Engineer Software

William "Chuck" Nelms

Summary

. Over ** years of experience in data processing utilizing many

different languages, software products, and environments including

COBOL, DB2/SQL, VSAM, CICS, VM CMS, REXX, JavaScript, HTML, Java,

OS/JCL and AS/400.

. Has previously taken systems from conceptual specifications through

implementation, including detailed specifications, design, coding,

testing, and documentation.

. Trained personnel on systems that were newly developed as well as

systems that were already in place.

. Excellent analytical and trouble-shooting skills.

LinkedIn Recommendation from Chris Cate, Assistant VP Software Quality

Assurance, Granite State Management & Resources:

"Chuck is a very forward thinking software developer. We worked on several

projects together where he continually designed/coded software with a

strong foundation that would be easily enhanced upon with the business

unit's needs." September 12, 2010

Professional Experience

Granite State Management & Resources, Concord, NH 9/07 - 8/10

Senior Programmer Analyst

. Designed, coded, and tested projects for the student loan process.

. Automated manual processes, reducing procedural timeframes for the

business unit from one month to less than one week.

. Designed, coded, and tested an automated archive system for

Clearinghouse data files after these files were processed in the

monthly batch process.

. Part of the 24/7 on-call rotation to handle the nightly batch

processing.

Technical Environment: PC, AS/400, COBOL, SQL, CL, SYNON, Confluence, Jira,

MS Excel, MS Word, Windows XP Pro

Professional Support, Inc. /

Electronic Data Systems / Department of Defense,

Cleveland, OH 8/05 - 8/07

Senior Consultant (Contract)

. Worked on the design, code, and testing of the accounting operations

web site and converted parts that were 3270 based to a web based

application.

. Enhanced the web site by standardizing the web pages to look and feel

the same.

. Designed common code that could be reused in different areas of the

web site.

. Maintained one of the large accounting systems in z/OS MVS that was

written in COBOL and DB2/SQL.

Technical Environment: Dell PC, VM/CMS, REXX, CMS Pipes, HTML, JavaScript,

VM Gateway, DB2/SQL, COBOL,

OS/JCL, TSO/ISPF, MS Excel, MS Word, Windows XP Pro.

Maine State Billing Service, Somersworth, NH

4/03 - 6/05

Consultant

. Responsible for maintenance and fix requests for the billing system.

. Helped in the design, coding, and implementation for a case manager

system.

Technical Environment: Dell PC, Visual Basic 6.0, DB2/SQL, SQL Server,

Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro

Risktrac, Inc. (Subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company),

Portsmouth, NH 5/98 - 7/02

Senior Software Engineer

. Undertook immersion training in JAVA using Visual Age for Java.

. Helped in the redesign of a claim tracking system from being a PC

based system to a web based product with a COBOL DB2/SQL report

generating backend.

. Charged with being the primary contact on the standalone demo product

for the marketing team.

. Responsible for coding and unit testing several iterations of the

product.

. Worked at packaging the demo product using Install Shield.

Technical Environment: IBM Mainframe, Intel, Visual Age for Java 3.5,

COBOL, DB2 v6 and personal v7.1, Apache, OS/JCL, Install Shield, TSO/ISPF,

ENDEVOR, Windows 2000

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Portsmouth, NH

4/97 - 5/98

Programmer Analyst II

. Team lead on a Year 2000 certification testing effort for a large

insurance claim reporting system written in COBOL DB2/SQL and CICS.

. Attended a class on Visual Basic 5.0.

. Instrumental in the design, coding, testing, and maintenance of the

back end portion of a major insurance claim data extract utility that

utilized a GUPTA front end for selection criteria.

Technical Environment: IBM Mainframe, Intel, and Macintosh, COBOL II, DB2,

CICS, OS/JCL, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, Windows NT, Microsoft Project, Microsoft

Office, and Visual Basic 5.0.

Keane, Inc., Bedford, New Hampshire

11/94 - 4/97

Senior Consultant

. Set up a mainframe environment for a database load utility for a major

insurance company.

. Helped design, code, test, and maintain a data extract utility for a

business partner of this major insurance company.

. Helped code and test an online general ledger billing system for the

same major insurance company written in COBOL, VSAM, and CICS.

. Responsible for maintaining online and batch COBOL/CICS systems at a

small insurance company which included being on call for daily batch

and month end cycles.

Technical Environment: IBM Mainframe, AST 486 PC, and Macintosh, COBOL,

DB2, CICS, OS/JCL, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, ICCF, DOS/VSE, VSAM

Computer Horizons - IBM, Austin, TX

1/92 - 7/92

Consultant (Contract)

. Responsible for scheduling, trouble-shooting, and maintenance of the

plant logistics systems for IBM Charlotte, NC and IBM Lexington, KY.

. Downloaded and prepared data files for each month's run and rerun of

these systems.

Technical Environment: IBM 3090 Mainframe, IBM PC/AT, COBOL, VM/CMS,

TSO/ISPF, REXX, VSAM, PL/I, MVS/XA, OS/JCL

International Computer Services - EXXON, Houston, TX

7/90 - 9/91

Senior Programmer / Analyst (Contract)

. Responsible for designing and coding an Emergency Notification

Subsystem for an Application Change

. Control System (ACC-2) using COBOL.

. Designed, coded, and tested the portion of ACC-2 that constructed a

JCL job stream, using parameters

. passed to the system to create executable load modules to be stored in

ACC-2.

. Designed, coded, and tested a number of the ACC-2 system enhancements

written in COBOL.

. Fielded analyst's questions about ACC-2 and was involved in training

analysts to use the system.

. Designed and coded help panels for ACC-2.

Technical Environment: IBM 3090 Mainframe, IBM 3179, PL/I, COBOL,

TSO/ISPF, OS/JCL, MVS/ESA, VM/CMS, VSAM

Corporate Personnel Consultants - IBM, Cary, NC

11/89 - 6/90

Senior Programmer / Analyst (Contract)

. Responsible for designing and coding the MVS version of an asset

management system for the PC.

. Aided in porting "C" code from the PC to the host to compile on a C370

compiler.

. Worked in setting up the MVS environment for the asset management

system.

Technical Environment: IBM 3090 Mainframe, IBM PC/AT, C, TSO/ISPF, DIALOG

TAG LANGUAGE, REXX, OS/JCL, DB2, MVS/XA, VM/CMS, DB2

Nielsen Media Research, Dunedin, FL

5/87 - 11/89

Senior Programmer / Analyst

. Managed the final design and coding of the online maintenance portion

of a major batch cable meter checking system for Toronto, Ontario.

. Aided in the development and implementation of two major data

extraction systems with online interface.

. Designed, coded, and tested a small batch account billing system with

online maintenance.

. Responsible for maintaining two major online systems.

Technical Environment: IBM 3090 Mainframe, Amdahl 300E, IBM 3178, PL/I,

MODEL 204, TSO/ISPF, DIALOG MANAGER, REXX, OS/JCL, VM/CMS, VSAM, MVS/XA,

MVS/ESA

Electronic Data Systems / General Motors, Detroit, Michigan

9/84 - 5/87

Systems Engineer

. Coded and documented two online programs for a medium sized online

inventory system.

. Designed and coded a small in-house data processing equipment

inventory system.

. Responsible for managing three programmers.

. Managed the design and coding of enhancements to a major online

inventory requirements system written in PL/1 and CICS.

. Trained plant personnel in the use of the supplier requirements

portion of a major plant inventory system.

. Traveled to several GM plants to support plant personnel during year-

end and build-out problems.

Technical Environment: IBM 3090 Mainframe, IBM 4381 Mainframe, IBM 3179,

PL/I, CICS, VSAM, COBOL, TSO/ISPF, OS/JCL, MVS/XA, FILEAID, SCRIPT

Hardware:

Dell PC, AS/400,

IBM Mainframe, Intel, Macintosh,

Software:

COBOL, COBOL II, SQL, CICS, CL, SYNON, VM/CMS, DB2/SQL, REXX, PL/I,

FILEAID, CMS Pipes, HTML, JavaScript, VM Gateway, OS/JCL, TSO/ISPF

Confluence, Visual Basic 6.0, Jira, MS Excel, MS Word, Windows XP Pro

Education:

Three months of immersion training in Java using Visual Age for Java, 1998,

Liberty Mutual Insurance,

Portsmouth, NH

Ten week in-house training for Software Engineer Developer program, 1985,

Electronic Data Systems, Detroit, MI

Diploma in Computer Programming for Business, 1984, DeVry Institute of

Technology, Irving, TX

B.B.A. General Business, 1980, Stephen F. Austin State University,

Nacogdoches, TX

Honors:

President's List / President's Honor Roll, DeVry Institute of Technology

RISE Award for outstanding work on a project,

Liberty Mutual Insurance

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