Cobol Programmer Analyst
Resume:
David S. Deever
Des Plaines, Illinois
*********@*****.***
Summary of Qualifications
Over Twenty five years’ experience in Mainframe business application systems environments, including both development and maintenance projects as project leader, technical lead and programmer analyst. I have worked with users developing project specifications using SDLC protocols and have developed implementation and testing strategies. I have analyzed, designed, coded, tested and implemented COBOL DB2, online (COBOL CICS) and COBOL batch programs and systems. I am familiar with all levels of demonstration, testing and training and have experience with all phases of the SDLC. I have extensive experience in production support, with both new implementations and established production systems and programs.
Hardware
IBM: 3090, 3081, 4380
Languages & software
I am particularly conversant with mainframe technologies and software including CICS and JCL.
COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, OS/JCL, VSAM, DB2, BMS, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, INTERTEST, SDF, SDSF, IBM Utilities, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, MVS, TSO/ISPF, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, Librarian, DOS/VSE, ICCF, Panvalet, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, IBM DEBUG, RDz, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Multimate, Word Perfect, Microsoft Office, Agile-waterfall-iteritive methodologies, FTP, Agile methodology.
Work experience
04/19 to Present Wipro LLC
Rosemont, Illinois
Senior Programmer Analyst
Modification and maintenance of Cobol/Syncsort Production applications
Investigate and solve issue tickets from clients.- COBOL, VSAM, DB2 maintenance and corrections
08/18 to 2/19 Infosys LLC
Madison, Wisconsin
Senior Programmer Analyst
Production Support
Investigate and solve issue tickets from clients.- COBOL, VSAM, DB2 maintenance and corrections
02/18 to 07/18 Wipro Infocrossing
Jefferson City, Missouri
Senior Programmer Analyst
Maintenance of COBOL programs and application systems with embedded SQL and CICS for client requirements and new mandated changes for insurance claim processing and adjudication.
Processing idesk issue tickets for CMS clients - COBOL, VSAM, DB2 maintenance and corrections
Processed DB2 table corrections for merged members for clients on the database.
02/17 to 6/17 Bank of America
Plano, Texas
Senior Programmer Analyst – Consultant (TCS)
Onboarding, Knowledge Transfer and in house curriculum training.
Monitor, Create, correct and approve mainframe DB2 transactions embedded in COBOL programs and systems.
Created JCL (Execute JCL and PROCS) for COBOL jobs.
10/16 to 11/16 Highmark
Harrisburg, Pa
Senior Programmer Analyst – Consultant (Celerity)
Created Technical Specification Documents for COBOL programs and jobs.
Planed project program and application logic path for COBOL documentation
The development team used Agile methodology
Created JCL (Execute JCL and PROCS) for COBOL jobs.
06/15 to 11/15 Bank of New York, Mellon
Florham Park, NJ
Senior Programmer Analyst – Consultant (Sage Lt, Inc)
Created Technical Specification Documents for COBOL .
Executed Surveys and research for new and modified COBOL Programs
Created JCL (Execute JCL and PROCS) for brokerage instrument order-and-transaction pricing COBOL jobs..
Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules were to be created and/or modified.
01/15 to 03/15 HSBC
Buffalo, NY
Senior Programmer Analyst – Consultant (Lighthouse)
Created Technical Specification Documents for new and modified interface COBOL programs
Formed a new Global Collections System of vendor and owned systems to process individual Bank instruments.
Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules were affected.
05/14 to 06/14 Prudential
Plymouth, MN
Senior Programmer Analyst – Consultant (FYI Solutions)
Coding to perform mandated project to de-commission programs, procs and jobs and files for the new execution of the new system to process Life Insurance claims after acquiring said claims from Heritage Insurance Corp.
Analyzed Business requirements to determine and implement appropriate de-commissions and coding changes/additions.
Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules were affected.
07/13 to 01/14 US Bank
Brookfield, WI
Senior Programmer Analyst – Consultant (Exacta Corp.)
COBOL coding to expand and recover new captured DB2 table information for Authorized online User requests.
Analyzed Business requirements to determine and implement appropriate COBOL coding changes/additions.
Complex COBOL, CICS and DB2 modules (approx. 120 Tables) were used.
Built in flexibility to accommodate future expansion for new applications and clients was necessary..
Coding to create system programs to adjudicate Bank supported refund reward requests for Bank subscribers.
04/08 to 06/12 Cross USA
Eveleth, MN
Senior Programmer Analyst / Technical Lead) – Staff
Cross USA is a software company.
Creation and maintenance of client systems comprised of COBOL, CICS, DB2 and EASYTRIEVE PLUS programs.
My client was a health insurance company in New York (Emblem Health). I have maintained the Provider Contract file for claims pricing and I have written enhancements for Professional claims processing for COBOL II, EASYTRIEVE PLUS and CICS modules.
Wrote functional design and technical specification documents
Created test matrices, test results, implementation plans and installation guides.
09/07 to 12/07 M & T Bank
Altoona, PA
Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Creation of a new system of COBOL, CICS and EASYTRIEVE PLUS programs to manage client accounts after a bank merger.
Developed “Product Pricing” and “Statement Services” systems for all Securities, Trust and Demand Deposit accounts from two distinct banking environments after a merger.
The system priced and billed all products for all owned accounts.
Responsibilities included design of the DB2 environment, design coding and testing of online/DB2 and batch/DB2 modules, user acceptance testing, coordination of production moves with change control, and executing production moves through the ENDEVOR change management environment.
Responsibilities extended to production support and maintenance after the new system was implemented.
07/00 to 11/06 Merrill Lynch
New York, NY
Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Creation of a new batch system to process daily trades.
Processing included calculations for net money, commission, interest, taxes, postage and handling fees, etc. in COBOL II CICS and COBOL II DB2/SQL modules.
Responsibilities included enhancement, expansion and operational tuning of existing system.
Responsibilities also included providing an online capability for authorized supervisors to grant data access to the appropriate clients.
11/98 to 10/99 Lockheed Martin
Tarrytown, NY
Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
The system processes information from municipalities throughout the country using COBOL, CICS and an ADABASE database.
Conversion of Motor Vehicle ticketing, accounting and tracking system from COBOL to COBOL II/MVS and inspecting and correcting for Y2K compliance.
The system required processing information from the Securities Master Data Base, which involved creating, testing and inserting imbedded SQL queries (for DB2 lookups) in COBOL II programs.
02/98 to 09/98 The Guardian Insurance
New York, NY
Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Maintenance and enhancement of the New Accounts system
Responsibilities included enhancement, expansion and operational tuning of existing system.
Specific tasks included adding "external" file capability to existing job stream, and analyzing and replacing selected DB2 "order by" coding with external sorts to improve performance.
07/97 to 02/98 Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrett (Pershing)
New York, NY
Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
The project was to provide client access to all data, previously available only through Mainframe batch reporting systems, via Client Server technology, through servers on the client's site or "super" servers residing at the host (Pershing) site.
My overall responsibility was the construction of a system to migrate all mainframe data to the server side, both as initial load and daily update.
Most data resided in a DB2 database.
Responsibilities also included providing an online capability for authorized supervisors to grant data access to the appropriate clients.
07/95 to 7/96 Barbados Telephone Company (Bartel)
Barbados, West Indies
Project Leader – Consultant
Legacy modernization project..
The project involved migrating data for the Customer Billing system from a DL1 mainframe database to a DEC.RDB Database on PC VAX.
Project leader responsibilities included liaison with users for the development of specifications, development of testing and implementation strategies, and the development and implementation of data cleansing requirements.
Used Panvalet for source control and as text editor.
The finished system comprised approximately 125 COBOL II and EASYTRIEVE Plus programs to edit, filter, massage and reformat data and write to files to be transferred.
Files were created on the mainframe side in display format, one file for each table on the DEC.RDB.
Education
Empire State College
New York, NY Computer Science
NYU School of Continuing Education
New York, NY. Data Processing
Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, NY. Architecture
St. John's College,
Annapolis, MD. Liberal Arts
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ Electrical Engineering
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