Analyst Manager
Resume:
CHRISTOPHER HIRO
Columbia, Maryland 21045
************@*****.***
SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST with extensive experience in the analysis, design, and development of computer systems. Developed and implemented numerous full life-cycle software development projects as team lead, system architect, developer, analyst and full time consultant.
TECHNICAL OVERVIEW
HARDWARE: IBM 3090, IBM 3080, IBM 3050, IBM 3030, IBM 360
OPERATING SYSTEMS: IBM/390, IBM ESA, IBM XA, IBM/360, MVS, TSO/ISPF
VM/CMS, Z/OS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: FOCUS, RAMIS, COBOL, COBOL II, proCOBOL,
TSO/CLIST, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, STORED PROCEDURES.
DATA BASE: CICS, BMS, VSAM, IDCAMS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, IMS, ISAM
UTILTIES/TOOLS: ENDEAVOR, XPEDITER, FILEAID, SYNCSORT, Control-M,
AGILE, JCL, SMS, all IBM Utilities
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior Programmer Analyst (Independent Contractor) -1994-2018.
Provided information technology expertise to companies including OST, SSA,
Marriott, Checkfree, Lockheed Martin and Sweetheart Cup. Highlights include:
Hired by OST (Optimal Solution Technology to assist with
all Job, Procedure, COBOL and FOCUS modification
needed with OST’s incorporation of NFIP’s Insurance system
which was acquired from CSRA.
Working for KSI at Social Security Administration, I monitored SSA’s
space allocations within their mainframe logical partitions ( LPARS)
and took necessary steps when space problems arose.
Modified all of Marriott’s Stored Procedures involved with ‘One Yield’ system.
Produced ‘Day Before’ CICS system for Checkfree to sell to its bank customers.
Managed all Lockheed Martin’s programmers and activities involved with SSA’s
Work Management Transition system.
Developed system for Sweetheart Cup to monitor sales versus competitor Solocup.
Supported all data processing activities at BGE Home in Columbia MD.
OST - Hyattsville MD - Senior Programmer Analyst.
9/16 – present
Provided support for all mainframe activities involved with OST’s incorporation of NFIP
insurance system. My Mainframe knowledge of Cobol, JCL, All utilities, FOCUS Master File and FOCEXEC modification was used daily by the team. .
SSA - Woodlawn MD - Senior Programmer Analyst - 3
4/08 – 3/16.
Social Security Administration, as a KTS employee I was
responsible for monitoring all the LPARs (Logical Partitions) to ensure that all
applications, running within their logical partitions, never run out of DASD disk space
and addressing all storage management issues.
If a LPAR was low on space, I determined what volumes were available within that partition
and incorporated them into the pool of processing disk volumes for that LPAR and that
increase in DASD space, prevented space abnormal endings.
Before working on this contract, I became proficient in Systems Managed Storage (SMS)
and all the necessary procedures needed to identify the mainframe disk storage threshold.
Nightly, I addressed any production job failures, taking necessary resolution steps
as dictated by Control-M for the abnormal situation.
Control-M instructions were followed to the letter, nightly at SSA.
COBOL/COBOLII, Z/OS, VSAM, DB2, SPUFI/SQL, Control-M, TSO/CLISTS all IBM utilities.
MARRIOTT 2 - Bethesda MD - Senior Programmer Analyst
9/07 – 4/08
Modified all Stored Procedures involved with Marriott’s ‘One Yield’ System so that
all Stored Procedures were using projected numbers rather then actual numbers in regard
to displaying ‘Group’, ‘ Transient’ and ‘Reserved’ room totals on corporate reports and
entry screens.
Responsible for modifying the Cobol and SQL code involved with the DB2 database
extractions so that the starting date range of the extractions, were one day earlier then
actual day being processed. This caused projections to be used rather then actual numbers.
Users wanted projected totals, rather than incomplete and inaccurate actual totals which
were not accurate until the next day.
CHECKFREE - Baltimore MD - Senior Programmer Analyst
1/07 – 9/07
Assisted with creation and implementation of new application to be sold to banks across the country.
I was responsible for writing all Programs (Cobol-II) and CICS screens involved.
This application will allow banks to have all checks issued, to be processed in a ‘Day Before’
Scenario, so that any errors associated with the checks can be caught and corrected before
the actual DDA processing takes place at midnight each night.
The system involved, allowed the individual bank’s users to enter through CICS screens
all the pertinent information from their checks. That information being: Date, Amount,
Check Number, Route Transit Number and to whom the check was written.
The Cobol-II program involved, which sent the CICS screens to the terminals, took these
inputted values and wrote them to a VSAM output file.
I wrote a second program which would take a copy of the nightly DDA file, which is
available to banks at 10:00 A.M., and compare it to the VSAM file which holds all the
check information. If the checks from the DDA file agreed with bank entered VSAM values
the entry was deleted from the VSAM file. If there were any differences both values from
the DDA and VSAM file were written to an exception file so banks could investigate and
resolve the differences before their nightly runs.
By comparing, all typographical and Micro-feed errors were caught and the system was also
able to prevent fraud by making sure the amount of a check being cashed is the actual amount
of the check being written and that the person to whom the check was written was actually the
person cashing it..
As stated above, this system was sold to banks throughout the country.
LOCKHEED MARTIN - Owings Mills MD - Work Order Manager
10/05 – 01/07
Work Order Manager, responsible for the ‘Work Management Transition’ system for the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Was responsible for all Lockheed programmers involved to ensure they were performing to specifications and that all avenues were covered with new modifications to COBOL programs for their annual release.
I was also involved with all the coding and file extractions: COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL,TSO/CLISTS.
SWEETHEART CUP - Baltimore MD - Senior Programmer Analyst
08/04 – 10/05
Assisted Sweetheart Cup in its migration to new owner,
SOLO CUP. Developed system to monitor sales from SOLO and
Sweetheart Cup to same customer base. This system used Cobol II for
DB2 and VSAM extracts and ‘EASYTRIEVE PLUS’ for report production.
My past Mainframe experience was called upon daily to assist other groups as needed.
Insurance Salesman (AFLAC, Senior Life, Mortgage Protection Services) 2003-2004
AFLAC – Disability insurance for workers and their families
Senior Life – Life insurance for the elderly
Mortgage Protection Services – Home and family protection
BGE HOME - Columbia MD - Senior Programmer Analyst 1999-2002
Provided support for all Data Processing activities for Marketing Group. Was responsible for analysis to guarantee all sales campaigns were successful through proper potential customer selection.
Used Cobol II programs for customer extractions from IMS database or DB2 tables.
I was only programmer on site and was responsible for creating and maintaining monthly master files
of existing and potential BGE HOME clients.
Produced DB2 or IMS extracts for any one of six marketing group team members to help with their daily analysis. Developed FOCUS reports to show which product was enjoying the most public support so radio and television commercials were aimed to the correct market.
Developed TSO/CLISTs, for use by entire marketing group, so extractions could be scheduled
and any information concerning a specific product could be attained within minutes.
YEAR 2000 WORK - 1996-1999
STATE OF MARYLAND JUDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS – Baltimore MD - 1998
Consultant responsible for Year 2000 remediation.
Used OS/390 Intrinsic functions along with ‘Windowing’ in place of file changes. I was responsible for all MVS systems along with all COBOL programs and CICS screens. All systems involved were successfully tested and implemented three months ahead of schedule.
STATE OF MARYLAND – DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOUCE – Annapolis MD - 1997
Worked with one other individual on the legacy batch and all CICS
on-line Cobol programs. Year 2000 compliance was achieved with the use of ‘Windowing’ instead of file changes. Developed Batch and CICS subprogram to be used by each module needing a century. This guaranteed every century produced used the same logic. Changes were completed and documented four months ahead of schedule.
STATE OF ALABAMA - Montgomery AL - 1996
Worked with nine other programmers for year 2000 compliance for all of Alabama’s state agencies. Conducted interviews at each state agency to inquire about any/all information regarding programs being run, along with files shared between agencies. Responsible for learning and running Computer Associate’s year 2000 tools ‘INVENTORY 2000’ and ‘IMPACT 2000’ for identification of Librarian source programs, job streams and procedures which needed remediation. Responsible for obtaining copies of all code needing modification after the above-mentioned tools identified a year 2000 change was needed. Programs involved were Cobol Legacy batch, using VSAM, DB2, CICS along with Maps.
GEICO INSURANCE Chevy Chase MD - Consultant 1995 - 1996
Replaced associates moved from MVS to PC based PEOPLESOFT while change was occurring. Responsible for implementation and maintenance of all Cobol programs involved with ‘DISC IRS’ system. Converted all reports stored on MICROFICHE to BUNDL storage.
ICMA RETIREMENT CORP. Washington DC - Consultant 1994 - 1995
Moved all systems from VM to MVS. Responsible for testing all applications on MVS platform, after move and verifying all outputs. Established FOCUS database, to track all activities involved along with time spent so that all budgeted hours were correctly used.
CHEVY CHASE BANK Chevy Chase MD - Senior Programmer Analyst 1993 - 1994
Responsible for all enhancements and trouble-shooting of ATM system. Converted all Cobol programs to Cobol II. Assisted with implementation of Chevy Chases’ ATM terminals into Safeway stores.
GROUP1 SOFTWARE Latham MD - Senior Programmer Analyst 1991 - 1993
Responsible for development and support of MVP CODE 1 mailing system. Achieved first time CASS certification for MVP CODE1 from U.S. Postal Service and continued CASS certification, every 3 months for entire tenure with GROUP1
IFORMATION BUILDERS INC. (IBI) Roslyn VA - Senior Technical Rep 1990 - 1991
Senior Technical Representative, responsible for client support resolving all questions and problems IBI customers had in regard to creating or updating a FOCUS database. Responsible for implementing FOCUS on new client’s mainframe computer, along with teaching ‘FOCUS 101’ to new users. Supported all IBI clients throughout the Baltimore/Washington DC area.
CONSOLIDATED EDISION BRONX N.Y. - Consultant 1987 - 1989
Only programmer at location serving as Consultant responsible for all Mainframe activities.
Any/All problems or enhancements concerning the mainframe was handled by me.
Rewrote RAMIS based Overtime Equalization System with latest version of RAMIS (7.0) from
Ramis 3.5 and brought system from CMS VM to TSO MVS for easier usage by users.
MUTUAL OF NEW YORK (MONY) NEW YORK N.Y. - Senior Programmer 1985 - 1987
Used COBOL running on an IBM 4341 computer under OS/MVS, completed the following, Implemented entire batch side of a new SYSTEMATICS real estate package. This included: Writing all JCL jobs and procedures, which took CICS entered transactions and updated VSAM master files. Modified all COBOL programs, involved with the system to meet MONY specifications. Wrote all User, Program, Data, and Functional specifications. Documented the entire system (system was never documented).
Maintained Farm Mortgage Reporting System including, the following: Tailored all reports to meet user specifications, Maintained all VSAM space allocations, needed for master files, used by the system.
DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS 1983 - 1985
Senior Programmer/Analyst
New York, New York - COBOL MVS, VSAM - - Stock Brokerage
HOME INSURANCE 1981 - 1983
Programmer/Analyst
New York, New York - COBOL, MVS, IMS - - Insurance
KERITE CORPORATION 1979 - 1981
Programmer
Seymour, Conn. - COBOL MVS, CAPOSS-E - - Manufacturing
EMERY AIR FREIGHT 1977 - 1979
Programmer
Wilton, Conn. - COBOL MVS - - Air Freight
EDUCATION
1976, IBM sponsored Data Processing Certification
1970, Norwalk Community College
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