CAREER SUMMARY

Results oriented Business System Analyst and Leader with comprehensive application development and maintenance experience. Demonstrated success in working with and training internal and external business and technical partners through an ability to convey business requirements and technical needs in a clear, concise and effective manner. Exhibits superior analytical and problem solving skills used in interpretation and implementation of compliance requirements, designing and documenting new processes, end to end testing and implementation planning. Proven business knowledge in Commercial Insurance, Reinsurance, Policy, Claims, Accounting, Financial and Statutory Reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, DB2 SQL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, ABEND AID,
FILE-AID, TSO/ISPF, MVS JCL, XCOM, VSAM, PANVALET, SCLM
Software: MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Visio, XCOM, LDRPS, ESP, Tivoli, Output Manager,
Operating Systems: Mainframe zOS1.12, MS Windows NT 2003/2007
Applications: SCEPTOR, ProCede, SRLink (Client Server). Automated Reinsurance (ARe), Schedule F, Schedule P, CIS, CSTAR/RSII (Mainframe)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Northbrook, IL March 1982 – August 2011

Disaster Recovery/Business Resumption System Analyst, January 2010 – August 2011
Designed and delivered cross-platform Disaster Recovery/ Business Resumption Plans that improved system availability

• Led the creation of over 120 disaster recovery plans across departments as a result of a new methodology for utilizing two data center models for the recovery, improving resiliency and recoverability.
• Designed, documented and implemented processes for disaster recovery plan creation, compliancy and maintenance: trained onshore/ offshore resources on processes, creating a more effective usage of company resources.
• Maintained 100% compliancy as Project Lead for maintenance and compliancy of Specialty Operations Division’s Business Resumption and Disaster Recovery plans by being proactive in plan updating and compliancy checking.

Application Consultant / System Analyst, January 2000 – December 2009
Multiple project assignments in the areas of security and SOX compliancy, architecture diagramming, vended client server application upgrades, multi-platform data conversions and integrations, mainframe system software upgrades, and vended and in-house 24/7 application support

• Led project for ensuring the SOX compliancy by partnering with auditors to proactively request and analyze special audit reports to identify and remediate security gaps prior to audits.
• Subject Matter Expert(SME) on architecture documentation method. Trained department resources and led the creation of the first standardized flowchart documentation for 75+ applications within department.
• Completed multiple projects which produced accurate results through planning, executing, testing, implementation and training of technical and business clients.
• Vended client server ProCede upgrades - analyzing documentation to understand the impacts to application, databases, tables and files.
• Assessed impacts and led division\'s conversion of Computer Associates to IBM products (CICS DADS to CICS BAC, EASYTRIEVE to Migrate Utility, JCLCHECK to JOBSCAN, SAR to Output Manager, PANVALET to SCLM, Top Secret to RACF, TMSSearch to RMM, Teleview to Session Manager, XCOM to MFT) saving $5 M in licensing fees. Created materials used for company-wide training.
• Partnered and led multi-platform conversions and implementations of reinsurance books of business to the ProCede vended application, automating manual processes and providing business clients ability to produce accurate billing documents for reinsurers.
• Designed and executed the end to end testing to validate results of software upgrades, data conversions/integration and reporting, client server/mainframe scheduling changes, implementation of automatic SOX compliancy batch balancing and client balancing procedures for new reports.
• Led and trained onshore/offshore staff to upgrade ARe vended application for new releases of CICS and IMS, as well as to support ARe and the batch financial reporting application, which allowed more time to strategically manage other projects.
• Teamed on conversion of mainframe batch direct claim system and ceding repository (NAMIS) to the client server based vended applications (SCEPTOR and ProCede); created and implemented a new batch reporting system using client server extracts, becoming the subject matter expert.
• Chosen as Tech Lead for moving application support from vendor to in-house, resulting in a

maintenance cost savings of $250,000.

Senior Staff Programmer, March 1994 – December 1999

• Chosen as Technical lead for Y2K maintenance of the ARe application using Millennium Date Compression Tool, in addition to multiple vended and in-house application support projects.

Staff Programmer, January 1989 – February 1994

• Discovered $4M unbilled recoverables by teaming directly with vendor and business client on conversion of mainframe policy, direct claim and manual ceding transactions to mechanized, customized and vended ARe application comprised of 100 databases, 250 files, 400 online/batch programs and 150 jobs.

Senior Programmer, March 1982 – December 1988

EDUCATION

Associate Degree in Computer Science