Pierre Alfred Merzius

Email: ac23rq@r.postjobfree.com

718-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

** ***** ** ** ********** as a Mainframe Programmer Analyst. Works in development, maintenance, testing, and support of application software on IBM Mainframe Systems. Experienced in health insurance.

Skilled in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Requirements Gathering, Construction, Unit Testing, and Support to various testing techniques – User Acceptance (UAT) Testing, Regression Testing, and Production Support.

Functional Responsibilities: Requirements gathering, application design, configuration, test script generation and execution, writing installation guides, and production support.

Technical (Technical Analyst, Developer) Activities: Interfacing with users; developing specs; estimating work; designing custom solutions; programming, scheduling, and producing documentation; and providing production support.

Programmer/Analyst Responsibilities: Communicates with business to discuss requirements, writes technical requirements, defines IT solutions, develops code, provides test data and test case to support testing, provides support to deploy and deliver the final product to the business.

Has performed multiple roles throughout career, including Senior Programmer/Analyst. Specializes in COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL and MVS. Has extensive hands on experience working on tools like EXPEDITER, File-Aid, FTP, NDM, ISPF/TSO, etc.

Good team player, with an interest toward exploring, learning, and using new Tools and Software quickly and efficiently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems

Z/OS (IBM Mainframe),TSO/ISPF, OS/390, MVS/ESA, Windows, VSE/ESA

Programming Languages

JCL, COBOL, CICS, CICS, EasyTrieve Plus

Version Control Tools

Librarian

File Management and DB Tools

File-Aid

Debugging Tools

EXPEDITER

Other Tools and utilities

TSO/ISPF, SDSF, IBM utilities, CA7

Database

VSAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Computer Aid, Inc. Augustl2014 – March 2017

Client: Emblem Health, NYC

Position: Mainframe Production Support COBOL Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Monitor production in REALTIME COBOL/CICS/MQ environment.

Proactively identify production issues and take necessary steps to rectify issues before an outage happens to meet SLA.

Test and debug using EXPEDITER.

Create test plan for unit testing, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing.

Resolve transaction ABENDS using ABENDAID.

Participate in production support on-call duties: Acknowledging user requests, researching issues reported by users, performing RCA after analyzing application code, documenting and responding to users.

Interface with business partner, create project turnover documents, support User Acceptance testing, prepare install guide, and implement fixes as part of the production support team.

Analyze Business Requirement Documents and create Technical Requirement document, code solution, test and debug, implement and do post installation verification and notification.

Research application issues and ownership of fixing problems in a timely manner.

Maintained QCARE as system administrator.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, EasyTrieve Plus, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, ABENDAID, EXPEDITER.

Emblem Health April 1980 – June 2014

Position: Mainframe COBOL Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed technical design documents from business requirement documents after conducting detailed research of current production enrollment systems utilizing librarian search tools and EXPEDITER.

Coded programs in Librarian, utilizing COBOL 370, VSAM and CICS command level.

Tested and debugged using EXPEDITER

Created test plan for unit testing, system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Resolved transaction ABENDS using ABENDAID.

Participated in production support on-call duties: Acknowledging user requests, researching issues reported by users, creating resolutions after analyzing application code, documenting and responding to users, representing change control tickets at weekly meetings.

Interfaced with business partner, created project turnover documents, supported User Acceptance (UAT) testing, prepared install guide and implemented projects as part of Release Methodology.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, EasyTrieve Plus, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, ABENDAID, EXPEDITER.

EDUCATION

BA in Modern language and literature (Brooklyn College – 1971 – 1975)

Certificate in Computer Programming (1979).

REFERENCES

Will be furnished upon request.

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