Barbra Valentine

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Cardington, Ohio 43315 Phone: 614-***-****

Objectives

To enhance my programmer / analyst skills in a productive environment.

Computer Programming Skill Sets:

COBOL Programming HTML, Dynamic HTML, XML Systems Analyst

JavaScript Active Server Pages (ASP) VBScript

Delphi Database Analyst Project Management

Work experience

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services December 2002 – February 2007

Columbus, Ohio

Lead Programmer / Analyst 5. Reported directly to Project Manager. Assisted PM in planning, meeting,

research, determining resources and other tasks to help make final decisions. Acted as Project Manager

for small EDI project and MCATS. Medicaid system code written in COBOL. Medicaid Complaint and

Grievance Sub-System. Maintained Delphi code. Attended meetings with users to document requirements

and needs of users. Created scope and specifications documents that were signed off by upper

management. Helped identify users to work on specific tasks for specific projects. Estimated time for

completion and testing. Created testing scripts. Test, report, and document error for re-coding. Data

Mapping.

MCATS: (Medicaid Consumer Activity Tracking System) Internet based platform. Plan and schedule JAD

sessions with County users, State Reps., and other stakeholders. Use Cases used to document

functional requirements, create technical and non-technical requirement documents. Prototype parts of

system for user. Independently document requirements, code, test and document. Data mapping into new

system. Written in HTML, JavaScript, and ASP. EDI: Independently gather requirements from user;

create, test, release program for use. Written in Delphi. Used MS Project, PL/SQL Programming, Visio

Professional, MS Office, Corel WordPerfect Suite, GroupWise, PVCS, Erwin.

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services March 2001 – December 2002

Columbus, Ohio

Lead Programmer / Analyst 4. Reported directly to Section Chief. Recommended changes and in some

cases made the final decision regarding Ohio Works. Internet state funded job searching program. Lead

on Ohio Works Transition Project from Accenture consulting firm. Assist the Section Chief. Created GAP

analysis on documentation Accenture provided against code, database, and reverse-engineering from

using site. Awarded Employee of the Month for work provided on this project. Interviewed Accenture’s

help desk, developers, networkers, and database people to learn how to do all of their tasks and

responsibilities, had less than 3 months to document all processes. Responsible for those tasks and

responsibilities for 2 months before Compuware hired on. Point person in all areas of the project; before,

during and after hand over of all documentation to Compuware, who was awarded contract after

Accenture. Once Compuware took over, all requirements where re-written in Use Case formatting. Used

Rational Analyst Studio Suite, Dream weaver, Visio Professional, MS Office, Corel WordPerfect Suite,

GroupWise, PVCS.

Ohio Department of Human Services June 2000 - March 2001

Columbus, Ohio

Programmer / Analyst 4 Responsible for AFCARS & ASFA (Federal mandated systems): System is part

of FACSIS (foster care system). Modify legacy code. Write new code for the Micro FACSIS System.

Created reports for county level agents to better serve those in foster care. Ran several programs that

output was sent to counties for processing on their end. Program in COBOL (VSAM/IMS/MVS) using

ISPF/TSO (Rumba-Mainframe), IBM, MDBS, TELON, Team Workbench, Visio Professional, MS Office,

Corel WordPerfect Suite, GroupWise, PVCS, Monarch, SPF-PC.

Ohio Bureau of Employment Services September 1999 - June 2000

Columbus, Ohio

Programmer / Analyst 3 Benefits System: Independently gather requirements from users to create

reports, flowchart processes for technical and non-technical groups, code in COBOL, create user and

operational manuals. Modify existing programs to be error free. Help create and modify Quality

Assurance Policy & Procedures.

Y2K Warrant Backups Project: Team lead. Created requirements for management approval, assigned

developers to help with tasks, plan and document procedures for off-sight operations. Call Program set-

up with alternates available. Program in COBOL (ECL, SSG, IPF) using DynaComm, Unisys, Visio

Professional, MS Office, Corel WordPerfect Suite, GroupWise.

Education

Computer Workshop / Babbage & Simmel August 2001 – June 2012

Dublin, Ohio

SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Active Server Pages, ASP.Net, XML, Delphi, Java

Programming, and PMP Prep Certification Class.

Columbus State Community College August 1996 - June 1999

Columbus, Ohio

Associates Degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming.

Graduated Cum Laude.

June 2012

Java

Certificates / Honors received

• ICCP ACP Certificate in COBOL.

• Certificate for Quality Service thru Partnership (QStP), similar to Total Quality Management (TQM).

• ODJFS MIS Employee of the Month, July 2001.

References

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