Alfred Cole

Programmer/Analyst

St. Louis, MO ***41

admv8u@r.postjobfree.com

I have designed, developed and supported applications and interfaces in the healthcare area for over 37 years.

Work Experience

Senior Analyst

Ascension Health Services - St. Louis, MO

2017 to Present

Support and develop batch processes using the INVISION Patient accounting and Patient Management systems.

Developed automated process that compared scheduled ad hoc reports to the CA-BUNDL report distribution application to identify reports with no distribution and/or report with questionable selection criteria that caused the DAY END process to run long.

Developed automated process that searched production job libraries to identify obsolete program load modules and source code.

Consultant

Dell – St. Louis, MO

2016 to 2017

• Cerner INVISION Custom Programming Support

• Developed custom Cobol data extracts for the patient accounting and patient management systems

• Worked on several requests to update registration pathway.

Consultant

Beacon Partners - St. Louis, MO

September 2014 to April 2015

Contracted to Crouse

• Siemens INVISION patient accounting/patient management legacy system support.

• Develop Cobol programs, reports and extracts per user request.

• Research patient accounting and patient management issues.

• Update master files and tables.

• Document existing job flow and processing.

• Ad hoc report writing and file FTP

Consultant

Leidos Healthcare - St. Louis, MO

May 2013 to January 2014

Contracted to Novant Health in South Carolina

Develop batch Cobol programs to support Revenue Cycle team

Performed review and performance tuning of the AD HOC report system to reduce DAYEND run time

Created reports and extracts that were FTP to 3rd party vendors or users.

Supported Mainframe, TSO, JCL, REXX, Cobol,

Consultant

CTG - St. Louis, MO

April 2012 to April 2013

Contracted to UCSF Medical Center

Applied system updates (SUT) for INVISION Patient Accounting and Patient Management system

Developed batch Cobol programs using INVISION Pa reader and VSDM function.

Troubleshoot system and user issues

Supported Mainframe, TSO, JCL, REXX

Senior Analyst

BJC HealthCare - St. Louis, MO

January 2006 to April 2012

Support Siemens INVISION Patient management and patient accounting systems for Barnes Jewish and Saint louis Children's Hospitals.

Applied system updates

Trained programming staff

Developed batch and CICS Cobol programs using INVISION Pa reader and VSDM function.

Developed Tiff and RTIF HL7 interfaces

• Automate OAS Profile updates for Doctor and insurance tables

• Created RTIF HL7 interface for Insurance Eligibility responses

• Created RTIF HL7 interface to update registration from Academic EMPI to INVISION Patient Management

• Batch to CICS HL7 RTIF HL7 processing

Developed DB2 and CICS programs for extracts and reports

Created and modified INVISION OAS pathways.

Supported nightly DAYEND processing issues.

INVISION AD HOC reporting

Develop Cobol programs and extract and reports

Consultant

FCG - Philadelphia, PA

August 2005 to March 2006

Contracted to UPHS Medical Center

Reviewed batch scheduling system and jobs to determine which processes could be migrated off of the mainframe system

Consultant

Apex Systems - St. Louis, MO

July 2005 to November 2005

Contracted to BJC healthcare systems

Reviewed and modified INVISION OAS pathways for upgrade to the GRV3 interface

Senior Analyst

Ohio State University Medical Center - Columbus, OH

July 2002 to February 2005

Develop batch and online programs to support revenue cycle team

Developed CICS and batch DB2 programs to support the custom OR system

Developed programs for the Siemens INVISION patient accounting and patient management system.

Troubleshoot INVISION system and user issues

Train programming staff

Develop Cobol programs and extract

Lead Technical Analyst

University of Penn Medical Center - Philadelphia, PA

March 1984 to March 2002

Develop batch and real-time Cobol programs for reports, extracts and interfaces.

Trained programming staff

Troubleshoot system and user issues

Performed performance review of ad hoc reports and custom batch jobs to reduce the runtime of the nightly DAYENED process.

Automate operational jobs and tasks

Customization and support of SMS INVISION system

Participated in creation and installation is new custom HL7 interface

Provided SMS system troubleshooting and problem resolution

Supported in-house and consultant staff.

Supporting and tuning the SMS model and custom day end cycles.

I worked on the file conversion for patient management and patient accounting.

Developed conversion programs for the master patient index (MPI) to SMS PIDX.

I developed numerous custom programs using SMS's VSDM and Patient Accounting Segment Handler utilities.

I developed a custom batch interface that retrieves and post SMS HARMONY/LAN 22 data entry batch files.

Designed and developed a real-time/batch interface from SMS INVISION to PHS/KEANE system (Old billing system for in Patient Accounting).

Developed batch interfaces for processing and posting transactions from ancillary systems (Lab, Radiology, Radiation therapy, etc.).

Maintained existing core systems.

Developed batch RTIF HL7 interface to post ancillary registration tape to INVISION Patient Accounting and Management system.

Developed RTIF HL7 interface to load and update OAS profiles.

Performed INVISION file clear downs and for Y2K testing

Interviewed potential programming staff members.

Team member on INVISION 23 upgrade

Team member on ENAD upgrade including reviewing and update custom batch program

Education

Overbrook High School Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA

May 1980

High School Diploma

Community College of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA

Liberal Arts/Sciences, General Study, & Humanities

Temple University Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA

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