K.
Jan Schooley
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SUMMARY
IT Professional with
over eighteen years experience utilizing skills in the following areas:
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
IBM Mainframe:
30XX, MVS/XA, VM/CMS, JES2-3,
COBOL I&II, COBOL 370 (total COBOL 18 + years), JCL, EZPlus,
Quikjob, TSO/ISPF, dB2, VSAM, ENDEVOR, Panvalet, Fileaid, Expeditor, CICS, IMS/MFS
PC: Microfocus COBOL (3 years), config and .bat files, DOS, SPF2, Word for Windows, Excel,
MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Word Perfect, CC Mail, Access
BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS EXPERIENCE
Insurance: Life
(UL ,VUL), document processing, Health Care, Medicare, Personal Lines, Property
(auto and homeowners), Disability, Policy Administration, billing, accounts
receivable, accounts payable, and Supplemental
Retail:
accounts receivable, accounts payable and warehousing
Banking:
investment
Hospital
Administration: Medicare.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2003
Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association, Avon,
CT and UFS, Storrs, CT
Assist in development of organization web pages by doing research, writing
and using HTML, Dreamweaver and Frontpage.
2000 to 2001
MassMutual Life Insurance Co.,
Sr. Systems Analysis
Support for variable life system
using mainframe COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Vantage and PALLM software, TSO, ISPF, Fileaid, CICS, Expeditor and Ezplus.
Major projects
included MEC: identifying policies for program and reporting, updating systems
per federal specifications; 1099 tax correction project; production support for
fixes and legal needs.
1994 to 2000
IT Consultant with support to following clients:
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Lincoln
Financial Group (2000) Provided consulting services for Microfocus
COBOL system supporting output technology for new business life insurance and
variable life insurance. Interfaced with
DSS Btrieve, support BAT files, scripting files and
image databases.
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Financial Adm.
Services (1999) Production support for Leverage System,
a PC Network based Microfocus COBOL system, for
Variable life products at third party insurance company. Support for client companies. Enhancements and fixes. VRU support. Help desk support. Use of Access and Excel.
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United Health
Care (1996 & 1998) Provided
consulting services for system migration using MVS systems, Word, MS Access and
Excel for documentation, also worked on Y2K analysis in Access. Y2K analysis,
coding and testing in COBOL for MVS.
Electronic publishing interface.
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Fleet Bank
(1997-98) Y2K analysis, coding and testing in
COBOL for MVS, dB2, CICS.
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Travelers-Aetna
Property Casualty (1996) Provided
security administration support using TPX systems.
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ITT Hartford
Insurance Group (1995-96) Provided consulting services for
personal lines insurance (homeowners) using IBM MVS systems with COBOL
I&II, Microfocus COBOL, JCL, DB2, MFS and IMS,
and Panvalet.
Multiple projects involving discounts and surcharges for property
insurance rating.
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CT Mutual Life
(1994-95) Provided consulting services for group billing, for
personal lines insurance using IBM MVS systems with COBOL I&II, CICS, VSAM,
DB2, JCL and Panvalet.
1994
Savings Bank of
Tech. & Application Support Analyst
Supported and debugged banking package, apply vendor and custom
patches on banking systems using COBOL.
1992 to 1993
First National Supermarkets, Windsor Locks, CT
Sr. Programmer/analyst
Provided programming support for new pricing strategies to
enable chain to be more competitive on IBM MVS systems using COBOL, TSO/ISPF,
JCL, VSAM, Quikjob, Endevor,
and CICS. Provided support for Price
Management Project using DB2. Debugged
existing systems.
1990 to 1992
IT Consultant with support to following clients:
Aetna Life and Casualty
Provided consulting services for personal lines insurance using IBM MVS
systems with COBOL I&II, Microfocus COBOL, VSAM,
JCL, CMS, and Panvalet Multiple projects involving
discounts and surcharges for auto insurance rating and provided support for
customer billing and personal lines insurance using IBM MVS systems with COBOL,
VSAM, JCL, CMS and Panvalet. Developed applications in billing history and
electronic publishing (XICS interface).
Converted customer service files for use on PC.
1983 to 1990
Monarch Capital Corporation
Springfield, MA 01144
Senior Programmer Analyst
Provided COBOL support for
Correspondence, Billing, Policy Adm./Maintenance on IBM MVS systems for
disability insurance with Cloas IMS database. Provided support for Premium Processing (accounts
receivable), Check Writing and Register, Verify, Purge and Reconstruct, Issue,
Coverage Change, Claims and Actuarial for supplemental insurance products. Researched, developed and documented Systems
Development Life Cycle. Acted as project
leader and assisted in training entry level personnel.
EDUCATION
Professional Development:
Visual Basic 6.0
PowerPoint
Implementing and Managing Windows 2000
A+ Hardware
Dreamweaver 4
Intro to Unix
Access Database
DB2
CICS
Desktop Publishing with PageMaker, PC basics and PC (Novell) Network
Effective Communication & Managing Conflict
Develop Procedures, Policies & Doc. (Info Mapping)
Building Effective Project Teams (QED Info Sciences)
Fund. of Life and Health Insurance (LOMA Level 1)
‘C' programming
Colleges:
Holyoke Com. College
Holyoke, MA 01040
A.S. Computer Technology: Graduated High Honors
M.A.T. in Art Education
BA in Art
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