MICHAEL SMITH

(M) 248-***-****

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

Detroit, MI 48219

adcwmo@r.postjobfree.com

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ABEND-AID

CICS

COBOL

DB2

ENDEVOR

FILE-AID

FTP

IBM Mainframe

IMS (DB / DC)

JCL

MS EXCEL

MS WORD

MVS

QMF

SDLC

SQL

TSO / ISPF

VISIO

XPEDITER

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Candidate on family medical leave (March 2016 – January 2018)

Ford Motor Credit, Dearborn, MI

Programmer / Analyst Contractor

September 2014 – January 2016

Contracted through Epitec, INC

Performed new program and mainframe development, as well as providing production support for the Treasury and Finance support team.

Analyzed system for required changes; designed and implemented the solutions.

Responsibilities also include performing triage functions, and off hours system support.

Worked as a Programmer / Analyst for project at Ford Motor Credit (Convergence) modifying and testing programs to convert from Ebcdic to Unicode .

Analyzed system for required changes; designed and implemented the solutions.

Wrote specs for all written or modified programs.

Created test plans, testing, and launch preparation.

Designed, coded and evaluated new transaction for the system and continued support in production environment.

Code and evaluated new transaction for the system. Testing was done using JCL, FILE-MANAGER, IBM DEBUG, and SPUFI.

Programs were written in COBOL II, DB2, IMS DB / DC.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT, MVS, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, TSO / ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB / DC, IBM DEBUG, SQL, QMF, ENDEVOR,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Continued

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit, MI

Programmer / Analyst Contractor

October 2010 – September 2014

Contracted through Strategic Staffing Solutions

Performed new program and mainframe development, as well as providing production support for the Membership Interfaces support team with. NASCO experience.

Analyzed system for required changes; designed and implemented the solutions.

Responsibilities also include performing triage functions, and off hours system support.

Code and evaluated new transaction for the system. Testing was done using JCL, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, and SPUFI.

Programs were written in COBOL II, DB2, IMS DB / DC.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT, MVS, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, TSO / ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB / DC, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, SQL, QMF, VISIO, FTP, ENDEVOR, SharePoint.

Candidate Seeking Employment (December 2008 – September 2010)

La-Z-Boy Corp., Troy, MI

Programmer / Analyst Contractor

March 2008 – November 2008

Contracted through HTC Global

Worked as a Mainframe Programmer / Analyst in the Finance department at La-Z-Boy.

Wrote specs for all written or modified programs.

Interacted with client to design a solution and implement changes.

Code and evaluated new transactions for the system.

Modified programs and jobs used COBOL II with DB2, IMS DB, and JCL.

Testing of programs and jobs used IBM debug tools.

Part of development team to create new application for billing manufacturing plants for materials cut at different plants.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT, MVS, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, TSO / ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DC, SQL, QMF, IBM MAINFRAME TOOLS, VISUAL BASIC 6.0

Candidate Seeking Employment December 2007 – February 2008

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Continued

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit, MI

Programmer / Analyst Contractor

December 2005 – November 2007

Contracted through Arrow Strategies

Performed high level impact analysis for major legacy systems that are going to be migrated from the local platform (BCBSM) to a national platform (NASCO). This is Phase one of a very large migration project.

Created Conceptual System Design, and Technical Detail Design documentation for new system.

Analyzed system for required changes; designed and implemented the solutions.

Developed transactions to access and update DB2 tables and query reports to process and send data to various vendors. (Partial systems reside on DB2 and are used as a data repository).

Wrote specs for all written or modified programs.

Code and evaluated new transactions for the system. Testing was done using JCL, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, SPUFI, and QMF.

Programs were written in COBOL II, DB2, IMS DB / DC.

Point of contact person for overseas developers. Assured that the technical documents, programs, and testing done by the overseas developers adhere to BCBSM standards.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT, MVS, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, TSO / ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB / DC, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, SQL, QMF, VISIO, FTP, ENDEVOR

Journey Security, Detroit, MI

Security Officer / Supervisor

February 2002 – December 2005

Served as a Supervisor and team-lead for security officers in the Metro-Detroit area.

Supervised 15 security officers at various client locations in metro Detroit.

Pre-screened, hired and trained security officers.

Functioned as the primary liaison between clients and security force.

Candidate Seeking Employment August 2001 – January 2002

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Continued

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI

Programmer / Analyst Contractor

August 2000 – July 2001

Contracted through Epitec, INC (formerly known as CDP)

Worked as a Programmer / Analyst for IBM project at Ford Motor (WPF Data Conversion).

Analyzed system for required changes; designed and implemented the solutions.

Wrote specs for all written or modified programs.

Wrote and modified online programs and screens for European Data Conversion Project.

Created test plans, testing, and launch preparation.

Designed, coded and tested new transaction for the system and continued support in production environment.

Developed transactions to access and update DB2 tables and query reports to process and send data to web enabled reports. (Partial systems reside on DB2 and are used as a data repository).

Designed layout for project and prepared documentation for conversion.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT, MVS, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, TSO / ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DC, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, SQL

Served as a Programmer / Analyst for the IBM project at Ford Motor, (NAFTA 2001)

Received recognition award for successful implementation of the NAFTA application.

Created new programs meet regulations required by the Mexican Government to track duties on imports.

Wrote specs for all written or modified programs.

Responsible for the program design, creating of test plans, testing, and launch preparation.

Prepared test plans and test data and assisted team members with conversion and testing.

Prepared test database in DB2.

Coded and tested new online and batch programs in DB2-CICS for the identical capabilities of the old system.

Prepared programs in batches for submission and program related documentation.

Completed a project initialization study and prepared guidelines for the conversion.

Provided technical support during daily production cycle run.

Interacted with client to acquire specs, design a solution and implement changes.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, WINDOWS NT, MVS, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, TSO / ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS (DB / DC), FILE-AID, XPEDITER, SQL, WERS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Continued

Compuware Corporation, Farmington Hills, MI

Programmer / Analyst Contractor

December 1997 – July 2000

Performed maintenance project for a Major Health / Medical Insurance Provider (Blue Cross / Blue Shield).

Served as a maintenance programmer for COBOL – IMS.

Analyzed code and file layouts for data usage.

Created JCL.

Executed analysis, baseline, comparison, regression and Y2K testing.

Performed compare, aging and touchpoint testing.

Interacted with client to acquire specs, design solutions and implement changes.

Coded batch and online programs as well as JCL modifications as required.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, WINDOWS 3.1, WINDOWS 95, MVS, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, TSO/ISPF, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS, DATA-AGER, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, SQL

EDUCATION

Courses in Music Education, Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan

Compuware Professional Development Program, Farmington Hills, Michigan - 1997

Compuware Specialized E-Commerce training program, Farmington Hills, Michigan -1997

Compuware Mainframe to Client-Server Academy, Farmington Hills, Michigan -1997

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