SUMMARY:

• 15+ Years of Information Technology Experience.
• Developed the High Level Design Specifications for a COBOL to JAVA conversion.
• Coded and maintained programs using COBOL 390, COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, SAS, JCL, SYNCSORT, TSO, DB2, SQL, DYL280, Easytrieve, FTP, CNTL - M, Changeman, Endevor and Quality Center.
• Performed requirements analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, and maintenance, modified and upgraded existing programs.
• Provided ongoing system support in multiple computer sites, performed testing scenarios to verify the accuracy of programming changes and recommended appropriate solutions.
• Provided Quality Assurance testing and verification of programming standards for Offshore Team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Orlando, FL

MAINFRAME DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Coded COBOL, SAS, DB2 and JCL enhancements and maintenance changes to Confidential & Confidential ’s Billing System.
• Performed Quality Assurance Testing of enhancements in a Unit Test Environment.
• Fixed both Production and Quality Control Issues, as per business requests.
• Updated programming documentation and job scheduler information for both UAT and SIT Testing.
• Co-ordinated program testing and migrations with the Off Shore Development Team.

Environment: z/OS COBOL, SAS, utilizing DB2, SQL, VSAM, CNTL-M, MDM, Quality Center, KMS, TDP, and Endevor.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

CONSULTANT - LEAD DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated Off Shore Development and Testing Activities.
• Communicated with business users and departments in order to determine and resolve any business problems, technical and production issues.
• Provided technical guidance to Off Shore Team regarding any programming requirements and related queries.
• Performed functional and user testing of programs to ensure that the programs met company standards and technical requirements. Also, verified the accuracy of the program’s results.
• Coded, tested and debugged programs in order to assist Off Shore Development Team.

Environment: z/OS COBOL, SAS, utilizing DB2, SQL, JCL, Endevor.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

CONSULTANT - SOFTWARE DESIGN ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Developed the High Level Design Specifications for a COBOL to JAVA conversion for the company’s reinsurance system.
• Defined and documented the existing business processes.
• Interpreted the individual COBOL programs, JCL procedures, DB2 data transfers of system elements, documented the system interfaces and job flow.
• Produced the High Level Business (4 + 1 view) and functional system documentation.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

MAINFRAME DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Coded COBOL, SAS, and JCL enhancements to include a new client number for processing.
• Integrated existing code, for the new client number, for all banking, leasing, purchasing, titling and credit reporting processing systems.
• Performed detailed coding enhancements, UT & SIT testing, and updated technical specifications for additional expansion of client’s dealer numbers.
• Coordinated the design specifications and technical requirements with other business units in order to clarify the necessary coding changes and test requirements.
• Updated programming documentation, tested modifications, and updated the job scheduler for production control.

Environment: z/OS COBOL, utilizing DB2, SQL, SAS, VSAM, Zeke and Change-Man.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

CONSULTANT - MAINFRAME DB2 DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Converting the balancing programs from DYL280 to z/OS COBOL for the Credit Card Master File, containing variable and fixed length records.
• Writing new SAS code to verify the proper character and numeric formats.
• Worked in the DBA group to create multiple DB2 tables, views, and permissions for users to query a numeric table in either a character or numeric format.
• Provided DB2 technical design specifications for different corporate business units.
• Coordinating off shore scheduling and providing testing standards for parallel running.

Environment: z/OS COBOL, utilizing DB2, SQL, DYL280, SAS, VSAM files.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

CONSULTANT - MAINFRAME SUPPORT

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical specifications and production support for company’s billing system.
• Performed Quality Assurance testing and coding enhancements to programs in a system test environment.
• Provided additional assistance to off shore teams to meet programming standards.

Environment: COBOL 390, DB2, SQL, VSAM files, CICS maintenance, Easytrieve, OS/MVS/ESA.

Confidential, Lake Mary, FL

Quality Control Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Conducted personal interviews with housing occupants and collected necessary information.
• Analyzed stress reporting for payroll application data.
• Performed stress related inputs and queries to test computer resources.

Environment: IBM z/OS Mainframe, CA-7, JCL.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

IT Staff Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical specifications and production support for client’s coding changes.
• Performed coding enhancements, remediation, testing and writing of various conversion routines to expand client’s product ISBN code numbers.
• Created testing documents, test modification schedule and performed both user acceptance and string testing on client systems.
• Provided Quality Assurance for Offshore Teams in India, system testing, documentation and verification of programming standards.

Environment: z/OS, COBOL, DB2, Stored Procedures, JCL, DYL280, Change-Man, Install/1.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Payroll Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Integrated a new payroll system for employer tax liability payments.
• Coded, tested, and implemented, both the periodic and quarterly interface programs.
• Helped design system modifications and developed balancing reports for journalizing of corporate taxes, including all federal, state, local, Medicare and unemployment compensation taxes paid to the appropriate government entity. Including ACH transfers and account balancing for processing payroll.
• Developed test plans and performed user acceptance testing for the compensation and accounting departments to verify government reporting and general ledger inputs.

Environment: COBOL 390 utilizing DB2, SQL, VSAM files, CICS maintenance, Easytrieve, Endevor, OS/MVS/ESA.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coded ad-hoc and validation reports in order to verify the balancing of the Revenue Reporting System.
• Supplied revenue reporting for user inquiries.
• Analyzed and performed detailed coding, testing and debugging enhancements for conversion of the Journals Reporting Accounting System.
• Provided ongoing system support in multiple computer sites, performed testing scenarios to verify the accuracy of programming changes and recommended appropriate solutions.
• Analyzed and performed detailed enhancements, user acceptance testing, and user support for the company’s billing System.
• Coded, tested, and debugged programs, incorporated additional system requirements and designed both user and programmer documentation.

Environment: COBOL 370, COBOL II, utilizing DB2, VSAM files, CICS, running in multiple OS/MVS environments utilizing both Easytrieve and SAS as a testing tool in order to verify the balancing of the accounting system.