CyberLife®: Life & Annuity Software

CyberLife Distribution Support, CyberLife Enterprise System (former Mynd products,

now CSC products)

http://www.csc.com/life_annuities_and_pensions/offerings/22990/58041-
cyberlife_life_annuity_software

Senior Developer April 2001 –

April 2006
 Designed and implemented a J2EE web based system to access a customer database. The system allows for
search, client maintenance and policy maintenance. The following technologies were used: Java, JSP, EJB,
Struts, Log4j, Javascript, XML. Worked very closely with server administration area, to configure and
implement application on Websphere for z/OS.
 Coordinated a team of four, to upgrade our life insurance administration system GUI. Applied Nationwide
modifications to base Cyberlife GUI. Process included comparing new base code to old retrofitted code and
reintegrating the Nationwide changes.
 Primary support for the Cyberlife GUI system. The Cyberlife GUI is a client/server system that consists of
Smalltalk, Access database, C programs and proprietary language programs. Duties include, production fixes,
project changes, change management, time estimates, application configuration and unit testing.
 Primary support for CORBA ORB interfaces to mainframe system. The ORB was implemented on the same
system as the Smalltalk GUI. Java interface classes were used in testing of the ORB. Worked closely with
external area to resolve several issues.
 Outsourced to another area within Nationwide to convert a 16 bit C DLL to 32 bit in order to work with a Visual
Basic program. Program calls a Unix system to retrieve the rate files, then performs tax calculations and returns
to the Visual Basic program.
 Oncall pager support for nightly Cyberlife system batch flows. System consists of Cobol, DB2, VSAM and
JCL. Duties include troubleshooting outages, making necessary changes, communication with our customers
and following up with the business.
 Created and executed DB2 update and read only queries for our customers.
 Modified and created new mainframe Cobol programs for Cyberlife system.

SR APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER/ANALYST (Contract)

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
March 1998 – October 1999 (1 year 8 months)

Applications: CYBERLIFE/CK4/MYND

• Completed and implemented 2 new development projects: (1) Automated the printing of
replacement policies via adding 2 DB2 Tables and corresponding logic to CICS/BAL code; and
implemented an Online/Batch Adhoc DB2 LOAD technique that allowed the users to load their
Microsoft ACCESS data into our DB2 Tables (used CA-7 and BMC LOAD+) and view these
DB2 tables afterwards via an OD/390 procedure that I setup for them;
(2) Deciphered extremely convoluted BAL CICS Macro-Level code to spec out what was needed
for the new COBOL Gateway Bridge Program (which I designed and built) to communicate with
the legacy program that processes CICS Transactions; and wrote two complex DB2 I/O modules
that received GUI requests to insert, update or delete from Mainframe DB2 Tables.
• Completed two Y2K remediation efforts (Full PLC).
• Worked on many business enhancement projects (Full PLC).
• Used COBOL/MVS, CICS Command/Macro Level, BAL, VSAM, DB2 (and BMC Utilities:
SPUFI; QMF; and FileAid/DB2); Changeman; Xpediter (CICS; Batch; and XCHANGE for
Y2K); DYL280; COMPAREX; IOF; JCL/UTILITIES; REXX EXECS/REXXTOOLS; FileAid
and FileAid/DataAger; EDGE; OD/390.

All of this work was done on software originally written by CYBERLIFE for our Life and Health
Issue and Disability Systems.
The development effort was front-end customization that we weaved into the CYBERLIFE
software.