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- Working on Mobile Application development project to build an iPad app for auditors to use in the field. Using IBM Worklight, Backbone, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3 and Java, plus Xcode for iOs, and Android KitKat- Serving as Technical Lead on a project to modernize 40+ year old COBOL mainframe Cost Accounting and Time Reporting system, using Commercial Off The Shelf software and custom built SQL Server SSIS package interfaces to extract data from existing system and import into new system- Work on USTAR (Unemployment State Tax Automated Reporting) application in Java using Struts, as well as JSPs and Java Beans. Use IBM Rational® Application Developer™ for WebSphere® Software to analyze, test, debug and maintain the system. Use WebSphere administration console to deploy updates - Analyze, design, write, test, and maintain several complex to highly complex batch COBOL and CICS programs and JCL, using z/OS, DB2 and VSAM, supporting the Personnel, Training and Supply departments. Debug both the online and batch applications using CA-Intertest. These systems require extensive interaction with the users in Personnel, Training, Supply and Financial Management, so effective communication skills are required to perform these duties efficiently and effectively. - Analyze, design, write, test, and maintain Online Training Registration System, which I built in Classic ASP and MS Access using Adobe Dreamweaver, allowing employees to register via the intranet for classes from the Training Department. The application sends confirmation and reminder emails, and adds the class as an event in the student's Outlook calendar. Via an encrypted password login, the administrators of the system can add or delete courses and locations, schedule classes, and generate class rosters and lists of scheduled classes.

- Oversaw all aspects of design, planning and execution of technical, creative and production elements, using MediaShout presentation software, Horizon Lighting Control System and other software, for weekly service with average of 500 attendees - Developed innovative technological solutions to implement creative elements in audio, video and other media, using Cakewalk SONAR Digital Audio Workstation, Avid Pinnacle Video Editing software, Anim8or 3-D modeling and animation software and WinMorph graphic morphing software - Supervised and scheduled team of over 100 volunteers using Planning Center Online scheduling and distribution system, and collaborated with staff to produce and lead weekly service - Recruited, trained and rehearsed with volunteer musicians and singers to prepare and present music at service, using Finale Music Notation software, Margi presentation system and Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Project

- Wrote and upgraded software for application programming systems and data on IBM enterprise server using COBOL II, DB2 and SQL to support and improve customer service - Developed and supported applications to serve and process data readings for 5 million customers per month, uploading and processing over 250,000 meter reads each day - Supervised and coordinated large scale system wide data collection events to gather data used for generating billing statements - Upgraded Customer Information System interfaces using Smalltalk Object Oriented language to provide customer and user access to account data

- Developed and upgraded COBOL II software to launch new product lines for company with over $15 billion in revenues - Developed CamBar enterprise server distribution system using EDI for catalog of over 100,000 music and video products for company with annual earnings of $860 million - Managed data in several multi-Gigabyte IMS databases and hundreds of VSAM and sequential datasets to provide access to vast music and video catalog - Converted raw data into user-friendly information to be used by management teams for strategic planning - Designed production and ad hoc reports using DYL-280, including cash collections and various extracts from enterprise server data to aid business users in decision-making

- Collaborated with colleagues and consultants to develop and implement data conversion strategies for over 12 major groups of auto and fire insurance applications representing over $10 billion in premiums written - Worked closely with business users to define their needs and gather requirements, and followed through to meet those requirements - Designed, coded and maintained COBOL II, Command-Level CICS and IBM Assembler software applications with VSAM and IMS datasets, using OS/JCL and MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, Abend-AID, Endevor and Easytrieve Plus to provide commercial insurance coverage to business customers - Generated over 500 date-versioned DB2 tables across more than 20 test, QA and production environments to provide automobile and fire insurance coverage to customers

Certificate, Application Programming With .Net

C.A.I.T. (Center for the Application of Information Technology)

Bachelor Of Music, Music

Vocal Performance, cum laude

Diploma, Computer Systems & Programming