JOHN HALADA
2739 Newbury Ct, Pearland, Tx  77584 -  (713) 429-1158  -  jgh9091@yahoo.com
SUMMARY
Top prospect with strong analytical skills to achieve your goals with results
better than expected.  I have over 20 years experience serving in many capacities
in various Information Service environments.  Strong technical/business
background, built up over many years working in different positions doing design,
Application Development through to installations and operations and extensive
experience in the area of troubleshooting and conversions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Development Environments-	OS390, MVS/XA, MVS/VS1, MVS/OS, MVS/ESA, DOS/VSE
Power, DOS/VS, Wang, DEC 20 
Programming Languages-	Assembler, COBOL (VS, II, LE390 & z/OS), JCL (OS, DOS &
DOS/VSE), CLIST, REXX, BASIC, RPG, CICS (Marco & Command),  IBM DMS

Database Languages			DB2, VSAM, IMS

Utilities/Tools-	CMS, TSO ISPF/SDF, JES (JES, 2 & 3), Xpediter (TSO & CICS),
Compuware Shared Services, Intertest/CICS, Fileaid (Regular & DB2), SyncSort,
Librarian, VOLLIE, Panvalet, CA-1, CA-7, CA-11, Roscoe, Endevor, ChangeMan, ZEKE,
SPUFI, QMF,  IDCAMS

Application Programming Experience
Life Insurance  - Vantage, Life70, CCA and Legacy Systems 
•	Policy and Agency 
•	Modifications and conversions for all functional areas
•	Installs, upgrades and troubleshooting.
•	Production Support for Life70 and Vantage

Property and Casualty – CSC Cogen and TiG IPM
•	Member of the development management team for a major 
software vendor with responsibility for Insurance Statistical Reporting.
•	Developed and executed conversion programs for Michigan Auto.
•	Member of system test support team for Texas Auto.
•	Member of conversion team for California Home Owners.
•	Member of the installation team for states of Illinois and Indiana Auto.
•	Member of Production support team as both Business and Technical.

Personal Trust Financial/Corporate Trust Financial 
•	Supported all the functional areas of the application
•	Installs, upgrades, modifications, conversions and troubleshooting.

EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Application Conversions / Upgrades / Modifications 
Lead Technical Analyst
•	Write program specifications
•	Coordinated technical activities such as networking, systems and operations
•	Developed project/contingency plans from a technical perspective
•	Responsible for implementation and implementing the plan
•	Produce mapping document for conversions
•	Managed execution of run procedures
•	Worked with User to verify final results
•	Identified project problems, and proposed implemented solutions.

Application Installs
Lead Technical Analyst
•	Coordinated technical activities such as networking, systems and operations 
•	Developed project plans from a technical perspective
•	Responsible for implementation and implementing the plan
•	Managed execution of run procedures
•	Worked with User to verify final results
•	Identified project problems, and proposed implemented solutions.

Operating Systems/Software and Hardware - Conversions / Upgrades
Application Technical Consultant/Management Team 
•	Developed plans for the project and resolved issues
•	Participated as a member of Application Support Group to address project
requirements    

Software Purchase
Technical Consultant/ Review Team 
•	Reviewed product presentation from Vendor 
•	Developed and presented feasibility study to Data Center
Executive Team and Executive Company Board.

Data Center Relocation
Application Technical Consultant/Relocation Team
•	Developed plans for the project and resolve issues
•	Worked with members in the Application Support Group to meet project
requirements
•	Member of Operations Review Team: Verified plans for, setup 
procedures and setup work; ie. Scheduler, Automated Procedures and Libraries.

Product Presentation and Training
Trainer
•	Presented Technical and Training Presentations to users and customers
(audience 5-100).
EMPLOYMENT
Auto Club Group 									8/02 – 3/08
Consultant 

Technical and Business support for ACG on the TiG IPM Product, a P&C Insurance
Application.  Assigned to the OACIS Operations Support Group responsible for the
daily production activities of the TiG IPM Product.  Resolve post implementation
issue resulting from coding errors or procedural and correct DB2 table integrity
issues.  Environment IBM OS/390 Cobol II DB2 TSO CICS.

The Innovation Group (TiG) 								10/99 – 7/02
Senior Technical Consultant

Technical and Business support for and modify the TiG IPM Product, a P&C
Insurance Application, to Client’s Business requirements.  Consulted on Source
Management System, available Utilities to manage the IPM Product at a Client’s
Site and techniques to synchronize Business Tables across the different
application environments and expedite System Test and Quality Assurance problem
resolution.  Environment IBM OS/390 Cobol II DB2 TSO CICS.

Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation						6/99 – 8/99
Consultant

Business analyst for automated integration between Construction Project
Management System and Financial System; wrote the Business Requirements and
Design Documents.  The Construction Project Management System is software product
called Expedition that runs in the PC Environment.  The Financial System is the
Dun & Bradstreet MARS/G application that runs in the Mainframe Environment.

Texas Worker Force Commission							12/97 – 5/99
Consultant

Upgrade client’s assembler programs For Y2K (used by System Programming Group). 
Developed and supported a Y2K Progress Tracking Application that maintain work
status, location, Xref and execution status of various application and system
components; used REXX, ISPF Services, Cobol II and DB2.  Set up of ChangeMan
source management application modifying DB2 Bind procedure and Development
Environment.  Modified ChangeMan Development Environment procedure to reduce the
number of steps the application developer had to perform.  Consulted on the usage
of REXX in conjunction with IBM RACF package and as an Interface Tool between the
Web and Mainframe.  Environment IBM OS/390 Sysplex Assembler Cobol II DB2 TSO.

Computer Science Corporation - Financial Services Group				12/89 – 11/97
Consultant 
Member of Team to install Vanage on Client host system and conduct installation
verification test.  Developed Agent conversion process that encompassed three
applications, CCA, Life70 and Legacy System to Vantage.  Reviewed design
documents produce for Client’s modifications to the Client Contract
Administration (CCA) product for alteration that would enhance the Client
requirements, unnecessary modifications and alterative solutions.  Member of the
Cogen (P&C product) Development Management Team responsible for Statiscial
Reporting.  Developed an automated procedure for the field expansion that
resulted in a $70,000 savings.  Supported the Life70 product for an outsource
Client and improved the online recovery procedure.  Member of the Disaster
Recovery Team; developed Disaster Recovery guidelines.  Member of the Project
Support Group; first line of technical support for CA Legent Endevor, Compuware
Shared Services and Xpediter (TSO & CICS), CICS, CSC FSG Tools.  As a member of
the Project Support Group developed install guidelines for the Vantage product,
developed special tools for a project and involve in set up of project
environments (onsite or in-house); CICS regions, Batch JCL, source development
platform, system software tools, company tools and training development staff. 
Environment IBM 3090 MVS VM Assembler Cobol II REXX CMS TSO ISPF Services VSAM
IMS DB2.

Security Pacific Bank – Data Service Group						8/86 – 11/89
Senior Programmer Analyst 
Installed enhancements received from Dyatron for the Personal Trust Application
by retrofitting in-house modifications, conversion of data, working with End User
to resolve issues and problems.  Daily duties were to resolve application
problems and address issues raised by the End User or Data Center Production
Control Group Work in conjunction with the Data Center Operation Group on the
production setup of the application, execution JCL, Run documentation, Restart
procedures and CA-7 Scheduler.  Served on the Data Center Relocation Project and
User Request Automation Project as a lead technical consultant.  Environment IBM
MVS Cobol II VSAM.

Republic Bank of Texas								8/83 – 7/86
Lead Programmer Analyst

Lead for the Mellon Personal Trust Accounting Pension and Stock System Inc.
Corporate Trust applications.  Developed an automated install process for the
Mellon application.  The procedure reduce release installs ranging from six to
twelve months to four weeks and intermediate fixes from a month to six months to
two weeks.  Enhance the Personal Trust Accounting Pension system saving the
company $3,000,000.  Prepared reports for status of outstanding reported problems
and work estimates.  Member of the following Data Center Teams; Problem
Resolution, Software Review, Operating System Conversion, IDAMS to VSAM
Conversion and Production Turnover.  Environment Amdahl V7 V8 IBM 4341 DOS VS &
VSE OS Assembler Cobol IDAMS VSAM TSO.  
Berger, Verney & Company								8/81 – 7/83
Consultant

Working at client site on various applications.  Project Leader/Lead Analysis to
convert a Oil & Gas RPG II application to Cobol.  Analysis/Programmer to supply
special reports for a feasibility study using DEC20 Cobol.  Consultant/Trainer
for the conversion of a inventory order system from WANG 100 VS to WANG VS 2200. 
Lead Analysis to upgrade two Clients’ MSA Payroll System; worked simultaneously
on both upgrades.  Environment IBM 3033 DOS VS and IBM 3090 MVS. 
EDUCATION

Houston Community College

•	Advance C# .Net
•	Advance Visual Basic .Net

e-Learning
•	XML
•	HTML
•	JAVA
•	FrontPage 2000

The Innovation Group

•	TiG Rating Course
•	TiG Application Developer Course
•	TiG Foundations Skills Course

Ashland University, Ashland, OH

•	B.A. – Business Administration/Political Science