System Sales

DAN SPENNER

***** *. ***** **., ******** Park, KS 66214

Home: 913-***-**** / Cell: 816-***-**** / ********@*********.***

Professional Summary

+ Twenty years of programming experience.

+ Excellent COBOL programming skills, extensive experience with DB2/SQL,

JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, EXPEDITER, VSAM and FILEAID.

+ Successful with design, development, testing, installation and support of

live applications in various business environments, particularly those

related to the finance and insurance industries.

+ Solid organizational, planning and problem-solving skills.

+ Effective communication skills for analyzing and resolving clients'

programming needs.

+ Strong background in information technology needs for various businesses.

Technical Summary

COBOL II, DB2, SQL, VSAM, JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, FTP,

Connect:Direct, Easytrieve, PLSORT, RAMIS, SAS and MANTIS.

Systems: IBM z/OS, IBM 390, IBM 370/3090, IBM 38 Model 700

Employment Summary

SunGard (BalancePoint)

Kansas City, MO

June 2008 - October 2008. IBM System z/OS.

Worked on Daily Support team for client Citi. Responsibilities

included research into the Investar*One mutual fund processing system,

JCL, NDM and FTP maintenance, and development and execution of data

plugs for DB2 tables and IMS segments. Assisted in the construction of

annual purge process along with conversions and de-conversions from

system.

DST Systems,

Kansas City, MO

March 1998 - January 2008. IBM System z/OS.

From 2002 to 2008, worked as a Software Project Leader

overseeing

a staff of 6 software developers and 1 business analyst to develop and

maintain mutual fund applications. The staff utilized COBOL II, CICS,

DB2, SQL, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, EXPEDITER, and Easytrieve to develop and

maintain system. As a Software Project Leader in the client services

group, oversaw all projects and maintained relationships with business

clients, including weekly and monthly status updates through

conferences and written reports.

Recent examples of projects:

+ Analyzed, designed code, tested and implemented programs to convert

data from an older VSAM based facility to a newer, more efficient DB2-

based facility.

+ Created programs to redirect virtually all dealer and shareowner

output from an internal DST company to an external output vendor. Most

of the changes involved JCL modifications for the redirect.

From 1998-2002, worked as a software developer utilizing COBOL II,

DB2, SQL, JCL, FILEAID, EXPEDITER, CICS and Easytrieve. Primary focus

was on two major components of the system, Sharelot and Investor.

Sharelot was developed to track the aging of purchase shares for the

purpose of calculating the contingent deferred sales charge for rear-

end load funds. Investor was designed to produce shareholder

statement data. Worked with fellow associate to develop dealer

packages of shareholder statements.

Other responsibilities: Served as client representative on two

committees. One fostered communication between client groups on

initiatives being developed within each of the client groups. The

second met to develop contingency plans in case of major system

failures due to natural or unnatural crises.

United Healthcare (MetraHealth),

Greenville, SC

March 1990 - February 1998. IBM System/370 3090.

Worked as a programmer/analyst in the Information Management unit of

MetraHealth. Primary responsibilities included creating programming

solutions to provide accurate, quality information to internal and

external customers regarding medical claims, eligibility, provider,

plan and other information related to the health care business. Worked

frequently with data that arrived in a variety of formats, such as

hardcopy and electronic reports, data tapes and cartridges.

Application development and maintenance was done in both the MVS/TSO

and VM/CMS environments using COBOL II, OS JCL, FILEAID, PLSORT, RAMIS

and SAS.

Anderson County Computer Services,

Anderson, SC

March 1988 - March 1990. IBM System/38 Model 700.

As programmer, assisted in maintaining and developing on-line/batch

systems for county government. Work with every facet of county

government, ranging from the Assessor's Department to Family Court

to Planning and Development to Court Administration. Job includes

analyzing the needs of various departments, developing departmental

software systems, maintaining software, installing terminals and

printers, performing operations tasks and serving as a user

consultant.

Maintenance of the Assessor's system requires heavy use of COBOL, but

RPG III was the primary programming language for a majority of the

departmental systems. Also programmed in Clipper and DBASE III PLUS

for development of PC-based systems.

Concordia Publishing (Office of Information Systems),

St. Louis, MO

July 1986 - March 1988. IBM System/370 4381.

As Programmer, assisted in the maintenance and development of on-

line/batch systems for the publication company, including for customer

order inquiry. Used MANTIS for on-line applications and COBOL for

batch applications. Maintained a product management system designed to

track the cost of development and sales of a product. This major

system is comprised of approximately 300 on-line and 15 batch

programs.

Education and Training

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

Graduated May 1986, University of Missouri-Columbia

Completed training classes in DB2, SQL, CICS, Java, and .NET (C#).

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