PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Resourceful, results - driven Senior Programmer Analyst with 18+ years experience leading and contributing to insurance, banking, brokerage and tax reporting projects for organizations such as Confidential.
• Broad mainframe and client/server background spans the prototype development of several major commercial applications, including Confidential, a world-class financial call center system and Windows World Open Winner.
• Outstanding ability to gather and translate complex user requirements into practical, cost-effective software solutions.
• Thrive in both independent and collaborative work environments.
• Innovative problem solver, adept at developing online and batch programs of varying complexities.
• Track record of partnering with business leaders, technical teams and vendors to plan, integrate and execute project plans on time/budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL/COBOL II, Visual Basic 6/5/3, Java/JDK 1.2/ JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML

Databases: DB2/SQL, VSAM, IDCAMS, SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle 8i, Ideal-Datacom DB, IMS 6.0

Platforms: IBM 30XX, IBM ES 9000/3090/3083/ OS/390; Windows NT 4.0/98/95, Windows XP Professional

Software: MVS-ESA, CICS, Stored Procedures, MQSeries, ActiveX/ COM, Visual SourceSafe, Crystal Reports, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, Z /OS/MVS JCL/Utilities, ISPF, Syncsort, Intertest (batch/online) CA7/CA11 Job Schedulers, FTP, MicroFocus Cobol, ChangeMan, ZEKE, ChangeTrac, Platinum, Librarian, Xpeditor, IBM-Debug, QMF, SPUFI, QMF, PL/SQL, MS Office/Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rutherford, NJ

Senior Programmer/Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Led the project’s full development life cycle of various online and batch applications. Interfaced directly with the end-users, converting business-critical requirements into technical specifications.
• Analyzed-designed-developed-tested-debugged online and batch CICS, VSAM files and DB2 systems.
• Analysis of the Accounts Receivable system, creating a Interface sub-system for the conversion of existing batch / COBOL II and CICS / VSAM data into a newly installed vendor package replacement. Duties included user interface, planning, reformatting and data-integrity testing.
• Formulation of standardized test plans for all online and batch program modifications
• Production support

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, MVS/JCL, IBM Utilities

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Senior Programmer/Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned business and technical requirements (or spec's) for projects on systems relating specifically to "Unclaimed Properties", involving mineral rights of ownership of monies owed to individuals or commercial interests held in escrow by the State.
• The property owners are notified and if claimed, the outstanding monies are returned.
• Designed a COBOL II Batch/DB2 sub-system to automate manual adhoc job requests involving a series of complex DB2/SQL Queries, to create a series of scheduled monthly "Unclaimed Property Minerals" report's list.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, DB2 v10.1, Z/OS v1.12, QMF v11.1, CA - ENDEAVOR v 15.1, XPEDITOR/TSO v9.1, MS SharePoint, MS Outlook, CONTROL-M, Windows 7 Enterprise.

Confidential, Rutherford, NJ

Senior Programmer/Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assignments included various custom developed as well as vendor supplied financial systems.
• Tasks encompassed Analysis and design, coding, testing, implementations and production support.
• All systems were mainframe based and consisted of on line, COBOLII, CICS, DB2, MQSeries and VSAM as well as batch utilizing COBOL II and MVS JCL and Procs.
• Analysis of user requirements
• Design of solutions based on user requirements
• Coding, testing and implementation of solutions
• Production support

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, MQSeries, MVS/JCL

Confidential, Bergenfield, NJ

Senior Programmer/Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Project Leader and business users on a number of business-critical projects.
• Performed analysis of technical specifications to design, code, create and document test cases, enabling production turnover of system enhancements for user approval.
• Instrumental in entire project’s life cycle of on-line and batch applications for both the Gas Mobile Dispatch (GMD) and the Gas Inspection and Maintenance (GIMS) systems, utilizing COBOL LE, CICS, MQSeries, DB2 and Stored Procedures. Provided on-line and batch support, maintenance and upgrades to system.

Environment: COBOL LE, CICS, VSAM, DB2, Stored Procedures, MQSeries

Confidential, Whitehouse Station, NJ

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Effectively translated complex business requirements into practical technical specifications; also contributed to coding, testing and production implementation.
• Equally successful in independently managing assignments for the Confidential Underlyer System in MRG as well as collaborating with team for development on CUSTOMARQ System in CCI .

Environment: COBOL II, JCL, IBM Utilities, Stored Procedures, DB2 v8, IMS v6.0, TELON

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Lead Associate

Responsibilities:

• Vital technical and leadership resource on business-critical tax reporting projects, entailing maintenance of multiple systems generating 1099, 1042 and 480.6A/B/ Confidential statements for clients and the Internal Revenue Service.
• Partnered with IRS Tax Reporting Department business analysts to accurately gather program specifications and business requirements.
• Effectively coordinated employees and consultants on core development projects, including a batch COBOL II, VSAM and DB2 sub-system that created 1099 correction statistics process and reports.
• Met rapid project delivery timelines involving system modifications for annual compulsory IRS Tax Law changes prior to “Instant Replay” year-end activity summary processing.
• Consistently met user expectations by working round the clock for a period of 5 months every tax season to supply 24/7 systems and production support.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IBM Utilities, VSAM, Stored Procedures, DB2 v7/8, DYL280

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Key contributor to design, coding, testing and upgrade of client/banking systems.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, Stored Procedures

Confidential, Bloomfield, NJ

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Delivered a wide variety of client/server Web-enabled systems for diverse clientele.
• Created a full scale, 3-tiered eCommerce Website for an object oriented Java-based client portfolio account reporting system spanning inventory management, sales, customer accounts and ordering.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, ActiveX, J2EE, Java 2.0, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Javascript, COBOL II, CICS, ADO, SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, HTML, DHTML, CSS, DB2, Stored Procedures

Confidential, New York NY

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Directed a large-scale consulting team in the prototype development for PRUSERV through the life cycle utilizing a COBOL, CICS/DB2/VSAM and IBM MQSeries messaging back-end that triggered Stored Procedures and a Visual Basic 6.0/Web Browser GUI front-end.
• Collaborated with DBAs to develop and modify SQL Server and DB2 database designs, increasing performance 25%.

Environment: COBOL, COBOL II, CICS/DB2/VSAM, IBM MQSeries, Visual Basic 6.0, ActiveX, J2EE, Java 2.0, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, FTP, SQL Server, SAS

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Development of the Incentive Administrative System (Release 1.0), in client/server architecture. Analyzed-designed-developed-tested-debugged system. Collaborated
• Lead and managed the project team responsible for system integration and user acceptance testing.
• Identification and resolution of on-line programs and functions that used excessive DB2 resources or abnormally long response times. Optimizing SQL performance by analyzing and fine-tuning programs, before final production implementation.

Environment: COBOL, COBOL II, CICS/DB2v.3/VSAM, Visual Basic 3.0, IBM Utilities