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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

COBOL contractor at WPS Health Solutions maintaining/enhancing/developing claims solutions.

Des Moines, Iowa

Maintain and enhance batch and CICS programs supporting the billing systems of a Fortune 100 insurance company.

Newark, De And Columbus, Oh

Services Information Developer III July 2014 – Sept 2016Consultant (Collabera) Jan 2013 – July 2014Services Information Developer III May 2012 – Nov 2012Consultant (Randstad Technologies) Sept. 2011 – May 2012Develop, enhance and maintain COBOL and C programs used to support Medicaid healthcare services for the State of Delaware, primarily Managed Care enrollment.Provide production support on a rotating basis.Wrote shell and Perl scripts for use in production systems.Wrote shell and Perl scripts for developers to standardize development processes. From Aug. 2014 to Sept. 2016, worked on design and programming of a new main processing application, primarily modifying the C “base code” of the Managed Care enrollment to meet the requirements of the State of Delaware for the DDI project.From Feb. 2014 to Aug 2014, worked on a data warehouse project, designing and writing processes using SQL and shell scripts to dump data to flat files and transfer them via SFTP to a third-party vendor. From Aug. 2013 to Jan. 2014, was on loan from Newark, DE to Columbus OH where my role was to develop, enhance and maintain C programs used to support Managed Care processing for Medicaid healthcare services for the State of Ohio, primarily new reports.Skills: Micro Focus COBOL, C, SQL, UNIX script, Perl, XP, Solaris, Oracle, DB2, Win 7, HP-Ux.

Chicago, Il

Provide mainframe (z/OS), midrange and PC programming and general technical support for data center production staff.Enhance and maintain custom mainframe security access application written in Assembler (BAL) and PL/1.Provide production supportSkills: ReXX, TSO, ISPF, JCL, SQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, z/OS, XP, Linux, Linux script, PL/1, Assembler (BAL), FTP, XP & Windows 7

Waukesha, Wi

Support and enhance logistics software to customer specification.Support customer installations.Mentor young employees.Skills: C, SQL, Oracle, Unix script, Perl, XP, Solaris, HP-UX, XP, RedPrairie proprietary language

Eds, Newark, De

Develop, enhance and maintain programs used to support Medicaid healthcare services for the State of Delaware. Skills: Cobol, C, SQL, Unix script, Perl, Solaris

Wheeling, Il

Develop, enhance and maintain programs for reformatting print output for health care providers, develop library routines for use by other programmers and optimize program execution. This was a continuation of a contract with HealthCom Partners. HealthCom was acquired by McKesson at which time I was offered, and accepted, full-time employment. Skills: C, Perl, Tcl, Unix script, Subversion, XP and Solaris

Citifinancial International, South Bend, In

Built a change control/configuration management application to customer specifications.Skills: Perl, DOS batch script, Unix script, RCS, CVS, NT/2000 and Solaris.

Chicago, Il

Maintained and enhanced DL Pager, a batch text-formatting engine, running under VAX/VMS, VAX Alpha, Windows NT and Sun Solaris. Built an automated test procedure to facilitate multiple-platform data verification. Developed an output driver to translate Pager output to IBM AFP.Interfaced with customers to facilitate problem correction and product enhancement, Designed and developed utilities for parsing and modifying AFP datastreams. These tools allowed users to insert data into an existing AFP datastream. Designed and developed a utility to decode an AFP datastream. Developed new AFP code pages to increase throughput on the AFP printers and to support international character sets. Provided technical assistance with port of the Adobe PDF library to IBM MVS and AS/400. Transferred source control and release procedure from VAX to CVS on Solaris, NT and VAX. Skills: C/C++, Visual Basic, VB Script, DOS batch script, Unix script, CVS, VAX Macro Assembler, BAL, Oracle, DCL, Python, Perl, JCL, TSO, ISPF, IBM Utilities, DCF, AFP, Postscript, PDF, InstallShield; NT, Solaris, VAX/VMS & Alpha, AS/400, MVS, z/OS, OS/2.

Chicago, Il

Team leader responsible for porting editorial functions from IBM mainframe to OS/2, Solaris and Windows. Most of this code was PL/I that was ported to OS/2. I worked closely with the IBM developers who were creating the PL/I compiler for OS/2 during this project. My team was composed of seven programmers. Set up source control and release process for CCH Access, a mainframe-based, text-retrieval engine, from development through test to production. This was initially accomplished using Panvalet and later migrated to Endevor. Optimized retrieval engine execution. Performed as technical resource for 20 programmers. Skills: C/C++, DOS batch script, Unix script, REXX, TSO, ISPF, JCL, IBM Utilities, PL/1, BAL, DCF, OS/2, DOS, Panvalet, Endevor, NT, Solaris, HP/UX and MVS.

Niles, Il

Maintain and enhance a variety of manufacturing systems including order entry, purchasing and bill-of-material. Instrumental in conversion of BAL and Cobol programs from use of DBOMP database to IDMS database. This was a second-shift, part-time position. Skills: BAL, IDMS, COBOL, CICS, DOS/VSE.

Chicago, Il

Designed, coded and supported a background application providing communications between mainframe and PC for a new data entry system. Team leader to six programmers. Designed and coded CICS programs for office automation. Redesigned and coded mainframe batch editing function for data entry. Designed and coded an online data correction system in ISPF. Set up source code control using Panvalet. Skills: C, PL/1, BAL, FORTRAN, Basic, TSO, ISPF, JCL, ADABAS, IBM Utilities, Panvalet, MVS, DOS

Northbrook Il

Maintain and enhance programs in support of life insurance processing.Skills: BAL, COBOL, MVS

Northbrook, Il

Developed, maintained and enhanced an online rate comparison system. Provided proof-of-concept development for porting the rate comparison system from mainframe to PC platform. Provided technical support for the Acceptance Testing Division; including dump analysis, developing JCL and cataloged procedures as needed, and developing, debugging and maintaining testing applications. Responsible for acceptance testing changes to the Allstate ALERT processing system. Skills: BAL, PL/1, TSO, ISPF, JCL, DOS batch, Comparex, DCF, GML, DOS and MVS.

B.S., Journalism

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Electronics Technology