Mainframe Developer Programmer Analyst

RONALD G. VALLIERES

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Windsor, VT 802-***-**** Mobile

SUMMARY

A senior applications programmer analyst with over twenty years of varied (consulting, banking, brokerage, govt., insurance and telecommunications) experience in applications programming on IBM Mainframe and iSeries AS400 systems. Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.

HARDWARE: IBM: iSeries AS/400, 3090, 370, 390

SOFTWARE: AS400 COBOL; ILE COBOL;QUERY/400;SQL;CL;DFU;ABENDAID;BAL;COBOL; FILEAID;IMPLEMENTER; JCL; EXCEL; MVS MVS/ESA OS/VS; TSO – ISPF/PDF, SDSF; VSAM; IDCAMS; ABEND – AID; EXPEDITOR TSO/CICS; DATA ANALYZER; EASYTRIEVE; ENDEAVOR; INFO/SYS;JCL; LASER ACCESS OPTICAL STORAGE; PARMS; PROCS;PDSMAN/MVS; DFHSM; TUBES/VTAM; ZARA/ZEKE/ZEBB; UCC SCHEDULER; HASP; POINT SOFTWARE; SYNON/COOL:2E; LOTUS NOTES; MS-OFFICE; FEUPRO, ALDON, DBU, GUMBO, REMOTE SOFTWARE FACILITY, RPG/ILE, MQ Series

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NATIONWIDE INSURANCE – Columbus OH

Consultant (Remote) IBM Mainframe Developer February 2023 – November 2023

Upgraded statement processing system to incorporate new insurance products

RILA - Registered Insurance Linked Annuity

BRILA- Buffer Registered Insurance Linked Annuity

Significant program modifications and enhancements requiring rigorous unit and regression

Testing in collaboration with the statement processing group

Environment: IBM Z/OS, COBOL,JCL,CHANGEMAN,AGILE- METHODOLOGY

JIRA – ISSUE AND PROJECT TRACKING SOFTWARE

ARMY & AIRFORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE (AAFES) – Dallas Tx

Consultant (Remote) IBM Mainframe Developer March 2022 – December 2022

Payroll Support Group. Enhanced, modified and corrected defects in the AAFES payroll system

Running in COBOL mainframe environment. Participated in on call support rotation. Projects

included IMS to DB2 data migration.

Environment: IBM Z/OS,TELON, COBOL,JCL,DB2,IMS,VSAM, ENDEVOR,AGILE- SCRUM

JIRA – ISSUE AND PROJECT TRACKING SOFTWARE

FedEx – Pittsburgh PA

Consultant (Remote) iSeries Developer January 2021 – December 2021

IT Services at Ground. Corporate Load Testing group. Executed and monitored revenue test

processes (cycles) involving complex Front End, NAFTA, Smart Post and Ground Rating

procedures on multiple iSeries platforms and servers.

Environment: IBM system i, COBOL/400, RPG, DB2 SQL, Change management - Implementer

VersionOne Agile Project Management Tool using Kanban

CNA Insurance – Chicago IL October 2019 – December 2020

Consultant IBM Mainframe Developer

Production Support for the Workers Compensation Unit Stat system involving NCCI interface

processing. Analyze and resolve production issues, review requirements for system modifications and

Verification of test results.

Environment: IBM Z/OS,CICS, COBOL,JCL,DB2,VSAM,EZTRIEVE, ENDEVOR,CONTROL-M,

TERADATA

Walgreens – Deerfield IL April 2019 – September 2019

Consultant iSeries Developer

Supported the Logistics group in Quality Assurance by communicating and working with the On Site

Team, Off Shore team and Subject Matter Experts to review, clarify, correct, approve Requirements

Documents, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios and Test Results for new Projects.

Environment: IBM system i, COBOL/400, DB2, SYNON

GAINSCO Auto Insurance – Dallas TX September 2017 – January 2019

iSeries Developer

Supported, enhanced and maintained a sophisticated in-house software Policy Administration System

Using Agile Methodology, VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services)/Azure Dev Ops source code

management

Environment: IBM system i, COBOL/400, DB2 SQL, iSeries Impact Analysis Software - Hawkeye,

IBM i monitoring – Messenger Plus, IBM i Data Base Utility – DBU, IBM i Scheduler

ROBOT, IBM i Change Management - IMPLEMENTER

Michigan Supreme Court – Lansing Michigan September 2014 – June 2017

Judicial Information Systems

Consultant iSeries Developer

Maintained and enhanced trial & probate court systems which incorporated adoption, financial, and juvenile subsystems.

Environment: AS/400 iSeries, COBOL/400, DB2, CL, DBU Database Utility/File Editor, Synon Cool/2e

Deloitte Consulting – Charleston, West Virginia Contractor September 2012 – May 2014

West Virginia RAPIDS Project (Recipient Automated Payment Information Data System)

Mainframe Eligibility Determination & Benefit Calculation System for Welfare Programs

Consultant

Maintained and enhanced Benefit Issuance (BI) and Benefit Recovery (RV) subsystems. Supported RAPIDS - TOP (Treasury Offset Program) Interface, Application Entry (AE) and Quality Control (QC) subsystems. Upgraded systems to conform to the Affordable Care Act. MAGI - Medicaid and CHIP's eligibility standards. Also worked on the RAPIDS /OASIS (Our Advanced Solution with Integrated System) ERP Project to develop new interfaces involving payment outbound and inbound processing

Environment: IBM Z/OS,COBOL, DB2 V10, CICS (TELON), SAS,Control-M, JAVA,

Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition, ATS (Automatic Tracking System)

STARTOOL FDM(File And Data Management), DB2 Stored Procedures, XML,

Micro Focus COBOL NDM.

Santander Sovereign Bank - Boston, Massachusetts February 2011 - March 2012

Consultant

Integrated Sovereign Bank Fiserv consumer lending system into Santander Bank. Using the Parthenon platform, validated account migration processes developed by the Santander migration team. In test and production environments (via Easytrieve), generated reports and database analyses (for DB2). Identified and documented migration issues and forwarded to the conversion group.

Environment: IBM 308X, Z/OS,COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Easytrieve, Control-M

Wells FargoThird Party Administrators- Charleston, West Virginia March 2009 – August 2010

Consultant

Performed analysis, design, coding, testing, and production support of health insurance

applications (claims, COBRA, pension, check processing, internal audit, & federal reporting).

Modified and created Electronic Data Interchanges for healthcare vendors.

Environment: AS/400 iSeries, COBOL/400, RPG/400, SQL/400, QUERY/400, DB2, CL, DBU, ALDON, GUMBO SOFTWARE, and SEQUEL NDM.

The Preserver Group, Paramus, New Jersey January 2003 – September 2008

Senior Programmer Analyst – Information Technology Group

Supported CSC Point – An AS/400 iSeries property and casualty insurers admin system.

Developed new reports, modified production reports and supplied data analysis extraction for accounting, claims, executive administration and underwriting departments.

Worked with independent actuaries by transmitting supporting data for rate filing analysis.

Environment: AS/400 iSeries, COBOL/400, RPG/400, SQL/400, QUERY/400, CL, FEUPRO, and Synon/Cool2E.

Prudential Financial, Florham Park, New Jersey Employee July 2001 – December 2002

Systems Analysis and Development Specialist – Long Term Care Systems

Supported conversion of Long Term Care insurance system - IMAC from System 390 to AS/400 iSeries FISERV ID3 – Life and Health Insurance administrative software package. Environment: Synon/Cool:2E for FISERV ID3.

Developed, implemented and documented new billing, claims, commissions and premium reporting applications in an AS/400 iSeries environment.

Corrected IMAC software problems and created mainframe client billing applications to process and distribute billing files to send to clients in an System 390 environment.

Tested and implemented long-term care insurance applications.

Developed scripts to transfer files between mainframe/AS400 platforms using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for conversion processing.

Environment: AS/400 iSeries, System 390, COBOL/400, SQL/400, QUERY/400, CL, DB2, Synon/Cool:2E, COBOL II, JCL, MVS, CICS, VSAM, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID

Fleet Technology Solutions, Albany, New York March 2001 – May 2001

Consultant – Consumer Loans Team

Developed Fleet Line Increase Analysis reports using EASTRIEVE Plus. Reports analyzed collateral on the Advanced Consumer Loan System (ACLS) which helped users determine what options should be used to handle converted accounts.

Responsible for the Securitization Extract System on System 390. System enabled users to analyze the consumer loan portfolio for loan securitization. American Management Systems (AMS) I/O routines were used to access files on ACLS.

Environment: System/390, COBOL II, JCL, MVS, EASTRIEVE Plus, FILE-AID, CICS, VSAM, TSO, CHANGEMAN

MYND (Formerly Policy Management System Corp.), Lawrenceville, New Jersey 1996 – 2000

Associate Technical Consultant

Customized, supported and modified releases for different clients of POINT software – a fully integrated AS/400 iSeries on line, real-time property and casualty processing system.

Developed a loss interface system - a claims data feed, validation, and POINT interface processing system that enabled client to process data from their customer base.

Designed, coded, and unit tested a reinsurance extract system - claims file extract system. Extract files are uploaded to the client’s PC reinsurance processing system called FASTER.

Modified and enhanced Policy Issue Capture System (PICS) for NCCI to meet state requirements for bureau reporting.

Environment: AS/400 iSeries, COBOL/400, SQL/400, QUERY/400, CL, DB2, Synon/Cool:2E, and MKS Implementer.

THE SUMMIT BANK, Cranford, New Jersey 1988 – 1996

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsible for implementation and production support for Vendor Supplied Financial Software Systems.

Converted UCCEL/CA general ledger software package to Systematics Financial Management System requiring in house conversion software.

Developed adhoc reports using EASTRIEVE Plus.

Supported and upgraded releases for vendor supplied software: DISC - Retirement Reporting System, Florida Software - Savings; Systematics - General Ledger and Accounts Payable.

Developed, tested, and implemented a check book processing system. Maintained and modified a Holiday Club system. Analyzed, designed and coded software for the consolidation of bank acquisitions into a Systematics Financial Management System. Developed in-house applications to interface with Microsoft Excel and an organizational profitability system (OPS).

Environment: System 390, COBOL II, MVS/ESA, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO, EASTRIEVE Plus, Laser Access Optical Storage, Endeaver, Expediter, ZARA - Automated Tape Management, ZEKE - Job Scheduler, ZEBB - Job Restart, UCC Scheduler

E. F. HUTTON & CO., New York, New York 1979 – 1987

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsible for development of back office portfolio and trading system applications.

Designed Portfolio Monitor system which computed and compared asset allocations to models set by management. This ensured compliance with investment guidelines for managed portfolio product.

Developed tracking system for research division that identified trading activity for selected securities on the New York Stock Exchange following an analyst’s recommendation.

Generated reports for retail offices showing sales commissions for account executives in various product categories.

Created Blue Sky registration reporting system for the fixed income division that tracked sales of unit investment trusts to comply with each state’s Blue Sky laws.

Established and maintained and account executive database.

Environment: System 370, COBOL, MVS, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO, Data Analyzer

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO., Mahwah, New Jersey 1978 – 1979

Programmer Analyst

Worked on Project Team implementing GSC software.

Developed, designed and implemented time card generator as part of a large-scale pension, payroll and personnel system installation using General Services Corporation software. Maintained and generated project document to update status and changes of the project on UNIVAC 1108 document processor.

Environment: UNIVAC 1108, System 360, COBOL, MVS, JCL VSAM, TSO

CONE BLANCHARD MACHINE CO., Windsor, Vermont 1972 – 1977

Cost Accountant

Provided job-order costing for machine tool projects. Prepared profit/loss reports identifying cost for machinery, direct labor, direct material, and factory overhead.

EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT

B.A., Mathematics, University of Vermont

Certificate of Programming, The Chubb Institute

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