Employee, Large Retail Company, Bentonville AR March, 2008 to Present 

• Mainframe Developer using DB2, IMS, CICS,COBOL, C, Xpediter, File-AID and other mainframe products for developing new programs as well as maintenance on existing programs.  This includes at the moment writing interface programs for an installation of a new system for predicting inventory and on-call duties as well.

Consultant, Large Retail Company, Atlanta, GA January 2007 - January, 2008 and 2005

                                                        
·        Contract assignment with the Customer Analytics or CRM project.  Phase 1 consisted of extracting 18 months of data using Platinum tools and Easytrieve for sending the information to an off-site vendor for marketing analysis.  The ICSF or the Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility was used with a COBOL program to use for hashing credit cards.  Additionally a C program was developed on the mainframe for hashing credit card data.  Some of the program products used for this have been ICSF, Eastrieve, JCL, C, COBOL, SPUFI, QMF, Endevor and some XML work for transferring files.

·        In March and April 2005 the assignment was with the Mobile Cart team, using SDLC on IBM Mainframe, performed new development with DB2, SQL, QMF, JCL, COBOLII, CICS, Debugging tool of XPEDITER and Data Dictionary for reporting on store inventory restocking; also involved the learning and use of the Optio product for creating a downloadable PDF file using French and English for the final report.

Consultant, State governemnt agency, Atlanta, GA, August 2005 to January, 2007

·        This assignment involved coding and testing modifications and new development on the DB2 Mental Health data base for reporting, inquiring and updating on line and storing of data on mental health clients in various community centers.  While on this assignment a fee for service module was developed using data from the company doing precertification. The DHR developed SDLC methodology was used for writing the Software Requirements and the Detail Design Document.  The program products used for this were Connect:Direct, DB2, CICS, COBOL, ChangeMan, Xpediter and File Aid.

Consultant, Utility company, Atlanta, GA, May 2005 to August , 2005

·        Coding and testing modifications to the CIS system on IBM Mainframe for the addition of two new clients.  Most of the work is concentrated in testing after putting the design changes into the programs using COBOL II, DB2, SQL and the debugging tool XPEDITER.