Detail-oriented, organized, and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Sprint
02.1988 - 04.2020
Responsible for Designing, Coding, Testing, Implementing and Maintaining Mainframe systems using Cobol, TSO, ISPF, JCL, CICS, Expeditor, SPUFI and Sync sort
Mainframe systems were Sales Compensation, Message Processing, Invoice Processing and Federal Ordering and Data Warehouse systems
Responsible for managing offshore/onshore resources (8-10) for development, testing and implementation phases
Interfaced with clients to quantify requirements
Worked on moving legacy mainframe applications to midrange servers
This required analysis of data on mainframe databases and creating programs to convert data for midrange databases, creating processed to validate data transformed correctly
Provide statistics for migration process
Worked on performance enhancements, identifying areas for improvement, recommending solutions, coding, testing and implementing those solutions
Provided management with EXCEL Charts and Grafts to show improvements matched expectations.
Conducted thorough code reviews to identify potential areas for improvement, ultimately enhancing code quality across all projects handled by team.
Mentored junior developers, sharing knowledge and expertise to support their professional growth and development within team.
Automated routine tasks, freeing up valuable developer time for more complex problem-solving.
Conducted thorough code reviews to maintain high standards of code quality and encourage best practices among development team.
Reduced system downtime and improved reliability by proactively identifying and addressing potential system vulnerabilities.
Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
Programmer
M/A/R/C Research
08.1984 - 02.1988
Maintain Database of customers for Client mailings
Also designed, coded and implemented new system for maintenance of Client Database using TSO, ISPF, JCL, ASM, PL1, Cobol.
Programmer
United Press International
08.1983 - 07.1984
Researched legacy Stock Quote system and designed new Stock Quote system
Legacy system on IBM 370 compatible system, with new system to be on Prime Computers (servers)
Programmer
McDermott International
08.1980 - 03.1983
Maintenance of purchased Naval programs to perform Hull Definition for ships.