Gregory Day
Indian Trail,NC
Summary
Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which included requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment. Outstanding technical and analytical skills with extensive knowledge of Cobol and Mainframe Systems. Over 25 years programming using the COBOL language. Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all steps of software development and implementation. Able to build working relationships with a wide range of coworkers in a team environment. Extremely well organized with a proven ability to multi-task and prioritize workload. Excellent time management. Detail oriented.
Overview
49
49
years of professional experience
Work History
Substitute Teacher
Union County Public School System
Union County, NC
10.2021 - Current
Intern to Electronic Mechanic
Letterkenny Army Depot
Chambersburg, PA
05.2010 - 10.2021
- Under little to no supervision, used basic knowledge of electronic principles and theories to rebuild and/or modify all subassemblies of the Patriot Missile Launcher. Obtained my solder certification and was given the responsibility of maintaining the Hazmat cabinet containing over 80 hazmat items.
- Took over 80 courses in the Army E-Learning System including courses in Professional Foundation, Project Management, Human Resources, Management and Leadership.
Programmer Analyst to Sr. Systems/Business Analyst
Hanover Direct, Inc
Hanover, PA
10.1984 - 11.2007
- Worked as part of the support team which provided application production support 24 X 7 for the legacy system on several mainframes.
- Daily work included maintenance of existing legacy programs which included handling of daily client requests requiring prompt turnaround, problem resolution and being a member of and leading project teams. It also included the development of new programs and application development.
- Worked as part of a team in support of the legacy system conversion one mainframe to another.
- Wrote data interface and conversion programs as well as creation of test and production JCL, creation of test cycles, testing programs & job streams and wrote documentation for installation into production.
- Wrote the first program, containing CICS commands, used at Hanover Direct.
- Was a Project Leader for upgrades to the Lawson financial, payroll, human resource, accounts payable, and accounts receivable packages.
- Designed and wrote numerous Positive Pay systems to interface with different banks to do a daily reconciliation of refund and accounts payable checks.
- Instructed sessions on the Lawson Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable systems at national and regional conferences.
- Was responsible for the analysis, design, coding, implementation and support of cross platform application programs.
- Designed and wrote an interface application to automate the processing of journal entries in the Lawson GL system, designed and wrote interfaces creating files being sent to and processing files received from banks and credit card companies, and an interface application to create a file payroll garnishments for child support and sent them to the State of Pennsylvania.
- Increased the functionality of several report programs.
- Worked as part of the Y2K project, analyzing and modifying over 500 programs for date verification.
Programmer to Programmer Analyst
B-H Computer Services
York, PA
02.1982 - 10.1984
- Was responsible for application programming, using COBOL, with analysis and some system design on an IBM mainframe and a Data General system. Used RPG II to produce programs for 3rd party online entry screens on the Data General.
Programmer
Book of the Month Club
Mechanicsburg, PA
11.1977 - 02.1982
- Maintained application programs on a Honeywell system using a programming language called Argus (a machine type language). Was involved in the conversion of the legacy system from the Honeywell to Cobol on an IBM mainframe.
Mainframe Computer Operator
EUR Data Processing Services
Camp Hill, PA
03.1977 - 11.1977
Education
Associate’s Degree - Mechatronics
HACC
Harrisburg, PA12-2010
B.S. Degree - Math and Computer Science
Loch Haven University
01-1976
Skills
- IBM Mainframes, Honeywell 8200; Univac; HP9xx systems (Unix); Solaris (Unix); HP3000
- COBOL, PL/1, FORTRAN, Assembler, RPG II, SQL, JCL, CICS, VSAM
- MSA package, Lawson package, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Inventory, Order Entry, Payroll, Master File Maintenance, Transaction Validation & Editing, Statistical Reporting, End of Fiscal Year Programs, Relational databases
Timeline
Substitute Teacher
Union County Public School System
10.2021 - Current
Intern to Electronic Mechanic
Letterkenny Army Depot
05.2010 - 10.2021
Programmer Analyst to Sr. Systems/Business Analyst
Hanover Direct, Inc
10.1984 - 11.2007
Programmer to Programmer Analyst
B-H Computer Services
02.1982 - 10.1984
Programmer
Book of the Month Club
11.1977 - 02.1982
Mainframe Computer Operator
EUR Data Processing Services
03.1977 - 11.1977
B.S. Degree - Math and Computer Science
Loch Haven University
Associate’s Degree - Mechatronics
HACC