Programmer working with the team charged with maintaining the Actuarial and Proxy Systems. All programs are written in COBOL with DB2.

The Kansas Department of Labor administers the unemployment insurance benefits that are available to unemployed people of Kansas. The administration and maintenance of this information is performed with a combination of mainframe and server systems. Lead programmer in the supported of the mainframe batch and CICS benefits systems. Primary support for the telephony IVR software.• Perform systems analysis and tuning on a number of larger batch COBOL programs which resulted in a 35% reduction in CPU usage.• Took over project lead to alter emergency benefit amounts because of the federal government budget changes do to sequester reductions. Project came in on time.• Project lead in the implementation of Kansas House Bill 2105 which bases benefit payment length on the current Kansas unemployment rate. Project was installed on January 1, 2014.

Application programmingBusiness and Systems AnalystCICS Systems programmer

Lead programmer in the supported of the in house developed sub-systems RPMS(Report Management System) and SRI Print both written in Assembler, REXX, and DB2. Worked with programmers within DST and subsidiary companies to improve performance, perform problem determination, and aid in application analysis. Assisted in the technical support, problem determination, configuration, and tuning on 200+ CICS regions, applications, and CICS related products.• Updated the SRI Print sub-system to deactivate timed out printers in order to improve system performance and DB2 utilization.• Performed dump analysis on COBOL application abends and CICS storage violations. Worked with various DST programming teams to correct these situations.• Redesigned and updated the SRI Print online system to add functions, improve usability, and correct system problems.• Analyzed and corrected an index chaining problem with the RPMS sub-system.• Maintained and supported all CICS based vendor products for over 3,000 end users.• Established 20 new client CICS systems and completed on time.• Assisted with two CICS version upgrades across all the DST nodes with minimal disruption.

Worked with programmers within DST and subsidiary companies to improve performance, perform problem determination, and aid in application analysis. Served as liaison between the application programming teams and systems programmers to improve communications.• Installed and supported many of the programmer productivity tools. These included: Xpediter CICS and TSO, QAHiperstation, Abendaid, FileAid, and various Mackenney products.• As a team member, worked with Argus subsidiary to tune CICS application. Achieved a 10% average response time reduction.• Worked with the STS internal programming and CICS groups to implement a cross platform communications interface to allow for accessing CICS data from web base system.• Analyzed and suggested tuning improvements to the Portfolio Accounting team for the nightly batch processing. A 5% reduction in CPU utilization was obtained.• Participated on project team tasked with overseeing the conversion effort for Y2K. Recommended, installed and supported the product used for Y2K date testing (HourGlass 2000).• Assisted the training department in creating teaching courses for new and existing products

Technical and tuning support for 10 CICS regions.• Performed CICS system tuning which improved response time by approximately 15%.• Determined the cause of an extend storage SOS condition and implemented solutions to resolve the problem.• Worked with the application teams to resolve hard loop problem causing CICS to abend.

Administered and maintained CICS, VTAM, NCP, and related products in an MVS/XA environment. Performed system analysis and tuning. Developed new processes and functions to assist the programming staff. Compiled information about new products and determined effect on current operating system.

Developed and maintained Payroll and Financial Accounting systems batch and online processes. Performed system analysis and tuning. Assisted programmers with the analysis, design, programming, and testing of applications. Designed, coded, and maintained a custom Time Sheet reporting system which interfaced with the Payroll system. Administered and maintained a VSE/SP system on IBM 4381 mainframe computer.