BRANDON LAMMERS
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QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE
* ******** *** **% of my class at Ohio State's top-25 part-time MBA program
while working full time. Also worked near full-time while completing 4-
year undergraduate degree within 2.5 years of high school graduation. 16
years of diverse experience in corporate IT, working in development,
configuration, and production assurance capacities. Experience as COBOL
developer on Mainframe, NT, and Unix based systems, worked with JCL and
Perl for batch process scripting, some experience with SQL, CICS, unix
shell.
2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Experis - contracted to Nationwide Insurance
August 2014 - present
CM and Test support consultant
Oversee and support full daily batch processing in multiple test
environments
Coordinate the need for non-daily test processing (monthly/quarterly/etc)
Support all configuration and change management process, including builds,
deploys, webfocus, webservices, clearcase, clearquest, build forge, code
move plus, and more.
JP Morgan Chase
August 2013-August 2014
Production Support Specialist- Chase Auto Finance
Support a variety of applications, including dot-net applications, 3rd-
party software, Wintel server configuration, Unix, SQL Server, and Oracle
heavy applications, as well as ControlM and Autosys based batch processing.
Aide in change management process as well as implementations, DR
activities, and coordinating a variety of maintenance activities and other
application impacting changes.
Onboard new applications to team by taking lead in training and initial
support activities and then documenting and cross-training other team
members.
Nationwide Financial
December 2000 - August 2013
Lead Systems Analyst (August 2005 - August 2013)
Lead a team providing application monitoring and support for all Nationwide
Financial applications
Perform change management, application configuration support, test flow
processing and coordination, production incident management
Custom applications supported cover various platforms (Unix, NT,
Mainframe), involve variety of databases (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server), and are
scripted in various languages (Perl, JCL, Unix shell, DOS Batch files).
Programmer Analyst (December 2000 - August 2005)
Independent developer working extensively on complex corrections of unique
policy problems
Aided in release coordination and worked on a variety of other projects
involving Variable Life systems.
Primary VL system was originally a packaged system called 'ALS' that had
been converted from Mainframe to NT to Unix and still had portions
functioning across all 3 platforms. Batch cycle processed on Unix scripted
in Perl, development was in Cobol, using both indexed files and Oracle
tables for data management, online functionality was NT based with separate
compiles of code also used in Unix batch processing
Limited Technical Services
January 1997 - May 1998 and June 1999 - December 2000
IT Programmer
Worked on a wide range of custom applications supporting Structure (now
Express for Men) business processes including: sales reporting, sourcing,
distribution, and inventory systems
Developed the back-end of an automated distribution center 'Pick To Light'
project, which improved efficiency in assembling customized assortment of
clothes shipped to retail stores
Custom applications were primary COBOL developed, JCL scripted, with CICS
onlines and VSAM for data storage in IBM Mainframe environment
Source One Mortgage Company
January 1999 - June 1999
Programmer Analyst
Contract developer working on Mainframe based mortgage systems
IBM Mainframe environment with Mantis/CICS interface, primarily developed
in COBOL
Libbey Owens Ford, a subsidiary of Pilkington
April 1998 - January 1999
Programmer
Contract developer working on Mainframe based Custom Order Processing
System (COPS), the retail system for automobile replacement glass orders
IBM Mainframe environment primarily COBOL/JCL based
2 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Fisher College of Business
Columbus, Ohio
Masters in Business Administration
GPA: 3.85
Awarded 'Wiedler Scholar' for finishing in top 10% of graduating class
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
Bowling Green, Ohio
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Major: Management Information Systems
GPA: 3.45
Certification/Training: ITIL Foundations v3, Apollo Root Cause Analysis
Practitioner