CHARLES (CHUCK) G. BEASTON
Phoenix, AZ 85013
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Profile Summary
Information Technology experience in the Design, Development & Implementation of diverse applications in Healthcare, Banking & Finance and Logistics with strengths in CICS, IMS (DB/DC), DB2, CA-DATACOM, ADABASE, Oracle, Advantage Gen. & Methodology with Full Life Cycle experience. Experience in model management, development coordination, shared objects CBD, CANAM Report Composer and data modeling concepts & tools.
Responsibilities have ranged from Programmer/Analyst, Project Leader, Project Manager & DBA. An onsite consultant to the Department of Defense - DLA with a DoD Clearance EDP II and extensive knowledge in DSS, DPMS, RFID (Container, Parcel Tracking and Load Management) & Small Parcel Logistic applications and Distribution Supple Chain Methodology. Experience in SDLC Waterfall & Agile Methodologies in the none traditional developmental life Cycle
QA experience in the design test processes and procedures used to ensure that software operates within defined requirements. Implement test plans, automation, and validation strategies. Identify and investigate issues found during testing. Work closely with software developers and software quality analysts to resolve issues. Develop and maintain automated test scripts to reduce repetitive manual testing.
Additional Health Care experience including with EDS MetaVance (TM) Healthcare Services, Inc. and Wipro Medicare Infocrossing Healthcare Services, Inc. CMS Q/Care and Q/Advantage processing including CMS interface and HIPAA regulations.
Work Experience
Sullivan & Associates - Phoenix, AZ (June 2016 – Present)
Business Analyst Consultant – Prime Medical Pain & Innovative Rehabilitation
•Involved in all aspects of Financial function of business entity.
•Responsible for performing comparable companies and precedent transaction analyses
•Produce Daily and Monthly Management Reports
Matson Navigation Company – Phoenix, AZ (June 2010 – May 2016)
Senior Principal Consultant
•FACTS Modernization Project - Re-Engineering of Freight Administration & Customer Service Application.
•Designed, implemented and maintained FACTS to GATES data sync between DB2 and Oracle. Performed additional application Development and Support for Horizon Alaska project. Performed QA for GATES Application for development and releases management.
•Application Development and Support for additional Logistics Company project.
Wipro Healthcare Medicare Advantage, Inc. -Phoenix, AZ (06/07/2007 – 01/02/2010)
Senior Principal Consultant
•Modification to Medicare CMS Q/Care and Q/Advantage CICS & Batch systems for Healthcare client.
•CMS Re-Engineering process of Q/Care & Q/Advantage CICS/VSAM/COBOL interfaces to DB2.
•Responsible for handling end-to-end project implementations for the Medicare suit of products Member360, Revenue360 and Q/care systems.
•Domain expertise in the business processes of Member Advantage and Part D plans that was designated for Medicare beneficiaries under the guidelines provided by CMS (Center for Medicaid and Medicare).
•Extensively worked on Pre-processing, Adjudication and Post processing modules of claim system that processes the PPO claims. Good understanding on the working of External claim pricing and other claims processing modules.
EDS MedaVance (Health Care System) – Plano, TX (05/01/2006 – 08/01/2007)
Senior Principal Consultant
•EDS Plano development team with responsibility of Process Design, Review, Construction and Release for EDS MetaVance Administration & Finance Application. The MedVance System is developed and maintained with Cool: Gen All-Fusion Gen 7.5, CANAM Report Composer, GuardIEn with NT – Oracle, CICS/DB2, COBOL, ADABAS database access on MVS, Unix and NT platforms.
DoD/DLA - (Government Systems) (11/01/1995 – 04/30/2006) (DoD Clearance ADP II)
•On site Consultant in support of Oracle, CA-DATACOM, DB2, ADABAS, CICS, MQSeries, QMF, SQL, COBOL, COB II, APS, NATURAL, SAS, CA-GEN, CANAM Report Composer, REXX with responsibilities of database and technical support to DSS and DPMS.
•Modified and maintained the DED (Data Element Dictionary), converted CA-DATACOM data structures to COBOL DB2 along with converting 15K CA-DATACOM queries to SQL. Providing technical support to Distribution standard and System both in All-Fusion Gen 7.0, Datacom and DB2.
•Developed addition tools with All-Fusion Gen for the management of Database Access Methods and Data Element Dictionary (DED) System. Converted MRO (CCP Status Inquiry, Emergency Pick Inquiry and MRO Status Inquiry) from CA-DATACOM to DB2.
•Converted the DSS interfaces to MQSeries from CA-DATACOM and ADABAS to DB2 and IMS(DB-DC).
•Converted and testing DSS, SP & DPMS Logistical application programs from Datacom to DB2 and IMS.
Education
•California State University - Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
Bachelor of Science in Economics 1974
•Long Beach City College
Associates Degree in Business 1969
Technical
•Hardware: IBM 370-145 OS/VS1, IBM 370-158 MVS, IBM 370-135 DOS, IBM 3033 OS/MVS, IBM3081 MVS, IBM 3091 MVS/ESA, IBM 4341, IBM OS2 (CM, RDS, DBM & DDCF) and HP9000
•Software: CICS, IMS (DB/DC), DB2/SQL, CA-Datacom, ADABASE, Oracle, VSAM, ISPF, BMP, MMP, BTS, MFS, MQSeries, MSA, Expeditor, Intertest, Changeman, FileAid, Endevor, Infoman, M&D, SAS, AllFusion Gen, IEF Cool/Gen 4.1A- 6.0, ComProxy, JavaProxy, Arranger 1.1 & 2.0, Webcenter 1.1, Websphere (MQSeries), Excel, Word, Power Point & Publisher
•Languages: COBOL, REXX, JCL, COB II, FORTRAN, BASIC, APS, NPL, ALC, C, C++, JavaScript & HTML.
References
•On Request