INTRODUCTION
This is what I would like you to know about me.

• I am honest, ethical, hard-working, intelligent,creative, educated and personable.
• Iam a people person who enjoys interacting with diversepersonalities.
• I aman independent thinker, believing that the best outcomes result from the active and free exchange, and friendly challenging, of ideas.
• I am a man with broad potential. Although most of my career has been in IT, I believe that my unique set of skills, abilities, and personality traits would allow me to be successful in a wide variety of roles.
• I give my employer the best that I have to offer.
• Throughout my career I have maintained a history success

CAREER OBJECTIVE
Searching for a position in which I can prosper and grow professionally while using my analytical, innovative, interpersonal, technical and/or supervisory skills to contribute to the prosperity and growth of a progressive, environmentally friendly organization.

POSITIONS SOUGHT
I prefer to play to my strengths and interests, so am looking for positions such as:

• Informatica/ETL/Data WarehousingAnalyst/Developer
• Mainframe/COBOL/JCL/DB2 Analyst/Developer
• Entry level Informatica Administrator & /or Trainer
• Entry level DB2 or UDB Database Administrator
• Technical Product Rep
• Opportunities in other industries and professions for which my unique set of skills and experiences may qualify me.

NOTE: Willing to travel. Tele-computing, limited term contracts, and relocation considered. Available 1/4/2010.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• 30+ years of progressive IT experience in Insurance and Credit card industries, in all aspects of software development, including programming, analysis, design, testing, project management, and supervision.
• Strong background in MVS mainframe, DB2, UDB, SQL, Informatica 5.1-8.1, COBOL, JCL, Syncsort, MS Office, TSO, Windows.
• Also have experience with UNIX, Teradata, Oracle, Sybase, Irwin, Ultra-Edit, Rapid SQL, VB .NET , IBM Utilities, SAS, ROSCOE, PANVALET, Optimizer, Comparex, Data-Xpert, CA-7, NDM, ABC Flow, Visio, Lotus Notes, Crystal Reports.
• 7-8 years ETL and data warehousing using SQL and Informatica.
• Highly analytical with demonstrated talent for innovative problem solving.
• Team player with excellent communication skills. Enjoy helping others.
• Strong work ethic, and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Recipient of 2 monetary awards, 7 Living the Values awards, and several gift cards during last 7 years at Mutual. Value $1500.
• Recipient of a Key Player, 3 Quantum, 3 Team Quantum, and 2 Fat Cat awards during eleven years at FDR. Value $12,600.
• Leadership: Team supervisor, Project Manager, Lead Analyst, Treasurer and President of Mutual of Omaha Halo Club, softball team captain, ski trip captain.
• 7 Years (220 credits) of diverse college education; math, science, information systems, business, and social studies.
• Masters student in Success Investor program.
• Diverse education and job experience

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Confidential, 2007 - 2009
Sr. Apps. Developer/Analyst 2007 - 2009
Due to Mutual of Omaha\'s sale of their group insurance business to Coventry, I was transferred to Coventry\'s employ to provide ongoing support of the Mutual group insurance processes required to run until data could be converted to the Coventry system.

• Assumed sole responsibility for warehousing of drug claim data received from 3 vendors.
• Continuing support of Predictive Modeling software as technical Administrator.
• Sole support of numerous production data extraction processes that use Informatica.
• Developed numerous processes for extraction of historical data from DB2 and UDB for conversion to the Coventry system.

Confidential, 2000 - 2007
Medical Claims Systems Analyst 2006 - 2007
Was transferred to medical claims support team, due to reorganization of department.

• Continuing support of Predictive Modeling software as technical Administrator.
• Conversion of an existing reporting system from VB6 to VB .NET.

Data Warehousing Systems Analyst 2002 - 2006
Use Irwin modeling tool to organize data into hierarchical & star schema database structures. Use Informatica ETL tool to extract data from legacy systems; perform necessary translation and cleansing; and load to DB2, DB2UDB, or flat file targets. Accomplishments include:

• Development of data extraction process that extracts one years worth of production data from 20 historical tables on DB2UDB, performs data analysis and translation, and loads the resulting 14 million rows of data to 5 staging tables for input to a vendor supplied Predictive Modeling software package.
• Ongoing support of Predictive Modeling software as technical Administrator.
• Analysis, design, modeling, coding, testing, implementation and documentation of Bonus Datamart which extracts data from 10 Oracle, DB2 and customer maintained sources; performs necessary editing and error reporting; and loads validated data to a 9 table star schema.
• Several small scale projects involving ETL of data into DB2UDB tables of the data warehouse.

Production Systems Analyst 2000 - 2002
Rejoined Mutual in November of 2000 as a Systems Analyst on their DB2 based Group Claims Financial System. Performed problem analysis, design, coding and testing. Accomplishments include:

• Performed problem analysis, design, coding and testing. Significant use of SQL.
• Conception, design, coding, and testing of JCLSUMM program that parses through a JCL library, reporting where each dataset is created and used, and locates all occurrences of specified search strings.

Confidential, 1988 - 2000
Senior Software Engineer 1998 - 2000
Data Conversion analyst. Analyze and map credit card account data to FDR files, write formal conversion specifications, review specs with clients, assist programmers in translating specs to code, review code, review test results, oversee conversion and installation of data. Also performed independent analysis, design, coding and testing of process improvements. Accomplishments include:

• Volunteered to develop a process to build Rewards detail records from converted monetary transactions, in response to an in-trouble project. Excellent results.
• Subsequently was recruited to customize above Rewards procedure for another project that realized their processing gap just 48 hours prior to conversion. Much rework. Excellent results.
• Developed an in depth training presentation on all aspects of converting account numbers.
• Identified need for additional process to allow balancing of monetary transactions during pre-conversion testing. Successfully implemented this, relieving customers concerns.
• Team Quantum Award in 9/99 for analyst role on 3.5 million account GE conversion.
• Quantum Award in 8/98 for constructing reusable routine that converts variable records with packed unsigned data (from Assembler program) to a COBOL friendly format.

Software Development Manager 1995 - 1998
First line supervision of team responsible for small file conversions and merging of converted data into production files. Provided technical training; assigned tasks; tracked progress; managed workloads; reviewed performance; provided personal and career consultations; determined appropriate rewards and corrective actions; reported upward; participated in management level decision making, salary administration, and interviewing . Continued to perform analytical tasks during this period. Accomplishments include:

• Supervised a total of 38 employees over this period, up to 15 at once. Exempt, non-exempt, entry level to seasoned veterans, contractors, full time, part time and interns. Strong contributors were advanced to large file conversion teams, thus high turnover and constant retraining. Very challenging.
• Developed Excel spreadsheet of employee overtime for comp time consideration.
• Developed Excel spreadsheet of employee salaries for comparative salary management.
• Served as project analyst for several Ticket Database conversions (see bullet 4, 1993 - 1995 below).
• Developed training course and materials: What Is The Ticket Database? How Do We Convert Into It?
• Team Quantum Award in 3/96 for my team\'s successes in small file conversions and data installs.
• Team Quantum Award in 1/95 for project manager/analyst role in 500,000 credit card Comermex Conversion.

Senior Project Manager 1993 - 1995
I was the Conversions department\'s first venture into formal project management. Charged with defining formal project management procedures for large conversions. Involved defining and estimating component tasks, identifying critical path, and constructing a logical base project plan that could be successfully completed by the pre-determined conversion date. Continued to be involved in technical analysis. Accomplishments include:

• Attended an intense Project Management course taught by Duncan-Nevison consultants.
• Developed a new project template, identifying all possible conversion tasks and standard estimates for each. This facilitated more precise project definition and more accurate project estimating.
• Applied newly defined project management tools to the conversion of credit card accounts from an Association of 23 banks. Although the technical conversion went very well, there were a few lessons learned the hard way.
• Independently researched, developed and implemented a Ticket Database conversion subsystem for capturing monetary transaction data from VISA and MasterCard; formatting it into complex variable length load records, containing from 4 to 10 of 21 possible data segments. Wrote re-useable base conversion specifications. Successfully completed the first conversion into the Ticket Database.

Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer 1988 - 1993
Data Conversion analyst. Same job description as above, 1998 - 2000. Accomplishments include:

• Project manager/analyst for multiple credit card conversions, and one merchant conversion.
• Quantum Award in 5/93, for project manager/analyst role on Brooks Brothers retail conversion.
• Quantum Award and FAT CAT Award in 9/92 for analyst role in 10 million credit card, 4 billion pound sterling, conversion of the Signet processing system in Basildon, England.
• Quantum Award and FAT CAT Award in 9/90 for project manager/analyst role in 1 million credit card conversion for First USA Bank. Independently designed a complex process for assigning 1 of several thousand account pricing codes based on a variable number of key values.

Confidential, 1978 - 1988
Programmer I & II, Programmer Analyst, Systems Analyst1978 - 1988

• Corporate Claims System maintenance. Monitor nightly interfaces to Accounting, Actuarial, and Quality Control systems. Troubleshoot problems, and install corrective code as required. Train subordinates and oversee their maintenance activities. Daily interaction with internal customers.
• Member of the Corporate Claims System development team tasked with constructing an online Claim Processing system that would replace several aging batch systems.
• Member of Claims Accounting & Partial Payment Systems maintenance team. Progressive responsibility from entry level programmer to systems analyst.

OTHER

Confidential - Police Officer - Cruiser patrol. 3 Years
Confidential - Sewing machine sales (attempt) 2 Days
Confidential- Microwave sales (attempt) 1 month
Confidential - Life insurance sales (attempt) 1 Month
Confidential- Welding & precision grinding Part-time
Confidential- Bartender Part-time
Confidential - Night shift rendering plant operator 1 Month
Confidential- Unload parcels & Dead parcel clerk Part-time
Confidential- Resident attendant Part-time
Confidential- Computer room attendant Part-time
Confidential- Culvert construction laborer 3 Summers
Confidential- Rail repair - Section crew laborer 9 Months
Confidential- Unload grain & deliver feed 1 Summer
Confidential- Clean gutters, patch streets, misc. labor Part-time
Confidential - Shell corn, put up hay - Laborer Part-time
Confidential- Mechanics apprentice & Grease monkey Part-time
Confidential- Newspaper delivery Part-time
Confidential - Lawn mowing Part-time

EDUCATION

• Biology, Chemistry, Math, Computer Science, Philosophy & Psychology.
• Business, Computer Science & Psychology.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Mutual of Omaha: SQL, COBOL, JCL, ASSEMBLER, SYSCSORT, IMS, & IBM Utilities.
• Informatica Corporation: Intro to the Informatica ETL Tool (I & II)
• First Data Resources (In-house): Franklin Time Management & MS Project 98 (I & II)
• Duncan-Nevison Consultants: Project Management.
• Fred Pryor Seminars: How to Supervise People, Coaching Skills For Managers & Supervisors
• Management Problems of Technical People In Supervision
• How to Develop & Administer A Budget.
• Dr. Chester L. Karrass: Effective Negotiating.
• Success Investors Masters level program on investing strategies using InvestTools.

OUTSIDE INTERESTS

• Bicycling
• Home improvement
• Investing
• Travel
• Cooking
• Snow skiing
• Playing softball
• Reading
• Auto repair
• Tinkering.