Kathryn Bailey Conant

RR 4 Box 250-G
Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-9401

(304) 725-2249
E-mail: kate@greatbluecircle.com


OBJECTIVE

Java programming, internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n), natural language processing (NLP), linguist
Brain Bench Certification:

SUMMARY

Many years of experience as a computer systems programmer; programmer/analyst for client and mainframe systems ; analysis, design, development and testing of large data-processing systems, using a variety of computers, platforms, and computer and human languages.

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EDUCATION


HARDWARE/SOFTWARE


RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE


ExoBrain, Inc. [ previously E-BRAIN Solutions LLC]  (April 2000 - August 2002)

1200 Mountain Creek Road Suite 440
Chattanooga, TN 37405 USA
http://www.exobrain.com

Language Engineer (Full-time Telecommuting)

Responsible for development and implementation of multi-language processing in personal software:  Java 2, Swing, event handling
 


TREEV, Inc. (October 1998 - April 2000)

600 Herndon Parkway
Herndon, VA 20170 USA
http://www.treev.com

Senior Software Engineer

Responsible for Assembler and COBOL mainframe links for DataTREEV (COLD) product
 


Maxim Group (December 1997 - September 1998)

15850 Crabbs Branch Way
Rockville, MD 20855 USA
http://www.maximgroup.com

Computer Programmer Analyst - Norwest Mortgage - Frederick, MD

Conversion project from IDMS to COBOL II, Y2K updates, CICS, VSAM, SDF, Endevor, Intertest
 

Computer Programmer Analyst at Sprint - Herndon, VA

Production Support for billing systems. Overseeing automated bulletin board system access. Mainframe support and maintenance. Year 2000 inventory of assigned systems. Using DB2, Cobol II, JCL, Librarian, DYL280, InfoMan, Pegasys, VISION:Inspect.


County of Loudoun

(June 1997 - December 1997)
Department of Information Technology
41975 Loudoun Center Place, S.E.
Leesburg, VA 20175-8901

Systems Analyst - Land Records

MicroFocus COBOL and Dialog System application development. Criteria analysis, DB2, XDB, SQL. Responsibility for most aspects of front-end query system integrating new client/server system from previous IBM mainframe CICS systems, implementing Year 2000 compliance.


DVX Systems, Inc.

(October 1996 - June 1997)
7528 Broken Staff Pkwy
Columbia, MD 21045

Contract Programmer/Analyst at 1st Nationwide Mortgage Corporation, Frederick, MD

Mainframe maintenance, migration analysis, and revision for mortgage assignment and release processing. Coordination with change management and production control personnel in Sacramento, California, on implementation of revised procedures and database updates. Problem resolution and troubleshooting in large-scale applications, involving JCL, COBOL, EZTrieve, and REXX, using TSO, ISPF, SPF/E, CICS.


INTERVISE Consultants, Inc. (October 1996)

Suite 1000
6001 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD 20852

Contract Programmer/Analyst at KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, Washington, DC

Federal Payment Processing for Performance Accounting: Develop MicroFocus COBOL functionality according to federal payment processing specifications including schedule number assignment and client/server database access and update using SQL.


VITAL Computer Services International, Inc. (May 1996 to September 1996)

117 East 24th Street
New York, NY 10010-2937

Contract Developer at AT&T, Herndon, VA

VTNS Business Customer Billing: Develop software billing procedures using KEY for Enterprise and MicroFocus COBOL which are tested and run on the IBM 3090 (MVS, COBOL II, JCL). Using Internet and Intranet for project communication. Project leader for a verification project to compare back-engineered mainframe COBOL code now resident on the KEY Encyclopedia with that in production LIBRARIAN library on the mainframe (using FTP(File Transfer Protocol) and SUPERC compare; batch mode and CLIST mode with ISPF Dialog Management).


INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (August 1979 - February 1996)

Computer Specialist GS-334
Highest level: GS-13