CHRISTINA L. MYERS

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

Over thirty years of experience in information systems development,

including programming, systems analysis, database design and development in

the insurance, utilities, manufacturing, government, communications and

retail management industries.

HARDWARE

IBM 308X

IBM 309X

(Years exp) (Last used) (Level)

LANGUAGES

COBOL 31 2014 advanced

COBOL II 24 2014 advanced

COBOL 390 10 2014 advanced

Enterprise COBOL 7 2014 advanced

ASSEMBLER 10 2014 intermediate

VB.NET 1 2004 beginner

SOFTWARE

SAS, SAS / FSP 3 1995 intermediate

CICS 23 2014 advanced

DB2 14 2014 advanced

SQL / SPUFI 14 2014 advanced

IDMS 1 2005 beginner

IMS 3 2011 intermediate

VSAM 27 2014 advanced

JCL 30 2014 advanced

IDCAMS 28 2014 advanced

INFOSYS 1 1989 beginner

QUIKJOB 4 2008 intermediate

EZETRIEVE 5 1999 intermediate

TSO/ISPF 25 2014 advanced

ROSCOE 5 2008 intermediate

CMS / XEDIT 1 1987 intermediate

RACF 4 1997 intermediate

ACF2 1 1997 beginner

Microsoft Access 2 2005 intermediate

SQL Server 1 2004 beginner

SQL Query Analyzer 1 2004 beginner

Enterprise Manager 1 2004 beginner

Microsoft VisualStudio.Net 1 2004 beginner

ASP.NET 1 2004 beginner

HTML 1 2004 beginner

ACT! 1 2004 beginner

Visio 2 2005 intermediate

evolveIT 2 2011 intermediate

MISC SOFTWARE

MVS / XA, MVS / ESA

TCAM, TPX

PROEDIT, BMS

SDSF, CA-7, FILEAID

XPEDITER, EDF, INTERTEST

ABENDAID, DEBUG-AID

PANVALET, LIBRARIAN

ENDEVOR, DIALOGIC

Internet Information Services

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EXPERIENCE

June 2012 - Present IBM, East Lansing, MI

Application Developer for a large insurance company supporting their

mainframe legacy system. Analyze & document mainframe legacy systems

including Homeowners, Fire, PUP, & Ocean Marine; utilizing Assembler,

COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, TSO/ISPF.

Languages & software utilized include Assembler, COBOL, CICS, OS/JCL, DB2,

TSO/ISPF, Panvalet, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Lotus Notes, & various

IBM utilities.

April 2009 - December 2011 blackboxIT, Fort Wayne, IN

As a software engineer for a small software company, responsibilities

include training

clients on the evolveIT software tool, creating documentation,

discovering clients'

mainframe assets into the evolveIT software, creating client

inventories within

the evolveIT software & testing new evolveIT releases. Assisted blackboxIT

software engineers in understanding COBOL, DB2, IMS, JCL, & CICS so that

they could allow specific syntax & build relationships within the evolveIT

parser.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL 390,

Enterprise COBOL, CICS, OS/JCL, DB2, IMS, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel &

various IBM utilities.

Consultant with Ambassador Solutions, Carmel, IN:

August 2005 - March 2008 Golden Rule Insurance/United Health Care

As a consultant for a local insurance company, responsibilities include

systems design, analysis, program specifications, development, testing,

documentation, & implementation for the Claims system, CPS. As part of the

autoadjudication project team, contributed to the percentage of claims

completed by the autoadjudicator from under 50% to over 65% during the past

2 years.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL 390,

Enterprise COBOL, CICS, OS/JCL, VSAM, XPEDITER, ROSCOE, Librarian, QUIKJOB

& various IBM utilities.

Consultant with Robert Half Technologies, Indianapolis, IN:

February 2005 Intelex

As a consultant for a local installation resource management company,

assisted in modifications to their Microsoft Access Licensing database.

Also provided guidance for additional modifications to the database.

Languages & software utilized include Microsoft Access.

January 2005 - February 2005 Sallie Mae (Protiviti consultant)

As a consultant for a local student loan guarantor, responsibilities

included documenting system logic supporting calculations for a Department

of Education monthly report & assessed the transactional impact of these

calculations.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, JCL, Microsoft Word &

Visio.

January 2004 - August 2004 Pilot Air Freight

As a consultant for a local airfreight transportation company,

responsibilities included developing a Contact Management System

Database & Invoice Entry System Database. These Databases were first

developed using Microsoft Access & then moved to SQL Server for completion.

Other duties included setting up Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook

Express, & scheduled tasks on staff's computers, installing Microsoft

Office 2000 on various computers, troubleshooting network, printer & PC

problems.

Languages & software utilized include Visual Basic.Net, ASP.Net, HTML,

Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net,

Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, & Internet Information Services.

September 2004 - 2005 Accredited Agency, Noblesville, IN

As a part-time office assistant for a local insurance agent,

responsibilities included data entry, filing, telemarketing & handling

adhoc computer problems.

July 2003 Pathway Productions, Indianapolis, IN

As a free-lance transcriber for a local media agency, responsibilities

included transcribing videotapes to word documents.

Consultant with Systems Advantage, Indianapolis, IN:

December 2000 - January 2002 State of Indiana

As a consultant for a local government agency, responsibilities included

systems design, analysis, program specifications, development, testing,

documentation, implementation, & user interaction for the Indiana Bureau of

Motor Vehicles accident system & the Indiana Department of Revenue

commercial driver's lines system.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, IMS, TSO/ISPF,

OS/JCL, FILEAID, SDSF, & various IBM utilities.

Consultant with Eclipse Consulting, Noblesville, IN:

October 2000 - November 2000 Utility Data Corp/Citizens Energy

As a consultant for a local utility company, responsibilities included data

modeling to accommodate transition from IMS DL/I databases to Oracle

RDBMS in an OS/390 environment, analysis, design, development, testing, &

documentation of online and batch systems. Activities were conducted in a

networked environment.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, Oracle 8, PL/SQL,

TSO/ISPF, OS/JCL, & various IBM utilities.

Consultant with Furst Person, Chicago, IL:

August 2000 - October 2000 Lincoln Financial

As a consultant for a financial institution, responsibilities included

production support maintenance, analysis, development, testing,

documentation, & implementation of online & batch systems. Assisted with

the file clean up of the ENDEVOR libraries. Heavy user interaction was

required while testing & implementing production changes.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, SQL, DB2, TSO/ISPF,

OS/JCL, FILEAID, SDSF, CA-7, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, & various IBM

utilities.

Consultant with Eclipse Consulting, Noblesville, IN:

September 1997 - December 1999 Conseco/CNO

As a consultant for an insurance company, responsibilities included system

design, development, testing, implementation and documentation for

converting financial systems' accounting & check disbursements after

acquisitions or mergers. Provided oncall support for production & test

environment batch cycles.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, ASSEMBLER, CICS, VSAM, JCL,

IDCAMS, FILEAID, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, ENDEVOR, EZETRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, & SDSF.

June 1997 - August 1997 USA Group/Sallie Mae

As a consultant for a local student loan guarantor, responsibilities

included production

support maintenance, analysis, development, testing, documentation, &

implementation of online & batch systems.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, JCL,

IDMS,

FILEAID, QUIKJOB, EZETRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, RACF, ACF2 & various IBM

utilities.

October 1996 - April 1997 The Netherlands Insurance/Liberty

Insurance

As a lead consultant for an insurance company, responsibilities included

system design, testing and implementation for a new DB2 subsystem, which

interfaces with a State agency. Also responsible for communications with

in-house users, IT staff and State agency coordinator. Provided oncall

support for production & test environment batch cycles within the Mecca

team.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS,

FILEAID, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, TSO/ISPF, DB2, SPUFI, EDF, & SDSF.

May 1996 - October 1996 RCI

As a consultant for a vacation resort management company,

responsibilities included

testing and implementation for new resort criteria, release

enhancement testing &

implementation, & oncall support. Also responsible for

communications with in-

house users & IT staff.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, JCL,

IDCAMS,

FILEAID, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, TSO/ISPF, DB2, SPUFI, PANVALET, ACF2,

& SDSF.

September 1994 - April 1996 Eli Lilly

As a consultant for a local pharmaceutical manufacturer, participated

in the

development and enhancement of an Agreement Management System

utilizing

COBOL II, DB2, CICS & XPEDITER. Provided programming support for the

interchange of datastreams with POWERBUILDER applications.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, JCL,

IDCAMS,

FILEAID, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, TSO/ISPF, DB2, SPUFI, INTERTEST, SAS,

& SDSF.

Consultant with Advanced Information Systems:

February 1993 - September 1994 PSI/Duke Energy

As a Systems Engineer for a major utility, responsible for the

development and

enhancement of batch & on-line COBOL II/DB2 applications, enhancement

of batch

& on-line COBOL II/IMS applications, systems analysis of current

system functions,

development of test & production JCL, for the Demand Side Management

system and

the International Power Exchange system.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS,

FILEAID, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, TSO/ISPF, DB2, SPUFI, SDSF, & IMS.

September 1992 - December 1992 Thomson Consumer Electronics

As a Systems Engineer for a local manufacturer, participated in the

development and modification of batch COBOL/COBOL II applications within

the framework of Arthur Andersen's DCS system.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS,

FILEAID, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, TSO/ISPF, INTERTEST, & SDSF.

January 1990 - April 1992 GTE/Verizon

As a Systems Engineer for a national communications company, developed and

implemented batch and online COBOL/COBOL II applications and assisted the

user personnel in the use of TSO/ISPF.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, FILEAID,

XPEDITER, ABENDAID, TSO/ISPF, & SDSF.

December 1989 - January 1990 Mayflower

As a Systems Engineer, developed and implemented batch COBOL II purge

system applications, including JCL development.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS,

XPEDITER, ABENDAID, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, & SDSF.

April 1989 - October 1989 Farm Bureau Insurance, Indianapolis, IN

As a Programmer Analyst for a local insurance company, responsible for the

development and modification of batch & on-line COBOL/DB2 applications,

development of DB2 utilities, creation of extract files for DB2 tables,

loading of DB2 tables, and development of test & production JCL. Systems

affected were Membership, Adjuster, Investment and McBip systems.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, BMS,

SDSF, ABENDAID, DB2, SPUFI, INTERTEST, QUIKJOB, ROSCOE, & LIBRARIAN.

September 1988 - April 1989 United Presidential Insurance, Kokomo, IN

As a Programmer Analyst for an insurance company, responsible for the

development and modification of batch COBOL applications, modifications to

production microfiche, conversion from HP system to IBM system (PALLM

Vector package), and communications to the user departments for the

Commission Accounting & Statements, Agent Cards, Audit Trail and

Underwriting Worksheet systems.

Languages & software utilized include COBOL, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, ABENDAID,

RACF, & CMS/XEDIT.

March 1986 - August 1988 PALLM Insurance, Indianapolis, IN

As a Programmer Analyst for a local insurance company, responsible for the

development and modification of batch & online COBOL/ASSEMBLER applications

for the Vector system and the Consolidated Client Management system.

Languages & software used include COBOL, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, ABENDAID,

INTERTEST, CICS, SDSF, FILEAID, XPEDITER, DIALOGIC, ASSEMBLER, DEBUG-AID,

PANVALET, SAS, SAS/FSP, EZETRIEVE, & TSO/ISPF.

December 1982 - March 1986 State of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN

As a Programmer for a local government agency, participated in the

conversion from a TCAM/VSAM to CICS/VSAM system and developed and modified

COBOL, SAS/FSP & ASSEMBLER batch & online applications.

Languages & software used include COBOL, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, ABENDAID,

INTERTEST, CICS, SDSF, XPEDITER, ASSEMBLER, DEBUG-AID, PANVALET, SAS,

SAS/FSP, RACF, TSO/ISPF, TCAM, & TPX.

EDUCATION

63 hours towards BS - Computer Science, Indiana State University; 1980-1982

LOMA 1,2,3 - 1988

IBM DB2 training class, 1990

NIMS Advanced DB2 training, 1993

IDMS training class, 1997

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