SUMMARY:

I have over 10 years of experience working as: Programmer Programmer Analyst Consultant Team Lead, and Technical Lead. I have managed small to medium projects. Experience in a IBM mainframe environment includes: analysis prototyping performance monitoring on COBOL/DB2 on-line and batch programs, joint application and design rapid application and design development, testing, software migration, and production support.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

• HARDWARE: IBM 390, IBM CMOS, IBM 30XX, IBM 9000.
• SOFTWARE: COBOL, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, CICS, Z/OS, JCL, CA-7, Endevor, Xpeditor, IDCAMS, IBM Utilities, SYNCSORT, BMC Utilities, MS Office.

TECHNICAL OVERVIEW:

• COBOL
• DB2
• CICS
• Mainframe Legacy systems

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• DB2 Development and Programming
• DB2 Logical Database Design
• DB2 Physical Database Design
• DB2 Online Utilities

Accomplishments:

• Evaluated and developed user requirements for system changes.
• Rewrote a data extraction and refresh system for support DB2 Databases
• DB2 technical lead for software developers and department management
• Created a client server user help system for a mainframe billing system.
• Received the MCI Circle of Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained a Software Change Control system.

Employment History:

Confidential

Research into the use of internal systems utilizing incumbent software while integrating modern technology to maintain and correlate statistical information. This effort includes reviewing detail requirement documents, job flows, data flows, and record counts from all sources.

Confidential

Enhancing and new development of an internal system using COBOL with VSAM/MADAM to format SSA and Medicare notices to SSA/SSI recipients. This effort includes reviewing detail requirement documents to complete a plan of code changes. I also perform Unit testing and regression testing of changes and assist in Quarterly Release testing. In between projects I am also involved with resolving ongoing production problems, along with producing daily and monthly reports advising other department of work completed during each production run.

Confidential

• Enhancing and new development of Medical Claim routing for Medicare claims. This effort includes reviewing high level analysis and detail requirement documents to complete a plan of code changes. I also perform Unit testing of changes and assist in Quarterly Release testing This testing utilized Xpeditor for tracking data as it flowed through the Cobol programs. In between projects I am also involved with resolving ongoing production problems. I also assisted others in the group to solve DB2 problems that they encounter during their assigned work tasks.
• Supporting the Coordination of Benefits Agreement COBA application using COBOL, DB2, and Maintained CICS screens using the BMS utility.
• Supporting the Data Extract System DESY for the 5010 Medical Claim format upgrade using COBOL and DB2 applications.
• Supporting the Data Agreement Data Shipping Tracking System DADASS by responding to User requests for the retrieval of data using DB2 and BMC applications.

Confidential

Designed and developed enhancements to track Child Support Compliance and benefits. This effort includes reviewing user requests and writing high level analysis and detail requirement documents. Upon approval of the Requirements I, and the staff I mentored, would implement and test the requested solutions using CICS and COBOL along with various mainframe utility applications.

Confidential

Provided support to an on-line CICS and batch COBOL membership billing system, under HIPPA. Researched user problems then suggested and implemented fixes to either COBOL and CICS code or the data. I used my skills in research and analyst to provide in-depth insight into user reported problems.

Confidential

Helping to design and develop a system that is upgrading the way Health Insurance is tracked in Child Support Cases. This effort includes reviewing user requests and writing high level and detail requirement documents. Upon approval of the Requirements I then write detail design and unit and system testing documents to be passed on the junior programming staff. In between projects I am also helping to resolve ongoing production problems. This effort entails analysis of the problem, developing and implementing a solution.

Confidential

Helping to design and develop a system that uses REXX, TSO/e, BMC, COBOL, and JCL to unload and parse Production DB2 tables and then load the data in support of the fourteen development and system test regions. Providing users with appropriate test data. I was also responsible for checking each region, after software migration, to verify that basic functionality remained intact.

Confidential

• As an Application Developer and DB2 Technical Lead, I provide maintenance and enhancement support for AEP's Nuclear Plant Maintenance NPM portion of TENERA's Plant Information Management System PIMS . This system was developed using TENERA Cradle2, COBOL II and accesses data stored in DB2. CICS was the basis for the TENERA interface used to provide on-line capability. The system is run on a single IBM OS/390 mainframe system using JCL and CA-7 scheduler. There were occasions to create new CICS screens but mostly the existing screens were modified. This was because of a TENERA limit of 26 allowable screens and the system was at that maximum.
• I use Platinum and BMC Tools to monitor and maintain the Development and Test DB2 environments.
• I interfaced with the user community to gather and evaluate requirements. I also worked with the rest of the team to confirming test results.
• I also provided first line DB2 support to my co-workers and department management.