Archie B. Suber

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Columbia, SC *****

803-***-**** cell

803-***-**** email: ac4jpz@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER/ANALYST with extensive experience as a programmer in the mainframe environment in the insurance industry. Skilled at modifying and maintaining existing programs using a variety of languages as well as computer operations knowledge.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCIES

COBOL ASSEMBLER FILE-AID EASYTRIEVE MVS

PANVALET EXPEDITOR OUTLOOK WINDOWS 2000 JCL

VSAM TSO DB2 CICS APS QMF ENDEVOR

EXPERIENCE

2012 - Present DP PROFESSIONALS Columbia, SC

Full service IT staffing firm

Worked on-site at Blue Cross Blue Shield South Carolina

Sr Application Dev System Analyst

Maintain existing Aps and COBOL programs and design new programs using Aps.

Work with Development team and/or other support teams to resolve issues with the environment to resolve application failures.

Provide production support for medium and highly complex applications.

Experience with issue tracking systems, working tickets, and tracking SLAs

Trouble-shooted production incidents requiring detailed analysis of issues on web and desktop applications, CA7 batch jobs, and databases (both relational and VSAM for mainframe)

Escalated unresolved issues to appropriate team and personnel

2000 - 2012 South Carolina Employment Security Commission Columbia, SC

South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce

A state agency designed to help the citizens of South Carolina secure employment and compensation in the event of unemployment.

Programmer

Maintain existing COBOL programs, design new programs using COBOL, and create JCL for new projects as needed. Converted over 25 programs from VSAM use to DB2 capability.

1994 - 2000 Policy Management Systems Corporation Columbia, SC

A major international developer of software application programs and

other business solutions for the insurance and banking industry.

Programmer/Analyst

Maintained existing COBOL programs and designed new programs using COBOL and Easytrieve language. Resolved problems for the account staff and end users as required.

Created a new program that allowed for the separation of data into various files from a shared master file at the request of the customers.

Created a series of Easytrieve reports to enable the accounting department to comply with the insurance reporting laws.

Modified an existing program that enabled the generation of collection letters that notified clients of payments due.

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Programmer/Analyst (continued)

Created a report program that identified stop-pay or voided checks. This program was a shell from which other check disbursement programs were written.

Determined that the programs used to create declarations did not work properly. Analyzed the programs and modified the modules of the superlink as needed to correct the problems. Declarations were printed on an automated cycle rather than by manual intervention.

1987 -1994 Babcock Center Columbia, SC

Supervisor

Supervised and trained staff.

Monitored client objectives, census reports and behavior programs of developmentally disabled individuals.

EDUCATION

University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism 1981

Midlands Technical College Columbia, SC

Associate Degree - Computer Technology 1994

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

COBOL for MVS

File-Aid

Using Query

Goal-setting and Time Management

Change and Management Design

Introduction to Visual Basic

Introduction to SQL

Introduction to Access

Microsoft Access: Application Development

Html

Advanced Html

Introduction to Dreamweaver

Introduction to Java

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