OBJECTIVE:

A position as senior programmer/analyst in a business application system mainframe data processing environment.

SUMMARY:

Over twenty - nine years experience in Mainframe business application systems environments, including both development and maintenance projects as project leader, technical lead and programmer analyst. I have worked with users developing project specifications using SDLC protocols and have developed implementation and testing strategies. I have analyzed, designed, coded, tested and implemented COBOL DB2, online (COBOL CICS) and COBOL batch programs and systems. I am familiar with all levels of demonstration, testing and and have experience with all phases of the SDLC. I have extensive experience in production support, both with new implementations and with established production systems and programs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM: 3090, 3081, 4380

Languages & software: COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, OS/JCL, VSAM, DB2, BMS, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, INTERTEST, SDF, SDSF, IBM Utilities, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, MVS, TSO/ISPF, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, Librarian, DOS/VSE, ICCF, Panvalet, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, IBM DEBUG, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Multimate, Word Perfect, Microsoft Office, Agile-waterfall-iteritive methodologies, FTP, Agile methodology.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Onboarding, Knowledge Transfer and in house curriculum .
• Monitor, Create, approve and correct DB2 transactions

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Technical Specification Documents.
• Planed project logic path
• The development team used Agile methodology

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Technical Specification Documents.
• Executed Surveys and did research for new and modified Programs
• Created JCL (Execute JCL and PROCS) for brokerage instrument order - and-transaction pricing.
• Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules were to be created and/or modified.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Technical Specification Documents for new and modified interface COBOL programs
• Formed a new Global Collections System of vendor and owned systems to process individual Bank instruments.
• Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules were affected.

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coding to perform mandated project to de-commission programs, procs and jobs and files for the new execution of the new system to process Confidential claims after acquiring said claims from Confidential
• Analyzed Business requirements to determine and implement appropriate de-commissions and coding changes/additions.
• Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules were affected.

Confidential, Brookfield, WI

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coding to expand and recover new captured information for Authorized User requests from bank servers.
• Analyzed Business requirements to determine and implement appropriate coding changes/additions.
• Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules (approx. 120 Tables) were used.
• Built in flexibility to accommodate future expansion for new applications and clients was necessary..
• Coding to create system programs to adjudicate Bank supported refund reward requests for Bank subscribers.

Confidential, Eveleth, MN

Senior Programmer Analyst / Technical Lead - Staff

Responsibilities:

• Creation and maintenance of client systems comprised of COBOL, CICS, DB2 and EASYTRIEVE PLUS programs.
• I have maintained the Provider Contract file for claims pricing and I have written enhancements for Professional claims processing for COBOL II, EASYTRIEVE PLUS and CICS modules.
• Wrote functional design and technical specification documents
• Created test matrices, test results, implementation plans and installation guides.

Confidential, Altoona, PA

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation of a new system of COBOL, CICS and EASYTRIEVE PLUS programs to manage client accounts after a bank merger.
• Developed Product Pricing and Statement Services systems for all Securities, Trust and Demand Deposit accounts from two distinct banking environments after a merger.
• The system priced and billed all products for all owned accounts.
• Responsibilities included design of the DB2 environment, design coding and testing of online/DB2 and batch/DB2 modules, user acceptance testing, coordination of production moves with change control, and executing production moves through the ENDEVOR change management environment.
• Responsibilities extended to production support and maintenance after the new system was implemented.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation of a new batch system to process daily trades.
• Processing included calculations for net money, commission, interest, taxes, postage and handling fees, etc. in COBOL II CICS and COBOL II DB2/SQL modules.

Confidential, Tarrytown, NY

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The system processes information from municipalities throughout the country using COBOL, CICS and an ADABASE database.
• Conversion of Motor Vehicle ticketing, accounting and tracking system from COBOL to COBOL II/MVS and inspecting and correcting for Y2K compliance.
• The system required processing information from the Securities Master Data Base, which involved creating, testing and inserting imbedded SQL queries (for DB2 lookups) in COBOL II programs.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and enhancement of the New Accounts system
• Responsibilities included enhancement, expansion and operational tuning of existing system.
• Specific tasks included adding "external" file capability to existing job stream, and analyzing and replacing selected DB2 "order by" coding with external sorts to improve performance.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The project was to provide client access to all data, previously available only through Mainframe batch reporting systems, via Client Server technology, through servers on the client's site or "super" servers residing at the host (Pershing) site.
• My overall responsibility was the construction of a system to migrate all mainframe data to the server side, both as initial load and daily update.
• Most data resided in a DB2 database.
• Responsibilities also included providing an online capability for authorized supervisors to grant data access to the appropriate clients.