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Des Moines, IA

SUMMARY:

  • Strong Mainframe - development expertise with the following:
  • 18+ years COBOL/COBOL II
  • 18+ years ZOS & OS/MVS/JCL with and without Procs
  • 18+ years TSO/ISPF
  • 18+ years VSAM
  • 15+ years CICS/BMS
  • 15+ years DB2/SQL/SPUFI/QMF
  • 15+ years IMS/DB - DLI
  • 10+ years File-Aid (IMS/DB2), InterTest, Expediter, debug tool, File Manager (IMS/DB2),
  • 10+ years Netman, Tracker II, ServiceCenter/Manager, Defect-Tracker, TestDirector, Mercury
  • CA-7, Zeke, Control-M
  • Endeavor
  • EZtrieve/EZtrieve Plus
  • REXX
  • XMLM
  • IDMS/R
  • ChangeMan suite
  • DATACOM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Completed orientation in my first property insurance contract, excelling in comprehension of the IT’s functional role within Confidential .
  • Assigned to Rapid Response Production Support team to facilitate Production file updates while using ‘Best Practices’ within the existing methodology and procedures.
  • Participated in numerous code walk-through/peer-review/regression-testing sessions to identify and resolve/record impacts of project implementations system wide.

Skills: COBOL II, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, Service Center

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Completed Global Expansion Financial Services programming tasks to capture/validate incoming currency data for Insertion into Confidential ’s IDMS database system.
  • Subsequent extraction by one of the seven feeder jobs extract the 250-byte initial NDM datasets in bridge format and builds 650-byte V3 formatted record for all Confidential ’s down-stream processing.
  • Participated in numerous code walk-throughs (Company AU/Account Zap, Auto Reversals, R12 ect.) while building a more comprehensive peer review structure and procedures.
  • Participated, in a R12 project management role, accounting for software modifications for conversion from Oracle 11i to Oracle 12.
  • Monitored off-shore ET N10GL99 and IST S1OGL99 batch-window general ledger testing.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2

Confidential, Plano, TX

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Completed KT and mandatory BOA courses as part of new consultant orientation.
  • Ran ‘Business as Usual’ Vender file update project - ‘US16AO’ Approval Run on production
  • 3K LPAR with TCS team lead Manish Kumar in Mexico for Line of Business - Pricing Execution.
  • Utilized IMS/DB outside of BCC-CASG in Collections’ enquiries.
  • Shadowed and peer-reviewed Jeff Jones on BAU Change-in-Terms ‘US16AO ‘Business as Usual’ project.
  • Integrated baseline modifications (US16AP) to the Bulk Pricing BAU baseline.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS/DB, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2, FILEMANAGER-IMS

Confidential, Lorain, OH

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Mainframe maintenance and enhancement to Confidential ’s MST Credit Operations utilizing off-shore programming assets to monitor and support the Confidential ’s credit card worldwide.
  • DATACOM database applications and FTP communications were incorporated to support Proprietary Confidential ’s credit cards and co-branded credit card processing.
  • Several on-time upper-management reports through EZTRIEVE PLUS.

Skills: EZTRIEVE PLUS, COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2, ChangeMan, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2, INTERTEST/XPEDITER

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Mainframe maintenance and enhancement of SUCCESS applications in Developer/Programmer/Analyst with ChangeMan in support of the Affordable Care Act Integrated Eligibility System.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF,z OS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2/QMF, ChangeMan, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Mainframe Data Delivery for the POL, PMR, LMS II and LIDP life insurance systems.
  • Providing Ameritas and Union Central life insurance front-end systems with mainframe processing delivered through extraction from VSAM databases.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/ Confidential DEBUG TOOL

Confidential, John’s Creek, GA

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Phase-out/decommissioned Visual Basic ‘Queue Add/Queue Close’ facility for Java implementation requiring two new COBOL programs to in corporate current internet order fulfillment processing.
  • Legacy mainframe COBOL programmer/Analyst role resolving Production Support tickets analyzing COBOL CICS/BATCH code with DB2 processing.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, CSF, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/ Confidential DEBUG TOOL

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Business Structure Analyst (BSA) role resolving Production Support tickets serving as interface between Business Analyst and the development teams.
  • Development/Support Programmer/Analyst role resolving Production Support tickets.
  • Position with Confidential through Caliber and Collabera recruiters working on the Express-Scripts project supporting claims in first a Business Structure Architect role and secondly, a Sr. Mainframe Developer/Programmer/Analyst role resolving Production tickets throughout the Claims systems.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER - IMS, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/ Confidential DEBUG TOOL

Confidential, Renton, WA

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Back-fill Technical Systems Production-support responsibilities, servicing user Incident Reports, Change Requests and, Service Requests for Receiving, Materials, Purchasing (both standard and EDI) and, Chassis systems allowing permanent personnel participate in Confidential 's SAP interface development and conversion.
  • Interim responsibility to development SR for online transaction RMRS using IMS/DB2/ COBOL/CICS in the rapid-receiving environment.
  • Mainframe back-fill position for 's NAMS project that was subsequently delayed leading to Production Support/Help-Desk role.
  • Production Support/Help Desk activities included servicing user IR/SR/SPR/CRs for plants around the world.
  • Developmental activities included resolving outstanding SRs for plants in Receiving/Purchasing/Materials.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB,TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/ Confidential DEBUG TOOL

Confidential

Remote Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Remotely Analyze/Review/Maintain support for Fundi Repository System.
  • Confidential contract ended after my analysis of the Service Repository System indicated that additional resources to support the system were not required at this time.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, IDCAMS

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Contract Sr. Mainframe IMS/DB2 Applications Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Developing analytical procedures to facilitate complex application redesign and expose opportunities to limit/reduce IMS and DB2 database I/O.
  • Short-term contract with Computer Aid, Inc. in Pittsburgh performing analysis of High Mark/BCBSPA application usage of IMS/DB2 database resources.
  • Application analysis lasted until the end of December, 2011.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2

Confidential, Madison, WI

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Utilized ChangeMan software versioning
  • Developing VSAM/MQ/Web Interface Technical Specifications and applications for federally-mandated Tricare Young Adult Part C enhancement project
  • Enhancing TRICARE programs and copybooks to process enhanced diagnostic data for Health-care claim eligibility decision
  • Enhancing OHI Letter Recoupment Processing
  • Resolving Team-Track production problem tickets.
  • Developmental/maintenance programming contract with Confidential in Madison, WI implementing the Mainframe/MQ/WEB-Services interface for the new DOD's military-dependent health insurance policy changes.
  • The CICS background transaction developed stayed resident in memory until a MQ request for information was received.
  • After MQ-request interpretation, CICS program queried various VSAM files and DB2 databases to fulfill the request to build/send the MQ reply message back to WEB-services.
  • As a contractor dedicated to this DOD health-insurance contract processing, was subjected to the FBI background check and achieved the 'Public Trust' clearance that was valid until April 2013.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ChangeMan,z OS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/ Confidential DEBUG TOOL

Confidential, Kennesaw, GA

Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Successfully took lead role of 12 programmers to design, code, implement better audit trails of CARDMGT/REISSUE/COLLECTS Inquiry data exposures
  • Phase II and III TS2 Consumer CICS/COBOL mainframe application enhancement to TS2 Commercial platform standards for ACE, CARDMGT, REISSUE, COLLECTS and, INTERFACES
  • Extending Mainframe COBOL/CICS application development and enhancement of TS2 Commercial platform's ACE, CARDMGT, REISSUE, COLLECTS, and INTERFACE functional areas
  • Researching Production VSAM-file issues with LISTCAT/FILEAID
  • Developed and Defined 'T' VSAM files with alternate indexing through AMS/IDCAMS for thorough application unit-testing
  • Loading 'T' VSAM files with scrubbed Production data using HIPPA methodology
  • Maximize VSAM processing performance with IDCAMS definition parameters to change key displacements, alternate indexes, record size and using IMBED to maximize hardware read-head seeks and minimize rotational delays
  • Mentoring junior team members
  • Fostered Q/A integrity while supporting offsite Business Analysts understanding of project parameter/software constraints
  • Supporting offsite QA testing procedures without crossing auditor’s integrity line
  • Providing Peer-review critiques on team member development projects and documentation to better satisfy requirements
  • Aiding project methodology conversion from TMM to CDMET to TeamView
  • Supporting Production (CARDMGT, ACE, REISSUE, COLLECTS, as well as, Interfaces and CMS) on the 24/7 on-call basis
  • Facilitating TeamView methodology and programming ‘pool’ concept as programmer/analyst in project methodology conversion
  • Working with off-shore resources in York, England to expand market to Europe.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, CSF, XMLM, TSO/ISPF, OS & zOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, Netman, Defect-tracker/TestDirector/QualityCenter/Mercury, SERVICECENTER/ SERVICEMANAGER, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER - IMS, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/ Confidential DEBUG TOOL

Confidential, Kennesaw, GA

Contract Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Designed, Developed and Implemented the Mainframe New/Reusable Number IMS Database System for the commercial credit-card platform using SDLC principles
  • Took initial cut of Mainframe code for TS2/Commercial applications from existing TS2/Consumer applications
  • Involved in early development/maintenance of TS2 / Commercial - ACE mainframe applications.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, Netman, SERVICECENTER, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, XPEDITER

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