SUMMARY:

• A solutions - oriented Information Technology Professional primarily acting as a Mainframe Application Developer and Support Specialist.
• Programmer/Analyst with proven success coordinating and producing highly functional and bug-free business applications and databases, supporting system implementations, process improvements, large-scale IT initiatives, and on call support.
• Expert in gathering requirements, analyzing, designing, coding, testing, implementation, and post implementation with almost all languages, databases, tools, processes, and procedures used within an IBM mainframe environment.

SKILL:

COBOL

CICS

IMS DB/DC

DB2

MVS - Z/OS

JCL

TSO/ISPF

XPEDITER/EXPEDITER

CA-INTERTEST (Like XPEDITER)

ENDEVOR

SQL

SQL Server, not including SSIS and SSRS

Visual Basic .NET

Training Only

Visual Studio

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: IBM Mainframe (Z/OS, OS/390, and MVS/ESA), MS Windows

Expert in: COBOL, TSO/ISPF, JCL, File-Aid, XPEDITER, DB2, CICS, BMS, REXX, CLIST, EASYTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, SQL, SPUFI, IMS DB/DC, ENDEVOR, Change-Man, Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Word, Outlook)

Advanced experience in: QMF, CA-INTERTEST, SDF II

Intermediate experience in: Assembler, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), NDM, FTP, Visio, CA-DATACOM, METACOBOL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Resolve abends and other issues that prevent the PIPS system from working properly.
• Develop minor and major project enhancements.
• Major projects include the Parts Reform project which added on a new Parts Distribution Center in Peoria, project to send data about shipments to a 3PL via EDI, and project to change to how PIPS processes parts returned from customers.
• Manage team workload
• Assign tickets to team members
• Consult with management on priorities
• Make sure proper change management procedures are followed
• Provide support to the interfaces to PIPS.
• Downloads to SQL Server databases
• SAP interfaces
• Parts pricing
• MQ Series interfaces
• Web ordering interface
• Web application to view customer invoices
• Applications that provide Business Intelligence information
• Printing invoice, packing, and shipping documentation
• Some documents were printed using Flexform
• Some documents were sent to SharePoint
• Facilitate security requests for both new user ids and changes to existing access.
• Determine access required
• Create requests to the RACF group to make changes
• Maintain database security tables
• Liaison to the Ensono/Wipro company that hosts the mainframe services.
• Support upgrades and software maintenance changes.
• Create requests for database changes for the DB2 DBAs
• Perform preemptive measures to improve the PIPS application
• Provide reports to auditors for SOX compliance
• Perform disaster recovery exercises each year
• Provide mentoring/coaching to the other team members

Environment: IBM Z/OS, MS Windows, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB/DC, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, REXX, DB2, Word, Excel, Access, SYNCSORT, SQL Server, CA-EASYTRIEVE, CA-SYSVIEW, CA-SCHEDULER, SCLM.

Applications: The PIPS application includes the following functionality: Customer sales ordering, Vendor purchasing, Inventory control, Customer invoicing, Vendor invoicing

Contract Mainframe Developer

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support for 5 different application systems.
• Coordinated activities with offshore resources.
• Simplified manual monthly process for ICRED application.
• Retired/decommissioned one of the 5 applications systems. This included archiving data that needed to be retained, deleting all datasets in production and test, having all DB2 objects removed, and removing all jobs from the scheduler.
• Performed disaster recovery exercise.
• Helped end users create adhoc reports.
• Made several minor maintenance changes including a billing rate change.
• Created and maintained documentation critical to security and compliance requirements.

Environment: IBM Z/OS, MS Windows, COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, DB2, FOCUS, Word, Excel, File-Aid, File-Aid/DB2, ADGEN, CA-GEN, SYNCSORT, XPEDITER, IMS DB/DC

Applications: Billing, Telephone Pole Inventory, Tax calculation

Programmer/Analyst/Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Produced impact analysis and other analysis reports using Access and Excel.
• Collaborated on tasks to compile the logical design for the Generic Contract Processing System (GCPS).
• Trained on the GCPS and Blue Chip claims processing to gain knowledge on how to process claims for testing.
• Suggested design ideas on how to accomplish what the business wanted GCPS to do for ICD-10 compliance.
• Collaborated on tasks to create the physical design for the GCPS system for the ICD-10 project.
• Created conversion programs to change the diagnosis and procedure codes relationships to the Benefit
• Contracts within the GCPS system utilizing batch COBOL, VSAM, and JCL.
• Designed, coded, tested, and implemented several changes to the Generic Contract Processing System (GCPS) and Blue Chip Claims Processing system for ICD-10 project. The GCPS system consists of several CICS applications and batch COBOL jobs using VSAM files. Some of the modules interfaced with CICS DB2 modules.
• Resolved several abends that occurred in the Blue Chip Claims Processing system after some of the
• CD-10 changes made by others were implemented.
• Designed, coded, tested, and implemented several mass update programs for the Generic Contract Processing System (GCPS) utilizing batch COBOL, VSAM, and JCL. Many of these mass updates were required by the ACA legislation.
• Provided leadership for planning the scheduling and deployment of these mass update programs.
• Followed all processes and procedures required for deploying scheduled business releases and deployment of the mass update programs.
• Provided an unofficial technical leadership role for my immediate team of 4 and the ICD-10 team of 15 coaching others on the use of CA-INTERTEST, DB2, how Java was interfacing with the Real Time Benefits application, how the Real Time Benefits application interfaced with the DB2 pricing module, and other tools.
• Provided an unofficial technical leadership role for a team of 3 on interfacing a SQL Server application with a mainframe application using FTP as a means to update the mainframe GCPS application and track the results of these updates.

Environment: IBM Z/OS, MS Windows, COBOL, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, VSAM, MS Access, Excel, CA-ENDEVOR, CA-FILEMASTER, DB2, SYNCSORT

Applications: Health Insurance - Benefits Coding

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed applications to aid in their processing of invoices returned by manufacturers because the coupons did not belong to them.
• Enhanced and tested a solution to allow for one-time fees that were not associated with the usual coupon processing. This included developing a new CICS application, some batch applications, and enhancing existing applications that use METACOBOL and CA-DATACOM.
• Performing tasks associated with the parallel testing of the existing mainframe systems with the new Microsoft systems using Micro Focus COBOL that they are migrating from the mainframe environment. This includes tasks to synchronize files between the environments and create extract files for comparisons.
• Developed MS Access database and reports to determine files that need to be synchronized between the mainframe environment and the Micro Focus environment.
• Performed tasks to send and convert files from the mainframe environment to the Micro Focus environment.

Environment: IBM Z/OS, MS Windows, COBOL, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, REXX,CA-DATACOM, METACOBOL, MS Access, Excel, CA-Librarian, SYNCSORT

Applications: Coupons Processing

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, Brookfield, WI

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance, and test applications for the client’s credit card statements processing running on a legacy IBM mainframe (Z/OS and MVS) environment.
• Used a large number of technical skills (such as COBOL, TSO/ISPF, JCL, DB2, and CICS) to perform minor and major enhancements to these systems including creating new programs and applications.
• Statements Customizing - The goal of this project is to create domains of variables that can be used to customize the statements for the various partners/business units for Confidential instead of needing to make coding changes to their applications every time a new partner/business unit is added on.
• Created 8 new COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs and 8 BMS/CICS screens that will maintain the domains of variables for phase 2 of this project. These programs totaled 13137 lines of code and the screens totaled 1293 lines of code. The coding and unit testing were completed in 134 of the 260 allocated hours.
• Regulations 2010 - The goal of this project is to modify Confidential ’s applications to be in compliance with the 2010 Regulations set by the government.
• Modified 2 APS/COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs per the specifications. The changes totaled 124 lines of code. The coding and unit testing was completed in 24 of the 60 allocated hours.
• Made enhancements to add the new Ace Hardware client to the systems.
• This included making changes to that produced the CMS code.

Environment: IBM Z/OS, MS Windows, COBOL, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, BMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, DFSORT, IBM FILE-MANAGER, IBM DEBUG, APS COBOL Generator, FOCUS, Excel

Applications: Credit Card Statements Processing

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Information Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Participated as a team member on a task to automate the money transfers from the Franchisee to SEI. Coded and tested 6 COBOL/CICS/CA-DATACOM programs and 5 CICS Maps within 1.5 months for this mission critical project that needed to be completed within 3 months. As a direct result of this new application, SEI was able to find several situations where the money owed to SEI was being reported inaccurately by the Franchisee.
• Automated CA-DATACOM database monitoring by creating a new process to monitor the table sizes and alert the team so proactive steps could be taken to prevent nightly space abends.
• Improved Bill-Back Purges by implementing changes to the existing Bill-Back purges and the interrelationship between the 8 CA-DATACOM databases eliminating orphan records, which in turn improved the daily and weekly run cycles.
• Provided 24x7 on-call support

Environment: IBM Z/OS, MS Windows, COBOL, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, BMS, SDF II, REXX, SYNCSORT, CA-DATACOM, Change-man, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, Access, Excel, Word, Visio, FTP

Applications: Retail and Accounting systems