SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated, multifaceted Information Technology (IT) professional seeks position with a dynamic organization to leverage over 30 years expertise in Software Solutions & Development.
• 30+ years Mainframe Applications.
• 20+ years COBOL/COBOLII experience.
• 10+ years IMS DB/DC experience.
• 10+ years PL/1 experience.
• 7+ years of Mainframe QA testing.
• 5+ years MicroFocus COBOL experience.
• 15+ years DB2/CICS, SQL and TOAD.
• 25+ years OS/MVS JCL experience.
• 25+ years TSO/ISPF experience.
• 5+ years UNIX/Linux/Solaris Shell Scripts
• EDI, Eztrieve, Expediter Fileaid experience
• 3+ years Oracle 10g experience
• Recognized for training and mentoring new software developers in the numerous companies worked.
• Designed and built numerous processes such as file compression before daily update that resulted in efficiency and no more update failures.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

SENIOR MAINFRAME DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Receiving change requirements from users.
• Making the required changes and verifying them.

Confidential, DUNWOODY, GA

MicroFocus COBOL Programmer/Developer(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Programming team, I was responsible for the analysis and development of the MBRSEP field to accommodate more members into the co - operative.
• This was a MicroFocus COBOL, Oracle, UNIX on an HP 9000 Platform system.
• Reviewing the Cobol code for MBRSEP fields and other work areas used by MBRSEP.
• Making the changes and testing them.

Confidential, JUNO BEACH, FL

Production Passport Support/Developer

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for Supporting the Passport Software that was required for the maintenance of the Work Control Function of the Nuclear Power Plants in Turkey Point and Port Saint Lucie in Florida and the other Confidential sites using Passport.
• This was a Mainframe COBOL, DB2, UNIX and JCL system. Daily work included:
• Reviewing the batch Jobs that ran several times daily for messages.
• Verifying with other SME for any suspicious messages that show non-successful completion.
• After consultation between the analysts in Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) and the SAP, creating production data modifications (PDMs) using SQL to create software for data changes.
• When permanent changes were essential, the COBOL programs or copybooks were retrieved from Production library using CHANGEMAN and after changes and testing in the Testing environment, they are returned by the DBA to Production library.

Confidential, IOWA CITY, IA

QA Developer/Tester(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Tester, I was responsible for this Education Testing Company developing the testing tools for the schools in different states and subject matters.
• Software development used EXCEL and Proprietary Scripting for testing and JCL.

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

MicroFocus COBOL Developer(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• As a MicroFocus COBOL Developer for this Confidential subsidiary, I was responsible for their SUNGUARD release 5.6 system upgrade and Online Capability interface.
• Software development uses MicroFocus COBOL with UNIX Vi and Unix Scripting for testing.

Confidential, GRIFFIN, GA

MicroFocus COBOL Developer(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• As a MicroFocus COBOL Developer, I was responsible for their OshKosh/BGosh integration for the order processing systems.
• Software development uses JAD methodology in MicroFocus COBOL and Net Express 4.0 with imbedded Oracle 10.2 SQL.
• Testing was done using TOAD on an HP/Unix platform with an EDI interface.

Confidential, INDIANAPOLIS, IN

MicroFocus COBOL Developer(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• This was the first software to provide integration of financial data and healthcare data.
• Software development was in MicroFocus COBOL and Net Express 4.0 with an imbedded Oracle 10.2 SQL.
• Testing was done on a HP/Unix platform. DB2 SQL was also tested for the Mainframe back-end.
• Duties included extracting personal data from UHG and creating financial data for Visa/MC processing.
• A Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process was used.

Confidential, ALBUQUERQUE, NM

MicroFocus COBOL Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a MicroFocus COBOL Developer, I completed work for the largest Provider of Electricity and Gas for the States of New Mexico and Texas by creating an accounting interface for the support of transactions between PeopleSoft and Indus Passport platforms.
• Software development uses JAD methodology in MicroFocus COBOL and Net Express 4.0 with an imbedded Oracle 10.2 SQL.
• Testing was done on a HP/Unix platform.
• Duties included completing several accounting data reconciliation processes from creating work orders, issuing the invoices and processing checks.
• A Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process was used.

Confidential, EAGAN, MN

Production Software Support Lead

Responsibilities:

• My duties included but were not limited to being the on-site coordinator leading an offshore team of software technical resources.
• Ability to effectively communicate with users and the support team members was essential.
• PVCS was used for change management and migration from development to production.
• Testing was done using JCL and PROCS.
• Quick and precise problem tracking and resolution was essential.
• ADABAS NATURAL environment.

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with customers and other team members to gather information necessary to resolve problems was essential.
• Duplicating customers problems and environment was crucial.
• Creating solutions tailored to each customer request and environment was critical.
• Delivering tested customized solutions to all customers at each environment was necessary.