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Horace B.White

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Saint Louis, MO 63146

CELL 773-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I have over fifteen years of extensive Information Systems experience in full life cycle developing commercial and system applications with exclusive knowledge in an array of Applications. Experience includes Analyzing, design, Program Coding, Testing, Implementation, and Maintenance of large applications on IBM Mainframe machines using MVS/JCL, VS/COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF.

I have the ability to work well in a team environment or independently with minimal supervision and the ability to meet deadlines and complete assigned task accurately in a prompt and proactive manner.

SKILLS SUMMARY, (#) = Years Experience, (E) = Exposure Only

Platform IBM Compatible PCs (10+), IBM 3090/4381/ES 9000 (10+),

IBM OS/390 (6+)

Operating Systems: MS-DOS (9), MVS/ESA (10+), WINDOWS NT/WINDOWS 3.1/95/98/2000, XP (10+), UNIX (E)

Languages: COBOL (10+), VS COBOL II (10+), MVS/JCL (10+), CICS (10), EASYTRIEVE PLUS (10+), IMS DB/DLI (6+), VSAM (10+), CLIST (E),

HTML (E), VISUAL BASIC 6 (E), PEOPLESOFT 7.5 (E), VISUAL C++ (E), DB2 (5), SYNCSORT (10+)

Productivity Tools: FILE-AID (10), EXPEDITOR (10), FRONTPAGE (E), HOMESITE 4.0 (E), SDF(10), COLDFUSION (E), PANVALET (10), DATA EXPERT (6), IMS EXPERT (6), MQSERIES (2) TSO/ISPF (10+), LIBRARIAN (E), CHANGEMAN (E), ENDEVOR(3+), DYL280 (E), FILEMANAGER(3), OUTLOOK(4+), IBM DEBUGGER (1), WORKBENCH (1), SPUFI (1), PLATINUM TOOLS (1)

Office Tools: Word (10+), Excel (6) Power Point (6), Microsoft Project (6), WordPerfect (10)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001 - Present Independent Consultant

Company SBS Creatix, LLC May 2008 – Present

Client / Industry Edward Jones Investment firm

Saint Louis, Missouri

Position / Title Software Consultant

Programs Used 1000+

Team Size 30+ Mainframe

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, WORKBENCH, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL 370, OUTLOOK, IDMS, DB2, SPUFI, PLATINUM TOOLS, XPEDITOR

Application Summary: Edward Jones is an investment firm that supplies financial services to investors throughout the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. It has over 10,000 offices worldwide and growing. With the demand of services that are needed, they are fine tuning the current IT applications and adding additional software applications to meet the demand of there ever growing client base.

Project Summary: Currently, Edward Jones is using the services of NBCN and IBM as a carrying broker in Canada. Their contract with these third party vendors will expire in 2009. As a result of this, EJ will take over the day to day operations of brokering with the help of another vendor that currently provides books and records services for the firm here in the U.S.

Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, design, coding, development and implementation of modules for the Rankstocks system. Tested online screens for functionality after batch process loaded DB2 tables with new data from modules that were developed in the modified batch process. This was accomplished using DB2, COBOL, IDMS and CICS functions. JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules were also put in place as part of the modified process.

Secondary duties included instruction, mentoring of junior/senior technical team members on in-house utilities of the change management system and other software applications. Able to handle stress and meet deadlines in a proficient manner.

Company Laclede Gas Company

Saint Louis, Missouri

Apr 2007 – Apr 2008

Position / Title Application Developer IV

Programs Used 100+

Team Size 6+ Mainframe

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, MARK IV, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL, ENDEVOR, FILE MANAGER, OUTLOOK, IMS, DB2, IBM DEBUGGER

Application Summary: Customer Information System (CIS)

The utility company uses a system to accommodate customer needs for services provided by the customer information system. The expansion and growth of service and customers that had been accumulated over the past ten years, requires a heavy demand on a system that has been fulfilling the needs of the state of Missouri and the surrounding Saint Louis area.

Project Summary: Requirements were put in place for major enhancements, updates and modifications to maintain the system, in its current state, are needed to ensure functionality and performance.

Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, programming, and development of modules that will allow the CIS system to process its nightly batch runs and online transactions. Responsible for nightly and daily on call support. Also responsible for constructing JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules.

Company Beechwood Computing Limited Mar 2005 – Nov 2006

Client / Industry Electronic Data Systems

Sacramento, California

Position / Title System Engineer

Programs Used 1000+

Team Size 20+ Mainframe

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, SYNCSORT, JCL, COBOL 370, ENDEVOR, FILE MANAGER, DYL280, OUTLOOK

Application Summary: Health Care System. The Department of Health Services (DHS) for the state of California supports and operates Californias Medicaid program (Medi-Cal). The U.S. government has mandated that all health care providers must adhere to the policies and procedures of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). As an addendum, policies were put in place that would allow Medi-Cal to handle electronic transactions, security safeguards and standards.

Project Summary: Requirements were developed to include certain data elements, standard code sets and unique health identifiers that would be incorporated into the Medi-Cal application.

Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, programming, and development of modules that will allow electronic claims transactions and coding unique identifiers in key programs that will meet HIPAA standards. Constructing JCL/PROC streams for testing and implementation of new and existing modules. Also performed System Test by extracting health claims and validating test results as a result of coding changes made to modules as required by project scope.

Company Interactive Business Systems, Inc Jan 2004 June 2004

Client / Industry Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation

Madison, Wisconsin

Position / Title Project Consultant

Programs Used 1000+

Team Size 50+ Mainframe

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, DB2, CHANGEMAN, LIBRARIAN, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, SYNCSORT JCL

Application Summary: Health Care System. The U.S government provides health care for the U.S. armed forces. The health care system needed an upgraded because the current system was outdated and could not handle the demand and the volume of military personnel. The client was designated to design and implement a new health care system that could accommodate and insure stability for prior, current and future U.S government and military personnel.

Project Summary: Because of the complexity and vastness of the project, a team was given the task to analyze, convert and implement enrollment and disenrollment of military personnel that had and active and non active status.

Responsibility Summary: Responsible for analysis, programming, and development of conversion of disenrollment application from legacy system to new health care system. Developed and designed modules for disenrollment applications using EASYTRIEVE, DB2, and COBOL II. Developed JCL streams for conversion of legacy system to new health care application.

Company Creative Systems Development, Inc An IT Service Provider Feb 2002 Nov 2003

Client / Industry Neal Systems, Inc. / Electronic Component Distributor

Chicago, Illinois

Position / Title Sr. Technical Consultant

Programs Used 450 +

Team Size 14 Mainframe and UNIX Platforms

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, MVS/JCL, CICS, COBOL II, DB2, IMS/DLI, FILE AID and PANVALET

Application Summary: Merchandising Systems. The merchandising systems data warehouse was developed to efficiently track invoicing, movement and reconciliation of company wide product and outside vendors. The application also provided warehouse and store management teams, an ability to develop drill down queries and daily, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting functionality.

Project Summary: Requirements were developed to extract, cleanse, transfer and load merchandising systems data in an on-line real time environment. CICS on-line processes were developed to capture merchandising applications data as it became available. Captured DB/2 table data was then reformatted as QSAM files and transferred to the UNIX platform using NDM TCP/IP as the file transfer protocol.

The transferred merchandising data was finally used to populate the UNIX platform data warehouse DB/2 tables.

Responsibility Summary: Senior developer responsible for analysis, specification development, new design and major enhancements to the merchandising systems data warehouse applications. Duties included programming and implementation of the mainframe to Unix CICS on-line extract and transfer and load of merchandising systems DB/2 tables.

Secondary duties included instruction, mentoring of junior technical team members and acting as a technical liaison for clients and associates concerning all aspects of hardware and software purchases for small business solutions and personal computing home usage.

Company Bp/Amoco Corporation July 1998 March 2001

Chicago, Illinois

Client / Industry Oil and Petroleum

Position / Title Application Development Specialist

Team Size 14

Programs Used 1000 +

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, MVS/JCL, CICS, COBOL II, DB2, FILE AID and VSAM

Application Summary: The payroll and human resources system needed to be maintained on a daily basis because of the sensitivity of the material that was stored in the database. A conversion from the legacy system to a client server system was preparing to be implemented. In addition to maintaining this information for BP/AMOCO, services were contracted out to maintain savings plans for external clients.

Project Summary: The scope of the project was to meet Y2K compliance for the human resources / payroll system and develop, design and implement savings plan for the ALTURA corporation using the TESSERACT human resources application as a model.

Responsibility Summary: Responsible for development, designed and implementation of application for the Altura Corporation and made enhancements to the application to meet Y2K compliance using COBOL II and DB2.Updated and maintained other applications for the Human Resources department and payroll system using TESSERACT software. Maintained savings plan for Altura and heritage Amoco employees. Analysis was performed on data from legacy system in preparation for transition from legacy system to client/server.

Company CCC Information Services Jan 1997 July 1998

Chicago, Illinois

Client / Industry Automotive Insurance - Software House

Position / Title Software Engineer

Team Size 16 - Mainframe and Unix Platforms

Programs Used 900 +

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID VSAM, MQSERIES and SYNCSORT.

Application Summary: Software was developed in house to be distributed to automotive repair vendors and automotive insurance agencies so that they could get faster estimates to potential clients on damaged vehicles.

Project Summary: The project consisted of a batch and online procedure to deliver information to the insurance companies and automotive repaired companies in a timely manner that was specifically unique to those vendors.

Responsibility Summary: Developing Software applications to accomplish the task of communication between client and application. Provided production support for nightly batch and on-line job streams; interacted with team members to provide solutions for client interfaces and provided analysis for new development. Developed modules that extracted data from UNIX platform using MQSERIES API which allowed data to be translated in batch environment and transferred to client for Data Warehouse project.

Company Kentucky Utilities Company Dec 1985 Jan 1997

Lexington, Kentucky

Client / Industry Electrical Utilities

Position / Title Programmer Analyst

Team Size 40 Programs Used 900 +

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, PANVALET, SYNCSORT, SDF, CRYSTAL REPORTS., IMS/DLI and EXPEDITER

Application Summary: Material Information Management/Power Plant Maintenance System.

The System was developed to track inventory and material that was stored in various facilities throughout the state of Kentucky.

Project Summary: Requirements were developed to keep count of items and materials. On-line CICS Modules were developed to input data and batch modules were used to output data that would produce reports to be delivered to various facilities.

Responsibility Summary: Developed, designed and implemented on-line screens and

batch modules. Designed, developed and implemented job streams and provided on-call

support for nightly batch. Generated reports using fourth generation report writer.

Position / Title Programmer Analyst

Tools Utilized IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, COBOL II, FILE AID VSAM, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, PANVALET, SYNCSORT, COBOL 370 and EXPEDITER

Application Summary: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) project

Provides capability of making company payments using a method of payment know as

Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT), which allows to automatically send payments directly to

a payees bank account.

Project Summary: This project consisted of several on-line and batch modules:

maintenance of EFT accounts, making payments to EFT accounts and generating various

reports. Involved In all the modules.

Responsibility Summary: Successfully designed, developed, analyzed, tested and

implemented CICS On-line screens and batch modules. Involved in enhancements and

development of VSAM files and JCL for batch modules and nightly updates. Assisted

project team with implementation and presentation of system to clients. Responsible for

nightly support of EFT system.

Position / Title Programmer

Tools Utilized MVS/ESA, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, JCL,

TSO/ISPF, IMS DLI, FILE-AID, EXPEDITOR PANVALET,

SYNCSORT and SDF.

Application Summary: Customer Information System (CIS) project

The utility company was in need of a new system to accommodate the expansion and

growth of service and customers that had been accumulated over the past ten years. A

software system had been purchased from IPS(Iowa Public Service) that would fit the

needs of the company and clientele. Major enhancements were needed to customize the

system since it was tailored to specifically for IPS.

Project Summary: This project consisted of major modifications to the system that was

purchased from the vendor. IPS provided service for electricity, water and gas customers.

Kentucky Utilities provided only electricity to its customers so the gas and water modules

had to be stripped out of the system and the electricity modules were kept and modified

to fit the needs of the company.

Responsibility Summary: Designed, programmed, implemented, analyzed, developed and tested on-line screens and batch modules. Constructed JCL job streams and provided on-call support for nightly batch. Responsible for automated report distribution for company. Modified and maintained batch modules as system enhancements were needed.

EDUCATION

Kentucky State University

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

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