Christen Brooks Email & Phone Number

Montgomery, Al, Us

Sbs

Achievements:• Within 3 months of starting the position, coded, tested and implemented a successful statewide cost of living raise effecting all state employees’ paychecks.Responsibilities:• Legacy programmer responsible for the analysis, development, maintenance and support of the personnel and financial state business systems • Work with functional users, other programmers, analysts and other technical staff to fully implement program changes• Evaluate, design, code, test,… Show more Achievements:• Within 3 months of starting the position, coded, tested and implemented a successful statewide cost of living raise effecting all state employees’ paychecks.Responsibilities:• Legacy programmer responsible for the analysis, development, maintenance and support of the personnel and financial state business systems • Work with functional users, other programmers, analysts and other technical staff to fully implement program changes• Evaluate, design, code, test, debug and document programming changes in legacy COBOL, EZTrieve, and AMS based programs, copybooks and JCL• Ensure processing of all agency financial interface files• Provide support for client-server system programmers with code walkthroughs and review sessions of current personnel system edits for transition to an updated platform• On call support on rotating basis Show less

Dhr

Achievements: • Due to Stimulus payments and adjustments, quickly processed the largest federal tax files ever received using multiple programming and file manipulation techniques. • Within 2 months of starting the position as a contractor, given responsibility of the daily critical financial tasks for the Alabama Child Support application. (ALECS) • Transitioned to at home work with no drop in productivityResponsibilities: • Legacy programmer responsible for… Show more Achievements: • Due to Stimulus payments and adjustments, quickly processed the largest federal tax files ever received using multiple programming and file manipulation techniques. • Within 2 months of starting the position as a contractor, given responsibility of the daily critical financial tasks for the Alabama Child Support application. (ALECS) • Transitioned to at home work with no drop in productivityResponsibilities: • Legacy programmer responsible for the analysis, development, maintenance and support of ALECS • Work with functional users, lower level programmers, analysts and other technical staff to fully implement program changes • Evaluate, design, code, test, debug and document programming changes in legacy COBOL, Ezytrieve, and TELON programs, copybooks and JCL • Provide support for junior programmers with code walkthroughs, process documentation and training sessions • On call support for ALECS system on rotating basis Show less

Montgomery, Alabama Area

Contracted to the State of Alabama in support of their Child Support Enforcement system. Converted to merit state employee in the same role. Please see current role for duties and accomplishments.

Montgomery, Alabama Area

I am the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Farm and Fire Insurance COBOL programming team. I maintain existing COBOL programs and write new programs as required. I estimate programming requirements and time needed for future projects, Documentation updates, on-call rotation and JCL support are also some responsibilities I have. I work with program users, other programmers and systems support personnel to ensure that program updates are implemented to project specifications. Projects include… Show more I am the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Farm and Fire Insurance COBOL programming team. I maintain existing COBOL programs and write new programs as required. I estimate programming requirements and time needed for future projects, Documentation updates, on-call rotation and JCL support are also some responsibilities I have. I work with program users, other programmers and systems support personnel to ensure that program updates are implemented to project specifications. Projects include problem fixes, regulatory requests, and semi-annual rate changes. After implementation, I verify production results and that program and user documentation has been updated. I use TSO for editing and I code for access to VSAM files and DB2 tables. Reporting and data queries are done using DYL280. Show less

Montgomery, Alabama Area

As part of the Emerging Technology team at Regions, I worked with the Online Banking product as a project initiator and tester. During conversions, I was responsible for customer communications about their online banking account access. I worked with the team to test program changes and fielded customer concerns about the product,

COBOL programmer developing and maintaining a Student Information System in a mainframe and AIX environment. The product included Financial Aid input screens that required annual regulatory changes that I programmed, tested and implemented. These changes were distributed to colleges as releases to their software and providing support for the release was also a duty of this job. I also worked as a contract programmer for State of Alabama's Department of Transportation for this company. In this… Show more COBOL programmer developing and maintaining a Student Information System in a mainframe and AIX environment. The product included Financial Aid input screens that required annual regulatory changes that I programmed, tested and implemented. These changes were distributed to colleges as releases to their software and providing support for the release was also a duty of this job. I also worked as a contract programmer for State of Alabama's Department of Transportation for this company. In this job I was responsible for working with the accounting department to maintain their fuel use programs that were written in COBOL. I also worked with the Payroll and Personnel departments to provide various legal reports that were needed very quickly due to litigation costs the state was incurring. Show less

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business

General Business

Information Technology

I took two java classes.