Bert Beckman Email & Phone Number

St Charles, Illinois

Contract at Allstate Insurance Company in Northbrook IL, to work on the Strategic Document Enablement project, creating a new document creation application.Systems Analyst: Worked on a team of three people to analyze and document all variable data items printed in the Auto Policy Declarations package generated from the mainframe document creation application. Identified 1500+ variable data items, that were traced back to the system data fields and documented in preparation for Entity Model creation and passing data to the new application. Created a detailed and comprehensive Technical Design for the Mainframe system to provide the necessary data for the new document creation application from the results of the Technical Analysis, Business Requirements and Entity Model.Business Analyst: Served as a technical liaison between the technology area and business client to investigate and provide reports for the legacy content of Policy Declaration packages, including countrywide and state exceptions, and numbers of specific content per state for 3 initial states, enabling the client to provide a prototype of the new policy declaration package to the project team.Created a detailed and comprehensive business requirement document for the vehicle ID CARDS section of the new Policy Declarations package, using the business rule harvesting, Policy Declaration prototype and meetings with the business client, and provided to the technology teams. Coded/Modified COBOL programs to pass data to new business rules and document environment.Tested and worked with QA team to develop manual test enviroment.

•Member of a team to calculate Life specialist commissions.•Utilizing DB2/SQL to extract data to help business analyze productivity.•Maintained and coded COBOL, DB2, EZTRIEVE to develop reports to help business research production.•Team player for nightly on-call support of batch cycle. •Tested and documented programs for functionality utilizing Method 1 SDLC.•Teamed and collaborated with Outsource partners to deliver projects.•Assigned as contact for version control maintenance.

•A member of a new team that was formed in order to research and develop and maintain document composition components for Marketing Technology as part of the new look and feel document to the customer.•Utilizing Relativity software for research analysis of Documerge Legacy system for Property and Casualty Policy Jacket rewrite.

•Supported day-to-day operations of Electronic Document Processing (EDP2) Documerge Team pertaining to Scheduled activity documents, Florida Bermuda High, NCOA postcards. •Provided project estimates utilizing CMM and Method 1 methodology.•Partnered with various development teams to identify best approach for project deliverables.•Research and evaluated new methods used to support document creation.•Mentored and trained individual team members on processes.•Worked with Data Center processes and people to successfully implement projects in the production environment.

•Worked in partnership with team to develop new premium processing system (NOVA) to replace existing legacy system (Alert, Eclipse).•Participated in developing new relational database design and maintaining existing system. •Analyzed business requirements and worked with cross-functional teams in order to implement new, required reporting information to the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) and various state departments of motor vehicles (DMV). •Maintained existing mainframe system and participated in development many new applications. •Supported nightly batch system/production support runs.•Coded Cobol/DB2 modules, with some modules created through ADW, a code generator.•Coded CICS Cobol/DB2 modules, with some modules created through ADW, a code generator for Billing Credit Balance workstation.•Maintained JCL to run Mainframe jobs.•Worked with Data Center processes and people to successfully implement projects in the production environment.