PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Innovative, diligent developer with 20+ years success delivering high - impact solutions to organizations
• Senior level developer, consistently offering suggestions to improve functionality, stability, maintainability and scalability.
• Master problem solver, proactively averting issues and identifying previously undetected bugs.
• Adept Confidential leveraging the tools Confidential hand to enhance developer and user satisfaction.
• Proficient Confidential communicating complex technical information to diverse audiences.
• Thrive in both independent and collaborative work environments.
• Respected team leader with a demonstrated abilit

SKILLS:

Languages: HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, ColdFusion, Java, Visual Basic, C/C++, COBOL, COBOL II

DataBases: Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MS Sql Server, MySql, PostgreSQL

Platforms: Windows, MacOS, UNIX, IBM Mainframe

Frameworks: BootStrap, FlexBox

Learning/Study: Angular 2, ReactJS, NodeJS, Express, Vue.js, Redux, Flux

EXPERIENCE:

Front End Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a front end developer using, primarily, HTML5, CSS, SASS, JavaScript and jQuery in a scrum team.
• Taking designs from designer’s mockups, integrating the designs into JSP files and creating JavaScript and SASS files supporting the designs.

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Rejected using separate sites for desktop and mobile, instead using a single source responsive from an iPhone 5 to a full size desktop.
• Implementing responsive design through CSS.
• Implementing some of our modules as cooperating single page applications using AJAX with JavaScript and jQuery.
• Converting most of our database interactions to use CFC modules and Web Service wrappers.
• Participating, in a lead role, in the redesign and implementation of the complete redesign of the KCP&L customer service web presence, coordinated with public side of the website:
• Served as tech lead, lead developer, mentor and coach.
• Created a library of ColdFusion templates that were used as pieces to assemble into a page with consistent layout, branding and responsive behavior.
• Worked with other developers to help them with adapting to the Bootstrap package and responsive design.
• Refactored some of our components applying more stringent coding standards to avoid scope problems with ColdFusion components.
• Participating, in a lead role, in the redesign and implementation of the full redesign of the remaining parts of the KCP&L customer facing applications: Those for Apartment Complexes and Large Businesses which we refer to, collectively, as Business Portals.
• Served again as tech lead, mentor and coach.
• Developed a table based menu system and an AngularJS application to maintain the tables.
• Participated in the migration from ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11 as part of the development process for the upgrade of Business Portals.
• Using the components and templates developed for the Customer Service project, we have a much more unified and consistent look and feel along with a much easier codebase to maintain.

Environment: ColdFusion 9 and 11, HTML5, CSS3, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided coding support for release of critical internal applications.
• Performing database design and implementation according to detailed requirements.
• Collaborated with Confidential employees to design an object oriented approach to some of their internal applications in the interest of making their systems more modular and stable.

Environment: ColdFusion 7, HTML, CSS, MS SQL Server, Dreamweaver, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide design, enhancement and rollout support for critical Confidential application.
• Rapidly became a key resource, involved in both current and future releases.
• Performed database and code refactoring, increasing stability and maintainability.
• Collaborated with Confidential & Confidential employees to design a stepwise enhancement of the overall environment, to scale the system for both additional users and functionality.

Environment: ColdFusion 8, Oracle, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Toad, Dreamweaver, jQuery, AJAX, XML, XSLT

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported ColdFusion applications and their interchange with COBOL programming.
• Designed and implemented an enhanced context-sensitive help function to agent's quote management system.
• Applied jQuery, OO JavaScript and AJAX to create a function that fit well into the workflow and increased usability/functionality.

Environment: ColdFusion 8, MS SQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, COBOL

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Made multiple functional changes to applications, increasing accuracy and flexibility.
• Altered code in the model, view and controller tiers.
• Implemented Java modules to enhance stability and reusability.
• Enhanced underlying Oracle databases to be more robust, reliable and maintainable.
• Revamped code that was extremely hard to debug and maintain by formatting and modifying the RTF emitter output to be modular vs one long string.
• Commended by users for a reduction in application defects and first tier support calls.

Environment: ColdFusion MX7, Oracle 10g, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Toad, DreamWeaver

Java/COBOL Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Emphasis was placed on, during testing, documenting that every line of COBOL code was tested.
• Part of the testing process was ‘second testing’ where a second developer followed the same test plan as the original developer, in an effort to enhance quality control.
• Core team member on 8-week project to test a major upgrade of a third party system.
• Tested more than 100 scripts involving cataloging of almost 2000 test datasets.
• Took the initiative to document the test datasets being used in the release notes for the libraries, assuring every function was exercised.

Environment: COBOL II, MVS, JCL, Java

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed new development and maintenance on customer service system, comprised of large quantities of COBOL, Java, Visual Basic and C# code on IBM mainframe and Windows platforms.
• Upon arrival, identified and fixed a very subtle bug in code that had eluded detection by several predecessors.
• Acknowledged by users for insight and diligence in addressing/releasing multiple program change requests in a complex environment.
• Contributed to refactoring system from a green screen PL/1 CICS program to Windows; seamlessly converted PL/1 data access portion to a COBOL module that accessed the same VSAM file used by the PL/1 system.

Environment: COBOL II, DB2, zOS, Java, Visual Basic, PL/1, REXX

Senior COBOL Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Introduced concept of strictly structured COBOL, making programs considerably more maintainable and vastly easier to debug and enhance.
• Created modules to convert EDI documents to XML using the standard for EDI, reducing the duplication of code that existed before.

Environment: Realia COBOL, Btrieve