SUMMARY:

• Programmer/Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, Software Tester with experience in IT Project Management and the full life cycle development, end - to-end testing, and implementation, of computer systems..
• More than 20 years mainframe experience working with programming languages (COBOL, PL/1, and Assembler), in online and database environments. Applications development experience in insurance, billing, payroll, and financial systems.
• Work experience with EDI data transmissions. Worked with the IBM/Expedite product and EDI data formats X12, EDIFACT, UCS, UNTDI on the mainframe, windows, and FTP platforms. Using the basic X12 documents like the invoice (810), and the PO (850).
• Actual experience in software testing doing test plans, test estimation, and test case setup, execution, and defect tracking. Project development with emphasis on meeting customer expectations on time and within budget. I enjoy working with other teams, stakeholders, and users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe: MVS/TSO/ISPF/, JCL, Cobol, PL/1, Assembler, CICS, Expeditor (CICS), VSAM, DB2, FILEAID, IBM Utilities & SYNCSORT, SDLC + experience in IMS/batch, Panvalet, Easytrieve,,,, Crystal Reports, and SQL/QMF query to extract and verify DB2 and Oracle data

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MI

COBOL/Assembler Developer

Responsibilities:

• Document the current COBOL and Assembler mainframe insurance programs to convert to a new technology. Translate the existing code into Excel documents so that the end-user and the SME's can decipher what the code is doing.
• Work with the Auto Insurance group to track down and repair applications defects reported by the user testing group. Basically, determine location of the defect in the source code, and fix it..

Confidential

Programmer / QA Analyst, EDI Tester / Project Lead

• Washington DC Y2K Project: responsible to gather information and prepare a comprehensive report about installed 3rd party software for the five DC government computer centers. Negotiate directly with vendors to acquire Y2K compliant software.
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Y2K project: develop and implement a plan to handle the Y2K date-in-key file expansion. .
• Review user requirements, develop test plans, prepare and execute test case document test case execution instructions and expected results and report defect status. Determine and fix defect root cause in the application which is written in the IBM PL/1 language.
• Test transmissions of EDI data formats, X12, EDIFACT, UCS, and UNTDI on the MVS, Windows, and FTP platforms with numerous project successes including mailbox acknowledgments, expirations, compressions, and transmission interrupt and recovery.
• Participate in team meetings to assess and evaluate test plans, test cases, and test performance.
• Worked with UNIX, SQL, and Oracle client utilizing SQL queries on Oracle client soft-ware to verify data transmissions and data validity.
• Worked with Microsoft Office products Word, Excel, Outlook, VB.net Visual Basic programming, Crystal Reports XI.

Other Interesting Projects and Assignments:

• Life Insurance project: program the insurance agents’ sales reports, policy status sheet, and insurance premium notice. Design and implement a life insurance claim settlement system to replace an existing manual system - all in PL/1 mainframe -
• Develop programs for the MCI network billing system including a very successful batch billing program. Develop several other programs to support the billing system including Account Synchronization and charge code maintenance.
• Customer Accounting Department / government agencies billing sub-system: define and design a billing system to generate, issue, and track billings and collections.
• Spearhead a successful RAD/JAD effort to define and design the construction subsystems. As Facilitator, prepared JAD Guideline, organized JAD team, and started JAD sessions with impressive initial accomplishments that included identifying and classifying all data entities, data elements and visual entity charts showing data flows between external entities. Inclue management reports comprised of project summary and the Testing, Training, and Implementation Plan.
• Support and enhance the Technical Support Call System and setup VSAM reorganizations and test region. Develop customer verification routine through interface to Sales System, utilizing VSAM secondary index as a cluster to display customer calls in LIFO sequence, and develop a highly successful CICS program to poll queues and show delays in order printing at the retail sites. - All in TSO/ISPF, JCL, PL/1, CICS, VSAM, FILEAID -
• Design and program a very successful Assembler/CICS job/applicant search program (FIND) utilizing inverted file technique to speed up query response.
• Program the currency conversion and payroll disbursements for a new Payroll System.
• Prepare project proposals for IMS/DLI material requisition system. Implement daily processing to synchronize data consistency among 3 company global sites.
• Perform vendor software package evaluation and post implementation reviews.