Dana Martin
Aberdeen,SD
Summary
Mainframe Programmer/Analyst with 34 years of experience developing and maintaining mainframe components.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Software Engineer
Nelnet Inc.
Lincoln, NE
01.2018 - 01.2024
- Company Overview: Diversified contract in partnership with Flexion with the Department of Workforce Development (DWD)
- Analyzed legacy z/OS system and DWD business rules to help build a modern unemployment insurance (UI) system in Google Cloud (GCP)
- Developed processes to push data from z/OS to GCP to validate results in the modern system compared to the legacy system
- Participated in E2E testing for the comparison of Legacy and Modern UI data
- Nelnet iSeries Platform on Vol1 Team
- Team was responsible for commercial IBR cleanup; identified accounts with affected IBR issues with SQL queries
- Updated and created CA 2E functions within ensemble sessions
- Created RPG coding in RDi software ensemble sessions to cleanse data
- Responsible for analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation of computer applications
- Applications included Guaranty Conversions, GOALS Servicer, Guaranty Split of Ascendium and Great Lakes, and Raptor application for converting federal loans off mainframe system to be onboarded to Nelnet platform
- Diversified contract in partnership with Flexion with the Department of Workforce Development (DWD)
Senior Computer Analyst
Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation
Madison, WI
02.2009 - 12.2017
- Responsible for analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation of computer applications
- Applications included DLCO, Guaranty Conversions, secondary borrower contact Performant, Claims Filing, quarterly re-disclosure letters, School Servicing Portfolio Reports
- Responsible for testing applications on the iSeries platform for the GOALS GreatNet project; worked with LMi, iRobot, and CL
- Responsible for reviewing standards methodology documentation to ensure coding is within standards and best practices that have been determined to be consistent and efficient
- Tuning new and existing SQL to ensure most cost-efficient method
- Creating and maintaining process documentation that illustrates job process flow and predecessor and successor information
- Effective testing with parallel regression testing to ensure program changes are doing what is expected and do not affect existing program functionality
- Effective diagnostic abend testing to ensure program abends as expected and returns enough information for operations and oncall to get job restarted with minimal effort
- Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation merged with Nelnet Inc
- 01/2018
Computer Programmer/Analyst
Education Assistance Corporation
Aberdeen, SD
05.1990 - 01.2009
- Responsible for analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation of computer application
- Applications included Non-EAC Loan Adder, Disbursements, various transactions, daily and monthly summary reports from VSAM files
- Education Assistance Corporation Merged with Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation 02/2009
Education
Computer Science -
Northern State University
Skills
- Mainframe z/OS
- TSO
- ISFP
- JCL
- COBOL
- CICS
- Rexx
- SAS
- DB2
- SQL
- VSAM
- ChangeMan CA7
- Insync
- FileAid
- Syncsort
- DFSORT
- SmartTest
- Xpediter
- Dumpmaster
- Abend-Aid
- Qpasa
- ANDI
- CCA
- IBM Data Studio Environment
- IBM Aqua Studio Environment
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- Visio
- Word
- OneNote
- GitHub
- SQL Server
- Jira
- Confluence
- TruSight
- IDERA
Certification
DHS Trusted Tester for Web Certification, TT-2408-06451
Skills
TSO, ISFP, JCL, COBOL, CICS, Rexx, SAS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, ChangeMan CA7, Insync, FileAid, Syncsort, DFSORT, SmartTest, Xpediter, Dumpmaster, Abend-Aid, Qpasa, ANDI, CCA, IBM Data Studio Environment, IBM Aqua Studio Environment, Microsoft office products: Excel, Visio, Word, OneNote, Visual Studio Code, GitHub/Git, Docker, z/OS Connect with IDz, Postman, Visual Studio, Atom, SQL server, Jira, Confluence, TruSight, IDERA, IBM i ACS, RDi, LMi, iRobot, SQL, CL, RPG, Synon CA 2e, TFS
Timeline
IT Software Engineer
Nelnet Inc.
01.2018 - 01.2024
Senior Computer Analyst
Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation
02.2009 - 12.2017
Computer Programmer/Analyst
Education Assistance Corporation
05.1990 - 01.2009
Computer Science -
Northern State University
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