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Mainframe Developer
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US-District of Columbia
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iTECH SOLUTIONS, Farmington, CT (2010 – 2011)
Consultant assigned to UnitedHealth Group
Provided organizational and technical support for the FTP to SFTP conversion project on the Treasury System at UHG.
• Created and modified bat scripts on a windows
platform to convert from FTP to SFTP
protocols.
• Analyzed current internal and external
customers sending and receiving via FTP
protocol.
• Contacted each customer and provided
documentation of the changes desired.
• Scheduled and performed testing of each
customer transmission and tracked their
progress.
• Provided progress to management in the form of
weekly excel progress reports.
• Successfully implemented changes into
production.
EDGE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, Middletown, CT (2008 – 2009)
Consultant assigned to Selective Insurance.
Provided technical support analyzing and solving production issues while also making enhancements to an ever changing Billing System.
• Partnered with other systems in support of
Office of Foreign Asset Control
Project (OFAC).
• Analyzed requirements, designed, coded and
executed COBOL code containing CICS
and DB2. Changes were documented along with
the test plans and results.
• Implemented these changes into production.
• Enhanced the system to allow new lines of
insurance business to take place in various
states.
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP, Hartford CT (1982-2008)
Technical Support for Prime, a Rating and Billing System (2007 – 2008)
Provided DB2 technical support, which included modifying DB2 structures and SQL, testing support, improving performance and implementing changes into production.
• Provided DB2 knowledge and advice to technical
peers, which improved their coding.
• Worked with Business Partners to identify DB2
structure changes to meet their needs and
followed these changes into production.
• Optimized DB2 performance for both batch
COBOL and online COBOL/CICS programs by
modifying the SQL code resulting in less CPU
usage and expense.
• Used Strobe and Omegamon along with the DB2
explain table to research how the DB2 tables
were being accessed in order to determine where
improvements in performance could be made.
• Maintained the integrity of the related DB2 tables.
• Responsible for the upgrade and testing of IMS
modules for system to IMS V8.
• Added and packaged elements in Endevor for
approval in the testing stage libraries.
• Supported deliverables in other capacities when
needed by designing and coding
COBOL programs with DB2 and/or CICS when
other resources were not available.
• Successfully supported the production
implementation of deliverables, thus meeting the
needs of the business.
Senior Information Specialist on Flexible Spending Account System (1995 – 2007)
Developed and implemented many of the claim processing requirements which included integrating processes from an acquired company, modularizing the claim processes and adding new benefit choices. Also provided guidance and instructions to co-workers as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the claims process.
• Team Leader on the Health Saving Account
(HSA) project , which enhanced the business
by providing new choices to customers.
Reviewed System Specs to verify all
business requirements are met.
Wrote High-Level and Detail Tech Specs.
Reviewed Tech Specs of team members to
verify all requirements are met.
Worked with QA to review their Test cases.
Used Test Director to investigate and
document potential QA test case fixes.
Extensive experience designing, coding and
testing applications in COBOL/DB2 and
CICS. Used Expeditor to test and solve
coding issues.
Reviewed Unit test cases and results of
team members.
Guided implementation of enhancements
into production.
• Integrated many of the claim processes from the
newly acquired company into the parent
company. This satisfied the customers from
the acquired business and also provided new
choices to existing customers of the parent
company.
• Modularized many of the claim processes, which
improved subsequent maintenance and
enhancements, resulting in lower costs.
• Improved performance of the claim processes,
which resulted in time and cost savings
by modifying the COBOL and DB2 code.
• Used Endevor to add and package elements for
approval in the testing stage libraries.
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Skills: |
Databases: DB2, VSAM
On-line: CICS, IMS DC
Languages: COBOL, OS/390, JCL
Resource Managers: TSO/ISPF, Endevor, FTP,
SFTP, NDM, PANVALET
Software: SQL, FILEAID, QMF,
SPUFI, SYNCSORT,
XPEDITER, EXCEL,
WORD, STROBE,
TEST DIRECTOR,
ABENDAID, ULTRA-EDIT
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Education: |
GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, NORTH HAVEN (2009 - 2010)
Completed the following courses to keep my IT skills current; Visual Basic, Web Development and Design, Object Oriented Programming using C++, Advanced Visual Basic.
Certificate in Computer Programming, Greater Hartford Community College, Hartford, CT
BS, Natural Resources Conservation, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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