Project Manager System

Neil A. Alspach

**** ******* ***

Tampa, Florida 33613

850-***-**** Home

850-***-**** Cell

SUMMARY:

An information systems professional with 25+ year’s experience, including over 7 years

as a project manager, in a mainframe environment. Background includes: managing,

analyzing, developing, enhancing, and maintaining applications in insurance, criminal

justice, manufacturing, health care, inventory control, and accounting.

SOFTWARE:

COBOL, COBOL II/390, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, DB2/QMF/SPUFI, VSAM, SQL BMS,

SDSF/JHS, SyncSort, Abend-Aid, Xpeditor, Intertest, File-Aid, VSAM, DB2, Data-Ager,

IBM Utilities, Easytrieve Plus, Endeavor, Panvalet, Librarian, ViaSoft/SmartTest/VIA-

ValidDate, FTP/NDM-ConnectDirect, MicroFocus Cobol Mainframe/Unix, SCO UNIX,

ISPF/Unix, AADF, Visual Basic, MS Office (Access,Excel,Word), VISIO,

DATABASES:

DB2, TERADATA

File Structure:

VSAM – KSDS/ESDS

HARDWARE:

Various IBM Mainframes under MVS, XA, ESA, OS390-LE, Z/os 1.13 operating

systems, Unix UNISYS 6000.

EDUCATION:

BS in Management Information Systems - Degree, 1984,

Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama

BS in Criminology/Sociology – Degree, 1976

University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Faneuil (contractor) State of Florida 07/2011 -

Present

State of Florida- OPS 07/2009-06/2011

Systems Programmer III

I am responsible for the maintenance and new program development within the DEO

system. The DEO (Department of Economic Opportunity) system involves all phases of

receiving and payment of unemployment benefits. This system consisted of both

BATCH and CICS programs. The system performs operation from checking to see if

benefits were to be paid, how much to be paid based to previous amounts earned to

producing payment of claims. The system also produced federal required reporting of

unemployment activity.

First Health Services/Coventry Health Care 07/2000-09/2008

Richmond Va.

Project Manager

I was responsible for the New York City Early Intervention System contract. This

includes overseeing technical staff and assigning projects according to priorities. Provide

a central coordination and control for implementation of new/changed application and

systems. Provide guidance and consultation to application designers and developers.

Manage and direct activities and special projects. Maintain integrated system to ensure

optimum service and dependability. Manage the coordination of services according to

Company policies and procedures. Provide to the user community support and assistance

in everyday needs. Record, monitor, and report on scheduled production projects and

make recommendations as needed. Guide and direct operations and report progress to

customer and company.

I also assisted in the conversion of the Medicaid claim record to the HIPAA 837I, which

is used to send data to NY Medicaid. I also assisted with the 835 and 835S response

record conversion used in updating First Health’s Medicaid claims from NY Medicaid.

First Health Services 1/2000-6/2000

Richmond Va.

Senior Systems Analyst

As a Senior Systems Analyst I worked on the development of the Pharmacy POS (Point

of Service) real-time claim system start up of VAMMIS (Virginia Medicaid Management

Information Systems) project.

Kelly Services (Contract Company) 5/1997-12/1999

Dothan Alabama

Sony

Magnetic Media Division

Dothan, Alabama

Contract Programmer/Analyst

Sony Dothan site is responsible for the manufacturing and assemble of all magnetic tape

products that are distributed and sold globally. I was responsible for writing and

maintaining CICS and Batch mainframe programs to support an in-house inventory

tracking, sales and financial system for this manufacturing site. I was also responsible for

the Y2K enhancement project to male all changes both on-line and batch programs

making them Y2K compliant. File-Aid Data Ager was used to age the file dates on data

used for Y2K testing. Used VIASOFT’s VIA/ValidDate to change system date on the

mainframe for Y2K testing both on –line and batch. I was responsible for the design and

development of the ATC (Authorized to Credit) system which automated a manual

system of receiving returned goods back into inventory and allowed the user to adjust

financial and inventory amounts automatically.

UNISYS Computer Corp. 5/1995 – 4/1997

Tallahassee, Florida

Project Lead

Unisys Computer Corp. is a worldwide developer of software, support and maintenance

of existing system. I was responsible for a task group that converted a mainframe batch

Medicare claim form (HCFA1500) process into a real-time CICS/UNIX based POS

(Point of Service) system. The base system resided on the UNISYS 6000 mini computer

with a UNIX operating system. Conversion and testing of the system was done using

MICROFOCUS/COBOL on a UNIX platform. The mainframe was used as a file server

of the data files. Communication between the Mini computer and mainframe was done

through the use of TCP/IP. An EDI-X12 record format was used to receive and sent the

responses claim back to 3rd party vendors who furnished input data to be processed.

Besides managing and coordinating the project I also wrote the mainframe TCP/IP

communication module that resided on the mainframe. I also developed a test EDI=X12

prototype to simulate a 3rd party vender for receiving and sending claims responses for

system testing. By taking the process off of the mainframe processing costs were cut

drastically.

UNISYS Computer Corp 1/1994 – 4/1995

Tallahassee, Florida

Programmer/Analyst

I shared responsibilities with a start-up task group that converted a mainframe batch

pharmacy claim system into a real-time CICS POS (Point of Service) pharmacy system.

Claims were sent into the system by a 3 rd party software vender switch. After the claim

was processed a reply was sent back to the vendor with the results or status of the claim

which in turn sent it to the sending pharmacy.

Computer Horizon Corp. (Contract Company) 5/1991 – 12/1993

Tampa, Florida

Contract Sr. Programmer/Analyst

GTE Data Services (now known as Verzion)

Tampa, Florida

GTE Data Services is a company that provides data processing and technical support to

all General Telephone and affiliated companies. My responsibilities were working on the

Amland Labor Cost Price-out enhancements. This was part of the Advantage Financial

Information System. This area gives the user the ability to upload or download from a

PC or Mainframe information that will produce a series of mainframe reports showing

projected labor costs for a period of time. I wrote and maintained several programs

accessing the Teradata database using SQL commands and macros. I participated in

inspections of specifications and the review of coding standards. Other project I worked

on was to produce barcode print making the shipment of materials to and from GTE

warehouses more efficient. A project that interfaced that converted data on file from one

format to another making an acquired company information accessible to GTE

companies.

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION:

Completed a course “Introduction to Health Care EDI Standards” presented by EDI

Partners, Ltd.

Completed a college quarter course on “Introduction Client/Server Programming” using

Visual Basic 6 at Troy State University, Dothan Alabama

Completed a one week course “Oracle7: A comprehensive Hands-on Introduction”,

presented by the Learning Tree International.

Attended “Front Line Leadership” by Zinger Miller, courses on improving management

skills.

Completed a one week course “Online Application Design”, presented by On-Line

Software International.

Completed a one week course “Basic System Analysis”, presented by Association for

Systems management.

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