To Whom It May Concern
I am seeking a technical position in your company. I have over 45 years of experience in Information Technology dating back to my college days where I conceived, wrote and maintained an entire client appointment system for the UC Berkeley Counseling Center after 1 Basic programming class.
My skill set over this period is so vast, it was not possible for me to keep current on everything I have ever done. To remedy this issue, I have refreshed my most currently marketable skill sets in MVS, COBOL, IDMS and SQL relational database technologies recently as documented on my resume. I was immersed in these technologies for so long that conceptually, everything I have re-read was just what I remembered. It is not that I needed to relearn any of these technologies as much as all this technical proficiency I possess really never left me.
I am confident that my almost half a century coding, analysis, application administration and problem solving in the diverse fields of technology, finance, manufacturing, banking, insurance and aerospace general business systems will be an asset to your company that you would have difficulty finding in someone else.
EXPERIENCE
August 1987 – July 2025
Sr. Systems Analyst IV • Northrop Grumman Corporation/TRW (GENERAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS)
2022-2025 Migrated my core systems to new platforms I no longer maintained.
Migrated eRoom collaboration system to Sharepoint with Content Matrix migration tool,
Migrated Guided Search engine as is to companywide internal search engine platform.
Migrated EEMS as is to vendor platform (including Oracle Database and external attachments) manually.
2008-2022
Sr. Systems Analyst/Architect and Systems Administrator for a number of in-house systems
Programmer for Microfocus COBOL Net Express with IDMS-PC for General Business Systems converted from retired MVS mainframe.
Application Administrator for: Guided Search (Microsoft Server/Unix/Linux OSs) using Exalead search technology with an ORACLE Database. eRoom collaboration system with SQL Server. Autosys with SQL Server/Oracle. Remedy Incident Management System with DB2. All involved various SQL queries and scripting.
1987-2008
Sr. Programmer/Analyst and Internal Technical Consultant for General Business Systems on IBM OS/390 COBOL Programmer on IBM MVS Mainframe Computer with JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IDMS/DB-DC and ADS/O.
Helped 20+ programmers resolve all technical mainframe programming and operating system interface issues.
Y2K Certification Analyst to mitigate failure on 1/1/2000. Sarbanes – Oxley Compliance Analyst.
August 1986 – August 1987
Sr. Programmer/Analyst / Technical Lead • First Interstate Bank (BANKING)
COBOL Programmer on IBM MVS Mainframe Computer with JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IDMS/DB-DC and ADS/O.
Helped my team resolve technical issues with their programs.
October 1983 – August 1986
Contract Programmer/Analyst • Megadyne Information Systems / The Doctor’s Company (INSURANCE)
COBOL Programmer on IBM MVS Mainframe Computer with JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IDMS/DB-DC and ADS/O.
July 1982 – October 1983
Programmer/Analyst • Apple Computers (FINANCE AND MANUFACTURING)
COBOL Programmer on IBM MVS Mainframe Computer with JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IDMS/DB-DC and ADS/O.
January 1981 – July 1982
Programmer/Analyst • Northstar Computers (FINANCE AND MANUFACTURING)
Basic++ Programmer for General Business Systems on PDP 11/70 Midrange Computer with RSTS/E OS
April 1977 – April – 1979
Programmer/Analyst/Architect • University Of California, Berkeley Counseling Center
After 1 class in Basic, conceived, wrote and maintained an entire client appointment system in Basic with files spread over a series of 5 ¼” floppy discs (providing infinite storage capacity) before there were indexed files.
