Mainframe Application Programmer/Analyst Resume

SUMMARY

To gain employment by providing the technical expertise and effort required to assist my employer to achieve department productivity and quality goals as a mainframe applications programmer.
My technical skills encompass knowledge of COBOL, Easytrieve, Assembler, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF, and Command Level CICS. Knowledge of IBM Utilities, FileAid, Xpediter, AbendAid, and MS Office.
Scrum was the methodology used for managing larger projects.
Software professional with 20+ years of IT experienced in the system analysis, design, development, administration, testing and support of mainframe applications with emphasis on life insurance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Application Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed, tested, and implemented new bonus enhancement (GA Training Bonus).
Large role in enhancing additional bonus enhancements (Incentive Bonus, Agency Bonus, Leadership Bonus,...).
Setting up and running overnight test cycles for System Tests of several large projects.
Modified online screens as requested by the Users for increased functionality.
Several enhancements projects for LAWSON claims processing.
Provided on - call support of overnight Agency batch processing.

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Application Programmer

Responsibilities:

Assigned to a 12 member team that applied various enhancements to the base administrative system to process policyholder policies and agent compensation in line with the client company's procedures and specifications in these areas of the system.
Was able to quickly learn the client's modification procedures and applications.
Provided updates on progress and completion of assigned base system enhancements during weekly status meetings.

Confidential

Senior Member/Technical Staff

Responsibilities:

Gather information and gain consensus from clients and management to finalize business requirements.
Analyze the system, prepare a general specification, and submit a time estimate for project completion.
Conduct a design review walkthrough of the general specification before a review panel.
Make logic, file, and report modifications as prescribed in the specification.
Design test data/files, create test plan/test matrix, perform tests and analyze results.
Regularly track hours accrued for each project to ensure that projects are delivered on time and produce timely status reports for project lead.
Work with quality assurance business analysts performing system tests and provide any additional changes required to obtain quality assurance approval.
Perform documentation updates for all system modifications.