Project Developer

FLOYD D. BILLINGS

**** ******* **** ***** 973-***-****

Buford, GA 30518 ******.********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Mainframe Application Developer with many demonstrated accomplishments in implementation of cost effective and stable functioning CICS and batch related systems and procedures. Recognized as a quality reviewer and have functioned in multiple areas as final approver empowered to grant final approval of design approaches and usage of technical and company's best practices. A committed team player who works well independently as well as in teams and also in cross functional structures. Experienced in leading Onshore and Offshore technical teams to meet ongoing project milestones. Effective communicator with experience documenting design solutions for new initiatives as well as enhancements for existing applications. Expertise includes:

• Project Management • COBOL Programming

• DB2 Application Programming • VSAM Application Programming

• CICS Application Programming • Implementation

• Troubleshooting • Troubleshooting

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Hardware IBM Large systems

Software COBOL, COBOLII, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, FILEAID, VSAM, CICS, BMS, JCL, TSO-ISPF, MVS,

ENDEVOR, LIBRARIAN, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, ABEND-AID, MQ-series, RUMBA

PC Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Visio, Power point, MS Project, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EXPRESS SCRIPTS (formerly MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS), Franklin Lakes NJ

A multi-billion dollar fortune 100 company that provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services in North America. It offers healthcare management and administration services on behalf of its clients, which include a large contingent of private and government organizations.

Technical Specialist 2007 - 2012

Served as technical team lead over Onshore and Offshore development teams leading design, development and implementation efforts throughout concurrent quarterly projects. Efforts included providing design suggestions, technical coaching and milestones tracking. Served also as technical lead for a production support team to provide on-going on-call troubleshooting support.

• Part of ongoing multi-year project with objective to improve customer identification functions, maintain account compliance, improve system performance and reduce system processing cost.

• Spearheaded interfacing with business professionals to review business requirements verifying functional completeness to ensure cost effective expected development and to prevent rework.

• Experienced in software analysis, re-engineering and technical specifications documentation of new initiatives and providing associated development estimates.

• Experienced in leading Onshore and Offshore technical teams to keep up with expected development progress. Hands-on also in many development and implementation initiatives.

• Served also as technical lead to grant design approvals for major projects in addition to being ongoing final approver to allow implementation of production ready projects. Efforts included quality checking for usage of development and company's best practices, test plans completeness and expected test results.

• Led production support team through troubleshooting of many problematic issues. Efforts included debugging failed modules, analyzing data and working with business owners to define and report root cause to upper management.

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Senior Application Architect 2004 - 2007

Application Architect 1999 - 2004

Served as developer and team lead for many company initiatives. Highlights included, a) developments in ongoing projects to incorporate rules in legacy systems to incorporate Center for Medicare Services (CMS) compliant logic, b) managed a multi-year effort to convert logic in over one hundred legacy CICS order entry screens into stand-alone online backend server programs. Priority developments were completed to support the company's initial implementation of its newly designed work flow based client platform order entry system.

• Efforts in the multi-year conversion project were recognized as a turning point in the company's growth, since the operating handling cost per order was dramatically reduced upon delivery.

• Led a development team to convert a large number of legacy CICS screen logics into online backend server programs with DB2 and CICS accessing and inclusion of Message Queue(MQ) interfacing to support calling from various external functions.

• Developed a large number of programs with DB2 and CICS accessing to execute requirement procedures in an assortment of updating and reporting programs.

• Efforts also included enhancements in many batch and online programs to track progression of CMS member approvals status and to also handle CMS members annual enrollment processing.

• Worked with business owners along with Onshore and Offshore technical teams to track project status and report weekly project progress and issues to management.

Senior Programmer Analyst 1996 - 1999

Programmer Analyst 1994 - 1996

Served as developer on many company initiatives. Highlights included, a) being part of team that developed the company's initial communication channel between traditional order entry pharmacies and the initial remote dispensing pharmacy. This channel allowed transmission of dispensing-ready orders to the remote dispensing pharmacy, b) key developer on team that re-engineered and upgraded the company's legacy order entry system going from a single order entry process into a multiple order entry process.

• Efforts on this project were hugely successful and allowed for significant pharmacy operational savings and were recognized as major milestones in the progression of the company's growth.

o Major benefits included increased order entry speed, larger order entry through-put, reduced system down time and reduced order re-work.

• Developed several communications programs with DB2 and CICS accessing including the main transmission programs with processing logic (including MQ interfacing) to handle automated transmission of dispensing-ready orders between local order entry pharmacies and remote dispensing pharmacies.

o This interfacing channel was later leveraged to support implementation of additional strategically located dispensing pharmacies.

• Programming functionalities included database updating with order status, creating online screens to inquiry and track order status.

• Developed several functionality specific CICS screen programs to upgrade from legacy single prescription entry screens to allow entry of multiple prescriptions in the same transaction.

• Primary deliveries included development of the refill, change and new prescription programs, with all including new functionality to begin accepting problematic prescriptions.

• Several other stand alone backend programs with centralized function specific logic were created to support execution from multiple higher level functions.

Education - Professional Development - Relevant Certifications

• CompuServe Advanced DB2 Application and Database Design

• On-Line Software International CICS-DB2 Interface

• On-Line Software International DB2 Application Programming, DB2 Concepts and SQL

• On-Line Software International CICS Application Programming (Command Level)

• The Chubb Institute VSAM in COBOL, OS/JCL

• The Hartford Graduate Center Structured Analysis and Design

• Institute for Advanced Technology Structured Programming

• Empire Technical School Business Computer Programming (Cobol, RPG and Assembler)

• Essex County College

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