William Holdren

Provided studies, installations, education and interface support for all new clients implementing the web based Java EE system.

The system was the most advanced web based claims application for it's time and utilized OOP, Websphere Application Server, imaging, SQL DBMS, XML, etc.

As a senior consultant my responsibilities were to integrate the system into legacy systems for policy retrieval, backend transformation of data into formats acceptable to mainframe and client server systems.

• Product specialist for Claims Workstation, a client server system that dominated the insurance industry in providing a micro processor solution for adjusters and management use.
• Deeply involved in all installations, interfaces to client legacy systems, and major software modifications where required.
• Written in Enterprise OOP Visual Basic and required SQL knowledge of all major DBMS, i.e. MSSQL, DB2, Oracle.

• Maintenance & Modifications to various mainframe systems using COBOL, ALC, Lotus Notes, Visual Basic, DB2, MS Access
• Created and revised roll film components (CICS) and image error correction server software

• Software consulting for major P&C insurance companies located throughout the US, Canada and overseas. Assignments included education, training, custom software modifications for IBM mainframe systems.
• Formed lasting relationships with many IT professionals and clients.

• Employed 5 contract programmers. Worked to market employees to various local insurance companies, while engaging my own software skills in contracting assignments.
• Developed several software applications for generalized insurance industry use.

• P&C Insurance mainframe software engineer , installing , training, modifying vendor products for policy, billing, claim and general ledger, and cash disbursement software systems.
• Traveled to onsite client environments including The Hartford, TransAmerica, etc.