ALBERT JACKSON

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Mesquite, Texas 75150 Cell: 214-***-****

SUMMARY

A talented professional with 38 years experience in Information Systems with expertise on IBM mainframe and personal computers. A dependable, versatile person who has excellent communication and organizational skills, technically competent, consistently acts with integrity, takes initiative, strives to always grow personally and professionally, and creates a positive work environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MAXIMO, TABLEAU, COBOL, JCL, DB2, QMF, DXT, SPUFI, IMS, CICS, VSAM, TSO, TELON, SyncSort, FTP, Data Dictionary, Panvalet, UCC7-UCC11, ESP, EDI, MicroSoft SQL Server, MicroSoft Windows, MicroSoft Office, Design/1, Install/1, Changeman, Expediter, File Manager (IMS/DB2), SDM/70

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEXAS UTILITIES, Dallas, Texas 2004 – present

CAPGEMINIENERGY

Project Leader/Senior Programmer Specialist

. MAXIMO: Met with clients for requirements, analyzed, designed, wrote Functional Specifications for off-shore team, reviewed Unit Test Results to ensure successful implementation. Developed critical Tableau reports for clients to meet deadlines. Modified security, domains, and executed cron jobs. Conducted daily status meetings for high-priority implementations.

. Conducted daily incident meetings to make sure tickets were reviewed and assigned.

. Key Alliance Application (SME) which created invoices @ 100 million dollars. Provided 24/7 coverage for 3 Contract companies to make sure they are paid accurately and timely.

TEXAS UTILITIES, Dallas, Texas 1993 – 2003

Project Leader/Senior Programmer Specialist

Responsible for the Gas/Electric Billing Customer Information System which billed around 5 million customers per month.

. Successfully managed 10 people by assigning work, monitoring daily progress and providing technical expertise.

. Provided weekly status reports to management and facilitated weekly status meetings with clients.

. Provided 24/7 on-call support (ie analyzed and fixed abending jobs).

. Responsible for the implementation of the Gas Statewide One-Rate Project.

. Selected by manager as Project Leader to sit with clients and implement critical Public Utility Commission (PUC) projects.

Senior Programmer/Analyst/Project Leader

Responsible for the design and implementation of various sub-systems of PRISM (Plant Reliability and Integrated System for Management).

Analyzed, designed, coded and tested several enhancements to PRISM, a CICS DB2 application.

Used Design/1 and Install/1 products to create screens, tables, indexes, copybooks, conversations and elements.

Project Leader on the PRISM/FLUOR DANIEL Interface which provided the payroll for a thousand people.

Project Leader on the PRISM/PMMS Interface which allowed users to order critical material to create work orders.

Responsible for the enhancements and implementation of Reroute Project, a sub-system of CIS (Customer Information System), which allowed the users to reroute 2 million customers in a month.

Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and implemented several IMS programs.

Learned EZ-Letter software to print Reroute letters for thousands of customers.

ARCO OIL & GAS COMPANY, Dallas, Texas 1980 - 1992

Systems Analyst 1990 - 1992

Responsible for the design and implementation of various sub-systems of a $40 million Volume Management System (VMS) Project.

Designed, coded and tested several native DB2/Telon batch validation programs. Modified and tested several IMS batch programs. Loaded data into DB2 tables using IBM JCL.

Wrote specifications, coded and tested DB2 data downloads from host to PC and loads from PC to MicroSoft SQL Server.

Designed and tested several ObjectView screens and programs.

Systems Analyst 1988 - 1989

Responsible for analyzing and redesigning the current integrated Checkwrite, Suspense, Escheat and Redeposit systems for the Revenue Redevelopment Project.

Worked closely with project team in analyzing the current functionality and redesign of the 4 systems mentioned above.

Designed and created Telon screens for the Redeposit system.

Project Leader 1985 - 1988

Responsible for implementing modifications to Revenue System for the Electronic Data Exchange (EDX) project, involving Gas Revenue Accounting Data Exchange (GRADE), Check-Stub Data Exchange (CDEX) and Crude Oil Data Exchange (CODE).

Served as ARCO's Representative on the CODE Sub-Committee which set the standards/guidelines for all companies involved.

Designed, coded, tested and implemented programs to receive and send GRADE data.

Delegated and planned work for 3 contractors in order to implement numerous CODE modifications.

Systems Analyst 1981 - 1985

Analyzed, coded, tested, documented and implemented CICS DL-1 and IMS - BMP programs for the On-Line Out-of-Period Gas Transmittal, Contract Brief Management and Revenue/Land Systems.

Programmer 1980 - 1981

Completed the 6 month entry-level training program.

EDUCATION

B.A. Degree in Computer Science, Grambling State University, 1980

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