Team Member Software Developer

Kent B. Leppke

Bonner Springs, KS 913-***-****

**********@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/kent-leppke

Mainframe Programmer / Software Developer

Client focused IT professional with 20+ years of experience coding and leading teams to develop and enhance systems in various fields such as manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, warehousing and retail businesses. Proven record in requirements gathering, design, construction, implementation, maintenance, and daily support. Highly analytical and adept at collaborating with clients to define their needs to determine and build solutions with high quality results.

Process Automation

System Support

Process Design

Change Control

Technical Documentation

Process Improvement

Best Practices

Mainframe Skills

Career Highlights

Process Automation

Designed and coded an automated process to locate breaks in miles of hardwiring. After sensors were installed, the new system was triggered, and operators were able locate the breaks in 50% less time.

Designed, coded, and implemented an online order processing system for kits and components. The new system listed the kits online where the entire kit or a component could be reshipped, reducing the time to process the customer requests by 70%.

Client database was getting duplicate bank instructions from various places in the system, causing restricted trading. Designed automated daily process that ran during production to delete the duplicates and free trading.

Project Management

Led a team and coded portions of a new online factory workday system. The client was drawing bar charts by hand to post on the factory floor for the assembly line workers. A typical chart took two hours to draw. With the automated system, it reduced the time to 10 minutes per chart, a 91% reduction

. Led a team in developing a new trade applier system. With the old method, dealers placed trades that were applied to the database on an hourly basis in batch. The new method used MQ Series to trigger an online process and the trades were applied near-real-time, a 99.5% reduction.

Led a team in improving a Wire Purchase Proofing system that match purchases that were ordered to the bank wire instructions to ensure the payments had been received. The new system increased accuracy by 162%.

Process Improvement

Designed and implemented process improvements for a legacy system to improve ease of data entry inbound shipments and shipment errors. The more user-friendly system, including online reporting, reduced processing time by 40%.

Designed process improvements to an online trade system using predefined values, allowing trades to be submitted 90% faster than the previous method.

Professional Experience

Wipro – Jefferson City, MO 2018-present

Project Engineer – 100% remote

Perform support tasks taking tickets submitted by clients using JIRA for a variety of requests. Tasks mostly performed as an individual contributor but some small teams.

Research – Client would ask how/why and process performs as it does. Sometimes we just explain the process and sometimes suggested an enhancement.

Datafixes – Changed database when needed or for reqularly scheduled maintenance

Small enhancements – program/process changes taking less than two weeks to complete

Medium enhancements - program/process changes taking less more than two weeks to several months to complete

DST Systems, Inc., Kansas City, MO 2002-2018

Senior Software Developer

Worked as technical lead, team member and individual contributor for every phase of the software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, systems design, coding, unit and system testing, maintenance, and daily support. Mainframe skills used: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, MQ Series, JCL. Led technical teams of 4-5 members through the design and construction phases of large projects, several of which required more than 6,000 staff hours.

Guided small teams as the project lead for projects of less than 1,000 hours, such as when making enhancements to existing batch and online processes.

Collaborated with business staff members and technical staff to ensure all projects remained on scheduled.

Wrote the more complex sections of code and verified team member contributions.

Performed support tasks taking tickets submitted by clients for a variety of requests such as reporting and small enhancements

Compuware Corporation, Overland Park, KS 1997-2002

Software Developer

Serviced four different clients over a five-year span, as team member and individual contributor, working in every phase of the SDLC including requirement gathering, systems design, coding, unit and system testing, and maintenance. Mainframe skills used: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL

Programmed a system to report breaks in landline telephone lines and send alerts.

Successfully completed projects on schedule for clients in the telecommunications, warehousing, and financial services industries.

Lindenberg & Associates, Overland Park, KS 1995-1997

Software Developer

Serviced a single client over a two-year span as team member and individual contributor in the SDLC, including requirement gathering, systems design, coding, unit and system testing, and maintenance. Mainframe skills used: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SUPRA.

Developed an online ordering system for customer service representatives to view orders and resend items as needed.

Produced holiday mailing advertising materials using the client’s consumer data base.

Education

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, BS, Information Systems. Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Computer Languages & Technical Skills

COBOL – CICS – DB2 – VSAM - MQ Series – JCL – TSO – JIRA - SUPRA – SQL - File-Aid - File Manager - NDM

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