SUMMARY:

Almost 30 years of experience, mostly in the financial services sector, as a software developer / engineer. Experience of/exposure to Z/OS, Unix and Windows software processes and their interaction across platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Knowledge of the following: MVS & z - Series, JCL, Cobol, PL/I, Easytrieve, IMS (including OTMA), CICS, DB2, SQL, Datacom, MFS, XML, Websphere MQ, Connect Direct (Secure+) aka NDM), UNIX System Services, BMC Utilities, CA Utilities, Omegamon, TSO/ISPF, RACF, DFHSM, MicroFocus MFE and Revolve, CLIST, FileAid, IMS-Xpert/FileAid for IMS, Librarian, LCS, SCLM, Changeman, Infoman, ClearQuest, Vantive, Pac2000(Remedy), Method One, (Rational) Unified Process, UNIX, Sperry 1100 series, Cromemco, DOS, WSAD, (base) SAS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Information Security / ETL Engineer

Tools: Remedy, Microsoft Active Directory Toolkit. SQL Server (for queries of HR), Endeavor and numerous other tools common to the TSO development environment.

Responsibilities:

• Expert support for application security teams, during their during their initial adoption of Confidential (Account Certification Tool) for access credential re - certification.
• Assist in set up, review & testing of data feeds, according to the Confidential (Interface Control Document) specification and in accordance with company policies.
• Provided an initial response to all data formatting issues. Give guidance on content, to best provide meaningful, understandable descriptions.
• Participated in Data Quality Validation processing of data. Remediated issues out of hours, especially supporting the feed from the Wholesale line of business.
• Set up & coordinated NDM Secure+ transmission tests.
• Supported semi-annual releases.

Confidential

ETL Technical Lead (Software engineer)

Tools: ClearQuest, Remedy & Changeman (controlled development environment) and numerous other tools common to the TSO development environment.

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance & support for the batch processing of 70+ files, transmitted between Confidential and external vendors.
• These are sent by a variety of transmission methods (NDM, FTP, etc), and with a range of different interactions with internal applications.
• This includes a set of Informatica workstreams delivering mortgage data to a data warehouse.
• End to end process improvement development.
• This ranges from eliminating dummy UNIX batch jobs, designed to detect file arrival on Network Attached Storage, to simple code changes to reduce the Confidential frequency of various mainframe jobs.
• Secondary support and problem solving functions for other team support staff.
• Conducting cost/benefit and critical path analysis in support of business administration functions.
• Member of the architectural committee.

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Tools: Changeman, SPUFI, Strobe and many tools common in the TSO development environment.

Responsibilities:

• Ran simultaneous small projects, as sole technician or as Tech. Lead with associated onshore and offshore out-taskers.
• Identify re-engineering opportunities, improvements to database design and usability, and decommissioning opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership, in long-term migration to an SOA architecture.
• Creating technical documentation.
• Providing secondary support and problem solving functions for other team support staff.
• Conducting cost/benefit and critical path analyses in support of business administration functions.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Identified, coded & tested changes, to deliver the product for California Confidential .
• Confidential had an unstructured project development environment, with no recognizable development or project management methodologies. So, much of the work included creating informal intermediate refinement of the draft functional requirements.
• Maintained database neutrality - creating code to run on both DB2 & Oracle. Date handling and a few other “wrinkles” meant the code wasn’t 100% neutral. But it came close.
• Created change requirements for the J2EE developers, including changes to the interface/(Entity) EJB’s and front-end (web browser) processing (validation and layout changes).

Senior Systems Analyst

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Lead legacy architect. Lead and guided architectural process for project’s legacy architects.
• SOA back end service designer/architect.
• Messaging expert - managed delivery of messaging middleware. Client (MQ) team liaison.
• Collaborated with Web Services developers, to develop a new Proof of Concept for a point-to-point message delivery pattern, BizTalk-WMB-OTMA/OTMA-MQ-BizTalk.
• Provided "translation" and coordination between Web Services staff & Mainframe staff.
• Supported the Technical Architecture team. Activities included advice on change control and testing environments and also providing VBScript MQ code fragments, for the test harness.
• Cell Lead, with dotted line an offshore development group.

Confidential

Senior Staff

Responsibilities:

• Graduate of the Confidential Technical Mentor program.
• Worked on a “Proof of Concept” real-time CRM application, to synchronize DB2, Datacom & Oracle service domains.
• Replaced numerous file transfer processes with adoption of Unix System Services, to write data directly into UNIX files from a COBOL program; alleviated communication & Scheduling issues associated with file transfer and dramatically reduced execution time.
• Provided cross-platform production support on 24x7 on-call basis.