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SoftwareEngineer

William Webber

Garland,TX

Summary

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.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematic

Nicholls State University
Thibodaux, LA
01.1980

Skills

  • Software Implementation
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • TSO
  • COBOL
  • JCL
  • Java
  • Integrations
  • ISPF
  • Analytical Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Software Development
  • Project Management
  • Testing and debugging
  • Troubleshooting and resolution
  • Oral and written communications
  • Performance Optimization

Timeline

Software Engineer

Sprint
02.1988 - 04.2020

Programmer

M/A/R/C Research
08.1984 - 02.1988

Programmer

United Press International
08.1983 - 07.1984

Programmer

McDermott International
08.1980 - 03.1983

Bachelor of Science - Mathematic

Nicholls State University
William Webber