SUMMARY:

To secure a permanent or contract position, utilizing my design, leadership, and development skills in one of the following roles: Business Analyst, Applications Designer, Business Systems Analyst or Business Solutions Architect.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Environment: s All Windows Environments, MVS, DOS/VSE, DOS/VS, OS, UNIX, MAC OS

Current Software: HTML5, Excel, Word, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, Visio, Access, MS Office, Keynote, IE, Clarity, SEO and Google Ranking, mySQL, Cpanel, Domain Management, DNS Management, Website Building Skills - Webplus, Wordpress, Dreamweaver, Vimeo, Quickbooks Online, Adsense, Adwords, Google Docs, Google Forms, Mindmapping Tools, Wireframe tools, RSS feeds, Open Office, Webhosting, Wordpress, Adobe products, Evernote, Paypal integration, SalesForce, Vtiger, SugarCRM, Squarespace, JIRA (admin), Sharepoint, Webex, Confluence (admin), Snagit, Pencil Project, Camtasia, Adobe Premier Elements, Captivate, Teachable, Thinkific, Videoblocks, Articulate, Animaker, Satori, Apollo HQ, Canva, BaseCamp, Lucidpress, Gimp, Paint.net, Webex, Skype for Business, Constant Contact, Mailchimp, Asana, Stripe, MacOS, easel.ly

Legacy Software: COBOL, Cobol II, CICS, IMS, DL/1, IMS, DBDC, DB2, QMF, SQL, Spufi, VSAM, IDCAMS, OS Utilities, MVS, TSO, Librarian, Panvalet, ISPF, CMS, ICCF, CICS SDF/BMS/EDF/GTB, SDSF, Gener/OL, DYL280, RPG II, CA-Optimizer, DataExpert, Xbug, Intertest, Expediter, DB Expert, IMS Expert, Expeditor, File-Aid, Micro-focus Cobol, Focus, Infoman, Changeman, Powerbuilder

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst / Program Developer and Producer

Responsibilities:

• I worked with company founders to complete their vision of producing an introductory course in Human Dynamics.
• Created video segments with power point and merged audio narration.
• Learned and edited the numerous films with Final Cut Pro X, and put the program together in a comprehensive format.
• Also worked on as analyst for the business creating marketing and financial plans and worked with founders on strategic planning.
• Developed an online Teacher Training program for Confidential, and a Leadership and Team Building course with the founders of the company.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I worked as Senior BSA on PARIS Participations System on two major enhancements: The Contract Merge Project, giving the Users the ability to merge contracts with previously obligated statements and to catch up the unobligated statements to the current period, and The Statement Tolerance Project, giving the Users the ability to set up a variety of tolerances that will run each period - the results of which are based upon the set-up (parameters and variables), and which will automate the manual review of thousands of statements - moving the non-fatal errors to a new Mass Approval Queue for quick approval and processing.
• I worked directly with upper level finance managers as well as the development managers, developers, and QA testing groups.

Tools: JIRA, Pencil Project, Visio - standard business analysis diagrams, wireframes and tools.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed requirements and user stories for each iteration in Agile environment.
• Additional features developed; Contract Rule Group Mapping, 2) Import / Export functions - Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Prod, (GIT) Timecard Maintenance (GIT) and Testing, and Publishing. I worked directly with developers and SME’s to capture requirements during iteration planning meetings - as well as added direct value daily to the team.
• I worked with Product Managers and UX team to set up a structure in Confluence to house Communities and Disciplines, I created a presentation (movie) for the use of Confluence at Confidential, and I created a Residuals Payment Request workflow across 4 teams in JIRA
• I recently joined the SuperVoucher team to help out with specs for reporting and User Guides.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I worked in the Financial Controls and Reporting department with business users to create requirements to fill gaps found between the old participations system (IFP) and the new (Paris/Sylvester) Participations system.
• I worked with MIS personnel to provide User Stories and Functional Design Documents in conjunction with new reporting tools (Business Objects and Web Intelligence) to provide greatly needed enhancements to the System (Sylvester/Paris).
• I was also responsible for working with onshore and off-shore developers as well as QA testers to ensure the system was working as needed, for example, defined gross breakeven testing, interest and negative cost calculations.

Tools: used: Excel, Visio, Word, JIRA, Sharepoint, with limited SAP Business Objects, Web Intelligence and SQL server.

Confidential

Business Analyst/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on rights licensing agreements, business accounting systems, new program development, testing and training in this International company.
• Created MOU’s, Use Cases, Project Plans and schedules.

Confidential

Sr. Developer - Financial Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I worked on the (FIS) Financial Information System (Mainframe MVS, CICS, COBOL, VSAM, DB2) as a consultant during the SAP conversion.
• I maintained the system of record with feeds to G/L, AR and AP and monitored in detail the incoming financial transactions.
• Duties included developing new programs, firefighting, modifying existing systems, and fixing accounting errors.
• I wrote new add-on applications to the system for interfacing with EDI group, as well as also contributed to a new bank reconciliation system that pulled daily sales ledger data and general ledger data and summarized to send to Cheseapeake System Solutions.

Confidential

Business Analyst, Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• I developed multiple modules to improve the business infrastructure.
• I worked with the company founders and facilitators in Sweden and the Netherlands to create new Licensing Agreements and royalty structures.
• Also created and designed the process for new development, so that facilitators have the means to develop new programs.
• I developed vertical markets for the company to increase the company's outreach, both locally and globally.
• Help to originate the development of new online programs including webinars and training programs based on the body of knowledge called Human Dynamics.

Confidential

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on G/L and Financial systems to add additional reporting features as requested by Accounting Department (Mainframe COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2).

Confidential

Project Manager, Lead System Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Festival Management System using the Sales Force platform.
• The features included in the system: Vendor Management, Ticket Sales, Rental modules, Customer Management, and all aspects of Festival Management.
• I also handled marketing, sales meetings, social media and promotion.

Confidential

Sr. P/A Consultant, Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I worked as the Sr. Programmer/Analyst on the financial side of the Confidential /Viacom split. This included setting up a new residuals region for Confidential, separating and converting the data with a complex batch conversion system written in VSAM and DB2/SQL.
• Created Test Cases and set up test environments for QA testing and user approval. Converted Financial and Residual Data from Confidential and applied to Paramount Financial Systems.
• I changed multiple online programs to handle the newly formatted Confidential Data.
• I also contributed to the in corporation of Confidential Studio Systems into Confidential, including the insertion of Movies and Talent into the Product and Residuals databases.
• Designed and coded a real-time system to convert Confidential ’ data warehouse into Paramount’s Financial Systems tables and files.

Confidential

Project Manager/Sr. Systems Designer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• I oversaw and was responsible for the following groups: System Design and Consulting, Data Warehousing, Middleware, Legacy Systems and Clarity Reporting, and Epic Development group.
• I conducted daily status (scrum style meetings) with the aforementioned groups.
• I contributed to some of the initial design of the Health Connect system with Epic developers. worked with a small team to redesign and develop Confidential ’s Electronic Patient Chart Tracking System (COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL) in preparation for Health Connect System.
• I also designed the engine and processes for a new Electronic Media System to functionally process and onboard all of Confidential ’s new clients at the individual and company level - updating Confidential ’s Foundation System with required data - working with a team of developers to streamline the workload during the addition of a new client (company) to Confidential ’s health insurance offerings.
• The engine of the system provided automatic data mapping and update capabilities from an unlimited number of data and media input, and reduced system maintenance and user time involvement by 90 percent.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant/Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating coding standards and insured completion of Y2K compliancy for all of Confidential ’s CICS and batch programs.
• I led a team of programmers during the conversion effort.
• Product Distribution, Warehouse Billing, Item Spoils, General Ledger and MSA Payroll.
• I tested all aspects of Confidential ’s systems for functionality. Oversaw post Y2K clean-up effort.
• As Sr. Consultant, I trained programming staff in Cobol II and SQL and set coding standards, and aided in the conversion of all financial systems to report to the newly purchased Lawson Financials and G/L.