Mainframe Programmer/Analyst

Joseph W. Koke Jr.

*** ***** ******, *********, ** 19029

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

610-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Application Developer with 15 years experience in design, technical & business analysis, construction, implementation and support of COBOL batch and online systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS, TOOLS & EDUCATION:

Cobol/Cobol II OS/JCL FileAid Expediter Abend-Aid Librarian

CICS IMS DB2 VSAM FTP Endevor

Visual Basic MS Access MS Word MS Excel Visio Microfocus COBOL

Certificate, Computer Programming, Computer Learning Center, Philadelphia, Pa, May 1989

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

CableNet Services, Boothwyn, Pa June 2004 – June2008

Data and VOIP Manager

• Manage employee scheduling, verify and submit daily payroll for all employees, troubleshoot for employees out in the field with various issues, perform quality control

• Possess in-depth knowledge of company Billing and Inventory Systems from both a business and technical perspective and interact with business and operations management to troubleshoot any significant system problems

• Key contributor in technical resolutions, implementations and documentation

• Provided on-call 24x7 support

Independent Contractor

Network Technician December 2003 – May 2004

• Various short term contracts analyzing small home based company’s needs to set up billing and inventory applications as well as networking systems.

• Hands-on experience wiring home based systems using cat5 and patch panels to connect all components to provide network communication.

• Tested and provided customer support for all newly created networks.

AIG

Sr. Programmer Analyst (consultant) December 1997 – December 2003

• Attend weekly meetings with the legal department to build specifications to construct a vehicle database that will report to individual states “department of motor vehicle’s” according to ISO specifications utilizing the ANSI x12 formats provided.

• Establish the development environment and create conversion code that will execute automatically as set up in the schedule to produce vender specified output.

• Meet with users to verify each individual states output meets the specifications listed according to the standards.

• Created scripts to accommodate FTP transfers of statistical data from the HP3000 newly created vehicle Database to the IBM mainframe based on the reporting media device requested from each states DMV department.

• Updated the vehicle database as new states requested modifications to their output received.

• Flowchart all aspects of the vehicle database including but not limited to, creating documentation of input/output files, scheduled production run times, abend procedures, file delivery processes using Visio

• Provided 24x7 production support to assist the user community with execution of the vehicle database.

• Converted existing automobile policy screens to Visual Basic, Parallel tested and implemented into production.

• Created ad-hoc reports using COBOL and Easytrieve to address user, management, audit and compliance requests

• Analyzed, coded, implemented and parallel tested all existing automobile programs for Y2K conversion. Once all testing was signed off all modifications were migrated to production.

MERCK

Programmer Analyst (consultant) May 1997 – December 1997

• Met with user groups to create specifications and test plans to migrate all existing processes from an IBM370 mainframe to an IBM3090 mainframe, processes included involved COBOL, JCL and SAS applications.

• Converted all processes, created test output files to run comparisons against production data for client verification.

• Once client signed off migrated all processes to production to execute on new mainframe.

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General Accident

Programmer Analyst (consultant) August 1990 – May1997

• Analyzed the Bureau Reporting System to accommodate client needs to write programs and create output for state reporting based on requirements.

• Met with client groups to analyze and create specifications for the complete rewrite to stream line and create interfaces for the Homeowners, Dwelling Fire, Inland Marine, General Liability and Workers Compensation Premium and Accounting Systems.

• Coded and tested all parallel systems, met with client to verify and receive sign off of output results.

• Documented and flowcharted all rewritten systems for clients, managers and programmers to add to their in-house technical library.

• Implemented all rewritten processes to production.

• Analyzed, designed and implemented complex insurance deduction financial systems to migrate data from the mainframe to the PC for back up compatibility.

• Analyzed, coded, implemented and parallel tested existing Personal and Commercial system programs for Y2K conversion. Once all testing was signed off all modifications were migrated to production.

Pennsylvania Manufacturing Association

Programmer Analyst (Part-Time consultant) February 1994 – September 1996

• Designed coded, tested and implemented to production a Cobol/IMS Workers Compensation system for state reporting to offsite vendor.

RAM Technologies

Computer Programmer June 1989 – August 1990

• Developed and maintained reporting programs for Accounts Payable and Accounts receivable written in COBOL/CICS on multiple IBM Platforms including IBM370, AS400. Short term contracts included JRK Hospital, Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority.

REFERENCES:

Hugh Martin - 215-***-****

General Manager Applications Development

Aetna

Shirley Shea - 302-***-****

Assistant Vice President Systems

American International Group

Kyle Kuchler - 516-***-****)

Sr. Project Manager Operations

Cablenet Services

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