Duane Davidson

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Skilled Mainframe Programmer Analyst with over 15 years of history in Data Processing, specialized experience in IBM Mainframe applications and experience with all phases of the SDLC.

PERSONAL STRENGTHS

• Experience with COBOL, COBOLII, DB2, CICS, VSAM, IDMS/ADSO, IBM JCL & utilities.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills

• Strong in both oral and written communication

• Experience Writing & executing detailed test plans. Unit, System and User Acceptance.

• Adept working either as a team member or independently in order to get the job done

• Focused attention to detail

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Structured systems analysis & design, Yourdon, Warnier/Orr, Structured program design & coding, Requirements specifications, Data Flow Diagramming

Hardware and Operating Systems: IBM, Amdahl, OS/MVS, JCL and Utilities, IBM PCs and compatibles

IBM Mainframe Database:IDMS DB/DC, IMS, DB2

Programming Languages, Software Tools: MVS JCL and utilities, Windows,

IDMS DB/DC, IMS, CICS/VSAM, IDCAMS, SQL, COBOL, TSO/SPF/ISPF, DB2, Pan-Valet, CLIST, Endevor, Cullinet: ADSO, OLM, IDD, OLQ, DMLO, OLP, Debugger, File-Aid for DB2, File-Aid, SPUFI & other DB2 utilities, Warnier/Orr, Brackets, EXCEL, WORD, LOTUS, VISIO, POWERPOINT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COBOL PROGRAMMER, DAIMLER/FRIEGHTLINER Portland, OR 05/19 – 03/21

• Worked on the Parts & Bill of material system.

• Wrote data extract programs using COBOL/DB2. Created JCL/DB2 Extracts of truck part to FTP.

Created and verified test data using Spufi.

Skill Set: COBOL, DB2 & DB2 Utilities, IBM JCL & Utilities

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, CENTURYLINK INC., Vancouver, WA 09/12 – 11/18

• Worked on a Address Clean-up project of the Plant Inventory System.

• Wrote conversion programs using COBOL/DB2. Created data MACROS for clean-up.

Skill Set: COBOL II, DB2 & DB2 Utilities, VSAM, IBM JCL & Utilities

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, CENTURYTEL INC., Vancouver, WA 11/08 – 09/11

• Provided support and enhancements to the Plant Inventory System.

• Unit, System & user acceptance testing of entire system when new version was received.

Skill Set: COBOL II, DB2 & DB2 Utilities, VSAM, IBM JCL & Utilities

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, Anchorage, Ak 07/06 – 02/08

• Provided support and enhancements to the Plant Inventory System.

• Unit, System & user acceptance testing of entire system when new version was received.

Skill Set: UNIX/AIX, COBOL, DB2

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, CENTURYTEL INC., Vancouver, WA 03/98 – 07/ 06

• Worked as the team lead on the conversion of Verizon Plant data to CenturyTel plant system (MARTENS).

• Responsible for the conversion of over 675,000+ access lines into MARTENS.

• Coding & testing of all conversion programs.

• Complete parallel testing of entire system.

Skill Set: COBOL II, DB2 & DB2 Utilities, VSAM, IBM JCL & Utilities

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, FRED MEYER INC., Portland, OR 03/97 – 03/98

• Provided support and enhancements to the Fred Meyer FOOD system. The FOOD system is written in CICS/DB2.

• Code and test all enhancements.

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, CENTURYTEL INC., Vancouver, WA 03/91 – 03/97

• Worked on the conversion of a Telephone Equipment Inventory System (MARTENS) from IDMS/DC to IMS/DB2.

• Designed, coded, tested conversion programs to extract data from the IDMS database.

• Loaded the DB2 tables and Unit/System test entire system.

• Provided support and made enhancements to the Telephone Equipment Inventory System. (MARTENS).

• Researched and analyzed business partners requirements and translated them into system designs.

• Worked on the Acquisition team converting U.S. West systems data to the Telephone Equipment Inventory System.

Skill Set: Via COBOL, DB2, IDMS/DC

PROGRAMMER, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, Portland, OR 03/90 – 03/91

• Performed software development and structured analysis activities for the SMADSS contract at Bonneville Power Administration. SMADSS was a five year contract to develop and enhance software applications on various hardware architectures at BPA.

• Maintained and enhanced the Inventory Control System, a subsystem of the Material Maintenance System written in CICS/COBOL.

PROGRAMMER, CENTURYTEL INC., Vancouver, WA 03/88 – 03/90

• Worked on a team to develop, design, and implement a Trouble Activity Reporting system to go with the Telephone Equipment Inventory System. (MARTENS) This system was written in COBOL, Easytrieve, IDMS/ADSO 4GL.

PROGRAMMER, IMPELL-PACIFIC, Portland, OR 03/85 – 03/88

• Developed and maintained the on-line Work Management System using structured analysis techniques including process specifications and Warnier/Orr diagrams.

• IDMS Module produced include: Work order, Planning, Bill of materials, Equipment and Preventative Maintenance using all of the Cullinet products.

EDUCATION

Diploma: Programming. (COBOL, RPGII, Assembler, Basic)

Computer Career Institute, Portland, OR

Studied principles of structured analysis, top-down design and documentation.

Languages learned include COBOL, Assembler, RPGII and Basic.

Amdahl Education: In-house at Impell Pacific. Vancouver, WA

- DB2 Application programming.

- DB2 system Fundamentals

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