Sr. Systems Analyst IV

Rich Schwartz

Contact Information: Los Angeles, California • 818-***-**** • *******@***.***

EDUCATION

University Of California

Berkeley, California

BS in Computer Science, 1981

OBJECTIVE

Remote contracting, or full-time position as a COBOL analyst or programmer. Extensive IDMS background. Part-time is also a possibility.

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

COBOL, IDMS/DB-DC, ADS/O, CULPRIT, MVS, JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, Xpediter Debugger, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, etc. Microfocus COBOL. SQL with DB2, Oracle and SQL Server and some Unix/Linux. Various scripting tools/languages. Scrum Agile Team Member. Excellent skills helping others debug their programs.

SELF DRIVEN PROFESSIONAL RE-ACCLIMATION PROGRAM

January 2026 – Present

Refreshing my marketable skillsets by reviewing Murach’s COBOL, OS/390 and z/OS JCL. Installed HERCULES MVS Emulator, Microfocus COBOL for review. Reviewed all Broadcom IDMS Reference Manuals. Took a PostgreSQL 19 SQL skills refresher course. Concepts were just as I recalled from my many years of experience.

EXPERIENCE

August 1987 – July 2025

Sr. Systems Analyst IV • Northrop Grumman Corporation/TRW (GENERAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS)

2020-2025 – Recent Systems Analysis, Application Development and Project Implementation Tasks

Systems Analysis

Search System Upgrade - Major vendor upgrade of a system that had over 100 customized JavaScript user exits that needed to be identified, and isolated and catalogued for rewriting and testing.

Search System Migration - Identified vendor search methodologies, custom exits, etc and passed all analysis to in-house search team to formulate a seamless transition to a new in-house search engine.

Application Platform Migration - Coordination with vendor to be sure all necessary on-site components were identified and catalogued.

Application development

Search System Upgrade - Major vendor upgrade of a system that had over 100 customized JavaScript user exits that needed to be re-coded and unit tested.

Application Platform Migration - Created and executed SQL scripts to pull data and Windows Server batch files to search flat files and other application components to prepare for vendor export.

Project implementation

Search System Upgrade - Major vendor upgrade of a system that had over 100 customized JavaScript user exits that needed to be user tested, and parallel tested.

2022-2025 Migrated my core systems to new platforms I no longer maintained.

Migrated eRoom collaboration system to Sharepoint with Content Matrix migration tool,

Migrated Search System Engine as is to companywide internal search engine platform.

Migrated EEMS as is to vendor platform (including Oracle Database and external attachments) manually. All projects involved significant programming/scripting for job execution and file analysis.

2008-2022

Sr. Systems Analyst/Architect and Systems Administrator for a number of in-house systems

Programmer for Microfocus COBOL Net Express with IDMS-PC for General Business Systems converted from retired MVS mainframe.

Application Administrator for: Guided Search (Microsoft Server/Unix/Linux OSs) using Exalead search technology with an ORACLE Database. eRoom collaboration system with SQL Server. Autosys with SQL Server/Oracle. Remedy Incident Management System with DB2. All involved SQL queries.

All projects involved a significant degree of programming/scripting for job execution and file analysis.

1987-2008

Sr. Programmer/Analyst and Internal Technical Consultant for General Business Systems on IBM OS/390 COBOL Programmer on IBM MVS Mainframe Computer with JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IDMS/DB-DC and ADS/O. Helped 20+ programmers resolve all technical mainframe programming and operating system interface issues.

Y2K Certification Analyst to mitigate failure on 1/1/2000. Sarbanes – Oxley Compliance Analyst.

August 1986 – August 1987 - Sr. Programmer/Analyst / Technical Lead • First Interstate Bank (BANKING)

October 1983 – August 1986 - Contract Programmer/Analyst • The Doctor’s Company (INSURANCE)

July 1982 – October 1983 - Programmer/Analyst • Apple Computers (FINANCE AND MANUFACTURING)

All 3 companies above were positions of increased responsibility involving COBOL Programmer / Analyst / Architect for many projects on IBM MVS Mainframe Computer with JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IDMS/DB-DC, ADS/O and various mainframe tools. Helped my teams resolve technical issues with their programs.

April 1977 – April – 1979

Programmer/Analyst/Architect • University Of California, Berkeley Counseling Center

After 1 class in Basic, conceived, wrote and maintained an entire client appointment system in Basic with files spread over a series of 5 ” floppy discs (providing infinite storage capacity) before there were indexed files.

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