Cascade Falls Investments, LLC is a real estate investing business.

Senior Programmer Analyst at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), working on the Transamerica account.

Senior Programmer Analyst with Transamerica Life Insurance Company working in the Transamerica Capital Management Division.

New development for new products and enhancements to TransAmerica's annuity products on the Vantage-ONE admin system. Design technical specifications, perform code reviews, guide lesser experienced co-workers as needed.

Advising clients on their options regarding life insurance, annuities, Medicare supplements and everything in between, to offer them financial solutions to manage their wealth through their retirement years and give them peace of mind.

Responsible for independent projects, fast track modifications, and analyzing and developing performance enhancements to reduce cycle times and processing costs. Estimate work efforts and develop technical specifications from business requirements.• Saved $68K per year in chargeback costs for a client by co-developing performance enhancement code modifications and implementing multi-row fetch capabilities in DB2.• Reduced nightly batch cycle by 1.6 hours through performance enhancements and job balancing.• Reduced quarter end critical path cycle time by over 6 hours through performance enhancements, job balancing and scheduling changes.• Worked independently and as part of teams on release and independent projects, analyzing, developing, testing and implementing new code and modifications as defined by the end-user or client.• Write technical specification documents and estimate work efforts using CSC Catalyst documents, estimation worksheets and professional experience.

Provided 24-hour on call production support and lead other staff members in project work. Responsible for creating ad hoc reports and maintaining data integrity. Developed and implemented performance enhancements. Estimate work efforts and develop technical specifications from business requirements.• Saved over $185K in tape transfer costs per year by creating two backup tapes with a single job step to eliminate a tape-to-tape copy.• Reduced CPU time by 40% and Tape I/O by 99% by identifying and blocking files that were unblocked.• Reduced processing time by 6 hours and saved 21 CPU minutes on a monthly process by restructuring it to read files only once to get the information it needed.• Lead a team of application and system programmers, as part of a group created to improve system performance so as to delay the need to increase system capacity, in several efforts to reduce CPU usage across multiple LPARS used by several clients.• Worked independently and as part of teams on release and independent projects, analyzing, developing, testing and implementing new code and modifications as defined by the end-user or client.• Performed quality assurance audits on multiple client teams to ensure they are in compliance with SEI/CMM standards.• Write technical specification documents and estimate work efforts using CSC Catalyst documents, estimation worksheets and professional experience.

Provided 24-hour on call production support and lead other staff members in project work. Responsible for creating ad hoc reports and maintaining data integrity. Estimate work efforts and develop technical specifications from business requirements.• Reduced processing time of several Easytrieve steps by 50% through LSR and NSR buffering.• Saved over 1 - 2 hours of processing time and an 11% - 38% CPU time on long running jobs through efficient LSR buffering.• Designed and implemented a modification to Vantage-ONE to calculate interest on a 360-day calendar year instead of a 365-day calendar year.• Saved several hundred hours in testing by creating an Access database used by Business Analysts to create and track test cases• Saved several hours in programming by creating an Access database to track modifications and system problem reports that were being applied to a new Vantage-ONE installation.• Conversion work on a ULA system to the Vantage-ONE UL system.• Worked independently and as part of teams on release and independent projects, analyzing, developing, testing and implementing new code and modifications as defined by the end-user or client.

United First Financial provides an online software tool that allows people to pay off a 30-year mortgage in as little as 8 - 11 years.As an independent agent I can run a free analysis and get people set up on this great system. I am also a customer.

Contract programming for various clients in Kansas City area.Developed and maintained COBOL batch and on-line programs on PC, TI-990 mini-frames, and SCO UNIX systems.Convert COBOL systems from TI-990 environment to SCO UNIX environment, including all source and data files.

• Developed and maintained COBOL batch and on-line programs on a TI-990 mini-frame.• Assemble, fix and install PCs on a Lantastic Network.• Create cables to connect PCs to network, TI-990 mini-frame, and SCO UNIX system. • Trained users on new software and applications.

• Developed and maintained Quikjob/VISION: Report programs to create special reports for users and manipulate files for two separate Lifecomm insurance blocks.• Maintained production batch jobs• Provide 24-hour on-call support for multiple production cycles.