COBOL Mainframe Programmer

Bobbie Shetrone Vails

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I have over 20 years of solid Information Technology background in the Financial, Textile, and Manufacturing industries …with specific knowledge of Portfolio Management, Corporate & Investment Banking / Treasury Finance Balance Sheet Management, Service Level / Partnerships, Service Management, Account Reconciliation Plan, Collection, Application Handling / Retail Lending, Commercial / Consumer Loan, Card Products, Global Portfolio Credit Risk Solutions / Operational Credit Exposure, Marketing Customer Information File, Marketing Data Mart, Data Warehouse, Inventory, Product Information, and Order Entry applications. Strong developer experienced in full cycle of researching, analysis, designing, creating specifications, coding, debugging, unit / system / QA / UA testing, scheduling job flows, documentation, implementation, provided production support. Expertise in DB2, PL / SQL, ORACLE, CICS, IMS DB / DC, VSAM, FILEAID, QMF, XPEDITER, COBOL, APS, AMB, MFEEE, EASYTRIEVE, JCL, PROC, CA7, PICCT, COMMON INTERFACE MESSAGES, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, MVS TSO / ISPF, NDM, FTP, CRYSTAL REPORTS, and EDI.

SKILLS SUMMARY (in number of year’s experience)

Hardware IBM …370 / 30XX / 43XX (20), PC (10)

Operating Systems OS / MVS / XA (20), WINDOWS …XP / 2000 / ME / 98 / 95 / 3.1 / NT (10), NOVELL NETWARE (10), MOBILE ACCESS (5), UNIX (3), DOS (1)

Languages JCL (20), PROC (20), IMS DB / DC (15), BMP (15), PSB (15), PCB (15), MFS (15), PL / SQL (10), COBOL (10), COBOL …II/370/390 (10), EASYTRIEVE PLUS (10), APS(8), ANSI X12 / EDIFACT(8), HTML(5), JAVA/JSP(3), XML/XSLT(2), AMB(2)

Design Tools MS …ACCESS / EXCEL / POWERPOINT / WORKS / WORD PERFECT (10), VISIO PROFESSIONAL (5), FREELANCE GRAPHICS (1), AMIPRO (1)

Development Tools TSO/ISPF/ROSCOE(20), CA-7(20), CHANGEMAN(10), BTS(10), PRODMAN(10), GENTRAN STERLING COMMERCE VERSION 6.0 (7), GEIS / ADVANTIS (7), RUMBA/TPX (7), CIPRS(7), INFOMAN(4), PICCT/BORF/RCOS (3), MOBIUS (3), ENDEVOR(3), CRYSTAL RPT / ACTUATE / COGNOS-IMPROMPTU / CIM(3), WEBSPHERE/J2EE(3), INFORMATICA(3), MFEEE/REVOLVE(2), MAPMATE(1)

Office Tools LOTUS …NOTES / SAMETIME CONNECT (10), MS …OUTLOOK / OFFICE COMMUNICATOR / SCHEDULE+ / FRONTPAGE / PUBLISHER (10), WINZIP (10), COFFEE CUP HTML EDITOR (5), CHAMI HTML KIT (5), VCOM WEB EASY (5), PIXELA IMAGE MIXER (5), ADOBE …GO LIVE / PAGE MAKER / ILLUSTRATOR / PHOTOSHOP / ACROBAT PROFESSIONAL (5)

Databases VSAM (20), IMS (15), CICS (10), DB2 (10), UDB (3), ORACLE (3)

Utilities XPEDITER (10), FILE-AID (10), NDM (10), FTP (10), EVT (4), QMF (4), BMC (3), OMEGAMON (3), MQ SERIES EAI (3)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Company Darton Group - Charlotte, NC 05/2010 - Present

Client Hickory Springs Manufacturing in Hickory, NC

Position Title EDI Business Analyst

Skills EDI ANSI X12, EDIFACT, XML, EXTENSIBLE STYLESHEET LANGUAGE TRANSFORMATION (XSLT), TRUSTEDLINK ENTERPRISE, SAP IDOC, ERP, STERLING COMMERCE - GENTRAN: SERVER FOR WINDOWS 2.X ON SYSTEM GENSYS1 …GENTRAN APPLICATION INTEGRATION, XPEDITER, JD EDWARDS ONEWORLD XE, MQSERIES ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION, WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER, JAVA 2 ENTERPRISE EDITION (J2EE), JAVASCRIPT, JAVA, JAVASERVER PAGES (JSP), HTML, MS EXCEL, MS WORD, MS OUTLOOK, LOTUS NOTES6, WINDOWS XP

While providing daily production support by monitoring the inbound/outbound EDI documents, responsibilities also included:

 Contact customers to establish business and functional requirements plus Trading Partner Profiles.

 Develop for the customer as well as acquire from the customer …EDI Implementation Guidelines and Specifications Document.

 Setting up; compiling; testing the inbound as well as the outbound Maps …which included Segments, Elements, Tables, Constants, and Conditional Codes.

 Work with the JD Edwards application group on files and record layouts; to convert inbound and outbound customer data, to and from standard EDI formats.

 Test EDI transmissions with Hickory Springs Manufacturing’s customers.

 Researching and working, with the customers as well as with the JD Edwards application group, to resolve problems and inquiries related to EDI transmissions.

Company iData Corporation - Florham Park, NJ 11/2008 - 04/2010

Client Bank of America in Charlotte, NC

Position Title Risk Technical Application Analyst

Skills ACTUATE E.REPORTING, SQL, DB2, CICS, IMS, VSAM, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, BMC, OMEGAMON, QMF, COBOL 390, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, JCL, PROC, CHANGEMAN, CA-7, NDM/FTP, TSO, INFORMATICA, MQSERIES ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION, WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER, JAVA 2 ENTERPRISE EDITION (J2EE), JAVASCRIPT, JAVA, JAVASERVER PAGES (JSP), HTML, VISIO PRO, MS EXCEL, MS WORD, MS OFFICE COMMUNICATOR, MS OUTLOOK, LOTUS NOTES 6, MOBILE ACCESS SERVICES, WINDOWS XP

 Worked on the Check transformation Infrastructure / Remote Deposits System project, on the Operational Credit Exposure application of the Global Portfolio Credit Risk Solutions, to support the Check Conversion ACH Limit; my responsibilities included gathering and analyzing as well as creating Business Requirements and Business Process Flow, developing High Level / Low Level Design to enhance affected programs, preparing test cases as well as expected results, coding, and testing. Writing DB2 Stored Procedures executed via Java to create the Web Pages which are used by the clients.

 Working on the Portfolio Management applications of the Customer Relationship & Performance department; I was responsible for coding, unit/system/Quality Assurance/User Acceptance testing of …programs, JCLs, and PROCs to clean up the Relationship database for the Telephone Banking project.

Company First Place - Charlotte, NC 08/2004 - 10/2008

Client Wachovia in Charlotte, NC

Position Title Technical Analyst

Skills CRYSTAL REPORTS 10, MICRO FOCUS - MFEEE, AMB, APS, COBOL 390, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, JCL, PROC, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, VSAM, IMS, PSB, PCB, MFS, CICS, DB2, UDB, PL / SQL, ORACLE 9i, UNIX, RUMBA / TPX, TSO / ISPF, CHANGEMAN, CA-7, MOBIUS HASP, COMMON INTERFACE MESSAGES, PICCT, CIPRS, RCOS, BATCH ON REQUEST FACILITY, LOTUS NOTES, LOTUS SAMETIME CONNECT, MS OUTLOOK, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, MS ACCESS, FTP, NDM, NOVELL NETWARE SERVICE, WINDOWS XP

 Working in the Corporate & Investment Banking / Treasury Finance BSM Technology Division; my responsibilities included analysis, researching, developing Business plus Functional requirements, writing Technical specifications, coding, debugging, modifying, unit testing, system testing with Quality Assurance group and Business Analysts, implementing programs as well as their affecting components for the Custodian and Portfolio System’s trade reports.

 Worked on the Small Business requirements and declining reasons, requested on the Application Handling System of the Retail Lending Technology Division. Responsibilities included modifying, adding, and unit /system/QA/UA testing in different regions/LPAR …programs, copybooks, MFS, IMS control tables, JCLs, PROCs. Provided daily/monthly production support, included fulfilling the user’s requested tasks.

 Working on the APS to MFEEE / COBOL conversion for the Service Level / Partnerships application of the Service Delivery Solutions department …I was responsible for identifying APS components as well as affected JCLs and data sets; converting APS’ data structures, generating programs, testing, and verifying results in AppMaster Builder (AMB) PC language using Micro Focus’ Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition (MFEEE) tool; implementation; removing obsolete APS components.

Company CDI Corporation - Charlotte, NC 08/2001 - 07/2004

Client Westvaco in Charleston, SC

Position Title EDI Coordinator Lead

Skills EDI ANSI X12, EDIFACT, STERLING SOFTWARE - GENTRAN, GEIS, IBM ADVANTIS, VSAM, CICS, QMF, DB2, SQL, COBOL 390, JCL, PROC, ENDEVOR, TSO / ISPF, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, LOTUS NOTES, WINDOWS 2000

Responsible for all EDI tasks, which included:

 Work with the customers to establish Trading Partner Profiles, and to set up Partnership Profiles.

 Acquire EDI Implementation Guidelines and Specifications Document from the customers.

 Setting up; testing; as well as maintaining the Partnership Profiles, Maps, and Tables.

 Designing; coding; testing COBOL programs, to convert inbound and outbound customer data, to and from standard EDI formats.

 Develop COBOL DB2 Stored Procedures to supports the Map to File application area.

 Documenting Job Flows and setting up JCL job streams for EDI transmissions.

 Test EDI transmissions with the customers.

 Provide daily production support by monitoring the inbound and outbound documents. This included using DB2 query on the Query Management Facility tool.

 Researching and working with the customers to resolve …problems as well as inquiries related to EDI transmissions.

Company Maximgroup - Charlotte, NC 07/2000 - 06/2001

Client IBM in Charlotte, NC

Position Title EDI Technical Lead

Skills EDI ANSI X12, EDIFACT, STERLING SOFTWARE - GENTRAN, GEIS, IBM ADVANTIS, TSO / ISPF, ENDEVOR, JCL, PROC, COBOL 370, SQL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, VISIO PROFESSIONAL, MS EXCEL, MS WORD, LOTUS NOTES, WINDOWS NT

 Responsible for creating interfaces between Retek Enterprise’s EDI system and EDI transactions to / from JC Penney. This included detail analysis of Eckerd’s existing EDI systems; gathering and developing Business as well as Functional descriptions; creating External / Internal Design Documents and Functional Test with Validation Approach, Job Flows, File Level / Record Level / Field Level Mapping as well as programming specifications; pseudo coding copybooks, control cards, data sets, PROCs, and JCLs.

Company Comprehensive Computer Consulting - Charlotte, NC 04/1998 - 03/2000

Client NationsBank in Charlotte, NC

Position Title Senior Mainframe Programmer

Skills SQL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, COBOL 370, COBOL II, EASYTRIEVE, JCL, PROC, CHANGEMAN, INFOMAN, CA-7, NDM, TSO / ISPF, FTP, MICRO FOCUS SOFT FACTORY 2000 - REVOLVE + SMARTFIND, MS POWERPOINT, MS EXCEL, MS WORD, LOTUS NOTES, WINDOWS 98

 Worked on the Marketing Customer Information File and the Marketing Data Mart applications of the Information Management department …I was responsible for detail analysis of all product / systems; creating Test Script and Test Plan; testing; documenting to validate that system component operate in a Y2K environment and process all Y2K dates properly, result in no unexpected processing impacts, and produce no functionality loses. Other responsibilities included maintaining daily / monthly jobs and CA-7 schedules. Plus making sure the users are informed and received the appropriate data.

 Working on the Service Management System / Account Reconciliation Plan applications of the General Banking Support System department; my responsibilities included general analysis, designing, writing Technical Processing Description as well as program specifications, coding, testing, and scheduling on CA-7 …programs, JCLs, PROCs.

Company Crown Home Fashions - Charlotte, NC 10/1996 - 03/1998

Position Title Senior EDI Developer

Skills EDI ANSI X12, EDIFACT, MAPMATE, GEIS, IBM ADVANTIS, FILE-AID, VSAM, DB2, SQL, COBOL II, EASYTRIEVE, JCL, PROC, ENDEVOR, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, WINDOWS 95

 Responsible for all EDI transmissions to and from customer sites; this included setting up as well as maintaining Maps, Partnership Profiles, Envelop Records, and Document records on all CHF customers.

 Designing, coding, setting up, and testing programs as well as JCL job streams to …convert inbound and outbound customer data, to and from standard EDI formats.

 Worked with the customers to …establish Trading Partner Profiles and EDI documents …test EDI transmissions …fix any inbound or outbound problems.

Company Contract Data Services - Charlotte, NC 04/1994 - 09/1996

Client First Union Bank in Charlotte, NC

Position Title Business System Analyst

Skills COGNOS - IMPROMPTU, UNIX / ORACLE, SQL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, FILE-AID, JCL, PROC, EASYTRIEVE, COBOL, APS, PRISM WAREHOUSE MANAGER, WORD PERFECT, AMIPRO, FREELANCE GRAPHICS, VISIO, MS ACCESS, FTP, TSO / ISPF, NDM, QUIC, CA-7, WINDOWS 3.1

 Working on the Finance Re-engineering project, I was responsible for building interfaces between existing IBM based applications and the new Oracle Data Warehouse system which runs on UNIX. This involved heavy analysis, designing, coding, testing of programs as well as JCLs …used to capture and reformat data for the Data Warehouse system. I was also responsible for setting up, testing, and scheduling on CA-7 job flows for this application.

 Worked on the Consumer Loan and Collection systems; my responsibilities included designing, coding, testing, CA-7 scheduling, and implementation of enhancements to existing software to improve management visibility of consumer credit status.

 Working on the Einstein project of the Card Products system, I was responsible for creating interfaces between the new card products system and other FUNB applications. This included detail analysis of existing systems, creating Business plus Functional requirements and specifications as well as coding, testing, CA-7 scheduling, and documentations.

Company Springs Industries, Inc. - Lancaster, SC 09/1984 - 03/1994

Position Title Senior Programmer / EDI System Analyst

Skills EDI ANSI X12, EDIFACT, STERLING SOFTWARE - GENTRAN, GEIS, IBM ADVANTIS, IMS, PSB, PCB, MFS, BTS, BMP, VSAM, JCL, PROC, COBOL, PRODMAN, INFOMAN, EVT, CA-7, ROSCOE, TSO / ISPF, OS / MVS / XA, DOS

 As an EDI Business Analyst, worked on establishing EDI trading relationships with Springs’s customers using customer selected VAN (i.e. GEIS, IBM, WALMART, BELK, SEARS). Responsibilities included gathering Business/Functional requirements; setting up Partnership Profiles, Maps, and Tables to identify specific EDI requirements for each customer. Designed; coded; tested COBOL programs to convert inbound and outbound customer data, to and from standard EDI formats. Creating Job Flows & setting up JCL job streams for EDI transmissions. Resolving problems and inquiries related to transmissions.

 As a Senior System Analyst, I was lead analyst on the development of the Product Information system. This was a very large effort that involved analyzing, designing, coding, testing, implementation of an IMS DB/DC and COBOL based system that housed multiple manufacturing applications. The system had extensive online processing and incorporated BMP as well as batch processing. I was also responsible for creation of call charts and database reviews with the DBA staff. I also provided support for Springs’ Wamsutta product line on various systems.

 As a Programmer …worked on enhancements / modifications for the Inventory, the Order Entry, and other manufacturing systems; responsibilities included coding, testing, documentation, implementations of …JCLs, PROCs, programs, PSB, PCB, MFS, and IMS call charts. I also provided maintenance and day to day support for internal applications.

EDUCATION

York Technical College - Rock Hill, SC 09/1979 - 05/1982

Associate degrees in Business Technology …major in Data Processing, Accounting, and General Business.

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