Dale Jones

• Developed and implemented interfaces between Oracle databases and mainframe systems to ensure seamless data integration and improved system performance.
• Upgraded databases from 7.3 to 8i, then to 9, 10g and eventually migrated them to the cloud.
• Developed multiple applications on the mainframe using Oracle Forms to provide data access for a quoting system.
• Infrastructure for transferring migrated systems data between Oracle and Mainframe environments.
• Played a very instrumental role in the development and implementation of the organization's Homegrown and Quoting system.
• Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
• Assisted company in migrating its database from an on-premises environment to a cloud instance.
• Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
• Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
• Analyzed work to generate logic for new systems, procedures and tests.
• Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
• Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.

Worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska to enable forms on mainframe screens.

Worked on Oracle forms and Unix shell scripting. Part of a team that upgraded the database from version 7.3 to 8i