Summary
Bert Put is a seasoned Mainframe Programmer with over 35 years of hands-on experience across financial, state government, and private sectors, currently supporting Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. He brings deep expertise in COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve on MVS and modern languages like C, C++ and Java on Windows and Unix, bridging legacy mainframe systems with contemporary environments. Bert has led technical architecture and data conversion projects, including cross-platform CORBA product development and successful large-scale migrations. Comfortable in both small and large organizations, he combines onsite client consulting with production support and incident resolution. Notably, he created Unix-based web demonstrations to expose archive data without burdening mainframes—an early example of pragmatic system integration. Based in Alabaster, Alabama, he pairs meticulous legacy-system knowledge with practical portability and interoperability skills.
8 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer