# I'm looking to help ease the Coronavirus crisis

**URL:** <https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/im-looking-to-help-ease-the-coronavirus-crisis/4205>\
**Category:** Calling all COBOL Programmers\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/im-looking-to-help-ease-the-coronavirus-crisis/4205 "2020-04-15T23:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ErikBrooks](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.openmainframeproject.org/erikbrooks/32/433_2.png) [@ErikBrooks](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/u/ErikBrooks)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/im-looking-to-help-ease-the-coronavirus-crisis/4205/1 "2020-04-15T23:24:21Z")

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- Name: Erik Brooks

- COBOL Experience: (Intermediate, Expert)

- Location: (Seattle, Wa) - I’m interested in working from home to help with the COVID-19 crisis.

- Availability: (Part-time)

- Availability Type: - Volunteer

- [https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikdbrooks/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikdbrooks/)  
My LinkedIn profile does not mention COBOL. That is deliberate - for years people were saying that knowing COBOL would make it harder for a programmer to pick up other languages - and there is a kernel of truth to that. Over the 35+ years I wrote code, I’ve used maybe 35 languages, but COBOL was the one that I spent the most time using.

Most of the work that I did over the years was related to healthcare - primarily Electronic Medical Records work, using Tandem computers.