Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Edith Jones

SUMMARY:

●An IT professional consultant of Enterprise Applications on a Distributed Platform. Have extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full Project Life Cycle development, using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies. Has experience working with Government Clients (Georgia Department of Human Services, Georgia MHN MMMIS).

●Provide Requirements Gathering, Functional and Technical Detail Design Documents, Technical Program Specifications, Data Modeling, Software Analysis and Design, Interface Mappings, Development, Test and Implementation support using Agile and SDLC development methodologies, facilitating the Project's Scope, Definition, Task, Time and Deliverables using CA Confluence WIKI and SharePoint.

●Designed a Strategy to support multiple development environments.

●Strong interaction with client, managers and other sub-system teams.

●Self-motivated with the ability to onboard projects rapidly and progressing to a productive team member quickly. Career efforts have predominantly been focused on legacy applications and mainframe modernization, across many diverse industries, and in various roles as; Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Business Analyst (BA), Sr. Programmer Analyst, Programmer, Team Lead (TL), Team member and IT Consultant.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

BBVA Compass Bank, Birmingham, AL

Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Programme Analyst 10/2013 – 10/2016

●Provide Requirements Gathering, Functional and Technical Detail Design Documents, Technical Program Specifications, Data Modeling, Software Analysis and Design, Interface Mappings, Development, Test and Implementation support using Agile and SDLC development methodologies, facilitating the project's scope, definition, task, time and deliverables using CA Confluence WIKI and SharePoint as repository.

●Lead a five-member pod daily standup meeting, groom pods sprint backlog, report status to product owner thus contributing to grooming of product backlog, log defects and remove pod impediments, participate in sprint planning meetings to scale sprints and estimate task, participate in sprint review and retrospect meetings, using Confluence JIRA development tracking tool.

●Utilized: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, VISIO, AGILE (Certified Scrum Master), Confluence tools (JIRA, Wiki), RSA tools (Datamodeler), MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, etc.)

●Provide AST Enterprise legacy layer using SOA architecture on a distributed platform development support for new BBVA Compass Bank's real-time online applications (AST Small Business and Netcash (Commercial) OLB) in various roles.

●Provide mainframe support for analysis, design, code, test and implementation of new and existing programs for AST Small Business and Netcash (Commercial) OLB projects

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 09/ 2012 – 04/2013

Sr. Programmer Analyst, Claims IT Department

●Provide mainframe support for the Federal mandated ICD10 migration project using SDLC development methodology.

●Responsible for analysis, design, code, test and implementation of new and existing programs in anticipation of the upcoming U.S. Affordable Care Act Health Exchange implementation.

●Processed Host, (Association), Claim Data from HEALTHQUEST Profiles and NASCO interfaces.

Georgia Department of Human Services, Atlanta GA 02/ 2012 – 09/2012

Business Analyst/Programmer Analyst

●Responsible for gathering requirements, developing logical flowcharts, targeted for code development using SDLC methodology.

●Provide analysis, design, code, test and implementation of new and existing programs for the State of Georgia’s, Welfare, Food Stamp and Medicaid, processing application referred to as, “SUCCESS”.

Washington DC, MMIS – Omnicaid 5010 / ICD10 Migration Project 02/ 2011 – 02/ 2012

Business Analyst/Programmer Analyst

●Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, coding, testing and implementation and 24/7 production support on a rotation basis for Washington DC MMIS ICD10 conversion project.

Georgia MHN MMMIS - Managed Care, Atlanta GA 05/ 2010 – 12/2010

Business Analyst/Programmer Analyst

●Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, coding, testing and implementation for Georgia (MMIS) Managed Care batch and on-line subsystem applications.

●Supported Washington DC MMIS team with defect resolutions, analysis, coding, testing, and production support.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 01/ 2008 – 01/ 2010

Business Analyst/Programmer Analyst

●Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design, code, test and implementation for “Membership TOTL Conversion” application.

●Responsible for 60 plus conversion jobs, developed training materials and teams’ application standards and process improvements.

Bank of America, Atlanta, GA 07/ 2007 – 11/2007

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Supported requirements gathering, organizing and maintaining procedures and application and technical documentation for the SMI (Strata Master Index) database with reverse engineering of electronic meta data to paper batch application.

●Developed process improvements and coordinated periodic audits and updates to the SMI repository database.

US Food Service Inc. Greenville, SC 06/ 2005- 04/ 2007

Sr. Programmer Analyst / Technical Lead

●Provide analysis and programming support to the “Pricing Rationale Inventory Management Enterprise” (PRIME) project

●Developed back-end “Contract Management” interface application to process user transactions from GUI front-end interface.

●Designed and coded CICS server programs, with multi-directional communication capabilities via TIBCO EAI middleware.

●Analyzed problem ticket flow deficiencies and provided structural solutions for process improvements.

●Designed a strategy to support multiple development environments of “PRIME” application using “Endeavor” migration tool.

●Co-developed an online training seminar for on MVS Cobol II, CICS, JCL, ENDEVOR, Structured Code Development and best practices for the PRIME and corporate IT community upon executive management recommendation.

First Health Services Corporation (FHSC), Alpharetta, GA 03/ 2004 – 05/ 2005

Sr. Programmer Analyst (Lead)

●Support analysis, design, code, test and implementation to prod as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for State of Virginia MMIS (MARS) Sub-system mainframe modernization project.

●Co-designed solution to integrate MARS VSAM sub-system with up-stream DB2 based MMIS sub-systems.

Affiliated Computer Systems (GA Multi-HealthCare), Alpharetta, GA 08/ 2002 - 12/ 2003

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Support GAMHN Phase I and Phase II Medicaid, BORHP and SHBP integration project using full System Development Life Cycle methodology for requirements gathering, analysis, design, code, test, implementation and conversion of VSAM to DB2 data for several Medicaid Sub-systems as follows; Member subsystem, Medicaid/Medicare Beneficiary Data Exchange System, (BENDEX), Provider sub-system, Network Interfaces and Interactive Voice Response Sub-system, (IVR).

Home Depot Store Support Center, Buckhead, GA 09/ 2001 - 08/ 2002

Programmer Analyst

●Developed an in-house Driver Applicant Compliance Verification system to interact with Department of Transportation feeds.

●Provide analysis and design solutions for the Human Resource Departments’ field operations “Store Level Entry” Kiosk program.

Allied Automotive, Decatur, GA 03/ 2000 - 08/ 2001

Technical Lead

●Built and lead a four person “Infrastructure” team to develop “QA” procedures and “Application Programming” standards.

●Supported application development resolutions for various batch and on-line applications; (Billing, Operations and Reporting).

Lucent Technologies, Atlanta, GA 12/1998 - 12/1999

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Provided batch and on-line applications support for Y2K impact analysis, conversion of Easytrev Plus and VS Cobol programs to Cobol II, and documentation using SDLC for their Transportation Management System (TMS), Distribution Billing and Accounting System (DBAS), Order Fulfillment System (OFS) and Returns Management System (RMS).

MCI Corporation, Atlanta, GA 12/ 1997 - 11/ 1998

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Supported coding, defect resolution and 24/7 rotation production support and strong client interaction for their Special Customer Arrangement Repository System (SCARS), and several Quarterly Release Development projects, (Forecast Reporting, Data Mining and Cobol II Conversion projects).

Consultec, Inc., Roswell, GA 02/ 1997 - 11/ 1997

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Provided analysis, design, code, test and documentation using SDLC for batch and online WV ’MMIS (MARS) subsystem.

●Support conversion of batch and on-line Cobol VSE to Cobol II programs for the State of Iowa’s, “MARS” application.

●Develop and maintain a new DB2 Data Dictionary, defining terms, fees and conditions for MAR reports.

Kimberly Clark Corp., Roswell, GA 10/ 1996 - 02/ 1997

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Provided application efficiency analysis, programming support, tracking and validating EDI transmissions and Production ABEND resolutions, for the “Away from Home” sectors,' Electronic Data Interface (EDI), inbound (1850s) and outbound (1860s) Invoice transactions.

Bell South Advertising and Publishing(BAPCO), Tucker, GA 05/ 1996 - 10/ 1996

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Provided analysis, design, code, test and production support for batch and online yellow pages (BAPCO and CLASS interface, suppling data to be posted to multiple downstream applications.

Chrysler Corporation, Centerline, MI 01/ 1996 - 03/ 1996

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Performed maintenance and new development of batch and online applications supporting Chryslers’ “Supplier, Manufacturing, Assembly Recording and Tracking System.” (SMART).

●Maintenance production DB2 tables and other related databases, utilized by their suppliers.

Volkswagen of America, Auburn Hills, MI 09/ 1995 - 12/ 1995

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Performed maintenance and new development of batch and online applications supporting Volkswagen of Americas' “Corporate Order Processing”, “Vehicle Traffic Maintenance” and departments “Accounts Payable” truck and rail application systems.

Electronic Data Systems, Cadillac Division, Warren, MI 03/ 1994 - 09/1995

Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Supported analysis, design, code, test, implementation and documentation of batch and online applications for Cadillac's “Order Analyzer” (O.A.), “Cadillac's Customer Information” (CIS), “Cadillac Net-load” (C.N.S.), “Cadillac Courtesy Transportation” (C.C.T.) and “Cadillac Vehicle Maintenance File, Billing and Tracking” systems.

Eastern Michigan University, Computing - Ypsilanti, MI 01/ 1994 - 03/ 1994

Programmer Analyst

●Converted and enhanced existing CICS/PLI programs to CICS/COBOL for the Student Accounting System.

National Bank of Detroit (NBD), Trust & Assets - Troy, MI 11/ 1993 - 01/ 1994

Programmer Analyst

●Supported the design and coding for data extract applications to create required data repositories for NBD's Share Holders Asset Reporting System (SHARS), data assembly programs.

National Bank of Detroit (NBD), Lockbox Acct. - Troy, MI 06/ 1993 - 11/ 1993

Programmer Analyst

●Responsible for converting one of NBD's wholly owned subsidiaries Retail Lockbox Systems to comply with NBD's Lockbox systems by converting several PL/1 to COBOL II applications.

Michigan Consolidated Gas, Billing & Ledger - Detroit, MI 11/ 1992 - 06/ 1993

Programmer Analyst

●Designed, coded, tested and implemented an electronic system used to effectively track contract results between MICHCON customer representatives and clients. Customer Relations utilized this data for employee evaluation, work scheduling and quality assurance forecasting.

Genix Corporation Systems, Dearborn, MI 04/ 1992 - 10/ 1992

Programmer Analyst

●Supported analysis and implementation of MESC Trust Fund Accounting System (TFAS) master key format conversion.

●Provided task estimating, work planning, programming and supervision of three contract programmers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware / Operating Systems: IBM MVS OS/390 - Z/OS, EAI, Windows XP/2000/98/95

Databases: DB2, DATACOM, IMS DB/DC, TOTL

Software languages/packages:

Abendaid Expediter Pascal

APS (Micro Focus Cobol) FileAid DB2 Perigrine Service Center

Atlassian Confluence (JIRA, WIKI) Fortran PL/1

BMC Database Tools FTP PQRY

CA Detecter HIPPA Standards Princeton Tools

CA-7 / 11 Scheduler HP Quality Center QMF

Champ IDCAMS Quickbase

Changeman Ideal RSA Rational Cobol II

CICS IMS DB/DC DL/I Scrum Tools

CLIST JAVA (Course only) SDF II

Cobol JCL SharePoint

Control M/D/R LIBRARIAN SQL, SQL Server

DASD MQ Series Stored Procedure

Datamodeler MQueue Test Director

DB2 Connect Ms Office Tools TSO/ISPF

Dialog Manager MS Project Plan VISIO

Easytrev Plus OS Utilities VSAM

Eclispe IDE OWLE XML

Endevor Panvalet Zeke

Methodologies/Techniques/Case Tools:

Agile (Certified SCRUM Master) SDLC (Waterfall, JAD, RAD) METHOD1, Mainframe Modernization, Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Applications:

Billing (A/P, A/R) Human Resources Product Tracking

Claims processing Lockbox Processing Project / Team Lead

Conversions Medicaid/Medicare(MMIS) Quality Control/Assurance

Customer service Order Processing Research and Development

Data Mining Payroll

EDI X12

Online Banking (SBA, Commercial, Billpay, Payment & Transfers)

Healthquest / NASCO (Provider Profile Data Interfaces)

EDUCATION:

●2016 - Certified Scrum Master – verification @ International Scrum Institute Certificate Validation

●Wayne State University, Bachelor of Arts, School of Arts, Minor in Mathematics, Major in Computer Science.

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