John Keith Taylor1700 N Monroe Street Suite 11-337 Tallahassee, FL 32303(E) ktaylor@fssc.us (O) 850 391-1516 (Skype) keith122555
U.S. Citizen
30+ years of IBM Mainframe Experience
High Potential COBOL Programmer
IMS / DB2 Database Administration Experience
Analytical,
Problem-Solving Skills
Communicate
clearly with IT peers and End-Users.
Experience
in Culturally Diverse Environments (Global projects)
25
Years of Offshore Coordination Experience
Passion
for Mainframe technologies
Programming Ability |
Software Development & Design |
Compliance Monitoring |
COBOL Code Testing |
Long Range Planning |
Marketing Research |
System Implementation |
Time Management |
Budget & Cost Control |
Delivery Solutions |
Research & Analysis |
Project Leadership |
Infrastructure Planning |
Management Practices |
Customer Service Orientated |
Technical Documentation |
Team Collaboration |
Business Management Skills |
Passion for Mainframe |
Passion for IT |
Business Analyst |
Airline Scheduling & Billing |
Banking: Credit/Charge Card |
Banking: Time Deposits |
Insurance Claims & Billing |
Manufacturing: Material Control |
Marketing Research |
Medical: Claims & Billing |
Mortgage |
Real Estate Tracking |
State Government: Florida |
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IMS 12.0 |
DB2 10.0 |
COBOL |
z/OS |
ChangeMan |
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CICS |
Xpediter |
DeBug |
DELTA/IMS |
File
Manager |
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IDCAMS |
BMC
Utilities |
IMS-XPERT |
ISPW |
JOBTRAC |
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Panvalet |
Platinum |
QMF |
FM/IMS |
SCLM |
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SDSF |
SPUFI |
SQL |
STROBE |
TIVOLI |
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TSO/ISPF |
VSAM |
CA-1 |
CA-7 |
IMS/DB/TM |
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Visio |
Blueprint |
Microsoft Office |
RACF |
John Keith
Taylor
AccentureEngaged as a Business Architect for the Florida State Government: Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV). Project: Motorist Modernization.
Xbridge Systems
Engaged as IMS DBA to build test databases in all IMS Organizational types for mainframe software product testing. Worked with MVS Development Programmers and Systems Programmers in coordinated development and testing of the DataSniff for IMS product.
State Auto Insurance Company Maintained Production Claims & Billing Legacy Applications allowing in-house staff tofocus on migration to Guidewire application platform.
National Financial Partners Managed IT integration between five (5) Real Estate Subsidiaries while implementing off-shore Call Center Operations and mirrored Data Centers in California & Florida.
American Express
DB2/IMS
DBA supporting implementation of SmartCard processing
in Brazil and Latin America Operation
Ford Motor Company
DB2 DBA
on DBA team supporting global financial systems
Blue Care Network (e.g.,
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan HMO)
Implemented the S.T.A.R all
inclusive account management and claim processing
application
platform and migrated seven (7) acquired HMOs consolidated them onto the
new
platform creating the core of the then new Blue Care Network..
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Implemented ANSI EDI Transaction
processing (e.g., CHAMPS) for Just in Time
(JIT)
material shipment tracking and processing.
Comerica Bank (formerly
Detroit Bank & Trust)
Implemented
the Hogan Time Savings & Demand Deposit platforms at Comerica Bank.
Migrated
Accounts from Burroughs platform to the Hogan platform on IBM Mainframe.
Performed
all parallel testing, production certification and production support.
General Motors Corporation
Maintained applications for Real
Estate Division, Air Transport Division and Dealer
Identification
Division on IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell platforms. In COBOL & PLI.
July 2006 - Freedom Software, Inc., Tallahassee,
Florida
Present COBOL
Programmer - Mainframe Application Development & Support
Dec 2014 Present
Currently
on contract to Xbridge
Sytems, San Jose, California Via Tech35, Inc. IMS DBA consultant on
software development project for mainframe data security analysis software. IMS z/OS, IMS 12.0.
May 2015 July 31, 2015
On contract to Accenture engaged as a Business Analyst for the Florida State Government: Depart of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV). Assigned to the Motorist Modernization/Drivers License Issuance systems development project. Create Business Rules (MS Word) from existing system, Process Flow (MS Visio), Screen Mockups (Balsamiq) for existing system and component linkage (Bluprint).
Mar 2012 - Nov 2014
On contract to State Auto Insurance Company Via
Tech35, Inc. Supporting Property & Casualty Claims and Billing applications
both Commercial and Personal. Responsible
for developing COBOL / CICS application programs utilizing: DB2, VSAM and
WEBSERVICES from specification provided by the vendor. End Users in multiple
locations, accessing multiple mainframe environments. Some mainframe
front/back-ends and some web front-end with mainframe back-end. z/OS environment
with CICS T3.2 and COBOL3.
Nov 2003 - Nations Financial Partners, Inc., Coral
Springs, Florida
July 2006 Director of Information Management
RESPONSIBILITIES: Ongoing
analysis and review of User requirements for business and technology
changes. All strategic planning and
ongoing support of subsidiaries to including: Title (e.g. National Legal
Services Title, Inc.), Mortgage (e.g. Nations Mortgage & Investments,
Inc.), Lending (e.g. Nations Business Capital, Inc.) and Land Development (e.g.
Nations Development, Inc.),. System wide
our staff was composed of nearly 200 Brokers and 100 support staff. Additionally, I worked diligently in
developing Technology strategies and deploying them across corporate structure
to create work flow efficiencies and reduce overall operating cost. I established mirrored data centers in our Redding,
CA and Coral Springs, FL facilities creating a real-time Disaster Recovery
capability.
Mar 99 - American Express Miramar, FloridaNov 03 DB2 / IMS Database Administrator RESPONSIBILITIES: Applications covered the Latin America and Caribbean operations. Assignment requires an understanding of all software development and support tools employed by American Express software development and support personnel. Position requires the ability to work independent of main DBA group on various global project teams. Responsibilities include DB2 Logical and Physical design, development and production implementation as well as some IMS & DB2 production support activity.
Feb 97 - Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MIMar 99 DB2 / IMS Database Administrator Ford Financial Division RESPONSIBILITIES: World wide first line Tech Support for Ford Motor Company Financial Systems Technical Support Group. Required an understanding of all software development and support tools employed by Ford Motor software development and support personnel. Primary responsibilities include: DB2/IMS DBA and first line technical support. Secondary responsibilities include: PC and Network support backup, administrative support activities. Recent project include: 1) Disaster Recover exercise recovering entire mainframe environment and applications to remote facility and 2) Mainframe infrastructure testing for Year 2000 Compliance.
Mar 92 - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Southfield, MIFeb 97 Senior Analyst & Software Development RESPONSIBILITIES: Blue Care Network was created by acquiring five (5) separate HMOs. I was engaged to consolidate the individual Information Management systems on to one new acquired centralized software package and database. Project required that I quickly develop an understanding of the new software package to be utilized in centralizing these five diverse HMO businesses. I addition, I needed to have a complete understanding of how each respective HMO business was conducted in order to properly migrate the various databases to the new system.
Aug 88 - Chrysler Motors Corporations, Centerline, MIMar 92 Senior Analyst & Software Development RESPONSIBILITIES: Engaged in the Designed, Development and Implementation of a large scale, real-time Integrated Corporate Material Control System for the Just-In-Time Inventory Control. Analyzed corporate business requirements and developed system specifications. Also, participated in Data Modeling and Database Design. The project employed Chrysler's System Design Methodology (SDM).
1975 through 1988: Engaged in a variety of software development projects, technologies and applications at General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler Motors Corporation and Comerica Bank. Details are available upon request.
Information Sciences - Marygrove College Detroit, MI
Computer Technology, Certification - Control Data Institute Detroit, MI
DB2/SQL/QMF, Certification Boeing Education
IMS/DB/DC, Certification - Kuray Ed., Detroit, MI
DB2/IMS Performance & Tuning, IBM Education Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Stored Procedures - IBM Education Ft. Lauderdale, FL
DB2 UDB DBA, Project Management - Virtual University
Banking Application Software, Certification - Hogan Systems Dallas, TX
Assorted Professional Training & Management Seminars (i.e., QIP, TQM),
Widows Azure Boot Camp (FSU, Tallahassee Florida 2011)