PROFESSIONAL Summary

20 Years Developing and Maintaining individual mainframe projects through the entire systems development life cycle resulting in on-time, defect free deliverables. Focus has been heavily on large-scale enterprise wide applications.

RECENT EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Marriot Corporation

• Marriot Customer Information Reservation System CRIS System allows Marriot Associates to take create and maintain reservations from preferred customers. Associates enter reservation requests through the Java front end and are transmitted to COBOL/DB2 and IMS components Stored Procedures and Subroutines which, in turn, update the IBM Z/OS V10 DB2 database.
• Developed and Unit Tested the several CRIS AWARDS back end Cobol/DB2 components which allows associates to order awards for customers enrolled in Marriot's Preferred Customer Program.
• Used Jackson Work Bench Yourdon Based Design/Code Generator to develop the COBOL/DB2 Back End Components.
• Performed Automated Testing using IBM Rational Data Studio

Environment: JACKSON WORK BENCH CODE GENERATOR, IBM Rational Data Studio, ENTERPRISE COBOL, DB2, IMS/DB/DC, FILEAID, JCL, TSO, JCL PROCS, SYNCSORT, BMC DB2 Utilities, PANAPT, AVERS

Confidential

COBOL Developer/ Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Monitored nightly Batch COBOL/DB2 jobs, performed root cause analysis of ABEND, and fixed when necessary.
• Recovered SOAR batch application Development and Test environments, Created Ad-Hoc jobs to refresh to refresh DB2 Development tables
• Applied 2012 Federal and State Tax enhancements to monthly payroll/pension deduction jobs.
• Enhanced existing Payroll/Pension ACH Paycheck distribution process to ensure direct deposits transmitted correctly to Wells Fargo replacing Wachovia.
• Developed the Pension Systems batch COBOL/SFTP interface with the IRS's GOVERIFY web portal which processes existing DC government retirees against the SSA Death Master, identify deceased pensioners and stops paying them monthly distribution.
• Environment: ENTERPRISE COBOL CICS, DB2, FILEAID, JCL, TSO, JCL PROCS, SYNCSORT, BMC DB2 Utilities, ENDEVOR, UC4 Scheduling, AVERS, TRMS.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Programmer/Analyst on a team responsible for the full life cycle development of an enhanced Collection Subsystem using COBOL, CICS, DB2, and IMS.
• Developed online backend ENTERPRISE COBOL, Online COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs with interfaced with COLDFUSION front FHA Federal Housing Authority CONNECT Web Portal from Detailed Design SPECS.
• Used CA-7 Personal Scheduler to execute Ad-hoc report jobs for Data Analysis Purposes
• Translated Client User Requirements into Detailed Design Documents, Unit Test Plans, andUse Cases.
• Created an ERD documenting the application's Database in Visio.
• Used HTML test pages to perform interface testing with XML components of COBOL/CICS/DB2 Programs.
• Used IDCAMS REPRO to Copy VSAM Records to Flat Files.
• Functional Testing of COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs with COLDFUSION front End Modules.
• Executed Online and Batch DB2/SPUFI SQL to performed data validation and Test SQL.
• Executed DB2 BMC Tools to developed larges quantities of Information for Volume testing.
• Used FILEAID to create Unit Test Input Files.
• Used ENDEVOR to maintain track, maintain and migrate Software Components through the release management process.

Environment: ENTERPRISE COBOL CICS, DB2, IMS/DB/DC, FILEAID, JCL, JCL PROCS, SYNCSORT, BMC DB2 Utilities, ENDEVOR, CA-7 Scheduling System

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used ENDEVOR scans to retrieve programs.
• Prepared level of effort estimates to finish by analyzing the COBOL module, execution JCL, catalog procedures, input files, output file, and references files.
• Lead Code Requirement walkthroughs as required
• Interfaced with external end users, actuaries, developers and other SME's to capture requirements.
• Reverse Engineer the COBOL code, JCL, PROCS.
• Wrote SAS 9.0 Ad-hoc programs to produce Data Quality Control and Analysis Reports
• Used MS-WORD to produce the business detail design documents which explain the business rules in each module, the pseudo code supporting each business rule, and input/out data mapping, and error conditions in each module.
• Data mapping done in MS-EXCEL, and ACCESS.
• Data Flow Diagrams done in VISIO.
• Conducted peer reviews with Actuarial team members to ensure that each document for completeness and accuracy.
• Used SYNCSORT and IEBGENER to massage sequential files containing test data.

Environment: ENTERPRISE COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, BMC DB2 Utilities, SYNCSORT, ENVEVOR, CA-7 Scheduling System

Confidential

SAT Tester

Create and executed test plans for each business case during for the Entry Summary Accounts Revenue ESAR release supporting ACE's ability provide Ocean and Rail Manifest information to DHS and External End Users

Environment: Mercury Test Director and Quality Center.

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Enhancement to produce a checklist of associated documentation levels deliverable.
• Preparing a Project Plan breaking down the level of effort for each component need to finish each deliverable. Each Project Plan contained, at minimum, a User Requirements, High level Analysis, Detailed Analysis, Detailed Design, Test Plan and Production Implementation Documents for each enhancement or maintenance project.
• Coding enhancements COBOL II /CICS/DATACOM programs which transmitted MQ Series Transactions between the FBI National Crime Information Center and the CBP.
• Maintained Batch COBOL programs executed with in stream JCL jobs and catalogued JCL PROCS.
• Used INTERTEST in batch mode to test batch COBOL Jobs and interactive mode to test COBOL/CICS/DATACOM/MQ Series programs.
• Used ROSCOE and TSO/ISPF to perform query PDS and edit functions on Files.
• Used NDM in TSO/ISPF to perform software interface testing between MQ Queues, CICS programs and DATACOM Tables.
• Created FTP jobs to transmitted mass quantities of data between IBM mainframe and the LAN environment.
• Lead Design and Code Walkthrough to ensure code support requirements
• Each project plan was executed was beginning to end with exit gate reviews to ensure each stage was completed in agreement with the plan.
• Once projects were moved into production, on-call monitoringfor enhancement issues.
• On-call Production was rotated between team members on a weekly basis.

Environment: MVS/COBOL, CICS, BMS, MQ Series NDM , DATACOM, JCL, VSAM, SAS 9.0, TSO/ISPF, FTP, ROSCOE, INTERTEST, ABENDAID, CA-7 Scheduling System

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Enhancement to produce a checklist of associated documentation levels deliverable.
• Preparing a Project Plan braking down the level of effort for each component need to finish each deliverable. Each Project Plan contained, at minimum, a User Requirement, High level Analysis, Detailed Analysis, Detailed Design, Test Plan and Production Implementation Documents for each enhancement or maintenance project.
• Preparing User Requirements, Detail Design documents
• Coding enhancements into COBOL, CICS, BMS, DATACOM and SAS 8.0 programs
• Conducted Performance Tuning into optimize DATACOM DQL statements
• Lead Design and Code Walkthrough to ensure code support requirements
• Preparing Test Plans, and production implementations.
• Each project plan was executed was beginning to end with exit gate reviews to ensure each stage was completed in agreement with the plan.
• Post deployment monitoring for any enhancement issues.
• Acted as the primary and/ or secondarynightly, On-Call production support person to provide root cause analysis and repairing the problem where necessary.

Environment: MVS/COBOL, CICS,BMS, MQ Series, CA/DATACOM/DB, JCL, VSAM, SAS 9.0, TSO/ISPF,FTP, ROSCOE, INTERTEST, ABENDAID,LIBRARIAN and TICTOC, CA-7 Scheduling System