Developer Manager

Kurt Miscovich

Senior Software Developer at Compuware

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Experience

Senior Software Developer at Compuware

September 2006 - Present (6 years 10 months)

Review and provide input requirements documents created by planning group.

Write design documents based on requirements document provide by planning group.

Develop new functionality and maintain existing developer development system. This system allows the

developers to compile and link programs and create production fixes.

Create new programs and modify existing programs based on changes to product install requirements.

Added new functionality to File-AID RDX to process COBOL fix pic data type to existing MVS and DB2

data types supported by the product.

Modified File-AID RDX to allow processing of GDG file for extract, load and also allow it be used for other

file functions in the product.

Introduced IAM processing to File-AID RDX, allow RDX to extract, load and relate IAM files with MVS,

DB2 and IMS files.

Converted File-AID DB2 extract and load process to use RDX to extract and load DB2 tables.

Converted existing DB2 DDL information stored in RDX extract request files to store the DB2 information in

an XML format.

Handle customer issues, which include gathering data from customer and recreating customer tables and files

to recreate the problem. This include creating the DB2 tables, and MVS files that are part of the problem and

when determining the cause creating a fix that can be applied at the customer site.

Senior Software Developer at Compuware, Detroit MI

September 2006 - Present (6 years 10 months)

Review and provide input requirements documents created by planning group.

Write design documents based on requirements document provide by planning group.

Develop new functionality and maintain existing developer development system. This system allows the

developers to compile and link programs and create production fixes.

Create new programs and modify existing programs based on changes to product install requirements.

Added new functionality to File-AID RDX to process COBOL fix pic data type to existing MVS and DB2

data types supported by the product.

Modified File-AID RDX to allow processing of GDG file for extract, load and also allow it be used for other

file functions in the product.

Introduced IAM processing to File-AID RDX, allow RDX to extract, load and relate IAM files with MVS,

DB2 and IMS files.

Converted File-AID DB2 extract and load process to use RDX to extract and load DB2 tables.

Converted existing DB2 DDL information stored in RDX extract request files to store the DB2 information in

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an XML format.

Handle customer issues, which include gathering data from customer and recreating customer tables and files

to recreate the problem. This include creating the DB2 tables, and MVS files that are part of the problem and

when determining the cause creating a fix that can be applied at the customer site.

Delivery Lead at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

April 2005 - September 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Supervised three employees with testing and validating program changes by developers before and after

implementation.

Developed project schedule for implementation for flexible spend account product and produced requriment

documents.

Interfaced with developers located offsite in Raleigh NC and India, providing requirment and validating

changes made by them.

Successfully implemented Consumer Driven Healthcare products, Flexible Spending Accounts and Health

Spending Accounts with three external vendors for a $2 million project.

Senior Application Developer at AAA

June 2004 - April 2005 (11 months)

Managed a group of three developers, reviewed development and assisted with planning of implementation of

changes to insurance system.

Modified insurance programs to meet requirements identified in requirements documents.

Supported daily operations and implemented changes to system.

Successfully installed two major modifications to current insurance package.

Developer at BeneSys

June 2003 - April 2004 (11 months)

Developed and implemented programs for small health care insurance company in PL/B.

Senior Manager at Bingham Farms MI

December 1997 - June 2003 (5 years 7 months)

Managed applications area for commissions and carrier billing departments.

Replaced an external contracting group of 15 with an internal group of six that supported the commissions

system.

Oversaw the carrier billing aea and implemented DB2/COBOL/CICS billing system that billed approximately

$200 million per month.

Facilitated weekly team management meetings.

Promoted from Associated Manager to Senior Manager in two years.

Coordinated and designed an interface to new billing package which handled in excess of 24 million records

per day and 800 million records per month.

Led, developed and implemented a telephone fraud detection system using dynamic DB2 and COBOL to

reduce the amount of revenue lost to fraudulent calls.

Interviewed and hired team of 15 people to develop an interface to packaged billing system that successfully

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installed.

Skills & Expertise

SQL

XML

Software Development

Agile Methodologies

DB2

Unix

Integration

Linux

Oracle

Mainframe

Visio

JCL

TSO

Waterfall

MVS

z/OS

Manual Testing

Regression Testing

System Testing

Test Planning

Test Cases

Xpediter

IMS DB/DC

SPUFI

Telecommunications

System Integration Testing

HIPAA

Architecture

Business Analysis

SDLC

COBOL

Education

Henry Ford Community College

Associate's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, 1984 - 1986

Redford Union High School

GED, 1980 - 1983

Lawrence Technological University

Walsh College

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Senior Software Developer at Compuware

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