Lawrence (Larry) A. Dallas
Address: 218 N Plantation Place; Anaheim, CA 92806-3225
Telephone: (714) 632-0529 ~ Email: Larry@1Click4Help.com

Immediate Objective: A challenging position needing my extensive 
mainframe experience and mentor-level programming abilities in IBM 
Assembler language and COBOL.  The ideal situation would be a lead 
programmer analyst designing or supporting applications on the server 
side of a multi-level client/server platform programming complex 
algorithms such as core business computation logic or database match 
and retrieval engines.


Related Skills, Knowledge & Abilities (years experience) keywords:

~ Mainframe Systems: IBM (15+) OS MVS, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA, MVS OS-390, 
 DOS VSE/ESA, etc., Unix (2), DEC / VAX (3), Burroughs / Unisys (6), 
 Xerox Sigma Series (4), et al

~ Mainframe Languages: IBM Assembler / ALC, BAL & HLASM (15+), COBOL 68 
 & COBOL 74 (15+), COBOL II (5+), Command and Macro Level CICS (9), 
 Easytrieve (5), Natural (2), DYL260 / 280 (3)

~ Databases, Etc: VSAM/VTAM (15+), DB2 (3), IDMS (2), ADABAS (2), 
 Oracle (1), et al plus many in-house developed databases 

~ Support Software: OS & DOS JCL & Utilities (15+), TSO/ISPF (10),
 SyncSort/CA-Sort (12), RACF (8), Abend-AID (4), File-AID (4), Endevor 
 (5), Panvalet (5), GTF (3), SmartTest (3), SVC dumps (6), et al

~ OEM Software: Pitney Bowes' Finalist (5), Group I CODE-1 Plus (8), 
 List Conversion Plus (3), Business Merge / Purge Plus (2), et al

~ Internet/Intranet: HTML (4+), Allaire HomeSite (4+), Adobe Photoshop / 
 ImageReady (4+), Adobe Acrobat (4), Micrografx Picture Publisher (4),
 Macromedia Dreamweaver/Fireworks Studio (2), AddWeb Promoter (2), et al


Applications Experience:

~ Ground-floor development of commercial and non-commercial web sites.  
 Sold, designed, built and managed sites including web content creation, 
 hosting and Internet marketing and promotion. HTML, Java Scripts, 
 Dreamweaver, HomeSite, Photoshop, etc. for Window 9x, NT & XP systems

~ Business and consumer credit information products and databases. Senior 
 of 5-member development & support team supporting search / match core 
 application written in COBOL, COBOL II, IBM Assembler BAL & HLASM, CICS 
 and DB2 on IBM MVS OS-390 and Unix

~ Nationwide real & personal property database with real estate sales 
 data from 400-plus state, county and private agencies including all 58 
 California and 15 Nevada county assessors – On-line & batch development 
 & maintenance using COBOL, ALC, VSAM & CICS on DOS/VSE & MVS OS-390

~ Lead Calif. programmer during development of data acquisition and 
 warehousing ADABAS application written primarily in Natural using calls 
 to existing COBOL & Assembler language modules

~ Batch/On-line tariff rating system and an automated freight distribution
 and tracking system controlling the arrival, clearing & delivery of 
 ground & air freight world-wide, written in ALC, COBOL & CICS using VSAM

~ COBOL/CICS Accounting, A/R, A/P, inventory control and automated product
 distribution application ALC, COBOL & CICS using inhouse VSAM database

~ Stock, bonds & securities dividend/reinvestments database application
 with batch and online reporting system using COBOL, IBM Assembler 
 and Macro and Command CICS on IBM DOS/VM VSE platform

~ Project lead of 4-person conversion team tasked to rewrite a FORTRAN, 
 ALC, COBOL & VSAM state and federal income tax preparation application 
 into to structured COBOL using IDMS database with IDD & transition it 
 from outdated IPL (IBM clone) DOS/VM to current IBM DOS/VSE system


Employment History:

Dec 2001 to Present   Logical Applications Development www.1Click4Help.com
    Self owned web design, sales & Internet promotions       Anaheim, CA

Jul 2003 to Apr 2004  J Williams Inc. DBA Advanced Access
    Direct Sales of web sites, hosting & Internet marketing  Anaheim, CA

Mar 1989 to Sep 2001  Experian Business Information Services (formally TRW)
    Technical Consultant, Interm. - UNIX & IBM mainframes     Orange, CA
    Experian Real Estate Information Solutions  (formally TRW REDI)
    Senior Programmer/Analyst - VAX & IBM mainframes         Anaheim, CA

Oct 1987 to Mar 1989  Bank of America Systems Engineering ~ BASE Grp #3213
    Global Banking Systems Engineer - IBM mainframes & PCs   Concord, CA

Nov 1983 to Aug 1987  Citicorp Management Logistics, Inc.    Concord, CA
    purchased company A. Cesana & Assoc., Inc. (ACAI)   Walnut Creek, CA
    Programmer/Analyst (team leader) - IBM mainframes & PCs


Certification and Education:

CBEST® - California Basic Educational Skills Test™           California 2002
         California Commission of Teacher Credentialing (CCTC)
Bachelor of Science (BS)  Major: Computer Science  Minor: Marketing
         California State University                  Sacramento, California
Associate in Arts - Natural Science  Major: Psychology
         Napa Valley College                                Napa, California


Professional Achievements

• First independently designed, built and promoted web site received the 
"The Spider Award" from the well-respected Search Engine tutorial website, 
www.Spider-Food.net, for achieving #1 ranking on ALL search engines tested 
against at the time of award consideration.  Web site's superior search 
engine positioning was achieved strictly through ethical and professional 
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies and successful Internet 
promotional techniques (i.e. used no paid for PPC or advertising).

• Several original web designs have received a number of honors from 
website awards programs carrying a respectable 5.0 rating from awards 
rating service, Award Sites, www.awardsites.com.