Senior Cobol Programmer Analyst

James M. Gunter

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SUMMARY STATEMENT

Experienced mainframe COBOL programmer analyst who has interacted with clients to deliver business solutions that are reliable, maintainable and easily enhanced

EXPERIENCE

Programmer/Business Analyst Chicago, IL

US DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS – CSRA CONSULTING June/2015 – Present

Legacy support and documentation for various GI Bill programs

Analysis and rewrite of recertification check return system

Support in creation of System design document for Dependent GI Bill CH35

Converted long time hard copy work notes to on-line PDFs

UNITED STATIONERS - Oak Consulting Sept/2014 – April/2015

Conversion of Inventory system to accommodate business acquisitions

Performed Legacy expansion of various data fields in VSAM, DB2 tables, and flat files

Updated various system documentation due to enhancements

HCSC Blue Cross - VIVA CONSULTING June/2014 – June/2014

Aided in reformatting and populating new State claims into Blue Chip Health

care system in alignment with the Affordable Health Care Act

Created Cobol Utility programs/sync sort to reformat new State claims

Responded with reasoned explanations to individual claim issues

Provided quality control reviews before production installs

TRUE VALUE Feb/1977 – Feb/2014

Maintained and enhanced billing system serving over 5000 stores

Aided in development of substitution pricing, and restriction item features

Created and maintained a DB2 and VSAM comprehensive test area, used for

research, projection and trouble shooting

Created or improved quality control and production promotion standards Aided in data

interfaces with associated systems such as ship later, adjustments, inventory, and financials

System Method expert for the conversion from Mainframe to server based environment

EDUCATION, PROFESSNAL DEVELOPMENT and TRAINING

Truman Community Chicago College Colleges Chicago, IL

AA Arts Business Administration

Certificate Program: Computer and Business Skills Institute

TECHINCAL SKILLS/SPECIAL TRAINING

COBOL, DB2, QMF, MVS JCL, VSAM, BMS, SYNC SORT, TSO/SPF, FILEAID, DYLCOR, PROJECT WORKBENCH, WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK, SQL, Fileaid/Manager TRACKIT, SAR, BULL GCOS and CHANGE MANAGEMENT

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