Software Engineer A Team
Resume:
Samuel H. Fountain Jr
Fairfax, Virginia 22031
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
SOFTWARE
JAVA SE 6
SQL
PL/SQL
Visual Basic
Microsoft Visio
COBOL 74
COBOL II
CANDE
Clearpath
Bridge
Programmer's Workbench for ClearPath MCP
IBM MQ
Microsoft Active Directory
COMS Communications System
CICS
WFLs
JCLs
MARC Menugraph
Perl Script
Algol
Assembler
NETRON/CAP COBOL Development Tool
MicroFocus Development Tool
Lantastics LAN (Client/Server)
Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Office
DB2
UNIX
WordPerfect
Microsoft Word
Crystal Reports
Lotus Notes
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
HARDWARE
Personal Computers (PCs)
UNYSIS A—Series
WangVS 8000
IBM 3081
Over 25 years experience in Full-Lifecycle MainFrame/COBOL development. Including requirements gathering, analysis, program coding, unit and integration testing, deployment, trouble shooting, application documentation, software enhancements/maintenance and production support.
EDUCATION and TRAINING
B.S., summa cum laude, Computer Information Systems, Strayer University, 1992
Graduate Studies, Accounting, University of Texas, 1986-87
B.A., Economics, University of Dallas, 1981
MicroFocus Development Tool, Introductory Course, 1994
AIX/6000, System Administration and User Administration, 1993
Certificate, Computer Programming, Strayer College, 1991
Java Programming Language 2011
Security Clearance – DoD Secret – Active as of October 2019
IRS MBI – Active as of May 2023
EXPERIENCE
Senior COBOL Developer/Analyst Remote
May 2023 – December 2023 Defense Technology Integration (DTI)
Assigned to U.S. Department of Treasury
Development, Maintained and Modernization Project of the BDOC Application for the Internal Revenue Service..
Senior COBOL Developer/Analyst Remote
November 2022 – May 2023 Goal Group LLC
Assigned to U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
Development, Maintained and Modernization Project of the GSA’s Fleet Application. Read the existing production code to get the data flows and extract business rules for modernization.
Senior COBOL Developer/Analyst Remote
May 2022 – November 2022 Beacon Hill Staffing Group
Read the existing production code to get the data flows and extract business rules for modernization.
Senior COBOL Analyst Washington DC
April 2021 – March 2022 DynaVet Solutions LLC
Assigned to The Department of Veteran Administration
COBOL MainFrame Analyst assigned to the Digital GI Bill Moderation Team
Read the existing production code to get the data flows and extract business rules for modernization.
Senior COBOL Developer Washington DC
March 2020 – April 2021 Moss Cape LLC
Assigned to The Department of State
COBOL MainFrame Developer assigned to the Compensation Applications Team (IRM/OPS/SIO/SDD/CAB).
Maintain the current code from any failures, repair the failures and deploy the corrections to production.
Senior COBOL Developer Centreville,Virginia
October 2019 – March 2020 Information Gateways Inc.
Assigned to The Department of Defense
COBOL MainFrame Developer assigned to the Foreign Military Sales
Given the task to analyze the production code to extract data and processing flows for modernization.
Senior COBOL Developer Ashburn,Virginia
January 2019 – October 2019 ESP Inc.
Assigned to The Department of Defense – ARMY National Guard
COBOL MainFrame Developer assigned to the Total Army Personnel DataBase – Guard (TAPDB-G). Using JCL and COBOL develop reports for actuarial needs; maintain external websites supporting upload, query, and report download access to NFIP policy and real-time claim related data; ; Using JCL and COBOL troubleshoot/maintain and enhance data quality by developing and implementing production standards, monitoring and implementing security policies, and scheduling periodic activities to ensure timely and accurate updating of DATACOM databases; Using JCL and COBOL troubleshoot/maintain the integrity of comprehensive actuarial information system databases and subsystem components to ensure accurate ad-hoc reports; Using JCL and COBOL maintain ability to produce predefined periodic reports from mainframe extracts and special requests; create COBOL source code and software requirements documentation including software design, data flow design, and architecture diagrams; conduct design and COBOL code reviews and review system test scenarios and test cases; participate in mainframe computing tests and upgrade activities as directed
Senior Application Architect Landover, Maryland
June 2017 – December 2017 OST Inc.
May 2014 – June 2017 CSC/CSRA Inc.
United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Legacy Systems Services
Work closely with FEMA actuarial personnel relative to system requirements changes and updates on IBM MainFrame; troubleshoot and maintain operating systems (CICS) and Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software on component systems in the enterprise; Using JCL, COBOL and FOCUS (SQL-like language) to troubleshoot/maintain software that supports actuarial activities, and special requests; Using JCL and COBOL develop reports for actuarial needs; maintain external websites supporting upload, query, and report download access to NFIP policy and real-time claim related data; ; Using JCL and COBOL troubleshoot/maintain and enhance data quality by developing and implementing production standards, monitoring and implementing security policies, and scheduling periodic activities to ensure timely and accurate updating of NFIP databases; Using JCL and COBOL troubleshoot/maintain the integrity of comprehensive actuarial information system databases and subsystem components to ensure accurate ad-hoc reports; Using JCL and COBOL maintain ability to produce predefined periodic reports from mainframe extracts and special requests; create COBOL source code and software requirements documentation including software design, data flow design, and architecture diagrams; conduct design and COBOL code reviews and review system test scenarios and test cases; participate in mainframe computing tests and upgrade activities as directed
Senior COBOL Analyst Fairfax, Virginia
July 2013 - May 2014 CTG Inc.
COBOL Report Modernization Project - CORE-Link Inc.
Analyzed and documented COBOL report programs to be moved to SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) server to remediate CoreLink Administrative Solutions increased mainframe lease costs associated with Millions of Instructions Executed per Second (MIPS) usage charges
Unisys Programmer Arlington, Virginia
June 2012 - October 2012 Phacil Inc.
U.S. Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Reporting and Monitoring System (TRAM) Contract
Troubleshoot, maintained and developed COBOL source code for the trademark applications process; developed correction COBOL Source code at the request of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); analyzed COBOL source code by running both unit and system tests to confirm errors at onset of Error Correction Request (ECR) assignments; trouble shoot COBOL source code reviews to locate the errors; provided the customer with different solutions, related costs, and recommendations to fix errors; provided the customer with a lifecycle management report detailing benefits, security concerns, man hours, and user retraining costs for Software Enhancement Requests (SER)
Unisys Programmer Crystal City, Virginia
October 2009 - May 2012 Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
May 2008 - October 2009 Unisys Inc.
November 2007 - May 2008 eserv Technical Solutions Inc.
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Applications, Maintenance and Enhancements (FAME) Contract
Maintained, trouble shoot and developed COBOL source code for purchase order processing; developed correction software at the request of GSA; analyzed COBOL source code by running both unit and system tests to confirm errors at onset of Software Correction Request (SCR) assignments; conducted COBOL source code reviews to locate the errors; provided the customer with different solutions, related costs, and recommendations to fix errors; provided the customer with a lifecycle management report detailing benefits, security concerns, man hours, and user retraining costs for Software Enhancement Requests (SER)
Consultant AEEC Inc.
September 2007 - October 2007 Reston, Virginia
U.S. Department of Education (DOE) (One-month Contract)
Analyzed business processes to document, develop, and recommend process improvements; focused on making an SQL application more internally effective, efficient and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Intra-Office application-user friendly
Consultant IntraGlobe Inc.
June 2007 - September 2007 Herndon, Virginia
EDS - Verizon (Three-month) Contract
Trouble shoot and maintained IBM Mainframe, COBOL, and UNIX scripting to remove errors and improve performance
Software Engineer Select Computing Inc.
November 2006 - March 2007 Washington, D.C.
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Unisys 2200 COBOL analyst/programmer for the Loan Accounting System; analyzed, trouble shoot, maintained, and modified ECLs and other programs to improve the processing of SBA loan requests
Unisys Programmer Native American Industrial Distributors, Inc. (NAID)
May 2004 - November 2006 Herndon, Virginia
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indians Affairs (BIA)
Unisys COBOL analyst/programmer for the Intergraded Records Management System IRMS on a UNYSIS A—Series mainframe containing eight subsystems that processed and recorded payouts to individual American Indians and Alaskan Natives of lease monies—surface and mineral—on allotted land tracts based on ownership and share-of-lease income; analyzed customer and user needs, developed requirements, and trouble shoot, expanded and improved functionality as required by BIA; used Bridge, ALGOrithmic Language (ALGOL), Command and Edit (CANDE), Communications Management System (COMS), and Work Flow Language (WFL) to troubleshoot, develop new and maintain existing programs; used Microsoft Word and Visio to document changes and improvements
Seaman Programmer FOLIOfn Inc.
August 2003 - May 2004 McLean, Virginia
Analyzed needs, made appropriate recommendations, implemented and documented all improvements, trouble shoot and maintained the Seaman application with COBOL, PERL, SQL and Visual Basic in compliance with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and in response to user requests and SEC regulations.
Senior Software Engineer SOLUTRON Inc.
July 1998 - April 2003 Crystal City, Virginia
U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)
Enterprise Assets Management System (10/2002 - 4/2003)
Crystal Reports and SQL development team member for an application designed to track and monitor the movement and status of physical assets of U.S. PTO
Program Control Labor Processing (12/2002 - 4/2003)
Followed appropriate business rules and flow extracted requirements to develop an SQL application designed to process finance data and write user interface in Microsoft Access 2000
Quality Assurance Matrix (10/2002 - 4/2003)
Followed appropriate business rules and flow extracted requirements to develop a SQL application program to track and monitor documents and matrix, and write user interface in Microsoft Access 2000 for delivery to U.S. PTO
Classification Data System (3/2002 - 10/2002)
Development team member for an application designed to incorporate the procedures and function of traditional paper-based reclassification patent projects of the U.S. PTO into electronic format; also wrote user interface in VB 6, SQL and Crystal Reports 7
Quality Review System (7/2000 - 3/2002)
Followed appropriate business rules and flow extracted requirements to design and develop an Microsoft Access 2000 multi-user Called Subscriber Identification (CSID) application for the customer service department which included on-line data entry, data retrieval, and reports, and an interface with the EXPO/Patent Application Locating and Monitoring (PALM) system; also designed and developed an Microsoft Access 2000 multi-user (IPQR) application for the Quality Review Department which included on-line data entry, data retrieval, and reports using Crystal Reports 6, SQL and PL/SQL
Patent Application Location & Monitoring Project (PALM) (7/1998 - 7/2000)
Followed appropriate business rules and flow extracted requirements for a Year 2000 compliance/tolerance batch and on-line transaction program renovation which involved Unisys A-Series COBOL 74, DMSII database software, Clearpath, ALGOL, COMS, CANDE and WFLs; also performed maintenance and emergency software analysis and troubleshooting for the PALM project which involved Unisys A-Series COBOL 74, DMS II Database software, Clearpath, ALGOL, COMS, CANDE, and WFLs
Senior System Analyst Metrica Inc. / STG Inc.
December 1991 - July 1998 Rosslyn, Virginia
U.S. Department of State, Information Management Systems Office (Post Personnel System (PS))
Developed new systems in 32-bit architecture in order to use Visual Basic 5.0, DB2/SQL and Microsoft Access 97, and to be compatible with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0
Constructed Windows-based user interface using Visual Basic 5.0
Used Crystal Reports 6.0 to design and develop Ad Hoc query system
Assisted in the analysis and creation of the new data structure (relational) and data dictionary in Microsoft Access 97
Created and maintained all validation routines for processing data
Provided analysis and programming support on the Personnel Management Information System (PMIS) for the Bureau of Personnel, Office of Resource Management and Analysis (RMA), and Post Personnel (PS) Station-Personnel Project
Provided analysis and programming support (Assembler) for the Bureau of Personnel, Office of Resource Management and Analysis (RMA) Project.
Technical Team Leader on the Overseas Posts Personnel System Application (PS), a complete personnel system for managing American and Foreign National employees at overseas posts; used NETRON/CAP-COBOL and MicroFocus development tools; rehosted system from WANG/VS to the personal computer/Local Area Network (PC/LAN)
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