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63790 Turnberry Way, Washington, MI 48095 ♦ Cell (248)506-6214 ♦ georgesrour7@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

 Extensive knowledge in Mainframe Development, Support, and Problem Resolution.

 Developing, coordinating, and executing of test plans on cross-functional projects.
 Experience in JAVA/J2EE web-based development.
 Skilled in working directly with business partners to develop scalable business solutions.
 Agile and Waterfall experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
 Experience in providing leadership and mentoring to technical project teams.
 Experience in Database Design and Management.
 Several years of experience working in a remote/telecommuting environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

12/20 – Current Senior Developer ♦ Universal Conversion Technologies

 Working on data migration for Life Insurance modernization to Oracle OIPA platform.
 Analyzing existing platforms and writing data conversion maps.
 Developing programs to convert legacy data to new platforms using Visual Studio, Fujitsu/NetCOBOL and
MicroFocus COBOL.
 Loading and Testing conversion data into Production.
 Writing SQL to analyze existing data, extract driver data, and to reconcile against the converted data.
 Providing Production Support for project conversions.

6/20 – 12/20 Data Conversion Analyst ♦ Refinitiv

 Performing data mapping and migration tasks for Wealth Management conversions.
 Providing Product Support for project conversions.
 Conversions to BETA Host platform from Pershing, Broadridge, and other BETA Host platforms.
 Analyzing data dictionaries / layouts and create data conversion maps.
 Using FOCUS and Syncsort for testing/analysis on incoming data against converted data.

5/19 – 6/20 Software Engineer / Consultant

Nelnet / Great Lakes Higher Education Corp.
 Providing support for Student Loan applications utilizing SQL, COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS.
 Performing data mapping and migration tasks for new guarantors.
 Review existing code to gain an understanding of how to map data from new guarantors.
 Setting up new test environments. Performing parallel testing for new applications.
 Analyzing conversion errors using SQL and Syncsort. Corrected data and/or code as needed.
 Run complex SQL queries to analyze newly loaded conversion data.

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08/12 – 4/19 Mainframe Architect ♦ Sears Holdings Corporation, Troy, MI
 Subject Matter Expert and highest support escalation level for COBOL (DB2 & IMS DB/DC) applications.
 Leadership roles and successful implementation (on time / within budget) on the following projects:
 IT Legacy Migration – Teradata ETL, Data Warehouse, and FOCUS Reporting migration.
 IT Legacy Migration – COBOL IMS DB/DC migration to OpenFrame platform. Researched and
determined architecture and approach for applications.
 Large cross-functional Mainframe / COBOL DB2 project for new Scan Based Trading
functionality. Roles included overall design, technical leadership, all testing phases, and
Database Mapping/Migration.
 Identified and improved COBOL programming inefficiencies for MIPS reduction project, including
database indexing and normalization.
 Providing functional and technical support to business units & offshore support/maintenance teams.
 Managing Service Now service requests and incidents.

05/99 – 08/12 Technical Specialist ♦ Kmart / Sears Holdings Corporation, Troy, MI

 Subject Matter Expert and primary production support for numerous COBOL, DB2 and IMS applications.
 Support for numerous Teradata tables, loads, and extracts.
 Project participation on all phases of SDLC. Lead Developer, Business Analyst, and Testing roles on
numerous successful Mainframe / COBOL projects including:
♦ Credit Card Settlement ♦ Migration/Data Conversion for merging Sears/Kmart Applications ♦
Accepting Sears credit cards and payments at Kmart stores ♦ PCI compliance changes to POS
application ♦ Tokenization of PAN for EMV project ♦ New sales-based Royalty application and
add Sears formats ♦ New Accounts Payable EFT database and online application ♦ SBT shrink
analysis application for magazines ♦ Enhance Scan Based Trading application to allow for
various cost methods ♦ New Item Master conversion
 Developed and implemented web-based applications using JAVA (J2EE) for Bank Reconciliation, Tax
Processing, Scan Based Trading, and Royalty applications.

08/97 – 05/99 Professional Consultant ♦ Compuware Corporation, Farmington Hills, MI

Kmart - Associate Discount Redesign and Strategic Cost Management Projects:
 Represented IT department in client meetings.
 Analyzed existing application problems and applied corrective program logic.
 Designed, developed, and implemented COBOL DB2 programs. Created DB2 databases.
 Created online auditing application using FOCUS and Dialogue Manager.

04/93 - 08/97 Business Analyst / Programmer ♦ Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

 Served as divisional liaison with IT department. Performed customer acceptance testing.
 Developed and updated divisional business processes.
 Supported Financial Accounting application.
 Designed and developed MS Access and FOCUS database applications.

9/89 - 04/93 Operations Engineer ♦ Central Transport, Sterling Heights, MI 

 
 Managed MVS production job scheduler, monitored batch jobs, restarted abends. 
 Monitored TMON for MVS and CICS 
 IPL’d system for maintenance. Recycling of subsystems such as CICS.   
 Issued JES2 commands. 
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TECHNICAL PROFILE
PLATFORMS z/OS, OS/390, MVS, CICS, Linux, Unix, VM, Microsoft Windows, OpenFrame.
LANGUAGES COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, Fujitsu NetCOBOL, JCL, SQL, JAVA, Javascript, CSS,
Struts, FOCUS, Quikjob
DATABASES DB2, Teradata, IMS, MySQL, FOCUS, SQL Server, Oracle, ADABAS, MS Access
SOURCE CONTROL Endevor, ChangeMan, ClearCase, Subversion, CVS, Harvest, Panvalet

TOOLS / OTHER TSO, ISPF, SDSF, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, Xpediter, Insync, Syncsort, DFSORT, IDCAMS,
IBM Utilities, MQ Series, REXX, VSAM, VTAM, OPC, CA7, IOF, Omegamon, SAR/View,
SAVRS, TPX, Control-M, Putty, FTP, IBM MQ, MyEclipse, Websphere Studio, Visual
Studio, ESMAC, WinSCP, NotePad++, Regular Expressions (REGEX), PowerDesigner,
SQLyog, MySQL Workbench, Teradata SQL Assistant, QMF, Rocket Shuttle, Spufi,
Oracle SQL Developer, MS Office, MS Project, PowerPoint, Teams, Webex, JIRA,
Confluence, Service Now, SharePoint, BMC Remedy, WinMerge.

EDUCATION
Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI.
Management and Information Technology course work.

Career Preparation Center, Sterling Heights, MI.

Completed a two-year program in Information Technology.