Professional Experience Project

SUMMARY

Over eighteen years of data processing, extensive professional experience in all stages of the system life cycle in Mainframe Environments from development, unit and systems testing, quality assurance to implementation into production. Strong communication and analytical skills allow me to translate requirements into technical specifications. Problem solving capabilities with comprehensive knowledge of development languages.

Technical Skills:

Languages: COBOL, COBOL II, SQL, CICS, JCL

Databases: IBM Mainframe, DB2/UDB, Oracle, IDMS

Operating Systems: z/OS, Windows

Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Development Tools: IBM Data Studio, IBM Rational Clear Case, Endevor, SAP Crystal Reports

Utilities: TSO/ISPF, DFSort/SyncSort, FTP, QMF, SPUFI, File-Aid, Xpediter, Abend-Aid, Zeke

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Liquid Hub – Malvern, Pennsylvania

2016 - Present

Application Developer

Served as consultant for the “Premier Mutual Fund Company” FAS (Financial Advisor System) Retail System expansion project, which was supposed to remove the current system’s limitation, due to sequence number’s size limitation and being part of composite key. The current limitation was to be removed by switching all of the affected programs to start utilizing the new surrogate key (Pending Transaction Id). The project was following Agile Scrum approach for project management.

Responsible For:

Analysis of the modules impacted by the proposed changes.

Gap analysis

Designing, coding, testing and implementing the necessary changes.

Managing the unit, integration, systems acceptance testing (utilizing Mainframe Express).

Packaging and successfully deploying over 100 modules via Endevor:

COBOL Service programs.

DB2 Stored Procedures.

COBOL Batch programs.

New Batch Jobs (JCL, parameters).

As part of the development team, following Agile approach to software development:

Participated in Sprint planning sessions.

Participated in daily Scrum meetings.

Created new user stories and added tasks to the project.

Utilized Sonar (static code analysis) reports to validate that the source code adheres to the prescribed standards:

Verified the complexity ratings of modules are within the guidelines.

Verified that the source code adheres to the design patterns and coding standards.

Aetna, Inc. – Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

2003-2015

Technical Leader / System Analyst/Application Developer

Served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), supporting the Electronic Transaction Reporting application (ETR). ETR leveraged data supplied by EDI Gateway, and transformed the EDI Enrollments, Health Care Claims and Electronic Remittance Advice Transactions (EDI 5010 834, 835, 837) into proprietary Real Time and Batch electronic transactions, and were persisted into DB2 database. Implemented the new functional process for resubmitting 837 rejected claims based on 999 acknowledgements, returned by trading partners that saved Aetna around 6.5 million dollars.

Responsible For:

Supporting Provider e-Solution and Balance/Reconciliation business teams by:

Managing the pipeline of business requests for research.

Communicating the research outcomes to business stakeholders.

Analysis and impact assessment of the requested changes.

Providing technical direction for current and future changes of the ETR business application.

Collaborating with business stakeholders to develop detailed business requirements for enhancements and new functionality.

Translating business requirements into technical specifications.

Collaborating with application architects, data modelers and database management peers during design of the new and enhancement of existing units of functionality for the application.

Creating all necessary artifacts as prescribed by Aetna’s Project Life Cycle for Software Delivery (Component Design Specifications, Test Plans/Scripts, Implementation Plan).

Being an active contributing partner during all phases of the Aetna’s Project Life Cycle.

Designing, developing and timely implementing of the requested project deliverables.

Effectively applying the appropriate programming techniques in order to fulfill business requirements for multitude of applications.

Performing unit, integration and system testing of the new and enhanced COBOL/DB2 programs, in support of Provider e-Compliance/e-Metrics application.

Providing knowledge transfer to on- and off-shore team members, fostered collaboration, which in turn, increased team's productivity and reduced the time needed to complete deliverables

Handling production issues, as well as job abends and corrections, problem reporting.

Ensuring SLAs were met and served as the point-person for escalations.

Application Developer 1999-2003

Designed, developed and implemented multitude of projects for Aetna’s Electronic Interfaces application.

Responsibility included managing day-to-day activities, assisted the business unit with distribution of data for new Specialty Providers Eligibility files and Integrated Regional Labs.

Coordinated work with other team members in order to analyze, evaluate, and provide the detailed set of new mental, rehabilitation, and in/out patient benefits for associates.

Responsibilities for processes of the turnover elements check list and migration through Endevor.

Successfully delivered a new expanded Benefit file for Magellan Healthcare Behavioral Health Company, according to business requirements.

Provided the rewritten process to the existing IPA Batch jobs: reduced the number of replicate jobs, eliminated the terminated IPA’s, corrected the PCP effective/end dates, and added new fields for the dependents to the existing data files.

Supported the Eligibility Roster system with appropriate responses for all customer demands.

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

Solutions through Data Processing – Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

PECO Energy – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Application Developer

Completed scope-assessment, determined and implemented necessary changes for the Y2K remediation of multiple operational systems.

VWR Scientific – New Jersey

Application Developer

Took part in a conversion project for new Interface Development System.

Designed and implemented numerous changes in processes, in order to enhance functionality and increase the system’s performance.

Performed unit and system testing, created documentation.

Collaborated with other team members to ensure the project features were delivered on time.

EDUCATION

State University, Vitebsk, Belarus

B.S. in Economics; Diploma in Computer Courses

Data Processing Trainers Business School, Philadelphia, PA

Diploma in Computer Programming

Advanced courses in COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, DB2/SQL, MVS/JCL and VSAM

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