MICHAEL HALL

Mainframe Developer and Analyst

SUMMARY

Michael has more than 30+ years of Mainframe and COBOL Development experience, including leading offshore/onshore design deployment, and support teams.

Possess strong business analyst and project management skills and abilities for Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

He has outstanding communication skills and public speaking and training experience

He is local to Cincinnati and is available to interview via phone or in person with 2 day notice.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Cobol 40 years

Connect/Direct Mainframe – 18 years

DB2 – 20 years

CICS – 18 years

MS Office Products – 30 years

PC Systems – 35 years

SQL – 20 years

SQL Server – 11 years

WIFI Networks – 11 years

Use of Scanner Technology – 18 years

JCL – 40 years

TSO – 40 years

QMF/SPUFI – 20 years

PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE

2019 – 2020 Fifth Third Bank Cincinnati, OH

Lead Developer

Contracted to lead the Rewards Program for all Debit/Credit cards for the bank. Managing all adds, deletes, promotions and point issues concerning Debit/Credit cards.

Lead a team of off-shore developers.

Rewriting all documentation to be easily understood for first time employees.

Updated processes to be more automated and eliminate manual processing.

2017 - 2019 IBS/Cincinnati Financial Cincinnati, OH

Business Analyst and Mainframe Support Administrator

Contracted to help with the retirement/migration of their mainframe and SQL/SSRS reporting systems Reporting Systems (RS).

Established the procedure for rewrite/retirement of reporting processes. Became the SME on this process, documenting and training others on the step-by-step process.

Working to move documents from the mainframe to a server repository to save over $300k per year.

Responsible for documenting/training all employees to access their reports in the new environment.

Part of the RS production support team.

Completed production support issues and was part of the on-call support rotation.

1999-2017 Kroger/Direct Store Delivery Cincinnati, OH

Business Analyst and Mainframe SME– 2013 - 2017

Direct Store Delivery (DSD) – Scan Based Trading (SBT)

Performed as the lead analyst and developer on the Scan Based Trading System (SBT) within Direct Store Delivery (DSD).

The system reads daily transactions and processes authorized items by division/vendor to pay the vendor for their items.

We use EDI to transmit initial sales to notify the vendor.

Worked with the business users to provide daily reporting on payments made when items go thru our scanners.

Kroger is a $110B company, 25% of all sales go thru the DSD systems. Of those transactions, 40% are SBT.

2008 – 2017 KROGER/RTA

Business Analyst and Developer

Lead the RTA Fleet Maintenance Project as the SME to replace MCMS as the Enterprise Maintenance System.

With this project, our goal was to standardize how the business tracks maintenance and what General Ledger accounts would be posted to.

As part of the rollout, completed multiple onsite visits to assist and coach in the setup and training of RTA for new users.

Developed multiple accounting interfaces to process purchase orders from the RTA SQL/2008 R2 database and post information to the Vendor Payment System and Kroger Accounting System on the mainframe using Connect/Direct and COBOL II programming.

To reduce support calls, provided mainframe output reports on our Intranet Service, Barney Web. This reduce support calls for reports from 2 a month to none.

2008 – 2013 – KROGER/PEOPLENET

Lead the On-Board Computer System project as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Enterprise On-Board Computer System.

Selected/coordinated the replacement search and initial install of PeopleNet at Ralph’s Grocery in Los Angeles, with additional installations at our Kroger facilities in Atlanta, Roanoke, and Memphis facilities.

Additional installs were completed at Fry's Grocery in Phoenix, Arizona and Fred Meyer in Portland, Oregon.

Worked closely with business lead to deliver a working solution to be deployed throughout the enterprise.

Worked alongside the vendor to understand all business requirements, addressing bugs in the system and applying enhancements when necessary.

1999 – 2017 – KROGER/MCMS

Maintained the MCMS maintenance system for 18 years, working alongside the vendor and users to obtain maximum utilization of the system.

Was a direct report to the Sr. Director of Transportation keeping him aware of how to effectively use the system.

Implemented multiple processes on the Mainframe using COBOL II, These processes enhanced user acceptance of the system and accomplished 90% of ROI from original CA

Developed multiple CICS/DB2 processes to enhance system capabilities.

Initiated the use of Bar Code Scanning to reduce user errors and increase data input.

Established a system process to sell fuel to vendors.

Processing all transactions thru Kroger Accounting for immediate credit.

2008 – 2013 – KROGER/NAVIS

Supported the Enterprise Yard Management Systems at 6 distribution centers for 6 years. These were server based systems using wireless communication to the yard for movement of trailers.

2008 – 2013 – KROGER/TRANSVIEW

Supported the Enterprise Transportation Visibility System the past 3 years.

This is a WEB based system that interfaces with our dispatching systems to show arrival/departure times from each store. It is used by all stores to track deliveries from the distribution centers.

2005 – 2006 – KROGER/MFG/SKOPE

Implemented the new Enterprise Order System at 6 manufacturing plants, converting from SYSTEM/36 to Mainframe Order Processing System.

Duties include system setup, training, workflow processes and support.

2008 – 2017 – KROGER/INFRA Knowledge Documentation

Provided user friendly documentation to reduce support calls and knowledge documentation to reduce level 3 support calls

1997–1999 GRE Insurance Co. Loveland, OH

Billing System Programmer/Analyst

Provided support of the billing system in America for over 800K customers

Installed a new billing system

Implemented bar code process for sorting of bills automatically

1995–1997 Computer Task Group Cincinnati, OH

Programmer/Analyst Consultant

Worked as Programmer Analyst in banking and insurance setting.

Maintained current systems and performed projects as requested.

Implemented Mail/Merge process from Mainframe to PC reducing data entry manpower by 8 hours a week. This process is still in use today.

1974-1994 U.S. Army

Data Processing Technician - Programmer/Manager

As Personnel Data Processing Manager during Desert Shield/Storm maintained personnel accountability system for the 101st Airborne from July 1990 – April 1991. During this time, with my direction, personnel maintained an accuracy rating of 96%, the highest rating during the war.

I supervised as many as 25 personnel both technical and business analysts.

We developed new reporting systems that were adapted by the U.S. Army after we returned from the war.

Performed duties as Director of Data Processing Facility in Panama for Southern Command from Sept 1986 – May 1989. Managed the duties 50 personnel, both Military and Civilian that supported logistic and financial processes for all of Central and South America.

EDUCATION

1985–1995 Vincennes University Vincennes, IN A.S. in Computer Science.

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