Mainframe COBOL Knowledge Sharing

  • Name Thomas Burrows
  • COBOL Experience: (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert) Expert
  • Location: (City, State, Country) Coppell TX USA
  • Availability: (Part-time, Full-time) either
  • Availability Type: (Volunteer, Available to Hire) Could volunteer, but would like to get paid.
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THOMAS B. BURROWS

138 Wynnpage Drive 469.693.2533 or 972.977.6475
Coppell, TX 75019 thomas.burrows.jobs@gmail.com

JOB TITLE: INFORMATION ANALYST / PROGRAMMER ANALYST

CAREER SUMMARY:

SENIOR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST WITH 15 PLUS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN VARIOUS DICIPLINES FROM NATIONAL DEFENSE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMMING WITH IBM ISERIES.

Security Clearance: Top Secret E.B.I. (Extensive Background Investigation)(inactive)

Certifications: Certified Oracle DBA

Programming Languages:
IBM iSeries Stored Procedures, ILE RPG/400 Free Format with embedded SQL, ILE COBOL 400, CL/400, Java, C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET, ASP, HTML, PL/SQL & Oracle 11g, PHP, SYNON, Microsoft AZURE, MAPIC, & SYNON

Operating Systems:
OS/400 – V7R3, UNIX, Linux, Windows 2012 Professional, Windows 10

Software Utilities:
ORACLE Forms, DB2, DBU, Rational Developer for I, ALDON, TURNOVER, IMPLEMENTOR, MKS, Visio, EXCEL, WORD, RxClaim, & PATHFINDER/HAWKEYE

Applications:
Mortgage Banking Support using Stored Procedures – Bank of America, Healthcare - Health Smart – medical insurance, Retail Grocery Warehousing, Telephony, Life & Auto Insurance, Systems Programming - IBM Rochester, Defense Communications NORAD/Cheyenne Mountain - Colorado, Data Warehousing and iSeries Security, insurance, pharmacy benefit management – CVS Caremark & Prime Therapeutics.

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

AUGUST 2018 TO PRESENT – INFOSYS LTD – CONTRACTOR/PROGRAMMER

• DESIGN, PROGRAMMING, AND INSTALLATION OF RPG-ILE PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT CREDIT CARD PROTEST SYSTEM USING IBM IMAGE 400 SYSTEM VIA IBM I JAVA BASED AAPI’S.
• USING THE AGILE ENVIRONMENT TO WORK WITH OTHER TEAM MEMBERS IN TRANSITIONING CORE SYSCO AS400 FUNCTIONALITY TO CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS.

DECEMBER 2017 TO AUGUST 2018 – COLLINS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CAREMARK – CONTRACTOR/PROGRAMMER

• ANALYSIS SUPPORT OF PBM “PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGEMENT” LOADING OF NEW FILES.
• DESIGNED TEST PLANS AND PROCEDURES
• SUPPORTED BOTH RPG – FREE FORMAT – AND ISERIES COBOL CODE.
• SUPPORTED SYNON PROGRAMS.

AUGUST 2017 TO DECEMBER 2017 – BANK OF AMERICA – CONTRACTOR/PROGRAMMER – ADDISON, TX

• SUPPORT OF BANK OF AMERICA LAMPS – MORTGAGE – SYSTEM – USING IBM ISERIES AS400 RPG ILE FREE FORMAT.
• DEVELOPMENT OF JAVA PROGRAMS.
• DEVELOPMENT OF C#.NET PROGRAMS
• Supported credit card applications.

APRIL 2017 TO AUGUST 2017 – IBM – PROGRAMMER – EAGAN, MN

• ANALYSIS SUPPORT OF NEW PBM “PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGEMENT” SHARE ON SHARE PLAN FOR WALGREENS RX PROJECT.
• CLIENT REPRESENTATIVE FOR FIVE OFFSHORE IBM ISERIES RPG RESOURCES.
• QA CHECK FOR CODE QUALITY AND REQUIREMENTS.
• SUPPORTED ISERIES COBOL SYSTEMS.
• SUPPORTED SYNON PROGRAMS.

MAY 2016 TO MARCH 2017 – COLLINS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY- PROGRAMMER

• PROGRAMMING SUPPORT OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS UTILIZING EMBEDDED SQL IN COBOL ON THE IBM AS400/ISERIES PLATFORM SUPPORTING CREDIT CARD OPERATIONS.
• USED CHANGE CONTROL TOOL TURNOVER.
• MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING SERVICE PROGRAMS.

OCTOBER 2015 TO APRIL 2016 – BANK OF AMERICA - PROGRAMMER – ADDISON TX

• PROGRAMMING SUPPORT OF MORTGAGE AUDITING PROJECT UTILIZING EMBEDDED SQL IN RPG AND SERVICE PROGRAMS ON THE IBM AS400/ISERIES PLATFORM FOR CREDIT CARD OPERATIONS.
• EXTENSIVE USE OF CHANGE CONTROL TOOL TURNOVER.
• DEBUGGING AND MODIFING EXISTING PROGRAMS.

NOVEMBER 2014 TO SEPTEMBER 2015 – COLLINS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY – PROGRAMMER

• REWRITE LEGACY ELECTION BILLING SYSTEM USING RPG ILE ON THE IBM AS400/ISERIES/POWER 7.
• SUPPORT EXISTING ELECTION SOFTWARE SYSTEM WITH MODIFICATIONS AND BUG FIXES.
• NEW RPG DEVELOPMENT USING RPG ILE AND EMBEDDED SQL ON THE AS400/ISERIES.
o OMGA SAW DATA FEEDS SYSTEM. FIVE NEW PROGRAMS AND THREE NEW FILES.
o DISCOVERY OF MISSING LINE ITEMS FOR PURCHASE ORDERS. CONSISTED OF FIVE PROGRAMS AND TWO FILES.
o REWRITE OF DAILY PIECE COUNT REPORTS. CHANGES TO SEVEN PROGRAMS AND ASSOCIATED PRINTER FILES.
o USED ALDON CHANGE CONTROL SYSTEM.

JULY 2014 TO OCTOBER 2014 – FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS – CONTRACTOR/PROGRAMMER- ADDISON, TX

• SUPPORT CONVERSION OF LAND LINE DATA FROM AT&T TO FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS USING RPG BASED PROGRAMS WITH HEAVY EMBEDDED SQL ON THE AS400/ISERIES:
o USED FTP TO TRANSFER FILES FROM AT&T TO FRONTIER.
o USED AND MADE MODIFICATIONS TO CL & RPG PROGRAMS USED TO UNLOAD EXCEL CSV FILES RECEIVED FROM AT&T.
o RAN CONVERSION PROCESS “12 TO 15 HOURS” IN TEST MODE TO TEST OUT NEW CSV FILES FROM AT&T.
o BUILD NEW ISERIES FILES AND LOADING RPG PROGRAMS AS NEW CSV FILES APPEARED FROM AT&T.

MARCH 2014 TO JUNE 2014 – CVS CAREMARK – CONTRACTOR/PROGRAMMER – RICHARDSON TX

• DEVELOP ETL SYSTEM FOR LARGE NON-ISERIES PHARMACY FILES TO RXCLAIM DATABASE SYSTEM ON THE AS400/ISERIES USING:
o RPGIV AND CL WITHIN THE ILE ENVIRONMENT.
o ANALYZED SYNON PROGRAMS.
o HEAVY USE OF FTP AND UNLOADING DATA FROM CSV FILES.
o DEVELOPMENT OF TEST PLANS PER CVS CAREMARK METHOLOGY.

MARCH 2013 TO FEBRUARY 2014 – COLLINS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

• SUPPORT AND ENHANCEMENT OF ISERIES/AS400 ERP SYSTEM USING:
o RPGIV AND CL WITHIN THE ILE ENVIRONMENT.
• SUPPORT OF INTERFACE TO SAP SYSTEMS:
• SUPPORT OF C#.NET PROGRAMS INTERFACING WITH ISERIES/AS400.
• CLASSES FROM HP UNIVERSITY ON VARIOUS PART OF SAP.

AUGUST 2012 TO MARCH 2013 – CVS CAREMARK – RICHARDSON TX

• ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT OF ISERIES DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS. DASD SPACE MANAGEMENT, OPERATING SYSTEM UPDATES, AND INFORMAL HELPDESK SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPERS.
• AS400/ISERIES SUPPORT POSITION MANAGING TESTING ENVIRONMENTS IN RXCLAIM.
• STUDIED AND PERFORMED ANALYSIS OF SYNON PROGRAMS.
• Analyzed Business Requirement for Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Cases.
• AUTOMATED ENVIRONMENT BUILD AND TESTING TOOLS.
• TRIAGING OF ENVIRONMENT BUILD PROBLEMS IN RXCLAIM.
• FULLY VERSED IN SDLC “SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE”.
• KNOWLEDGEABLE OF ISERIES SQL FOR DATA ANALYSIS FOR ENVIRONMENT BUILDS AND PROBLEM ANALYSIS.
• GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO INTERFACE WITH USERS AND PROGRAMMERS.
• UNDERSTAND HOW THE OFFSHORE AND ON SITE MODEL WORKS.
MANAGED ENVIRONMENT BUILDS FROM PROGRAMMERS USING QC “QUALITY CENTER” TOOL
• MANAGING JOB DESCRIPTIONS, USER PROFILES, DASD SPACE USAGE BY DEVELOPERS.
• SET UP FTP PROCESSES TO MOVE DATA FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES TO RXCLAIM ISERIES FILES/TABLES.
• HANDLE CHANGE CONTROL PROCESS THAT DETERMINED WHAT FILES GOT PUSHED TO WHAT PARTICULAR PRODUCTION PLATFORMS. UPDATED CONTROL FILES THAT WERE USED BY INTERNALLY WRITTEN PROCESS TO DETERMINE WHAT DATA WAS PUT IN TESTING FILES FOR DEVELOPERS.
• INVESTIGATED USER PROFILE PROVISIONING TO REPORT BACK TO SECURITY TEAMS PER WHAT PROFILES LACKED SO PROGRAMMERS COULD DO THEIR JOB.

FEBRUARY 2012 TO JUNE 2012 – HEALTH SMART – CONTRACTOR/PROGRAMMER – IRVING, TX

• ISERIES ILE RPG AND COBOL PROGRAMMING SUPPORTING HEALTH INSURANCE PROCESSES ON THE AS400/ISERIES.
• PROTYPING C#.NET FRONT ISERIES PROGRAMS TO REPLACE TRADITIONAL ISERIES GREEN SCREEN DATA ENTRY.
• SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTING WORKED WITH OPERATIONS TO HANDLE USER PROFILE PROVISIONING.
• UPDATES TO BILLING SYSTEMS AS NEEDED.

FEBRUARY 2011 TO OCTOBER 2011 – BANK OF AMERICA – CONTRACTOR/PROGRAMMER – ADDISON, TX

• AS400/ISERIES ILE RPG AND STORED PROCEDURES INTERFACING WITH SQL SERVER JAVA PROGRAM CALLS SUPPORTING CREDIT CARD OPERATIONS.
• DEVELOPED RPG AND JAVA PROGRAMS TO TEST STORED PROCEDURES ON THE ISERIES. WORKED CLOSED WITH JAVA DEVELOPERS TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL INTERFACES BETWEEN JAVA PROGRAMS AND STORED PROCEDURES.
• COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BANK OF AMERICA DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT, SUCH AUTHORITY ISSUES WITHIN THE DIFFERENT TESTING LEVELS OF THE CHANGE CONTROL SYSTEM.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, minors in Geology & Business
Stephen F. Austin State University - Nacogdoches, TX
Member in Good Standing – Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

Continuing Education:

Java Collin College 2020
C#.Net Collin College 2015
SAP Classes HP University 2013
PHP on iSeries El Centro College 2013
PL/SQL – 10G El Centro College 2008
Visual C#.Net on
iSeries El Centro College 2006
Visual Basic.NET El Centro College 2005
ORACLE Forms El Centro College 2004
ORACLE 11g El Centro College 2008