Consultant
Partners Healthcare System
• Functioned as lead programmer. Provided technical and application support and guidance for staff members and other groups.• Supervised a team of programmers to resolve production problems and work on enhancements.• Participated in the installation of Medipac, a CICS/VSAM billing system.• Troubleshot and fine-tuned the batch systems, as well as the online systems, using COBOL, PL/I, and Natural.• Implemented a COBOL/CICS system to provide maintenance and help capabilities to a general ledger conversion table. Utilized pop-up windows.• Performed analysis, design, coding, and testing for a productivity and statistics conversion program.• Designed and implemented a batch subsystem for remittance processing, including batch and online feeds.• Modified the online remittance processing to include an "add" option.• Designed and implemented a CICS shutdown procedure to force Medipac queues to process before shutdown.• Worked closely with users to resolve production application problems.• Designed and implemented the processing required to produce UB92 billing forms.• Utilizing Microsoft Access, designed and implemented the table structure and overall design for the Graduate Training database. Consulted on the development of the system.• Lead a team to complete Year 2000 modifications.• Designed and implemented the reuse of the Medipac Bad Debt process to shutdown the Medipac system and send data to a bad debt agency.• Java was used to remove carriage returns and line feeds in a file to FTP’ed. Also, used Java to identify problem records in a HL7 file.• Utilized COBOL2, CICS, VSAM, Natural, Adabas, ADAMINT, ADAPREP, Predict, Java, Microsoft Visual Basic .Net, and Microsoft Access.