GREGORY C. BRIGNONI
2077 Stonebrook Lane
[Send email to request phone number] 20-9593
Upland, CA 91784 [Send email using form at bottom]
[Send email to request phone number] 61-0546
SUMMARY
A proactive, trustworthy Applications Developer with extensive experience in
application design/implementation, problem resolution, customer satisfaction and
business requirements analysis. Strengths include analyzing data,
manufacturing/planning, logistics/EDI, relating to clients and data management.
A detail oriented, responsible team player with a good attitude who works well
with little supervision.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
OS/Environments: Windows NT, XP, Windows 2000 Pro, OS/2,
PC- DOS, Oracle Client/Server, IBM mainframe: MVS, ESA,XA, OS390, Z/OS 1.7,
Z/OS 1.9, TSO, ROSCOE, EDI x12, Gentran mainframe and Gentran Server for Windows
4.0, VSAM, ISPF, BMS, SDF, SDSF, SPUFI, QMF, Unisys IX Clearpath Series mainframe
with RDMS 12r2, Intertest
Development Applications: COBOL, COBOL2, COBOLe (Enterprise), Cobol3,
DB2 w/
Embedded SQL, Debugger, EDI, Oracle: SQL, SQL+, PL/SQL; CICS (Cmd Lvl),
EZTRIEVE, EasyTrieve+, JES2, SJP, MVS JCL, PL/1, RPG2, RPG3, Dyl280, Changeman,
SQL Nav., TOAD, IMS/DL1, IMS/DB, IDMS, Assembler (Macro Lev), AFP, MS SQL Server
7.50, UltraEdit-32 Prof Text/Hex Editor 12.0 for Windows, VSync, VSAM, TOTAL,
Unisys IPF editor and ECL’s, Powerbuilder 5.0, InfoConnect 3.0, SQL Anywhere ISQL
5.5, UniAccess middleware, HTML, SCLM, WINSQL , IP Server, Data21
OOD Environments: VB3, VB4
Networking Environments: LAN, WAN, VAN, TCP/IP, Host Explorer, FTP, VPN, VPS,
NetMeeting, NetView, VTAM, EXTRA Personal Client, Intranet. Portals, Attachmate,
FileNet, Hummingbird, Vista (TSO Emul.), DirectConnect
Hardware: IBM mainframe: 3090 Series, 3080
Series, 9600 Series,
Z800 Series, HP Servers,
Windows Servers, UNISYS- IX
Clearpath Series OS2200
mainframe
Software: Oracle, CICS, MS Office
Tools (WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK, ACCESS), DB2, Documentum (Contributor), DFSORT,
Endevor, EZTRIEVE, FTP, Lotus Notes 5, Microfocus COBOL (w/CICS option &
Animator), StarTeam/ Kintana, SQL Navigator, TOAD, UCC7, Remedy, Viasoft, Visio,
SIS Plus, FileAid, AbendAid, Clists, SAVRS, Strobe, Syncsort, CA-Sort , UCC7,
CA7, CA11, Panvalet/Panapt , Remedy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LA COUNTY 10/2007 - current
Office Of Education
Sr. Programmer Analyst
As a Soft-Train Consultant, supporting the LACOE Payroll/HR System Migration
implementation project, on their IBM / Z/OS / MVS System, using COBOL3 / CICS /
DB2 / HTML programming debugging skills. LACOE’s payroll systems have never
missed a payroll cycle and they pay all teacher and staff payrolls (the majority
not covered by LAUSD’s systems).
• Primary duties include: assignment of documented issues occurring on their
newly developed CICS / COBOL3 / DB2 / HTML, HR and Payroll Systems. These issues
typically involve navigational or functional problems, in these mainframe-based
programs and often involve direct involvement with departmental staff from
Student Financial Services Division.
• Assigned tasks concerning the Credential System and related state download
files. Producing a set of CICS/COBOL3/HTML programs accessing DB2 data (new
Archive tables) and sending HTML screens. Created DB2 load programs using the
newly expanded State Credential download file. Gained knowledge and used: SCLM;
WINSQL, a SQL Editor tool; DEBUGGER, a Cobol CICS & Batch Testing Tool.
• Some knowledge-based staff training occurs since most of LACOE’s staff is
Honeywell/Bull Systems based.
• Participate in departmental staff meetings and user project meetings.
EXPERIAN
05/2007 - 09/2007
As an Irvine Technology Corp Contract Programmer/Analyst, supporting the
Experian SBCS System (Small Business Credit Share), on their IBM / Z/OS 1.7 / MVS
System, using Easytrieve+ to write conversion programs. Experian is a leader in
the Credit Bureau sector and maintains DB2 databases of approximately 26
Terabytes.
• Primary duties include: writing Easytrieve programs to convert historical
contributor data to directly batch-update (using Cobol2/DB2) their post-legacy
DB2 Systems. Also, working with Testers, in Quality Assurance, to adhere to
standards and data-translation changes. Identified corrections or improvements
to Systems Requirements Documents. Nominated ‘Lead Programmer’, for meeting all
QA’s required changes, on all Easytrieve conversion programs being tested, and
being written by a staff of 8 Contract Programmers. Researched and recovered,
data sources for conversion. Attending meetings which included staff from
Applications Development, Project management, Department Director, end-user
departmental management, DBAs and QA. These meetings were held for resolving
data conversion issues, scheduling implementation steps and identifying data
sources.
• Performed adhoc programming duties, such as re-testing and promoting a group
of Cobol2 programs, copybooks, procs (including DFSORTs) and JCL, through the
various stages of libraries within Endevor. Meeting with QA to determine any
programming or JCL Standards adherence issues and determining scheduling.
• Attending Production Support meetings. Sometimes being assigned issue
resolution tasks involving batch or CICS / DB2 programs.
L.A. COUNTY
10/2006 - 03/2007
Department of Public and Social Services
(including Child Services & Welfare)
Programmer Analyst
As a Primetech Contract Programmer for Unisys, supporting the LA Co LEADER
project (Los Angeles Eligibility Automated Determination Evaluation Reporting
System) on Unisys’s 2200 Client Server mainframe, using Cobol and SQL for access
of Unisys’s RDMS (relational database mgmt) and UniAccess Open Client.. Leader is
the largest client-server IV-A system in the country using 5.9 Terrabytes of
DASD. Unisys has been contracting with the County of LA for over 9 years. The
environment is ‘Unisys / Cobol / PowerBuilder / M-F Cobol / RDMS’.
.
• Primary duties include writing and testing Cobol/SQL batch programs and
promoting the program versions thru Unisys’s multiple staged regions. These batch
Cobol programs are exclusively interface and extract programs that feed other
county external systems. The regions are: ‘Production’, ‘Staging’, ‘UA Test’, and
‘Development’, with emphasis on Quality Assurance and peer code review. Meeting
regularly with: LA CO user-staff members, Unisys programmers, and Unisys
management, to report status, identify issues or changes in spec docs or
implementation plans.
• Learning and using PowerBuilder’s Database Management Tools for ad-hoc SQL
queries, in various regions, for data validation (like SPUFI).
• Adapting to the Unisys operating systems and library systems. (Unisys is
using PowerBuilder & M-F Cobol to code and map online maps and programs, in a
separate team).
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON 10/2005 – 06/2006
Academia, Admissions & Records
Programmer Analyst
Supported SIS Plus System (SIS+), User Security
Administration, application development using COBOLe, DB2 and Embedded SQL in an
‘IBM / MVS / CICS / COBOL / DB2’ environment.
• Developed student letter program in a COBOLe batch environment using Embedded
SQL (and enhancing my DB2 knowledge & currency) and learned output processing
language AFP for lazer printing and forms creation.
• Leveraged EDI knowledge while learning how to download e-transcripts via the
internet on a state-wide project involving other universities in the CSU System
and Imaging processes using OCR technologies. Learned the process-flow on
receiving transcripts from other universities and running those image files thru
CSF’s contracted Imaging software with OCR, also on ‘error verification’ of those
transcripts.
• Obtained Security Administration knowledge while assisting staff, faculty and
student assistants by setting-up secure ID(s) and performing password reset
services.
BECKMAN COULTER, INC. 07/1998 – 11/2004
Manufacturing, Sales, Medical Equipment (Lab, Office, University Research)
Sr. Applications Developer
Supported Legacy Systems in an ‘IBM / MVS / CICS / COBOL2 / IDMS / VSAM /
EZTRIEVE’ environment, while transitioning to Oracle Applications 11i. Legacy
applications included: order management, inventory analysis/planning, contract
management, customer service, manufacturing interfaces, logistics, DRP/MRP and
Oracle Interfaces. Used Oracle SQL Editors: TOAD and SQL Navigator, on HP and
Oracle servers. 24/7 on-call support with 3 peers, on a rotational basis.
• Ad-Hoc Management reporting (ABC Analysis), EDI interface (extracting
real-time data) to support a 3rd Party warehouse (USCO), used by distribution
management. Learned more about EDI mapping, VANS, repository procedures and
packets.
• Learned network troubleshooting using VPS and NetView for TCP/IP connected
user printers.
• Received Oracle (8i) Education in: SQL, SQL+, PL/SQL, Database Design and
Modeling. Applied education by: performing production Oracle (11i) table updates,
Oracle interface code debugging, maintaining and enhancing Oracle Stored
Procedures & Stored Packages. Ran custom Oracle Forms applications, SQL editors:
TOAD & SQL Navigator. Learned version control software: Kintana, StarTeam. Approx
2.5 years of Oracle experience, mostly on interfaces to Oracle’s CRM modules.
• Worked with Clists, mostly concerning RACF proclib’s for startup decks on TSO.
Also for Date-conversion calculators in TSO.
• Obtained ‘Contibutor’ level education in Documentum. Updated Remedy requests.
• Worked with Integration/Interface Software vendors: TIBCO & BEA.
• Gained exposure to SMS, in the form of scheduled downloads of PC system
upgrades and network virus protection.
HOME SAVINGS OF AMERICA 01/1997 – 06/1998
Banking – mortgage loan origination, processing and servicing
Applications Analyst
Learned and used Endevor, ViaSoft change management tool, in an ‘IBM / MVS /
COBOL / JES2’ environment.
• Performed Ad-Hoc related tasks for Home’s recent acquisition of Coast Savings
and their Goodwill Lawsuit.
• Provided production ABEND resolution and performance improvements.
MILLER’S OUTPOST (Hub Distributing, Inc.) 07/1990 – 12/1996
Retail clothing – distribution, EDI, ASN, bar-coding, sales
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Supported mainframe systems: receiving, purchase orders, allocations, Inventory
Control / Planning, Quick Response techniques, EDI x12: (Advance Shipment
Notifications, Purchase Orders and Order Confirmations), distribution planning.
24/7 on-call support, rotated with 5 peers. Their environment: ‘IBM / COBOL /
MVS / CICS / VSAM / JES2 / IMS/DB’.
• Mastered bar-coding using ‘Label Matrix’, PC design tool.
• Gained experience with Microfocus COBOL Workbench, and Animator.
• Worked with Clists, for RACF and in-house routines for VSAM utilities.
• Used REXX commands.
• Used MS WORD and GROUPWISE extensively.
• Coded PSB’s and PCB’s for IMS/DB.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• College and in-house training of IBM environment.
• ORACLE University Education training in: SQL, PL/SQL, SQL+, and Oracle
Database Design and Modeling
PRIOR COMPANIES
• CitiCorp – CitiBank
• Automobile Club of Southern California
• Ingram Micro-D
• Kawasaki Motors, Inc.
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