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Gregory
gmcgrudr@yahoo.com
813-606-8139
14501 Audubon Trce
Tampa, FL 33613
813-362-5334
Professional System Developer - Employee
29 years experience W2
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Summary

  • Over twenty five years overall Information Technology experience encompassing all aspects of Mainframe applications.
  • Proficient in all phases of software development, including: Functional Design, Detailed Design, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing.
  • Technical Documentation, Quality Assurance, and Team Management, Agile methodology.

Skills:

  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, PL/SQL, Oracle, SQL Developer, WMA, QMF, MVS, Z/OS, Z/VM, IMS, JCL, VSAM, Intertest, Expeditor, TSO/ISPF, CMS, Endevor, SAS, Easytrieve, IBM Debugger, Changeman, Librarian, File-Aid, Panvalet, CA7, Control-M, SAR, InSync, Clist, NDM, FTP, Abend-Aid, DumpMaster, TOAD, XML, TraceMaster, File Manager, REXX, AADF, CEDF, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, INFOMAN, IBM Utilities, MQ Series.

Experience
Professional System Developer - Employee
Information Technology
Jan 2021 - present
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, DB2 and Vsam base Cards and Payment Transaction System.
  • Duties included maintenance of existing programs in Batch, and CICS that utilized DB2, VSAM.
  • COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, Expeditor, NDM, InSync, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, ENDEVOR, Abend-Aid, SAR, MVS, MQ Series.
IBM Websphere MQ XPEDITOR VSAM TSO/ISPF SYNCSORT SAR’s ENDEVOR Employ DB2 Database Maintenance Cobol CICS Analysis ABENDAID JCL
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Senior COBOL Developer - Consultant
Information Technology
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, CICS, and VSAM base Automotive Warranty and Billing Application.
  • Duties included maintenance of existing programs in Batch, and CICS that utilized VSAM. Batch Cycle Support and follow up of the nightly cycle.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, Expeditor, NDM, File Manager, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, Abend-Aid, SAR, MVS.
ABENDAID CICS Cobol JCL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF VSAM XPEDITOR SAR’s ENDEVOR Database Maintenance Billing Automotive Analysis Production Support
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Senior COBOL Developer - Consultant
Information Technology
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, CICS, and VSAM base application for Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Medicare Part A.
  • Duties included coding new CICS, Batch programs that utilize VSAM which supported the Design specifications for FISS.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, INTERTEST, NDM, File Manager, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, SAR, Z/OS.
CICS Cobol JCL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF VSAM SAR’s Medicare ENDEVOR Database Maintenance Analysis Production Support
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Senior COBOL Developer- Consultant
Information Technology
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
  • Worked on the TRADE team, providing 24/7 support and maintenance for the Bank of America systems
  • COBOL, DB2, SQL, JCL, File Manager, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, Control-M, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, Z/OS.
Cobol DB2 FTP JCL SQL SYNCSORT Database Maintenance BMC Control-M Production Support
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Senior COBOL Developer - Consultant
Information Technology
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, DB2, IMS, VSAM base BIW Application.
  • Duties included maintenance and support of government based ship building applications.
  • COBOL, DB2, SQL, IMS DB, JCL, File Manager, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, Control-M, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, Z/OS.
Cobol DB2 FTP IMS JCL SQL SYNCSORT VSAM Production Support Database Maintenance BMC Control-M Analysis
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Senior COBOL Developer - Consultant
Information Technology
May 2016 - Aug 2017
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, DB2, IMS and VSAM base Universal Biller (UB) Application.
  • Duties included maintenance and support of Bill Calculation and Product Implementation within the UB Application for end-client AT&T.
  • COBOL, DB2, SQL, IMS DB, VSAM, JCL, File Manager, IBM Debugger, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, Control-M, ENDEVOR, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, Z/OS.
Cobol DB2 FTP IMS JCL SQL SYNCSORT VSAM Production Support ENDEVOR Database Maintenance BMC Control-M Analysis
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Mainframe Developer - Consultant
Information Technology
May 2015 - Mar 2016
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, VSAM based Contract Service System (CSS) for Wyndham Vacation Ownership Application.
  • Duties included providing technical leadership to IT Healthcare, Insurance with the WMA/Vantage one product and other enterprise with regards to mainframe applications.
  • Ensured adherence to formal processes, standards and quality practices in all activities.
  • Ensured that programs and systems meet best practice standards for project management, change management and business continuity.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Z/VM, WMA, CMS, JCL, NDM, FTP. IBM Debugger, Z/OS
CICS Cobol JCL VSAM Project Management Database Maintenance Change Management Analysis VM
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Senior Technician - Consultant
Information Technology
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Tallahassee, FL
  • Responsible for extracting business rules from the legacy COBOL application and producing system documentation.
  • Perform detailed technical reviews of the legacy database and integration architectures, provide guidance on the to-be technical solution design, including data synchronization design.
  • Review the legacy system documentation and meet with the legacy system SME's to understand the integration architecture.
  • COBOL, PL/SQL, Oracle SQL Developer, EASYTRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, JCL, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, LIBRARIAN, ABEND-AID, MVS.
FTP Integration Architecture SQL TSO/ISPF SYNCSORT SQL Developer Oracle Easytrieve Documentation Cobol ABENDAID JCL
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COBOL Developer - Consultant
Information Technology
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, DB2, and VSAM base Complete Billing Application in the Banking industry.
  • Duties included maintenance and support of existing programs that utilized SQL, Stored Procedures, and VSAM for the Orlando IT Group.
  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, STORED PROCEDURES, EASYTRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, CMS, JCL, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, EXPEDITOR, ABEND-AID, File Manager, Z/OS.
ABENDAID CICS Cobol DB2 FTP JCL SQL Stored Procedure SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF VSAM XPEDITOR Production Support QMF ENDEVOR Easytrieve Billing Banking Analysis Database Maintenance
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Mainframe Developer - Consultant
Information Technology
May 2013 - Jan 2014
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, DB2 base Billing Application.
  • Duties included coding new Batch/Conversion programs and maintenance of existing programs that utilized SQL for the emittance group.
  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, SAS, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, Z/OS.
CICS Cobol DB2 FTP JCL SQL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF Production Support SAS QMF MVS/ESA Database Maintenance Billing Analysis ENDEVOR
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Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Information Technology
Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, and VSAM base Transportation Application.
  • Duties included coding new CICS, and Batch programs that utilized SQL and VSAM for the HOS (hours of service) Application and maintenance of existing CICS, Batch programs, and Stored Procedures.
  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, STORED PROCEDURES, IMS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, IBM DEBEGGER, CEDF, TOAD, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, Z/OS.
CHANGEMAN CICS Cobol DB2 FTP IMS JCL SQL Stored Procedure SYNCSORT TOAD TSO/ISPF VSAM Database Maintenance Analysis
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Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Information Technology
Feb 2012 - Jul 2012
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM base Health Insurance Application also get a chance to work on Annuities, Universal Life, Traditional Life Products.
  • Duties included coding new Batch programs and maintenance of existing CICS, and Batch programs that utilized SQL and VSAM in areas of Billing, Finance, Commissions, Insurance Rating, Data Transmission and Feed Applications.
  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, IBM, DEBEGGER, CEDF, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, EASYTRIEVE, CHANGEMAN, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, INFOMAN, MVS, CICS Web Services.
CHANGEMAN CICS Cobol DB2 FTP JCL SQL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF VSAM MVS/ESA Easytrieve Billing Analysis Database Maintenance Traditional
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Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Information Technology
Feb 2011 - Feb 2012
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of COBOL, CICS, and VSAM files for the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) which included coding new and maintenance of existing programs in CICS and Batch COBOL utilizing VSAM.
  • Duties also included coding Data Extracts for Adult, Juvenile, Traffic, and Probate areas of the application. Also gather customer requirements and system requirements which were vital in the systems design and specifications sufficient for application development.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, INTERTEST, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, EASYTRIEVE, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, ABENDAID, XML, CA7, MVS.
ABENDAID Application Development CICS Cobol FTP JCL Panvalet SYNCSORT System Design System Requirements TSO/ISPF VSAM XML Easytrieve Database Maintenance Analysis
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Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Information Technology
Sep 2009 - Feb 2011
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM base Health Insurance Application.
  • Duties included coding new Batch programs and maintenance of existing CICS, and Batch programs that utilized SQL and VSAM in areas of Billing, Finance, Commissions, Insurance Rating, Data Transmission and Feed Applications.
  • Knowledge on Universal Life, Annuities and Traditional Life Products.
  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, IBM DEBEGGER, CEDF, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, EASYTRIEVE, CHANGEMAN, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, INFOMAN, MVS, CICS Web Services.
CHANGEMAN CICS Cobol DB2 FTP JCL SQL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF VSAM Traditional Easytrieve Database Maintenance Billing Analysis
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Senior Programmer Analyst – Consultant
Information Technology
Nov 2008 - Jul 2009
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM base Certegy Check Services Application.
  • Coded new CICS, Batch and conversion programs that utilized SQL and VSAM which supported the Detail Design specifications for newly developed Distributed Negative System.
  • Resolved problems in design and implementation of system following company standards and practices.
  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, EXPEDITOR, ABENDAID, CEDF, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, SAR, Z/OS.
ABENDAID CICS Cobol DB2 FTP JCL SQL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF VSAM XPEDITOR SAR’s ENDEVOR Database Maintenance Analysis
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Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Information Technology
Jul 2008 - Nov 2008
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of a COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM for a Retail Application System involving PCI (Payment Card Industry) encryption changes.
  • Coded several conversion programs that utilized SQL and VSAM which aided in the encryption of credit card numbers. Modified existing COBOL programs to access DB2 charge card tables using the encrypted numbers.
  • COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, EXPEDITOR, ABENDAID, CEDF, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, MVS.
CICS Cobol DB2 PCI SQL VSAM ABENDAID FTP JCL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF XPEDITOR ENDEVOR Database Maintenance Analysis
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Senior Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Information Technology
Jan 2008 - Jun 2008
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of COBOL, CICS, and VSAM base Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) which included coding new and maintenance of existing programs in CICS, and Batch utilizing VSAM.
  • Duties also included coding Data Extracts for Adult, Juvenile, Traffic, and Probate areas of the application. Also gather customer requirements and system requirements which were vital in the systems design and specifications sufficient for application development.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, INTERTEST, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, EASYTRIEVE, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, ABENDAID, XML, CA7, MVS.
ABENDAID Application Development CICS Cobol FTP JCL Panvalet SYNCSORT System Design System Requirements TSO/ISPF VSAM XML Easytrieve Database Maintenance Analysis
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Systems Engineer IV / Functional Lead
Information Technology
Oct 2004 - Oct 2007
  • Functional Lead in the areas of Financial, Bank Reconciliation, and Claims Adjudication within the Application.
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of COBOL, CICS, and VSAM for Medicare Healthcare Claims Processing Application for BCBS of Florida. '
  • Duties included coding new and maintenance of existing programs in Batch, and CICS that utilized VSAM, resolving problems in design and implementation of systems following company standards and practices, Batch Cycle Support and follow up of the nightly cycle.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, VSAM, EXPEDITOR, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, IBM Debugger, SAR, MVS.
FTP Systems Engineering Production Support XPEDITOR TSO/ISPF SYNCSORT SAR’s Medicare JCL Financial ENDEVOR Database Maintenance Cobol Analysis VSAM CICS
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Systems Engineer IV / Functional Lead
Information Technology
Feb 1997 - Oct 2004
  • Functional Lead in the areas of Financial, Bank Reconciliation, and Claims Adjudication within the Application.
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of COBOL, CICS, and VSAM files for Medicare Healthcare Claims Processing Application for BCBS of Florida.
  • Duties included coding new and maintenance of existing programs in Batch, and CICS that utilized VSAM, resolving problems in design and implementation of systems following company standards and practices, Batch Cycle Support and follow up of the nightly cycle.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, EXPEDITOR, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, IBM Debugger SAR, MVS.
FTP Systems Engineering XPEDITOR VSAM TSO/ISPF SYNCSORT SAR’s Medicare JCL Financial ENDEVOR Database Maintenance Cobol CICS Analysis
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Programmer Analyst
Information Technology
Jun 1993 - Feb 1997
  • Responsible for implementation, coding, analysis, and maintenance of COBOL, CICS, and VSAM files for Medicare Healthcare Claims Processing Application for BCBS of Florida.
  • Duties included coding Change Request and Data Extract's in CICS, and Batch,
  • Batch Cycle Support and follow up of the nightly cycles.
  • COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, JCL, EXPEDITOR, NDM, FTP, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, DUMPMASTER, TRACEMASTER, IBM Debugger SAR, MVS.
CICS Cobol FTP JCL SYNCSORT TSO/ISPF VSAM XPEDITOR Production Support SAR’s Medicare ENDEVOR Database Maintenance Analysis
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Non-cloudteam Skill
Education
Computer Programming
Florida Community College 1995
Attended in VS COBOL
CBT Training Courses at GTE Data Services 1992

  • VS COBOL: Programming Basic
  • VS COBOL: Compiling and Executing
  • VS COBOL: Testing and Debugging
  • VS COBOL: Input Programming
  • VS COBOL: Output Programming
  • VS COBOL: Sequential File Processing
  • VS COBOL: Table Processing
  • VS COBOL: Sort/Merge Facility
  • VS COBOL: Performing Arithmetic
  • VS COBOL: Sub program
  • VS COBOL: Programming Skills I.
  • DB2 Application Programming

Certifications
IBM Design Thinking Practitioner
2016
Skills
Analysis
2022
26
Cobol
2022
26
Database Maintenance
2022
26
JCL
2022
26
SYNCSORT
2022
25
VSAM
2022
25
CICS
2022
24
TSO/ISPF
2022
23
FTP
2018
22
ENDEVOR
2022
21
SAR’s
2022
18
XPEDITOR
2022
18
Medicare
2020
15
Production Support
2020
11
Financial
2007
10
Systems Engineering
2007
10
DB2
2022
8
File-Aid
2015
1
IBM Mainframe
2017
1
SQL
2018
6
ABENDAID
2022
5
Easytrieve
2015
4
Billing
2020
3
CHANGEMAN
2013
2
IMS
2018
2
Database Design
2007
1
Application Development
2012
1
BMC Control-M
2018
1
Employ
2022
1
IBM Websphere MQ
2022
1
MVS/ESA
2014
1
Panvalet
2012
1
QMF
2015
1
Stored Procedure
2015
1
System Design
2012
1
System Requirements
2012
1
Traditional
2012
1
XML
2012
1
CA 7
2012
1
Agile Methodology
0
1
Automotive
2020
1
Banking
2015
1
Change Management
2016
1
Documentation
2015
1
Information Technology
0
1
Integration Architecture
2015
1
Microsoft Excel
0
1
MS Project
0
1
Oracle
2015
1
PCI
2008
1
PL/SQL
2015
1
Project Management
2016
1
Quality Assurance
0
1
Rexx
0
1
SAS
2014
1
SPUFI
0
1
SQL Developer
2015
1
System Testing
0
1
TOAD
2013
1
Unit Testing
0
1
VM
2016
1
z/OS
2015
1
Languages
English, Fluent/Bilingual