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Location: Eufaula AL, Email: EMAIL AVAILABLE, Phone: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEOverall Summary:Candidate's Name is an Innovative Solutions Engineer with experience in IBM Mainframe development and support who is looking for a position within a dynamic business environment. He brings a strong focus on the Voice of the Customer into software development to ensure product and customer success. He is a High-performing technologist skilled at defining, application design, and implementing solutions that fits customer service needs within implemented architectures. He has Years of experience in Legacy Modernization and deciphering monolithic mainframe processes into function points. He is adaptive to change with a drive to learn and understand new and existing software and technology implementations. He has a great sense in problem solving and always looks for the root cause analysis.Summary of Qualifications 33 Years of Application development and support. Assembly language. 25 years support of Life70 insurance platform. This required Debugging existing code often determining changes that were required in the Assembly code to process properly. Spent 3 years of this time translating Life70 into Pseudo logic to be recoded into Java. Experience in Mainframe z/OS systems
Experience in Mainframe z/OS CICS development. Developed COBOL DB2 Control User interfaces to control the processing of the Policy Rating and Premium Correction system (Aflac). This feature also logged activities within the Process and made viewable the logged events. Administrated the Policy Maintenance User Interfaces written in both COBOL and Assembler. (Aflac) Developed a user interface for tracking the creation of work items where items were dropped into MQueue and an Event driven CICS program persisted the item into DB2. Developed the User interface to review the work items received in detail and summarized by Calendar Day, week or rolling month.
Used BMSGT BMS generator to build Green Screen interfaces as well and Coded BMS directly. Has experience in defining test strategies. Unit Testing - Development
Extended downstream unit testing for Code Integration Quality Assurance testing
Thru Production validation. Leadership and Mentoring of Junior Team members Experience in using change control software to manage code thru the SDLC lifecycle. Experience working with Agile/Scrum development cycle. Experience in Leading Full-Time and Contracted Developers in writing easily read and easily maintainable code. Current work environment is within the Linux platform and the operating code is Microfocus COBOL. Review Legacy Assembler logic via assembly program listings Review generated COBOL to determine difference is processing logic from assembly Modify and generate COBOL source with changes Execute tests thru MicroFocus CICS Emulator Execute tests thru MicroFocus Batch streamed processingTechnical Skills Assembler Language = 33 years COBOL = 26 years CICS = 27 years DB2 = 23 years VSAM = 33 years JCL = 33 years TSO ISPF = 32 years XPEDITER = 30 years InterTest = 2 years Endevor = 31 years ChangeMan = 2 years
FileAid = 25 years FileMaster = 2 years SyncSort = 33 years IBM Utilities = 33 yearsEducationColumbus State University, Studied for Business Administration and Math (No Degree). Fall 1986 to Fall 1987QuickStart, Georgia State program to give a Quick Start for aspiring Developers. July 1990 to Sept 1990Relevant Profession ExperienceJanuary 2024-CurrentICSGlobal/mLogica Consultant Program Analyst/Debugger. Communicate with HP Solutions Architect the code that is problematic and suggest options within the code converter to render an operational code set.
Communicate with HP Solutions Engineer the environmental issue where data might be stale or Queuing mechanisms not operating properly.
Communicates with Client Business Leads about application steps to identify
Regression Tester. Review problem statement from Business Acceptance Testing and determine probably scenario of impact. Test and determine if environmental issue or converted Assembler to COBOL code is at fault.
Comparing Assembler programs to generated COBOL programs and determine if logic is performing the same behavior and whether the converting process would need to be reviewed.
Identify downstream Test Scenarios that are impacted by change to reduce cascading issues.Technical Environment: MicroFocus Mainframe Emulators, Assembly listing with converted COBOL code, CICS Emulator, VSAM, DB2 SQL
September 2022 December 2023Aflac - Technical Consultant (1.3 years) Support both full time developers and Off-Shore development team members (Deloitte) by receiving Business Requirements and translating them into Technical Specifications identifying the application(s) to be changed, assisting developers in determining valid unit test plans, working with Quality Assurance testing to determine best regression test strategy, and managed the SDLC lifecycle for these events.
Support Product Owner and Scrum Master in reviewing business requirements and problem incidents reported (IR). Narrow scope to system code locations for Business Requirements and IR statements. State an estimate effort hours and duration to implement based on staff competencies and proficiencies. Help defined Agile stories and if necessary, define tasks to effort for the individual developers.
Support development Manager and team with Analysis, new Architecture, and implementing requirements within the current process(es) structure(s). Offer techniques and strategies to fulfill business request to augment and enhances team competencies and proficiency.
Subject matter expert in coverage/policy administration systems and interfaces to ancillary processing systems.
Coordinate discussions with other Process Owners in regards to new Product implementation within their systems. Perform Code walk thru and Unit Testing validation prior to introducing code for QA testing. Last accomplishment was to work on an Assembler Incident related to internal General ledger Accounting generated from the Life70 assembly code. Found where certain benefits were dropping funds related to applying policy premium that splits Pro-rata around benefit coverage-based payments during anniversary/obtained age refactoring of premium.
Technical Environment: IBM z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, Eztrieve, DB2, SQL, JCL, IBM WebSphere, ISPF, TSO, IBM Rational Application Developer, CICS, Endevor, GIT, MS MQueue, VSAM, ChangeMan
March 1998 September 2022Aflac Senior Application Developer (24.5 years) Support both full time developers and Off-Shore development team members (CoForge and MindTree) by receiving Business Requirements and translating them into Technical Specifications identifying the application(s) the change will be applied, determining valid unit test plans, working with Quality Assurance testing to determine best regression test strategy, and managed the SDLC lifecycle for these events.
As Technical Lead on a new Electronic Transfer portal assignment architected and engineered a Policy Retention Application for Payroll accounts that allowed individual policyholders to move their policies to a direct pay by customer. Led staff of Consultants from FineOs and CoForge to develop and implement An Azure .NET frontend with a mainframe backend. Legacy Modernization effort to make a batch centric process operate within a real-time aspect by initially wrapping Assembly language sub-processing with Java. Later supported the conversion of the Legacy Assembly language process into Java. This assignment entailed converting assembler logic to Pseudo business verbiage for translation into Java and later developing a portion of the Java. Developed a Premium Rating system that applied rates files with each state Department of Insurance accurately and expediently. Defined Controls regarding State and Payroll Guidelines for notification. Created Table Structure to Hold Controls and History. Created Presentation layer which displayed the Controls, Data, and History of Activities. Developed a Premium Discounting process that allowed Roles based definition as a subtype within the Standard Industrial Classification.
Developed and supported a mechanism of reporting Policy Remarks which compiles a list of actions performed against the Policy which combine the committed actions and any correspondence into a concise statement of history. This has since been implemented in all applications that carry out modifications to the policy information. Assisted in the design of a workflow architecture that allowed the Business Unit to manage and route work to individual End user teams. This implementation started in Lombardi TeamWorks and in later iterations migrated to WebMethods BPM. Supported the Coverage Cell system which enables the Claim processing to accurately determine coverages that applied during the timeframe a claim was processed. Supported the Real-time Java engines for New Coverage and Coverage change requests. Supported Data move from VSAM structures to a Normalized DB2 Table structure. Support Policy Administration thru COBOL Green Screen Applications and Legacy Assembly Base system. Support Financial balancing based on Policy Account and General Accounting to the Financial Ledger.
Supported Life70 Policy Administration software enhancing several key components and ancillary applications.
Supported Invoice Billing application (APAY) which entailed the building of Invoice lines to be billed and the reconciliation to pay the line items and update the downstream ledger accounts.
Subject Matter Expert in Life70 core process. Subject Matter Expert in the applicational relationship between Life70 core and Aflac Applications that interact with the core system. (ie, Agents Commission, Claims, and Financial reporting). Determining Root Cause of Problem Incidents reported.Technical Environment: IBM z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, Eztrieve, DB2, SQL, JCL, IBM WebSphere, ISPF, TSO, IBM Rational Application Developer, CICS, Endevor, GIT, MS MQueue, VSAM, ChangeMan, Java, JDBC
September 1997 - March 1998
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Senior Application Developer Y2k Solutions Team
Extract Programs from Change Control and export to IBM for remediation. Run and capture baseline. Help Systems developers define and implement a test environment in the Boulder IBM data center (a disaster recovery site used by BCBS). Implement remediated code to test environment. Run batch and validate any anomalies found in the output for each process step. Help business users validate the online presentation.Technical Environment: IBM os390, COBOL, Eztrieve, JCL, ISPF, TSO, CICS, PanValet, VSAMSeptember 1990 - September 1997
Total System Services Senior Application Developer Support IBM Authorization with Visa and MasterCard. Support Tandem Authorization file extraction.
Support all Corporate and Commercial card portfolios and build an operational test environment
Support Billing and Statement print Processing, Posting and Embossing.
Support Conversion of credit card portfolios to TSYS.
Technical Environment: IBM os390, Assembler, COBOL, Eztrieve, DB2, IMS, SQL, JCL, ISPF, TSO, CICS, Endevor, VSAM |
