WAYNE SPARKS
214 – 533 – 6303 Plano, Texas [Send email using form at bottom]
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Results oriented software developer with extensive and varied experience.
Strong attention to detail with constant focus on meeting deadlines. Experience
is in a mainframe computer environment with a strong background in development,
programming, installations, testing, documentation and trouble shooting.
Areas of Professional Interest
Application Software Design Computer Programming
Strategic Planning and Program Development Evaluation and Troubleshooting
Systems Analysis and Design Testing
Technical Summary
IBM ASSEMBLER FILEAID IBM MAINFRAME ENDEVOR
COBOL II CICS Z/OS DEC-VAX
COBOL SYNCSORT FORTRAN VMS
VSAM MVS/OS PL/1 EXPEDITOR
JCL IMS-DL/1 REXX EASYTRIEVE
TSO/ISPF DB2 DOS/VSE C
Summary
• Many years of exciting development work as a Programmer Analyst / Systems
Engineer.
• 12 years with Wichita Public Schools supporting all phases of the Student
Programming System.
• Programming at Wichita Public Schools involved batch & CICS online programs.
• Boeing (Tulsa) . Overhauled Assembler & Cobol programs with IMS database,
batch and online.
• Experience in banking and credit card processing.
• My background is very broad. I have seen data processing from many different
perspectives.
Work Experience
ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS Plano, Texas 11/2007 –
08/2009
Systems Engineer and Programmer
• Worked on the Medicare Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (F.I.S.S.)
maintenance programming team.
• Received development & maintenance programming requests from Business Analysts
and implemented the changes into the mainframe system.
• Troubleshot system problems from the Users and fixed them. This system
involved maintenance and development under the direction of our customer who was
Pinnacle Business Systems Incorporated. Pinnacle BSI is in the business of
maintaining Medicare Part A for several regions of the country.
PEROT SYSTEMS, CAS Addison, Texas 2/2004 – 8/2007
Systems Analyst and Programmer, Bank of America (MBNA)
• Worked at Bank of America/MBNA Card Services for 3½ years on a $1,500K
system.
(PEROT SYSTEMS continued...)
• Performed application development for the following Credit Card Processing
Systems: AMEX Card Processing, Authorization System, Promotional Points, Enhanced
Customer Options, FM PACA & Enhanced Pricing (MORE Project)
• Used ENDEVOR for program migration and used EXPEDITOR for Debugging.
AJILON CONSULTING Houston, Texas 5/2002 – 5/2003
Senior Programming Analyst, Bisys, Inc.: (contract position)
• Performed program enhancement & modification on existing bank lending systems.
ADDECCO Tulsa, Oklahoma 4/2000 – 12/2001
Programmer Analyst, Boeing: (contract position)
• $500K per year savings.
• Worked on an Oak Ridge Tulsa Boeing Computer System Database Conversion, which
eliminated a mainframe computer system.
HIGH TECH RESOURCES Tulsa, Oklahoma 6/1998 – 1/2000
Programmer Analyst, D.A.C. Services (contract position)
• $700K savings
• Elimination of Y2K problems from mainframe system at D.A.C. Utilizing list of
programs from group leaders researched and planned alternative system solutions.
Reviewed programs and identified fixes, installed code and conducted testing.
M.I.S. TECHNOLOGIES Tulsa, Oklahoma 11/1997 – 4/1998
Programmer Analyst, Boeing (contract position)
• Provided programming and production support of a production control system
while regular employee was on maternity leave.
WICHITA PUBLIC SCHOOLS Wichita, Kansas 10/1985 –
10/1997
Senior Lead Programmer Analyst:
• Met with users to define new computer systems for the Student Records System
• Provided programming support both in the online and batch processing
environments.
EDUCATION
B.S., Mathematics
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Coursework in C, C++, Visual Basic
Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Continuing Education, 21 hours of Computer Science
Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
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