PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Dedicated, astute Senior Technical Analyst/Developer, Consultant and Performance Engineer with over 20 years’ success driving business - critical design/development, analysis, user interface implementations/conversions and testing initiatives in highly competitive market environments.
• Highly effective project manager, facilitator and communicator with a sound understanding of overall business objectives and a passion for exceeding expectations.
• Hold BOG-BA Certificate in Business Administration and AS degree in Applied Science.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: IBM Mainframe, IBM Compatible PC, Z/OS, OS/390, OS/MVS, DOS/VSE, Windows XP, TCP/IP, HTTP, LAN, CICS , Red Hat Enterprise Linux, UNIX

Languages: COBOL II, COBOL, DB2, SQL, IMS/DB, CICS, PL/1, Microfocus COBOL, MQ Series, JIRA, Agile Methodology, BMC, JCL, SDF II, QMF, SPUFI, IDCAMS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, TSO CLIST, Dialog Manager , ACUCOBOL

Databases: IMS/DB, DB2, ADABAS

Tools: Windows SQL, BMC for DB2 Visio, MS Outlook/Office, DRAFT, IBM Data Dictionary, PAF, SharePoint, IBM DB2 Utilities, Toad, Mercury Test Director, FTP, FileAid, Insync, Syncsort, EasyTrieve, PVCS, ChangeMan, PANVALET, Debug, ABENDAID, Endevor, ClearQuest, XPEDITER, Intertest, CA711, IBM Info Sphere Optim, WB2, ESP Scheduler, TRITUNE, APPTUNE, FREEZEFRAME, MainView, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Analyst / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Major contributor to the successful installation the Annual Notification Letter Project for the Power-Sports and Home Dwelling policy holders. Assisted with modifying and testing existing COBOL DB2 CICS programs.
• Contributor to the Maryland Renewal Project. Created a new DB2 program to load 1.5 million records from the existing sequential file to the Database and created JCL for the one-time load. Modified existing COBOL DB2 CICS programs to display original and renewal premiums for the policy holders.
• Contributor to the CPCR Project by modifying existing Production JCL run streams to eliminated DD’s that produced obsolete reports.

Environment: IBM, Z/OS, COBOL II, DB2 CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, IBM Utilities, VSAM, File Manager, Changeman, Agile Methodology, and MS products.

Confidential

Technical Analyst / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Generated COBOL application new development, enhancements, & provided support for the Instant Issuance Project.
• Modified and enhanced an existing manual system that captures data and reports on daily job runs for the current department analysis report. This enhancement captured the EXCEL files and produced the same results through VB coding. The result reduced the man hours by 80 per cent.
• Modified COBOL programs and Maps for the conversion of the Online Statement Reprint Transaction project. The project transferred the system from one mainframe to another mainframe environment.

Environment: IBM, Z/OS, COBOL II, CICIS, DB2 JCL, TSO/ISPF, IBM Utilities, VSAM, File Manager, EXCEL VB and MS products.

Confidential

Technical Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Major contributor to the successful conversion of a legacy SMS VSAM to a DB2 table-driven PCS. Assisted with the COBOL batch analysis/development efforts to convert SMS VSAM data, updating DB2 tables or creating ready-to-load sequence files to load the tables.
• Met challenge of completing all original work ahead of schedule & then took on additional project objectives.
• Instrumental in saving client over $500k in actual costs, versus the forecasted cost initiative.

Confidential

Technical Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Built and installed an adhoc Verification Invoice Billing Subsystem for Operations (with EasyTrieve) that not only accurately captured data but also saved 10 staff hours per month.
• Made annual print/email modifications of this system to comply with the Government Standards Committee. Used Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) to create documentation.
• Assisted with the Email process to update and create email notification files being transmitted to a 3rd party vendor utilizing SFTP protocol. Created / updated JCL to accomplish this task with ESP scheduler.

Confidential

Technical Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Charged with development & support of Sales/Inventory system programs, encompassing gathering user input, writing new COBOL programs, testing, obtaining user sign-offs and guiding implementations.
• Successfully reverse engineered existing programs to determine inputs/formulas used to create outputs. Developed documents enabling these programs to then be converted from COBOL to .Net applications.

Confidential

Technical Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully wrote new and modified existing COBOL/DB2/XML/MQSeries/CICS programs, and produced analysis documents/programming specifications for use by Developers. Assisted in designing a mainframe application with documentation.
• Aided Server Platform personnel with data mapping and specifications.
• Produced winning results, boosting Confidential timeliness and accuracy while cutting system costs.

Confidential

Technical Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered programs that were key to reducing Authority’s residential earthquake exposure 93% ($1.2B), as well as dropping the Required Economic Capital by $65M.
• Significantly reduced development time, by suggesting the team write programs to produce flat files and then use IBM Utilities to load the tables in off-hours.
• In 2006, dramatically enhanced homeowner insurance rating system, by incorporating/analyzing geographic perils, insured’s personal information & neighborhood environmental variables to set new insurance rates.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Paved the way for dramatic reduction in processing hours by:
• Identified software performance issues, provided solutions, administrated our z/OS CICS IMS DB2 MQ test systems, enforced software coding standards, and published performance engineering reports
• Coordinating meetings with customers to develop solid resolutions to processing problems.
• Helping to determine transmission problem areas during testing/implementation of several BC/BS Plans, ensuring Plans met SLAs and conserved costs when they were incorporated into Production.
• Utilizing software tools to identify application software areas that caused slow performance.
• Played major role in reducing CPU time 30%, by suggesting how to use storage more effectively.
• Saved organization and each customer over $500K per year through processing time reductions.

Confidential

Technical Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Took initiative to build additional DB2/SQL programs to clear or update information from tables.
• Slashed the time needed to complete development phase, ensuring overall project was completed on time.

Confidential

Technical Analyst/Project and Release Management

Responsibilities:

• Tracked problem areas and coordinated efforts of various on/offshore teams to meet release deadlines.
• Helped test a new tracking system & developed internal process to capture/report on priority assignments.