William D. Arant Email & Phone Number

Roanoke, Va, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Configuration Engineer AdvisorOverall responsible for supporting Anthem's Federal Employee Program application software environments for both mainframe and client-server platforms.Manages and executes the build, installation scripts and deployment scripts for all software platforms.Manages and maintains migrations between each tools promotion levels and the associated testing. Provides configurations for the test systems support as well as systems stability support for production environment business functions.Leads Project/Release support efforts to support both FEP and Enterprise efforts and interacts with technical business partners and project and release management to meet business objectives.Responsible for supporting the test environments used to support FEP, Enterprise and/or other special project releases. Leads customer work groups in defining environment requirements and maintains design documentation to reflect changes, additions and enhancements to test environments for FEP program initiatives. Analyzes and makes recommendations to improve performance of test environments and coordinates with other groups the upgrading of test environments to support production and/or product changes. Leads overall design of test environments and environment build efforts for Enterprise efforts. Project/Release support efforts around data management, code management or job management. Performs code migrations and prepare, merge, and version code for production builds.Participates as Change Advisory Board member and and in ad-hoc committees to support FEP and Enterprise efforts and change as well as interacts with technical business partners and project and release management to meet business objectives.Supports on-call team members for FEP projects and releases.Handles/prioritizes work group assignments, staffing, manages work group workflow and provide mentoring. Creates build properties and processes test system configuration prior to testing.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Provided configuration and change management of the mainframe infrastructure architecture and software environment configurations to support the application development lifecycle for CIGNA Healthcare's Consumer Driven Products. Worked with the QA team as primary support to setup and standardize all JCL and job run schedules using TSO and CA Scheduler. I provided security setup for NDM (data movement) configurations and other job run requirements. Ran schedules and stand alone jobs as required in support of QA testing. Performed database table maintenance on various database platforms and worked with the database analysts on database performance tuning, backups, and other database activities. Attended application design specification meetings to provide sign-off as the technical services team lead for assigned projects. Attended daily defect tracking meetings and performed team lead function for software configuration control and change control board meetings for various projects. Provided the primary development and QA testing support role for all software development, both on and off-shore. Primary for running all QA batch cycles to support defect resolution and regression testing. Managed multiple impact analysis projects for major application environment configuration items including vendor software upgrades and platform transitions. Contacted and worked with various vendors on all issues encountered during testing and reported to senior management weekly and as needed to ensure all change items were adequately tested, debugged and approved for implementation. Software technologies/tools used included: TSO, JCL, Endevor, Tivoli Scheduler, Java, Web Sphere, MQ Series, NDM, DB2, Oracle, SQL, Test Director, CA-7, COBOL II, and many others.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Technical Environment Specialist involved in configuration and change management of the mainframe infrastructure architecture and software environment configurations to support the application development lifecycle for CIGNA Healthcare's Consumer Driven Products. Supported applications development, defect tracking and source code management functions for JAVA and COBOL2 application software manipulating large database structures stored in DB2 on the IBM Z/OS 10 series mainframe. Software technologies used included: TSO, JCL, Endevor, Tivoli Scheduler, Java, Web Sphere, MQ Series, NDM, DB2, Test Director, CA-7, COBOL II, and many others.

Falls Church, Va

Configuration Manager for the Single Testing Contractor (STC) contract awarded to Palmetto GBA by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Responsibilities included configuration management tasks for the multiple testing environments of the CMS software. Responsibilities included Configuration Management Plan development, configuration control, configuration status accounting and configuration auditing. The STC Program management documentation and the business rule development of the CMS software functionality requirements was managed with the Telelogic Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) tool. Assisted division task team with planning and procedural initiatives towards meeting a Capability Model Maturity Integration (CMMI) level 2, compliance rating.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

Infrastructure Integration Technician providing SCM (software configuration management) and APS (application production support) on multiple platforms for a Fortune 500 company. Contributed to the design and maintenance of fully automated software build configurations and deployments for the SCE&G Customer Service Representative (CSR) application which was developed in PowerBuilder. Coordination of application software builds throughout the SDLC for multiple corporate software applications used at SCE&G. Configuration of SCM tools: CA Harvest, PVCS, and Endevor for application source code management. Configuration and JCL standardization for production mainframe job control processing. Software Development Life Cycle management and release coordination of client, server, and mainframe applications for advanced information systems designed using: PowerBuilder, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Sybase, MSSQL, TCL, and COBOLII. Provided application support for web based applications using: HTML, VB Script, Java, and Microsoft Transaction Server. Provided primary support role for mainframe CICS region transactions. Software technologies used included: TSO, JCL, Endevor, CICS, NDM, DB2, CA-7, COBOL II, Micro Focus COBOL, PowerBuilder, PowerGen, Visual Basic, .NET, TCL, Unix, Sybase, SQL, Citrix and many others.

Associate, Science

Studies: Fortran Programming, COBOL, Business Logic, Math, Commerce, and Astrology

High School Diploma

Programmer Analyst