Current Resume

1. Robert J. Elliott
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35530 N Everett Ave., Ingleside, IL 60041-9106
e-mail: tigw9598@gmail.com
Phone 224-392-3107
SUMMARY:
Over twenty years of experience in application and systems programming.
Experience in distribution, group health insurance, manufacturing, credit
reporting, and banking, as both an permanent employee and as a
consultant. Able to function in techical, analytical, supervisory, and
managerial roles.
FORMAL
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science, Northern Illinois University,
Minor, Economics
Graduate Studies, 21 Semester Hours toward MBA, NIU
HARDWARE/
SOFTWARE:
z/OS, OS/390, OS/MVS/ESA, CICS Transaction Server V2.3, CICS/ESA 4.1,
COBOL/370, IBM Assembler, VSAM, IDMS, DB2, WebMethods, IMS,
CICS/VS 2.1.2 Macro/Command, VS COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, IDMS,
CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, STEDI, NDM, FTP, MQ Series, REMEDY, ZEKE,
OS/JCL, TSO/SPF, CLIST, REXX,, IBM ES-9000, QMF, SPUFI, PANVALET,
EXPEDITER, EZTRIEVE, INTERTEST, FILE-AID, PACBASE, QUIKJOB,
Superwylbur, DOS/VS JCL, DOS/VSE
JOB RELATED
SKILLS:
Bar Coding Systems, Process Control, Automated Warehouse,
Interfacing/Networking Processors, Supervision, Project Planning, EDI, FDA
Compliance
EXPERIENCE:
Abbvie – (06/2007 – 06/2013)
Senior Systems Analyst responsible for the support and enhancement of Legacy
Manufactuing Systems within Abbott/Abbvie. Systems Integrations with new
Systems. Audit and Business Support. Data Mining, Re-Engineering. Cost
Effective Solutions to Business Needs. Validated Systems. Environment is IBM
MVS, Cobol, IMDS, DB2, VSAM, CICS, JCL.
Abbott Labs – (08/2005 – 03/2007)
Senior Consultant responsible for all aspects of Sales Reporting System.
Environment is Cobol, Assembler, SAS, VSAM, DB2, CICS, JCL, TSO, Utilities,
MVS, FTP in an IBM Mainframe environment. Monthly schedules, as well as user
requests are maintained in a timely manner. Sales commissions are paid as a
result of these systems. Maintained all existing CICS Applications for this Business
group. (via Manpower)
USG - (12/2004 – 08/2005)
Senior Consultant - Oracle/WebMethods/Legacy project interfacing Oracle Front-
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WebMethods. IBM Mainframe, Cobol, CICS, DB2, MVS, JCL, WebMethods,
VSAM, FileAid, Intertest, MVS Utilities. Design, development, and testing of CICS
interfaces between WebMethods and Legacy CICS Transactions. Performance,
reliability, and flexibility of this interface is my main goal on this project. Performing
some application programming, and assisting other developers with CICS and
CICS Testing. (via Hi-Tech Solutions)
Abbott Labs - (11/2002 – 12/2004)
Project Leader Consultant responsible for all aspects of Sales Reporting System.
Environment is Cobol, Assembler, SAS, VSAM, DB2, CICS, JCL, TSO, Utilities,
MVS, FTP in an IBM Mainframe environment. Monthly schedules, as well as user
requests are maintained in a timely manner. Sales commissions are paid as a
result of these systems. Have supervised up to 3 people on this assignment.
Maintained all existing CICS Applications for this Business group. (via Collins
Consulting)
ComEd - (07/2002 – 10/2002)
Consultant. Designed, developed and tested interface modules for new work
tracking system. New system functioned on both mainframe and server. Work
performed was Cobol, Assember, VSAM, MVS Utilities, JCL, TSO, MVS, FTP, MQ
Series. (via Hi-Tech Solutions)
Allstate Insurance - (01/2002 – 07/2002)
Project Lead Consultant and development responsibilities with Financial Closing
Team. Systems collect financial reporting data from all business areas at Allstate,
creating a DB2 Data Base used for creating all financial reports. Environment is
Cobol/370, DB2, TSO FTP, NDM, MVS/XA/ESA. Supporting Scheduled Jobs,
Special Request Jobs, and Production Support. (via TEKsystems)
Transamerica Distribution Finance- (4/2001 – 12/2001)
Project Lead Consultant responsibilities for sale of retail portfolios, conversion of
third party accounting package to TDF Standards, and rewrite of Check
Reconciliation. Performed Status Reporting, System Design, coordination with
Systems Programming and Operations. Supervised up to 3 people depending on
task. Reveal Plus environment. New CICS development. Also using GEAC
Accounting System. FTP, NDM. Off Hours Support of Retail Systems. (via Hi-Tech
Solutions)
Associates Commerce Solutions – (11/2000 – 3/2001)
Consultant. Development of a point of sale account lookup function for a new
international client for ACS. Applications resides in CICS utiliizing VS COBOL II,
VSAM and DB2. Communication to the client is via SCCIP/CICS and STEDI, both
are IBM products for EDI using LU 6.2 protocols. Total response time from request
to completion has been key in this application. (via TCC)
Northern Trust Bank - (06/2000 – 11/2000)
Consultant. Fee+ team post implelemation tuning and troubleshooting. DB2
performance tuning and application problem resolution. DB2 issues were resolved
using a number of different strategies. Support of newly developed Fee
Processing System that is replacing Legacy System(s). DB2, COBOL-370,
Endevor, MVS/ESA. (via MAXIM GROUP)
Navistar International – (04/2000 – 06/2000)
Consultant. Data Warehousing Project to consolidate and standardize data
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transmission from corporate entities. Modifications were made to the system to
adjust for anomolies. System documentation was created to define functions and
flow of system. Cobol, IMS, IMS DB/DC, MVS, VSAM, CICS. (via MAXIM GROUP)
Wallace Computer Services - (8/1999 – 04/2000)
Consultant. Primary responsibilities were analysis, coding, unit testing, system
testing, integration testing, and system implementation. Objective of the project
was to retool all systems using their Item Database that was being ReTooled from
IMS to DB2. DB2 performance was key to developing this project. Environment
was VS COBOL, COBOL-370, CICS 4.01, MVS/ESA, Batch. (via MAXIM GROUP)
ComEd - (12/1997 - 7/1999)
Consultant. Assembler, On-Line environment. On-line environment is a custom TP
Monitor called Pronto. Y2K renovation project for their engineering areas.
SAS and VSAM – Y2K renovation project for NRC reports.
Cobol, VSAM, DB2 – Conversion project for Work Order System servicing Nuclear
Facilities and Financial Integration to interface with PassPort Software (via Hi-Tech
Solutions)
Wallace Computer Systems – (06/1997 – 12/1997)
Consultant. Cobol/370, IMS environment. New development of Mainframe based
components to support a new Internet based product ordering system. (via MAXIM
GROUP)
Loyola University Hospitals – (06/1997 – 06/1997)
Consultant. Assembler environment. Initiated conversion of Macro Level CICS/VS
2.1.2 to Commmand Level Version 4.1. (via MAXIM GROUP)
Pitney Bowes Systems Systems – (05/1997 – 06/1997)
Consultant. Assembler/VSAM environment. Current assignment is working on a
product for American Express called “Master Merge On-Line”. This is a product
marketted by Pitney Bowes to other companies to de-dup address lists. Project
work involves adding new functions/features to the product. Efficiency and
performance are also key to the objectives. (via MAXIM GROUP)
Spiegel - (04/1996 - 05/1997)
Senior Consultant. Assignment in Order Entry Group. Assignments involve design,
development, testing and implementation. System is predominantly Assembler,
both CICS and Batch. New development is performed in VS COBOL II. Access
methods are QSAM, VSAM, and DB2. Project work included enhancing credit card
number name/address cross reference and status queue maintenance, both
systems utilizing IDMS. Majority of work is performed in CICS. (via Hi-Tech
Solutions)
Allstate Insurance - (09/1995 - 03/1996)
Consultant. Assignment was project development of a Legacy batch system. Work
involves design, development, testing, and implementation. System written in
Assembler and VS COBOL II. Access methods are VSAM, QSAM, and IMS. I was
also available to assist with technical CICS issues. (via Maxim Group)
TRANS UNION DECISION SYSTEMS - (01/1993 - 09/1995)
Project Leader responsible for scheduling, development, testing and
implementation of multiple Customer based projects. Projects were short in
duration and schedules were tight. Work was directly related to income from the
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entity the work is performed for. NDM, many synch /asynch data transfer protocols
supported for transfer of customer data.
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF ILLINOIS - (09/1991 - 01/1993)
Project Leader responsible for design, development, testing and implementing
technical and business systems on the Blue Chip Insurance System, one of the 10
largest single image CICS systems in the world. Duties include system design,
program development, software testing, direct supervision of other analysts and
programmers, CICS technical consulting and troubleshooting, CICS System
Tuning, CICS configuration, CICS Business and CICS Technical modifications, and
CICS System Availability.
BOISE CASCADE OFFICE PRODUCTS - (02/1986 - 07/1991)
Project Manager. Warehouse Automation System. Taking project from initial
concept to implementation in a Distribution Center. Began by monitoring progress
of a 3rd party contracted to create this system, and designed and wrote IBM Host
Systems to interface with this system. Hired and managed programming/support
staff of seven people to take system as created by 3rd party, enhance, implement,
and support that system in a production environment. Established an HP-3000
development environment, including hardware, communications, development tools
and utilities. Performed programming and technical consulting when needed. This
system was an HP-3000 based system interfacing with an IBM Host, Portable Bar
Code Readers, PC's, and a UNIX peer processor. Using Assembler, Cobol, CICS,
VSAM, MVS, JCL, TSO, EDI, Batch Data Interchange, ANSI X.12 Standards.
Developed and implemented in-house automated Carousel Warehouse Picking
System. PC based system interfacing with IBM Host computer. Increased average
productivity in picking 100% over highest manual picking rate.
ADVANCED SYSTEM APPLICATIONS - (10/1984 - 02/1986)
Division Programming Manager. Assembled and managed a staff of 19 to create
an updated version of a group claims system. The Claims System was a
combination On-Line and Batch System, using PACBASE, VSAM, CICS Command
Level programs.
BOISE CASCADE OFFICE PRODUCTS (04/1979 - 10/1984)
Sr Project Leader. This position involved carrying on-line and batch systems from
the feasibility and design stages through programming, testing, and
implementation. Interfacing extensively with users, performing systems analysis,
and participating in the technical effort to assure project integrity. Supervised as
many at 10 programmer/analyst, averaging 5. Using Assembler, Cobol, CICS,
VSAM, MVS, JCL, TSO, EDI, Batch Data Interchange, ANSI X.12 Standards.
REFERENCES: Available upon request
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