Sales System

James L. wingard SSGB

*** ****** *****, ***** ******, IL 60188-1910

630-***-**** (cell) 630-***-**** (home)

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www.linkedin.com/in/jameswingard

Senior Programmer Analyst

Outstanding senior programmer analyst who develops cost saving, efficient

systems involved in the full lifecycle process. Proven record of gathering

business requirements, designing systems, documenting systems, leading

teams and developing systems. Insurance, Financial and Medical Insurance

experience. Experienced senior programmer analyst driven to continue to

improve business processes and the systems that support the processes.

TECHNOLOGICAL SUMMARY

System Software: HP Quality Center, Changeman, CICS, MVS COBOL, MS

Office,

DB2, QMF, Endevor, Fileaid, JCL, Lotus Notes, Maximo, MQ,

MVS, MS Project, PowerPoint, SQL, TSO, OS390, VSAM, Visio,

Windows, ISPF, Abend Aid, Xpediter.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Discover financial SYSTEMS, Deerfield, IL 2007 to 2009

Senior Programmer Analyst

Gathered business requirements, documented and developed multiple system

enhancements for the Products system.

. Reduced 4 weeks use of offshore resources by writing Interface Control

Documents and Detailed Technical Design documents for programs and jobs

written by offshore.

. Increased product sales by 15% by leading the offshore team to add

processing to the legacy system to handle sales of Products for 5 new

agencies, including designing new web screens.

. Added new products to Products system to increase sales by 20%, this

included changes to CICS screens, DB2 tables and batch jobs.

. Saved 3 weeks of time and effort by creating jobs that unloaded,

reformatted the legacy DB2 tables and loaded the data into the new DB2

tables. This automated the conversion and load process.

. Became the Subject Matter Expert for the Lost Stolen Card Issuer

Processing, including the Web screens and the batch processes.

SOGETI USA, Westchester, IL 2006

Senior Consultant

Consultant at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in Chicago, IL on team

to convert their VSAM/IMS based claims system to a DB2 based claims system.

. Saved the client developer's time by changing the Input/Output modules to

the new system formats.

. Corrected defects in the existing system, this also allowed the client

developers to gain the most knowledge on the new system.

Blue cross blue shield of illinois, Chicago, IL 2002 to 2005

Senior Programmer Analyst

Gathered business requirements, developed and documented various system

enhancements for the financial system.

. Designed and developed several processes of the rewrite of the financial

system which included; coordinated with business users to gather business

requirements, design, create specs, obtain approvals, code, test and

implement assigned functions of the system.

DHS & associates, Rosemont, IL 1995 to 2001

Senior Consultant

Provided consultation services to 3 large companies including:

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois:

. Reduced cost and increased efficiency by consolidating 2 Financial

Systems into 1, including merging input, producing reports, and creating

screens.

. Maintained an Account Payable Package, including applying the new

releases that required mixing the existing custom changes to the programs

and batch jobs in the new release.

ComEd:

. Led a team of programmer/analysts in the conversion of a DB2 database

system to a MAXIMO database/application. MAXIMO is a GUI application

that uses ORACLE databases and runs in a WINDOWS environment.

. Led meetings with engineers, business people to document and determine

conversion process.

. Wrote major conversion programs and led other team members coding the

smaller table conversions.

Kemper Insurance Company:

. Designed, developed and implemented parts of a Worker's Compensation Data

Warehouse System. Used HURON table loads and unloads into DB2 tables.

. Facilitated new user knowledge integration.

EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Computer Programming and Operations - Control Data Institute,

Chicago, IL

Associates Degree in Applied Science, CIS - College of DuPage, Glen

Ellyn, IL

Associates Degree in Applied Arts, Photography - College of DuPage, Glen

Ellyn, IL

Java and C programming, DeVry Institute, Addison, IL

Java, WebSphere Boot Camps

MS SQL Server, SharePoint, and ITL, Microtrain, Lombard, IL

Six Sigma Green Belt Training, Naperville Greenbelts

IEEE Computer Society - Member since 2005

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