Michael Beamon Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia Area

Defined and executed processes and procedures covering many production operations and support areas ensuring that the agency met specific service level agreements. Assisted management with oversight of key operations; maintained and improved technology-based processes. Responsibilities included deploying approved versions of code into production; served as a backup computer operator as needed• Actively identified production problems, engaged others as needed and participated in bringing incidents to a timely and acceptable resolution• Partnered with operations to save 8 man-hours per week and eliminated the cost associated with physically printing obsolete reports • Monitored application server software to ensure compatibility between production and non-production environments, this ensured that all environments were in-synch and ready for the next scheduled deployment

Richmond, Virginia Area

Communicated with users to gather project requirements, perform system analysis, estimate resource and time requirements for projects and project status reporting. Created/modified NATURAL modules for both online and batch processing, modified batch COBOL programs, and maintained JCL. Produced documentation concerning all modifications made to any modules and/or systems. Responsible for completing mission-critical and legislative-driven assignments within a specified timeframe. Was available for on-call support during nightly batch processing.• Implemented a legislative-driven project to differentiate monies earned by our members before a certain date resulting in a more accurate accounting of retirement funds for members • Worked on a project team that sent mainframe created documents to the server environment to be printed, resulting in a more professional communication being sent to all members and enhancing the VRS brand• Completed a legislative-driven project to properly categorize all active/deferred members allowing the agency to properly administer member benefits

Richmond, Virginia Area

Member of group was responsible for Accounts Receivable/Billing, Accounts Payable, Revenue Refunds and Returned Checks. Gathered requirements from users, developed time estimates and wrote code specifications in NATURAL and COBOL, unit tested and assisted with system-wide testing. Level of complexity of assignments varied from simple user requested report changes to time-critical impact statements, complex analysis, working on a multi-level team to implement a cost-saving product for the agency or correcting production problems. Followed established documentation procedures for all assignments.• Assisted in successfully completing Y2K changes for all of the agency’s fiscal systems resulting in no system downtime