David
Lorfel
2915 N. Altadena
Royal Oak, Mi. 48073
Cell 248-225-4423
Home 248-588-7882
Fax 248-588-7882
Professional Summary
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More
than 20 years of Mainframe coding, modification and enhancement experience.
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Experience
completing the entire Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
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Extensive
experience gathering and documenting requirements.
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Experience
includes unit, system, user acceptance testing (UAT), and integration
testing.
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20+
years Cobol experience
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20+
years DB2 experience
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20+
years IMS experience
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20+
years JCL experience
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20+
years Panvalet experience
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10+
years Abend Aid experience
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Experience
using EZtrieve, converting EZtrieve reports to Cobol code
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Using
Endeavor as a library to store code
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Experience
with scheduling
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Experience
mentoring junior team members
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Experience
providing documentation for systems
Hardware/Software
Experiences
Abend Aid, COBOL,
DB2, FOCUS, IMS, JCL, Panvalet, Endevor, TSO/ISPF, UCC7, UCC11, Microsoft
Office, Crystal reporting, Visual Basic, EXCEL, Microsoft Project, Lotus notes,
PC software knowledge, PC hardware knowledge, SAP-SD, UCC7 and UCC11
Employment History
09/10 – Current IBM Corporation
Programmer Analyst
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Working on a state
Medicaid project, working with a Health Insurance company
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Analysis of existing
code
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Gathering and
documenting requirements
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Designing and
developing Cobol Code
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Modifying and enhancing
existing Cobol Code
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Performing unit and
system testing
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Provide documentation
on an ongoing basis
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Using Endeavor as a
library to store code
04/09 – 08/10
Volunteered
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Volunteered at a local
computer store to learn more about P.C. hardware and software.
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Volunteered for a local
organization that recycled old computers.
10/77 – 03/09 Federal-Mogul
Corporation
(5/88 – 3/09) Senior
Systems Analyst
General Experience
Project Leader in
the development of small, medium and large systems with the support of 2 to 8
Programmers. Performing analysis at the
beginning of the project. Gathered and
documented requirements. Modified code
along with team members. Verifying
program logic after the programmers did unit testing. Then coming up with test scenarios for user acceptance testing in
a structured testing environment.
Did many data conversion
projects at Federal Mogul when Federal-Mogul acquired new companies and had to
integrate their data into the Federal-Mogul systems. Some of the companies that I played a key role in integrating the
data were:
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Signal
Stat
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TRW
after market division
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Cooper
Automotive
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Sealed
Power aftermarket
-
Fel-Pro
Gaskets
Served as a team
lead on many projects. Facilitated many
brainstorming sessions to come up with the best solution for the problem at
hand. As team mentor, also mentored several junior team members.
Worked closely
with the Sales, Inventory Control, Product Line and Accounting departments
within the World Headquarters as well as departments within Federal-Mogul’s
warehouse distribution centers and many manufacturing plants around the country
for more then 31 years to help insure computer systems ran smoothly. This included changing COBOL and FOCUS code
and making JCL changes when necessary.
Many times this included after hour calls to get these critical systems
running again as quickly as possible.
Ran disaster
recovery tests on many critical mainframe applications.
Trained new
programmers in ISPF/TSO, JCL, COBOL and FOCUS techniques and helped them to
understand Federal-Mogul computer systems.
Worked with
scheduling to put jobs into production.
Analyzed, wrote
and tested many programs using COBOL and FOCUS during career.
Moved Jobs into Production on a daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annually, and year
basis.
Did unit, integration, system and user acceptance testing for the project.
Responsible for
the system and programming specs.
Designed DB2
tables.
Wrote, tested and
put into production the FOCUS programs needed in the project.
Created many
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) documents for Federal-Mogul’s Audit department.
Major Accomplishments over the years included:
(2008)
– A key team member to convert mainframe legacy systems to SAP systems.
(2005)
- Project Leader in designing and implementing the mainframe Receiving
interfaces for our Maysville, Ky, Jacksonville, Al. and Indianapolis In.
warehouses.
(2002)
- One of the key I.T. persons in integrating the Cooper automotive aftermarket
systems into the Federal Mogul NABS systems .
(1998-1999)
- One of many I.T. persons to ensure the Y2K conversion went smoothly
(1993) - Project Leader in
the designing and implementation of an on-line IMS part number interchange
system.
(1992) - Project Leader for
the Federal-Mogul Worldwide Marketing group, to coordinate the changes needed
in the data processing area after NTN acquired the company’s Bower division.
(1990) - One of the key
I.T. persons in coordinating a smooth integration of the data processing
functions after the Carter Automotive and Signal-Stat acquisitions by
Federal-Mogul Corporation.
(1988) - Project Leader on warehouse distribution portion,
of the integration of Sealed Power and TRW after market acquisitions. These two acquisitions combined increased
Federal-Mogul’s sales by $500,000,000.
Education
Oakland Community College,
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Associates Degree in Computer Science.
Federal-Mogul sponsored classes including classes
such as Microsoft Project, Visual Basic, Leadership at all Levels, Crystal
Reports 8.0 – Level 1, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, classes in SAP
