BYRON CUMMINS
Ridge Manor
Summary
Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment Experience in waterfall and agile methodology Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with extensive knowledge of COBOL, TAL, SCOBOL, C/C++ and all software and utilities on the HP Nonstop platform . Above average knowledge of working with UNIX and LINUX and the manipulation and access to files and directory system Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation. Talented communicator, able to build working relationships with wide range of co-workers in team environment both in house, offshore and remote. Extremely well organized, with proven ability to multi-task and prioritize workload. Strong experience in customer experience and satisfaction. Goal-oriented professional with experience in settings. Forward-thinking when reviewing project requirements to determine precise solutions. Composed professional when working under tight schedules and limited budgets to achieve innovative designs meeting and exceeding objectives.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Engineer
RAYMOND JAMES
St. Petersburg
07.2024 - 10.2024
- Support of the Trading System written primarily in COBOL85
- Utilizing ServiceNow for change documentation
- Utilizing COBOL, Tacl and HP Nonstop Utilities
- Creating new programs and maintaining existing programs written in COBOL85 with TAL procedures
- With SQL queries and flat files access via the COBOL code
Sr Developer / Senior Application Support
US FOODS
Rosemont
06.2018 - 07.2023
- Application support Full Time for US Foods on Tandem/HP Nonstop Warehouse and Order Processing applications written in COBOL and SCOBOL and TACL scripts
- Accepted HPSM Tickets from the users
- Researched the issue and used and modified MP SQL databases or worked with Pathway Requester screen to alleviate the issue
- Completed the request and Work with the business user to resolve the ticket
- Worked with EInspect to analyze ZZSA files in order to determine what the data was at the time of the Abend
- Worked on small projects written in COBOL, SCOBOL and TACL scripts
Senior Programming Analysts
JP Morgan Chase
Tampa
10.2017 - 06.2018
- Programmer Analysts on Tandem/HP Nonstop ACH Application
- The coding was done in COBOL with SQL MP and Enscribe databases
- Converted requirements to code and/or database changes to meet specification
- Researched issues with the application and data on the MP SQL database
- Worked with payment and debit networks (Visa, MC, Discover, Star, Pulse, etc)
Sr. Application Developer / Application Support Contractor
US FOODS
Rosemont
10.2016 - 10.2017
- Application support Full Time for US Foods on Tandem/HP Nonstop Warehouse and Order Processing applications written in COBOL and SCOBOL
- Accepted HPSM Tickets from the users
- Researched the issue and used and modified MP SQL databases or worked with Pathway Requester screen to alleviate the issue
- Completed the request and Work with the business user to resolve the ticket
- Worked with EInspect to analyze ZZSA files in order to determine what the data for the issue is
- Worked on small projects written in COBOL, TAL, SCOBOL and TACL scripts
Business System Analysts
Dell, Inc
Round Rock
06.2015 - 10.2016
- Requirements gathering for Change Requests for Oracle Agile Application
- Creating documents and facilitating the approval process
- Write test scripts/stories
- Perform UAT testing
Data Warehouse Developer
Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership
Austin
10.2013 - 05.2015
- Analyze requirements for enhancements to new and existing data warehouse software to support growth and enhancements
- Developed high level, detail level and database detail design documentation
- Utilized NonStop C/C++, TAL and TACL scripts to code the solutions
- Debugging with Visual Inspect
- Development in Visual Studio 2008 and ETK
- Creation of test data base in MS SQL-Server 2008
- SIT and Production data validation in MS SQL-Server 2008 and Tandem NonStop SQL MP
- Source control utilizing MS Team Foundation Server
- Environment/ Technologies used: HP NonStop (Tandem), HP Quality Center, MS Team Foundation Server, MS Visual Studio 2008, HP ETK and MS Office 2010
Mainframe Developer
General Motors
Austin
04.2013 - 10.2013
- IBM Mainframe developer
- Developing in COBOLII and Ansi C
- MVS/JCL
- CICS and DB2
Test Engineering Analyst
Dell, Inc
Round Rock
09.2012 - 04.2013
- Validating data in Oracle database using 'TOAD'
- Validating test results from upstream applications
- Documenting processes and designing future state for a new testing environment
Contractor/Software Developer
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago
08.2012 - 09.2012
- Converting Tandem Cobol85 code to Ansi Cobol in order to compile in Veryant ISCOBOL which creates Java Class
- Testing the converted code Java object and compare to existing application
- Development in Veryant ISCOBOL IDE
- Data validation in 'TOAD' for Oracle and SQLCI on Tandem for NonStop SQL MP
- Source control utilizing Tortoise GIT
- Environment/ Technologies used: HP NonStop (Tandem), Veryant ISCOBOL IDE, Tortoise GIT and MS Office 2010
Business Systems Analyst
DELL, INC
Round Rock
10.2010 - 01.2012
- Developed business requirements for IT projects by working with the business partners
- Running test scripts for C#, in .NET environment
- Data validation using SQL Navigator for an Oracle Database
- Create High Level requirements which were used to develop technical solutions through collaboration with software developers
- Worked with software developers to accomplish the coding solutions
- Worked with development team to understand best practices in .NET and C#
- Environment/ Technologies used: HP Quality Center, MS Team Foundation Server and MS Visual Studio, MS Office 2007 and Crystal Point OutsideView
Programmer/Analyst
DELL, INC
Round Rock
05.2005 - 08.2010
- Developer in .NET, C#, and VB.Net
- Working on middleware system which converts online data and transmits to backend Tandem/HP NonStop Order Management System
- Support and development for this system
- Working with Oracle and SQLServer databases
- Environment/ Technologies used: HP Quality Center, MS Team Foundation Server and MS Visual Studio, MS Office 2007, .NET, C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET
Programmer Analyst
DELL, INC
Round Rock
10.2000 - 06.2005
- Worked primarily on the HP NonStop (Tandem) platform
- Worked on the project to convert code from CRE to Native Mode Cobol
- Converted Cobol programs from accessing Enscribe files to NonStop SQL tables
- Worked primarily in Cobol, TAL, Scobol and Tacl
- Worked on Support team for the Order Management System on the Tandem
- Worked on Middle ware team which worked between online systems and the Order Management System on the Tandem
- Provided support to Java and Visual Basic programs
- Environment/ Technologies used: HP NonStop (Tandem), HP Quality Center, PVCS, MS Office 2010 and Crystal Point OutsideView
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - MIS
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK01.1992
Some College (No Degree) - Introduction to Visual Basic, Introduction to Java
Oklahoma City Community College
Oklahoma City, OKSkills
- COBOL programming
- TACL scripting
- SQL querying
- ServiceNow documentation
- Change management
- Application support
- User acceptance testing
- Problem solving
- Technical communication
- Requirements gathering
- Software development
- Technical analysis
- Technical support
Training
- Physical Database Design (Nonstop SQL), HP NonStop (Tandem) Classes
- Introduction to Visual Basic, Oklahoma City Community College, 1999
- Asp.Net, Dell Internal Training Courses
- C#.Net, Dell Internal Training Courses
Phone
cell, (512) 988-1399
Summary Of Experience
- 25, Application Software Developer
- 20, Experience on the HP NonStop (Tandem) platform utilizing all of HP NonStop software and utilities
- 5, Experience with .NET using C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET
- 3, Experience on the IBM Mainframe using COBOL85 and ISPF and TSO
- 20, Experience in data manipulation with SQL databases
Timeline
Lead Engineer
RAYMOND JAMES
07.2024 - 10.2024
Sr Developer / Senior Application Support
US FOODS
06.2018 - 07.2023
Senior Programming Analysts
JP Morgan Chase
10.2017 - 06.2018
Sr. Application Developer / Application Support Contractor
US FOODS
10.2016 - 10.2017
Business System Analysts
Dell, Inc
06.2015 - 10.2016
Data Warehouse Developer
Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership
10.2013 - 05.2015
Mainframe Developer
General Motors
04.2013 - 10.2013
Test Engineering Analyst
Dell, Inc
09.2012 - 04.2013
Contractor/Software Developer
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
08.2012 - 09.2012
Business Systems Analyst
DELL, INC
10.2010 - 01.2012
Programmer/Analyst
DELL, INC
05.2005 - 08.2010
Programmer Analyst
DELL, INC
10.2000 - 06.2005
Bachelor of Business Administration - MIS
The University of Oklahoma
Some College (No Degree) - Introduction to Visual Basic, Introduction to Java
Oklahoma City Community College
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