Candidates About

Derez D. Lusk

SUMMARY

Accomplished Senior Programmer Analyst with a broad based experience in several Information Systems environments.  Adept in all phases of the systems development life cycle. Programming and analytical expertise in CICS, DB2, COBOL, VSAM and JCL in OS MVS, IBM Mainframe environments. Project experience in new and existing functionality analytical evaluations, new development, maintenance and enhancements in the integration of newly acquired companies, data and systems conversions, database, online and batch process systems architecture. 36 years’ experience in information Technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CICS Intertest – Online and Batch. XPEDEITER, ENDEVOR (CA), CHANGEMAN (Serena)

COBOL, Fileaid, Filemaster, DB2 V9 & V10, IBM DB2 utilities, OS/MVS JCL, SUPERC SYNCSORT, TSO ISPF, TPX, STROBE, Application Performance Analyzer Attachmate Extra Enterprise, CICS Transaction Server v9.1, Symdump BMS MAPPING, Mercury Quality center, JCLSAFE, AQT, DB2 Connect, CICS Explorer, MQ Browser, VDI ,LOTUS NOTES, LOTUS NOTES SAMETIME,PDSMAN, SCREEN PAINTER, EZTRIEVE, ISPF, IDCAMS FTP, NDM, Document Direct, VDR , SDSF, Microsoft Office 2016 SAR, SAPGUI / NETWEAVER in ECC6. CONTROL-M, XACT/XNET, ALM 12.0.1, IBM Data Studio 4.1.0.1 Client.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

DeVry University – Chicago 2005 – 2009

Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science / Computer Information Systems

Cum Laude GPA 3.75

Advance Computer Training, Glenview, IL 2009 – 2010

SAP / ABAP Programming

Concepts in Transport Organizer, ABAP Dictionary, string processing

Field symbols, internal tables/types, parameters, selection screens, function modules, standard SQL, Logical Databases, Screen and menu painters, background processing, BDC, BAPI’s BADI’S SAP Business Objects.

Simplilearn   2016- current

Big Data Hadoop Developer TRAINING

Concepts in Big Data, MapReduce, HDFS concepts. Oracle Virtual Box  with VM, UBUNTU  

Desktop,Cloudera QuickStart, Single Node and Full MultiNode Distributed Processing

HIVE, PIG,HBASE SPARK ,MySQL, HDFS .

Anticipated Certification date  May 2017

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BitWise Global 

Schaumburg, Il 

Client: Discover Financial Services                                                                  March 2017  - July 2017

Mainframe Systems Analyst

Project: Convert Mainframe CICS Application  to the Cloud.

As a consultant, performed analysis and documentation, (via word or visio) of programs within the Discover financial Services Mainframe CCIS application ACAPS for the Application to reside in the cloud . Translated some of the code so that the Java / MicroSoft services developer can translate the Cobol Code into the necessary language. Program, and system flow documentation in VISIO. Performing procedures technical documentation.

Performed some Production Maintenance on batch jobs, Created some adhocs Cobol jobs to evaluate the data to determine if the applications were duplicate or possible duplicates.

Collabra IBM 

Chicago, Il

Client: HCSC (BlueCross BlueShield of Il)                                                        Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

Mainframe Application Developer

Project: Government Programs Medicaid

As a consultant, performed analysis and maintenance for a series of Medicare/Medicaid batch processes

where the the data from an government provider sent to HCSC for processing, then sent to the associated Medicare or Medicaid provider. This included all phases of SDM including Unit/System/User Acceptance Testing, as well as Vendor Testing. 

TEK SYSTEMS INC.

Chicago, Il

Client: Northern Trust, Chicago, IL                                                                   Mar 2016 - Aug 2016

Mainframe Application Architect

Project: GDSRULES SAR-1 & SAR-3

As a consultant (TEK Systems), performed analysis, mapping research and development for Global Distribution Systems, (GDS) Accounting Hub back feed process to Legacy Historical Transaction File (HTF) and Trust Investment & Accounting (TIA) systems. Maintained and implemented UAT / Production reports into the associated UAT / Production XACT/XNET repository. Created a universal batch system summary report process, which reported on all batch jobs that completed successfully, and abended jobs with some detail on why the batch job abended for application to any of Northern Trust’s batch systems.   

HCSC – BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, Chicago, IL                         Sept 2010 – Feb, 2016

Mainframe Application Developer/ Analyst

Project: CMS ICD-10

Team Lead – team of approximately 25 mainframe and client server programmers and analysts. Conducted team meetings, code walkthroughs, programming and environment assistance. Responsible for conversion of and providing new functionality of ICD-10 with ICD-09 in the claim adjudication system (BLUECHIP) along with all interfaces including CFE, RTIS. Conversion of Interplan Teleprocessing System (ITS) and National Accounts both batch an Online processing. Per requirements, developed and added two new green screens within the Bluechip Adjudication System (GCD4 and GCLX).

Assisted in the BlueCross BlueShield application merging for the Montana Alliance. Maintained Lotus Notes Team rooms and all documentation. Trained employees and contractors on the Bluechip Claim Adjudication process to assist their understanding of the functions of BlueChip claim processing.

BCAG Production Support Team

Provided support, maintenance and enhancements for both Bluechip online processes and batch National Accounts, ITS, LABOR, RTIS, Accums, GCPS  processes. Responsible for nightly batch support. Assisted in Technical Bridge conference calls. Trained team members in use of DB2 detector, SCCF request processes. CICS triage techniques, system portals, and BlueChip Claim Adjudication processes.

Resolved CICS abends such as INVR, Short on Storage, Storage Violations, AEIV, and system induced abends as per user ABEND codes.  Collaborated with CICS, and environment team in testing resolutions including use of Omeagamon, APA tool, CICS Explorer, MQ VISUAL BROWSER.

Performed testing using CFE GUI, CLAIMS GUI, Provider finder, Member inquiry, real-time testing using RTIS (Dropping claims into both WTX and the RTIS QUEUES)

Assisted other team members as needed. Participated in testing of enhancements to applications as well as new applications during Business Releases and off cycle releases. Assisted in both Production and Cycle CICS issues in both application and VSAM files issues.

TEAMSOFT INC.                                                                       March 2010 – June 2010

Madison Wisconsin

Client: Great Lakes Student Loan Servicing

Mainframe application Developer

Developing reports for client U.S. Department of Education. Direct loan information, transactions and other detailed and summary reports. New development in COBOL and DB2. Data extraction from DB2 tables into mainframe XML files and transmitted to GLHEC's intranet and U.S. Department of Education client's email boxes.  New Development for information regarding Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) compliances.

Environment: Enterprise COBOL, CICS MAPPR, INSYNC for DB2, INSYNC for MVS, CHANGEMAN, IBM-DB2 Utilities, QuickStart recovery system, SAR/CA-VIEW TSO/ISPF, PLATINUM utilities.                                 

Modis, Chicago

Client: JPMorgan Chase, Chicago, IL                                                   2008-2009

HSBC, Mettawa, IL (FTE)                                                                                  1999 – 2007

Interactive Business Systems (FTE)                                                                     1989 --1999

ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ AWARDS

HCSC

June 2014 -       Spot Award Outstanding Performance

November 2015 Spot Award Outstanding Performance