Markus Z.
IT Consulting / Mainframe System Development
Experience
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
3 monthsIT Consulting / Mainframe System Development
VPV Lebensversicherung-AG
- Expansion of the 'VUX' interface for claim payments to SAP FS-CD to include reversal postings and RPTs
- IT-side processing of 'non-service periods' in the legacy system for manual and automated claim entries
- Expansion of the 'electronic application' interface (ELAN)
- Decoupling the 'financial accounting' functionality from the legacy system
- Programming in COBOL and SQL (Oracle DB) on IBM AIX
- Agile project management with Jira and Confluence
Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 5 monthsIT Consulting / System Development
Compeople / DVAG
- Maintenance and enhancement of the core interfaces for providing customer and contract data
- Programming in COBOL and SQL (DB2) on z/OS
- IBM z/OS tools
- JCL
- Agile project management with Jira and Confluence
Apr 2018 - Mar 2024
6 yearsSystem Developer
VPV Lebensversicherung-AG
- Maintenance and enhancement of proprietary policy and claims management (legacy system for non-life insurance)
- Automation and digitization of processes, especially non-life claims processes
- Decoupling legacy software and extracting peripheral functions like inbound/outbound cash management, commissions, central partner, etc.
- Programming in Visual COBOL, COBOL, SQL (Oracle DB)
- IBM Rational ClearCase
- IBM AIX (Unix)
- Shell scripting
- Content Composer (Word-based output management)
- Agile project management with Jira and Confluence
Jan 2007 - Mar 2018
11 years 3 monthsSystem Developer
Aachener Bausparkasse AG
- Maintenance and enhancement of proprietary contract management for building savings, lending, and liabilities
- Commission system
- Inbound/outbound cash management, payments, purpose analysis for SEPA implementation
- Migrations of large contract portfolios, conversions from RPG and assembler to NATURAL
- Application-related database administration in ADABAS
- Programming in NATURAL, RPG and assembler
- Fujitsu Siemens BS2000
- ADABAS DB
- Predict
- Natural Security
- M/Text
Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
2 yearsIT Coordinator
1.FC Köln GmbH & Co. KG
- Management of external IT service providers and coordination of various projects with them
- User support
- Support for ticketing, fan shops, etc.
Jun 2004 - Dec 2004
7 monthsMainframe Application Developer
SUH AMB Generali Informatik Services GmbH
- Support and enhancement of the life insurance calculation core
- Development of test drivers
- Programming in COBOL and embedded SQL (DB2)
- IBM z/OS
- IBM z/OS tools
Summary
I offer over 20 years of professional experience in host IT consulting, system development, and mainframe programming using a wide range of technologies, tools, DBMS, and platforms.
Technical experience in the banking and insurance sector in both small and large projects and areas:
- Policy / contract management (building savings, lending, liabilities)
- Property and casualty insurance - claims management
- Commission systems
- Field service systems
- IT support for bank year-end closing
- Payments
- SEPA conversion
- Migrations between various systems
- Interface maintenance
- Automation and digitization of processes
- etc.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
IntermediateSpanish
ElementaryEducation
Aug 2001 - May 2004
IHK Aachen
IT Specialist in Application Development · Computer Science · Aachen, Germany
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