Jim Kerns
Phone: 812-***-****
Evansville, IN 47711
Email: ******@******.***
Through years of experience managing my own business and adding value to
employers, I have proven my skills in supervision, coaching, problem
solving and relationship building.
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Demonstrated expertise in the following areas of IT.
Specialized IT SKILLS:
Machines: IBM 30XX, 43XX, 390
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, CICS, PL/1, Assembler
Utilities: EASYTRIEVE, TOAD, FOCUS
JCL & Operating Systems: OS/MVS, DOS/VSE
Databases: DB2, VSAM, Oracle 9i and10g, UNIX
Program access: TSO/ISPF, ICCF
PC: MS Office
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EXPERIENCE:
Volunteer Work while looking for work
12/2007 - Present Volunteer at various agencies
Trustee for St Paul's UCC church
United Caring Shelter (day shelter)
Set up Access programs for staff use
Boy Scouts
Habitat for Humanity
University of Southern Indiana
1/2000 - 12/2007 Programmer/Analyst - Banner system
Sept 2005 - Dec 2007 Converted mainframe data to
client/server. Wrote new scripts for State Financial Aid on
the Banner system, using SQL and PL/SQL. For this
application I also used Shell Scripts and Stored
Procedures. Updated Degree Auditing program using
microfocus COBOL. Web modifications (added HTML statements)
for Registrar's Office, MS Office for reporting.
Jan 2000 - Aug 2006 Maintained existing COBOL CICS programs
and wrote new ones for Financial Aid and Degree Auditing,
using ICCF, on VSAM files.
American General Finance
2/1995 - 12/1999 Senior Programmer -
Analysis and programming for Marketing, Accounting and
Government reporting, using COBOL, CICS, TSO and DB2.
Created and updated JCL as needed. Operating system of
OS/MVS, Changeman
Lincoln Service
7/1992 - 2/1995 Operations Supervisor/Computer Programmer -
Mortgage Corporation
Designed, wrote and implemented improvements to the online
and batch Mortgage Loan system using PL/1 and Assembler,
updated JCL as needed with TSO. Supervised operation
employees.
Let's Party
9/1990 - 6/1992 Owner -
Party supply, wholesale and retail, party decorations and
balloon delivery.
Citizens National Bank
12/1980 - 7/1990 Senior Programmer/Analyst -
Responsible for DDA, Savings, Credit line, Fixed assets and
Accounts receivable systems using COBOL, CICS and
Easytrieve with ICCF. Made JCL modifications as needed.