Management Company

Diane Willhite

**** **** **. **.

Cottage Grove, MN 55016

Home: 651-***-****

Cell: 651-***-****

Email: **********@*******.***

Employment Objective:

I am seeking a challenging position within an IT organization that will

utilize my various application programming skills, leadership experience

and will add value to a company's operations.

Summary of Qualifications:

Experienced IT professional in an organization providing a career path

which supported increased levels of responsibility in the areas of

mainframe and UNIX application systems development. Consistently given

challenging assignments that contributed to my strong skill-set. Have the

ability to anticipate potential obstacles by doing thorough analysis and

unit testing before submitting changes for user acceptance testing,

therefore, preventing re-work. Have a commitment to quality, the ability

to manage my time to allow me to work on several tasks at once, the

flexibility to change direction as needed, excellent communication skills

both verbal and written, the ability and desire to mentor others, and a

team player.

Technical Skills:

Hardware: IBM mainframe, IBM PC, UNIX Servers

Operating Systems: OS/390, OS/MVS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000

Professional, Windows XP Professional, Z/OS,

DOS, SunOS, Linux

Software Languages and tools:

COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL MVS, MICROFOCUS COBOL, SDF2, SYNCSORT, EZTRIEVE,

DB2, IMS/DLI, FILE-AID, CICS, EXPEDITER, JCL, FOCUS, VSAM, LINKAGE EDITOR,

IBM UTILITIES, REMEDY, WEBSPHERE, TSO/ISPF, ABEND-AID, ENDEVOR, PANVALET,

ASSEMBLER, LIDP, MS OFFICE WORD, EXCEL,VISIO and PROJECT, DB2 SQL, CA7,

CLIST, AUTOSYS, UNIX COMMANDS, UNIX SHELL SCRIPTING, PERL SCRIPTING,

POLICYLINK, MERANT TRACKER, PVCS, NET EXPRESS, KEDIT, WINMERGE, WINZIP,

VI EDITOR, NDM, FTP, LOCKBOX

Professional Technical Experience:

HARTFORD LIFE: July 2, 1979 - March 11, 2011

(Harford Life acquired Fortis Financial group in April 2000)

Application Programmer Analyst on mainframe and UNIX platforms

. Proficient coding, testing and debugging in COBOL for mainframe and

UNIX online and batch applications

. CICS coding COBOL programs, using SDF2 for building/updating screens

. Experienced in data transmissions into the company and out from the

company

. Experienced in requirements gathering, detailed analysis, tech spec

design, documentation of processes and procedures

. Thorough understanding of file structures (ex: VSAM, SEQ, DB2 tables)

. Strong planning, organizational, interpersonal, verbal and written

communication skills

. Comprehensive understanding of the data processing environment, its

impact on business functions and the clients business

. Understanding of capabilities, features and limitations of system

development tools

. Experience with IT Service Management systems including Change,

Configuration, Incident, Problem and Request Management

. Deploy code from test environments into production environments

. Writing/updating UNIX and PERL scripts

. Developing/implementing migration plans

. Building out test environments on UNIX and windows

. Working with off-shore personnel (in India & Brazil)

. Working with business areas to gather requirements for fixing a

problem or enhancing a process

. Coordinating with other IT areas (tech support, scheduling, DBA, other

applications, etc)

. On-call support (defect resolution, ABEND fixes, code and data fixes)

. Conversion of applications to feed a new general ledger accounting

system and a new check writing system

. Conversion of applications from using 2 DB2 databases to using 1 DB2

database for gathering agent information for determining commissions

. Lead other programmers on projects by providing them with detailed

specs and guiding them

. Conversion of 5 legacy systems from COBOL to COBOLII to COBOL MVS

. Y2K implementation of 5 legacy systems

Education:

1985 916 Area Vo-tech, White Bear Lake, MN

COBOL programming

1992 Insurance industry courses (LOMA and ACS)

FLMI and ACS designations earned

1987 - present college courses taken and passed: English Comp I,

American History, Interpersonal

Communications,

Women's Self Defense

1986 - present various technical training courses and seminars

offered by

the company to improve my technical skills

and knowledge

References: on request

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