Cobol Mainframe

William Dahlman

Mainframe Developer

Cincinnati, OH 45245

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Work Experience

Mainframe Developer / UNIX InfoLease Administrator

Cohesion Consulting / Alta IT Services, a System One Company

9210 Corporate Blvd, Suite 200 Rockville, MD 20850

IT Commercial Loans - Fifth Third Bank - Cincinnati, OH Nov 2018 to Dec 2019

UNIX – InfoLease / Mainframe Projects:

oInitial Assigned Project – MB Conversion

The MB Financial and Fifth Third Bank Merger was effective March 22, 2019. On May 5th, 2019 we converted over 1600 Accounts to Fifth Third Bank Commercial Loans Department. This brought more than 15,000 Loans and Leases to Fifth Third's General Ledger Accounting

oMade changes to send Tax Information directly to ECF by removing the middle-man RAFT components

oUpdate Customer facing documents with new Fifth Third Bank, N.A. Text and Logos.

UNIX – InfoLease Application tasks:

oMaintained and implemented User ID access and privileges

oUsed PuTTy and WinSCP to access UNIX servers and InfoLease Application and Files

oCreated UATBs to add to InfoTrieves for Data Extraction from InfoLease Master Files

oResearched field values and data source related to Customers Lease or Loan Contracts

oAdded/Updated Cost Center and Officer information

oEnsured all Daily and Monthly NJS (Nightly Job Schedules) were set-up and jobs ran successfully

oRefreshed Development and Test Environments with current Production data

oChecked Printer status and performed unlocks and resets

Ongoing and other Responsibilities

Charged with hands-on activities (Day to Day) in updating post-implementation Bill Payer report tracker analysis

Used various Microsoft Tools in performing daily activities

Assisted with Change and Release Management documentation and controls

Performed Quality Control walkthroughs with Team members

Languages, Tools and Utilities:

COBOL SAS FTP Client Copy Books JCL Beyond Compare

Roscoe RPF TSO ISPF and other PC/Mainframe utilities

Vantiv LLC, BankCard Processing - Cincinnati, OH Oct 2015 to Dec 2016

Created a Semi-Automated Process for Merchant Transactional MD601 and MD801 report generation

Maintained and implemented the approved Change Packages

Maintained Change Packages for various development and Customer Facing teams (CRMs)

Ensured all housekeeping jobs ran to a successful completion

Resolved any problems related to Customers Transactional Reporting when called upon by Developers/Managers

Charged with hands-on activities (Day to Day) in handling requests from Developers and CRMs

Used various Microsoft Tools in performing daily activities

Assisted with Change and Release Management documentation and controls

Used Quality Assurance Center to list defects found in system testing

Performed Quality Control walkthroughs with Team members

Utilized Assembler, COBOL, Copy Books, JCL, SQL, AQT and mainframe utilities to extract, compile and unit test enhancements

Attended weekly business meetings with the Team Lead and Business Analysts regarding Program Design, Changes, Specifications and Improvements

Documented, analyzed, and defined the user and system requirements

Performed programming, debugging, testing and project management tasks and project tracking tasks

Executed JCL code in batch environment and monitor JCL batch services.

Tested in an IBM Mainframe COBOL/RAFT-MATE/ environment

Used IBM testing tool and used ISPF, FileAid, DB2 Utilities, VSAM, AQT and SPUFI QMF to create test data

Modified and tested COBOL and SQL queries and used IBM Utilities

Performed COBOL/SQL Code and Quality Control walkthroughs with Team members

Worked within tight deadlines

Environment: IBM Mainframe, RAFT-MATE, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, ROSCOE/RPFs, CCF, TSO/ISPF, MS Excel, Word, Visio, SQL Tools, DB2 Environment Access (BIND)

Mainframe Developer / IT Engineer

VendorPass, Consultant Agency – Houston, TX Oct 2014 to Oct 2015

Vantiv LLC, BankCard Processing, Cincinnati, OH

Processed Merchant Transactions to create MD601 and MD801 reports

Maintained and the improved the MD601/801 process

Maintained and the implemented the approved Change Packages

Maintained Change Packages for various development teams

Ensured all housekeeping jobs ran to a successful completion

Resolved any problems related to Customers Transactional Reporting when called upon by Developers/Managers

Charged with hands-on activities (Day to Day) in handling requests from Developers and CRMs

Used various Microsoft Tools in performing daily activities

Assisted with Change and Release Management documentation and controls

Used Quality Center to list defects found in system testing

Performed Quality Control walkthroughs with Team members

Environment: IBM Mainframe, RAFT-MATE, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, ROSCOE/RPFs, CCF, TSO/ISPF, MS Excel, Word, Visio, SQL Tools, DB2 Environment Access (BIND)

Mainframe Developer / Systems Analyst / Consultant

Vantiv LLC, Terminal Management & Debit Table Maintenance - Cincinnati, OH Jun 2011 to Apr 2014

Terminal Management Services (TRM)

Defined new ATMs for new Financial or Merchant customers

Maintained upgrades and conversions of ATMs of all Models and Configurations for existing Customers

Documented, analyzed, and defined requirements for 50+ Customer Relationship Managers

Documented, analyzed, and defined changes for CRM requests and the ultimate effect to the Customer experience

Environment: IBM Mainframe, RAFT-MATE, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, ROSCOE/RPFs, CCF, TSO/ISPF, MS Excel, Word, Visio

Mainframe Developer / Sr Systems Analyst

Debit Table Maintenance (MDT):

Merchant relationships

Enabled Merchants of all sizes to accept and process credit, debit and prepaid payments.

I provided them with supporting services, such as information solutions; interchange management and fraud management, as well as vertical-specific solutions in sectors, such as grocery, pharmacy, retail, e-commerce, petroleum and restaurants, including quick-service restaurants (QSRs). Its client base includes nearly 400,000 merchant locations.

Fifth Third Bank, FTPS - Cincinnati, OH Dec 2002 to Jun 2011

Maintained Assembler programs for the Credit Access System (CAS)

Performed programming, debugging, testing and project tracking tasks

Tested in an IBM Mainframe Assembler/COBOL/RAFT-MATE environment

Used Xpediter testing tool and used FileAid, DB2 Utilities, VSAM, SPUFI and QMF to create test data

Created the ability to convert currencies with the Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) enhancement by working with other team members and end-users to interface their systems with external U.S. government and other state agencies

Researched and presented the Total Quality Management concept of Software Design Life Cycle (SDLC) for my manager. It became a building block to our QA Team Strategy

Interpreted Design Specifications to Technical Specifications and documentation.

Modified and tested SAS and COBOL Programs and used IBM Utilities

Performed JCL Code walkthrough with Team Leads

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Assembler, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, JCL, SQL, DB2, Xpediter, SAS, CCF

Mainframe Developer/ Sr Systems Analyst

Education

Computer Science - Nassau Community College

Did not pursue a Degree, just took all Computer Courses

Assembler and Systems Analysis

Data Analysis

Systems Design

C++

Grumman Systems Institute

Accounting and Computer Programming

Accounting

General

Computer Programming

JCL

RPG

COBOL

Assembler Language

Skills

Assembler, COBOL, SAS, DB2, SQL, RAFT/MATE (Command and MACRO Level CICS), JCL

Certifications/Licenses

Driver's License

Additional Information

Over 30 years of Mainframe experience, including experience with migration tools including Change Control Facility (CCF)

Experienced in documentation of systems, design and development, writing business cases, release

management, business process reengineering and testing

Experience working with Change Management Team while authorizing and approving release/change

policies and packages

25 years of experience in IBM Mainframe Environment, Assembler, COBOL, CICS programming using JCL & SQL

15 years of experience in the design, development and testing of process delivery using Total Quality Assurance SDLC processes

SQL and relational database knowledge in debugging, programming and testing

Experienced in documentation of systems, design and development, writing business cases,

root-cause analysis, software release management, versioning, business process, user cases,

developing test plans, user acceptance testing, training and implementing new processes/

technologies

Strong experience in mentoring/training

Ability to work independently with or without formalized requirements documents

Skills/Technologies

Hardware: IBM 3090, ES900, 380, 370, IBM Compatible PC's

Languages: Assembler, COBOL, Computer Associates ROSCOE RPF, IBM REX, COBOL 2.4, COBOL II

Operating Systems: z/OS, DOS, OS/MVS, OS2, Windows

Databases: IBM DB2, IMS, SPUFI, QMF, SQL, MS Access

Others: MS Office Suite, Internet Explorer, FileAid, AbendAid, JCL, TSO, ISPF, AQT,

Intertest, JScan, CCF, Xpediter

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