Work closely with customers and team members to design and implement systems solutions to expand capabilities and meet changing needs; develop innovative methods to match IBM i technology with vendor products and partner software.Accomplishments- Designed and implemented a native process to interpret xml and to format DB/2 data as xml, greatly expanding organizational opportunities to serve customer needs;- Partnered with multiple As/400 solutions vendors to integrate their capabilities with customer AS/400 software packages, extending customer capability to provide solutions as technology requirements evolve;- On numerous occasions, developed productivity and efficiency tools which allowed users to more readily support customer needs.

I am a 1099 contractor with a rate of $60/hour. I work remotely from my home office and I can be reached at any time via phone, text, email or Slack. I have been on the iSeries platform since 1982 when it was the System/38 platform, through the AS/400 platform to the modern day. I have a deep background in analysis, design, creative solutions and problem solving. I have strong COBOL development skills including:- Screen design including multiple screens, subfiles, message handling and conditioning and editing fields.- Report design including gathering data conditionally from multiple files to produce unique output; turning those reports into data files including formats such as .csv and xml; transmitting those files to third parties via ftp, sftp, APIs and email.- Interacting with vendor software both local and remote to enhance user functionality, including the development of API calls.I have worked alone on many projects; worked with others and been a team lead as well as project manager on various assignments.I also have strong CLP programming skills and database design and management skills. I have moderate experience working with sql, and limited experience working with embedded sql.