SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a decisive, action - oriented and result-focused Information Technology professional offering 20 years of experience in the IT software development industry with over 10 years of management and business analysis experience.
• He possesses strong leadership and successful team building skills.
• His management background includes leading teams, developing and managing budgets, monitoring project standards for all deliverables, creating strategies, overseeing technical design, documentation, conducting training, and maintaining quality assurance.
• He has a proven technical background that includes software architecture, software development, and data modeling.
• He brings 15 years of experience working within the Confidential and his most recent assignment at Confidential involved leading the Data Conversion project.
• Confidential has 10 years of experience with MS Project, Visio, and SharePoint coupled with 3 years of experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
• He has the flexibility and energy necessary to drive on-time and on-budget completion of project efforts..

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Cobol, SQL, HTML

Databases: IMS, DB2, VSAM, IDMS, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft Access

Tools: Fileaid, Platinum, SPUFI, QMF, Eztrieve, Informatica, xpediter, intertest

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, DOS/VSE, Unix, Windows XP/95/2000, Unix, Linux.

Version Control: Endeavor, Panvalet, Librarian, Changeman

OLTP: IMS DC, CICS

Code Generators: Telon, Netron

Software: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Visio, Mercury Quality Center, Sharepoint

Hardware: IBM 3090, IBM ES 9000, PC, AS 400

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Springfield, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, development, testing and implementation of the automated Drug Order Entry/Update process on the Drug Order Receivable System.
• Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the Business Process System with involvement through the whole SDLC.
• Gathered business requirements by driving user-group meetings and working with various cross-functional and virtual teams.
• Involved in high-level project planning with upper level management. Also performed the day-to-day project management tasks.
• Acted as a Liaison between business users and IT team to accomplish timely product release.
• Designed, developed and implemented an online Patients search system.
• Worked on mapping the ICD-9 codes ICD-10 codes for the existing Confidential system
• Implemented the translation of invoices using the ANSI X12 810 transaction, and developed the ANSI X12 820 remittance.
• Designed and developed parsing and validation programs in COBOL for editing the incoming invoice transactions.
• Developed a CICS system to allow correction of the invoices.
• Developed a custom COBOL program to reformat the invoices for processing by the batch trail.
• Responsible for pulling and validating the data from SQL servers
• Responsible for understanding current processes and tools in relation to ITIL and experience in reviewing and analyzing documentation
• Team lead on the IMS to DB2 conversion project for the Child Care Management System. Managed a team of around 15 consultants and employees.
• Responsible for the impact analysis and defining the conversion metrics for the entire conversion process and assigning various tasks to the team members.

Environment: IBM 3090, COBOL II, DB2, CICS, VSAM, EZTRIEVE, Panvalet, Telon.

Confidential, Springfield, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Key member of the team involved in the re-design, development, testing and successful implementation of the Electronic Funds Transfer sub-system on the Property and Casualty system.
• Responsible for the analysis, design and development of multiple batch and online programs and enhancement and modification of existing programs
• Implemented multiple Property premium rate revisions projects. Involved in requirements gathering, business analysis and JAD sessions with Business customers.
• Coordinated all project related activities including creation of Project Life Cycle documents and getting approval from the Business customers. Created and executed test scripts.
• Maintained Project plans for the various stages of the project cycle, including Quality assurance/management and Test management.
• Led a team of 15 testers through the Quality Assurance testing of the windows software for the new applications rewrite.
• Successfully managed the implementation of the CICS screen capture to transport to the web.

Environment: IBM 3090, COBOL II, DB2, CICS, VSAM, IMS, EZTRIEVE, Endeavor, MQ series, MS Project, Visio, Quality Center, Rational Requisite Pro V7.1, Rational ClearCase V7.1, Rational ClearQuest V7.1

Confidential

Senior Business and Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played a crucial role in the strategic planning with the stakeholders and subsequent implementation of the new Child support system that helped the department obtain Federal certification and 70% matching funds from the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement.
• Client valued the attention to detail and the ability to help expand on their ideas.
• Successfully led a team of 25-30 members through the complete system development life cycle, including business analysis, design, development, Unit and QA testing in multiple test and production environments. Also involved in final implementation.
• Responsible for assigning work requests to team members and ensuring they were completed on time.
• Acted as the primary contact and liaison between the business users and the technical team.
• Maintained Project plans for the various stages of the project cycle, including Quality assurance/management and Test management.
• Primary contact for program moves to production and maintaining version control of modules.
• Lead member of the team that successfully implemented the case closure sub-system.
• Lead member of the Data conversion team.
• Responsible for the conversion of IMS databases to DB2 tables.
• Project Lead for the design, development and Integration of the Case Intake/Maintenance and the Events maintenance sub-systems.
• Successfully managed multiple on-line sub-systems with minimal down time.
• Responsible for the successful implementation of the Unemployment Insurance Benefit Interface.
• Primary contact for data table maintenance across the system

Environment: IBM 3090, COBOL II, IMS DB/DC, DB2, EZTRIEVE, TELON, JCL, Autosys, Panvalet, Endeavor, Jobtrac, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Visio, MS Project, Power point