
Senior Systems Analyst at UnitedHealth Group - and can be reached at: gregory.mccoy(at)hp3000.com
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Senior Systems Analyst at UnitedHealth Group - and can be reached at: gregory.mccoy(at)hp3000.com
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Consulting services include programming, systems analysis, Unix scripting, and support.
Migration from HP3000 (MPE/iX) to HP Integrity Server (HP-UX) Subject Matter Expert
(Public Company; UNH; Hospital & Health Care industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Systems Analyst for TRICARE development.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — July 2009 (7 months)
Utilizing Progeni and third-party tools to migrate legacy software;
modify, enhance, or create new software as necessary;
monitor quality assurance through the migration process; all in a Public Trust environment. Source platform: UNISYS 2200. Target platform: Sun Solaris 10.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1997 — December 2008 (11 years 2 months)
Computer consulting services and Internet web hosting.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Migration Consultant
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Information Technology Consulting Services
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)
As a consultant to Avanade, through Reserve Consulting, supported U.S. Government department PERL code, and network and database infrastructure in a Public Trust environment.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — July 2006 (5 months)
§ Supporting GrowthPower Manufacturing Software in an HP3000 classic environment.
§ Creating new, and modifying legacy, applications using HP Basic, Image, and View.
§ Support Factelligence middleware product and MS SQL Server, from installation through post-installation support.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — March 2006 (5 months)
Telecomute consultant for Crawford Software, Inc., Chester, NH:
§ Supporting GrowthPower Manufacturing Software in an HP3000 classic environment.
§ Creating new, and modifying legacy, applications using HP Basic, Image, and View.
§ Support Factelligence middleware product and MS SQL Server, from installation through post-installation support.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — October 2005 (8 months)
Installed new dedicated web server for ServerCafe.net
§ Running CentOS 4.2 x86_64
§ CPanel Control Panel
§ Migrating several dozen domains to new server
o Supporting managed websites for various clients.
o Web application and development using FreeBSD UNIX, and Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) and C++. Additional languages include, PERL, C, Java, and JavaScript in a XHTML, CSS, DOM Scripting environment.
o Maintaining client web sites.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DGX; Hospital & Health Care industry)
September 2004 — February 2005 (6 months)
§ Core program developer responsible for modifying old programs and job streams as well as developing new programs and job streams.
§ Environment is HIPAA regulated requiring in-depth understanding of Federal Regulations related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and EDI transactions for Healthcare, e.g., 837, 835, 270, 271, 276, 277, 278.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 8 months)
§ Onsite at Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated, the largest diagnostic testing company in the US.
§ Project lead in a group of six consultants performing Trading Partner conversions from legacy to HIPAA X12 transactions.
§ Design, as necessary, custom modules and JCL (Job Control Language) to tie Companion Guides to HIPAA implementation primarily for 837 and 835 transactions.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — February 2003 (5 months)
§ Develop proprietary web portals using PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting to allow personnel to access and update information via the Internet. Backend server routines are written in Perl, C, C++, and PHP to perform functions specific to server-side processing.
§ Maintain UNIX web server.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)
On-site at Quest Diagnostics, Lyndhurst, NJ:
§ HP3000, COBOL, IMAGE, VIEW environment coded programs and JCL to map and transfer X12 EDI 837 claims to the ecommerce group for transmission to the appropriate payers.
§ Performed gap analysis and coded programs and JCL for the receipt of X12 EDI 835 remits from the payers and to apply these remits to the corresponding claim.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2002 — June 2002 (4 months)
On-site at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska, Omaha, NE:
§ Performed gap analysis, created detailed program designs and modified existing programs to bring the existing software into HIPAA compliance.
§ Environment was IBM mainframe; and HP3000 with, COBOL, Transact, IMAGE, and VIEW.
§ Designed and coded for receipts of X12 EDI 837 transactions and the transmission of X12 EDI 835 remits corresponding to the received 837s.
§ Also worked on 270/271 (Eligibility Inquiry and Response), 276/277 (Status Request and Response), 278 (Request for Review and Response), and 820 (Premium Payment).
§ Researched and developed automated Secure FTP transfer of Protected Healthcare Information between Windows and Linux platforms.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)
On-site at School Specialty, Inc., Appleton, WI:
§ Wrote key components to the HP3000-AS/400 interface in a COBOL, VIEW, OMNIDEX, IMAGE, and Powerhouse environment.
§ This interface provided for exchange of information between the SFD (System For Distributors) software and PkMS (Pickticket Management System).
§ Designed the interface IMAGE database and coded components that managed: Purchase Orders, Purchase Order Receipts, and Inventory Adjustments. In addition, coded JCL to facilitate the exchange of information between the two systems via FTP.
§ Created presentation and training for management and support staff of the client.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 7 months)
On-site at the American Red Cross, Washington, DC:
§ Project Lead for maintaining and upgrading existing Financial Accounting software to ensure Y2K compliance in a FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulated environment.
§ Performed several major upgrades to vendor’s financial software involving, in at least two cases, recovery and modification of vendor installation programs due to failed upgrades.
§ Directed runtime concurrent testing of all financial software. Maintained C and C++ software used on remote handheld data gathering devices.
§ Wrote all PERL code for client’s Configuration Management Defect Tracking software, Rational ClearQuest.
§ Configured ClearQuest to operate in both a client/server and web environments but with the web environment as the main portal to the application. PERL code enforced business rules specific to this client as well as the entry and maintenance of data.
§ Created all reports for the ClearQuest application using Crystal Reports.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 4 months)
On-site at Microwarehouse, Lakewood, NJ
§ Maintained existing MACS based system using COBOL, IMAGE, OMNIDEX, VIEW, and Powerhouse.
§ Created new programs and JCL as necessary.
§ Performed gap analysis and created X12 EDI record maps and programs for various 800 series X12 EDI transactions (850, 855, etc.) related to inventory purchases, modifications, and receipts.
§ Also, performed 6 million dollar AR conversion from AS/400 system to HP3000.
§ This required conversion of data from EBCDIC to ASCII as well as data mapping, creation of appropriate programs, and data loading. Conversion balanced to the penny.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ANLY; Information Technology and Services industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)
1983 — 1988 (5 years )
Bachelor of Science , Information Technology
Graduated with honors.
UNIX, unix scripting, programming in C, reading, my family...