Software Engineer at Lowe's
Resume:
MIKHAIL GERCHIKOV
Charlotte, NC 28226
e-mail: **********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Experienced in developing Mainframe applications using Full Life Cycle and Agile mainframe development methodologies.
Experienced in the project development, gathering requirements and analysis, project planning, design, development, unit, integration and system testing, production implementation, maintenance and production support.
Experience in major Mutual Funds investments, Banking, Insurance and Retail companies.
OBJECTIVE: To obtain a Programmer/Analyst position.
HARDWARE: IBM 30XX, IBM and compatible PC's.
SOFTWARE: COBOL II, TSO/ISPF, OS/MVS/JCL, IBM Utilities, EASYTRIEVE,
CICS (Command Level), DB2 (SQL, SPUFI, QMF), FILE-AID, ICETOOL,
SYNCSORT, INTERTEST, XPEDITER, INSYNC, Abend-AID, DB2 Connect,
OEM Vendor Software Products (ENDEVOR, DumpMaster, FreezeFrame),
DB2, Oracle and Native SQL Stored Procedures,
Oracle SQL Programmer application tool.
EXPERIENCE:
03/2015 – Current Software Engineer at LOWES.
Member of the PaymentSolutions Support team.
Responsibilities include technical production support for the following systems,
based on IBM Mainframe (COBOL/DB2).
- Card Processing System
- Chargeback Management System
- Card Financial System
- E-signature Processing System
- Payment switch
- Gift card alliance
- Credit card vault
- Check processing
- Lowe’s gift card
Created and developed design solutions, developed and tested multiple
batch COBOL/DB2 programs and JCL procedures for Tokenization project.
Responsibilities include:
-Development and coding of applications in the mainframe environment working with COBOL, DB2, JCL
-Issue resolution, applications maintenance and trouble shooting
-Involved in creating production reports, preparing JCL jobs and procedures
-Developed interfaces with other data providers to accept, validate, and reformat input files before updating DB2 database in batch mode. Used COBOL II and embedded SQL.
Involved in 24/7 on-call rotation Production support.
01/2015 – 03/2015 Consultant at HanesBrands Inc.
Member of a consultant team hired by HanesBrands Inc. to participate in
development and maintenance of the Warehouse Management System
and Distribution Center, based on IBM Mainframe.
Responsibilities include:
-Creation and development of design solutions
-Development and maintenance of COBOL/DB2 applications
-Full cycle testing, using multiple debugging tools (Mainframe express, DB2 connect, etc.)
-Creation production reports, preparing JCL jobs and procedures, participate in system testing, debugging, and performance tuning.
11/1999 – 11/2014 Info Systems Engineer at VANGUARD GROUP.
Responsibilities include:
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Development in Institutional Investment Department within Defined
Benefits Application, VISTA and Payroll Related Services system using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and mainframe application development tools and utilities.
Worked on the enhancements of the existing client interface to improve participant data of Bridge Iport Split application.
Created and developed design solutions to mitigate highly sensitive issues with risk management, which served as the basis for Bridge Iport Split project design.
Worked with BSAs and client groups on gathering requirements, performing analysis of the current system, project scoping, designed and developed code, performed testing and implementation, created all deliverable project documentation.
Worked as a Technical Lead on the Online Conversation project to create multiple back-end modules such as DB2 Stored procedures, Event Handlers and Table Handlers.
Created Oracle Stored Procedures Package as a back-end application for State Of The Plan project.
Worked closely with front end development team with involvement of Sybase and Java interface (developed DB2, Native SQL and Oracle Stored Procedures).
Developed and tested multiple batch programs and JCL procedures to build new financial reporting system that was accessed via Front End screens (GUI interface).
Performed maintenance and production support.
03/1999-11/1999 Consultant at J.P. MORGAN
Member of production support team of Integrated Securities Database Systems. Main function consists of IT support of the FEDERAL
RESERVE BOARD REPORTING SYSTEM (Cobol, JCL,QMF Extracts) and IT support of the STOCK RECORD.
Responsibilities include:
Business and technical analysis of overnight data processing, same day pledge processing, maintenance, when necessary coding and debugging of the system.
Participation in the modification of existing databases to address the current need of the customers, including the update of the documentation.
Utilizing the Control –M system to monitor and respond to arising contingencies.
10/1998-03/1999 Consultant at NATIONAL STARCH & CHEMICAL Co.
Production Support Group.
Responsibilities included:
Trouble-shooting and late night support of the FREIGHT ANALYSIS SYSTEM, Financial Reporting, Freight Payment, other subsystems. Two ways communication with end users to identify and correct production problems.
Coding new programs and modify the existing ones (Cobol/Batch, DB2/Batch) to produce period-end reports.
09/1997 –09/1998 Member of a consultant team hired by METLIFE to participate in development and maintenance of the Customer Service Workstation and Letter Generation System. These systems were designed and
developed as new members of the MACS ( Metropolitan Address
Correction System) to provide the users with all tools necessary to
maintain the information about Metlife's customers.
Customer Service Workstation - is a background CICS- DB2 system
interfacing with common data access modules that supported
PowerBuilder front-end applications.
Letter Generation System - the purpose of this project is to give
users of the MACS system a fully automated and standardized facility
for generating MACS related customer correspondence.
Coded new CICS-DB2 programs to display the menus, inquiry and
listing screens. All screens provide the user with data entry and data-
base update capabilities allowing paging, sorting data for on-line
viewing. Coded programs to produce end-period and also year-to-date reports.
05/1997 - 09/1997 Consultant for LEHMAN BROTHERS to modify the Stock
Record System. The modification required to bring together stand
alone COBOL/CICS applications into a structured environment
platform. Created the validation routine for password authorization
to access VSAM files and TRANSID.
Enhanced the Cost To Carry Analysis screens by adding custom fields
which provide new functionality to display and update elements online.
During the project participated in the conversion of multiple programs
from COBOL to COBOL II.
Utilized different debugging tools including INTERTEST and EDF.
The project was finalized by migrating the application from
PANVALET to ENDEVOR.
03/1995 - 04/1997 Consultant for MELDISCO participated in development and
maintenance of the PERPETUAL INVENTORY SYSTEM. The
system is designed and developed to maintain an accurate status of
the inventory items.
Was responsible for coding, performance tuning, testing and overall
preparing the system for production, conversion from VSAM to DB2.
06/1994 - 02/1995 Consultant for BELL ATLANTIC MOBILE SYSTEMS
participated in development and extensive maintenance of the
Customer Management System. The system provides an
automated processing of customer activities for Bell Atlantic and
its partners. Wrote COBOL II batch and CICS programs to provide
DB2 databases and VSAM files access with full capabilities to view,
update and delete data information, and generate reports.
1987 - 1993 STATE BANK, c.Minsk, BELARUS
Programmer/Analyst participated in system analysis, program
design, development and maintenance of the Commercial Loan
System. CLS validates new transactions, updates master files and
generates reports. The responsibilities included analysis and design.
EDUCATION: STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, c.Minsk, BELARUS
B.S.Degree in General Engineering
REFERENCES: Furnished upon request
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