SUMMARY PROFILE

Twenty eight years of Information Technology experience including analysis, design and extensive use of databases. Possesses expert knowledge of Natural/ADABAS and COBOL. Experienced in new applications development and existing systems maintenance including feasibility studies, system analysis and design, project management, programming, implementation, maintenance enhancements, user training and documentation. In both online and batch environments. Total systems development lifecycle utilized.

Systems developed include, Annuity and Pension Financial Systems, Child Support Systems, Hospital financials, Gas Utility financials and customer information systems, Investment and financial, property tax, project management, time keeping, accounts payable, direct billing, insurance policy entry and claims processing. 

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• Natural IBM 3090 OS/MVS-XA
• COBOL/COBOL II IBM 4381 DOS/VSE
• M 20 4 User Language IBM 3033 MS/DOS
• JAVA UNIX
• HTML VM/CMS
• JAVA
• JAVA BEANS
• JAVA SCRIPT
• XML
• SQL
• Visual Basic
• Visual Basic.net
• HTML 
  
• ADABAS TSO/ISPF Endevor
• MODEL 204 JCL ICCF
• CICS COMPLETE PANVALET
• Predict XPEDITOR Fileaid
• Profs Vollie SIMS
• MS Word Excel Powerpoint
• Visual Basic 6.0 Access Entire Broker
• Power Point DB2 Adds
• Websphere Tomino Bolero
• Natural Construct Predict
• Java JavaScript HTML
• Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, NT Visio EntireX,
• Connect
• LightStorm Visual Basic.Net XML 
  

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Confidential.
Consultant
March 2010 to Present

Contractual Consultant working for a Financial Institution TIAA-Cref in North Carolina, enhancing and maintaining Annuities, 401k, 403k, and associated systems with heavy usage of Adabas, Natural, Predict, CICS, TSO, MVS/JCL, N2O, Endevor, Sharepoint, and Microsoft Suite of products. Responsibilities include project management, analysis, design, coding testing, documentation and debugging.

Confidential.
Consultant 
August 2008 to January 2010

Contractual Consultant working at the state of IDAHO, Department of Health and Welfare, Child support systems, maintaining case information systems ICSES, IBES, and EPICS financial ADABAS database systems written in Natural and Cobol. Heavy usage of Adabas, Natural, Construct, Predict, CICS, TSO, MVS/JCL and Microsoft Suite of products. Responsibilities include project management, analysis, design, coding, testing, documentation and debugging. 

Confidential.
Consultant 
November 2007 to June 2008

Contractual Consultant working at Fairview Hospitals, maintaining patient information systems, financial, analytical, and insurance ADABAS database systems written in Natural and Adabas database. Heavy usage of Adabas, Natural, SYSPAC, CICS, TSO, MVS/JCL and Microsoft Suite of products. Responsibilities include project management, analysis, design, coding, testing and debugging. 

Confidential
Consultant 
April 2007 to November 2007 

Contractual Consultant working at Reyersen Metals, maintaining manufacturing, financial, analytical, and customer ADABAS database systems written in Natural. Heavy usage of Adabas, Natural, Panvalet, PAC, CICS, COMPLETE, TSO, and Microsoft Suite of products. Responsibilities include project management, analysis, design, coding, testing and debugging, and being oncall. 

Confidential
Consultant 
March 2006 to April 2007 

Contractual Consultant working at National Fuel and Gas, maintaining financial, analytical, and customer ADABAS database systems written in Natural. Heavy usage of Natural, Panvalet, Cortex, CICS, TSO, and Microsoft Suite of products. Responsibilities include project management, analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, changing security, and producing written documentation of these systems. Successfully implemented 17 major changes since the beginning of contract. 

Confidential
Consultant 
June 2005 to January 2006 

Contractual Consultant working for Compuware, maintaining old legacy systems for the legal department of Morgan Stanley Financials written in Natural/Adabas 3.2. Heavy usage of Adabas Natural, CICS, TSO, and JCL. Responsibilities include project management, analyzing, coding, testing, debugging, and producing written specifications and documentation of these systems. Responsible for daily interaction between technical staff, user staff and management to prioritize enhancements and maintenance projects for these online and batch systems. Successfully implemented 3 major changes since the beginning of contract. 

Confidential
Store Manager 
March 2002 to March 2005 

Total responsibility for the management of one of three hardware stores. This includes management of personnel, product expertise and merchandising, product knowledge, customer sales and support, daily store operations, and communications of profit and loss to the owners. Heavy merchandising of inventory, stocking, receiving and shipping are included in tasks. Also provide support for Ace online (POS)\'point of sale\' cash register software. Further support in providing contact with hardware vendors and with sales representatives from various vendors. This is a total hands on position with the total commitment to customer service, selection, and followup. 

Confidential
Information Technology Specialist 4 
October 1999 to March 2002

Senior Systems Analyst, user liaison and technical programmer specialist for the MAXIS system written in Natural/Adabas. Responsible for daily interaction between technical staff, user staff and management to prioritize enhancements and maintenance projects for this system. Seventy percent of the job was coding in Natural/Adabas and preparing old Legacy systems for E2E business solutions through normalization of old code. Worked on the Research and Development team in solutions for Internet software and hardware and successfully implemented a Web connection and site for the personal information system of MAXIS written in JAVA and HTML. 
Environment: TSO/ISPF, JCL, NATURAL/ADABAS, Predict, Cobol, DB2, MS Word, Excel, Visio, XML/SXML, Java, Javabeans, JavaScript, Outlook, Adds, Websphere, Tomino, Bolero, Entire, Entire Connect, Entire Broker, LightStorm 

Confidential. 
October 1986 to October 1999 

State of Minnesota 
Consultant Computer Horizons 
Primary responsibilities included programming and systems analysis. Also was the user liaison and technical programmer specialist for the MAXIS system written in Natural/Adabas. There was daily interaction between technical staff, user staff and management to prioritize enhancements and maintenance projects for this system. The majority of the time was spent with Y2K compliance of all programs utilized and maintained written in Natural and Cobol as well as interfaces to the MAXIS system. 
Environment: TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, NATURAL/ADABAS, Predict, MS Word, Excel, Visio, XML/SXML, Java, Javabeans, JavaScript, Outlook, Adds 

Confidential 
Consultant Computer Horizons 
Senior Programmer/Analyst on the Merchant Splitter Systems handling Visa, MasterCard and various other credit card applications. Was responsible for analysis, design, coding and documentation for development of enhancements and maintaining the existing systems. Utilizing IBM system 390 with OS/MSV operating systems. Programming requirements and language requirements included: TSO, OS/MVS JCL, COBOL, DB2, Endevor, Xpeditor, SQL, Spuffi, ISPF, CA7, ASIM, BFX, CICS, Fileaid and Abendaid. Was successful in implementing 8 major changes to the system and numerous small changes for production fixes. 
Environment: TSO, OS/MVS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, Endevor, Xpeditor, SQL, SPUFFI, CA7, ASIM, BFX, CICS, FileAid, Abendaid 

Confidential
Consultant Computer Horizons 
Served as the technical team leader and focal point for the Hewlett Packard Client Award System. Developed a new online/batch system for the HP certified print program in Natural/Adabas. Assisted in the new development of the Toyota Award System and also assisted in maintaining the Cadillac Award System. Was the key contact for BIs clients via the phone, e-mail, and the main liaison between management, the account representatives and the main users at BI. 
Environment: TSO, OS/MVS, JCL, COBOL, ABABAS, Natural, CICS 

Confidential 
Consultant Computer Horizons 
Responsibilities included assisting the team in the area of design and development of an online/batch reporting system for the Human Resources department. This system also fed the Accounting systems for payroll. The reporting system was developed in Natural/ADABAS and was to be utilized by management in each of the hospitals departments for budgeting and forecasting purposes. It was also used as a data warehouse for ad hoc reporting in other languages such as FORTRAN and COBOL. Instrumental in maintaining and enhancing the existing HRMS online systems and setting the standard for the creation of documentation for this system. 
Environment: TSO, OS/MVS, JCL, COBOL, ADABAS, Natural 

Confidential
Consultant Computer Horizons 
Responsibilities included assisting the team in the area of design and development of an online/batch reporting systems for materials procurement. This system also fed the Accounting systems for receivables and payables. The reporting system was developed in Natural/ADABAS and was used by management in each of the departments for ordering and forecasting future purchases. 
Environment: TSO, OS/MVS, JCL, COBOL, ADABAS, Natural, CICS 

Confidential
Midland, MI 
Consultant Computer Horizons 
This position required being a liaison between Management, the MIS department, and the internal/external global user communities regarding technical and business issues, policies, standards and training. Responsibilities included project management and reporting, direct supervision and participation with a staff varying from four to twenty-two members. Development included: Feasibility Studies, Computer System Designs, Database Designs, Computer Systems Development, Implementations, Documentation and Systems Support. The systems developed and successfully implemented include a Global Accounting System for DOWFAS, Product Allocation Spread System (PASS), and Rail Fleet Management System (RFMS). 
Environment: TSO, OS/MVS, JCL, COBOL, ADABAS, Natural, CICS 

Confidential
Grand Rapids, MI 
Consultant Computer Horizons 
This position required being a liaison between Management, the MIS department, and the internal user communities regarding technical and business issues, policies, standards and training. Responsibilities for development included: Feasibility Studies, Computer System Designs, Database Designs, Computer Systems Development, Implementations, Documentation, programming and Systems Support. The Systems developed and successfully implemented include a property tax assessment system. Served as the in-house expert for the Model 204 database and languages. 
Environment: TSO, OS/MVS, JCL, COBOL, ADABAS, Natural, CICS 

August 1985 to October 1986 
Confidential. 
Lansing, MI 
Programmer/Analyst 
Responsible for analyzing, developing, implementing and documenting an online/batch Direct Billing System. This required extensive training in Model 204 database processes and coding practices. Also successfully developed and implemented an online project management system for reporting and time keeping by the MIS staff. Served as the in-house expert for the Model 204 database and languages. 
Environment: TSO, VM/CMS, DOSJCL, COBOL, M204 

August 1981 to August 1985 
Confidential
Grand Rapids, MI 
Operations I & III, Programmer I & II 
Started as an Operator in Computer Operations and advanced to lead Operator within one year. Successfully advanced into the new applications development team as a Programmer to assist in the development and maintenance of an on-line COBOL policy entry system called FAST. 
Environment: TSO, OS/MVS, JCL, COBOL, ADABAS, Natural, ADAScript, ADAMint, CICS

EDUCATION and TRAINING
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 

Software AG of America 
Certified in ADASQL Programming; Natural II Internals, NATURAL II beginning, intermediate, and Advanced Programming; ADABAS Physical File Design, Data Modeling, LightStorm. 

Certified in Model 204, User Language, Advanced User Language, Physical Database Design, File Architecture, and Systems Management.