Teresa Fisher

Atlanta, GA

adzpr9@r.postjobfree.com

Cell 856-***-****

*** Only interested in jobs in Georgia or telecommute/remote ***

SUMMARY

Senior programmer/analyst with more than 25 years of experience in an IBM mainframe environment COBOL and DB2 & more than 5 years in Linux Environment using MICROFOCUS COBOL and Oracle.

EDUCATION

BBA, Management Information Systems, University of Texas at Arlington

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

AGILE, JIRA, INFORMATICA, DB2, ORACLE, IMS DB/DC, DL1, SYBASE, ORACLE, CICS, VSAM,

EXPORTER, SAR, SPUFI, TELON, UNIX, SYBASE, AIX, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, SYNCSORT, SDSF

TSO/ISPF, INTERTEST, JCL, COBOL 370, ADABAS, PANVALET, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, GDG, MVS, VSE

DATA-XPERT, EXPEDITOR, SQL SERVER 2000, MICROSOFT NT SERVER, ENDEAVOR, QMF,

DB2 PLATINUM TOOLS, ZEKE, TEST DIRECTOR, WINRUNNER, AIS+ IMAGING, FAF/FAW IMAGE,

ASCENT CAPTURE, CLIENT/SERVER, MICROFOCUS COBOL, SQL/QMF, ISPF EDITOR, NDM, FTP,

ENDEVOR, CA-7, CA FILE MASTER PLUS, EDI 835/837 transactions, Pervasive SQL,

CA-REALIA, CODEHUB, GITGUI, FileGateWay (FDFG), MessageWay, Connect Direct, FTP,

ESP scheduler, AZURE, ADO, DB2 ADMIN Tools, Remedy, Digital WorkPlace

Content Manager On-Demand (CMOD), IOF, CRQ, CA-VIEW, PASSPORT, Data Warehouse,

EXPERIENCE

02/22 – Present Progressive Insurance/IBM Consulting, Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/COBOL Developer

Member of Application Development Team to convert batch modules to use Gregorian Calendar instead 4-4-5 Calendar.

Coding tasks involved modifications to Profit Loss Reporting. Automobile, Special Lines Mainframe COBOL/DB2 Data Warehouse application

Tasks involving utilizing COBOL, DB2, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, JCL, ESP scheduler, IBM Content Manager OnDemand CICS Client.

03/20 – 01/22 Core Technology/Southern Eastern Freight Lines, Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/COBOL Developer

Member of Conversion Team migrating OpenVMS COBOL/RMS to Linux/Oracle Environment

Coding tasks involved modifications to Billing and Operations Applications

Tasks involving utilizing COBOL, ORACLE, JIRA, Doing COBOL Code Reviews and code modification to batch and online processes

10/19 – 02/20 Anthem Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/Senior COBOL Developer

Member of WSG Claims new enhancement and production support team for batch processes.

Modify JCL and COBOL programs to resolve production issue and implement new enhancement

Coordinate code changes with offshore team members to ensure proper overnight support

Tasks involving utilizing JCL, DB2, COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DL1, JIRA, PATHWAY and Control M

03/18 – 9/19 First Data/FISERV Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/Senior COBOL Developer

Member of File Transmission Team responsible for supporting the migration of

managed file transmissions to the Sterling File Gateway and the daily support of

the transmissions.

Create Transmission file setups for clients on Mainframe, and server

Environments while meeting FD standards, including data security.

Communicates directly with client, this includes testing set ups, researching

failures, resolution, and documentation.

Responsible for analyzing Production transfer failures, abends and resolving

issue with client. Resolutions include prevention of future event, documentation,

and possible billing.

Tasks involving utilizing JCL, DB2, COBOL, CA-7, Endeavor, NDM, MessageWay,

Sterling File Gateway

06/17 – 12/17 Optum360/United Healthcare, Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/Senior COBOL Developer

Member of MedicareRT Application Team working primarily on Mapping and Edit

Code Changes for Automated UB04 form claim processing. Data Loaded into application via EDI 835/37 transactions.

Create new Interfaces, General and Situation (Site) Edits created based on client requirements.

Tasks involved clarifying requirements, research production issues, designing, developing, coding, testing and installing Windows COBOL/Pervasive DB (SQL) application modules.

03/05 – 06/17 ACS/XEROX/CTS Atlanta, Ga, Full Time Employee/Senior COBOL Developer Specialist

Member of Multi-Client State Healthcare application team.

Application is front-end Windows CLIENT/SERVER and back-end COBOL/MICROFOCUS COBOL & DB2/Oracle database management system.

Tasks involved defining requirements, research production issues, designing, developing, coding, testing and installing CICS COBOL/DB2 & MICROFOCUS/ORACLE application modules.

Member of multiple development projects for on-boarding various clients onto PBM mainframe and Open System application. The client list includes District of Columbia, West Virginia, Hawaii, Ohio, Massachusetts, and California.

Functional area where subject matter expertise was gained was in Provider, Eligibility, Interfaces and Data Conversion.

03/04 – 03/05 Suntrust Bank (Truist), Atlanta, Ga Contractor/Mainframe Developer

Member of Migration/Conversion team.

Merging two applications, at different sites, into a new product.

Tasks involved designing, developing, coding, testing and implementation CICS COBOL/DB2 conversion programs to perform the task. Exposure to AIS+ IMAGING, ASCENT CAPTURE and FAF/FAW IMAGE software was gained to complete the task.

Member of conversion team for NCF Merger for Signature Verification application

09/02 – 02/04 ACS, Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/COBOL Developer

Member of Phase I and Phase II State Healthcare application team.

Application was a front-end Windows CLIENT/SERVER and back-end DB2 database management system.

Tasks involved designing, developing, coding, testing and installing CICS COBOL /DB2 application modules. Test Director was used to log defects.

Coded changes for the Medicaid claims processing for the Phase II processing.

01/01 – 09/02 Suntrust Bank (Truist), Atlanta, Ga Full Time Employee/Senior COBOL Developer

Member of Factoring support and development team. Tasks include designing, developing, coding, testing and installing VSAM/DB2 COBOL modules.

Facilitate in creating a CLIENT/SERVER environment to evaluate vendor products to replace existing Factoring Systems. Tasks include Coded and tested CICS COBOL/DB2 data conversion programs which translate the VSAM files into DB2 database tables for new Web-enabled CLIENT/SERVER application. WinRunner and LoadRunner were used to evaluate performance Web-enabled application.

09/00 – 12/00 State of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/Business Analyst

Member of development team for CICS/DB2 system application. Tasks included defining requirements, coding and testing COBOL/DB2 mainframe.

11/99 – 09/00 Suntrust Bank (Truist), Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/Mainframe COBOL Developer

Member of conversion team for CICS/VSAM/DB2 system to HTML/JAVA/DB2 Web-enabled application. Tasks included coding and testing COBOL/DB2 back-end mainframe programs to interface with Front-end HTML/JAVA WEB pages.

Coded and tested COBOL/DB2 data conversion programs which translate the VSAM files into DB2 database tables for new Web-enabled application.

03/99 - 11/99 American Security Group, Atlanta, Ga Contractor/Mainframe Developer

Installed and maintain the CICS/VSAM/DB2 Debt Deferment. Tasks include programming changes, testing and installing new jobs into production.

01/98 - 03/99 Suntrust Bank (Truist), Atlanta, Ga, Contractor/Senior Mainframe Developer

Converted a CICS/VSAM system to CICS/DB2. Worked with lead analyst to define requirements, wrote conversion program and handled all other conversion issues. Upgraded COBOL programs to COBOL 370 and converted EASYTRIEVE programs to EASYTRIEVE PLUS.

03/97 - 12/97 Choicepoint/Equifax, Atlanta, Ga Contractor/Developer/Consultant

Defined program specifications, made program changes, tested and implemented changes for the Year 2000 Information Discovery (IDSC) project. Modified IDSC to become a mainframe client/server application instead of a started task running in a CICS environment.

10/96 - 03/97 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga Contractor/Sr. Developer

Modified and enhanced an existing billing application. Utilized COBOL, CICS, IMS and ADW.

02/96 - 10/96 IBM,. Atlanta, Ga Contractor/Mainframe Developer

Upgraded a CICS/IMS COPICS and MRP II application to CICS/DB2 for Packard Hughes Corporation.

Tasks involved converting IMS/DLI calls to DB2/SQL statements.

08/95 - 02/96 Bellsouth Mobility, Inc., Atlanta, GA Contractor/Mainframe Developer

Member of project team to which converted a CICS/COBOL/VSAM mainframe batch system to UNIX/SYSBASE CLIENT/SERVER application called AIRTIME.

Performed quality assurance by monitoring application using interactive SQL and shell programming to generate ad-hoc reports.

07/87 - 08/95 Lockheed, Marietta, GA Full Time Employee/ Senior Information Technologist

Project Lead of development team to design an engineering parts/drawing application which interfaced with 3 different companies (Lockheed, General Dynamics and Boeing). Installed and maintained all phases of project.

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