RANDY RAINBOLT

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Clearwater, FL *3755

813-***-****

adzqbj@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Application Development/Support analyst specializing in COBOL on IBM mainframe/UNIX/Linux applications.

Looking to join an organization to best utilize my skills and years of experience. Additionally acting as Junior DBA for Datacom/DB DBA along with my COBOL Developer duties.

Areas of expertise include:

COBOL Development & Support

Application Development SDLC

Departmental Management

24 x 7 Production application and customer support

Project Management.

Disaster recovery planning and execution

SAS-70, SSAE 16 SOC audit lead

Junior DATACOM/DB DBA

CLEARANCE: SECRET - Obtained Jan 14 2020

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MVS, IBM OS/390 & zOS, UNIX, Cygwin, Linux

Software: COBOL/JCL/TSO/ISPF 30+ years,

CICS, Dialog Management 10+ years,

REXX, CLIST, DB2 SQL 5+ years,

CA-InterTest, Data Query 3+ years

Also: CA Datacom/DB, MS-SQL, DB2, IMS DL/1, VSAM, U-FOS,

Bash & Korn Shell scripting, JIRA, Version One

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CACI, International Oct 2019 - April 2023

Data Analyst / COBOL Developer / CA Datacom/DB DBA

Supporting AFCOS and Total Army Personnel DataBase - Guard (TAPDB-G) Government Apps.

Duties Include:

Agile with daily Scrum ceremonies utilizing Version One Agile software

Setup CA-InterTest Batch-user environment.

Coding Multi-Unit functionality using COBOL and DB2 SQL.

Reverse engineer existing COBOL programs and explain their functions.

Responsible for the maintenance and operation of 6 Multi-User Facilities (MUF's).

Updating Table data in DQL/SQL modes and DBUTLTY like MASSADD.

Monitoring application for efficiency including Logfile and Data management requests.

Creating and maintaining production tables.

Running and Examining CXX reports for efficiency and creating DB Schema.

Performing Backup/Extracts and restores as required.

Updating the URTs and corresponding Assemblies.

Granting/Changing user permissions to Database and subsystems.

Insurance Administrative Solutions (IAS) Dec 2015 – Sept 2019

Sr Application Developer - Life Insurance Department

COBOL applications running on Cygwin using MS-SQL database

AcuCOBOL applications running on Unix & Linux using U-FOS databases (Like VSAM)

COBOL Screens with SCREEN SECTION in place of CICS

Extensive Shell scripting

Converted Windows Scheduler Jobs to Active Batch

Created a .csv to .xml converter to allow multiple tabs and formatting via a COBOL process.

Agile development methodologies utilizing JIRA software.

Transaction Network Services, formally VeriSign Jan 1998 – Nov 2015

Application Support Analyst (2009 – 2015)

Senior Analyst for all Cellular Clearinghouse Support and Financial Settlement operations.

Scrum Master for internal support operations.

Project Manager for Mainframe Clearing Support systems.

24 x 7 on-call support for all mainframe application operational issues and customer problem

resolution including monitoring of batch cycle heartbeat.

Manage CICS based ticketing system including departmental approvals and scheduling

Responsible for coding all Support tool development using SDLC and Agile methodologies.

Converted current application to Open COBOL UNIX Platform as proof of concept.

Application Support Manager (2004 – 2009)

Managed over 10 people working with IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2

Assignments include: CDMA/TDMA and GSM Clearing application support, Time

Management, Resource allocation, Performance Reviews, Salary Planning, Project

management and creating Key Performance Indicator reports for upper management.

Responsible for RFP to potential Mainframe environment hosting companies.

Implementation manager and administrator of the software version and change control system

Librarian/ELIPS.

Responsible for all Disaster Recovery exercise executions and procedures.

Responsible for all mainframe application SAS-70, SSAE 16 SOC audit assistance

Mainframe Developer / Application Support (1998 – 2004)

Development concentration in COBOL II for Production / Client support applications.

Create and maintain CICS Customer support interface systems

Responsible for bringing new Clearing application to production

CIBER Consulting- Tampa, FL Mar 1997 – Jan 1998

ABS Consulting - Atlanta, GA May 1996 – Mar 1997

CIBER Consulting - Orlando, FL Nov 1995 – May 1996

Watkins Motor Lines - Lakeland, FL Sep 1994 – Nov 1995

AMD Consulting Services - Tampa, FL Jun 1991 – Sep 1994

Computer Corporation of America - Cambridge MA Jun 1987 – Jun 1991

General Telephone of the South - Durham, NC Nov 1985 -- Jun 1987

EDUCATION

B.S. in Computer Information Systems

DeVry Institute of Technology, Columbus, OH

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