SUMMARY:

Senior level Mainframe developer with 25 years of extensive experience in design, development, testing, implementation and support of various mainframe application systems for the state government, finance, retail, energy, insurance, telecommunication and manufacturing industries, using COBOL, DB2, CICS, IMS DB/DC and mainframe utilities. Technical leadership and off - shore team coordination experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: COBOL / COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, TERADATA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, MQ SERIES, EASYTRIEVE, VSAM, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, FILE-AID, FILE MASTER, FILE MANAGER, ABEND-AID, SYNCSORT, PANVALET, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, REMEDY, WINDOWS, SDLC.

HARDWARE: IBM MAINFRAME (z/OS), IBM/PC.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Naperville, Illinois

Mainframe Developer

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, IMS DB, DB2, EASYTRIEVE, JCL, SQL, SPUFIFILE MANAGER, PANVALET

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the maintenance and support of Account Receivable and Billing Systems.
• Provide production support
• Execute customer requests
• Resolve production problems
• Provide training and technical lead to the off-shore team

Confidential, Northbrook, Illinois

Mainframe Developer

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAIDXPEDITER, ENDEVOR

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the development, maintenance, support and enhancement of Acquisition, Job Inventory and Payroll systems.
• Analyze technical requirements
• Create Detail Technical Design documents
• Create new and modified existing programs
• Develop test cases
• Perform unit and system testing
• Resolve production problems

Confidential, Lombard, Illinois

Mainframe Developer

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, FILE MASTERINTERTEST, ENDEVOR

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed technical requirements
• Created Detail Technical Design documents
• Created new and modified existing programs
• Developed test cases
• Performed unit and system testing
• Identified, analyzed and resolved production problems
• Utilized SDLC methodologies

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Mainframe Developer

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, FILE MASTERINTERTEST, ENDEVOR

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed technical requirements
• Created Detail Technical Design documents
• Modified existing programs
• Developed test cases
• Performed unit and system testing
• Utilized SDLC methodologies

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Mainframe Developer

Environment: COBOL II, IMS DB, DB2, SQL, JCL, SPUFI, QMF, File-AID, ABEND-AIDPANVALET

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the conversion of Benefit Information System from IMS Database into DB2.
• Collected and analyzed business and technical requirements for system changes
• Created Detail Technical Design documents
• Redesigned existing programs from IMS DB into DB2 type applications
• Analyzed data using DB2 tools, such as QMF, SPUFI, DB2 FILEAID and others
• Developed test plans
• Performed unit and system testing
• Utilized SDLC methodologies

Confidential, Riverwoods, Illinois

Senior programmer-analyst

Environment: COBOL II, DB2, CICS, SQL, JCL, QMF, File-AID, IBM Debug ToolABEND-AID, ENDEVOR, MQ SERIES

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the development, maintenance, support and enhancement of Confidential in a global delivery environment.
• Analyzed business and technical requirements for system changes
• Created High Level and Detail Technical Design documents
• Created new applications. Modified existing programs and JCL to accommodate changes
• Analyzed data using DB2 tools, such as QMF, SPUFI, DB2 FILEAID and others
• Developed test plans
• Performed unit and system testing
• Participated in cost saving initiative by modifying existing programs to reduce CPU time
• Identified, analyzed and resolved production problems.
• Performed as a project lead on rotation basis, including work assignments, supervision of other developers and verification of timely and defect-free delivery. Conducted status meetings and design/coding walkthrough’s. Mentored junior team members on technical and process related issues.
• Utilized SDLC methodologies

Confidential Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Consultant

Environment: COBOL II, IMS DB, DB2, CICS, SQL, JCL, QMF, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and technical requirements for system changes
• Created conversion programs to allow a various types of customer ID to be used, which required a complex SQL calls to multiple DB2 tables
• Modified existing screens to accommodate changes
• Modified JCL to include new jobsteps
• Performed unit and system testing
• Created test cases and documentation

Confidential, Southfield, Michigan

Senior System-engineer

Environment: COBOL II, IMS DB, DB2, SQL, JCL, QMF, XPEDITER, ABEND-AIDENDEVOR

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership and expertise for an offshore team in Russia
• Designed, developed and implemented new batch applications
• Modified existing batch and online programs for new requirements
• Performed unit and system testing
• Created Technical designs, development and testing documentation
• Participated in DB2 decommission project by replacing DB2 tables with flat files for improving system performance.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, Michigan

Consultant

Environment: COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, DB2, SQL, JCL, QMF, EASYTRIEVE, XPEDITER

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented new on-line programs and MFS’
• Enhanced and redesigned existing on-line and batch applications according to new customer requirements.
• Added new screen functions, added new and expanded existing DB2 tables, changed screen-to-screen navigation process, improved on-line programs performance.
• Interviewed target users and determined the scope of each enhancement.
• Participated in a year-long development of multi-platform Web/Mainframe project to allow part suppliers to send price quotes through Web instead of paper forms, which required complex and global changes to the existing system. Worked on design and development of the mainframe part of the project.
• Determined business and developed technical requirements.
• Participated in IMS to DB2 conversion project. Redesigned IMS programs into DB2 type applications.
• Analyzed data involved in the conversion.
• Wrote multiple database maintenance applications to correct data errors.
• Utilized extended Checkpoint/Restart feature for a batch processing.
• Unloaded IMS Databases and reloaded DB2 tables using JCL and DB2 utilities.
• Developed test plans and performed unit and system testing.
• Retrieved and analyzed data from IMS databases and DB2 tables upon customer requests.
• Identified, analyzed and resolved production problems.

Confidential, Confidential, Michigan

Consultant

Environment: COBOL II, IMS DB, TERADATA, SQL, XPEDITER, CHANGEMAN

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed IMS conversion programs and JCL, unloaded IMS databases, and loaded TERADATA tables using converted unload IMS files and load utilities along with application programs. Analyzed the data involved in the conversion.
• Utilized extended Checkpoint/Restart feature as company standard for a batch processing.
• Developed program specifications and test plans.
• Performed unit and system testing. Performed design, coding and testing walk-throughs.
• Developed technical requirements.
• Utilized SDM.

Confidential, Troy, Michigan

Systems analyst

Environment: COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, DB2, SQL, QMF, XPEDITER

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned and enhanced existing online and batch applications upon customer service requests.
• Analyzed and resolved production problems.
• Developed test plans and performed unit and system testing.
• Performed regular on-call duties. Worked with system operational support.