MICHAEL SHEFFER

275 Hoym Str, Apt. 3H, Fort Lee, NJ 07024

(201) 242 - 0105 – Home, (917) 902 - 6398 - Mobile
mshe652874@aol.com
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Application programmer, System Engineer with over 16 years of experience in:

• Oracle 9i, 10g, PL SQL, SQL,TOAD, sql loader
• Unix utilities, Korn Shell scripting , Linux, vi editor
• Data Warehousing, Cognos, Impromptu
• Cobol, ProCobol, Microfocus Cobol, C

HARDWARE: Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, IBM PC’s, IBM RISC 6000, IBM Mainframe, LAN.

EXPERIENCE:
2007 – 2009
Oracle / UNIX developer for AT&T
Consultant
• Created Oracle 10g sql, stored procedures and functions. Application calculated Universal
Connectivity Charges for AT&T customers. These charges have been inserted
into Oracle tables and written into files for transfer to a mainframe for further processing.
The batch part of the project was developed using PL SQL and Datastage, an ETL tool. Supported
batch applications running on unix Sun Solaris servers using Sybase and Oracle databases.
Tuned up Oracle 10g database: partitioned tables, created indexes, materialized views to pre-store
results and refresh them at set intervals, used different hints from cost based optimizer, INDEX,
FIRST_ROWS(n), ALL_ROWS, ORDERED, LEADING(tablename), HASH_JOIN,etc, retrieved
execution plan and
runtime statistics by executing DISPLAY procedure from DBMS_XPLAN package.
• Provided production support, used Remedy tool, traced and solved production problems through log
files using different unix utilities (awk, grep, sed, sort), vi editor and Korn Shell scripts.

Consultant / Oracle Developer / Oracle DBA 2003 - 2007

BMW, One Call Medical, Highmark BCBS, Novartis

• Oracle developer using TOAD, Tivoli, PL SQL on UNIX/Linux servers on Data
Warehousing/EDI/Financial projects.
• Populated Oracle staging tables with the data form the ASCII files, using sql loader utility.
• Created Oracle External tables to load data into the database.
• Developed Oracle PL SQL stored procedures, functions, packages using the debugging features of
TOAD and SQL Navigator.
• Developed Microfocus Cobol programs and Korn shell scripts that manipulate data that resided on
UNIX servers.
• Extensive use of UNIX utilities (awk, sed, grep, sort ) and vi editor.
• Developed reports in Cognos for Novartis Marketing department.
Tesia Corporation, New York, NY 2000 - 2002
Programmer/Analyst
 • Participated in the development of moderate to complex applications that process automated bill
payments and claims. Wrote new and maintained existing programs using Microfocus
Cobol/AcuCobol , SQL.
• Converted programs from UNIX and DOS operating systems to Windows NT. Development has
been performed on Windows NT and UNIX operating systems.

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), Queens, NY 2000 - 2000

Consultant
• Maintained and supported Work Management Subsystem for the major Rail Road Company in North
America.
• The WMS subsystem is used to define, organize and prioritize maintenance requirements for the
entire railroad.
• The System provided for creation of the various work order types, such as Scheduled periodic
inspections, RSU corrective work orders and support shop work orders, support scheduling of work
order tasks and printing of daily work schedules.
• Microfocus Cobol/CICS is implemented as a front end, Oracle 8 as a back end, UNIX (AIX version
4.3.2.0) as an operating system.

Pierce Technology, Montvale NJ 1997 - 1999

Consultant
• Maintained and supported Time Detail System, for major accounting Company (KPMG LLP), this
system was written in MicroFocus Cobol 2.
• Heavy user support based on the implementation of the Remedy system. Used Microfocus
workbench to write the source code, Animator to debug programs, Workbench File Loader (WFL) to
recover corrupted indexed files and to convert data files from EBCDIC to ASCII format.
• Provided QA for Y2K compliance of Time Detail System programs.
UPS, Mahwah NJ 1992 - 1997
Programmer
• Wrote programs in MicroFocus COBOL II, Cobol 2, APS, C with SQL to process data from
various tables using Watch, Step, setting conditional Breakpoints and Zoom. Both character based
and GUI based versions are implemented.
• Maintained DB2 data using SQL Insert, Update and Delete statements for embedded and interactive
formats.
• Created and maintained hundreds of programs for Automotive and MaxiShip applications.
These programs were written using the Client/Server Architecture; tested and ran with the
workbench animator.

EDUCATION:

BS Degree in Computer Science, Moscow Auto-Mechanical College

Ramapo College, C programming, Mahwah NJ
Cope Institute, Advanced course in Computer Programming, Diploma, Brooklyn, NY