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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Products: Expert COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM knowledge.SQL, Endevor, JCL, Mainframe utilities e.g. FILEAID, TSO, Intertest, ISPF, ZEKE, SDSF, Syncsort, SYSVIEW, Omegamon, SPUFI

Operating Systems: z/OS, OS/390

Hardware: IBM Mainframe (360, 370, 30XX, S/390, Z - series)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Applications Programmer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

Coded many solutions to business problems in the Health Care Industry. Familiar wif all aspects of health claim processing including RTIS, a real-time claim adjudication system.
Worked wif the Interplan Teleprocessing System (ITS) and performed significant maintenance on those programs.
Worked on a team which incorporated the state of Montana into the Blue Cross family of states.
Recommended many innovative solutions to batch performance issues.
Familiar wif the full SDLC cycle
Resolved abends

Senior Software Engineer,

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

Analyzed, designed, tested, and implemented changes to a CICS and batch Legacy Systems.
Oversaw the daily use and performance of the mainframe system and the applications in production.
Daily monitoring of system performance using TMON and SYSVIEW.
Notified management of any performance anomalies in production LPARs.
Performed daily monitoring of production CICS regions using DFHSTUP statistics and other reports.
Kept long-term documentation, such as spreadsheets and charts, showing growing or declining trends in application or file usage and problem areas.
Performed role as technical consultant to application developers during the transition from mainframe products to server-based products.
Recommended procedures and methods for best performance of their code.
Wrote COBOL/CICS based utilities to inform myself of various aspects of performance on the mainframe, and to give the application developers some insight into their own work, while maintaining security.
Made extensive use of the error messages produced by the production applications in order to proactively identify customers who were having problems wif our products. These customers would then be proactively called by our support staff and their problems or issues would be resolved.
Kept long-term charts, spreadsheets and notes on these customers to see if problems resurfaced or if some product training courses need to be adjusted on the vendor side.
Monitored test and production disk space usage for growth trends (or declines) and reported to management on these trends.
Wrote CICS/COBOL-based Web services (client/requestor) to assist in the transition of some XML-based mainframe applications to non-mainframe platforms (Oracle).

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