SUMMARY:

• I am searching for a position where I can add value to a team of professionals who need someone with experience in designing, developing, and implementing complex systems across multiple platforms. I have spent a large portion of my career reducing costs and creating best practices for systems conversion and enterprise - wide system implementations. I am a team player, detailed oriented, have strong interpersonal communication skills, and am very comfortable interfacing with executive management as well as internal and external clients.
• Lead Architect/Developer in systems design from internal company mainframe to external clients
• Completed designing solutions for release integration of CICS and MQ application for Confidential signature verification product
• Proficient with utilizing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Production installations and monitoring
• Large Global bank conversions
• Designed and wrote software for Multi-Bank environments
• Ensured vendors met client requirements (Data transfer rates, business continuity requirements, business functionality needs)
• Systems Integrated Testing (SIT) and Client Integration Testing (CIT) / User Integrated Testing (UAT)
• DAY2 processing developer (DSS TRIPS, Rosetta (IRD print), Antinori Fraud Processing, Signature verification, worked with the APG ( Confidential Payment Software) group
• 24/7 production support in MVS mainframe environment. Ensured the integrity of the daily/nightly batch streams of all outgoing and incoming data process including midrange applications that interfaces with MVS mainframes. Ensures all expected vendor feeds arrive as scheduled and maintains the expected Level of Service (LOS). Promptly resolves issues
• Devised recommendations for critical decisions for lines of businesses (LOB). Offered a solution to decrease transfer rates between mainframe and midrange applications to meet Confidential ’s

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE: IBM Z/OS mainframes

SOFTWARE Mainframe: Many years of experience (Assembler\COBOL), MVS/JCL, MVS/ESA, MQSeries, SPFUFI, DB2, DB2 Connect, IBM OS Utilities, CA-7, $SAVRS, ABEND-AID, TWS, NDM, VSAM, BDAM. IDCAMS, TSO/ISPF-PDF, Eztrieve, FileAid, FileMaster,Syncsort, DFSort, Changeman, Endeavor, SDSF, SQL, ISIX, VMS, REXX, CICS, Inertest, RemoteDeposit, CIMS, TRIPS, SCI, CONNECT:DIRECT, File Master, CA View, WLM, TCP/IP, Quality Center, Super-Session,NDM RACF,ACF2,UNIX, XNET,PEP+, Windows:Connect Direct, CPCS(Check Processing Control System}, MIA, Viewpoint,SMP\E,API’s

Other Platforms : Microsoft server 2012, Jack Henry platform, APG, Confidential Sierra Exchange

Other Software: Microsoft Suite, MS Visio, Presentation, Outlook, SameTime, WebEx, NetMeeting, Office Communicator, SharePoint, BMC Remedy, LiveMeeting, Remote Desktop. Java, WebSphere

CAREER HISTORY:

Senior Software Developer

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Cash Management application support

Senior Architect / Developer

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Designed Signature verification platform using (CICS\DB2\MQ) to provide clients to view images at their workstations
• Designed enhancements for Midrange vendor applications (Check Fraud, Signature Verifications, Image printing software)
• Platform used Cobol\Assembler
• MQ pipes, and CICS regions definitions for PEP+ regions
• Interacted heavily with offshore (Guiding, advising, testing what they produced and ensuring they produced what they were assigned)
• Guided offshore in the use of different file structures
• Integrated heavily with the change management group (Scheduling installation of software to reduced down time for software migration to production environments)
• Designed systems in using images to reduce errors (I wrote a software package to ensure that all images required by the offshore group keying software was present. This reduced cost for the General Ledger department. They Department time and dollars in researching missing images). This effort was achieved using Assembler/Cobol
• Designed and wrote a system to move mid-range request to the mainframe and trigger mainframe batch jobs (supporting daily and nightly processing) This effort was used using Cobol
• Team member on best practices group (Advised management group on the ways to use automated methods of sending account setups to the mainframe instead of using paper request)

Senior Developer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Designed\coded platforms assisting Confidential to create a Financial Services Division; providing software products\services to financial institution
• Coding, testing, debugging, implementing and documenting Assembler/Cobol programs
• Experienced in mainframe to Java platform
• Expert with mid-range transferring data to Windows Connect:Direct platform and UNIX Connect:Direct sending\receiving data to\from internal and external clients
• Lead designer in multi-platforms\environments streamlining software processes within the Confidential environment

Senior Architect Contractor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designer of Confidential / SunTrust Check Image division conversion
• Platform Assembler\Cobol
• Team member involved in the core implementation group (reviewed installations processes prior to production installation
• Team member aiding upper management in making good decisions in business requirements
• Lead member supporting Disaster Recovery (Planning, testing, and installation)

Senior Developer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Designed/coded system to transmit and receive Check Images from all US Commercial Banks
• Platform used Assembler\Cobol
• Installed Confidential Sierra Exchange platform
• Integrated with installation team from Confidential corporation to install software
• Designed Commercial Banking products (Treasury Management area)
• Team member helping upper management, clients/end-user, outside vendors, internal development teams and project team members
• Designer of DB2 and DB2 Connect DB2 tables loads; stored procedures, Interfaced with WLM (Work Load Manager) and DB2