SUMMARY:

• Senior Enterprise developer and analyst with over fifteen years of programming experience in a mainframe environment.
• Strong industry experience in complete project life cycle: Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation.
• Experience in analyzing entire systems and their impact with other backend and front - end systems.
• Coordinated project requirement analysis meetings with onsite and off shore teams.
• Strong experience with coding, testing and implementing using agile methodologies.
• Experience in leading a module, working with clients to gather requirements, scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project/sub-projects.
• Status reporting, including schedule and program reviews, project health indicators, milestone completion status, action item status, and issue/risk status and mitigations.
• Strong experience with COBOL, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, DYL280, SQL, DB2, z/OS JCL, DOS/VSE, CMS, VSAM, IDCAMS, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, ABEND AID, FILEAID, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, CA7/CA11, ZEKE, XPEDITOR, ECLIPSE, PANVALET, FTP, EAI, INFORMATICA, SHAREPOINT, CLARITY, MICROSOFT OFFICE and AGILE.

SKILLS:

• Residuals and Participations Accounting. All GEAC Financial Systems DCI, IE, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Financial Controller Payroll and Human Resources.
• DOS/VSE, CMS, COBOL, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, DYL280, SQL, DB2, z/OS JCL, VSAM, IDCAMS, SORT, ABEND AID, FILEAID, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, CA7/CA11, ZEKE, XPEDITOR, ECLIPSE, PANVALET, FTP, EAI, INFORMATICA, SHAREPOINT, MICROSOFT OFFICE and AGILE..

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Manager: Extensive interaction with the Client’s user community to gather business rules, functionality requirements for new and enhanced products. Managed Onshore and Offshore technical teams using agile methodology. Conducted daily scrum meetings to insure sprint requirements were achievable.
• Quality Assurance: Developed UAT scripts for the newly acquired PARIS Residuals system. Managed User Acceptance Testing of the PARIS system, meeting the production deadlines. As a result, testing was completed 25% earlier than the estimated time allocated to this process.
• Programming: Modified COBOL programs, CICS screens, DB2 Tables, and batch process to accommodate the split of Paramount Television products to a new CBS system, and the acquisition of DreamWorks television products to the Paramount system. Converted 40 files, 150 jobs and 400 programs to accomplish the split.
• Developer: Developed systems technical design documents and status reports for the implementation of the PARIS system. Developed and executed test scenarios and test cases for unit and integration testing during disaster recovery exercises for designated systems.
• Gap Analysis: Performed gap analysis between the existing Mainframe Residuals application and PARIS system capabilities. Collaborated with system users to document new business requirements defined as gaps.
• Support: Provided proven problem research and resolution skills via 24/7 weekly on-call production support of daily batch jobs, CICS transactional processes and DB2 based Residuals application.
• Proactively identified and remediated numerous system inefficiencies reducing the resource need for system support.

Environment: Mainframe (z/OS OS/MVS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, SPUFI, FILEAID, CA7/CA-11, EXPEDITOR, DFSORT, IDCAMS, FTP, SAR, ECLIPSE, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, SQL, CA7, EXPEDITOR, ABENDAID), FTP, EAI, INFORMATICA, AGILE, SHAREPOINT, CLARITY, MICROSOFT OFFICE.

Confidential

Consultant.

Responsibilities:

• Led in project detailed design phases, identifying, tracking and resolving technical issues and ensuring solution met client needs and project deliverables.
• Frequently met with business user to gather requirements, heavy documentation of technical and functional specifications, code and test programs while following SDLC.
• Developed and maintained a Used CD pricing System which generated more sales than new CD product.
• Created various reports and files, utilized in analysis of job streams. The Used CD Pricing system performed both online and Batch Data Base maintenance.
• Contributed towards defining timelines and project plans; analyzed and estimated feasibility, effort, time and compatibility to convert the Mainframe Merchandising System to run on an AS/400 platform.
• Generated more complex technical assessments, developed solution alternative evaluated options and provided recommendations considering efficiency and cost.

Environment: Mainframe DOS/VSE, CMS, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, ZEKE and EASYTRIEVE.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Was hired to upgrade all financial systems to the most current version of GEAC E-Series Software.
• Developed test environments for Information Expert (A Financial Reporting tool) Financial Controller, Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Fixed assets.
• Performed coding, testing and implementation for upgrade conversions for these financial systems.
• Provided technical support during integration testing as well as documenting the installation and support processes for environments.
• Facilitated meetings with clients and IT to develop System testing Requirements, data gathering, and implementation plans for each Financial Module.
• Tested online data entry. Ran parallel batch daily, monthly, and yearly processing cycles.
• Evaluated the Daily and batch process and improved performance from 12 hours, to a 5 hour process.
• Coordinated and migrated all System changes to Production.

Environment: Mainframe (JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, CA7/CA11, SYNCSORT, EXPEDITOR, FILE-AID, PANVALET).

Confidential

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installed GEAC E-Series HR (complicated by Home Health Care), Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets and Financial Controller.
• Projects included full life cycle development of new Home Health Care system which converted paper based enrollment to online procedure saving $50.000 annually in costs.
• Installed software bulletins and upgrades. Updated Tax subsystem.
• Set up and maintained interfaces between GEAC payroll module and legacy benefit system.
• Created, modified and maintained Information Expert Business Reporting requirements.
• Maintained GEAC legacy system Documentation.
• Increased productivity by creating online and batch programs to maintain and update event history system.
• Provided system education and training for the HR Department.
• Rapidly promoted after one year, as all job requirements were met or exceeded.
• Supervised and coordinated the daily activities of two Programmer/analysts.

Environment: Mainframe DOS/VSE, CMS, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, ZEKE and EASYTRIEVE.