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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.