EXPERIENCE SYNOPSIS

Over thirty years IT expertise encompassing programming, business analysis, scope and design development, project leadership, software installation and applications support. Strengths include superior communications, analytical and organizational skills, problem solving, multi-tasking, and detail orientation. Possesses significant expertise in data analysis and process re-engineering. Experience includes:

• Leading efforts to document data mapping rules and report development
• Database Design and Data Modeling data, ER process diagrams mapping data from various hierarchical, flat and relational sources
• Facilitating Joint Application Design JAD Sessions User interaction to gather data information
• Data design and mapping from legacy system to client server environments
• Working in blended team environments on and off-shore resources
• DMV/Homeland Security-required Real ID
• Implementation of changes to State Government systems to accommodate the new Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare
• Vendor software installation, support and mentoring with tools such as MicroFOCUS products MicroFOCUS COBOL, NetExpress, Mainframe Express MFE and MFEEE , XDB, SQL Wizard, and Mainframe Access MFA as a Support Analyst, as well as, using the tools for development.
• HIPAA-oriented medical insurance, health care, financial, purchasing and materials management applications, and with MicroFOCUS.
• Recent experience with data transformation and conversion in a merger / acquisition environment. Translation of data between different systems.

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE APPLICATIONS

• MicroFocus products Affordable Care Act Obamacare
• Applications support State Government
• Consulting Insurance Claims and Premiums
• Programming Order processing
• Systems design and business analysis Manufacturing
• System Development Life Cycle SDLC Inventory control
• Software evaluation Public utilities
• Software package modification and installation Material management
• Trainer and mentor COBOL productivity tools
• Pre-Sales Consulting Health care
• Data transformation / ETL Mergers and Acquisitions

IBM MAINFRAME LEGACY IBM PC/LAN

• MVS, ZOS, DOS/VSE, OS390, ESA MICROFOCUS COBOL, ANIMATOR
• COBOL, COBOL II, PL/I, APS MICROFOCUS WORKBENCH
• CICS, SDF, VSAM, TSO/ISPF MICROFOCUS NET EXPRESS,
• ENDEVOR, PANVALET, CHANGEMAN, PVCS MS WINDOWS 95 thru 7
• OS/MVS, DOS/VSE, JCL, CLIST NOVELL NETWARE
• IDCAMS, OS/MVS UTILITIES MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE
• EXPEDITER, INTERTEST
• FILEAID, SYNCSORT
• IMS DB/DC, DB
• MICROFOCUS MFEEE MAINFRAME EXPRESS ENTERPRISE EDITION
• MICROFOCUS MODERNIZATION WORKBENCH

DETAIL WORK HISTORY

Confidential

COBOL Developer

Short-term assignment to help out with a variety of claims and premium-oriented applications to accomplish the transformation and conversion of data from a recently acquired property and casualty insurance company. Required the creation and maintenance of MS Excel spreadsheets to track and document the data field by field, and the programming of interfaces between existing Nationwide systems and those currently being used by the acquired company. Created CSV files from various different input formats. Some of the work was done using the Agile methodology, but most of it in the traditional waterfall manner. Tools used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IBM and 3rd party utilities such as File Manager and Syncsort, on IBM Z/OS systems. Microsoft's Share Point was used for project planning and tracking.

Confidential

Worked on a project to replace portions of their legacy Medicaid eligibility applications with Accenture's ELIAS, and making changes to the systems to accommodate the Affordable Care Act . Required the creation of interfaces to existing mainframe systems with a new server-based system. Some of the work involved the use of Agile methodology, with most of it done the traditional waterfall way. Work included programming in COBOL, building JCL and control cards, and working with a scheduler. The two primary DHS environments are a Legacy Cobol/CICS/VSAM systems and a client server/Web systems. Most current systems are centralized, but there are distributed systems as well that are used in field offices and DHS-owned and operated facilities. Many systems are home-grown, while some systems use third-party applications. Requirements included working from provided requirements with little or no supervision, mimicking existing code styles and making changes that maintain the look and feel of the original program, translating business requirements into technical specifications and design building application programs based upon technical design. Tools used include CICS, VSAM, JCL, IBM utilities on IBM Z/OS systems, with Microsoft's Share Point being used for project planning and tracking.

Confidential

pre-sales consultant

Worked on preparation and pre-sales for multiple clients, using Micro Focus Modernization Workbench and Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition MFEEE . Performed analysis on customer code, including mainframe elements such as COBOL programs, JCL, CICS screens and programs, and other related mainframe entities. Participated in presentations to customer, performed statistical and performance analysis, ran demos for customer.

Confidential

contractor/developer

Worked on modification and maintenance of batch and online mainframe applications, particularly with SWIFT applications. Wrote new programs to automate the generation of confirmation letters, plus other miscellaneous maintenance projects as assigned. Work included the writing of new programs, maintaining old ones, changing JCL and parameter information, and testing. Tools used included COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, SQL, TSO/ISPF, IBM ZOS JCL, CHANGEMAN, SYNCSORT, SPUFI, and INTERTEST.

Confidential

contractor / developer

Worked on US Homeland Security-required Real ID project, making changes to programs, screens, data bases, reports, and files, to incorporate new and expanded fields and data. Member of a 5-man team performing the work, which affected virtually every system in production at the MVA. Duties included research to find which programs were affected and needed to be changed, making the changes in files, data bases, programs, reports and screens, then testing the changes, first in a Unit Test environment, then eventually in a QA, and subsequent implementation. Tools used included COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, TSO/ISPF, IBM MVS JCL, IDCAMS, FILE MANAGER, SYNCSORT, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, and FTP.

Confidential

contractor / developer

Worked on ASI Material Management Supply Line software, specifically the Purchasing, Material Request, Bill of Materials BOM and Inventory modules. Maintenance and support programming, including modifications, trouble-shooting, one-off interfaces and extracts, ad hoc report programs, on-call support. Program code, JCL and utility changes are made utilizing IBM MVS-related tools such as TSO/ISPF, COBOL, EZTRIEVE PLUS, IBM MVS JCL, IDCAMS, FILEAID, SYNCSORT, CA-7, LIBRARIAN, IMS/DC, DL1, CICS, FILEAID and VSAM. Also ancillary use of PC-based tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and FTP.

Confidential

Technical support consultant

Contract extended four times. Consultant on project converting a mainframe COBOL conversion to Micro Focus MFEEE Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition on a 3-tier network system. Responsible for planning, designing, installing and implementing MFEEE software on Intel Windows-based network servers, configuring server installation and tutoring and mentoring internal support personnel. Development of documentation, including user guides, how-to instruction procedures and technical write-ups. Testing, from smoke test through full integration parallel testing of software installation. Follow-up support, installation of vendor software upgrades, patches and fixes, maintenance of software in a steady-state environment. In addition to MFEEE, other Micro Focus tools used include XDB, SQL Wizard, DOS Commands. Also used mainframe tools such as ISPF, IBM Utilities and JCL, as well as PC/Network facilities such as Windows Active Directories, network security and Citrix access.

Confidential

Technical lead

Contract extended twice. Involved in major project converting mainframe APS applications to PC and network-oriented APP Master Builder AMB , which is part of Micro Focus Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition MFEEE . Conducted requirement-gathering user meetings to determine needs and plan the effort, then completed the actual migration of modules from the mainframe to the PC network, generation of COBOL code for debugging purposes, followed by unit testing on the network, and, finally, completion of the project by migrating the modules back to the mainframe via Changeman for final mainframe testing and verification. Also responsible for follow-up mentoring and support. Used mainframe tools such as ISPF, APS, CLIST, IBM Utilities and JCL, and PC/Network facilities such as Active Directories, network security access. Limited programming tasks, primarily in the conversion of PL/1 programs to COBOL.

Confidential

contractor, Programmer Analyst for highway maintenance equipment inventory and management. Miscellaneous PL/1 Maintenance programming, trouble-shooting and systems analysis. IBM JCL and Utilities modification and usage.

Confidential

Team Lead and Business Analyst for HIPAA transaction 278, also worked on HIPAA transactions 270/271 and 276/277. Performed first-level management duties, assigning work and tracking performance. Scheduled and participated in user, project management office and information systems meetings. Wrote scope and design documents for HIPAA projects. Performed documentation tasks, including the creation of a comprehensive Systems Documentation Manual for the Managed Care Authorization system. Programming on Tricare Claims and Authorization systems. Team leader on Tricare 278 implementation, including systems and parallel testing of batch cycle. Tracked and analyzed projects using Visio, MS Excel and MS Project. Programming using APS, IMS, SYNCSORT, DB2, CICS and COBOL.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst: Analysis and coding changes to existing MicroFocus COBOL programs and screens in automobile insurance systems. Mainframe and PC/LAN environments. Coding, testing and/or animation of changed modules. Most of the work was done using MicroFocus COBOL, Workbench and NetExpress on the PC/LAN. Mainframe work was done in the MVS environment, using CICS, SQL, JCL, IMS, IBM utilities, SYNCSORT and ENDEVOR.

Confidential

Software installer, consultant, trainer and support representative. Performed roll-outs , i.e., installing MicroFocus products MicroFocus COBOL, Mainframe Express, NetExpress, Mainframe Access, and Revolve on client workstations, Worked with systems programmers and PC administrators as necessary to make the changes to their existing systems to accommodate the MicroFocus products. Performed mentoring function in guiding and assisting the client users in becoming familiar with and using the products worked with Merant corporate designers and engineers in solving problems that arose in the client environments. Conducted basic training sessions on the installed products. Approximately 90 percent travel, nationwide as well as international. Prepared presentations and documents using MS Project and VISIO. Environments included IBM Mainframe, PC/LAN networks using Windows NT/95/98/2000, Novell Netware, FTP, MS ACCESS, TCP/IP. Embedded. Completed CMM Project Manager training program.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst: Performed Analysis, evaluation, and maintenance on existing COBOL and CICS for HR and related systems. Mainframe and PC/LAN environments. Analysis, coding, testing and/or animation, implementation of changed modules. Micro Focus COBOL, Workbench, MS ACCESS, FTP, and NetExpress. Mainframe work was done in a VM/CMS, DOS/VSE environment, using COBOL II, SPUFI, QMF, JCL, DB2/SQL, SYNCSORT, and CICS Command Level .