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COBOL, MVS, JCL, VSAM

Location:
Lebanon, OH
Posted:
January 04, 2021

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Bob Rybarczyk

**** ********** **.

Lebanon, Ohio 45036

C: 937-***-****

H: 513-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

Mr. Rybarczyk has over 30 years of information systems experience. His background includes functional and program design, programming, testing, and implementation. His strengths have been programming and testing utilizing COBOL with various database management systems along with his excellent user communication skills, in the manufacturing, financial, and telecommunications industries. His most recent experience has been with COBOL and SUPRA on the IBM 30xx mainframe with Z/OS.

ENVIRONMENTS

IBM 30XX, MVS-XA, OS/JCL, WINDOWS, Z/OS

DATABASES

DB2, SUPRA, TOTAL, IMS DB/DC, DATACOM

SOFTWARE/TOOLS

ISPF, TSO, VSAM, QMF, SPUFI, ROSCOE, SYNCSORT, ABEND-AID, ENDEAVOR, XPEDITER, IMSXPERT, DATAXPERT, CICS, PROTERM, CMS, EXCHANGE, OUTLOOK, EXCEL, WORD, PANVALET

LANGUAGES

COBOL 370, COBOL II, MANTIS, MICRO-FOCUS COBOL, ASSEMBLER, FORTRAN, PL/1, BASIC, C, VISUAL BASIC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Emerson Climate Technologies (Copeland Corporation) - Senior Business Analyst

April 2007 to Present (first 3 years contracted through Robert Half International)

Support and enhance on-line and batch supply chain and materials planning / manufacturing system. Occasionally, also involved with work order and accounting/financial systems.

Communicate frequently with users to determine needs and resolve issues.

Environment: COBOL 370, CICS, IBM Z/OS MVS JCL, TSO ISPF, CMS, SUPRA, EXCEL, WORD, DEBUGGER, MACKINNEY MAPPER

AEON Group LLC. - Senior Programmer / Analyst

May 2005 to February 2007 – Contracted to DFAS Columbus

Developed and tested on-line COBOL with DB2 SQL on both Micro-Focus Mainframe Express and IBM 30xx in order to re-host the MOCAS defense supply contract system from an on-line MANTIS/TOTAL environment.

Environment: COBOL 370, IBM MVS JCL, TSO ISPF, DB2 SQL, QMF, TEST DIRECTOR

Howard Systems International - Senior Programmer / Analyst

April 2004 to May 2005 – Contracted to CINERGY

Developed COBOL programs to convert DB2 table data in the PASSPORT financial system and also modified and tested batch interface programs to other financial systems.

Environment: COBOL 370, IBM MVS JCL, TSO ISPF, ROSCOE, DB2 SQL, SPUFI, QMF, ABEND-AID, VSAM, WORD, EXCEL, TEST DIRECTOR

Professional Data Resources - Senior Programmer / Analyst

March 2003 to April 2004 – Contracted to Xpedx (International Paper)

Developed COBOL programs for Accounts Receivable data conversion to SAP using DB2 tables and IMS DB. Participated in the support and maintenance of an online order entry and batch reporting system using DATACOM SQL.

Environment: COBOL 370, IBM MVS JCL, DATACOM SQL, QMF, TSO ISPF, ROSCOE, DB2 SQL, CICS, IMS DB, ABEND-AID, VSAM, LOTUS NOTES

April 2001 to November 2002 – Contracted to Convergys

Senior Programmer Analyst on the cellular phone billing systems project for wireless service providers.

Participated in a conversion effort to move ALLTEL Communications cellular phone customers onto a new billing system.

Participated in development, testing, and implementation of a Debt Management system for ALLTEL Communications customer billing systems.

Environment: COBOL 370, IBM MVS JCL, IMS DB/DC, TSO ISPF, FILE-AID, LOTUS, PROTERM

Howard Systems International - Senior Programmer / Analyst

June 1998 to March 2001 – Contracted to Standard Register Co.

Maintained order processing (ACCUSERV) and invoicing systems. Modified an on-line Accounts Receivable system to be Y2K compliant. Provided quality assurance testing of various systems (i.e. TOPS) to verify Y2K compliancy.

Environment: MVS, VSAM, SUPRA SQL, CICS, COBOL, MANTIS, JCL, QA Director, Exchange, QA HYPERSTATION, Excel, MS Word

Professional Data Resources - Senior Programmer / Analyst

October 1995 to May 1998 – Contracted to Convergys

Participated in program modifications and testing of a cellular phone billing systems for 360 Communications and for Ameritech in order to meet Y2K compliancy requirements.

Participated in the functional design, program design, programming, testing and implementation of the Billing (AGGREGATOR) System for AT&T. The system bundles telephony services, long distance, local and wireless onto one bill. Tested using Micro-Focus COBOL.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, MVS, IBM PC, COBOL II, JCL, PROCS, VSAM, VISUAL BASIC.

April 1994 to October 1995 – Contracted to Hill-Rom Company

Responsible for the functional design, program design, programming, testing and implementation of a manufacturing/financial system for a manufacturer of products sold to the hospital industry. Includes modifications and enhancements to existing applications.

Environment: IBM, MVS-XA, COBOL, MANTIS, SUPRA, TSO; ISPF PANVALET, VM/CMS.

January 1993 to April 1994 – Contracted to Cincinnati Bell Information Systems

Responsible for the functional design, program design, programming, testing and implementation of cellular phone billing applications. This included the development of new financial applications and the maintenance of existing billing applications running in batch environments.

Environment: IBM, COBOL II, MVS-ESA IBM PC, OS/2, IMS DB/DC, IMSXPERT, DATAEXPERT, OS/JCL, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, LOTUS NOTES.

December 1991 to December 1992 – Contracted to CINCOM Systems Incorporated

Participated in the program design, programming, testing and implementation of an order management and shipping system. This system accepts orders for rolls of various types of polymer film, generates sales order data, schedules manufacturing, moves inventory and creates shipments using a SUPRA database and VSAM files. Also customized an existing order management and shipping system as part of a team that traveled weekly to client site (ICI).

Environment: IBM, OS/MVS, COBOL, MANTIS, TSO, OS/JCL, CONTROL:MANUFACTURING

December 1989 to December 1991 - Contracted to Cincinnati Bell Information Systems

Participated as a team member in many aspects of creating a new Cellular Billing system. Responsible for the error correction subsystem, which grouped and corrected unrated calls with accurate rating charges for billing. Responsible for the transfer process of information from a VAX database to IBM files.

Environment: IBM 30XX, MVS-XA, MVS-ESA, COBOL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, IMS DC.

September 1987 to December 1989 - Contracted to Champion International Corporation

Programmed, tested and supported several on-line subsystems within a plant maintenance system. Applications included: machine performance data entry, work request handling, company number tracking and inventory adjustment.

Environment: IBM 4300, DOS, MANTIS, COBOL, VOLLIE.

April 1987 to September 1987 - Contracted to GE Aircraft Engines

Modified MRP system, primarily an accumulations subsystem.

Environment: HONEYWELL DPS/90 MAINFRAME, FORTRAN, PL/1, COBOL II, IDS/2 DATABASE and TSM (HONEYWELL'S VERSION OF CICS).

November 1986 to February 1987 - Contracted to Champion International Corporation

Programmed, tested and implemented Stock Status Information Retrieval System written in MANTIS on IBM 4300. Responsible for stock order item detail.

Environment: IBM 43XX, OS/MVS, MANTIS, ROSCOE.

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR - 1986

Designed, coded and implemented an automated customer information and billing/payment system in GW-BASIC on a TANDY 2000 PC for a trucking company in northern Kentucky.

CINCOM SYSTEMS - Senior Programmer / Analyst

December 1983 to November 1986

Participated on a project team that designed, developed, tested, and implemented the integration of an on-line MRP system, CONTROL: MANUFACTURING (COBOL) with the 4GL MANTIS under CICS in both an OS environment and a DEC VAX environment.

WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION - Programmer / Analyst

May 1977 to December 1983

Designed, developed, tested, and implemented real-time processing micro-code and assembler code for multiple radar systems, such as AWACS, TAFLIR, and ATS, used for military purposes by various countries. Created FORTRAN programs for simulation and statistical purposes.

EDUCATION

BS in Computer Science 1977

University of Maryland



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