Kathleen G.

Babcock
(516) 623-9372 Kathleens@techie.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleengbabcock

SENIOR COBOL PROGRAMMER ANALYST

A consummate professional; in a profession of life-long learning. Skilled in COBOL, Unix/HP, Data General, Monarch Pro, Planet Press, and Shell Scripting. Specializing in payroll processing, MICR checks, payroll reports as well as all facets of the payroll system. Saved thousands of man hours and millions in costs by designing a creative mailing operation for all our checks, direct deposit stubs, W2s and bills. Using ingenuity and my creative abilities, Created a cohesive process for W2s processing for thousands of our customers employees. Programming has become my sense of vocation. TECHNICAL SKILLS COBOL Unix Shell Scripting CSCRIPT Qmaster Planet Press Forms Design Accu-Wage SSA Monarch Design Pro Slickedit Powerpoint lpplus HP/UNIX Data General MV 10000 IBM 360/50 Excel Windows 2000 Windows NT Windows 98 Windows 7 HP-9050 printers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sandata Technologies, Port Washington, New York

1988 - 2012 Senior Programmer Analyst Consulted with managerial and technical personnel to clarify program intent, identify problems, and suggest changes. Performed repairs or expansions of existing programs to increase operating efficiency. Conducted trial runs of programs and software applications, ensure that the instructions are correct and they would produce the desired information. Assisted computer operators to define and resolve problems encountered by running computer programs. Wrote documentation of program development and subsequent revisions. Used COBOL to create a true DBF file that was usable by FoxPro and Excel with column definitions and headers enabling customers to have large amounts of data at their workstation. Data and Report Mining Specialist using Monarch Professional Pro Using Monarch Pro, saved thousands of hours using this report mining, report analytics and report modeling software. Customized, analyzed and visualized data in a variety of views for customers by exporting the results to Excel, Access and created a brand new customized report. Extend business intelligence beyond relational data to report-based data. Worked with any organizational report, including print files, spool files, text files, PDF files, and formatted ASCII files.

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Served as the pioneer in this product, and used it extensively to extract report data into excel, in order to balance the quarterly and annual reports. Saved weeks of work, every quarter. Forms Designer Artistically created the W2 form used for our 200+ companies W2s. Designed forms for Surplus bills. Researched and created MICR checks and direct deposit stubs required to interface with the banks. Scanned, adjusted and loaded the form with over 400 signatures and logos, keyed to print correct checks. Safeguarded signatures and kept the process well monitored for security. Checks were never returned from the bank as incorrect during my tenure. These new checks gave customers a more efficient way to pay their employees. They no longer had voids due to printing problems and forgery was no longer an issue. This saved the customers thousands of dollars. Designer and Implementer of Zip Sorted Mail Piece Zip coded products had to be sorted using the USPS Tables that had to be maintained to determine their allocation by tray. To do this, all addresses had to be cleansed and encoded with the Intelligent Bar code in order to produce the mail piece bar code. Zip coding also included the tray label for sortation destination, which had to be programmed and coded onto a cardboard tray label for the zip sorted trays. This process generated over 100,000 dollars a year in postage savings. Documentation Specialist Established program and system process documentation for most of the programs and jobs within the payroll system. Effort saved the company hundreds of man hours in the maintenance of the programs involved. Operating Responsibilities Was responsible for running: quarterly reports, SSN Verification, paper W2s and SSA submissions for 200+ customers. The paper W2s and SSA submissions were always run on time, and never returned as incomplete or incorrect. Created the interface necessary, with the SSA and New York State, to enable company to upload the year end files as well as the quarterly files. Ongoing Maintenance Responsibilities Spearheaded the Y2K conversion due to the Data General physically having a problem with the year 2000. Converted the COBOL programs over to HP Unix using Slickedit and learning everything about HP and its printer interfaces. Maintained a high level of security protection for our customers information to ensure HIPPA Compliance. Maintained the payroll process, including timesheet entry, checks, stubs and registers. Actively researched the USPS changes to ensure our product will print with the correct Intelligent Bar Code ensure mail pieces were still within specifications. Management of Development Projects Helped to design and implement entire payroll system's alphanumeric system to allow payroll history to go above 999 payrolls. Page 2

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(516) 623-9372 Kathleens@techie.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleengbabcock

Provided on-going support for client problems and processing issues, including email and telephone communications, software debugging, program modifications, data correction and report recreations. Analyzed Client business requirements, reviewed expectations, managed software and procedure development, implemented system enhancements and maintained ongoing communication. Provided customer support through Ticket Tracking System by monitoring and correcting as necessary, any problems that had occurred. Supported Batch and online programs designed to support the end client's applications. Provided 24/7 support of the end Clients' payroll, quarterly and W2 systems.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE Managistics, Inc., Jericho, New York

Senior COBOL Programmer Analyst Wrote an internal operating system to handle payroll queues. Payroll would be automatically sent from queue to queue as the user completed their input to their payroll and then release it to production automatically, this was new development on a new system. Was the programmer responsible for calls from 4pm to 12am, every night, for production problems. EDUCATION Microsoft Database Design Certificate Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Masters of Computer Science Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York BBA in General Business Pace University, New York, New York ADDITIONAL SKILLS Leader of Handicapped Girl Scouts (15 years). Used creativity and ingenuity to teach them. Leader of Boy Scouts (14 years). Church Elder and volunteer.

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