programmer

John A. Borrowman

*** *. ****** **.

Nebo, IL ***55

Phone: 217-***-****

E-mail: *************@*****.***

Position desired: Sr. Programmer/Analyst in an organization with opportunity for personal growth and to learn new technologies.

Work experience:

A. G. Edwards, Inc.

Sr. Technical Specialist

1979-2004

I had several job titles during my 25 years with AGE: Programmer, Senior Programmer, Applications Programming Supervisor, and Sr. Technical Specialist. Most recently, I was responsible for applications software efficiency which involved fine-tuning COBOL applications programs, JCL, and re-engineering system designs and database structures to improve application run-time and optimize resource utilization. I was one of five IT professionals on the firm’s Disaster Recovery Planning Team. While acting as a supervisor I was responsible for the following applications systems: Online Cage (back-office processing), Customer Statements, Margin Account Requirements, Pending trades, Custody and Control (SEC 15C3) requirements, Customer Accounting, Stockholder dividends and distributions, Stockholder proxy announcements, Securities delivery requirements, Security positions, Firm Inventory, and Money-market funds. I taught several classes (JCL, Dump reading, and Examining execution reports) to new employees. I was ‘on-call’ 24/7 for any production problems.

U.S. Air Force

E-4 Programming Specialist

1975-1979

I was responsible for applications software including Air Base phone billing at Elmendorf AFB, AK and Flight accident/incident reporting at Randolph AFB, TX.

Professional skills:

Twenty-five years experience as programming supervisor, project manager, system analyst, and programmer in the applications area of IT for a national brokerage firm.

Expert knowledge of COBOL, GMAP (assembler language), IDS/IDS2 (a CODASYL database similar to IDMS), DMIV, ISP, TP8, FRED, PFMS, TMS, TSS, HAPS, UTL2, UTL8, UTILITY, CONVER and JCL on Honeywell-Bull mainframe computer systems. Working knowledge of most Microsoft PC software (Outlook, Word, Excel, Remedy, Visio, etc.). Basic knowledge of C, UNIX, Java, HTML, JavaScript, VBscript, Python, and RPG II. I also use Micro Focus COBOL (Net Express 5.1 Personal Edition) on my home PC.

Excellent problem-solving/debugging/analysis skills.

Memorable projects / Achievements:

Conversion / maintenance changes necessitated by the government mandated break-up of AT&T.

Develop new systems and program maintenance required by the introduction of money-market funds.

New system development and maintenance to existing systems to support IRA accounts.

Several ‘Firm Conversion’ projects; these projects were required when our company would acquire a smaller brokerage (or several of their branch offices). The ‘foreign’ books had to be converted into our file formats.

I wrote a program (executed from a TSS command line) to edit JCL for correct format and syntax, verification of filenames and datasets, and compliance to department JCL standards. The report produced by this program was a required attachment to the implementation paperwork.

Many rapidly developed programs during the week or so following the ’87 market crash to verify questionable trades.

I wrote a program to examine daily execution reports (saved to tape) and produce an exception report citing such items as borrowed sort space or memory, excessive I/O or run times, poor IDS buffering, etc.

Conversion of our entire source code library from a COBOL-68/IDS environment (using our in-house developed online transaction processor, AGECS) to a COBOL-74/IDS-II environment using TP8 and DMIV. It took about 60 programmers nearly 10 years to convert 600+ online and 7000+ batch programs and redesign 100+ databases. Y2K changes were also incorporated into this conversion process.

Decommissioning the Bull: This involved converting/outsourcing most mainline processing to BETA Systems (from Thompson Financial Systems) and distributing ‘local’ data to branch servers. This essentially eliminated mainframe processing at A. G. Edwards.

Education:

Southern Illinois University 36 credit-hours in Computer Science. GPA: 3.6

Anchorage Community College 24 credit-hours in Data Processing. GPA: 3.5

Texas Lutheran College 3 credit-hours in Calculus I. Grade: B+

Automated Machines Training Ctr. RPG II Programmer certificate. Avg: 97

Pittsfield High School High School Diploma

Persona1 data: Age 56, 6’1", 180 1bs.

Military: USAF 1975-1979, Honorable Discharge.

References: References are available on request.

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