Cobol Programmer Mainframe Systems

BRIAN H. ENGH

Herriman, Utah

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Seeking position of COBOL Programmer

EXPERIENCE:

*/** – 11/23 ICF for USDA Contract, Washington, DC

COBOL Programmer

Maintained mainframe systems for the United States Department of Agriculture, FLS (Farm Loan System) using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Endevor, Control-M, Agile Methodologies and IMS-DB. Extensively used MS Outlook and Teams.

Followed rigorous testing protocols and documentation

Worked remotely

ICF is an international consulting firm

7/20 – 9/21 CONDUENT, Cheyenne, WY

Senior Applications Development Engineer

Maintained mainframe systems for the State of Wyoming Medicaid MMIS application using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Endevor, EASYTRIEVE, and Control-M. Extensively used MS Outlook and Teams.

Followed rigorous testing protocols and documentation

Worked remotely

Conduent is an international consulting firm

3/08 – 10/19 ZIONS BANCORPORATION, West Valley City, UT

Mainframe COBOL Developer

Created the Scrubber software to scan all Job JCL, Procs and Parms to confirm adherence to company standards. My software consisted of almost 10,000 lines of COBOL code.

Automated many of the repetitive requests that came to Production Control using COBOL

Using Control-M I learned how the thousands of Zions’ jobs interact with each other and with BaNCS, and how data flows within

Wrote all the documentation for Production Control and created the “Gold Copy” for it. This documentation was used every day by the team. And I enjoy writing documentation.

Am an expert in JCL, COBOL, Endevor (I was the Endevor approver for Production Control), and Control-M. I was a regular user of Easytrieve, Outlook, Remedy, and SharePoint. Also used VSAM, CICS, DB2, JIRA

7/98 – 12/04 REGENCE BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF UTAH, Salt Lake City, UT

Senior Programmer Analyst

Y2K Conversion: Batch & online COBOL programs, JCL, VSAM, CICS; Coordinated test batches; used Control-M Scheduler

REMAC Project: Analysis for Imaging, External Interfaces, Finance updates to Facets tables using Micro Focus COBOL, Sybase SQL and Unix; FTP and NDM interfaces between Unix and mainframe, and between mainframe and external vendors; Imaging system format updates, created multiple test environments in the mainframe (PIT1, PITA, PITB and more); Coordinated operations of all Regence test batches; Coded and tested changes in mainframe systems for TriZetto 2.96 Hosting

1/97 – 3/98 AMERICAN STORES COMPANY, Salt Lake City, UT

Business Analyst

Acted as coordinator in the Flexible Pricing Project; coordinated business analysis development in Salt Lake City, UT with programming and implementation efforts in San Leandro, CA.

3/96 - 10/96 TRW CREDIT (i.e. Experian), Orange, CA

Manager of Software Development, Criteria Based Services

Managed department of 81 software developers in the critical “File One” Project.

1991 - 1995 HOMEBASE, Irvine, CA

Director of Systems Development

Responsible for 51 Systems Development associates and annual combined expense/capital budget of $2.5 million in this MVS, COBOL, retail environment.

1989 - 1990 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Long Beach, CA

Assistant Director, Administrative Computing

Directed day-to-day activities of Application Development Department

1987 - 1989 AMERICA WEST AIRLINES, Phoenix, AZ & Costa Mesa, CA

Manager of Information Systems

Administered a $2 million annual budget including personnel and building facilities, as well as systems development efforts in Revenue Accounting functionality. COBOL and HP3000

1979 - 1987

Worked as a computer programmer analyst and systems analyst for various airlines including:

- PACIFIC SOUTHWEST AIRLINES (PSA) - San Diego, CA – COBOL

- UNITED AIRLINES – Chicago, IL

- SAUDI ARABIAN AIRLINES - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

JAN 80 to GENERAL DYNAMICS, San Diego, CA - COBOL

AUG 81 Programmer Analyst

New development for government projects on F-16 Fighter jet, Cruise Missile, KC-10 Cargo Aircraft; IMS DB/DC

FEB 79 to GARRETT AIRESEARCH, Los Angeles, CA – COBOL

JAN 80 Programmer Associate

Maintenance programming on government aerospace cost accounting systems

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE/TECHNICAL:

IBM Mainframe; Z/OS, MVS/ESA JCL, COBOL, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, Control-M; MS Word, Remedy, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Excel, Project; IMS, VSAM, NDM, FTP; Sybase SQL; Micro Focus COBOL executed in Unix Korn Shell Scripts

EDUCATION:

Utah State University, Logan, UT Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1979

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Systems Analysis

El Camino College, Torrance, CA Data Processing

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