, Test, and Model Environments, prior to moving those changes to the Production environment.
• One very important project I completed was the development of a very sophisticated Forms Intouch System, based on the Clarke Check Intouch system, but which did radical changes to incorporate the Forms' system as input to this new technology method. This enabled the Jeffersonville, IN, Forms plant to use large, expensive Xerox laser printing systems, transferred from other plants. The main program of this system has about 40,000 lines of COBOL code, indicating the complexity of the task.
• Completed another very complex project, allowing records received in GDG transmissions and initially intended for a sister company's non-IBM machine to be properly edited, rejected with feedback files returned , or accepted and automatically input into the IBM Harland Clarke Forms system for production, shipping, delivery, and billing as if they had been entered locally .
• Completed on the average of a project every week or two. More extensive projects sometimes took longer, but were always done expeditiously.
• Little direction was needed to accomplish all tasks that were undertaken.
• Interfaced with users, other IT personnel, and management, finding out appropriate needs and guidelines for software.
• Provided IT support to Humana Internal Auditors by producing needed data queries using 4GL tools, such as FOCUS.
• ed break-fix analyses on a regular basis, analyzing what needed to be changed and then performing those tasks.
• Performed a company-wide PC audit.
• Perform
• Was Spanish translator to Internal Auditors on at least two trips to the Humana Hospital de Pedregal in Mexico City.
• Interfaced in IT meetings between Systems and company management.
• Created all systems needed for P E from order entry, through batching, production, customer service inquiry, and billing on an HP3000. This company later became Harland Clarke.
• eveloped all order entry/production/ customer service inquiry/billing systems needed by the company, including remote data entry of orders at Banks and other ordering institutions. This company's owners created the new company, Printers Encoders.

Systems Analyst

• Performed programming and analysis for several customers, including AAA Kentucky, Enro Shirts of Louisville, Welker Plumbing Supply, Blatz Paints of Louisville, and Kentucky Lithographing.

Data Processing Manager

• With no knowledge of RPG, became fluent in that language within one month and became so proficient at using it that Quinco's management hired me to develop some new systems for them on a contractual basis after leaving for Cybernetics Systems.