Summary


JAMES AVITABLE
Profile Over 20 years as a Senior Programmer Analyst in the claims processing financial, medical, ticket processing and industrial fields.
Very strong in analyzing, designing, programming, testing, documenting and maintaining CICS/MQ/DB2/VSAM on-line and COBOL II batch systems with complete life-cycle processing experience.
Languages CICS 15 years MQ 7 years
COBOL 20 years VSAM 20 years
DB2 14 years Assembler 12 years
Stored Procedures 7 years RPG II 2 years
Environment Mainframe : utilizing Z/OS, OS/390 MVS/ESA, MVS, DOS/VSE


Employment

August, 2009 -  Present
Position : Consultant

Health Care claims-processing interface for US military.
With United Health Group UHG, in Basking Ridge, N.J.
UHG was awarded a contract to supply medical software services for the US Government for all military servicemen in the Southeast region of the US I am working on a team to develop the ability for UHG to interface with the military system DEERS to process claims using CICS, XGEN 4th generation product, MQ, Channels and Containers, COBOL II and Batch.

August, 2008 -  August, 2009
Position : Consultant

HIPAA implementation for prescription eligibilty.
Implementation of HIPAA conformity throughout a major medical company s MEDCO prescription-processing eligibility system. Analysis of all changes needed for both Batch and CICS with changes incorporating Source, JCL, PROCS, control cards, CICS commareas and file structures.

February, 2004 -  February, 2008
Position : Senior Associate

Financial Services Wealth Management.
Responsible for designing, creating and implementing the original application of online intra-day trades and transactions for their timely dynamic presentation to clients via a client/server configuration. This was the first time that intra-day techniques came into existence, at UBS, for the benefit of its clients. This included all types of wealth management holdings information.
Also, developed and maintained batch, MQ, CICS and Stored Procedures software in support of client enrollment and client inquiry systems for use by field agents. This entailed continuous, extensive use of CICS, COBOL, DB2, Vsam, TSO/ISPF, Stored Procedures and MQ.

August, 2003 -  August, 2003
Position : Consultant

Name/Address deciphering.
Used multiple batch DB2 programs to decipher and reformat names and addresses from many different types of unformatted input combinations and file sources, into a uniform, standard BMW-regulated format for proper storing and future interpretation by both system software and BMW customers.

December,  -  December, 2003
Position : Consultant

Client/Server prescription pricing.
I utilized both MQ and stored procedures in designing and creating CICS programs as servers, in a client/server environment, to interface with workstation clients. The CICS programs supplied prescription pricing information to pharmacies. They supplied schedules of a drug s pricing history for use by pharmacies and auditors. The schedules were generated from server-side DB2 tables and VSAM files.

Formulary eligibility for third-party claims.
Implemented CICS drug copay functionality into a formulary system as part of on-line screen presentations to pharmacies. Also, applied maintenance for a CICS/DB2 system that advised the availability of drugs, as per participating plans, to pharmacies. All programs were implemented in an environment of minimal supervision with needed information obtained by self-initiated contacts with management and users.

Integrated Drug CWS System.
Part of a 3 - person team which designed and created an experimental CICS-to-Web Support system CWS, supplying data processing communication abilities between users on the internet and a CICS mainframe region which used DB2 tables. The internet medium was in the form of HTML web pages communicating with mainframe CICS programs. This included inquiry, browse and update functionality and was the first CWS processing developed in the Integrated Drug group.

August, 1997 -  August, 
Position : Consultant

Court-mandated remediation of misrepresented insurance policies.

Analyzed, designed, programmed, tested, debugged and documented CICS/DB2/VSAM maintenance programs to allow for policyholder-selected compensation packages. Enhanced file maintenance programs, programmed COBOL II/DB2 batch programs to generate maintenance transactions to be used to update the Prudential main master file along with programs to monitor the policyholder selection s status. All programs were implemented in a team environment that included a manager, user, analyst, programmer and tester.

March, 1996 -  March, 1997
Position : Senior Prog . Analyst

Responsible for a major rewrite of a unique municipal courts ticket and criminal CICS/DB2/VSAM system to enable interfacing with the State of New Jersey's Administration of the Court's System in compliance with state regulations.

Interviewed state personnel and analyzed state court system to determine all its required information and from what on-line screens the information originated. Analyzed Commercial Data Processing's private court system to find all differences between it and the state system. Consulted with private management and municipal users to determine how to change the private system to be able to operate in a co-operative manner with the state system and to be able to transmit the privately-entered data to the state system so as to maintain compatible parallel systems with enforced data integrity. This system was the only private system in New Jersey that was allowed to process tickets outside the state system .I documented the private system and trained users.

I worked independently as the CICS/DB2/VSAM programmer analyst on this project enlisting a consultant to help meet time deadlines.

July, 1993 -  July, 1996
Position : Senior Prog . Analyst

Education

Skills

REXX SPB WDDz TSO/ISPF Expeditor Intertest Eztest Word Excel Endevor Changeman Librarian CWS HTML FrontPage OS/JCL Fileaid XGEN IDMS Channels and Containers Easytrieve



Miscellaneous

Large hospital bed management system and reporting of non-insured patient usage for state relief .I was responsible for the maintenance of the hospital's bed availability and in-use status on a CICS/DB2/VSAM system.
Determined hospital income shortfalls as per uninsured patients treatment. This resulted in reports to the State of New Jersey for calculation of eventual relief for the hospital using COBOL II/DB2.