SUMMARY:

As a mainframe consultant I have provided technical expertise at all levels of project life cycle. I performed as a developer and lead in designing, developing and maintaining mainframe systems. I also lead several conversions, of both code and data. I am considered an expert in mainframe analysis, design, structured code and data architecture. I have been relied upon in debugging, simplifying and improving many complex processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL: II, DB2, SQL, MQ series, QMF, ETI, SPUFI, CICS, DYL, MARK - IV, IDMS, IDMS-DC, ADSO, MAPC, ADSC, ADSA, IDD, DME, OLP, INSTALL-1, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, TSO-ISPF / JCL, FILE-AID, VSAM, CA-7, RACF/ACF2/UCC7, FTP, MS Windows tools, Sharepoint, Quality Center, Remedy, Visio, Confidential debugging tools, Test Director.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Responsibilities:

• Assisted IT team in converting a large mainframe system to client server.
• Responsibilities include documenting and providing detailed specifications for a large number of legacy modules.
• Also responsible for analyzing and designing new functionality and system improvements.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Participated in a short term project to implement federally mandated Money Market Reform.
• Coded and tested modules to handle NAV fluctuation and trade confirmation.

Confidential, St Pete, FL

Responsibilities:

• Short term project to encrypt Personal Identification Information.
• Helped implement system changes to prevent hackers from acquiring sensitive customer data.
• Added new Energy Saving program to the Billing system and worked on various other ad-hoc requests.

Confidential, Kansas

Responsibilities:

• As a member of Operations and Maintenance team, I provided system maintenance and support.
• Additionally I handled a large volume of user requests across Business Units, including marketing, regulatory and rate case related data extracts and reports.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• DB2, Cobol-II, CICS, MQ Series, QMF Windows, SharePoint, Quality Center.
• Worked on Billing, Financial and Home Insurance applications.
• Participated as a senior developer in the implementation of riders, customer choice, Home Insurance and Messaging using MQ Series and a variety of other products.
• Provided analysis, technical design, programming, testing and implementation.

Confidential, Toledo, OH

Responsibilities:

• COBOL, CICS, VSAM, IDMS, ADSO, JCL, CA-7
• Short term outsourcing project to document the operation and support of a large manufacturing system.
• Responsible for in depth analysis of EDI processing.
• Completed thorough documentation of system flow, Job scheduling, ticket resolution log and operations procedures.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• (IDMS, ADSO, COBOL-II, SQL, MVS, TSO, ROSCOE, JCL, CA-7, VISIO, UML).
• Participated in the architecture, design and development of a Utility Customer Service system, tracking customer inquiries from reception through resolution.
• Involved in every phase of the project, from requirement gathering through implementation.
• Designed the system using VISIO, UML, Use Cases and BOM on CA-IDMS platform.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• IDMS, ADSO, COBOL-II, MVS, TSO, JCL, CA-7
• Lead the architecture, design and development of a collection system for Confidential .
• Participated as a senior programmer analyst in the development and implementation of several Federal, State and County mandated projects.
• Redesigned and coded a database purge and other processes to improve system reliability and efficiency.
• Also developed a tool to map specific dialogs and elements within the online application and help research issues.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• DB2, COBOL-II, CICS, IDMS, MVS, TSO, ISPF, JCL, QA, Mercury, Test Director
• Provided QA testing for the conversion of the state judiciary system from IDMS-ADSO to DB2-CICS using test scripts, Mercury Interactive testing tools, DB2 queries and Test Director.
• Developed a compare program for large volume data validation. The program was adopted by the project team as the tool to validate the conversion

Confidential, Fishers, Indiana

Responsibilities:

• IDMS, COBOL-II, CICS, MVS, TSO, ISPF, JCL, QA CA-7
• Second assignment at Confidential .
• Involved in off-shore coordination, quality assurance, code reviews, programming and implementation of a variety of projects in support of the default accounting system software. s include debugging and enhancing high level financial reports.
• Provided IDMS code reviews for system modifications made overseas by remote project teams.

Confidential, Plainfield, Indiana

Responsibilities:

• IDMS, DB2, COBOL-II, CICS, MVS, TSO-ISPF, PANVALET, FILEAID, VSAM, CA-7
• Completed the data conversion and archiving of two systems, Power and Generation Maintenance .
• Converted data from IDMS / VSAM platform to DB2.

Confidential, Fishers, Indiana

Responsibilities:

• IDMS, COBOL-II, CICS, MVS, TSO, ISPF, JCL, QA, CA-7
• Assisted Confidential in segregating several processes, databases and files for their student loan system by state.
• The transaction history files accounted for a billion records and over 30 inconsistent formats.
• Achieved 100% accuracy despite a highly complex matching algorithm.
• Also participated as a senior developer in debugging and QA testing an enhanced version of the student loan system.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• IDMS, ADSO, IMS, COBOL-II, DB-2, CICS, MVS, JCL, TSO, QA, CA-7
• Second assignment, called back to assist the billing team in debugging the system following a large and unsuccessful deregulation enhancement.
• Although my main assignment was the Bill Calculation module I took on the responsibility of restoring the charges and credits for over 500,000 accounts affected by the unsuccessful enhancement.
• Completed in depth analysis, debugging and restoration of credit application modules.
• Developed diagnostic programs to ensure data integrity.
• This assignment required expertise in data architecture, system analysis and debugging.
• Also involved in production support, resolving all outstanding on-call issues.

Confidential, Newport News, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Developed a system referred to as Machine Level Planning.
• This system automated work control flow for cutting and shaping steel in the early stages of aircraft carrier building.
• Designed to automate the routing of material to appropriate work centers by examining the material attributes and navigating a complex network of tables associating material attributes with logical paths.
• The result of this process was the complete elimination of user intervention in the routing material to work shops.
• Also developed an enhancement to CAS Scheduling System to bring material scheduling from header to item level for the purchase and manufacturing order.

Confidential, Boston, Massachusetts

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the implementation of the power utility deregulation, referred to as E-Plan.
• This task was conducted under strict and aggressive deadlines imposed by the
• Department of Public Utilities and resulted in a major enhancement to the billing system.
• I was responsible for making the necessary modifications to the bill calculation module and provide support following implementation.
• I completed the enhancement with outstanding success and subsequently designated as the sole resource for this module.
• As a secondary assignment, I redesigned and implemented a cross platform system to keep track of meter alive accounts, meters in use with no registered customer at the location.