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Eric Duchacek

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Palmdale, CA 93550

949-***-****

Professional Title:

Microfocus Developer;

Cobol Migrations and Modernization Consultant

Work Experience:

07/2015 - Present

Toychka Solutions.

37034 La Contempo Ave

Palmdale, CA 93550

Independent Consultant (Self Employed); Legacy Migrations Consultant

Client Summary

Current Projects are with Brownells Inc and United Foods Commercial Workers Union

Employment Duties

Responsible for Acucobol Web Services at Brownells and providing Data migration solutions for the Cobol sunset project. Performing Migration of Legacy Mainframe applications to Windows Environment.

Languages Utilized

Microfocus Cobol, Net Express, Visual Cobol, C++, SQL, AcuCOBOL, AcuSQL, Vision Files.

10/2012 – 07/2015

Brownells, Inc.

200 South Front Street

Montezuma, IA 50171

Software Developer; Legacy Migrations Consultant

Company Summary

Leading Gun parts distributor.

Employment Duties

Responsible for the development of web services using AcuCOBOL to interface with ERP packages that are do replace legacy systems. Develop Ad-Hock MQ/Web Services from Legacy Cobol system to interface with various ERP solutions. Migrate Legacy Cobol Applications to Windows platform.

Languages Utilized

Microfocus Cobol, Net Express, Visual Cobol, C++, SQL, AcuCOBOL, AcuSQL, Vision Files.

04/2010 - 10/2012

Wavecreste / Genesis Network Solutions

500 Beechnut Street

Abilene, TX 76201

Programmer / Supervisor

Company Summary

Provides Technical services to clients. AT&T was the client..

Employment Duties

Migrating Screen Scraping routines from one software vendor to another..

Technologies Utilized

Esquire Screen Mapping

04/2010 - 11/2010

Wells Fargo Bank

1220 Concord Avenue

Concord, CA 94520

Integration Consultant; Data Migrations Consultant

Company Summary

Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the US by assets and the third largest bank by market cap. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit card.

Employment Duties

Responsible for the assimilation of Wachovia Bank accounting data into Wells Fargo.

Technologies Utilized

OS3090 Cobol, Oracle 10g, AIX Unix

Languages Utilized

Cobol, JCL, C++, Oracle 10g

08/2006 - 03/2009

Mutual Marine Insurance

919 3rd Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Manager of Technology

Company Summary

Insurance Company for the following: Marine & Energy, Professional Liability, Workers Comp, Casualty, Surety Bonding, Inland Marine and Commercial Auto.

Employment Duties

Software Automation Expert and ad hock migration solutions provider. Primary responsibility was to migrate VSAM data into SQL Server for purchased software package. Other duties include development on Legacy COBOL system. Developed Code Generators utilizing C++ which the application development was primarily in a Win32 environment with a mixture of GUI and low level Windows Internals (NTDLL, ICMP.DLL, etc). Multithreading code practices were utilized.

Technologies Utilized

Microfocus Cobol, Acucobol, SQL Server, Visual Studios, AIX Unix

Languages Utilized

C++, Cobol, Visual Basic, ASP

08/2005 - 08/2006

Unicon Conversion Technologies

26522 La Cadena

Laguna Hills, CA 92653

Migrations Expert - Sr. Product Developer

Company Summary

Customer Software Services provider specializing in Migrating Cobol and Data from Legacy Systems to modern open systems utilizing automated conversion methodologies

Clients

Galey and Lords, Mutual Marine Insurance

Employment Duties

Managed accounts of east coast clients while working out of North Carolina. Responsible for exporting clients from legacy Cobol and Wang Pace to Acucobol while utilizing SQL Server as a database engine. Also responsible for ad-hock integration projects at Mutual Marine Insurance based in New York.

Technologies Utilized

Acucobol, SQL Server, Microfocus Cobol, Visual Studios, MySQL, Apache, Linux OS, AIX Unix

Languages Utilized

C++, Cobol, Visual Basic, PL SQL

11/2001 - 08/2005

Saralee Branded Apparel

475 Corporate Center Drive

Winston-Salem, NC 27105

Sr. Program Analyst

Company Summary

A global consumer goods company with more than a century of history and a portfolio of leading apparel essentials including T-shirts, bras, panties, men’s underwear, kids' underwear, socks, hosiery, casualwear and activewear

Clients

Walmart, Target, K-Mart

Employment Duties

C++ Developer for Windows Front End Interface to Mainframe. Utilized low level API calls to interface Windows with Mainframe environment (NTDLL, ICMP.DLL, WINSOCK).

Developed Active-X RFID interface to support Wal-Mart’s new shipping requirements using C++ with Serial Port manipulation and mainframe port manipulation to invoke JCL from Windows. Responsible for most 'Ad-Hock' development where interfacing between multiple platforms are required. Wrote an automated migration utility to convert legacy clipper applications to Visual Basic and thereby eliminating the need of archaic dos operating system.

Cobol Developer on OS3090 Mainframe distribution department as well as integration level development to bridge redundant systems that were acquired during Company acquisitions.

Technologies Utilized

Acucobol, SQL Server, Oracle 9i, Microfocus, Visual Studios, MySQL, Redhat Linux, AIX

Languages Utilized

C++, Cobol, JCL, Datacom, CA-Ideal, DB2, Clipper, Visual Basic, Unix Script, ASP

04/2000 - 11/2001

Host Apparel

1430 Broadway

New York, NY 10017

Migrations Consultant - Lead Developer

Company Summary

A apparel manufacturing company specializing in T-shirts, men’s underwear, kids' underwear, socks, hosiery, casual wear and active wear

Clients

Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, Kenneth Cole

Employment Duties

C++ Developer for ad-hock Cobol and Data Migration solutions. Hired to migrate legacy Wang-VS system to Modern Intel based technology. Relevant technologies utilized were Acucobol, Visual Basic, Borland C, Visual C++. and Wang-VS Procedure. Company was acquired by Saralee in November of 2001 and the employees were relocated accordingly.

Technologies Utilized

Acucobol, MS Sql Server, Wang-VS, Visual Studios, Microsoft SQL Server

Languages Utilized

C++, Cobol, Wang-VS Procedure, Visual Basic.

04/1997 - 04/2000

Unicon Conversion Technologies

26522 La Cadena

Laguna Hills, CA 92653

Migrations Expert - Sr. Product Developer

Company Summary

Customer Software Services provider specializing in Migrating Cobol and Data from Legacy Systems to modern open systems utilizing automated conversion methodologies

Clients

Mutual Marine, State Street Bank, Richard Ellis, Alaska National Insurance, Crazy Shirts, Sport Chalet

Employment Duties

Provided customer support for migrating clients as well as perform numerous Y2K Conversions. Developed some of the companies automated conversion tools that were used in subsequent conversions.

Technologies Utilized

Acucobol, MS SQLl Server, Oracle, SCO Unix, Solaris Unix, AIX, Microfocus Cobol, Visual Studios

Languages Utilized

Cobol, Visual Basic, PL SQL, C++, Wang-VS Procedure

04/1990 - 04/1997

Sport Chalet

920 Foothill Blvd

La Canada, CA 91011

Cobol Programmer

Company Summary

Sporting goods retailer featuring top sports brands such as Nike, Adidas, DC, Precor, Diamondback, Roxy, Quicksilver, New Balance, Under Armour, Columbia Sportswear, and The North Face in sports apparel, footwear, and sports equipment

Employment Duties

Cobol programmer for software designed to support the retail operations.

Technologies Utilized

Wang-VS Cobol, Acucobol, SCO Unix, Solaris Unix

Languages Utilized

Cobol, Wang-VS Procedure

05/1985 - 12/1988

US Navy

USS Chandler (DDG-996)

San Diego, CA 96662

Radar Technician - Cobol Programmer

Military Occupation Specialty

Electronics Technician with an emphasis in Radar Display and Telecommunications.

Non Tactical Specialty

Cobol programmer for software designed to support Supply, Operations, Personnel Department and Medical.

Military Technology Specialty

SPS-55, SPA-25(D)(F), KW-7, KY-8, KY-75, URC-85, WSC-3

Technologies Utilized

Wang-VS Cobol, Wang-VS Procedure

Programming Languages Utilized

Cobol, Wang-VS Procedure

EDUCATION

2004 - 2005

Enrolled to familiar myself with modern technologies including Java and dot Net.

Forsyth Technical College

Took courses to familiar myself with Java and dot Net framework.

2000 - June

Microsoft Certificate of Completion

Object Arts Technical Training

Visual Basic 6 - Advanced

2000 - May

Microsoft Certificate of Completion

Object Arts Technical Training

Visual Basic 6 - Beginner

SKILL SUMMARY

Language/Skill

Competency Level

Years of Experience.

Cobol Migration

Expert

15

Wang-VS Cobol

Expert

20

Acucobol

Expert

16

Microfocus Cobol

Advanced

13

Fujitsu Cobol

Advanced

8

Visual Basic

Expert

9

Ansi C

Advanced

11

Visual C++

Advanced

11

MySQL

Basic

6

Unix Script

Basic

6

Install Shield

Intermediate

5

JCL

Basic

4

OS-3090 Cobol

Intermediate

4

Oracle

Basic

5

SQL

Basic

5

CICS

Basic

2

HTML

Intermediate

6

Java

Beginner

2

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