Project Manager Quality Assurance

Title:Software Designer

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HOTTEST SKILLS: product, db2, cobol, sql, cics, oracle, lien, jcl, programmer, database,

programming, vsam, sale, market, c++, engineer, vms, marketing, presentation, lease

REVISION: 08-SEP-02

RESUME:

NAME: Michael Sentner

ADDRESS: P.O. Box 663

CITY: Lebanon

STATE/PROVINCE: NJ

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CANDIDATE ID: 128015

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Citizen

EDUCATION: Master Degree

EXPERIENCE:

22

WILL RELOCATE: Open

RELOCATION INFO:

JOB WANTED: Any

RATE NEEDED: Senior level for area relocating to

HOMEPAGE: http://www.perfectagent.com/seeme/ms111597

COMMENTS: Available for preferably permanent positions with contract to hire or straight

contract acceptable.

HOTSKILLS: MVS DB2 CICS TSO ISPF COBOL IBM Assembler ( BAL / ALC ) CA-IDEAL CA-DATACOM

ORACLE PL/SQL

ESUME

MICHAEL SENTNER

LEAD PROGRAMMER ANALYST / PROJECT MANAGER

908-***-****

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OBJECTIVE

Continue applying my development & systems management skills to deliver timely,

intuitive, effective software solutions.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Extensive software development and maintenance expertise encompassing large

systems design & delivery, testing, problem identification/resolution, and

extensive coding experience in a variety of languages and operating

environments including JCL, C, BAL, COBOL, TSO/ISPF, REXX, CICS, DATACOM, DB2,

ORACLE, PL/SQL.

Established success in project leadership and line management positions

motivating development teams, scheduling workflows, and coordinating the

development process with the related training, documentation and quality

assurance functions.

Demonstrated proficiency in customer contact roles with assignments providing

experience in pre and post sales situations; opportunities to demonstrate

released and BETA products; occasions to create and deliver product and

marketing presentations to large & small audiences.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Programming

Over 20 years primarily hands-on experience building and delivering software

solutions for the IBM Mainframe market. Experience building products, tools,

utilities and applications in IBM BAL, COBOL, C, REXX, CLIST, PL/1 using DB2,

CA-Datacom, VSAM, ISAM & QSAM to run with batch JCL or under CICS, TSO, & ISPF.

Additional experience interfacing to IBM Mainframe applications through gateways

and APIs to client/server, PC, and mid-range applications.

Management

Proven skills in product management, project leadership and lead programming

positions:

- Development Manager for a 4GL environment coordinated development,

documentation, quality assurance, training, and technical support services.

- Project Leader for development of compile and run-time SQL support in a 4GL

for both DB2 and CA-Datacom/DB.

- Applications Programming Manager supervising requirements definition, design,

and iterative development of a PC-based Visual Information System for Project

Management.

Customer Contact

Demonstrated proficiency in working with customers and prospective clients:

- Presentations to large user group audiences.

- Discussion group leader for large and small user group audiences.

- Product demonstrations to prospective clients.

- Beta-installation at both new and existing client sites.

- Post-Sales problem identification & resolution both on-site and remote.

Software Development Lifecycle

Expertise in all phases of software development life cycle including proposal

preparation, requirement definition, functional, design, and technical

specifications, program development, implementation, documentation, and support

utilizing a variety of development methodologies.

Languages

IBM Assembler (BAL / ALC), C, SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, COBOL/II, PL/I, Command-Level

CICS, CA-IDEAL, CLIST, REXX, MVS JCL & Utilities, MS Products (Word, Excel,

Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)

Light VB, C++, HTML, JAVA.

DBMS & File Systems

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DB2, CA-Datacom/DB SQL, CA-Datacom/DB, IDMS & ORACLE, VSAM, ISAM, BSAM, QSAM

Hardware/OS

IBM S/390 Open Edition & MVS, DOS/VSE, CICS, TSO/ISPF, UNIX, VMS, Windows95,

WindowsNT.

Education

1983

-MS, West Coast University, Software Engineering

1980

-BS, Rutgers University, Computer Science - Systems Option

Work History

MICHAEL SENTNER

LEAD PROGRAMMER ANALYST / PROJECT MANAGER

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LEGACY SOLUTIONS JANUARY

1997 -> PRESENT

Flemington, New Jersey

Senior Software Consultant

Working with the following clients:

VIASOFT

Pheonix, AZ January, 1998 -> April, 1998

New York Life

Clinton, NJ March, 1997 -> March, 2000

ADP

Roseland, NJ March, 2000 -> August, 2000

TOSC

Houston, TX July, 2000 -> February, 2000

OMR Systems

Skillman, NJ November, 2000 -> May, 2001

Performing the following assignments:

Validated and verified port of ISV application product to

Pro*COBOL/PL/SQL/ORACLE from COBOL/ISAM.

Developed Rapid Application Design (RAD) prototypes for PL/SQL Stored

Procedures and Pro*COBOL calling modules to support a code generated port of a

transaction-based COBOL/ISAM product accessing over 500 table/files to ORACLE

and UDB. Troubleshoot and extend RAD prototype development to adapt to and

support the actual ISAM processing, as opposed to the assumed processing, to

accomplish the actual data access port.

Specified procedures for implementing set-at-a-time ORACLE SQL processes to

work in conjunction with existing record-at-a-time COBOL/ISAM processes

supporting dual data access through both COBOL/ISAM and ORACLE/SQL for an ISV

application product.

Feasibility analysis and project plan evaluation for a legacy application port

from VMS COBOL/ISAM structures to ORACLE and DB2 UDB RDBMS that would reflect

but not interfere with ongoing development within the COBOL environment.

Project planning to port S/390 COBOL & CA-IDEAL applications using

CA-DATACOM/DB to a Business Rules driven platform using ORACLE; including

procedures for analyzing legacy code base, identifying and extracting business

rules from existing code base and synchronizing continuing S/390 application

development with ported code.

Converted BSAM comparison & copy utility to BSAM.

Deliver feasibility evaluation and initial requirements specification for an

MQSeries/WebSphere front-end to a clients in-house legacy COBOL/CICS/DATACOM

application.

Develop ISPF application in REXX accessing VSAM files and PLATINUM Repository

on DB2 (PR/MVS) to coordinate with nightly batch utility identifying changes to

production Load, Source, ISPF and JCL library members to facilitate analysis

and ensure Y2K compliance of all changes.

Develop nightly scheduled batch utility to monitor & control changes to

production Load, Source, JCL & ISPF libraries.

Analyzed customers application systems written in BAL, COBOL, PL/I, and ADSO

running in batch and on-line under CICS and IDMS accessing sequential VB & VSAM

files, and/or IDMS & DB2 databases to identify and resolve Y2K inconsistencies.

Developed project management applications accessing DB2, PROFS, Lotus notes,

and proprietary database to coordinate and control a major Y2K remediation

effort.

Design and implement a software packaging and delivery utility across

heterogeneous computer platforms for a major Y2K Solution Vendor.

SYSDATA INTERNATIONAL SEPTEMEBER

1995 -> DECEMBER 1996

Hoboken, New Jersey

Software Designer

Lead DB2 designer developing a GUI Security Administration product to display

and modify RACF & DB2 security.

Designed and implemented the DB2 Security Interface.

Developed & tested RACF/DB2 data management subsystems and communications

protocols to drive the GUI front-end.

Product developed in BAL, SAS/C and Microsoft C++.

PRINCETON SOFTECH JULY

1992 -> SEPTEMBER 1995

Princeton, New Jersey

Senior Software Developer

Member of a 3-person development team that conceived and delivered the

Relational Tools, a DB2 toolset to edit, extract, insert, copy, move, and

compare related sets of data.

Designed and coded the DB2 Catalog Access subsystem to control data type

access, identify and process system defined relationships, and define and

utilize application defined relationships.

Designed and coded the ISPF interface including the menus, panels, skeletons,

and batch job submission.

Built the installation facility to create and populate the DB2 Catalog

extensions required by these tools.

Defined the specifications for extending the products into distributed DB2

environments and delivered the prototype process to customers to prove its

feasibility.

Product developed in BAL, SAS/C, CLIST, and ISPF Panel and Skeleton logic.

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES

(ORIGINALLY ADR) JUNE 1983 -> JULY 1992

Princeton, New Jersey

CA-RAMIS IDMS SQL Developer

Applied my existing SQL and legacy database/application experience to implement

the RAMIS IDMS/SQL interface coordinating my development effort with that of

both the RAMIS and IDMS staffs.

CA-IDEAL Development Manager

Coordinated development, quality assurance, documentation, training and

technical support to deliver this integrated development and execution

environment for production relational database applications under CICS,

TSO, ROSCOE and MVS & VSE batch accessing CA-DATACOM/DB and DB2 via native DML

and embedded SQL.

Served as company authority for CA-IDEAL/DATACOM and CA-IDEAL/DB2 lending my

expertise in pre and post sales situations and specifying and developing

product plug-ins and add-ons.

Project leader for the DB2 an CA-DATACOM SQL releases using the expertise

acquired as a member of the original CA-IDEAL/DB2 product design team.

Developed, maintained, and enhanced the CA-IDEAL compiler.

Product developed in IBM BAL Command and Macro-level CICS and CA-IDEAL.

VOLLIE Software Developer

Member of a development team responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of

VOLLIE, a CICS programmer productivity tool for the DOS/VSE operating system.

Maintained and enhanced the interface integrating VOLLIE with other ADR

products; particularly The Librarian.

Maintained and enhanced the backup/restore and other reliability and

security subsystems.

Provided problem determination and resolution for the product support and

sales staffs.

Product developed in IBM BAL Macro-Level CICS.

TRW - DEFENSE AND SPACE SYSTEMS GROUP AUGUST 1980 -> JUNE 1983

Redondo Beach, California

Ballistic Missile Ordinance MIS Applications Programming Manager

Primary customer contact, lead programmer, and supervisor of a team of 10

developers, tech writers, and data entry clerks using Rapid Applications

Development and prototyping techniques to develop and deliver a Visual

Information Project Management system to our customer.

Primary customer contact for Project Management system.

Lead Programmer of CSSC and Budgeting systems.

Advised customer on hardware and software acquisition.

Product developed in BASIC, FORTRAN, Z80 and PRIMOS assembler languages.

Minuteman Airborne Executive Program Testbed System Engineer

Member of a team enhancing and maintaining an operational simulation testbed

for the Minuteman Airborne Executive Program.

Designed and developed an IBM DASD simulator.

Enhanced a proprietary, undocumented operating system to support the

simulator.

Development performed in VARIAN assembler and a proprietary assembler

language.

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES JUNE

1979 -> JANUARY 1980

Jericho, New York

CA-DYNAM/D System Developer

Member of a team enhancing this disk space manager to support a major operating

system upgrade and the introduction of IBM/s new FBA mass storage devices.

Developed and maintained DOS and DOS/VSE disk management utilities.

Developed marketing tools for the disk management system.

Developed in BAL using PIOCS channel program to control disk access.

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