James Sidney Reed
3712 Smith Ave SE home [Send email to request phone number] 68-7452
Albuquerque, NM 87108 work None
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Objective
To become a COBOL Programmer Analyst.
Experience
25+ years of comprehensive in-depth mainframe data processing experience in a
government environment.
Education
BA combined major of Philosophy and Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CN.
GPA is 3.0 out of 4.0.
Technical Vocational Institute (TVI) classes, Albuquerque, NM., which include
Online Payment Processing, Advanced Visual Basic, Governmental Accounting, How to
be a Supervisor, Chemistry, Astronomy. GPA is 4.0 out of 4.0.
Continuing education class, University of New Mexico. Visual Basic for Oracle,
JavaScript.
Extensive reading and many seminars on Visual Basic, ADO, SQL, Oracle, XML, ASP,
VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, Dreamweaver UltraDev, C++, COM.
Summary of Technical Qualifications
* Y2k conversion of VS COBOL and COBOL II to MVS COBOL for the Language
Environment. This included the conversion of 133 inhouse programs from both VS
COBOL and COBOL II to MVS COBOL in addition to the date routine changes and
testing. I have also been responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of
these programs.
* CICS. Wrote CICS ACOPS inhouse system for capturing of police reports.
Maintained 3000+ CICS modules that made up the MSA/DBA/GEAC/INFOR accounting
software package. Converted a CICS inhouse water utility billing system to the
current PeopleSoft CRB product.
* VSAM. Have written COBOL programs that use VSAM datasets for both input and
output and handle possible error conditions. Have extensive experience with the
AMS utility program IDCAMS.
* DB2. I was involved in the conversion of a CICS system from IMS to DB2.
* SQL. I have used SQL to access Oracle, Sybase, and Access datasets.
* MVS. I am an expert in the use of JCL and IBM utilities. I also have extensive
RACF experience.
* I was on call 24x365 as the Production Control Manager for all mainframe
production problems.
* I was the Quality Assurance Manager and did extensive testing of all proposed
production changes as well as being responsible for the enforcement of City
standards.
* SDLC. Have used the following methodologies SDM, Arthur Anderson Method 1,
City inhouse rapid application development, and prototyping.
James Sidney Reed
Professional Experience
March 2005 – July 2008 City of Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
QUALITY ASSURANCE/PRODUCTION CONTROL MANAGER, ISD
Responsibilities: Have been responsible for ensuring the successful processing
of all production jobs on the IBM mainframe; security; report distribution;
configuration management; and assisting application development as needed. Also,
implemented a cross platform scheduling product.
Achievements: Utilized RACF, CA7, PageCenter, AppWorx, ERQ, and Natural
Security. Continue to assist application development by writing COBOL programs
and developing JCL. Have written both CLIST’s and REXX programs to help automate
various production functions.
Hardware: IBM 370, Operating System: OS/390 with CICS 4.1.
Software: COBOL, Visual Basic, Oracle, VSAM, JCL, IBM utilities including
IDCAMS, GEAC Accounting, Adabas/Natural, CLIST, REXX, TSO, ISPF, CICS, FileAid.
PC: Windows, MS Office (Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project, Lotus
Notes, Outlook, Internet browsers, DOS, etc.
Web: Dreamweaver UltraDev, Oracle databases, SQL, HTML, ASP, VBScript,
JavaScript.
December 1989 – February 2005 City of Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
SENIOR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, ISD
Responsibilities: Have been active in many different capacities including
Quality Assurance, Rapid Application Development of Natural systems, Client
Representation, maintenance of Geac accounting software, COBOL Y2K conversion,
conversion of systems from hllapi to batch COBOL, modification of the City's
critical in-house Natural budgeting system, development of Oracle database driven
intranet applications, and of Visual Basic accounting applications.
Achievements: Most recent experience has been in the development of data centric
(Oracle) intranet accounting applications and of an intranet based Progress
Measurement system for the Mayor’s Budget office. Utilized RACF, CA7, and Natural
Security in my capacity as a Quality Assurance Manager. Continue to serve as a
backup to QA whenever needed including most holiday seasons. Wrote numerous COBOL
programs and CLISTs to help automate production date processing. Wrote Natural
programs to allow a new capital project tracking system (CPTS) to interface with
existing Geac accounting software. Also wrote CPTS online maintenance programs
in Natural ensuring coordination with other programs and data. Assisted the
departments of the Mayor’s Office, Solid Waste, Aviation, and Transit in defining
their annual data processing plans and represented these departments in ISD
meetings. Have been involved in the installation of all eleven Geac software
packages including DCI (security, VSAM file access, online screen handling),
Information Expert (IE is Geac's reporting tool), GL, AP, Budgetary Control,
Common Component, Purchasing, Fixed Assets, AR, and Inventory. Was actively
involved in the Y2K updates to these Geac systems. Continue to assist in the
production administration of both DCI and IE. For Y2K converted 132 COBOL
programs while at the same time migrating them from both VS COBOL and COBOL II to
COBOL for MVS. Have converted two systems that used hllapi to batch COBOL
processing, resulting in the savings of at least 20 hours of processing time per
month. Have written a VB system that executes on the Internet within an ActiveX
document, accesses an Oracle database, displays a datagrid of items selected
though the building of custom SQL, and allows users to maintain this data online.
I have also made extensive modification to the City budgeting software, BUDPRO,
on the AR side of this software.
Hardware: IBM 370, 3031, 3033, 3081, 3083, 3084. Operating System: OS/390 with
CICS 4.1.
Software: COBOL, Visual Basic, Oracle, VSAM, JCL, IBM utilities including
IDCAMS, Geac Accounting, Adabas/Natural, CLIST, TSO, ISPF, CICS.
PC: Windows, MS Office (Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project, Lotus
Notes, Internet browsers, DOS, etc. Web: Dreamweaver UltraDev, Oracle databases,
SQL, HTML, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, C++, XML, COM.
James Sidney Reed
Professional Experience
October 1988 - November 1989 Pan Am World Services
Los Alamos, New Mexico
PROJECT LEADER, ISD
Responsibilities: Planning, organizing, staffing, activating, and controlling
the efforts of the Human Resources project team. Implementation of the Argonaut
payroll and personnel systems. Advisor to all Pan Am programming staff concerning
Natural/Adabas issues. Daily interacted with middle level management.
Achievements: Installed the Argonaut Payroll and Personnel systems. Coordinated
the efforts of the Payroll, Personnel, Accounting, and Data Processing
departments in obtaining training and defining functional needs. Utilized Arthur
Anderson's Method 1 development methodology to plan each detailed tasked for this
project including resource allocation and time estimates. Upon leaving, Pan Am
made an offer of a middle management position.
Hardware: VAX 6220, VAX 11785. Operating system: VMS 5.0
Software: Adabas/Natural, All-In-One, Construct, Predict, Super Natural.
January 1983 - September 1988 City of Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, ISD
Responsibilities: Analysis of user needs followed by the design and programming
of new systems. Maintenance of the MSA payroll system.
Achievements: Worked with a wide variety of City departments including Payroll,
Personnel, Police, Treasury, Purchasing, Vehicle Maintenance, and Building Code
Enforcement. Was the project leader for the maintenance of the MSA payroll for
3.5 years including the installation into production of two major releases.
Analysis of payroll/personnel needs for the integration of applicant tracking,
benefits control, job code control, position control, and personnel analyst
related tasks. Converted the DL1 calls in the ACOPS police system (see below
where I originally developed this system) to Adabas SQL and also assisted in the
programming of the police Pawn Shop system. Wrote a Cash Reporting system for the
Treasury department on an IBM 4700 and made this communicate with the IBM
mainframe CICS software. Assisted in the analysis and programming of a Purchasing
system. Wrote the system requirements for a Vehicle Fuel Inventory system.
Assisted in developing the system requirements for an Automated Building Code
Enforcement system that included the tracking of plans through the final issuance
of a certificate of occupancy. Wrote a system to do inquiries into a voter
registration database. Wrote a prototyping system in Natural to assist ISD
analysts in RAD of new systems. For many of these projects I used SDM70, a system
development methodology standard purchased and used by the City.
Hardware: IBM 3084. Operating system: MVS.
Software: Adabas/Natural, ADA SQL, COBOL, CICS, DL1, CLIST, TSO, ISPF, JCL.
James Sidney Reed
Professional Experience
October 1981 – December 1982 Wolfe & Associates
Albuquerque, New Mexico
ASSOCIATE AND DATA PROCESSING CONSULTANT
Responsibilities: To provide professional programming and analysis assistance to
clients. To be billable for as much time as possible and to complete all
assignments on schedule.
Achievements: Was billable for 2000 hours in 1982 and completed all projects on
schedule. Was the project leader for conversion of an IBM System 3 school
scheduling and resource management system to an IBM 4331 for the North Star
borough in Fairbanks, Alaska. Programming was in CICS. Installed, tested to
certification, and ran on election night the Alaskan required software for their
general election. Wrote a system called ACOPS to assist the Albuquerque Police
Department in capturing field report information on an IBM 3081 in CICS using the
DL1 database (this system was in use for close to twenty years).
Hardware: IBM 4331, IBM System 3. Operating system: DOS, VS.
Software: COBOL, CICS, DL1, DOS/JCL, OS/JCL, ICCF IPF, EDF.
June 1979 - September 1981 Shoprite Foods
Albuquerque, New Mexico
DATA PROCESSING MANAGER, ISD
Responsibilities: Management of all aspects of the small shop (DP manager, three
data entry personnel, and one night operator). Reporting to top-level management.
Achievements: Converted their existing MSA payroll system to a system running on
the company’s own minicomputer. Ensured the execution of Payroll, AP, AR, GL, and
Inventory systems. Installed operating system upgrades and tuned the system.
Programming in INFO Basic.
Hardware: Prime 400. Operating system: PRIMOS, PICK.
Software: PICK, ENGLISH, INFO Basic.
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