George William McFetters Jr

*** ******* ****

Williamston, MI 48895

573-***-****

ad1sz7@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

●A self-motivated professional having 35+ years progressive experience ranging from Programmer Analyst to Project Leader.

●Excellent design, project management skills using various software.

●An organized time manager who prides himself to meet expected delivery dates.

HARDWARE/OPERATING SYSTEMS

IBM Mainframes, AS400, IBM PC's and Compatibles

LANGUAGES/SOFTWARE

Garvin-Allen, BCMS, PMS, PDS Payroll Application, WORKDAY Financial and HR Systems, Intellisys, Agile, Confluence, JIRA, ITIL Certification, SOAP, COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, DB2/SQL, RPG III, ERP, STRATUS COBOL, UNISYS TELON TSO/SPF, C, SQL Server, Foxpro, VSAM, IMS, IDMS, Eastrieve Plus, FOCUS, Visual Basic, DOS/VSE, MVS, JCL, RPG3, Panvalet, PANAPT, Paradox, Lotus 123, WordPerfect, Mantissa Report Distribution Products, Magic, Roscoe, Sybase, Stratus, MS Word, ACCESS, Excel, C++, NATURAL, ADABAS, OLAP, ColdFusion, MQSERIES, Sybase, Cyberlife, P+,INTEGRAL and Assembler

Application Experience:

Accounting, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Check Reconciliation, Payroll, Banking, Personnel, Asset Management, Inventory, Financials, Distribution, Quality Assurance, Publishing, Sales & Marketing, Data warehousing, Banking, and Mainframe Connectivity Architecture.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Shelter Insurance (1/23-present)

●Lead and worked on creating extract files from Shelter’s Cyberlife system to be converted to FAST.

Penn Mutual (6/22-1/23)

●Lead and worked on creating ACCESS databases to download Cyberlife data for business teams.

●Worked on adding a new Fixed Annuity Product to Cyberlife

●Run the annual RMD letter process.

●Various Production Support Issues.

Shelter Insurance( 4/22-6/22) Contractor

●Supported Cyberlife application.

HTC Global Services (2/21-4/22)

●Work and support the Garvin-Allen Farm Product application. Work on several releases.

●Work and support existing legacy applications BCMS and PMS

●Currently, leading a project to change the billing cycle from 14 to 18 day.

Evolveware(8/20-2/21)

●Assist the State of New York to curate their UNISYS COBOL programs to prepare for a future conversion.

●Support also involves coding for immediate production data fix or running nightly process to update table files, enhancement to current processing, scheduling jobs, Ad-hoc reports using AS400/SQL as well as other short term and projects.

●Use Intellisys to analysis code for several clients.

Jackson National Life (1/15 – 8/20)

●Work on various Vantage to Cyberlife conversion, Cyberlife and P+ assignments.

●Work on Lean Conversion

●Member of the Jackson Athletic Club.

●Work on MCAS project

●Work on various Performance Team as lead developer and leader on expanding our fund number expansion from 3 digits to 5. Updating and testing approximately 2000+ COBOL modules.

●Performed job scheduling. Performed ONLINE CHANGE, DBCTL, CHANGE ACCUMULATION, and DYNAMIC ALLOCATION tasks.

●Worked as a Problem Manager in the Solutions Group using Confluence, JIRA and Agile to manage Problem Management Issues.

●Working on an Agile team to convert Policy Admin System from VSAM on the Mainframe to MongoDB by created API using JSON, REST, JAVA and YAML.

Shelter Insurance (7/06 – 1/15)

Workday Financial Conversion Assignment (12/12 – 12/14)

●Project lead for writing and configuring data conversion programs to convert HUON DB2 tables into Workday data elements.

●Application involves COBOL, JCL, IMS DB DLI, VSAM, CICS, Telon and Walker.

●Primarily work with PO Integration team which involves understanding current process, evaluating changes in spec, analyzing appropriate codes due to constraints and then finally code new programs to make sure updates are done on current DB2 database (OMS) also sync up legacy system in IMS (GRS).

●Task involves systems analysis and design, coding and implementing projects using COBOL, CICS, IDMS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, JCLs, CA-7, SQL tools, SPUFI, MQ Series, Workbench and Platinum software (TQ).

●Write 5 Webservice programs to transmit data to Workday (Check Recon, Journals, Bank Recon and Asset mgmt.).

●Assist in configuring the CICS environments in order to have Webservices communicate to Workday.

●Set up implementation schedule for going live with Workday (Labor day weekend (2014).

●Work on 2 Workday updates.

●Work on establishing several platforms for creating Workday environments.

●Work with Accounting department coordinating Workday updates and schedules.

Supporting PDS Payroll/HRIS Application(7/06 – 1/15)

●Work on PDS conversion team on converting the 40 year legacy Payroll/HRIS system to PDS.

●Coordinate setting up Batch programs and JCL.

●Task involves systems analysis and design, coding and implementing projects using COBOL, CICS, IDMS, IMS, 0DB2, JCLs, ZEKE, CA-7, SQL tools and Platinum software.

●Performance monitoring, utility scheduling, and the creation/modification of maintenance utility jobs.

●Setting up FTP of data from Shelter to PDS.

●Work on all annual system updates to PDS.

●Train people on using several PDS updates.

●Create tax reporting.

●Prepare for Open Enrollment.

●Work on annual W2 processing.

●Other HRIS functions with PDS.

DST Systems Inc (8/01 – 7/06)

Software Engineer

●Work on Mutual Fund Bookkeeping Systems.

●Work on a software replacement committee.

●Worked on 10 major software upgrades and lead technical analyst on three-system enhancement.

●Work on several client conversions.

●Served on committee to reduce testing costs and problems.

FleetBoston (7/00 – 8/01)

Consultant/Senior Programmer Analyst

●Maintain and Enhance batch and online changes to Automated Teller System.

Teknor Apex (3/00 – 7/00)

Senior Technical Support Analyst

●Install INFOPAC upgrade.

●Convert FOCUS to WEBFOCUS 4.13

●Work on Masterpiece Upgrade Conversion for Purchase Order, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable

Brown University (1/99 – 3/00)

Consultant/Lead Analyst

●Develop a GUI (Graphical User Interface) using ColdFusion, for Brown’s Open Enrollment.

●Project Leader and lead analyst for HR/Personal Systems.

●Integral 9.5.10 release.

●Provide Foxpro support for several users

●On a team to review SQL Server

●Lead and supervisor 7 junior programmers and analysts.

●Managed the successful completion of 2 product upgrades.

●Worked on employee reviews and evaluation.

BankBoston (6/98 - 12/98)

Consultant

●Worked on a Data warehousing project using COBOLII, DB2, and VSAM.

●Responsible for mainframe applications development using MVS COBOL II, CICS, TSO/ISPF, VSAM TELON, IMS/DC, DB2, JCL and IBM utilities.

●Create files for Voice Response Unit (VRU), Automatic Teller Machine(ATM), and Teller, which would be downloaded to a Data warehouse on a UNIX platform.

●Created over 20 programs in DB2, COBOLII, CLIST, and EASYTRIEVE PLUS.

Mellon Trust (12/97- 6/98)

Consultant

●Worked on an Y2K project on Mellon's accounting system.

●Provide analysis and project leadership in coordinating programs and programmers.

●Changed over 150 online and batch programs in order to get them Y2K compliant.

Fidelity Investments (3/97-12/97)

Consultant

Support production environment of existing Architectures:

●Mainframe-to-Mainframe, Mainframe-to-UNIX and Mainframe-to-Stratus.

●Assisted on converting Year 2000 applications.

●Assisted in creating a logging program to store transaction, in case of line overload, or line interruptions.

●Assisted in research and documenting DCA Open Server.

Sun Life of Canada (3/95-2/97)

Consultant

●Provide senior analysis for DOS to MVS conversion.

●Provide system analysis for developing specifications and enhancements to new Sun Life Vantage product lines(Regatta Gold, Regatta old New York and Regatta Classic)

●As Project Leader, implemented Sun Life of New York's EFT Check Reconciliation and Annuity Systems; developed and enhanced 30+ CICS and COBOL programs.

●Performance tuning; disaster recovery; capacity planning; design modifications; DBD, PSB, ACB, and IMS application generations; and job scheduling.

●Designed and implemented a Group Capital Annuity Reporting System from Vantage using FOCUS; trained Sun Life personnel to use new System.

●Developed 15+ CICS, COBOL and FOCUS programs; modified and Enhanced JCL job streams.

●Coordinated and converted Sun Life's mainframe to a client/server interfaces; wrote appropriate COBOL programs to assist file-transferring procedures.

New England Electric Systems (5/94-3/95)

Information Analyst

●Converted the current Asset Management to the Walker Asset Management System.

●Created and implemented a pilot program to convert the employment application form from hard copy to a PC based Visual Basic form.

●Recognized for consistently meeting budget and deadline expectations.

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (6/90-5/94)

Programmer/Analyst

●Converted Addison-Wesley Canada's Inventory System from a VSAM/COBOL/CICS system to DB2/IMS/COBOL/EASYTRIEVE PLUS/CICS system; created 30 online and batch programs.

●Designed, developed and implemented Custom Publishing projects; created 20+ DB2/COBOL/CICS programs.

●Developed and implemented a pilot TELON projects; converted old DOS/VSE systems to DB2/COBOL/CICS/TELON.

●Provided enhancements and supported warehouse interface system.

●Make sure the Addison-Wesley Distribution Centers (Indianapolis) AS400 inventory system was in sync with Addison-Wesley's corporate mainframe (Reading).

●Make enhancement with the AS400 system using RPG3.

●Worked on a DOS to MVS conversion project, converted VSAM to DB2, changed JCL job streams; rewrote former and wrote new applicable programs.

Analog Devices, Inc. (12/88-6/90)

Programmer/Analyst

●Performed enhancements, maintenance, and interfaces to the MSA financial package.

●Converted DMS online systems to CICS/VSAM systems.

Rhode Island Hospital Trust (12/85-12/88)

●Mantissa Report Distribution Programmer - 1 year

●Quality Assurance Administer - 1 year

●Computer Operator (3rd shift) - 1 year

EDUCATION

1996 New Hampshire College Manchester, NH a m

●Bachelor Degree in Business Studies with Concentration in Computer Science

1984 New England Tech Warwick, RI a m

●Associates Degree in Computer Science

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