Resume of Cyberlife/CK4 Programmer

Title
Cyberlife/CK4 Programmer

Primary Skills
Cyberlife, CK4, CFO, Assembler, COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, TSO, OS/MVS

Location
US-TX-Flower Mound (will consider relocating)

Posted
May-08-07


Experience

6/01-present New York Life New York, NY
Senior Consultant
Responsible for maintenance/customization to the Cyberlife (0201) system to support New York Life's life and annuity products. Major areas of expertise are: solving program abends and problems, time-driven updating/processing of new fields added to data segments, addition/maintenance of Data Exchange information for display using GUI.
Programming language used: COBOL II using CICS/TSO/JCL/VSAM. Some Assembler language maintenance.

8/00-12/00 New England Financial Boston, MA
Senior Consultant - Contract Position - Command Systems
Responsible for new development and testing on Cyberlife system using programs maintained and compiled on ChangeMan.
Programming language used: COBOL II using CICS/TSO/JCL/VSAM. Some exposure to DB2.

9/99-5/00 Pacific Life California
Senior Consultant - Contract Position - Command Systems
Contract for maintenance and enhancements to Cyberlife system to support Pacific Life's survivor life insurance products.
Programming language used: COBOL II using CICS/TSO/JCL/VSAM.

2/99-4/99 Sophisticated Business Systems, INC. Dallas, TX
Senior Consultant - Contract Position
Responsible for maintenance and support of Gates Rubber Company's system. Learned some IDMS - wrote and tested one program using IDMS.
Programming language used: COBOL370/COBOL II/ALC using TSO/VSAM.

4/98-12/98 Nations Bank Dallas, TX
Contract Position - IBS (Interactive Business Systems)
Contract for maintenance and enhancements to PACE (Profitability and Customer Service Enhancement). PACE is Nations Bank's core Asset Management Accounting System. Coding/testing was done using both batch and CICS COBOL 370 programs. Researched programs requiring time machine testing for Y2K (Year 2000).
Other utilities/products used: TSO/ISPF, VSAM, CA7, SAR, NDM, XPEDITER (CICS/BATCH), FILE-AID, Windows NT (Word, Excel, and Outlook. Machines used: IBM OS/MVS 390; JCL - JES2.

2/95-3/98 CYBERTEK, Corp. Dallas, TX
Senior Consultant - Contract Position - IBS (Interactive Business Systems)
Contract to help in the development of an enhanced data-exchange project called CYBERLIFE. This involved the process of requesting the display of data at the PC level for retrieval from the IBM mainframe through direct communication links. Converted and tested numerous programs written in ALC under the old data-exchange subsystems Field Link/Plan Advisor to COBOL II for the new CyberLife system. Maintained/developed programs on the mainframe side using COBOL II, Assembler, CICS, VSAM, TSO, OS/MVS, and WINDOWS. Some tasks required converting programs written in Assembler to COBOL II. My contract with CYBERTEK was extended in February 1997 to help develop an enhancement to CYBERLIFE for processing a new type of traditional life insurance called Blended Insurance.

6/94-1/95 Life Investors Ft. Worth, TX
Senior Consultant - Contract Position
Six-month contract to develop an enhancement to PMSC Life System for the processing of an expense side fund for certain health insurance policies. Premiums were paid into this fund, interest credited, and withdrawals processed for personal reasons, to reduce premium increases, and to pay co-insurance and deductibles.
Programming languages used: COBOL/CICS, Assembler, using TSO/VSAM.


10/92-4/94 Union Bankers Ins. Co./ICH Corp. Dallas, TX
Contract Position
Independent contractor to convert health insurance processed at Bankers Life & Casualty's Agents Compensation System to Union Bankers Agents Compensation System.
Programming languages used: COBOL/ALC/CICS; using TSO/VSAM.


3/92-4/92 J.C. Penny Life Insurance Co. Dallas, TX
Contract Position
Two-month contract to create detail valuation files from Jim Thompson Life Insurance Administration System for the actuarial department to use on IBM personal computers. Programming language used: COBOL/ALC using TSO.

12/90-1/92 CYBERTEK, Inc. Dallas, TX
Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer to maintain the CK4/VS life insurance administration computer software system. I was responsible for an enhancement to the CK4/VS system that would process surrender charges that vary by the duration of premium payments.
Programming languages used: COBOL/ALC/CICS using TSO.

1/89-9/90 SEI CORPORATION Dallas, TX
Senior Programmer
7/90 - Wrote a report program on the investment performance of assets measured in international currencies.
7/89 - Became a key programmer involved in upgrading a software package IPS (Investment Performance System) that reports and measures the performance of assets. I was directly responsible for cleaning up logic in the interface programs which link the IPS system trust accounting software systems. These programs were required to support both the WANG VS and IBM/OS COBOL languages.

2/89-7/89 - Member of a development team responsible for finishing the development of a new pension plan record-keeping system called SURPASS. This was being developed on the WANG VS machine. Directly responsible for writing the general/detail specifications, writing the programs, and closing the initial testing for processing withdrawals and distributions from defined contribution retirement plans, such as profit sharing and
401K plans. This required extensive independent research and meetings with legal counsel at SEI to define the legal tax aspects of retirement plan distributions.

3/88-1/89 Policy Management Systems, Corp. (PMSC) Dallas, TX
Senior Programmer
PMSC purchased the Dytronix VLn system in late 1987. Responsible for helping to integrate the non-traditional life insurance functions of the VLn system into PMSC's life insurance software package, which did not have a non-traditional life insurance capability. The idea was to integrate the two systems into one. Designed and implemented changes to the VLn system to process a type of Interest Sensitive Whole Life insurance product in which the premiums are fixed for a period of 2 years, but could change to a different fixed premium, depending on the investment results for each 2-year period. Machines used: IBM/DOS/ICCF. Part of the integration project was converting programs written in DOS to OS.
Programming languages used: COBOL/ALC/CICS.

3/85-3/88 Dytronix Corporation (DYX) Dallas, TX
Senior Consultant
Involved in the development of computer software to administer non-traditional life insurance products such as Variable Life, Universal Life, Variable Universal Life, and Interest Sensitive Whole Life.
Languages used: COBOL/ALC/CICS.

11/87-1/88 - Customized and tested the Valuation subsystem of the IDB software package to report the reserves of ordinary life insurance policies for Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company. This valuation reporting was done on the IBM System/36 computer.

8/86-11/87 - A key part of further development and enhancements to the VLn system. Designed, coded, and tested a new Reserve Valuation subsystem to report the reserves for non-traditional life insurance products processed by the VLn system. This was by far the most challenging project of my career. Extensive research was required in learning the legal/actuarial requirements for calculating reserves and guideline premiums for Variable Life and Universal Life Insurance products.

4/86-8/86 - Helped test a new release of VLn for Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company to administer their Variable Life and Variable Universal Life Insurance products.

3/85-2/86 - A key role in stalling VLn at Crown Life in Toronto, Canada, to process a Single Premium Variable Life product.


9/82-3/85 The Continuum Company (TCC) Dallas, TX
Senior Programmer
A key role in programming/testing an enhancement to the LIFE-COMM software package to process Variable Life Insurance policies. Program languages were COBOL and ALC with some CICS. Gained considerable knowledge of the technical aspects of fixed premium Variable Life Insurance.

4/81-9/82 Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company Dallas, TX
Systems Analyst
Systems analyst in defining requirements for and writing programs (COBOL/ALC) needed in the agency subsystem (Both in-house and LIFE-COMM Agency subsystems). Machine used: IBM 3231, OS/VS, PANVALET. Some CICS applications programming.

12/79-4/81 Union Bankers Insurance Company Dallas, TX
Senior Programmer Analyst
Senior programmer analyst maintaining and developing assembly language programs in the Life Insurance Agency Subsystem(in-house).
Machines used: IBM/370, OS/VS, SPM.

5/77-11/79 Sammons Computer Services, Corp. Dallas, TX
Programmer Analyst
Programmer analyst maintaining computer programs (assembly language) for the agency and new business subsystems of the CFO II Life Insurance Administrative System.
Machines used: IBM/360, OS/VS, and TSO/SPF.

Education
East Texas State University Commerce, TX
Bachelor of Science Degree
Double Major in Computer Science and Mathematics
FLMI (9/80)
CLU (10/83)
ChFc (10/87)

Certifications
FLMI, CLU, ChFc


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