Candidates About

 

John E. Mann

                                                                                                                                               

Information Technology Professional with track record as talented designer, meticulous tester, powerful problem solver, generous mentor, and proven leader with demonstrated ability to foster relationships while interacting with colleagues and clients.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL MVS, TSO, ISPF, JCL, JCL Utilities, Syncsort, XPEDITER, FILEAID, IBM File Manager, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, DB2, Micro Focus Cobol Workbench, TELON, MVS/ESA, Panvalet, Librarian, Endevor, Changeman, PVCS, Teradata, MS Office, MS Word, MS Excel,                    MS Powerpoint

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

COBOL II, Brainbench.com, June 2010, Certificate Transcript ID 9226245.

JCL, Brainbench.com, July 2010, Certificate Transcript ID 9226245.

VSAM, Brainbench.com, July 2010, Certificate Transcript ID 9226245.

IMS 6.0, Brainbench.com, August 2010, Certificate Transcript ID 9226245.

 

IT Experience

 

Consultant Mainframe Developer                                           November 2015 to December 2017

 

Chubb & Son, Whitehouse Station, NJ/Warren, NJ (Contractor through Vertigon Consulting)

 

As part of project to support Property and Casualty Insurance Claims System, researched data on DB2 tables, researched problems, modified and wrote programs, conducted testing, and verified data and results.  Verified the daily file transmission feed of Worker Comp claims to the third party vendor (EBIX) that posted those claims to the national Worker Comp clearinghouse (WCIRS) website; and followed up to address any problems with those file transmissions.

Project involved COBOL II, DB2, WINSQL, FILEAID, TSO, ISPF, MVS, JCL, Syncsort, Panvalet, Focus, MS Excel, MS Word.

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                                                               July 2013 to July 2015

 

HSBC, Buffalo, NY (Contractor through Lighthouse Technology Services)

 

As part of project to address federal Regulation W requirements, as well as related Regulatory Compliance projects for HSBC’s Risk Management Systems, researched data on DB2 tables as part of analysis to create new programs and processes, wrote technical specifications for those programs, wrote some of the programs, tested the job streams, verified the results of the testing, and solved problems that came to light as a result of that testing.

Project involved COBOL II, DB2, SQL, File Manager, TSO, ISPF, MVS, JCL, Syncsort, Endevor, MS Excel, MS Word.

 

 

 

 

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                                December 2012 to July 2013

 

Express Scripts.  Franklin Lakes, NJ (Contractor through CDI and IBM)

 

As part of Production Support Team, researched data on pertinent DB2 tables to determine why problems and errors occurred for specific pharmacy claims processed by Express Scripts’ Prescription Claims system.  Provided findings to team responsible for correcting the offending data on the DB2 tables involved.

Project involved COBOL II, VSAM, TSO, JCL, DB2, and Teradata.

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                          September 2012 to October, 2012

 

Computer Aid, Inc.  Allentown, PA

 

For client Emblem Health, New York, NY, performed research, analysis, writing Technical Specification documents, and coding for client’s Hospital Claims System.

Project involved COBOL II, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, MVS, JCL, CICS, Librarian, XPEDITER, Fileaid,    MS Excel, MS Word.

 

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                                  September 2010 to September 2012

 

HSBC, Buffalo, NY (Contractor through Lighthouse Technology Services)

 

April 2011 to September 2012:  Performed team lead duties including writing Functional Requirement and Technical Specification documents, as well as writing Test Plans and Test Scripts, and performed code review, analysis, testing, verification, offshore coordination, problem solving, and coding as part of project teams for HSBC’s Risk Management Systems.

Project involved COBOL II, DB2, SQL, TSO, ISPF, MVS, JCL, Syncsort, Endevor, MS Excel,    MS Word.

 

September 2010 through April 2011: Ran test jobs following test scripts, verified the results of those tests, researched and resolved problems from those tests, and made coding changes to COBOL programs as part of HSBC’s Anti-Money Laundering Compliance effort.

Project involved COBOL II, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, MVS, JCL, Syncsort, XPEDITER, FILEAID, Endevor, MS Excel, MS Word.

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                                               March 2002 to August 2003

 

Harleysville Insurance Company, Harleysville, PA (Contractor through Business Source Systems)

 

Analyzed and implemented changes to consolidate insurance systems.  Conducted thorough testing with scripted scenarios while interacting with Quality Assurance team.

Project involved COBOL II, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, MVS, INSYNC, Endevor, MS Word.

 

Consultant Senior Programmer/Analyst                                            January 2000 to December 2000

 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Clarks Summit, PA (Contractor through Maxim Group)

 

For ad-hoc claims project, analyzed, designed, coded, thoroughly unit tested, system tested, and implemented process to update multiple systems for life insurance claims against any one system.  There were separate job streams and VSAM files for each product line of life insurance.  Clients could have policies in different product lines.  If a death claim came in for a client for any of the product lines, the program and process would search across product lines using the VSAM secondary indexes to process the death claim for all of the products the process found for that client.

Project involved COBOL II, VSAM, XPEDITER, TSO, ISPF, JCL MVS, FILEAID, MS Word.

Consultant Senior Programmer/Analyst                                                     June 1999 to January 2000           

 

Guardian Life Insurance Company, Bethlehem, PA (Contractor through Teltech International)

 

Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and implemented mainframe interface modules that retrieved data from the Unix network and processed that data into the existing mainframe job streams, as part of a conversion team to replace a mainframe based Annuity system.

Project involved COBOL/MVS, XPEDITER, TSO, ISPF, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, Changeman,     MS Word, MS Excel

 

Year 2000 Test Manager                                                                         April 1998 to June 1999         

 

United States Postal Service, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Contractor through H.L. Yoh and SAIC)

 

Analyzed testing requirements for the USPS Payroll Applications Year 2000 Remediation effort and created test methodology to conduct effective testing with minimal intervention from the USPS client.  Wrote test plans and test scripts for team of testers.  Taught team of inexperienced testers to use XPEDITER and mentored those testers with their COBOL skills.  Managed team of testers in the execution of the USPS Year 2000 Unit Testing. Documented and reported problems uncovered by the test effort to the USPS client.

Project involved COBOL/MVS, XPEDITER, TSO, ISPF, JCL, MVS, FILEAID, Endevor, VSAM, MS Word, MS Excel.

 

Year 2000 Technical Consultant                                                              September 1997 to April 1998          

 

AIG International, Livingston, NJ (Independent Contractor through BEF)

 

Authored Year 2000 testing tool guidelines document. Trained and mentored AIG end users in Year 2000 testing tools and use of scripted Year 2000 test plans.

Project involved COBOL II, XPEDITER, CA-VERIFY, MVS, JCL, Falcon 2000, MS Word,          MS Excel.

 

Peritus Year 2000  Assessment /Renovation Technician                    April 1997 to September 1997

 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Bridgewater, NJ (Contractor through DMR Trecom)

 

Performed Year 2000 renovations using the Peritus tool and assisted junior team members with COBOL II, JCL, and FILEAID concerns.

Project involved COBOL II, Peritus, Revolve, ISPF, TSO, JCL, MVS, FILEAID, MS Word.

 

Consultant Senior Programmer/Analyst                                                              May1996 to April 1997

 

AT&T, Somerset, NJ (Contractor through DMR Trecom)

 

Designed, coded, tested, and implemented an ad-hoc subsystem that identified customers who were taxed incorrectly and processed credits for those customers.  Researched, designed, coded, tested, and implemented a solution to address problems involving Tax Jurisdiction for Multi-Line customers.

Project involved COBOL II, IMS DB, JCL XPEDITER, FILEAID, MVS, ISPF, TSO, Librarian,      MS Word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                                                September 1995 to May 1996

 

Prudential Asset Management Company, Moosic, PA (Contractor through Computer Aid, Inc.)

 

Analyzed, coded, created test plans, created test data, tested, and implemented enhancements to the Retired Life Pension and Check Writing and Tax System.  Analyzed, coded, tested and implemented conversion of “home-grown” data manipulation jobs to use FILEAID.

Project involved COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, CMS.

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                                                January 1995 to June 1995    

 

Prudential, Roseland, NJ (Contractor through Quantum Information Resources)

 

Analyzed, coded, and resolved problems as part of project to convert Agent Payroll Processing System from PRUCOBOL to COBOL II.

Project involved COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CMS, Micro Focus Cobol Workbench.

 

Programmer/Analyst                                                                            June 1991 to January 1995   

 

Chubb and Son, Inc., Warren, NJ

 

Analyzed, coded, tested, and implemented changes as well as solved problems for Property/Casualty Insurance Premium Booking systems for Commercial Workers Comp and Commercial Auto.  Migrated these systems to Micro Focus Cobol Workbench.

Project involved COBOL, COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, JCL XPEDITER, FILEAID, TELON, TSO, ISPF, MVS, Panvalet, Micro Focus Cobol Workbench, PVCS.

 

Consultant Programmer/Analyst                                                                December 1990 to June 1991

 

Bethlehem Steel, Bethlehem, PA (Contractor through Computer Aid, Inc.)

 

Analyzed, coded, and implemented programs that updated railway transportation mode codes.  Analyzed, coded, and ran Focus Execs to produce various production reports at user’s request.

Project involved COBOL II, IMS DB, JCL, MVS, TSO, ISPF, Focus.

 

Programmer/Analyst                                                                   October 1986 to December 1990

 

Chubb and Son, Inc., Warren, NJ

 

Analyzed, coded, tested, solved problems, and implemented programs for two new Insurance Accounting systems.

Project involved COBOL, JCL, FILEAID, VSAM, MVS, TSO, ISPF, CLIST.

 

Non-IT Experience

 

Realtor                                                                                              November 2008 to September, 2010

 

Prudential Patt, White Real Estate, Easton, PA

 

Actively prospected for clients. Served the needs of clients in buying and selling home. Particularly enjoyed educating first time home buyers.  Managed details and solved problems in guiding transactions to successful completion.  Created marketing materials and shared those materials with fellow Prudential Patt, White agents.  Served Relocation clients referred from third party Relocation Providers.  Served and contributed to the Multi-List Committee for the Lehigh Valley Association of Realtors.  Earned National Association of Realtors “Green” designation.

 

 

Realtor                                                                                                September 2001 to March 2002                                           

                                                                                                August 2003 to November 2008  

 

Century 21 Pinnacle, Wind Gap, PA

 

Actively prospected for clients. Served the needs of clients in buying and selling homes. Particularly enjoyed educating first time home buyers.  Managed details and solved problems in guiding transactions to successful completion.  Mentored new agents.  Created marketing materials and shared those materials with fellow Century 21 Pinnacle agents.  Served Relocation clients referred from third party Relocation Providers.  Served and contributed to the Multi-List Committee for the Lehigh Valley Association of Realtors.  Earned Accredited Buyer Representative designation.

 

Education

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA (1978-1982) Earned B.S. Business and Administration,  May, 1982.

Chubb Institute for Computer Technology, Parsippany, NJ (1986). Earned Programming Certificate, October, 1986