Michael R. Landas has over 30 years of experience as a systems information specialist with expertise in banking, insurance, claims, and pharmacy claims systems. He has strengths in analysis, design, testing, and implementation of systems using technologies such as COBOL, DB2, JCL, and more. His experience includes roles at Express Scripts, Wells Fargo, St. Paul Travelers, and other organizations supporting claims, financial, and pharmacy systems.

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MICHAEL R. LANDAS
3922 XerxesAvenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55412
mlandas@msn.com; Phone: (612) 462-6024
SUMMARY
Successful Senior Systems Information Specialist with extensive expertise in banking, insurance, claims, financial
and pharmacy claims. Strengths include analysis, research, system design, construction, all phases of testing and
implementation; known for excellent interpersonal and time management skills.
HARDWARE
IBM Z/OS, IBM 3090-400E (MVS/ESA), IBM 4381 (DOS/VSE), IBM AS/400, IBM-compatible PC, IBM 370-
158, IBM 3081K, IBM XT/LAN
SOFTWARE
COBOL, COBOL II, DB2, DYL-280, CICS Command Level, JCL, IMS/VS DL/I, .NET, GENER/OL, RPG III, CA7,
Platinum, Windows 2000, Windows NT, FOXPRO, DOS, Access, Visual Basic, SQL, Excel, Word, SharePoint,
Power Point, Project, Outlook, Citrix Winframe, OS/JCL, TELON, OS/MVS/XA, OS/MVS/ESA, DB2/SQL,
PANVALET, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, INFOPAC-JCL, SAS, JSCAN, RMDS, TSO, ISPF/PDF, Assembler, FOCUS,
DESIGN/1, Natural, Endevor, NDM, ADABAS, XPEDITER-CICS, VSAM, MQ Series, Eztrieve
EXPERIENCE
Express Scripts/Medco – Bloomington, Minnesota 2012 - 2014
Collabera-IBM – Contractor Express Scripts/Medco –October 2012 through December 2014
Led and supported several integration projects utilizing COBOL III, DB2, Platinum, CICS, JCL, CA7, CA-View and File
Manager.
 Led 1/1/2013 Queries Project by gathering requirements, coding queries and setting up JCL for 460 Jobs to
execute queries in Production for the business to validate all customers’ accounts were setup correctly for the year
2013.
 Worked on Command Center Production Support for tickets related the different Tier 1 to Tier 14 Integrations.
 Created Platinum Fast Unload Queries for impact analysis reports related to CC Remedy Tickets.
 Collaborated with DBA’s and Developers to improve performance for queries that were joining with multiple tables
to improve quality and performance.
 Performed code, JCL and CA-7 scheduling reviews for off shore developers before being moved into production.
 Collaborated with Express Scripts/Medco business management, Technical Architects and Business Analyst
to keep them informed of project timelines, issues or concerns, and frequent statuses.
 Provided feedback related to performance as our conversion has a small window to convert during implementation.
 Reviewed, created, updated Requirement, Analysis and Design documents for all integration tiers.
 Led DHL Audit Team to create queries for Claims, Prior Authorizations, DCO and LTC Accums and Eligibility to
determine counts of what was sent from Express Scripts to Medco DOB and what was loaded on the Medco
DB.
 Worked on CDH Production Support Team to resolve/fix issues along with Primary On Call support for CDH Team.
 Wrote and enhanced programs for CDH applications for projects or code fixes from command center issues.
Robbinsdale Fire Department - Robbinsdale, Minnesota 2012 - 2012
Fire Fighter and Treasurer – April 2012 through October 2012
Full Time On-call fire fighter and treasurer of the pension fund.
WellsFargo – Minneapolis, Minnesota 2006 - 2012
Apps Programmer/Analyst –January 2010 through March 2012
Applications Systems Engineer 3 –November 2006 through December 2009
Fully supported two systems for several customers: Duplicate Checking and Data Distributor for checks
processing utilizing COBOL II, DB2, Mainframe Utilities, JCL, CA7, MQ Series and VSAM.
 Collaborated with two team members to rewrite the Duplicate Checking application in COBOL II and DB2 from
the initiation, requirements, design, construction, testing, and implementation phases.

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 Write new and enhance existing programs, providing cost and timesaving to business.
 Created new JCL and CA7 for both applications in test and production environments.
 Updated production DB2 tables using ad-hoc programs.
 Wrote Functional System Design Documents for Duplicate Checking projects.
 Provide primary on-call support every other week to resolve production problems.
 Monitor Duplicate Checking daily EOD processing to confirm that we met customer service level agreements.
 Developed and maintained system documentation.
 Coded, tested, and implemented projects with mainframe and PC group members.
Modis – Minneapolis, Minnesota 2006
Contractor RBC Dain –September 2006 through November 2006
Provided support for Tax Reporting system for the requirements and design phases for converting system to DB2.
 Collaborated with key management and customer users in scope and design of system/project.
Kelly IT Resources – Minneapolis, Minnesota 2006
Contractor Target Corporation –April 2006 through August 2006
Technical Architect for Release 1 Iteration 1 and 2 of GMS ITEM conversion to IMN project utilizing COBOL III,
DB2, IMS/VS DL/I, JCL, CA7, Eztrieve, MQ Series and File-Aid.
 Created Checklist Standards for programs, program specifications, JCL, UTS and UTR for offshore developers
to follow to improve quality and performance.
 Performed code reviews for developers before passing programs, program specifications, JCL, UTS and UTR on to
Target IMN project team.
 Collaborated with Target management, Technical Architects and Business Analyst to keep them informed of
project timelines, issues or concerns, and frequent statuses.
 Provide feedback related to performance as our conversion has a small window to convert during implementation.
 Reviewed, created, updated Requirement, Analysis and Design documents for all iterations.
 Analysis for all internal and external systems that create, update, delete GMS Item tables.
St. Paul Travelers– St. Paul, Minnesota 2000 – 2006
Senior Systems Information Specialist –2005 through March 2006
System Analyst – May 2000 through 2004
Fully supported three systems for several customers: Claims, Customer Account Repository (CAR), Loss
Statistical for claims processing utilizing COBOL II, DB2, IMS/VS DL/I, JCL, CA7, SQL, Visual Studio, SAS, MQ
Series and File-Aid.
 Led initiation, requirements, design, construction, testing, implementation phases of Loss Statistical Financial
3.0 and 4.0 projects and claims acquisition integration project.
 Coordinated testing for litigation rewrite project, managed several testing cycles and provided written and
verbal communication to management, business customers and downstream users. Provided testing schedule,
testing results, availability of test data, assigning testing errors to developers and implemented software
application.
 Collaborated with key management and customer service users in scope and design of systems/projects.
 Coded, tested, and implemented projects with mainframe, quality control, and production support members.
 Write new and enhance existing programs, providing cost and timesaving to business.
 Provided on-call support to resolve production problems.
 Developed and maintained documentation for Sarbanes Oxley.
 Monitor daily claims financial balancing and make data fixes to recycle broken claims.
 Wrote job execution procedures creating new job schedules.
 Updated production databases using ad-hoc programs.
Argus Health Systems - Kansas City, Missouri 1998 - 2000
Systems Analyst – August 1998 through February 2000
Provided support of four systems for several customers: Pharmacy, Prescriber, National Drug Code (NDC), and Claims
Processing utilizing COBOL II, Natural, CICS, ADABAS, DB2-UDB, and JCL.
 Implemented Prescriber, Pharmacy and NDC loads for new and existing customers; provided data layout,
customized editing, testing and implementation resolving all problems with Prescriber, Pharmacy and NDC
loads.
 Updated production databases for several different customers’ systems to correct claim processing errors or set

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up new customers.
 Set up daily, automated process to load customers’ pharmacy rate changes and provided reports back to
customers.
 Collaborated with key management and users in scope and design of systems/projects.
 Coded, tested, and implemented projects with mainframe, quality control, and production support members.
 Wrote new and enhanced existing programs providing cost and time savings to business customer.
 Provided on-call support to resolve production problems.
 Converted a customer’s Excel spreadsheet into pharmacy rate standard layout detailing pharmacy rate changes.
 Completed Y2K changes to four systems, tested and implemented to production with no problems.
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company - Minneapolis, Minnesota 1989 - 1998
Programmer/Systems Analyst - 1993 through August 1998
Programmer A - 1991 through 1993
Programmer B – November 1989 through 1991
Fully supported six systems: Bank Reconciliation, Transactional Float, Tax Reporting, Policy Reporting, National
Accounts, and National Order Entry utilizing COBOL II, DYL-280, JCL, GENER/OL, File-Aid and VSAM.
Cable Value Network - Plymouth, Minnesota 1988 - 1989
Programmer II June 1988 through August 1989
Supported Financial Reporting and Bad Debit Recovery systems utilizing COBOL II, JCL, CICS, IMS and File-Aid.
EDUCATION Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
DeVry Institute of Technology
VOLUNTEER Robbinsdale Fire Department
Firefighter and First Responder - 1994 through present
Treasurer of Relief Association - 1995 through present