Candidates About

 

Robert Maneer

Executive Summary:       

Willing to relocate for a good opportunity!

Hello, I have extensive experience developing, coding and enhancing Mainframe IBM applications in     COBOL and CICS using IMS, VSAM and DB2 Data Structures with JCL Procedures. I have used File-aid, Xpediter, Abend-aid DLY280, Syncsort, JCL, Librarian, IBM Utilities, Spufi, z/OS, TSO/ISPFI to create       test and debug Cobol, CICS, DB2, IMS programs. I have worked with departments to develop efficient and   user friendly Online & Batch Systems to help them do their work. I have also led projects and given work direction for 7 years. I am a dedicated and hard worker who takes pride in his work, designing and coding    easy to read and maintain programs and thoroughly testing my applications to insure accurate processing       and problem free development. I am easy to get along with and enjoy helping others. I believe you put in whatever hours are necessary to get the Job Done!

 

Note: I have passed Top Secret and SIC Security Clearance

 

WORK EXPERIENCE: 

 

 

CSX RAILROAD – Jacksonville, FL -   Senior Mainframe Engineer 2 Jan 2017 - Present

 

Coding enhancements and fixes for the railroad CICS Cobol IMS DB Applications using CICS COBOL and JCL with IMS and DB2 Data Bases. Researching and documenting existing systems for planned move from Mainframe to Mid-Tier System.

 

 

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES - Tempe AZ  -  Sr Mainframe Programmer Analyst.

 August 2016 - January 2017

 

CODING Enhancements to Microfocus COBOL APPLICATIONS on UNIX Cyborg System Working on enhancements l to handle the merger of American Airlines with US Airlines and payroll calculations for Pilots and Flight Attendants.

 

 

 

ARIZONA STATE  Department of Corrrections – Phoenix, AZ                                                                                                  Sr Lead Mainframe Developer/Analyst  Sept 2014 - August 2016

 

Providing Mainframe IBM Cobol/CICS/JCL IMS DB  VSAM solutions for Legacy Systems. 

Analyze existing CICS & Cobol Systems designing, writing and coding, testing new programs 

Code fixes for Production Abends and enhancing programs and JCL in applications.   

Design and code new Online CICS Cobol Programs using IMS DB and VSAM Files and code & enhance existing Batch COBOL, IMS, VSAM applications.

Perform User, Segment and System Tests for Production Changes.

Give work direction and guidance to other programmers.

 

 

 

 

 

AMERICAN EXPRESS   Phoenix AZ                 December 2013 – July 2014

Senior MF Developer/ Engineer

 

Providing Mainframe IBM Cobol/CICS/JCL/IMS/DB2/VSAM solutions for Legacy Systems. 

Analyze existing CICS & Cobol Systems working with off-shore team to develop new applications

Code fixes for Production Abends and change programs and JCL to resolve problems in their applications.   

Design and code new batch programs & enhance existing CICS, COBOL, IMS, VSAM, DB2 applications.

Perform User, Segment and System Tests for Production Changes.

Work in a Waterfall and Agile Development Life Cycle

Working as a Team Lead and mentor to new programmers

 

 

 

LATA (Los Alamos Technical Analysts) in Clearfield, UTAH         April 2012  –   June 2013

Contractor Senior Analyst/Programmer

 

Re-writing CICS Cobol DB2 Programs separating them out into a Presentation Module (Screen Display) and a Business Process Module (logic processing module) for use with new Technical Architecture (IPADs, IPHONES, Web Based Systems, Oracle Systems and other Object Oriented Front End systems)

Providing Mainframe IBM Cobol/CICS/JCL/DB2 solutions for their Worldwide Military Procurement and Distribution System.  Analyze existing CICS & Cobol Systems working with users to enhance, code and create efficient user friendly systems for their work.

 

Code fixes and enhancements for Production Problems for their Top Secret Applications.

Perform User, Segment and System Tests for Production Changes and run and document test scripts.

 

 

 

SOUTHWEST GAS CORPORATION in Las Vegas, NV   April 2009  –   January 2012

Contractor Senior Analyst/Programmer

 

Providing Mainframe IBM Cobol/CICS/JCL/IMS/VSAM solutions for Legacy Systems. 

Analyze existing CICS & Cobol Systems working with users to enhance, code and create efficient user

friendly systems for their work.

 

Code fixes for Production Abends and change programs and JCL to resolve problems in their applications.   

Design and code new batch programs & enhance existing CICS, COBOL, IMS, VSAM, DB2 applications.

Perform User, Segment and System Tests for Production Changes.

 

 

 

TOSHIBA Las Vegas, NV  - Senior Technical Analyst/Developer   June 2005 - April 2009                      

  

Provided mainframe IBM Cobol/CICS/JCL/VSAM/TSO solutions for Legacy Systems. 

I provide technical support for TOSHIBA for their Customer Accounts IT Systems.

Modified and enhanced applications and designed and coded new business applications in Cobol & CICS. 

I provided abend resolution support for their IT Applications.

 

 

 

 

 

IKON for Arizona -  Senior Technical Analyst/Developer                August 2002 - June 2005  

 

I provided technical support for their systems and I resolved and handled all issues on their systems.

Provided solutions on Information Technology Software for their Utilities and Bank Customers. 

Analyzed Mainframe Applications and systems provided coding and development support for COBOL and CICS legacy systems. 

Designed, coded and tested Batch DB2 COBOL Programs to enhance and optimize the performance of the Mainframe Systems. Utilized COBOL II, MVS CICS, DB2,COBOL, VSAM, SPUFI, OS/MVS JCL, TSO/ISPF

 

 

SALT RIVER PROJECT - SRP, Tempe, AZ -  Senior Analyst/Developer  June 2001 – August 2002

 

Worked on a Major 2yr CICS/Cobol conversion project. Coded New Online CICS and Batch Programs using CICS, COBOL and DB2 to convert the existing Legacy mainframe system to a Web based application in a mainframe using IBM’s new Web Based Architecture. 

Created SDLC Documentation, analyzing their existing CICS, COBOL, VSAM Systems and create Design documents and instructions to convert the system to a CICS, COBOL, DB2 HTML Web Based System.

 

 

STATE OF AZ DEPT OF ADMINISTRATION -  Sr Analyst/Developer         January 1999 – May 2001  

Project Lead at the State of Arizona I worked on the States' Garnishment System writing new CICS    Cobol2 programs adding new functionality and coding enhancements to their existing online and batch applications. I also wrote new JCL Procedures and Statements to execute applications. I used CICS, COBOL, VSAM, TSO and ISPF.

 

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, Tempe. AZ           - Senior Analyst/Developer                  May 1998 – January 1999 

My responsibilities were to redesign and rewrite Wells Fargo's Online CICS Bank Reconciliation System. 

This assignment required coding new complicated CICS update Programs and rewriting and restructuring their existing CICS Programs using Cobol2, VSAM files, DB2 Tables and CICS. 

Create test scripts and validate and verify all coding changes.

 

 

STATE OF AZ DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE                                         June 1997 – May 1998 

Senior Analyst/Developer – Project Lead

 

Project Lead whose responsibility was to convert the DOR CICS Application Tax system to be YR2000 Compliant.

I had 5 consultants working for me and my responsibilities were: 

a) analyze and pick the next systems to convert and develop standards for YR2000 Project 

b) give work direction, assignments and conduct meetings determining the status of the project 

c) teach and solve coding problems that we encountered and to code applications and perform unit, segment and system testing on the Online programs that were ready for implementation. 

d) create test scripts, maintain test databases and validate and verify all coding changes for this project for batch and online changes.

      Used CICS, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST INTERSTATE, WELLS FARGO, NORWEST MORTGAGE        July 1992 – June 1997

Senior Programmer/Analyst

 

Worked in the Consumer Lending Department maintaining and developing new batch Cobol2 and CICS applications for our SHAW Consumer Loan Package and Claim Adjustment Package. 

Code JCL Procedures and resolve Production Abends and code user program requests and enhancements

Create test scripts, maintain test databases and validate and verify all coding changes for this project for batch and online changes.

 

 

 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY Los Angeles, CA                         May 1982 – May 1992           

Senior Analyst - Project Lead

 

Worked in billing and new development advancing from a programmer to a project leader. 

Designed, coded CICS, Cobol, VSAM Programs and Systems and led small and large projects for billing  and CIGUS – Online Customer Industry Gas Usage System (58 Online Programs & 123 Batch Programs). 

Worked at Southern California Gas for 10 years, worked extensively with department managers and key personnel to develop project specifications and give work direction to other analysts on the implementation of these requests.  

 

 

 

 

 

Education: 

 

Coleman College, San Diego,      CA       Bachelor's Degree - B.S. in Computer Science 

Clarion State University Clarion, PA       Bachelor's Degree - B.S. in Business Administration 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

 

 

UTILITIES Experience: I have 10 years of experience working in the Utility Industry working for the Southern California Gas Company in LA, SRP – Salt River Project in Tempe, AZ and Southwest Gas in Las Vegas, NV. 

 

BANKING Experience: I have 5 years of experience working in the Banking Industry working for First Interstate Bank. 

 

GOVERNMENT Experience: I have over 4 years of experience working in the State Government in Arizona Working for the Department of Revenue and the Department of Administration. 

 

A LISTING of my IT SKILL SET for PROGRAMING LANGUAGES and Software EXPERIENCE: 

 

COBOL & COBOL2 - 16 years of Design, Code and Testing of new programs and enhancements

 

CICS - 16 years Developing, Coding and debugging complex multiple update & 

browsing applications using temporary storage, transient data queues and Vsam Files. 

 

VSAM - Designing, Defining and coding KSDS, RRDS Vsam applications for Online and 

Batch systems using primary and alternate indexing – 16 years of experience. 

 

JCL - 16 years Writing new JCL and modifying existing JCL statements and Procedures 

to run batch nightly jobs, utilizing the efficiency and convenience of symbolic parameters in JCL.

 

Analysis & Design - Experience performing analysis of existing systems and designing new systems 

following complete Life Cycle Methodology & creating Functional and Technical 

Documents for the existing architecture and proposed architectural changes. 

 

Project  Mgmt - Over 6 years of Project Mgmt and Lead experience in developing work plans, 

time schedules, project assignments, giving work direction and assistance to teams

 

TSO & ISPF - Over 16 years of experience using TSO and ISPF to perform programming functions

 

IMS - 6 years of experience developing & maintaining programs using IMS Database’s 

 

DB2 - 5 year of experience using DB2 Database’s in coding applications and programs

 

Xpediter - Over 11 years of experience using Xpediter to develop, code, test and debug programs. 

 

Smartest - Over 4 years of experience using ViaSoft’s Smartest to develop, code, test and 

debug new and existing Cobol, CICS applications. Used for ONCALL Rotation solving abends.

 

File Aid - Over 11 years of experience using File Aid to define, test, create Vsam Files 

 

Abend Aid – Over 7 years of experience using Abend Aid to decipher abends in online systems 

 

Librarian and Endevor - Over 10 years of experience using these Applications as a means of storing   

and retrieving programs, program changes, JCL and Copybooks.

 

Web Based Development using Dream Weaver to create HTML Online Screens.