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Stuart Dippie - Resume

Personal Details

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Florida 32312

Skill Summary

Mainframe Skills

ISPF/TSO : 22 years MVS JCL : 22 years

COBOL : 26 years IMS DB/DC : 17 years

Easytrieve plus : 22 years Ims-Xpert : 21 years

IBM Utilities : 22 years CA-7 : 21 years

Fileaid : 22 years Expeditor : 19 years

SORT : 21 years TELON : 15 years

VSAM : 14 years CA-1 : 12 years

Endevor : 11 years DB2 : 5 years

CICS : 5 years PL/1 : 2 years

Assembler : 1 year SAS : 1 year

Strobe : 1 year Connect:Direct : 1 year

FTP : 3 years Extra! : 7 years

Bluezone : 2 year Panvalet : 2 years

REXX : 2 year Librarian : 1 year

SOAP : 6 mths XML : 6 mths

PC Skills

MS-Word : 11 years

MS-Excel : 9 years

MS-Visio : 6 years

MS-Access/VBA : 4 years

MS-Powerpoint : 1 year

Education Summary

Napier University 10/81 thru 06/84 Higher Diploma Computer

Studies

Edinburgh

Scotland

Currie High School 08/75 thru 06/81 3 Higher Grades

Edinburgh 8 Ordinary Grades

Scotland

Professional Experience:

Department of Corrections Blairstone Road, Tallahassee

FL

Contract Analyst/Programmer 2/15/2010 to present

Automated Inmate Ranking System (AIRS) - is designed to replace CMRS

and to work with CINAS in identifying inmates for placement in

substance abuse, academic and vocational programs. In addition to

ranking and recruiting, AIRS will supply departmental employees with

up-to-date, detailed roster information of inmates currently assigned

to programs in the target program areas. CMRS is an IMS database

system, the new AIRS system will utilize the flexibility of DB2

databases to permit more dynamic ranking and accurate reporting of

inmate performance. I was assigned the task of modifying the existing

ranking report system to extract and collate inmate performance from

both DB2 and IMS-DB datastores. I also developed a new extract and

report program that utilized CICS SOAP capability (an AML based

connection) to access the functionality of an existing CICS

transaction from a batch program.

Miscellaneous Development and maintenance - Amongst other tasks

assigned me, I developed the 2010 Inmate Census report, corrected

several problems in on-line CICS transactions and wrote a CICS

transactions that would interface with the e-system (web based

application) to supply inmate demographics in response to a service

call.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, MVS JCL, IBM utilities, COBOL II,

CICS, DB2, IMS-DB, SPUFI, Ims-Xpert, Expediter, ELIPS, LIBRARIAN,

SOAP, XML, MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL, FTP, Extra!,

Department of Children and Families Tallahassee, Florida

Systems Programmer/Analyst 10/01/2008 to 2/05/10

CSE Automated Management System Phase II (Design) - As previously

stated (see employment record 11/01/96-8/15/07), this is a mission

critical project to migrate the entire Child Support Enforcement

system to an SAP platform. Phase I being already completed, the next

phase, which will transfer the remaining Child Support Enforcement

functionality from the mainframe to an SAP platform was under design.

As part of a core team of 8 programmers, I was selected to design a

framework for incrementally transferring the caseload to the new

platform. A variety of complex interfaces between the legacy CSE

system, the new SAP based system and the legacy Public Assistance

system (which is presently an integrated part of the CSE system) would

need to be designed and developed to facilitate this. The team worked

collaboratively to investigate different phased approaches which would

dictate the design of the framework and to submit formal

recommendations.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, TELON, Easytrieve Plus,

REXX, MVS JCL, IBM utilities, CA-7, CA-1, HSM, IMS-DB, IMS-DC, VSAM,

Ims-Xpert, Expediter, ENDEVOR,

FILEAID, ServiceCenter, MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL, VISIO, PowerPoint, SORT,

Connect:Direct, FTP, Extra!, Bluezone

Agency for WorkForce Innovation Tallahassee, Florida

Systems Programmer/Analyst 8/16/2007 to 6/30/2008

IRORA project (Development) - The Interstate Reciprocal Overpayment

Reimbursement Agreement is a federal charter which gives specific

guidelines on how states should co-operate in the recovery of

unemployment compensation overpayments. Any participating state must

be in full compliance with these guidelines in order to be certified

by the federal government. I was part of a team that was formed to

implement the first automated system to be in full compliance. As a

Lead Analyst on the project I participated in extensive interviews

with the subject matter experts and technical experts to gather the

technical requirements and produce a design solution. We then

developed and implemented a system which was fully integrated with the

existing payments processing system and allowed the Agency to assist

in recovering other state overpayments, thus being in IRORA

compliance.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, MVS JCL, VSAM,

IBM utilities, Easytrieve Plus, Expediter, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID for

DB2, Access for DB2, ENDEVOR, MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL, VISIO, Extra!

Department of Children and Families Tallahassee, Florida

Systems Programmer/Analyst 11/01/1996 to 8/15/2007

CSE Automated Management System (Maintenance) - As stated below, this

is a mission critical project to migrate the entire Child Support

Enforcement program to an SAP platform. Following the successful

implementation of the first phase, I was assigned to head up the

enhancement and maintenance of the interface between the existing

system and the SAP based Enforcement system. As the Technical Lead, I

had a staff of over 15 programmers for which I was responsible for

assigning work orders, overseeing and managing development, liaising

with users to identify issues and reporting to both DCF and DOR state

management on progress.

CSE Automated Management System (Development) - A new initiative to

replace the legacy system that is currently supporting Florida's Child

Support Enforcement (CSE) Program. The CAMS (CSE Automated Management

Systems) project rollout is envisioned as three sequential increments,

the first increment being to provide Compliance Enforcement (CE) and

Location functionality. Implementation of this will first require CSE

cases to be converted and transferred to CAMS and for all Enforcement

and Location functionality on the current system to be closed down.

Secondly all external data sources required to support the first

increment rollout must be made available to the CAMS system and a

gateway installed between the existing legacy system and the new CAMS

system for inter-system communication. I was assigned the task of

designing and developing the gateway process to facilitate the flow of

information between the two systems to ensure correct synchronization

of shared data support of the disparate systems. This is a very

ambitious project with the highest priority and is regarded as mission

critical by the department.

Administrative Support Order - Typically, for an award of child

support to be granted the support guidelines calculation amount must

be reviewed by a judge. Sometimes however, the support order need not

be judicial. In such situations, an Administrative Support Order (ASO)

is sufficient. A system was therefore required to process the

Administrative Support Order. I was assigned the task of developing a

number of screens that would allow the user to track the progress of

such orders as well as trigger production of notices to the parents in

the case at certain key events. These screens were very complex as

they had necessarily to be designed to permit the events in the ASO

process to occur in a very flexible time frame.

Distribution 2000 - Effective October 1996, legislation was passed in

Florida that radically changed the way in which money was to be

processed that was collected from a non-custodial parent whilst the

custodial parent was receiving public assistance. Extensive changes

were required to the financial management module of the system as well

as some more minor changes required to other modules. Amongst the

tasks assigned me for this project were; specifying, coding and unit

testing the changes to the charging module of the financial management

system, specifying, coding and unit testing a significant part of the

federal reporting module and specifying, coding and unit testing a key

program in the

conversion of the database to the new format required to implement

D2000.

FIPS change automation - Where a custodial parent of a Florida Child

Support case is resident out of state, the money in support of that

case is often sent to an out of state agency for that parent to

collect. These agencies are identified by a code given by that agency

known as the FIPS code. From time to time these codes change and we

will receive notification from the agency to update our case workloads

accordingly. A batch

process was already in place to do this however the method of

recording these changes from old FIPS code to new FIPS code involved

the user inputting data directly into a flat file for the batch

process to read. This was not acceptable. I was assigned the task of

designing and implementing a more secure method to affect these

changes. A new on-line program was developed to allow the user to key

their FIPS code changes to a new database. This database would then be

read into the existing batch update process. The batch update process

also required some modification as the changes would no longer be read

in a sorted sequence.

Logical Systems Design development - As part of the departments

initiative to obtain level 3 certification from the Software

Engineering Institute, a pilot project to construct a Logical Systems

Design for a single module of the FLORIDA system was begun. I was

tasked with analyzing all the batch jobs in the enforcement module and

developing a multi-level diagramatic representation of those jobs.

This was later published on the departments intranet web-site to

provide illustrative documentation to be used by programmers, analysts

and all other authorized personnel in the department.

Regular Maintenance - As a member of a core team of initially ten

consultants, my duties included investigation of production problems,

design and implementation of the necessary solutions and analysis,

design and specification of enhancements to the system. The team

sustained a significant loss of staff in my first year reducing the

headcount to five, myself as one of the more experienced. I am now

primarily responsible for some of the key components of the system,

such as current support check production and PA distribution. I am

also a member of the cycle monitor rota and am therefore on call for

support/resolution of all production problems for one week each month.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, TELON, PL/1, MVS JCL, IBM

utilities, CA-7,

CA-1, HSM, IMS-DB, IMS-DC, VSAM, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert,

Expediter, ENDEVOR,

FILEAID, ServiceCenter, MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL, VISIO, MS ACCESS/VBA

2000, Strobe, SORT, Connect:Direct, FTP, Extra!, Bluezone

Department of Corrections Blairstone Road, Tallahassee

FL

Contract Analyst/Programmer 10/01/2002 to 03/31/2003

Web Enablement Project - This project was initiated by the department

to prepare their legacy CICS system to be able to be accessed by a web-

enabled front-end application. The presentation logic (SEND and

RECEIVE calls etc) were separated from the business logic, thus

allowing the system to be integrated with any front-end application

selected by the department.

I worked on a part-time basis on this project but was expected to

modify, test and install the same number of application programs as

other full-time members of the team. I managed to complete all my work

within the time allowed and then was given additional work-load to

cover for slippage.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, MVS JCL, IMS-DB, DB2,

VSAM, CA-7,

CICS, SORT, Ims-Xpert, IBM utilites, LIBRARIAN, Expediter, MS-WORD, MS-

EXCEL.

EMS Professional Resources Tallahassee,

Florida

Contract Application Builder 09/01/2002 to

07/01/2003

Wine Merchant Inventory Control System - Designed and developed a

database application for a small Wine Merchant to assist with stock

management. The application was further expanded to include point of

sale processing and purchase order processing.

Technical Interview & Analysis System - Designed and developed an

application to assist employers in their assessment of the relative

skills of applicants for mainframe computer programmer positions. The

application was a multi-user system with hierarchical security

allowing access to customized switchboards depending on hierarchical

designation. The system would permit the designation of Examiner to

schedule customized technical examinations for applicants and to

review Examinee responses. It would also provide an analysis of the

examination results and make suggestions regarding the suitability of

the candidate.

The application was an ambitious project that required extensive VBA

programming to achieve the specifications.

Experience: MS ACCESS/VBA 2000, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, VISIO

Allied Signal Aerospace 1944 East Sky Harbor Circle,

Phoenix, AZ

Contract Analyst/Programmer 04/01/1996 to 10/25/1996

Reverse Billing System - In response to tighter budgetary controls on

sub-contractor billing, Allied Signal was required to establish a

system that would provide more accurate and consistent billing between

them and one of their major sub-contractors. I was assigned the task

of developing several programs to extract, match and report

discrepancies with

Allied Signal Rates billing information. The development schedule for

the system was very aggressive being required for immediate

implementation.

PC based Development Environment Project - Allied Signal (Engines) had

determined that it would be both viable and advantageous to relocate

all mainframe development work to the

PC level and as a step towards that ideal, had initiated a pilot

project to build a working environment on a PC platform. I was part of

a small team working on the first phase of the

project which was to download all application source libraries from

the mainframe and to develop a system in MicroFocus COBOL that would

identify and categorize the source members. I was involved in all

aspects of the development, including analysis, design, coding and

unit testing.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, MF-COBOL, MVS JCL, CA-7,

IMS-DB, IMS-DC, VSAM, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert, SORT, IBM

utilities, Expediter. MS-WORD,

MS-EXCEL, MS-ACCESS/VBA

Fedex Data Center 5550 Tech Center Drive,

Colorado Springs, CO

Contract Analyst/Programmer 04/01/1995 to 03/31/1996

Automated Manifest System Express (AMSX) - Responding to a US Customs

requirement stipulating that all express consignment carriers provide

import carrier manifests electronically to US Customs Automated

Manifest System, Federal Express were

developing a Client/Server based system solution that would receive

airbill information from the up-line mainframe systems collate that

information and disseminate it to the US Customs systems accordingly.

My primary duties were to design, code and maintain the various

download interfaces that would supply the Client/Server system with

the airbill information it required. As the only member of the project

to be working in this area however I was also required to meet and

liase with team leads to discuss design issues and to co-ordinate with

developers from other projects whose scope may have an impact on ours.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, COBOL II, MVS JCL, PL/1, VSAM

IMS-DB, CA-7, CICS, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert, IBM utilities, SORT,

Expediter.

Department of Corrections Blairstone Road, Tallahassee

FL

Contract Analyst/Programmer 11/01/1994 to 03/31/1995

Offender Tracking System - Wrote two programs whose function is to

maintain a list of events for a given inmate that may or may not

affect his alien status.

Probation and Parole - Wrote and modified several programs to automate

CMC assessment scoring for a selected inmate. Inmates eligible for

parole are given a CMC examination in order to determine the level of

supervision in the community that the inmate may require.

Inmate Information System - Wrote and modified several programs to

provide reception center staff with a means by which to determine

which offender should be sent to which facility. Each offender has a

number of salient factors derived from the database and these are then

compared with similar factors relating to a facility to determine the

suitability of that facility to house the inmate.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, MVS JCL, IMS-DB, DB2,

VSAM,

CICS, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert, CA-7, IBM utilities, SORT,

Expediter, MS-WORD,

MS-EXCEL.

TSB General Insurance Tredegar Park, Newport,

Wales

Contract Analyst/Programmer 08/05/1994 to 10/27/1994

Personal Loan Payments Insurance - The client offered as an option on

all personal loans a payment protection policy. The maximum period for

such a loan was five years and consequently from 1995 there would be

potential for several of the date fields in the system having values

into the next millenia. I was part of a small team responsible for

implementing the necessary changes to ensure that the system would

continue to function correctly at year end and that any changes would

be transparent to the user. My duties included conducting an impact

analysis on the system to identify which areas would be affected at

year end. Modifying the programs as required. Documenting extensive

unit test plans, conducting unit testing on the affected programs and

together with the team leader

carrying out system testing and later assisting the users in their

acceptance testing.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, COBOL II, MVS JCL,

POLISY, VSAM, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert, IBM Utilities, SORT, CA-7,

Expediter.

Dept of Health and Rehabilitive Services Northwood Mall,

Tallahassee FL

Contract Analyst/Programmer 9/01/1992 to 07/31/1994

Child Support Enforcement/Financial Management - The Florida State

Department for Health and Rehabilitative Services is responsible for

the running of the Child Support Enforcement program within the state.

A major component of that program is the computer based Financial

Management system which tracks and administers payments made by absent

parents in support of their dependent children. As a member of a core

team of about

ten my duties included investigation of problems detected during user

acceptance of the system, design and implementation of the necessary

solutions and analysis, design

and specification of enhancements to the system. I was also on call on

several occasions as primary support for all CSE systems.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, COBOL II, MVS JCL, PL/1

IMS-DB, IMS-DC, TELON, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert, IBM Utilities,

SORT, CA-7, Expediter.

Scottish Widows FLAC 15 Dalkeith Road,

Edinburgh Scotland

Analyst/Programmer 07/01/1991 to

08/23/1992

Payments Management System - I was required to write several

conversion programs which would transfer policies from the old direct

debit system to the new Payment Management System. These were batch

programs written using a JSP based tool called PDF.

Policy Administration System - A new product to be sold and marketed

by the company was required to be fully administered on PAS. This was

a major project, involving some 120 IT staff. I was involved in

modifying the Claims Control System to handle the new product (this is

also a TELON based system and is almost exclusively on-line). I was

also responsible for modifying all the claims inquiry screens, also

written in TELON.

General Ledger System - The new product discussed above also impacted

on the General Ledger System. I was responsible for specifying and

implementing all the necessary changes to the Claims to General Ledger

interface. This consisted of several PDF programs and a number of

Easytrieve+ programs.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, COBOL II, MVS JCL, IMS-DB,

IMS-DC, CICS, DB2, TELON, VSAM, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert, IBM

Utilities, SORT,

CA-7, Expediter, Panvalet.

General Accident LAC Pitheavlis, Perth

Scotland

Contract Analyst/Programmer 08/01/1989 to 06/28/1991

Design and implement All Risks Claims handling subsystem, Home

insurance claims handling subsystem, Motor scheme underwriting system

and and underwriting data transfer program. Also prepare actuarial on

request reports using SAS.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, COBOL II, MVS JCL, DB2, SAS,

POLISY, VSAM, Easytrieve Plus, Ims-Xpert, IBM Utilities, SORT,

Expediter.

Bank of Scotland PLC Bankhead Crossway North, Edinburgh

Scotland

Analyst/Programmer 02/01/1988 to

07/31/1989

Wrote and implemented data transfer/validation system for life

assurance scheme, various programming and support role in other

fields - payroll, share registration and unit trust.

Experience: IBM 3090, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, COBOL II, Assembler, MVS JCL,

DB2

Easytrieve Plus, IBM Utilities, Panvalet, CA-7, SORT, Expediter.

Syntel BV Alphen a/d Rijn,

Netherlands

Analyst/Programmer 06/01/1986 to

01/31/1988

Assist in major conversion of portfolio management package

from BASIC to COBOL and POWERHOUSE.

Experience: HP3000, MPE V, VPLUS, COBOL, BASIC, POWERHOUSE, IMAGE

Legal Aid (Scotland) 44 Drumsheugh Gardens,

Edinburgh Scotland

Senior Programmer 10/01/1984 to

05/30/1986

Development and maintenance of installation specific systems ie.

Solicitor's Payments, Contributuions, Principal Sums. Also responsible

for supervision of junior programmers.

Experience: HP3000, MPEV, IMAGE, VPLUS, COBOL, BASIC

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