Michael Lanter Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Mo

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St Louis Mo

I am now working as a consultant on the EDI team at Nestle Purina, what a great place to work!My current position as a software engineer involves work as an EDI analyst and COBOL programmer. I use COBOL II, WDI, AS2, FTP sFTP, HTTP, XML, DB2, ORACLE, UNIX, MVS JCL, MQ, X12 format EDI.

Consultant working on mainframe support team. In my 3+ years atMastercard I was given many engaging assignments and increasing responsibility. I startedas a programmer analyst and ended as a project lead. I gained many valuable insights intothe process of creating software. * Project lead supervising team members in India. This assignment was difficult becauseof the distance and communication problems but also due to the inexperience and lack offundamental programming expertise displayed by the offshore team members. Software releaseprojects were completed within calendar and budget constraints. * As a programmer analyst, there were assignments that dealt with production problemanalysis, diplomatic missions within the application user community, creatingdocumentation for release calendar and production modifications and the usual coding,testing and implementing the software solutions..Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2, MVS JCL, VSAM, MQ, FTP, Xpediter, Fileaid, Endevorand ISO8583

Programmer Analyst working on mainframe support team. * Duties include problem analysis, meeting with the application user community, creatingdocumentation of the problem and proposed solution, coding testing and implementing theproblem solution.Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2, MVS JCL, VSAM, Access, FTP, Y2K, Xpediter, Fileaid,Endevor and HL7.

Working as a programmer analyst in an AS400 COBOL environment. * Maintained and customized an existing application for use by our client states to meetthe requirements of the Social Security Administration for disability determination.Developed new software functionality to meet the changing requirements of both federal andstate law. * Work included AS400 COBOL, SQL and CL development and testing. * Duties include problem analysis, meeting with the business analyst and customer,creating documentation of the problem/modification and proposed solution, coding testingand implementing the solution.Environment: AS400, AS400, COBOL, SQL EXPRESS SCRIPTS

Worked as a programmer analyst in a DB2 COBOL CICS environment, this position involvedanalyzing and creating a drug interaction response in real time to the vending pharmacy. * Maintained COBOL batch and online systems, consolidated SQL, created testingenvironment. * Worked with both IBM mainframe and AS400 environments. * Assignments included various logical design documents, working with the user communityto create new applications and trouble shooting the current production software.Environment: DB2, COBOL, CICS, IDMS, DB2

Consultant working as a programmer analyst in a DB2 COBOL CICS environment. * Assigned several applications which were converted from IDMS to DB2 then customized toa new release of a purchased package inventory and warehouse management system. * Performed analysis and troubleshooting as the implementation was flawed. * Modified batch applications which were run overnight to service transactions created bythe online system.Environment: DB2, COBOL, CICS, IDMS, DB2

Designed, developed and implemented a database system which served as an interface to ainventory management system. * Created mainframe COBOL programs and JCL which download and upload data to a fileserver, and accept an EDI transmission as input data. * Components allowed the user to edit and verify the information. * Created reports as needed. * Worked with the team to recode and certify current batch and online applications. * Participated in a project to combine DB2 tables and eliminate redundancy.Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2, MVS JCL, VSAM, Access, FTP, Y2K, Xpediter, Fileaid,Endevor and HL7.

Responsible for the development and support of programming which interfaces with afinancial management system. * Created and maintained an EDI system for ACH processing of customer accounts throughthe federal reserve bank system. * Knowledge of distributed database access in support of concurrent applications.Environment: AS400, COBOL II, CL, NDM, XTERMINATE, SQL, LSAMS, and EDI

Duties included analysis, specification writing, coding and testing for batch and onlineprograms. Worked on a team which converted a mutual funds EDI transmission process fromIDMS database to DB2 database. * Worked on a team which converted a mutual funds EDI transmission process from IDMSdatabase to DB2 database.Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2, Xpediter, Platinum, Fileaid, EDI, and IDMS ANHEUSER

Responsibilities included mainframe COBOL batch and online application programming. * Worked on a team to develop a new online hospital admitting system. * Converted VSAM application to DB2. * Maintained batch and online programs across a wide range of applications. * Served as a project lead to develop an online quality analysis utilization managementsystem.Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and Xpediter

Presentation of a bid for an inventory system, I was assigned duties preparing anestimate to be included in the overall total.* Coded interface modules for an online maintenance tracking and inventory system. * Analyzed and recoded legacy programs.Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, INTERTEST

Assisted in software system design for conversion from Burroughs to IBM mainframe. * Developed management architecture for software production control. This project was acontract based assignment for the Dept of the Army.Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM.

Maintenance and support of logistics and inventory VSAM applications. Environment: VSAMapplications. This was my first real job in the computer world, I entered as an intern andleft as an experienced COBOL programmer. Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM.

Bachelor Of Science, Mathematics And Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science, Business Minor