Andre M.Wade

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Gaffney, SC ****1

864-***-**** (C)

ac00kg@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

With over a 20+ years of experience in Information Technology in Application Development and Production Support within full-life cycle development. Experience in industries such as Healthcare, Education, Insurance, and Retail. Having delivered numerous IT applications for the business and technical customers - New systems, Systems integration, and implementation to a Production Environment

ABILITIES

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills - Team player

- New development and maintenance of programs - Provide training to end users

- Testing and debugging programs - Batch and Online programming

- Convert specs into workable applications - Design and develop systems

- Working with business analysts - Integration testing

- Complete documentation and adhere to standards - ETL data processing

- Effective written and oral communication skills - Ability to handle multiple tasks

- Troubleshooting production problems - Database processing

- Provide application support including problem research, - Mainframe and Distributed Applications - Analysis and resolution

TECHNICAL

COBOL

CICS

DATASTAGE

JCL/VSAM

DB2

ORACLE

QMF

SQL

TSO

ISPF

ENDEVOR

SCHED

FILEAID

EXPEDITOR

ABEND-AID

IBM/UTILS

MS/OFFICE

WINDOWS

PC SKILLS

UNIX

EDUCATION

Major: Computer Information Systems

School: DeVry Location: Atlanta, GA

Degree: BS Completion Date: 06/1992 GPA 3.37

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Employer: United Health Group(Optum Tech) Title: Apps Dev Cnslt

Location: Greenville, SC Duration: 06/2005 – 05/2017

Enhance existing applications and development of new COBOL/CICS/DATASTAGE applications to solve business issues within Healthcare Industry for EOB – explanation of benefits, etc – in Mainframe and Distributed Environments

ETL DATASTAGE processing – UNIX Distributed Environment

Oracle Database processing

Providing data feed to web applications for viewing medical claims via Internet

Printing and correspondent information about healthcare claims information/registration

Working with systems analyst to resolved production issues and new enhancements VSAM/DB2/JCL arenas

Processing of Claims from the Front End to Final Presentation to Customer

Data Checks on claim information and security

Create and Walkthroughs of Tech Specs to resolved issue

Work with Systems Analyst/Business Partner to hammer our detail spec business requirement

Responsible for production turnover and maintenance of Production Applications

Help training new employees on Healthcare environment system setup

Work with offshore to support issues – off hour issues

Conduct training for Team members and offshore groups on different App

Learning new technologies and stay up to date with changing tech industry

Employer: Ahold Information Services Title: Developer, Senior

Location: Greenville, SC Duration: 08/1998 – 06/2005

Developed new COBOL/CICS applications to solve business practices within Retail Grocery in VSAM/DB2/JCL/MQseries arenas

Provided integration and customizations to vendor supplied software for our purchasing, billing, and warehouse systems

Lead tasks which involve coordinating efforts within team environment and working with other technical and business professionals to meet project deliverables

Wrote specifications for Junior Developers to complete and conduct code reviews

Responsible for working with Business Analysts and Technical Leads to come up with best practice solutions for the business

Provided daily problem resolutions and 24/7 on-call support for Production applications within team rotation

Managed and coordinate tasks - which involve making sure all tasks are complete before GO-LIVE in production

Responsible for testing and getting business signoff on change requests and new developed applications

Took leadership of tasks within team and work independently to make sure assignments are completed

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