PROFILE:

• Experience leading teams, serving as technical and project lead, contributing to project planning and estimation, conducting design and code reviews, mentoring, and teaching.
• Quickly and independently able to learn new technology on my own.
• Within a collaborative environment, developed diverse business systems for clients including EDI, long distance telephone billing, mutual fund asset management, utility industry enterprise, cellular telephone order entry.
• Devised enhancements and updates for existing applications and resolved system issues.
• Conducted detailed testing throughout SDLC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: NetExpress Microfocus Cobol, VAX Cobol, Visual Basic, Pro*Cobol, JCL, DCLUNIX Kornshell, Datatrieve, SAS, FORTRAN, RPG, MS - DOS/NT

Environment: s: Windows, NT, UNIX, AIX, VMS

Tools: Microsoft Office 2010, MS-Project, Lotus Notes, OVCS, CMS, Tivoli Job Scheduling Console, SQL*PLUS, Ipswitch WS FTP Professional, Reflection, TOAD, FMS

Databases: Oracle 10i, PL/SQL, SQL Server, RMS Indexed Files

Vendor Software: Confidential, AMDOCS, DMS, CIS/OV, CARMS, RECELL, Ask MANMAN

Networking: WebMethods, TCP/IP, FTP, DecNet, LAN, WAN, Tuxedo, Axway MFT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Stafford, TX

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for a legacy system that printed insurance cards for major carriers.
• Modified data dictionary as required.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used EDI knowledge to resolve critical business issues and manage the SDLC of complex projects.
• Act as an EDI advisor to business units.
• Provide EDI for business units and IT application developers.
• Determine requirements, including detailed test plans, for IT to implement business solutions adhering to ANSI X12 standards and SOX compliance.
• Converted multiple trading partners to GTIN processing.
• Merged Glaceau Vitaminwater, FUZE beverage, and Gold Peak Tea products into EDI after multi-billion dollar acquisitions by Confidential .
• Created methodology to implement Direct Store Deliveries for Walgreens.
• Mapped inbound transactions sets (214, 850, 852, and 875) to tables in Oracle to create Purchase Orders and mapped outbound transaction sets (810/880, 850/860, 855, 856, 864, 875, and 894) to create Invoices and Advanced Shipment Notices for trading partners including but not limited to Rite Aid, Kmart, Target, Walgreens, Kroger, Albertsons, Piggly Wiggly, and SuperValue.
• Certified Legacy EDI batch processing, EDI inbound and outbound connections with WebMethods and Axway MFT during a major server upgrade to all environments.
• Monitored daily EDI inbound and outbound transactions for accuracy. Corrected and re-processed any transaction exceptions within required SLA guidelines and SOX requirements.

Confidential

EDI Development

Responsibilities:

• Created a plant filter to route inbound PO’s to legacy or SAP. Developed data feeds to SAP master data tables, (Item, Vendor, Customer, and Supply Chain Rules) from legacy.
• Implemented EDI recon system, written in PL/SQL to validate purchase orders were correctly routed by the plant filter to reduce order processing errors by 75%..
• Provided 24x7 production support for a legacy system written in NetExpress MicroFocus Cobol, PL/SQL, Oracle 10i running in Windows NT and UNIX environments.
• Used FTP to transfer data between servers.

Confidential, Houston, TX

CIS/OV Development

Responsibilities:

• CIS/OV is an enterprise level customer information and billing system that supports multiple utility services developed with a PowerBuilder GUI front-end, NetExpress MicroFocus Cobol engine, Pro*Cobol and Oracle.
• Researched production issues and provided application programming support during UAT testing for metropolitan locations such as Portland, OR and Snohomish County, WA.

Confidential, TX

AMDOCS Development / Support

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced functionality of Sales Follow-up and Compensation (SFC) modules in the AMDOCS software package.
• Provided 24x7 production support in a VAX/VMS COBOL environment.

Confidential, Rosenberg, TX

MPS Development / Support

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical expertise and 24x7 support for MPS (Message Processing System), a local and long distinct billing system used by a local exchange carrier written in NetExpress MicroFocus Cobol running in a DecVax Unix environment.
• Designed and implemented an interface to parse call records from a Confidential switch and create input data for MPS in AMA and EMI formats.
• Created data entry screens using Visual Basic and SQL Server.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Mutual Fund Accounting Development / Support

Responsibilities:

• Lead support to personnel (investment Systems, Fund Accounting, and Compliance) utilizing Confidential, a mission critical system, to calculate the Net Asset Value for $65 billion of mutual funds under management.
• Developed and implemented the Small Cap system to automatically feed package trades executed by Confidential Portfolio Managers to Confidential .
• This was a key objective which allowed Confidential to diversify mutual fund holdings.
• Developed and maintained customized reports such as 13F and SEI adhering to Securities Exchange Commission standards.
• Directed IT efforts during upgrades to Confidential .
• Provided 24x7 production support in a VAX/VMS COBOL environment.