Mainframe Programmer/ Analyst
Resume:
GARY ALAN WEIR
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CAREER OBJECTIVES
To be a Lead Programmer that stresses new methods and ideas to help a company streamline work processes and create new processes to obtain maximum production efficiency. To help a Company grow its Net Profit.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
I am a Sr. Mainframe Programmer/Analyst with over 32 years of COBOL and OS JCL experience in the mainframe environment. I have over 22 years of CICS Command Level, over 17 years of DB2, and over 17 years of IMS programming experience. I have served as a Lead Programmer on multiple development and enhancement projects. I have worked on Full Development Life Cycle projects: writing functional and technical specs, performing analysis duties, performing numerous programming assignments, and writing programmer and user documentation.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
LANGUAGES APPLICATIONS SYSTEMS/UTILITIES
* CICS Command Level * Insurance: Auto/Fire/Claims/CIF * IBM Utilities ; SDSF ; Platinum
* DB2 / SQL / QMF * Banking: Retail Lending - Loans * Lotus Notes ; Microsoft Outlook
* IMS DB/DC * Electronic Banking: ATMs/Plastics * TSO/ISPF ; SAR/CA-VIEW
* EASYTRIEVE PLUS * Benefits: Medicare/Medicaid Claims * OS/JCL; VSAM; INFOMAN
* BASIC / VISIO * Payroll: Pension/Benefit Claims * XPEDITER; CICS & Batch
* DATACOM * Telecommunications: (Sprint/UT) * OS Utilities ; ENDEVOR * Microfocus COBOL * Manufacturing: Auto/Steel * OS/MVS - ESA ; DOS; ZEKE
* Microsoft: Word/Excel * Unemployment Compensation * FILEAID ; CHANGEMAN
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Worldpay Inc, Cincinnati, OH Aug 2015 – Jun 2018
Sr. Programmer/Analyst -Full Time Employee
Performed Development/Enhancement/Analysis programming duties for the Bank Card Acquirer System.
Built test files from data sent by Merchants, Issuers, and Third Party Vendors for Reconciliation.
Maintain BC Acquirer Application that processes the Credit and Debit Signature Cards for Merchants.
Responsible for Settlement to Merchants and processing Settlement To and From the Networks.
Performed Maintenance/Enhancements on CICS online and DB2 batch COBOL program modules.
Worked with Batch & Online Programs, Vsam, CCF, File Manager, FTP, NDM, CA-ROSCOE, Debugger, and Relational Databases on the Bank Card Acquirer System.
On Call / Production Support Responsibilities for the Bank Card Acquirer System.
Modis Inc., Independence, OH Oct 2014 – Jul 2015
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Contractor
Client: Progressive Insurance
Performed Development/Enhancement/Analysis programming duties for the Mainframe Proteus Application.
Built test files from data sent by Business Analyst for Rate Revision modules in the Proteus System.
Designed and built Technical and Programmer Specs for the Proteus Special Lines Insurance System.
Performed Maintenance/Enhancements on CICS online and DB2 batch COBOL program modules.
Member of the Special Lines Insurance Team; Goal : To Improve & Enhance the Special Lines System.
Worked with Vsam, IOF, Changeman, File Manager, FTP, XML, CA-Intertest, Xpediter, and Relational Databases on Special Lines (Insurance for BT, MC, and RV) Project tasks.
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Macy*s Inc., Lorain, OH Apr 2012 – Oct 2014
Programmer/Analyst II – Full Time Employee
Performed Development/Enhancement/Analysis programming duties for the Credit Operations Group.
Built test files from data sent by Citi; Updated 3 of Macy*s Credit Databases using Datacom.
Designed and built Technical and Programmer Specs for a Purge project for 23 Divisions & four external clients.
Performed Maintenance/Enhancements on CICS online and DB2 batch COBOL program modules.
Member of the MST Credit Architecture Team; Goal : To Improve & Enhance the Credit Operations System.
Worked with Vsam, ISPF, Endevor, SDSF, Fileaid, NDM, FTP, SoapUI 5.1, XML, CA-Intertest, Xpediter, and Relational Databases on Credit and Collection Project tasks.
Unicon-International, Inc., Columbus, OH Apr 2010 – Mar 2012
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Contractor
Client: Nationwide Insurance (NW)
Performed Development/Enhancement programming duties for the Presentation Systems group (CSF Designer) and Documerge (Metacode).
Built Input files (Hierarchical Structure) for CSF Designer Tool report building; DDL segments.
Used Documerge Tool to build and store documents for several projects.
Performed Maintenance/Enhancements on DB2 Batch, CICS online, and IMS batch program modules.
Worked with Vsam and Flat files to accommodate COBOL program changes.
CGI, INC., Columbus, OH Feb 2007 - Dec 2009
Sr. Programmer/Analyst – Full Time Employee
Client: PNC Bank Jun 2008 - Dec 2009
Performed Development/Enhancement programming duties for this large banking institution.
Used Microfocus COBOL for ACLS loan system – Programming /Build Test Scripts.
Performed Maintenance/Enhancements on DB2 Batch and CICS Command Level program modules.
Client: Nationwide Insurance Feb 2007 - May 2008
Performed Development/Enhancement programming duties for this large insurance institution.
Developed/Enhanced DB2 Batch program modules to Delete/Update/Insert rows into DB2 tables.
Handled on request programming, on-call Production Support duties, and some Technical Analysis duties.
Performed trouble shooting and maintenance on CICS Command Level program modules.
Performed trouble shooting and maintenance on IMS DB/DC program modules.
MANIFEST SOLUTIONS, Columbus, OH Aug 2006 – Jan 2007
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Contractor
Client: Nationwide Insurance (NW)
Performed Development/Enhancement programming duties for the Allied ASA project (NW Claims) and IIGS CICS Break/Fix Prod Support group (NW Financials).
Performed Development/Enhancements on DB2 Batch and CICS online program modules.
Built DB2 programs that tied Allied Insurance to the NW Salvage System which saved NW a lot of money.
Used QMF, SPUFI, Fileaid, Changeman, and SAR/CA-VIEW to test DB2 COBOL programs.
APT, INC, Columbus, OH Dec 2005 – Jul 2006
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Contractor
Client: Harrington Benefits
Performed Development/Enhancement programming duties for the ClaimFacts 6.71 Release (Medicare/Medicaid Claims) for a Third Party Administrator.
Conversion of Data from Vendor to be used on the new release of ClaimFacts software.
Designed/wrote CICS and Easytrieve Plus programs for this conversion project.
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MANIFEST SOLUTIONS, Columbus, OH Apr 2004 - Dec 2005
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Contractor
Client: Nationwide Insurance
Performed Development/Enhancement programming duties for the Fire Property System: (Homeowners/Tenants/Condos Insurance).
Performed development on IMS DB/DC and Non-IMS (Batch & Online) program modules.
Performed Development/Enhancements to COBOL DB2 program modules.
Used EXCEL, Fileaid, Changeman, Xpediter, and IBM Debug to complete program tasks.
Responsible for Analysis and Coding on Rating modules to improve job flow performance.
KFORCE, INC, Columbus, OH Mar 2003 - Mar 2004
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Contractor
Client: Honda Mfg, Inc.
Developed COBOL DB2 Batch reports and DB2 table update programs for the Monthly Equal Payments Project.
Used QMF for Windows to build and check test results of DB2 tables.
Designed programs to perform inserts/updates to DB2 tables.
Installed new Copybooks, Programs, Procs, and JCL in Endevor.
Performed CICS Development/Enhancement programming duties.
RAPIDIGM, INC., Columbus, OH Aug 2002 – Feb 2003
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Contractor
Client: State of Ohio (Ohio Department of Jobs & Family Services)
Developed COBOL DB2 Batch programs for a very large project: Ohio Job Insurance. This was a full development life cycle project to replace the state’s existing Unemployment Compensation System with a new COBOL DB2 system.
Built Notice Extract files from DB2 database tables for CSF DDL segments to be used in the Designer Tool.
Designed and developed over 15 DB2 programs for the new UC system that helped escalate and meet the state of Ohio’s deadlines for implementation. Used QMF for Windows and other Platinum products to test DB2 modules.
Also performed some CICS Enhancement/Maintenance programming requests as needed.
HUNTINGTON BANK, Columbus, OH Sept 2001 – Aug 2002
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - FTE
Developed COBOL DB2 Batch and CICS Command Level programs for the Electronic Banking ATM and Plastics (Dedit/Credit Card) applications.
Installed an upgrade release of their TRANS24 Debit Card System software that sped up processing time and saved money for Huntington Bank.
Developed DB2 and CICS programs that helped Huntington Bank’s conversion process of the selling of their Florida banks and branches.
Created a report to help speed up the process of tracking “Invalid FDR Auth Code Transactions on Closed Accounts” which saved a tremendous amount of time and money for Huntington Bank.
CAP GEMINI / Ernest & Young, Columbus, OH Dec 1991 – Sept 2001
Sr. Programmer/Analyst – Full Time Employee
Developed COBOL Batch & Online programs, operating under an OS/MVS-ESA environment, for the following large companies:
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Client: Nationwide Insurance Oct 2000 – Sept 2001
Built a COBOL parsing program to process an XML dump file from a Siebel database to upload data to segment layouts for IMS databases, which helped expedite the loading of data between applications at Nationwide.
Built Auto and Fire IMS DB/DC application programs. Maintained/Enhanced Rating program modules.
Performed Maintenance/Enhancements on CICS Command Level programs.
Client: BankOne (JPMorgan Chase) Jul 1995 – Sept 2000
Developed new CICS/DB2/IMS modules and performed Maintenance on several Revolving Credit and Installment Loan applications for a very large account renumbering project. ZEKE Mainframe Scheduler.
Installed a new release of Triad (vendor) software for Bankone’s Behavioral Scoring application.
Handled on call duties to help ease work load for Bankone’s In-house Personnel.
Client: United Telephone (UT) Aug 1993 – Jun 1995
Developed and performed Maintenance on IMS DB (database) programs.
Built DBDs and PSBs as required during development.
Handled on call duties to help ease work load for UT's In-house Personnel.
Client: American Electric Power Dec 1991 – Jul 1993
Developed and performed Maintenance on COBOL Batch and CICS Command Level programs.
Helped with Functional and Technical specs for accounting system that was being re-designed.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT Dec 1986 – Dec 1991
Programmer/Analyst
EDUCATION
B.S., BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- 1986
The Ohio State University
Major: Information Systems
CICS Training: Verhoef Information Packages TSO/ISPF Training: Touche Ross, Inc.
IMS Training: PMI-Food Equipment Group DB2 Training: C.G. E.Y. / Huntington Bank
EDI Training: Sterling Software
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