SPECIALIST APPLICATION DEVELOPER Resume Profile

SENIOR APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER CONSULTANT

Experienced COBOL/DB2/CICS Applications Developer and dependable team player, offering expertise in programming, design/documentation and QA Testing.
Recognized for excellent performance in translating business requirements into technology solutions with a commitment to quality and usability. Demonstrated ability to take on administrative tasks.
Lead developer on large-scale, complex projects from design and development to testing and full launch.
Proven ability to work both full time and contract positions.

Key Expertise

TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE

Current Experience : COBOL DB2 SQL CICS JCL Xpediter Changeman Fileaid Syncsort
Enterprise System Platform ESP MS Word Excel Visio Connect:Direct NDM
Previous Experience: SAS Oracle QMF Perl Javascript HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SR. SPECIALIST APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Design/Development

Billing Data Services BDS Application: a COBOL/DB2 mission critical Enterprise customer account and data storage application that interfaces with 122 applications. Met all project deadlines. Zero production defects caused by implemented code. Provided ongoing support for projects in Production.

Key Projects

United Collections System Project

Lead Mainframe Developer for this 5-month conversion of customers to a new collection vendor for 12 divisions covering 18 million customers.
Responsible for the Mainframe design and documentation.
Coded new/modified existing COBOL DB2 programs, JCL, Catalogued Procs, control cards and GDG's to allow concurrent processing of divisions in various stages of conversion.
Coded DB2 SQL statements utilizing inner joins, outer joins, Inserts and Updates as necessary.
Designed and executed unit, regression and performance testing using Xpediter.
Modified existing programs in a structured manner to facilitate extraction of the code when the conversion completed.
Monitored 5 weekend conversions and provided updates to senior leadership on its progress.
Lead developer on project shutdown. Retired conversion components, extracted conversion code from daily master table update process and completed regression testing.

Profile Delivery System Project

A COBOL/Oracle/VSAM batch and CICS application which handled Internet enrollment, billing, credit card validation, choice of service plans, additional 'child' accounts, disconnects and account history to the Prodigy Internet service acquired by AT T .
Coded new CICS program that executed a DB2 query to find the username and domain for a customer id when linked to by other programs
Enhanced password change edits.

Data Retention Enhancement Project

Improved the data retention process resulting in a comprehensive records management compliant architecture.
Created COBOL/DB2 programs, JCL and Procs to unload 7 year-old adjustment memos from DB2 tables to a file, then read the file and Inserted records with legal holds into archive tables. Utilized Sendmail to notify Support Team of errors. Tested using Xpediter.

PREVIOUS CICS EXPERIENCE

Developed elements of a new COBOL/DB2/VSAM Remittance Processing System: a Batch Wire Editor which scanned for occurrences of valid ID strings listed in a reference table writing invalid wires to a DB2 table for later QMF reports.
Facilitated data entry by eliminating hard code that limited input to one CICS screen and implemented scrolling to 99 editable lines.
Created a more dynamic CICS environment by eliminating hard coded maps and designing file driven menus with paging to allow for growth.

OTHER CODING EXPERIENCE

Registration Configuration Tool

A web based Intranet GUI running on an OS390 based web server that maintained a database of Oracle tables containing Registration IDs, Access Codes and deals used by customers for Internet registration via CD or web.
Rewrote the tool into Perl and Javascript.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Provided rotating 24 x 7 'on call' support for the Billing Data Services COBOL batch system.
Analyzed program abends, investigated and resolved data discrepancies with interfacing applications and updated trouble tickets.
Followed-up on root cause and long-term solutions fully documented issues for future reference.