Mr. Kerry W. Graff

845-***-**** acz6qx@r.postjobfree.com

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / DATA ANALYST / PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Computer professional with extensive experience in the insurance, manufacturing and the telecommunications industry. Highly effective and dependable professional who excels in challenging environments. Consistently improves quality, productivity and cost effectiveness in all areas of responsibility. An intuitive, motivated, detail oriented professional with outstanding combination of communications skills and technical knowledge. Excellent track record of project management and systems implementation along with strong analytical skills.

- COBOL - DB2 - CICS - VSAM - Syncsort - REXX - MQ - Teradata - Clarity

- FileAid - Strobe - Easytrieve - Xpediter - BMC Unload - Endevor - RDZ - CFI - Remedy

- SAS - XML - EXCEL - VISIO - IMS -SCLM - ACCESS - SQL - CA-7 - Icetools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

NYC Pension and Payroll Department, 2016 – present Mainframe software configuration management using IBM Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase for source integrity. Provide services that guarantee that the correct version of development code gets promoted to the proper environemnts.

Used ISPF Dialog Management Services using REXX to create a series of panels and execs to automate many manual steps involved when migrating source code to the 14 test environments and production.

Princeton Information, 2016 Working as a contractor assigned to a mainframe based Teradata Decision Support Team.

Wrote mainframe data extract jobs using JCL, Dsntiaul Utility, BMC Unload Plus, Syncsort and COBOL. Wrote complex Teradata database queries in SQL. Utilize Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.

Reduced DB2 unload job runtimes over 25% by converting from IBM’s Dsntiaul utility to BMC’s Unload Plus

Coded Teradata batch BTEQ and Fastload utilities.

Used Queryman to write SQL queries against Teradata.

Verizon Wireless, 1998 – 2015 Senior Programmer Analyst on the Mainframe Based Billing System and Performance

Tuning Team. Coded new and modify existing mainframe COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM programs to meet changing business needs. Wrote approach and technical design papers for new data warehouse and billing system projects. Assisted junior members of the team with technical issues during projects.

Reduced hard coded parameters in jcl by over 85% during a major data file transmission vendor conversion project. This unique solution resulted in simpler coding requirements, which resulted in faster jcl coding and a reduction in errors.

Improved critical job tracking response time over 90% by coding a batch job monitoring system. This system utilizes REXX execs, Syncsort and a CA-7 logs to monitor a critical job list. This report of jobs needed for the morning SLA resulted in improving tracking and accuracy of critical jobs. Report of the missing jobs (with their CA-7 queue status and missing requirements) can be emailed or text to a variety of distribution lists.

Produced a system which identified code in production that was out-of-sync with Endevor with 100% accuracy. This system which utilized CFI file transmissions, REXX execs, Comparex, smtp and jcl to identified jcl, procs, source, cntllib, copylibs, CA-7 drivers members which needed to be synced in Endevor.

Coded a REXX exec which was used to expand a GDG file by 20 bytes that had 72 generations. This exec which ran in under 1 minute saved approximately 6 hours of manually renaming files.

Delivered reliable 24 x 7 oncall support for assigned mainframe jobs which reduced down time and help our team achieve their SLA goals 100% each year.

Identified and corrected long running mainframe batch jobs. Worked on either eliminating or tuning jobs and programs. Modified SQL or requested that DB2 indexes be modified to improve performance.

Eliminated a long running batch COBOL program and replaced it with a series of Syncsort steps which reduced job runtime by 75%.

Assisted DB2 DBA’s in table index optimization which resulted in faster program performance, some as much as 65%. Analyzed DB2 Explain reports to tune DB2 queries utilized in COBOL programs.

Coded Websphere MQ series commands to pass data in batch and online COBOL programs.

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Parsed and Generated XML data in COBOL applications according to business requirements.

Wrote reports using mainframe SAS for a variety of business units.

Coded reports for business users and to validate program results in EasyTrieve Plus.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Coach Leatherware, 1993 – 1998 Senior Programmer Analyst for Manufacturing and Production Planning System.

Wrote COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM programs to enhance the capability of the production planning and manufacturing systems. Coded FOCUS reports for many different business areas.

Designed a Micro Focus COBOL training course which was then taught twice to a group of mainframe programmers. The utilization of Micro Focus to develop code increased by 40% after the class.

Provided reliable oncall support 24 x 7 for mainframe batch and online programs.

Performed data mapping between legacy mainframe system and SAP.

Wrote ABAP programs during SAP implementation.

Insurance Services Offices, Senior Programmer Analyst that coded and tested complex programs for the country's largest insurance service bureau. Followed very complex detailed program specifications to develop COBOL, IMS, CICS, DB2, FOCUS and VSAM programs for the company's nationwide network. Promoted to a mainframe developer from a CA-7 Production Control position.

Nyack College, previously an Adjunct Professor that taught Introduction to Computer Science course

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS / TRAINING

Iona College, Master of Science in Computer Science, Master of Science in Telecommunications

Nyack College, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

LasComp Institute, A+ Certification

Farleigh Dickinson University, Webmaster Skills Certification

EMPLOYER PROVIDED EDUCATION

AIX, FOCUS, DYL-280, EasyTrieve, CICS, IMS, Syncsort, many DB2 courses, JAVA, BMC Unload Plus, Micro Focus COBOL, Quick Job, Teradata SQL, Teradata Utilties, Strobe, WebSphere MQ, REXX, RDZ, Advanced JCL, Endevor, Clarity, Perl, FileAid, Unix System Services, AIX, ABAP, Critical Thinking, Dyl280, Quickjob, RDZ, Perl, CA-7, CA-11, Oracle, IMS, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts.

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