Garry McKinney

Email gmaf057a@westpost.net
Phone 903-896-7470
Dallas, TX area
Mainframe Application Developer
COBOL, Assembler, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM
B.S., Computer Science, Texas A&M at Commerce
Software Experience:
Assembler, Cobol, CICS, OS JCL & PROCS
TSO ISPF, SDSF
DB2, Adabas, VSAM
Endevor, Librarian, Changeman
Xpeditor, Intertest, Smartest, Dumpmaster
Syncsort, Fileaid, Abendaid, Easytrieve,
IBM Utilities, EDS Utilities, NDM transfer
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook,Visio, Sharepoint
Test Director, Project Quality, Modman
Personal Skills:
Application System Design, Full Life Cycle
Excellent Communications, Documentation
Productive in Team or Individually
Excellent Debugging Skills
Production Support
Employment History:
2007/2010 Hewlett-Packard (bought EDS)
(Medicare Claims Processing)
Information Analyst a" Consultant
Cobol, Assembler, JCL/PROC, VSAM
Word, Sharepoint, Test Director, Project Quality
I worked in their government division on the Medicare Claims Processing System.
I worked on a team performing quarterly releases in a large scale environment us
ing mature methodologies Our methodology performance was rated as (CMMi level 5)
(the best possible). I was secondary on call for any problems regarding regardi
ng changes of mine if less than one month out. For the part of the release assig
ned to me, I was responsible for completing the analysis from the preliminary de
sign, coding, walk-throughs, unit testing, and any needed corrections. The gover
nment consistently complimented our Medicare team for exemplary work during the
nearly three years I worked there. I got to create an archive master file, buil
t from many of our smaller files for future fraud prevention that will be a main
player in our government's plan to cut medicare costs. When HPas Medicare contr
act was up for renewal, my contract with HP was not renewed along with many othe
rs for cost cutting during the final stages of Medicare negotiations.
2000/2007 First American Real Estate Tax Services
(Real Estate Taxes)
Programmer/Analyst
Assembler, Cobol, CICS, JCL, Adabas(like DB2), Word
I was hired to help implement their aTALONa system that was largely written but
unfinished by a programming staff they had in Florida. I fixed hundreds problems
 in programs. I became thought of as a top go to guy there by my bosses and othe
rs for CICS abends and other bugs. I was also in the production support on call
rotation there. "Talons' claim to fame was that it auto-submitted the required b
atch jobs based on certain online input, saving much time and effort. Our compan
y became number 1 in its field in the next few years mainly due to the success o
f the aTALONa system. Our systemsa core was Assembler programs with a majority o
f Cobol programs both batch and online. While there I assisted in recruiting and
interviewing other top assembler programmers. Most of my work there was one pr
oblem fix at a time which I analyzed with a user liaison, coded, tested, and imp
lemented. However, we had quarterly releases and also had special releases. We u
sed life cycle methodology but it was not as mature as I experienced at HP (EDS)
. On a conversion to a newer operating, our systems programmer discovered it wou
ld require emergency weekend changes to about 300 programs by me and 5 others wh
ich we gladly did for brownie points and free pizza. Monday morning it was all w
orking. It was very exciting. On two occasions while double checking work done b
y the quarterly release team I personally found big problems. Once they had not
checked all uses of some changed macros and had missed 15 programs that needed r
e-assembling that would have abended. Another time I found a combination of thre
e programs I was already familiar with that were sharing some flag settings they
had changed that were not in sync and therefore would not have worked properly,
causing work delay and confusion. I was also assigned by our director to look o
ver the shoulder of a person he hired to facilitate the conversion of assembler
to cobol. After a couple of months I determined his method was a failure and we
cut our losses.
1996/2000 Experian
(Credit Reporting, Target Marketing)
Software Progammer
Cobol, Assembler, Easytrieve, VSAM, DB2, JCL
I designed and wrote a system of programs to select data from Experianas target
marketing data base that built monthly from bank credit card records. It created
files
to ship and reports thereof including royalty accumulations. This required inter
facing with marketing and billing. I was responsible for the on time delivery of
this system and
lead other programmers on this project. I designed and wrote the main program to
be table driven. Based on the transaction It would only perform the needed proc
essing. Though I was to clone it from another similar program, it was only one
third as long and ran in half the time which helped make it a big money maker.
I was also able to notice one of the statisticianas algorithms I was coding into
the program was wrong and implemented my correction.
1992/1996 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (Health Insurance)
Programmer Analyst
Assembler, Cobol, VSAM, DB2
We made enhancements to the Payment Resolution System for Health
Insurance. This required essential teamwork as this system ran as a
composite link of about 100 programs. I also designed and wrote a new file updat
ing system in Cobol accessing DB2 files and then maintained it.
References:
Zoe Dearing Lead at HP 972-605-6342
Robin Edwards Co-worker at FA 817-938-3002
Howard Hopkins Manager at FA 817-790-2692