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RssComputer Programmer/Analyst with 20+ years of excellent experience and skills in programming (both mainframe and client server) and systems analysis.

Work in a small team or individually with a diverse group of people in a large company on their mainframe systems.

Application Support

Clayton, NC

About Me

Industry:

Information Technology

Occupation:

Application Support

Ideal Companies:

Banks, Insurance, Government
 

Education level:

Bachelor

Will Relocate:

Yes

Location:

Clayton, NC

Work Experiences

6/2003 - /2009

MetLife Insurance Co

Individual Contributor

  • • Wrote COBOL, Java and Korn shell scripts to take inputs from z/OS mainframe source systems into a DB2 data mart on AIX that serviced 20 million contracts on the web • Subject matter expert for customer processing including adding new source systems and trouble shooting of our own Client Information File (CIF) • On a diverse team of 6 that rotated on-call responsibilities to meet service level agreement (SLA) • Created technical specifications from business requirements as part of SDLC waterfall methodology • Documented the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process for annuity and personal life insurance • One of 2 people that redesigned DB2 tables for annuities processes • Provided case research and fixes for data problems in eSERVICE within 10 days for high priority problems, and tracked the problems in Quality Center • Took over support of a SQL Server project after a one week turnover • Spent 2 months training 3 employees, 2 on-site and several off-site consultants to take over my job • From a business partner “I get all the high priority/high visibility issues and you were my go to person for getting them resolved and I don't think anyone can do what you did”

12/1988 - /2003

MetLife Insurance Co

Individual Contributor

  • • Developed key COBOL programs that took inputs from 84 source systems within a tight 1 year time frame • Pioneered the use of notes from the mainframe jobs to pagers to signal the status of jobs • Y2K Domain expert for a CICS, DB2, COBOL project that had many first occurrence problems setting up environments and procedures • Did product evaluations of Comparex and hiperstation • From a co-worker “Among Gayle's many strengths are her dependability and resilience. She is also very thorough and patient. In addition Gayle is always willing to share her knowledge and take time from her busy schedule to teach others. On top of that she has a great personality” • Handled accounting, check writing and feedback changes and problems • Led a 3 phase multi-year project to move data from account business to notice business files involving COBOL, CICS and JCL changes

Education

1991

Bachelor Degree

Wilkes University

  • Business Administration

Skills