WALT KOVALCHUK
PWKova at aol dot com
home#: 785-233-8204


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A professional since 1979 in the Information Technologies Industry mostly in IBM mainframe environments as a systems analyst, computer programmer analyst, operations analyst and computer operator. Experienced in the development and maintenance of software systems and programs written in HTML, XHTML, Java script, CSS, Java, COBOL 390/MVS, COBOL 370/II, PL/1, Natural, ADABAS, IMS, CICS, DB2, SQL, TELON, TSO/ISPF and JCL.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: emachine T2042, iPAQ and COMPAQ Presario, IBM PC laptop 365XD, 309X, 308X, 370/155, 360/65, 50, System 38, Apple Macintosh 6200CD, II/II+/IIc/IIe, Lisa and various other Macintoshes, IBM PC XT, various IBM PC's, Beon PC 700Mhz and IBM PC clones.

Software: OS MVS/XA, OS MVS-ESA, OS/2 Warp, Windows ME, NT, 2000, 95/98 and 3.11, IBM PC DOS, Macintosh OS System 9.0 thru Apple ProDOS and DOS 3.3, MVS, MVT, IMS, CICS, IMS/Data XPERT, Librarian, Panvalet, ROSCOE, TSO/ISPF, VTAM, VM, CMS, OS JCL, OS Utilities, IDCAMS, XPEDITER, Microsoft Office 2000, MS Works, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Access, MS Visio, Word 9.0, Word Perfect, INTERTEST and INTERTEST BATCH, PL/1, VTAMPRINT, OMEGAMON, PROFS, COBOL Enterprise. MVS/390/370/LE, COBOL II, Visual Basic 6, BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, Ken Orr & Associates STRUCTURES, SAS, SAR, SDF, BMF, DL/1, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, Data Dictionary, Control-M, Control-O, Control-D, ELIPS, FILEAID, Expeditor, VIASOFT 4.3, TELON, NETRON, MFSGEN, BTS, IBM DOS 6.22 and DOS 5.0.

Applications: Automated Leave And Payroll System, USMC District Supply System, Ultra-Loan System, Paperless Item Processing System (EFT/ACH), Automated Lease and Accounting System, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, U-Select Benefits System, Deposit System, Sweep Accounting, Cost Accounting, Zero Balance Accounting, Computer Operations Log Entry System (authored), Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, Prior Authorizations System, Managed Care System, Medicare Claims System, Legacy Systems to ECommerce and Farmland Petro System, ADM’s Commodities Management.

EXPERIENCE

November, 2008 to present. Working for the State of Kansas for Department of Revenue
Working in Topeka, KS

The information with the state is confidential.

Jan 05, 2004 to Oct. 31st, 2008. Working for the State of Kansas for SRS IT
Working in Topeka, KS

The information with the state is confidential.

06/2002 to 09/2003 UBICS

Systems Analyst for ADM.
Worked in Decatur, IL.

This is a non disclosure contract. I had worked with IBM mainframe in a TSO environment and programs with Enterprise COBOL, SYBASE, CICS, IMS DB and DC and DB2 online programs with some batch programs.

11/2000 to 10/2001 RealMed

Sr. Programmer Analyst, Legacy Systems
Worked in Indianapolis, IN.

Create Overview documents, and other relational documents as needed. Most of the work is new development programs written in COBOL 390/MVS, COBOL 370/II, IMS DB and DC, CICS, DB2, SQL/QMF/SPUFI, TSO/ISPF and JCL. The included writing reports ad hoc as needed and writing scripts in XML. Began cross training for back up of AS/400 COBOL programmer. RealMed was also a HIPPA compliant company. The environment is coordinating Internet technology with mainframe technology to provide a real time solution verses using traditional methods today. This Information is confidential. Please view our web site www.realmed.com.

4/2000 to 11/2000 Global Information Technology

Sr. P/A, Sr. S/A
Worked in Indianapolis, IN for RealMed.

Create Overview documents, and other relational documents as needed. Most of the work is new development programs written in COBOL 390/MVS, COBOL 370/II, IMS DB and DC, CICS, DB2, SQL/QMF/SPUFI, TSO/ISPF and JCL for a company called RealMed. The environment is coordinating Internet technology with mainframe technology to provide a real time solution verses using traditional methods today. This Information is confidential. Please view their web site www.realmed.com.

12/99 to 4/2000 Topeka Public School District 501

Tech Specialist/Paraprofessional II
Worked in Topeka, Kansas for Capital City High School and some time at Parkview.

Capital City HS has not had a person for this position in over 2 years. The majority of the work so far has been to resolve hardware and software problems. The work includes installing new printers, devices and fine-tuning system software. The overall work consists performing diagnostic and defragmenting current Macintoshes and installing Norton Utilities to prevent system crashes. Work includes working on IBM PCs as well. Work is resolved to the limited availability of parts. New installation of operating systems upgraded as needed.

7/99 to 9/99 Solutions Now (contractor)

Consultant
Worked in Kansas City, Missouri for Farmland, One Systems Group Petro system.

Performed conversion/maintenance of some programs online and batch for new Commercial Class for Petro processing. Additional work was performed to establish writing new programs to interface via Connect Direct to a new partner for file exchange. New programs were developed to report errors and compare differences between file exchange. Additional new programs were written containing new DB2 SQL code to report new commercial class for monthly and fiscal yearly information. Performed programming and analysis mainly for the IMS on-line DB2 SQL COBOL and TELON programs. The environment included the use of TSO/ISPF, "DOC" for production documentation, IMS XPERT and FILEAID. Performed programming/analysis coding and testing of programs/JCL/parm members/include members.

11/96 to 5/99 Computer Task Group (CTG) (contractor)

Software Engineer
Worked in Topeka, Kansas for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas for the Medicare Claims system.

Performed conversion of some programs online and batch (group assigned) to COBOL MVS/370, Y2K compliance and to read the new Provider databases. The two main functions were to work on "Projects" and "Pars". Performed programming and analysis mainly for the IMS on-line DB2 SQL PL/1 programs as a team player and worked alone. Functioned the rest of the time in the batch DB2 SQL COBOL MVS and PL/1 programs. Projects consisted of system improvement with much detail on how the approach was to be taken to accomplish the task. Communicated with senior team members, systems specialist and users directly and through project lead. These involved the use of SCRIPT, TSO/ISPF and Word 6.0 to create "Phase" Documents. Pars are fixes to problems identified by a client/user. Time spent on pars is identifying that it is recreateable and whether or not it is a problem. The environment included the use of MFSGEN, VIASOFT, BTS, IMS XPERT and FILEAID. Performed programming/analysis coding and testing of programs/JCL/SYSIN members/copylib members for both projects and pars. Support given to the Claims team was unique verses how the team is set up. Work performed, crossed normal team boundaries in many cases when doing project related work.

10/95 to 11/96 Analysts International Corp. (AIC) (contractor)

Staff Consultant
Worked in Topeka, Kansas for GTE Data Services for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas for the Kansas Medicaid project for the State of Kansas STS Department.

Performed programming and analysis mainly for batch and CICS on-line VSAM COBOL II programs. Functioned on some occasions to help the project lead sub-coordinate the delegation of tasks. The two main subsystem applications that work was performed on was Prior Authorizations (as sole person responsible for programming) and Managed Care. Communicated with both Blue Cross users and State of Kansas users directly and through project lead. The environment included the use of TSO/ISPF, INTERTEST, INTERTEST BATCH, VISIO, MICROSOFT EXCEL, MICROSOFT PROJECT, SAS, WordPerfect and FILEAID. Performed programming/analysis/some design/ coding and testing of programs/JCL/SYSIN members/copylib members. Brought Managed Care subsystem up from design/code to first time into production running and supported the on-call duties until departure.

11/92 to 11/93 Data Processing Resources (contractor)

Maintenance Computer Programmer Analyst
Performed maintenance to batch and CICS on-line DL/1 database programs. The assignments varied as to the complexity due to user work requests. Communicated directly with the user as to do exactly what was needed if the instructions were not clear. The environment was with an IBM System 38 and IBM 308X or 309X series computer using ROSCOE, PC OS/2, Word and WordPerfect. Performed analysis/design/coding and testing. Work also included changing the interface programs with Health Choice Administrators. Communicated directly with HCA to insure all new demands on the interface were met.

8/89 to 10/92 Infotec Development, Inc. (contractor)

Computer Operator

Primary responsibility was for functioning as a team player, to do and help with all of the following: Operate MVS-XA/VM-CMS computer console on an IBM 309X system/mainframe, mount tapes and cartridges, load/line up paper to printers, operate microfiche machine and copier, set up special forms, operate burster and decollator, courier runs as needed, notify and place service calls as needed for all equipment, assist customers and operate plotter.

Special projects outside normal work have been: Development (by specifications) of C.O.L.E.S. by coordinating with VAX and WANG computer systems and staff to create (on the IBM side) reporting for all systems and to allow interfacing to the IBM. This included creating the input screens for data entry from the IBM operators. Worked in creating several SAS graphs from data for BPA Manager of Data Center Operations via coworker. Shift change as needed to cover normal data center operations. PACS closing coverage as needed. Saturday extra coverage as needed. The environment included the use of ROSCOE, REXX, TSO/ISPF, VTAMPRINT and OMEGAMON.

8/89 to 1/91

Operations Analyst

Primary responsibility was for functioning as a team member and working by direction for project assigned. Duties varied and changed as needed. Overall duties were to standardize jobs transferred into the production environment, provide resolution when jobs failed. Filling out documentation as needed, filing documentation.

Assisted customers in problem tracking. Performed retrievals as needed. Performed special processing of jobs as needed. Assisted team members when needed.

11/86 to 2/89 U.S. Bancorp

Programmer Analyst II

Primary responsibility was for the PIPS system as lead P/A (sole person responsible for application) and main user contact. Assisted with Long Form Analysis, Deposit and U-Select Benefit systems. Responsible for program development, modification and installation of new releases on an IBM 309X OS/MVS-XA environment using COBOL, OS Utilities and OS JCL extensively. The environment included the use of TSO/ISPF, PROFS, XPEDITER, IMS/Data XPERT, Panvalet, CMS and the use of Apple LISA. Systems were batch COBOL and major modifications were accomplished using Warnier Orr structured methodology.

Analysis for; Prototype disaster recovery site for Lock Box and Return Item Processing departments down to the item detail level of operation of each department. 2. Cost Accounting and time estimates for a new Sweep Accounting and Zero Balance on-line database systems.

10/82 to 10/86 Farwest Federal Bank

Programmer/Analyst I and II

Was responsible for program development, modification and installation of new releases in an IBM 308X OS/MVS DUO environment using COBOL, OS JCL, OS Utilities, ROSCOE RPF's and CICS extensively. Primary application support included P.I.P.S. and A.L.A.S. Assisted with A/P, G/L and Ultra-Loan systems. Applications were batch and on-line COBOL. Major modifications were accomplished using Warnier Orr structured methodology.

Created a program to track, by company, for EFT item processing for billing. Created a RPF to generate COBOL code to feed Report Writer and copybook to identify fields and merge data together for batch input (from 14 different databases). Created a RPF to generate COBOL code to identify all record types and display all fields with the OCCURS verb and REDEFINE verb. Created job input and submission menus for test and production jobs. Performed DASD management on applications.

9/78 to 9/82 U.S. Marine Corps

Programmer/Analyst

Was responsible for program development, modification and installation of new releases in an Amdahl 470 V7 OS/MVS and MVT environment using COBOL, OS Utilities and OS JCL extensively. The application support included the Marine Corps Civilian Payroll system (ALPS) and District Supply system. Both systems were batch COBOL and major revisions were accomplished using Warnier Orr structured methodology. Functioned as a team leader/coordinator in the shop for utilization of Warnier Orr methodology and training new staff members in its use.

The environment included the use of ROSCOE, librarian and INTERCOMM.

Programmer, Okinawa, Japan (1 year)
Functioned as a programmer in an IBM 360 environment under OS/HASP.

Developed programs for the financial systems group using COBOL and dealing heavily with OS JCL and OS Utilities.

EDUCATION

United States Marine Corps
Computer Science School (Multi-service) IBM OS JCL, IBM utilities, ANS Structured COBOL programming.
Warnier Orr Structured System Design Methodology, Ken Orr and Associates.
P.I.P.S. User and Technical workshops, UCCEL.
Accounts Payable User and Technical workshops, DDA.
General Ledger, In-house training, CBT.
S.A.S. Introduction 101, A.C.T.S. Corp.
IMS/Data XPERT, In-house training.
DB2 and SQL, In-house training.
PL/1, Private teacher provided by BCBS of Kansas.
Mandt training, certified -- nonviolent restraint by USD 501.
Visual Basic 6 - CBT.
XML - CBT.
Developing COM/ActiveX Components with VB6 - CBT.
Java, beginning and medium training.
Design Patterns
Microsoft Access Level 1, 2 and 3.
MS Word level 2 and 3.
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