A Mainframe Programmer/Analyst/Developer with 9 years experience as a Contractor/Consultant with several Information Technology Consulting/Staffing firms. Assignments have included clients in the fields of Medical & Surgical Equipment Sales & Distribution, Tobacco Manufacturing & Sales, Financial Services, Higher Education, and Municipal Government. Extensive mainframe support/development experience supplemented with PC skills and Web training. I am also a degreed Industrial Engineer with experience in process improvement, resource utilization, and cost containment in the manufacturing and transportation sectors.

SYNOPSIS: Programmer/Analyst... Mainframe... VSE/MVS/OS390/ZOS... JCL... DB2... SQL... SAS...
APS Cobol... COBOL II ... VSAM...

SOFTWARE: Database: IBM DB2, IBM IMS, MS ACCESS, ORACLE

Development Tools: TSO/ISPF, FILE-AID, FILEAID/IMS, FILE-AID/DB2, LIBRARIAN,
SMARTEST, ABEND-AID, QMF, ENDEVOR, FILE MANAGER, IOF, SDSF, EVOLVEIT,
CHANGEMAN, SQL*Plus, VSE/ICCF, TOAD, FTP

Languages: IBM COBOL VS II, IBM CICS, APS COBOL, IBM JCL, SAS (Mainframe & PC)

PC Environment: MS OFFICE, MONARCH, LOTUS 123, BASIC

HARDWARE/OS: IBM MVS/OS, OS390, ZOS, WINDOWS 95/98/2000/ME/NT/XP, MS/DOS, IBM OS/2 v3.0,
APPLE (MAC)

WORK HISTORY DETAIL IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

Confidential, ASSIGNMENT AT:

University of Virginia (July 2008 to Present)
On assignment with the Information Technology and Communications department on a Mainframe Retirement project. This is an ongoing archived data project to convert mainframe data files into generic text files that can be accessed by other platforms and software. Data files were cloned into formatted or unformatted layouts based on block characteristics and transferred from the mainframe to a Unix server.

Technical skills involved in this project included Roscoe, TSO/ISPF, JCL, OS390, TLMS (Tape Library Management System), Secure FX.

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Confidential, (January 2006 - October 2006)
Member of a project group within the Capstone Models Team responsible for accomplishing
federally mandated changes to a Decisioning Support System responsible for processing outside applications for company credit cards. Tasks included reviewing change specifications, identifying modules requiring change, accomplishing the necessary code changes, and performing multiple testing.

Technical skills involved in this project included Capstone Decision Manager, Configuration and Analyst Workstation, SAS, Oracle, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, TOAD, and UNIX.

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Confidential, Virginia (May 2005 - September 2005)
Programmer/analyst on a team responsible for converting a municipal City Payroll System from a VSE environment to a OS390/ZOS environment. Was the primary analyst assigned to assist the Chesapeake employee reponsible for converting all batch jobs and associated programs in the system.

Responsibilities for this assignment included:

• Convert all JCL and COBOL programs from the VSE environment using a in-house developed
• conversion utility.
• Perform all debugging and modifications necessary to successfully compile the COBOL programs in
• the OS390 environment.
• Update all JCL to meet OS390 requirements and to comply with syntax standards.
• Update all JCL which contained VSAM file updates to include steps for backup and recovery.
• Set up parameter card libraries and members to be used as input instead of passing the parameters
• within the JCL.
• Perform Unit Testing on all batch jobs. Modifiy and re-compile programs as required to achieve desired results.

Technical skills involved in this project included COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, File Manager, VSE COBOL,JCL, & ICCF.

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Confidential, (November 2004 - March 2005)
Programmer/Analyst on a Keane managed project with responsibility for adding increased functionality to a Behavior Based Account Management system. The team responsilibity included developing High Level and Detailed Design documents from Business and System Requirements documents. The specific tasks included capturing certain significant Account and Strategy information from an MVS/OS390 system and transferring it to a Unix system for updating Oracle tables. This was accomplished through research and analysis, and the creation of new COBOL programs, JCL, copybooks, input data files, test plan data, and requisite documentation and unit testing.

Technical skills involved in this project included COBOL II, Pro*COBOL, JCL, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, EvolveIT, Changeman, Control-T, SQL*Plus.

Confidential, Virginia (May 2004 - September 2004)
Programmer/analyst on a team responsible for converting a municipal Business License system from a VSE environment to a OS390/ZOS environment. Was the primary analyst for converting all batch jobs and associated programs in the Business License system.

Responsibilities for this assignment included:

• Converted all JCL and COBOL programs from the VSE environment using a in-house developed
• conversion utility.
• Performed all debugging and modifications necessary to successfully compile the COBOL programs
• in the OS390 environment.
• Updated all JCL to meet OS390 requirements and to comply with syntax standards.
• Updated all JCL which contained VSAM file updates to include steps for backup and recovery.
• Set up parameter card libraries and members to be used as input instead of passing the parameters
• within the JCL.
• Performed Unit Testing on all batch jobs. Modified and re-compiled programs as required to achieve desired results.

Technical skills involved in this project included COBOL, JCL, VSAM, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, and File Manager.

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Confidential, (August 2002 - September 2003)
Programmer/analyst on an Information Technology team providing support to a Direct Marketing Group. On an ad hoc basis, extracted data from mulitiple databases and appended to customer supplied data files for use in modeling and statistical analysis. Created tape cartridges on a routine and as requested basis for shipment to numerous third party vendors containing miscellaneous data used in suppressing the mailing of solicitation offers to certain individuals. Was responsible for the periodic upload of City/State Zip Code data from the U.S. Postal Service through batch file processing. Created internal data files from various in house databases by using predefined criteria for establishing source data for solicitation offerings.

Technical Skills : OS/390, JCL, COBOL, SAS, FileAid, Control-T, MS Access, and MS Excel.

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Philip Morris, USA (October 2001 - June 2002)
Programmer/analyst on a development team responsible for creating new applications for a Field Sales Invoicing function. Developed new batch COBOL programs utilizing imbedded SQL for accessing DB2 tables. Also, created JCL and copybooks based on predefined Business Requirements Documents, Functional Specifications, and Technical Specifications. Responsibilities also included unit and functional testing to validate functionality of applications.

Technical Skills: OS/390, APS Cobol, JCL, DB2, Easytrieve, File-Aid, Proedit, QMF, Endevor.

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Confidential, (August 2000 - April 2001)
Programmer/analyst in Solicitation Processing, Marketing and Analysis Department. Processed vendor and internal prospect datasets. Created datasets with standardized record layouts, cleansed and profiled prospect names by validating addresses against U.S Postal Service databases, eliminating duplicate records, and discarding records that didn't meet specified criteria. Converted EZTrieve programs to SAS. Maintained and updated internal demographic datasets. OS/390, JCL, COBOL, SAS, FileAid, Control-T, MS Access, and MS Excel.

Confidential, (May 2000 - June 2000)
Developed an in-house Web application that generates and processes customer surveys for the company's clients. Application maintains data on employees, clients, contacts, surveys and questions; schedules email delivery of blank surveys to clients; and processes completed surveys when returned. Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), HTML, VB Script, Java Script, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Visual InterDev.

Philip Morris, USA (April 1998 - January 2000)
Programmer/Analyst in Applications Support Group. Supported a Field Sales Force application. Application processed a daily transmission of sales force account data. Made enhancements to existing batch COBOL programs utilizing imbedded SQL to access DB2 tables. Participated in scheduled releases of application software. Performed impact analysis of proposed changes to various systems. Produced ad-hoc reports for Philip Morris customers and business partners. Provided on-call support and debugged/corrected/enhanced production systems. OS/390, APS COBOL, JCL, DB2.

As Programmer/Analyst on a Y2K Team, insured Y2K compliance for a legacy Weekly Forecast System. Inventoried system components (programs, JCL, copybooks, DB2 tables, datasets, CLISTs, etc.). Identified other systems that could be impacted by required system changes. Identified and applied Y2K compliance changes to the system. Performed unit and system test. Installed changes to production and performed post-production monitoring. COBOL, JCL, DB2.

Confidential, (April 1997 - March 1998)
As Programmer Analyst, supported Financial and Product Replenishment applications. Analyzed application problems. Prepared project overviews outlining requirements for accomplishing project objectives. Designed and implemented enhancements. Developed test plans. MVS/OS, COBOL 74, COBOL II, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IMS, DB2.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
An Industrial Engineer with emphasis on Process Improvement, Resource Utilization, and Cost Containment. Developed a PC-based application which was used to minimize materials handling costs in truck terminal freight operations.

EDUCATION:

BS, Industrial Engineering;

TRAINING:
Broughton Systems Information Technology University - 1997
HTML - Beginner & Intermediate (Owens & Minor)
Oracle SQL and PL/SQL (John Tyler Community College)
Oracle Data Modeling and Database Design (John Tyler Community College)
Active Server Pages (Keiter Stephens Computer Services)
Oracle Database Administration (John Tyler Community College)
Oracle Backup & Recovery (John Tyler Community College)
UNIX, Levels I & II (John Tyler Community College)
JavaScript, Levels I & II (John Tyler Community College)
SAS Programming I & II (Capital One Financial)
Visual Basic, Level I (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College)
Visual Basic, Level II (John Tyler Community College)
Crystal Reports 8.5 (Computer based training - Keane, Inc.) - 2004
Java 2: Language Basics (Computer based training - Keane, Inc.) - 2004