SUMMARY:

• A highly accomplished and knowledgeable Mainframe Software Developer with extensive knowledge designing and maintaining IT applications to improve business productivity and efficiency; seeking a position as Software Developer, System Analyst, or Programmer/analyst to utilize my skills and proficiency in any recognized organization.
• Dedicated professional driven, Confidential t, and focused on quality and reliability.
• In - depth knowledge of software programming and development.
• Stronganalytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience withLegacy System Integration.
• Goodproduction support skills.
• Goal-oriented and ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to communicate effectively both oral and written.
• Ability to work well with a team; providing and seeking guidance as appropriate.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: COBOL, IDMS, JCL, TSO/ISPF ADSO, MAPC, OLQ, DMLO, ADSA, ADSALIVE. EASYTRIEVE, CULPRIT, SPUFI - SQL CICS, VSAM, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FTP ENDEVOR, PANVALET,XPEDITOR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Consultant

Confidential, West Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of system design specifications.
• Conduct code walkthroughs and other technical reviews throughout project and maintenance life cycles.
• Provide technical mentoring and consultation to other members of the team. Assist in the development of the junior staff.
• Participate in requirements definition studies, development of workflows of current and proposed system operations, collection and organization of pertinent system documentation, and development of system documentation.
• Prepare programming specifications.
• Analyze code, compile and test highly complex programs or modules.
• Prepare test cases for unit and integration testing.
• Development and maintenance of COBOL programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM files.
• Development and maintenance of online screens to list, add, modify, or inquiry Manage Care Provider detail information using COBOL, MAPR, and CICS using VSAM files.

IT Specialist

Confidential, West Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• Development of Specific Functional Design document to describe user’s change request.
• Development of detail functional specifications to write Technical System Design Document.
• Writing specifications for Developer’s to support user's change requests.
• Reviewing online and batch programs to verify quality standards based on Confidential ’s checklist.
• Testing of Online Screens to report code failure and defects.
• Reviewed JCL, PROC, and SYSIN cards to identify potential issues during execution time.
• Assist new developers with online and batch programs trouble-shooting issues.
• Development of new online screens to list, add, modify, or inquiry Manage Care Provider detail information using COBOL, MAPR, and CICS using VSAM files.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential, West Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and Maintainedbatch processes base on user's work requests.
• Developed new reports to support weekly and monthly operations using COBOL and VSAM files.
• Developed new online screens to add, update, and inquiry Provider detail information using COBOL, MAPR, and CICS using VSAM files.
• Reviewed Developer’s code of online and batch program to verify quality standards base on Confidential ’s checklist.
• Participated as a Tester of Online Screens to report code failure and defects.
• Prepare One time jobs to initially load and prepare test data into the UIT, SIT, and UAT regions
• Reviewed JCL, PROC, and SYSIN cards through the development regions: UIT, SIT, and UAT.
• Developed reports paths to send customer’s electronic reports to the specific Server location.
• Participated as QA analyst on migration of components through the development regions: UIT, SIT, and UAT using Endeavor’s tools.

Software Developer Sr.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with end users togatherrequirements to add new functionality to the application.
• Write program specifications to developnewOnline and Batch processes.
• Createdinnovative and logical solutions to solve complex problems.
• Improved performanceof batch processes to comply withschedulestimeswindows.
• Developednewbatchprocesses tosupport School's admin Year Cycle.
• Developedonlinescreensto in corporate newfunctionality to theapplication.
• Maintainedonlinescreensto support user's work requests.
• MaintenanceofInbound/Outboundfeedsto supportchanges to theWeb ScoringApplication.
• Developed reports to support user's work request.
• Providedon-call support to solve Daily, Weekly, or Monthly production problems.
• Helped and support IT consultants with application functionality.
• Maintained Batch and Online programs to support daily business request using ADSO, COBOL/IDMS, JCL, and TSO.
• Developedreports base on Daily Business Request using COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, & IDMS.

Sr. Mainframe Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Gatheredrequirements from Customer todesign and document the newfeedsprocess.
• Planned and designed new batch processes to send and receive data from the Web application.
• Identifieddatabase changes to add newelementsto theMainframeApplication.
• Detailedprogram specifications for junior programmers to develop newfeeds.
• DesignedUnit and Integration testingplans to comply with the customer requirements.
• Implementation of new Inbound/Outbound feeds.
• Planned, designed, and codingof initial load process to provide historical data to the web application.
• Changed Online screens to add new feeds functionality using ADSO, MAPC, & IDD.
• Changed Batch programs to in corporate newfeeds data using COBOL/IDMS.
• Development of ADHOC reports to support new feeds information using COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, & IDMS.
• Maintained Batch and Online programs to support daily business request using ADSO, COBOL/IDMS, JCL, & TSO.

QA Mainframe Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Modifiedonline programsto applyuser-requestchangesbefore the conversion process.
• Providedon-call support to the Criminal Applications (PRGAV, JAIL, CAPS).
• Modifiedonline programs to add new DB2 libraries and parameters tocomply withinternal reader JCL procedures.
• Changedonline programsto scratchpagingto comply with DB2 conversion tools.
• Planned, designed, and executedtest scripts for online programs.
• Documentedand analyzeddefects discovered during parallel and regression testing using Mercury Test Director.
• Producedreports to verify test results using SPUFI for DB2 and OLQ for IDMS.
• Production Support to maintain online (CICS/DB2) and batch (COBOL/DB2) programs.

Sr. Mainframe Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Conversion of18counties from a Legacy system to an IDMS database application.
• Maintained Batch and Online programs to support daily business request using ADSO, COBOL/IDMS, JCL, and TSO.
• Developedreports base on Daily Business Request using Easytrieve/IDMS.
• Developedan Online Report Writer Module using ADSO, COBOL/IDMS, Internal Reader, and JCL to support BA/QA analysts from 52 counties.
• Providedon-call support to daily, weekly, and monthly operations to 52counties.
• Customer Supportto translate daily Business request into programming solutions.
• Supervisedanddevelopedprogram specifications and test plans for junior programmers.
• Promotedto Lead Analyst after two years.
• Received and bonus for Job Well Done.

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Compiled-error frees all six packages of online programs using ADS/O, ADSA, MAPC.
• Creation of new Y2K routines for batch/online programs.
• Conversion of batch/online programs to include new Y2K routines.
• Improved performance of key online/batch programs using ADS/O and COBOL/IDMS.
• Generation of Y2K reports to establish before/after data compare
• Provided Customer Support to translate daily Business request into programming solutions.
• Maintained Batch and Online programs of Rail/Tracking system using COBOL/IDMS, ADSO, and JCL.
• Improved performance of Daily, Weekly, and Monthly batch process using COBOL/IDMS, JCL, and TSO.
• Provided on-call support to daily, weekly, and monthly operations using COBOL/IDMS, JCL, and TSO.

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided application support to end-users of International Purchasing system.
• Carry out conversion of European Legacy system to an IDMS database application.
• Coded, tested, debugged, and maintained batch and online programs using COBOL/IDMS, ADSO, JCL.
• Developed reports to support user request using Easytrieve/IDMS.
• Improved performance of Daily, Weekly, and Monthly batch process using COBOL/IDMS, JCL, and TSO.
• Provided On-call support 24/7 to daily and weekly operations.

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coded, tested, debugged, and maintained batch and online programs.
• Developed reports to support user request using Easytrieve/IDMS, CULPRIT.
• Developed Online Report Module to support end-user.
• Improved performance of Daily, Weekly, and Monthly batch process using COBOL/IDMS, JCL, and TSO.
• Provided On-call support to daily and weekly operations.

Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and data mapping to create new databases entities and records.
• Designed, coded, tested, and debugged JCL process to initially load the database on a 48 hours time frame.
• Developed and tested batch programs to transfer files from Legacy system to new IDMS database.
• Developed reports to check the data before/after the conversion process.
• Carry out initial load from the inventory legacy system to the new IDMS database application.
• Promoted to Customer Support Analyst.
• Developed new online screens using ADS/O.