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Larry Freshwater

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY  -  28 years total
25 years:	Mainframe Business Application Developer: Developing and maintaining Business Applications utilizing CICS, COBOL2, DB2/SQL, VSAM, z/OS MVS JCL, z/VSE JCL, IMS/DLI, DATACOM, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, IBM RDz 9.5
3 years:	Business Analyst: Writing requirements for projects utilizing Web Applications and  Mainframe Business Applications Ø     3 yrs - Web applications (VB.net & C#.net) writing requirements for Business Applications  utilizing the following software: SQL Server, SSRS, Team Foundation Server, MS Visual Studio, MS Test Manager, GatherSpace, IRISE, XML, WSDL, SOAP, SOAPUI, Java Utilities Ø     3 yrs - Mainframe applications  writing requirements for projects for Business Applications housed on z/OS, z/VSE and z/VSE Web Services Soap Server applications, Java Utilities, Experience in Image processing/Document Imaging

 

Skills
Mainframe Systems & Applications	§   Express Scripts Pharmaceutical Benefit Management systems (PBM) §   MetLife Life Insurance systems §   CJIS/JJIS (Criminal& Juvenile) Justice Information Systems §   Trailblazers Medicare Claims systems §   Health Plan Services Medical Billing and Financial systems §   Nationwide Life Insurance Pension and Annuity systems ( PALLM Life Insurance System)   §   Chemical Mortgage Banking systems (SYSTEMATICS Mortgage Servicing System) §   MBNA Credit Card Systems (New Card Credit Card systems processing), §   McLane Company’s DCS 2000 Merchandising systems (McLane is subsidiary of Wal-Mart) §   Worthington Steel Manufacturing systems §   First American Real Estate Tax Services systems
Business Analyst BAB	Ø  Experience and knowledge of modern SDLC practices (Waterfall, Agile( Scrum, Kanban, XP, FDD, DSDM), Sashimi, RAD, Spiral),  Experience with Express One Delivery and CMMI methodologies Ø  Facilitation of JAR & JAD workshops with large groups of Stakeholders for Gap Analysis and Creation of High Level and Detail Level Business Requirements Definitions (BRD), High Level & detail Level Design Requirements, Functional Design Specifications, User Stories/Use Cases, Traceability Matrix deliverables, and related deliverables associated with Audit Compliance and Governance requirements Ø  Hands on knowledge using BABOK & PMBOK standards, familiar with ITSM & ITIL Service Management infrastructure and experience carving out requirements specific to compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLA), familiar with Basel II, III regulatory framework for capital and liquidity
Mainframe Software	CICS, COBOL,  DB2, VSAM  IMS DL1, DATACOM DB, SQL, z/OS, z/OS JCL, MQ Series, RACF, SAR, TSO/ISPF, LIBRARIAN, IAM Utilities, z/VSE JCL, SYSPLEX, FILEAID, EZtrieve+, CA-7, CA-11, SYNCSORT/DFSORT, SDSF, SDF, CA-INTERTEST/CA-EZTEST, SMARTTEST, PDS, Change Management CHANGEMAN/Endeavor, XRAY, IBM AS, CMS, PANVALET, ADABAS/NATURAL, EZ Letter, DYL280, METHOD1, Roscoe, FTP/NDM, OPCE, Mainframe CICS SOAP Server (Mainframe Provider side Web Servicing),  EDI Gentran, NDM, FTP, IBM RDz (Rational Developer for z Systems)
Web Software	Microsoft Office Suite(MS Word, MS Excel, Visio, MS Outlook, PowerPoint),  SQL Server, Team Foundation Server, MS Visual Studio, MS Test Manager, VB.net, C#.net, GatherSpace, Balsamiq wireframing, Snagit, IRISE, XML, WSDL, SOAP, CICS2WS, KEYMAN/VSE, SOAPUI, Java Utilities, Activity Tracker, DART, Lotus Notes/ Sametime, Citrix Desktop,

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE                                                                                      

Mitchell Martin Inc.

01/2017 – 07/2017

First Data Corporation Account, Omaha, NE

Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS)                                                                                                                                              

IT Consultant

Application Design and Development of EFTPS system, the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, developed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Financial Management Service (FMS). EFTPS enables you to pay your federal taxes electronically.

·          Required Security clearance due to sensitivity of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data being worked with

·          Responsible for providing analysis and application program development of IRS EFTPS system (all channels)

·          Provided Research Analysis and Functional Requirements  deliverables to upper management

·          Analyzed Business Requirements documents (BRD) and provided programming for on time delivery of those requirements

·          Provided Documentation for Program Analysis, Design, & Unit Testing

·          Supported Quality Assurance during their QA Testing process

·          Provided preliminary analysis approach deliverables for implementing CICS RESTful/JSON Web Servicing API's on applicable business modules

• 90% mainframe development was done using RDz - IBM Rational Developer for z systems

·          Environment:. MS Office Suite, EFTPS SharePoint, Development was on Mainframe z/OS 2.2, CICS 5.3, Cobol II, DB2 10, SPUFI, QMF, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, and IBM Mainframe Utilities, IBM Rational Developer Unit Test 9.5 (RDz)

 

ARAYA SOFTWARE SERVICES, Miami, FL                                                                                                          

010/2013 – 06/2016

IT Consultant                                                                                                                                          

Mainframe Developer

Hired on as an Independent Consultant to provide proof of concept for implementing CICS Web Services functionality into the business modules utilized by the California Department of Motor Vehicles and other participating organizations.

·          Responsible for providing analysis and application program development utilizing CICS business modules

·          Provided Functional Requirements  deliverables on CICS Business modules

·          Provided preliminary analysis approach deliverables for implementing CICS Web Servicing on applicable business modules already trained on

·          Was in process of being trained on all related system application business modules

• DMV subsidiaries in California and other states cut budget project stopped
• Utilized regular native http SOAP Web Services
• Worked REMOTE through VPN using regular 3270 emulator attached to server IP address.

·          Environment:. MS Office Suite, SharePoint, Development side used Mainframe z/OS 2.1, CICS 5.1, Cobol II, DB2 10, SPUFI, QMF, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IMS/DB and IBM Mainframe Utilities, Rational Developer Unit Test 9.1 over SUSE Linux 13.2

 

Cognizant Technology Solutions                                                                                                                                                  

12/2011 – 6/2013

Express Scripts Holding Company Account, Minneapolis, MN

Merger Migration Project

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Project Summary: – Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 company, recently acquired Medco Health Solutions July 21^st 2011 for $29.1 Billion. Their vision is to migrate all Claims and Integrated Claims business applications housed on their Mainframe/ Middleware/ Web/ Data Warehouse to the Medco Health Solution’s Foundation 14 system located in New Jersey utilizing an Agile/Waterfall lifecycle for Project Mgmt. Medco is 34^th on the 2011 Fortune 500 list. The Express Scripts-Medco merger is estimated to cover prescriptions benefits for 1 in 3 Americans.

 

Responsible for providing Sr. Programmer/Analyst programming for migrating of Express Script’s Claims and Integrated Claims business applications  to newly acquired  Medco health Solution’s  Foundation 14 system in New Jersey

·          Provided application development utilizing  z/OS, CICS/Cobol, DB2, VSAM, MQ Series, CHANGEMAN

·          Worked directly with Functional Requirements (FRD) determining application programming specifications

·          Provided preliminary analysis of Short Term and Long Term Tactical approaches for development depending on Level of Effort (LOE) required

·          Provided early analysis as input to help frame the long term approach and tactical approach for Medco East reformatter modules

Major Projects:

·          MED D EGWP Project – Provided programming for migrating Eligibility, Claims, and Prior Authorization data to Medco’s Foundation 14 system for EGWP Clients as well as Commercial Clients migrating its members from Retiree Drug Subsidy(RDS) program to Med D EGWP as RDS is being phase out by CMS(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)

• Facilitated meetings with Tech leads and BSA’s to design process to meet 24 hour SLA requirement by Medicare for Reconciling & Recycling rejected claims back thru Medco’s Foundation 14 system following the daily data history loads  for EGWP and RDS to EGWP clients

·          Federal Health Care Reform Project – provided programming for Precious Metal Tiers, Member Churn and Grace Periods projects for integrating into all State Health Care Exchanges to be in place for the go live date of Jan 1, 2014.

·          Completed Audit Packages for Project Compliance required by Medicare

·          Environment:. MS Office Suite, SharePoint, VISIO, MS Office Live and Adobe Connect were used for Facilitating meetings, Secure Citrix desktop for remote access to ESI East and West networks, Development side used Mainframe used z/OS CICS, Cobol, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, IMS, VSAM, z/OS JCL, IBM Mainframe Utilities, CHANGEMAN, MQ Series

 

MetLife Account, Tampa, FL                                                                                                                                                        

Tricare Dental Project for U.S. Military

Tampa Office Operations Manager

Project Summary: - Provided Management support for Tampa Office Operations dealing with MetLife’s Tricare project. MetLife was awarded the 5 year contract to process the Tricare Dental Claims for the Military. This project required Secret Security Clearance from the Department of Defense for all individuals interacting with the Tricare Dental data on the MetLife system. This required the existing PM team which was located offshore to be reassigned, due to Department of Defense requirements, and a whole new team constructed for the production support of the MetLife systems containing Tricare data. This in turn instigated the establishment of the Cognizant Tampa, Florida office.

 

Started out as a Associate providing mainframe business  applications developer programming for the Unified Inforce System utilizing z/OS CICS/COBOL, DB2, MQ Series – after a few months I was promoted to Tampa office Operations Manager after management observed my leadership and office staff coming to me for technical advice as well as having management background.

 

Responsible for Tampa Office operations which comprised 10 teams consisting of 70 associates providing PM support for 10 MetLife Tricare systems - Corporate Billing System, Unified Inforce System, Customer Service System, Full Service Dental, Dental, eBusiness (consisting of 67 applications), Shared Services, Common Services, Knowledge Management System, and Integrations Solutions Group.

·          MetLife Liaison for production support issues on Tricare Dental applications

·          Responsible for providing Tampa Office Metrics to the MetLife which included, Metrics validation, Time Tracking of projects, and all other reporting needs to MetLife

·          Responsible for onboarding of all team members including system logins, RACF security, SHAREPOINT Administration etc.

·          Held daily team lead meetings and provided mentoring to all staff members on all technical issues

·          Held Weekly Liaison meetings with MetLife to discuss production support issues

·          Followed up with MetLife counterparts for Tampa office Team’s production support issues involving all systems listed above which included (Mainframe, Middleware, & Web applications)

·          Environment: Secure Citrix desktop client environment using Thin Client workstations within Tampa office for access to MetLife network and Mainframe – Utilized z/OS, CICS/COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CHANGEMAN, MQ Series/Middleware/Web environments for PM support and application development, REMEDY was used to manage all PM tickets

 

Pasco County Board of County Commissioners, Land O’Lakes, FL

7/2008 – 1/2011

Manager – Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS)

·          Performed Project Manager/Business Analyst/Mainframe Programming duties holding JAR & JAD workshops with up to 40-50 participants to define High Level, Detail Level Business Requirements for projects

·          Created Business Process Models, Use Cases/Functional Design specifications and Technical Specification deliverables for all projects

·          Collaborated with and Negotiated agreements with potential Vendors

·          Facilitated communication between County Business Units and IT from initial requirements to final implementation - made recommendations for buy versus build decisions for potential replacement vendor software

·          For Web application support a Change Driven Approach utilizing Agile Life Cycle and Scrum Framework

·          Performed research necessary to create technical designs and logical functionality to ensure that business applications/systems are to be effectively developed and implemented to meet business requirements.

·          Focused on the analysis, definition, logical design and solutioning  to meet strategic goals of initiative

·          Created and maintained Uses Cases for Product backlog

·          Determined  Tasks to be included  on Sprint backlog for next Release and maintained Sprint backlog

·          Sprint backlog tasks – assigned development tasks to team members for each sprint release

·          All Web applications were on VB.net  platform housed on a SQL Server database

·          Utilized Team Foundation Server and MS Visual Studio utilizing MSF for agile software development v5 process guidance

·          Trained staff analyzed cost statistics and prepared economic comparisons of alternative methods.

·          Advanced technical work in devising methods and procedures for developing and maintaining Pasco County applications for complex business solutions within the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems (CJIS/JJIS). Duties also included architecture, design and implementation of applications, technical feasibility studies, Proof of Concepts, development, support and maintenance of production systems.

·          Responsible for ensuring that software development followed standards and best practices as directed by Information    Technology (IT) management. Defined and maintained development standards and best practices for gathering Business Requirements for projects.

·          Sole responsibility for  production support of 28 Mainframe systems written in CICS/COBOL on Datacom DB/VSAM platform  Systems included: Criminal, Juvenile, Calendar, Reports subsystem, Assessment & Collections, all State Attorney systems (Non Arrest, File Mgt, Bad Check Restitution, Case Load, Child Abuse, Victim Letter tracking), all Public Defender systems (Plea system, File Mgt, File Cutting) Sheriffs ROR system, Sheriffs Operation Payback, Appeals reporting, Circuit Court Minute Book system, Sheriffs Subpoena & Summons tracking system, Sheriffs Enforceable Civil process tracking system, Clerks Out of County Subpoena tracking system, Clerks Adjudication system, Offender Based Transaction system, Comprehensive Case Information system, Traffic Citation Accounting & Transmission system, Traffic system, Misdemeanor Probation system, and Interface to Inmate Mgt System.

Major Projects:

Analyze and Implement CICS Web Servicing on a z/VSE system platform

·          Implemented Web Servicing for Pasco’s PAPA (Property Appraiser Permitting Application) web application in which field inspectors could, by using the PAPA web app, request a building inspection from their Mobile device or PC, which I configured as a Mainframe web service to update the Central Permitting Systems Datacom database. Used z/VSE SOAP Engine as the web service provider and worked with IBM Java Utilities in configuration process. Was in the process of creating the configuration for using the z/VSE SOAP Engine as the Web Service Requestor allowing CICS to request web services from their Criminal Case software used by the Judges during courtroom proceedings.

Document all of Pasco County’s Criminal & Juvenile Justice Information Systems

·          Created 6000 row spreadsheet of all programs in the system, grouped by sub-system, cross referencing associated maps, map functions, system function, Pgm function and database tables contained within each program thereby allowing, by drop down box, to perform custom searches on any of the variables associated in the cross reference decreasing time to identify programs, databases, maps and reports associated with a particular production problem to within less than a minute.

·          Created SQL Server Data Mart of all databases within the Criminal & Juvenile Justice mainframe systems which entailed analyzing the Datacom DB file structures and business logic and splitting out the files to SQL Server tables and maintaining reference to original Datacom DB record keys for verifying data integrity. Required much analysis and ability to identify anomalies within the existing customized file structures.

Criminal Justice System Replacement Project

·          Analyze the existing and extensible Business Requirements.

·          Attended meetings with CJIS Board members consisting of Clerk of Court, Chief of Justice Judge, Chief Sheriff, State Attorney, Public Defender, Manager of Inmate Processing, IT Director etc.

·          Convened monthly to assess Vendor Case Management software and identify our requirements and needs which entailed creating system documentation at CJIS Board Members request.

·          Partnered with Florida Association of Court Clerk and Comptroller's to analyze their Case Management Software and decision was made to purchase the FACC’s CLERICUS product

·          Was in process of converting the Criminal & Juvenile Justice systems along with our Traffic and Clerk of Courts Systems to CLERICUS which is on a VB.net platform housed on a SQL Server Database

·          Environment: z/VSE JCL, CICS/COBOL 2, TSO/ISPF, Datacom DB, VSAM, Intertest, XRAY, Librarian, XML, WSDL, SOAP, SOAPUI, CICS2WS, KEYMAN/VSE, Mainframe Web Services , ENDEAVOR

 

JP Morgan Chase Incorporated, Tampa, FL

2/2008 – 4/2008

Senior Programmer Analyst

Worked in Treasury and Securities Billing Department on 3 month contract 

·          Performed Business & Systems analysis and design for a very fast paced Consistent Group Rates project

·          Created Use Cases/Functional design and program technical specifications documents and deliverables for upper management

·          Analyzed CICS/COBOL 2 VSAM DB2 programs in creation of Technical Specification deliverables

·          Attended daily status conference calls with newly merged Bank One for timelines and deliverables

·          Environment: z/OS, z/OS JCL, CICS/COBOL 2, DB2, VSAM, Easytrieve+, TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, INTERTEST, Lotus Notes, Filaid

 

Healthplan Services Incorporated, Tampa, FL

8/2006 – 2/2008

Senior Programmer Analyst

HPS handles Medical billing for major Insurance companies

·          Reported to Finance Systems Manager

·          Performed Business Analyst duties for projects as well as Maintenance, new development, and documentation of financial and billing legacy systems  

·          Worked in the Humana EFT and Credit Card Bank feeds group

·          Environment: z/OS, z/OS JCL, CICS/COBOL 2, DB2, VSAM, Easytrieve+, Roscoe, TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, Intertest, and Filaid

 

Pinellas County, Clearwater, FL                    

11/2005 – 7/2006

Senior Programmer Analyst

·          Performed maintenance, new development, enhancements, and documentation for their legacy Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS)

·          Provided production support while their current staff was developing a new CJIS system

·          90% of assignments were online CICS using Intertest and CEDF for debugging 10% was batch Cobol II and Eztrieve+

·          Environment: z/OS, z/OS JCL, CICS/COBOL 2, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Eztrieve+, Intertest, Filaid, and Librarian

 

Trailblazers Company, Dallas, TX

10/2004 – 10/2005

Senior Programmer Analyst                  

Trailblazers Company processes Medicare claims for the United States Government

·          Performed Business Analyst/Systems Analyst duties utilizing Scrum framework creating & maintaining User Stories and Use Cases for Product Backlog

·          Identified Sprint Backlog Task’s for consecutive releases and worked with Scrum Master on assignment and estimation of tasks for streamlining  the conversion to General Ledger system developed by CMS the governing body for Medicare

·          Position required mainframe expertise, knowledge of Web application tools and knowledge of Business systems applications

·          In charge of Conversion of Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables and Cash Management to new Oracle based General Ledger System. Trailblazers was part of wave one contractors migrating to the new CMS General Ledger system

·          Partnered with departmental managers and SME’s for JAR & JAD sessions for creation of High Level and Detail Level Requirements and analysis of current system and spoke with pilot contracting companies about problems incurred in their conversion

·          Performed programming for gathering system data and ad-hoc reports delivered to manager’s for analysis

·          Analyzed CICS region processing of incoming claims and wrote deliverables to management on System’s internal workings

·          Converted all existing MVS JCL PROCS and Job streams for implementation of new software received by CMS

·          Created test VSAM, QSAM files for testing job streams and programs

·          Attended meetings with upper management and departmental managers concerning mapping requirements of all Master Files associated with conversion

·          Performed file mappings for all files regarding Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable  and Cash Management conversion

·          Worked with CMS for proper programming of conversion programs regarding our particular system

·          Environment: z/OS, z/OS JCL, CICS/COBOL 2, DB2, VSAM, Easytrieve+, Endeavor, Intertest, EZTEST, TSO/ISPF and Filaid

 

McLane Company Incorporated, Temple, TX

2/2000 – 10/2004

Project Manger                                    

·          Provided Project Manager/Business Analyst services holding JAR & JAD workshop sessions for Projects to identify High Level and Detail level requirements and creation of Functional & Detail Level Requirements for IT staff to follow on their development

·          First assignment was as Project Manager for the Freight Charges & Allowance project, which was the largest and highest priority project for the Company.

·          For those Vendors (including VMI vendors) on Cost Control each and every non-item level Charge/Allowance sent from the Vendor represented a 100% match rate error between our 99B Receiving report and the Vendors invoice. The project's mission was to improve the match rate, reduce the cost of processing all invoices (including all freight invoices), capture and analyze complete freight transactions so that all cost/allowances are recovered, eliminate 90% of all discrepancies caused by non-item level charges and allowances, and improve the ongoing accuracy of billing to customers for item freight. Purchasing and CAP (Corporate Accounts Payable) systems both had to be redesigned to support purchase order and invoice level charges and allowances.

·          Analyzed DCS2000 Merchandising System

·          Held JAR & JAD sessions for identifying High Level and Detail Level Requirements,

·          Spoke with end users and created Requirements definition, Conceptual design documents and wrote Functional specifications for install of 267 modules using project methodology SDLC (Waterfall) guidelines. 

·          Performed Systems User Acceptance Test with Managers.

·          Delivered statuses and timelines for upper management on a weekly basis.

·           Project install was flawless, which was a first at the company, and received company "LEAP AWARD" within first 10 months for efforts on project. Approximate savings for the company was $954,000 annually.

·          Created User Training Manual and held training classes for end users

·          Responsible for a team of 13 programmers and 4 outside contract programmers

·          Environment: MVS JCL TSO CICS/COBOL 2, TSO/ISPF, DB2 VSAM SDLC Eztrieve+ Changeman EZTEST Intertest SDF Filaid & Smartest, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

 

MBNA Hallmark Credit Card Services, Dallas, TX            

10/1998 – 2/2000

Senior Programmer Analyst                                               

·          Assigned to Y2K Readiness Team performing required  maintenance and testing for MBNA’s card systems to run properly for the Y2K millennium change

·          Worked with Subject Matter Experts preparing assigned systems to work properly in the production replicated Y2K LPAR Environment

·          Ran assigned systems in the LPAR environment with predetermined cycle testing dates fixing all problems until a clean run was determined by the SME

·          Environment: MVS JCL, CICS/COBOL 2, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, CA7, CA11, Eztrieve+ Intertest, Filaid, MRO Configuration for CICS

 

First American Real Estate Tax Services, Dallas, TX                             

8/1998 – 10/1998

Senior Programmer Analyst                                              

·          3 month contract to design and develop a tax delinquency letter reporting system

·          Con