Insurance System

RICHARD MEERS

• *** Frederick Lane

• Hoffman Estates, IL 60169

• 847-***-**** (home)

• 224-***-**** (cell)

• Email: ******@***.***

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• SUMMARY OF SKILLS

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• Provided support to both external and internal customers

• A team member

• Maintained mainframe applications

• Programs: Assembler, Cobol, Expediter, Ezetrieve, Changeman, Endevor

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• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Staffing4U/Careers4U, Inc.

• Consultant for Lincoln Financial Group, Greensboro, NC. 2005 -

2013

• Programmer/Analyst

• Provided support for the LifeComm insurance package. System is a batch & online Assembler system

utilizing VSAM and the online portion uses CICS.

• Performing problem solving on the LifeComm insurance system. This would require doing some system

analysis, Cycle simulations or some online testing in order to determine if the problem was a procedural

one or if the problem required some system modifications.

• Lincoln Financial utilized Changeman to keep track of modifications and to elevate changes into

production and has changed from Changeman to Endevor.

• Worked on the project to eliminate using a VSAM Flex Agent Master to get agent data. This required

changing some 80 programs and writing 3 new programs. The changes involved accessing a DB2

database via calling some new programs that were written by the group now responsible for maintaining

agent data.

• I also worked on the Unclaimed Property Initiative (UPI). My portion was to provide death benefits as of

date of death as well as at some future valuation date.

• Environment – MVS, OS/390, VSAM & flat files, O/S JCL, Chaneman, Endevor, TSO and PROCS.

• Languages – Assembler, Cobol, Ezetrieve and CICS, using Expediter as a testing tool.

NORTH AMERICAN COMPANY FOR LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE, Chicago, IL.

1998 – 2003

Progammer/Analyst

• Provided support for the LifeComm insurance package. System is a batch & online Assembler system

utilizing VSAM and the online portion uses CICS.

• Performed maintenance and support mainly on the Underwriting and Issue section of LifeComm when I

was making enhancements to existing life insurance products. Quite a lot of these changes would require

either a partial or a whole Cycle simulation runs to verify that the changes were correct.

• I was also part of the team that was involved with adding several new life insurance products to

LifeComm. These were special Universal Life products. As a part of this team, I had to do more than just

do unit testing. I had to do online testing, co-ordinate with other team members as well as other teams,

learn how to use some specialized software (Illustration Software), write project specifications and

become familiar with what is involved in adding a new product to LifeComm.

• The online testing included adding new policies plus modifying these new policies to verify program

changes. Then the online results would be checked against the Illustration Software package results to

verify accuracy. The Illustration Software package results were always considered to be accurate. The

batch testing (simulated Cycle runs) included having the online modifications go through the batch

system and then verifying the batch results against the online results. When all results matched, the

changes were moved into the quality control area (called Model Office) for some Q/A testing. If needed,

file comparisons were also made.

• Environment – MVS, OS/390, VSAM & flat files, O/S JCL, Panvalet, TSO and PROCS.

• Languages – Assembler, Cobol and CICS, using Expediter as a testing tool.

PEOPLES GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY, Chicago, IL.

1996 – 1998

Programmer/Analyst

• Guaranteed continuity by converting several Report Writer programs to Cobol.

• Provided primary support for the Distribution Management Information System (DMIS). System is a

batch & online Assembler system utilizing VSAM files, and the online portion uses CICS.

• Upgraded online Assembler programs from CICS version 1.1 to version 3.0.

• Was given DB2 training, and utilized the DB2 training for approximately 6 months.

• Environment – MVS, OS/390, VSAM & flat files, O/S JCL and TSO.

• Languages – Assembler, Cobol and DB2.

U/Q SOLUTIONS, Northbrook, IL. 1995 – 1996

Consultant at Allstate Insurance

• Provided support for the Alert system (Allstate’s assigned risk auto insurance package). System was a

batch & online Assembler system.

• Environment – MVS, Flat files, O/S JCL and TSO.

• Languages – Assembler, using SMARTTEST (a product similar to Expediter) for testing.

NAVISTAR, Oakbrook Terrace, IL. 1983 – 1995

Programmer/Analyst

• Provided sole support for the Truck Cost Accounting system. System is a batch Assembler system.

• Monitored the two major Truck Cost Accounting annual processes (one sets the costs for the fiscal year

while the other closes out the books at the end of the fiscal year). This monitoring included setting dates

for the various steps within these processes as well as coordinating different IT departments and different

plant locations.

Major projects included:

• Implemented the IMPACT interface system, which eliminated manual accounting processing.

• Field engineer for the Chatham Ontario plant, adding the plant to the Truck Cost Accounting system.

• Performed major changes to the Truck Cost Accounting system as part of the Waste and Complexity

Initiatives designed to shorten the time it took to produce a truck once an order was placed.

• Environment – MVS, O/S JCL, VSAM & flat files, Changeman and TSO.

• Languages – Assembler and Cobol.

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