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Street Address Brookview Drive
Vernon, CT Street Address
PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE
EMAIL AVAILABLEPROFILEAccomplished Information Technology Professional
Career OverviewBackground features a record of consistent excellence in visible, responsible roles requiring technological knowledge, creativity and customer service.
Key StrengthsEnergetic; results-oriented; innovative; solution-driven. Outstanding analytical, organizational and project management skills. Proven ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse functional areas. Adaptable, as evidenced by success in multiple industries. Track record of taking initiative and employing creativity to solve technical problems, excellent testing ability.
EXPERIENCE Software Engineer Nelnet Rocky Hill, CT.
04/16/2012 present Test Management Support and Development Provide support for test data privacy applications and tools using IBM Optim, Informatica TDM, DB2, JCL.
Develop testing utilities and tools for application developers on the mainframe using Cobol, REXX, JCL and DB2.
Author and perform file conversions to mask data using mainframe and Optim and Informatica solutions. Provide developers with assistance for major projects in MVS Cobol/JCL/DB2 environment. Document Test Management procedures and user manuals
Consultant IBA Software Technologies Norwood, MA.
Client State of Rhode Island Labor Department, Cranston, RI
05/04/2010 04/09/2012 - AS400/VSE Cobol programmer Develop Unemployment Insurance applications for wage reporting programs, Interface program for VSE CICS Cobol to AS400 files, convert mainframe legacy FARS labor accounting system(batch and CICS) from SSN to employee id. UI SIDES(unemployment information separation information data exchange system) project cobol, XML design, coding and implementation.
Mainframe VSE Cobol, CICS, JCL, VSAM, ICCF SQL server queries AS400 Cobol, CL, queries, screen design Consultant TEKsystems Farmington, CT.
Client - CIGNA, Bloomfield, CT
11/02/2009 04/30/2010 Production Support, Web-IT
Provide support and maintenance to mainframe applications. Troubleshoot and coordinate repair of CIGNA front end and back end main processes using CICS transaction server 3.2 and Cobol II. Skills applied include DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, Endevor, FileAid, AbendAid, Expediter, DB2 Stored Procedures, UNIX scripting. Provide customer report and data extracts.
Coordinate tasking and quality control for offsite resources.
Transaction Methods 1155 Silas Deane Highway Wethersfield, CT 01/2008 4/2009 Cobol/VB6/Access/SQL programmer assisting resolving problems and business requests for claims processing, transaction methods area.
Update Cobol programs to support NPI and other government and HCFA form processing changes. Analyze, debug, design resolve program and process issues. Redesign changes needed for client report parsing(MS Access, SQL, VB6). Standardized maps for 837 processing in the Redix mapping tool.
Consultant Eliassen Group, LLC 30 Audobon Road
Wakefield, MA 01880
Client - Personix, Glastonbury, CT
10/23/2007 12/31/07 NetExpress Cobol 4.0, DOS batch streams with XML. Provide support for year end financial document batch stream processing. Modified and designed new Microfocus Cobol programs and batch processes to comply with new and existing clients requirements for 1099 tax forms. Consultant Edge Technology Services 100 Roscommon Drive Middletown, CT 06457
Client - Transaction Methods, Wethersfield, CT
07/2007 10/29/2007 Cobol programmer assisting resolving problems and business requests for claims processing, transaction methods area. PC Acucobol-GT 4.3.0; Visual SourceSafe, Visual Basic 6.0. Analyze, update logic, and test for secondary insured and populate fields that map for claim process. Created program that performs edits of the HCFA form data required for secondary insured claims. Visual Basic/Access project created a file rename function in a medicare module.
Consultant Reliance Systems, Inc. 445 Washington ST. Wellesley, MA 02482
Client - Pharmacare, Lincoln, RI
03/2007 06/2007 Consultant Cobol Programmer for a pharmacy benefit management firm, claims applications. AS400 Cobol Programmer for a pharmacy benefit management firm, claims applications. Contracted to take care of overflow work generated by client requests, usually requiring customizing data and or reports. Used Cobol/400, SQL, CL, CLP, RPG, DFU, SQL, Query & Utilities in as OS/400 S5R3MO Environment. OS/400 relational db. Consultant Kforce. Inc. EDS, Farmington, CT03/2006 03/2007 Consultant Cobol Programmer for a software firm providing solutions for State of Connecticut Medicaid applications. Includes analysis, problem resolution and new development of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 2.1, Cobol II modules. Designed, coded, tested, system tested online and batch process for National Provider Identifier project. Skills used include COBOL LE, CICS, JCL, copybook creation, VSAM, Xpeditor, EZplus, Endevor EXCEL, Microsoft Word, VISIO.
Consultant Strategic Staffing Solutions. Inc. Mass Mutual, Springfield, MA.
08/2005 03/2006 Consultant- Cobol programmer for Life Insurance company providing analysis and problem resolution of MVS batch and CICS Cobol, SQL database applications.. Skills used include COBOL, CICS, SQL 2000, JCL, Endevor, EXCEL, Microsoft Word, MQ Series, Test Director, Rules Management Facility, Winrisk(SQL and Rules)/Respond(Cobol II/CICS 2.0) application defect analysis, solution, testing, documentation and production implementation, follow up with business areas.Projects worked on include : Research application defects, government mandated updates, provide solutions Worked in the New Business area supporting fixes, enhancements to various applications including Life, Annuities, Risk Management and Claims areas.
Provide support for year end financial document batch stream processing. Involved in state specific product UL policy activations. Provide support for year end financial document batch stream processing. Provide support for year end financial document batch stream processing.Investigated documentation, business needs, program logic changes, file updates needed to move pending business from one agency to another. Tested, scheduled jobs for production.
Programmer/Analyst HSS, Inc. 2321 Whitney Ave
Hamden, CT
11/1996 08/2005 -Served in a progressive responsible role with this privately held company which specializes in healthcare coding, compliance and reimbursement management. Industry is heavily regulated by the federal government. Skills Cobol II, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 2.1, VSAM, Cobol/400, AS400 CL, Microfocus Cobol, Unix scripting, Xpeditor.
Provide COBOL program design, streamlines, and maintained healthcare reimbursement and encoding applications in compliance with various regulations on MVS, AS400, and PC platforms . Worked with a series of individual products that function together to perform grouping, pricing, and editing to create full reimbursement systems. Troubleshoot problem areas and devises new methods for modularizing existing applications.
Analyze, design, code, restructure, test, coding of pricing, grouping and encoding Cobol applications for PC, MVS, VSE and AS400 platforms. Performed data conversions, Includes copybook creation for various file layout and designs. Converted user requirements to technical specifications through the collecting of user and compliance requirements, then retrofitting them to applications. Y2k and HIPAA changes. Contributes to and meets requirements of methodology, QA, coding and documentation standards in all tasks performed. Streamlined and modularized in-house production/distribution new applications and new functions within the applications. Developed a number of innovations involving conversions needed to meet rigorous new federal medical privacy standards across all COBOL platforms(MVS, AS400, Microfocus, VSE). Served as a resource for backup and recovery, update and PTF installations on the AS400. Trained new personnel in department software and procedures.
Automated many in-house and documented client distribution tasks. Functioned as a mentor to members of the technical team.
05/1997
12/1997 TSR, Inc. Consultant
While also employed at HSS, Advised and assisted with a variety of projects. Consultant during Y2k conversions for a healthcare company in a DB2 data warehouse department. Developed programs for data analysis and production updates. Participated in walk thru sessions; designed new programs for Cobol II DB2 applications. Utilized SQLs, JCL Syncsort extracts to created cases for analysis and testing Y2K related application changes.
08/1996-11/1996 ISR, Inc.
Consultant Served as a Help Desk Mainframe Technical Consultant for a data transfer project.
04/1995-08/1996 ANTHEM BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD OF CONNECTICUT North Haven, Connecticut Programmer/Analyst - Provided mainframe support for a new enrollment billing project. Used COBOL II/DB2/CICS/ESA 3.2, JCL, Syncsort and Anderson Consulting software package for this healthcare insurance corporation. During this period, successfully worked on application development and production control issues.
Resolved mainframe batch DB2 issues for team.
Took the initiative to learn and maintain tables for the Install 1 package.
Created JCL test and production job streams enrollment and billing project.
Created ISPF panels for development and production processing.
Incorporated Syncsort and Icetool algorithms to extract and reformat data JCL thereby reducing the need for additional program coding..
Coded and tested multiple DB2 batch and CICS programs.
Queried and analyzed production data to resolve and design programming issues.09/1994-04/1995 KEANE, INC. Darien Connecticut IT Consultant - Provided COBOL programming and IT consulting services over the course of a nine month assignment at PHH Home Equity of Danbury, a home relocation company.
Documented programs and jobs for a legacy accounting system.
Investigated and resolved problems in the accounting cycle.08/1990-09/1994 THE TRAVELERS Meriden/Cheshire/Hartford, Connecticut Cobol Programmer Programmer/Analyst - After completing a three-month training program, performed analytical and technical development functions in multiple locations of this Fortune 500 financial services corporation.
Completed assignments in three areas of the corporation Claims, Disability and the Online Processing of United Healthcare.
Enhanced existing and new programs for the home office from a satellite location. Worked in a high visibility claims area.
Maintained and developed Cobol II, CICS/ESA 3.2 programs, JCL, PL/1 and files in addition to developing new applications.EDUCATIONNAUGATUCK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Waterbury, Connecticut
Associate in Science, Computer Information SystemsCompleted coursework over a number of years while also working full-time.
COMPUTER PROCESSING INSTITUTE Bridgeport, Connecticut
Certificate, Small Business Systems, RPG IIUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Storrs, Connecticut Bachelor of Arts, Psychology |
