Michael Lee Burkett

EDUCATION

DeVry Institute of Technology - Irving, TX 05/1983-02/1988

Bachelor of Science – Computer Information Systems

SUMMARY/QUALIFICATIONS

Strong IBM Mainframe-development expertise with the following:

•20+ years COBOL/COBOL II

•20+ years ZOS & OS/MVS/JCL with and without Procs

•20+ years TSO/ISPF

•20+ years VSAM

•17+ years CICS/BMS

•17+ years DB2/SQL/SPUFI/QMF

•20+ years IMS/DB – DLI

•17+ years File-Aid (IMS/DB2), InterTest, Expediter, IBM debug tool, File Manager (IMS/DB2),

•17+ years Netman, Tracker II, ServiceCenter/Manager, Defect-Tracker, TestDirector, Mercury, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Webex, Skype, IT Service/Connect

•CA-7, Zeke, Control-M, ESP, Control-D, Savrs, SAR

•Endeavor/Chgman

•Lotus Notes/Outlook

•EZtrieve/EZtrieve Plus

•Agile/Jira

•Oracle

•REXX

•XMLM

•IDMS/R

•CA-DATACOM/DB

WORK EXPERIENCE:

APEX/Anthem Insurance – Atlanta, GA 30308 11/25/2019-02/07/2020

600 Peachtree Street NE

Electronic Enrollment Technology

Sr Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•WGS EET Defect resolution using Utilities and customized JCL to test,

•ISG Enrollment Real-Time Integration,

•IBM Relational Developer for zSystem (RDz) - Eclipse full IDE Package 64-bit v 4.10

Skills: COBOL II/JCL, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS, VSAM, DB2, Endeavor

Tata Consultancy Services 12/21/2015-11/08/2019

1) TCS/Pepsico 05/20/2019 - 11/08/2019 (duties available upon request),

2) TCS/American Express 08/27/2018 – 03/08/2019 (duties available upon request),

3) TCS/New York Life Insurance (remote – ADC) 11/01/2017 - 07/24/2018 (duties available upon request),

4) TCS/Nationwide Insurance 04/10/2017 – 10/13/2017 (duties available upon request),

5) Non-TCS contract – see Collabera/Wells Fargo contract below 11/01/2016 – 03/02/2016 (duties available upon request),

6)TCS/Bank of America Corporation 12/21/2015 – 08/18/2016 (duties available upon request).

Collabera/Wells Fargo - Minneapolis, MN 55415 11/01/2016 – 03/02/2017

600 S 4th Street

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Participated, in a R12 project management role, accounting for software modifications for conversion from Oracle 11i to Oracle 12.

•Monitored off-shore ET N10GL99 and IST S1OGL99 batch-window general ledger testing.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2

Circle Tech/Macy’s MST Credit Ops - Lorain, OH 44055 04/01/2015 – 09/30/2015

219 Sheffield Center

Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Mainframe maintenance and enhancement to Macy’s MST Credit Operations utilizing off-shore programming assets to monitor and support the Macy’s credit card worldwide.

•DATACOM database applications and FTP communications were incorporated to support Proprietary Macy’s credit cards and co-branded credit card processing.

•Several on-time upper-management reports through EZTRIEVE PLUS.

Skills: EZTRIEVE PLUS, COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2, ChangeMan, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2, INTERTEST/XPEDITER

Shakti Solutions/Deloitte/State of Georgia - Atlanta, GA 30303 11/03/2014 – 04/15/2015

#3 Peachtree Street

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Mainframe maintenance and enhancement of SUCCESS applications in Developer/Programmer/Analyst with ChangeMan in support of the Affordable Care Act Integrated Eligibility System.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2/QMF, ChangeMan, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER

Halcyon IT Business Solutions/Ameritas Life Insurance - Cincinnati, OH 45240 07/01/2014 – 10/30/2014

1876 Waycross Road

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Mainframe Data Delivery for the POL, PMR, LMS II and LIDP life insurance systems.

•Providing Ameritas and Union Central life insurance front-end systems with mainframe processing delivered through extraction from VSAM databases.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/IBM DEBUG TOOL

Ariston Tek/IBM/Macy’s - John’s Creek, GA 30097 07/15/2013 – 11/30/2013

5985 State Bridge Road

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Phase-out/decommissioned Visual Basic ‘Queue Add/Queue Close’ facility for Java implementation requiring two new COBOL programs to incorporate current internet order fulfillment processing.

•Legacy mainframe COBOL programmer/Analyst role resolving Production Support tickets analyzing COBOL CICS/BATCH code with DB2 processing.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, CSF, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/IBM DEBUG TOOL

IBM/Express-Scripts - Bloomington, MN 55439 11/01/2012 – 06/30/2013

6625 W 78th Street

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Business Structure Analyst (BSA) role resolving Production Support tickets serving as interface between Business Analyst and the development teams.

•Development/Support Programmer/Analyst role resolving Production Support tickets.

•Position with IBM through Caliber and Collabera recruiters working on the Express-Scripts project supporting claims in first a Business Structure Architect role and secondly, a Sr. Mainframe Developer/Programmer/Analyst role resolving Production tickets throughout the Claims systems.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER – IMS, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/IBM DEBUG TOOL

Prime Team Partners, Inc./Paccar - Renton, WA 98057 04/15/2012 – 10/30/2012

480 Houser Way North

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Back-fill Technical Systems Production-support responsibilities, servicing user Incident Reports, Change Requests and, Service Requests for Receiving, Materials, Purchasing (both standard and EDI) and, Chassis systems allowing permanent personnel participate in Paccar's SAP interface development and conversion.

•Interim responsibility to development SR for online transaction RMRS using IMS/DB2/ COBOL/CICS in the rapid-receiving environment.

•Mainframe back-fill position for Paccar's NAMS project that was subsequently delayed leading to Production Support/Help-Desk role.

•Production Support/Help Desk activities included servicing user IR/SR/SPR/CRs for Paccar plants around the world.

•Developmental activities included resolving outstanding SRs for plants in Receiving/Purchasing/Materials.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB,TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/IBM DEBUG TOOL

Infinite Computer Solutions/IBM IMS tools Devl-Fundi Repository 02/01/2012 – 04/01/2012

remote

Remote Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Analyst

•Remotely Analyze/Review/Maintain support for Fundi Repository System.

•IBM contract ended after my analysis of the Service Repository System indicated that additional resources to support the system were not required at this time.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, IDCAMS

Computer Aid Inc/HighMark Insurance of PA - Pittsburgh, PA 15222 10/01/2011 – 12/30/2011

120 5th Avenue

Contract Sr. Mainframe IMS/DB2 Applications Analyst

•Developing analytical procedures to facilitate complex application redesign and expose opportunities to limit/reduce IMS and DB2 database I/O.

•Short-term contract with Computer Aid, Inc. in Pittsburgh performing analysis of High Mark/BCBSPA application usage of IMS/DB2 database resources.

•Application analysis lasted until the end of December, 2011.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER-DB2

Syscom Technologies Inc/Wisconsin Physicians Services, Inc. - Madison, WI 53710 04/01/2011-08/30/2011

1717 Broadway

Contract Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Utilized ChangeMan software versioning

•Developing VSAM/MQ/Web Interface Technical Specifications and applications for federally-mandated Tricare Young Adult Part C enhancement project

•Enhancing TRICARE programs and copybooks to process enhanced diagnostic data for Health-care claim eligibility decision

•Enhancing OHI Letter Recoupment Processing

•Resolving Team-Track production problem tickets.

•Developmental/maintenance programming contract with Wisconsin Physician's Services in Madison, WI implementing the Mainframe/MQ/WEB-Services interface for the new DOD's military-dependent health insurance policy changes.

•The CICS background transaction developed stayed resident in memory until a MQ request for information was received.

•After MQ-request interpretation, CICS program queried various VSAM files and DB2 databases to fulfill the request to build/send the MQ reply message back to WEB-services.

•As a contractor dedicated to this DOD health-insurance contract processing, was subjected to the FBI background check and achieved the 'Public Trust' clearance that was valid until April 2013.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, Chgman, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/IBM DEBUG TOOL

Total Systems Services, Inc. - Kennesaw, GA 30144 05/24/1999 – 02/28/2010

1990 Vaughn Road NW

Sr. Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Successfully took lead role of 12 programmers to design, code, implement better audit trails of CARDMGT/REISSUE/COLLECTS Inquiry data exposures

•Phase II and III TS2 Consumer CICS/COBOL mainframe application enhancement to TS2 Commercial platform standards for ACE, CARDMGT, REISSUE, COLLECTS and, INTERFACES

•Extending Mainframe COBOL/CICS application development and enhancement of TS2 Commercial platform's ACE, CARDMGT, REISSUE, COLLECTS, and INTERFACE functional areas

•Researching Production VSAM-file issues with LISTCAT/FILEAID

•Developed and Defined 'T' VSAM files with alternate indexing through AMS/IDCAMS for thorough application unit-testing

•Loading 'T' VSAM files with scrubbed Production data using HIPPA methodology

•Maximize VSAM processing performance with IDCAMS definition parameters to change key displacements, alternate indexes, record size and using IMBED to maximize hardware read-head seeks and minimize rotational delays

•Mentoring junior team members

•Fostered Q/A integrity while supporting offsite Business Analysts understanding of project parameter/software constraints

•Supporting offsite QA testing procedures without crossing auditor’s integrity line

•Providing Peer-review critiques on team member development projects and documentation to better satisfy requirements

•Aiding project methodology conversion from TMM to CDMET to TeamView

•Supporting Production (CARDMGT, ACE, REISSUE, COLLECTS, as well as, Interfaces and CMS) on the 24/7 on-call basis

•Facilitating TeamView methodology and programming ‘pool’ concept as programmer/analyst in project methodology conversion

•Working with off-shore resources in York, England to expand market to Europe.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, CSF, XMLM, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS, JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, Netman, Defect-tracker/TestDirector/QualityCenter/Mercury, SERVICECENTER/ SERVICEMANAGER, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, FILEMANAGER – IMS, FILEMANAGER-DB2, XPEDITER/IBM DEBUG TOOL

Total Systems Services, Inc. - Kennesaw, GA 30144 01/02/1998-05/24/1999

1990 Vaughn Road

Contract Mainframe Applications Developer/Programmer/Analyst

•Designed, Developed and Implemented the Mainframe New/Reusable Number IMS Database System for the commercial credit-card platform using SDLC principles

•Took initial cut of Mainframe code for TS2/Commercial applications from existing TS2/Consumer applications

•Involved in early development/maintenance of TS2 / Commercial – ACE mainframe applications.

Skills: COBOL II, CICS/GTB, TSO/ISPF, ZOS/MVS/JCL, QSAM, VSAM, IMS, DB2, ENDEVOR, Netman, SERVICECENTER, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, XPEDITER

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