Skills Summary

JIM HAS OVER 20 YEARS IN A BROAD SPECTRUM OF ACTIVITIES INCLUDING SYSTEM ANALYSIS, SYSTEM DESIGN, PROGRAMMING AND CONVERSIONS. APPLICATION AREAS JIM HAS WORKED ON INCLUDE BANKING, MANUFACTURING, INSURANCE, ENGINEERING, AND ORDER MANAGEMENT, PACKAGED SYSTEMS, FORECASTING AND INVENTORY CONTROL.

MAINFRAME DATABASE SOFTWARE/LANGUAGE/UTILITY

• IDMS IDMS-DC, ADSO, IDD, OLQ, DMLO, CULPRIT
• IMS IMS-DC/DB IMS/DLI.MFS
• DB2 SQL, SPUF1, DB2 UTILITIES, QMF,
• CICS BMS, INTEREST, SDF, CEDF EXPEDITOR
• VSAM IDCAMS, IBM UTILIIES
• LANGUAGE COBOL, EASYTRIEVE COBOL2 MICROFOCUS, SAS
• MVS TSO/ISP, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, FILEAID, ENDEAVOR

WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL

• MICROSOFT OFFICE PRODUCTS -EXCEL, WORD, ACCESS, PROJECT
• VISIO, LOTUS NOTES, MQ-SERIES
• SQL SERVER, STORED PROCEDURES, DTS
• VB.NET, PHP/MYSQL, FTP

Work Experience

Consultant

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst. Created and modified existing legacy cobol and easytrieve programs and modules. Developed and executed test cases, runbooks and playbooks, creating test data files , creating and modifying JCL, Procs, Copybooks where applicable to aid in the testing scenarios and also to support feedback from Business Analysts. Interacted with business analysts to gather and define business requirements and translate business requirements into technical specifications. Other tasks included production/testing support for mock and dress rehearsals of upcoming conversion rollouts. Mainframe responsibilities utilized IMS and DB2 programming environment SPUFI, COBOL II, CHANGEMAN, IMS DB/DC, NDM ,EXPEDITOR,FTP.

The tasks were required to facilitate the conversion of data both Manual and Automated in support of JPMorgan Chase Credit card processing. Other tasks included creating a strip/load environment for extracting and loading of data from one Lpar to another.

Consultant

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst. Developed and modified existing programs and modules. Developed and executed test cases, creating test data files , creating and modifying JCL, updating databases where applicable to facilitate the testing scenarios and also to support feedback from end users. Maintain a data security program for the protection of all information systems data including mainframe and software applications. Interacted with business users to gather and define business requirements and translate business requirements into technical specifications. Mainframe responsibilities utilized DB2 programming environment SPUFI, COBOL II, CHANGEMAN, IMS DB/DC, NDM.

The tasks were required to facilitate the passing of transactional data and to add in the scanning operation utilized by international operations in tracing and collection of funds OFAC .

Consultant

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst responsible for building the processes and infrastructure, to provide Merrill Lynch Clearing with the ability to capture transaction Trade details also responsible for transitioning from DB2 environment to an VB.Net web application to provide Merrill Lynch Clearing the ability to display screens via Visual Studio application projects. This application had an N-tier architecture with business, data, and configuration layers for greater encapsulation. The back-end was a '3rd normalized' SQL Server database.

Mainframe responsibilities included gathering information, developing program specs, code, unit and system testing, utilizing DB2 programming environment SPUFI, COBOL, VIASOFT, ENDEVOR.

PC responsibilities included developing screens/forms and depicting table data transactions via data grids and controls.VB.NET/IDE environment utilizing SQLSERVER/DTS, STORED PROCS.

Confidential

Performed analysis, development and enhancements to a Claims legacy system for a major Health care environment located in Valley Forge Pa. Duties were accomplished using COBOL2, DB2/SQL, MVS, QMF, CICS-Expeditor, Endevor, Easytrieve, IMS/DB, and Stored Procedures.

Worked as a team member to create and change legacy programs 12 to support user claims processing activities. HIPAA qualified as a result of participation on this project. Created functional and program specs to define necessary tasks, and also mapped database elements to align to the business requirement spec.

Consultant

Confidential

Performed analysis, development and enhancements to a financial accounting system for a major private banking environment located in Newark Del. Duties were accomplished using COBOL2, DB2/SQL, VSAM, CICS, INTERTEST, NDM,FTP.

Consultant

Programming/Developer

Confidential

Analysis, development and enhancements to a statement reporting system for a major financial trust corporation technologies used to accomplish tasks were COBOL 2, Endevor, DB2-SQL, IMS/DB/DC worked as a team member to develop and change individual and group investors financial statements.

Consultant

Programming And Analysis

Confidential

Enhancements and development to a customer information system utilizing Cobol 2, CICS, DB2, Easytrieve, and VSAM. Work was accomplished for a National Corporation Repair Service Industry leader.

Consultant

Programming And Analysis

Confidential

Maintenance enhancements to loan information legacy system, IMS/MFS for screen development and IMS-DB for batch programs was utilized for completion of tasks for a major commercial bank.

Consultant

Programming and Analysis

Confidential

Duties involved writing functional specs, detail design specs and coding using PEOPLESOFT SQR. This involvement included interaction the user community to define specs and also be part of a conversion team to convert and download from an existing VSAM GENERAL LEDGER system to a Peoplesoft software package. Microfocus COBOL II, XDB, and Microsoft workbench was also utilized to complete the tasks.

Consultant-Programming/Analysis

Confidential

Converting and downloading from an IDMS database to extract files and reports. Application consisted of a banking environment utilizing wholesale banking account products. COBOL II, IDMS utilities/culprit.

Consultant

Confidential

Programming analysis for an international chemical company, part of a five-person team that was involved in converting an IMS/Database system to a Tesseract software package. Applications areas that were converted consisted of Payroll, Benefits and Human Resources. Tasks were performed using IMS, CICS, SAS Reporting, and COBOL II.

Consultant

Confidential

Tasks comprised programming and analysis for a major home shopping network. Part of a development team to install various projects to support a large warehouse system. Technology used was CICS/DB2, COBOL2 VSAM, and TSO/ISPF.