SUMMARY:

Bernard is an Information Technology Professional with more than 15 years of IT experience in the development of financial and commercial data processing applications on Mainframe System Environment. His expertise includes analysis, design, coding, manual testing, implementation and maintenance of batch and on - line applications. He is proficient in system analysis, design and application development, flowcharting, unit and system testing, performance testing, test plan preparation, testing validations, program debugging. Bernard has been involved in functional and technical systems analysis, gap analysis, design documentation and presentation. Bernard has great communication skills, he is reliable and a great team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM 4381, 3090, 9221, 9121, 4341, IBM PC's and Compatibles.

Operating Systems: Z/OS, OS/390, MVS/ESA, DOS/VSE, DOS/VM, Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP/VISTA/7/8

Languages: COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL III, CICS 2.3 CICS 3.2, MICROSOFT C++, PASCAL 6

VSAM, DB2, JCL, FILEAID, SPUFI, FILE: AID For DB2, EASYTRIEVE, SAS, TSO/ISPF 6.1, RUMBA,QMF, SDF II, DOCUTEXT, FILETAB, CHANGEMAN, EXPEDITER for CICS/BATCH, ENDEVOR, IMS DB/DC, SCLM, DATAVANTAGE FOR IMS, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, CA-INTERTEST, NDM/FTP FILE PROTOCOLS, PL/1,IDCAMS, DMS, IDMS, SYNCSORT, SORT UTILITIES, ABEND-AID XLS, DYL280, ICETOOLS, CA-SCHEDULER, CONTROL-M, IBM MQ SERIES, VSAM, PQEDIT for MQ, EXCEL, MICROSOFT WORD, LOTUS NOTES R5.06A, MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000/2003/2007 , SECZIP/SECUNZIP UTILITY, DOCUMENT DIRECT 2.2, VIEWDIRECT For MVS,ASSEMBLER, ICCF, SYSTEMATICS,BANKSPHERE,RFC Portal, REMEDY-GSC PMF Tool, GIPI Change Control, ISBAN, PARTENON.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst/Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved extensively in the Implementation of the Confidential Retail Banking Collection & Risk Application System to the Confidential System.
• This application (Parthenon) monitors and manages debt risk of Personal Direct Deposit, Loans and Line Of Credit Accounts.
• Feeding App for the CHEX DataBase to the vendor FISGLOBAL
• Feeding App for the InformEnt tool with the data of Risk Area
• Supported the Collection & Risk System implementation to the Production environment.
• The programs uses; COBOL II, CICS 3.0, DB2, JCL, VSAM, QMF & Control-M.
• For implementation, the project utilized INTEGRAL MANAGEMENT HOST IMPLEMENTATION PKGS (GIPIH) and RFC PORTAL DE PETICCIONES DE CAMBIO to implement applications after it has been tested. When additional changes were required, the REMEDY/GSC a PMF Tool is used to document and control the changes to the system.
• After implementation, maintained the functional integrity of Application. Work as a liaison between IT Production Support; Application Development team and Application Management Users.
• Other duties include eliciting Functional Requirements from users; Functional & Technical Design; developed and maintained the appropriate SDLC documents and artifacts in DDR format. Document this new/changes to the application and perform Software Quality Assurance Testing and DB2 SQL data-mining.

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analyzing, program enhancements and performing testing according to user’s requirements.
• The programs uses; COBOL III, CICS 3.2, DB2, IMS, SDF II, VSAM and MQ.
• The Expediter, DataVantage for IMS, File-Aid for DB2, CEDF, DYL280 and File-Aid were used for testing and validation.
• For implementation, the project utilized CMD for project control and ChangeMan 5.6.1 packages to implement applications after it has been tested.
• Analyzing, program enhancements and performing testing according to client’s testing strategy.
• The online programs uses; COBOL III, CICS 3.2, DB2, SDF II, VSAM, MQ and IMS.
• The Expediter/CICS, DataVantage for IMS, CEDF and File-Aid were used for testing and validation.
• For implementation, the project utilized multiple CMD and ChangeMan 5.6.1 packages to implement each individual application after it has been tested.

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities includes: analyzing, designing and developing programs based on Project Requirements, program enhancements, unit/system integration testing, preparing JCL's/PROC’s/Documentation's for implementation and production troubleshooting using COBOL II, EASYTRIEVE, RUMBA, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, DMS, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, XPEDITER, FTP, ABEND-AID XLS, ICETOOLS, SECZIP/SECUNZIP UTILITY, CONTROL-M and SCLM.

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include; analyzing, designing and developing programs based on Project Requirements; enhancing programs, manual testing; preparing JCL's, PROC's and Documentation's for implementation.
• Involved in the developing, enhancements and production troubleshooting using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2, SPUFI, CA-INTERTEST, NDM/FTP FILE PROTOCOLS, CA-SCHEDULER, IBM MQ SERIES and PQEDIT for MQ.
• CAS support in the comprehensive Company wide System and Client Testing.
• Production Support.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include; analyzing, designing and developing programs based on Project Requirements; enhancing programs, manual testing; preparing JCL's, PROC's and Documentation's for implementation.
• Involved in the developing, enhancements and production troubleshooting using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2, SPUFI, CA-INTERTEST, IBM MQ SERIES and PQEDIT for MQ. Conducting SIT/UAT/PRODUCTION parallel testing. Production Support.
• Responsibilities include; the Development, Enhancements, Unit/System Testing, Production Implementation/Troubleshooting and Turnover Documentation on the following projects for the Confidential System.
• Programs were developed and tested using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CA-JCL CHECK, IDCAMS, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2, SPUFI and FTP/NDM FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL.
• Outsourcing of the company 1099 & 1042's IRS Reporting/Processing to Wall Street Concept (WSC) Projects.
• Manual Upload of the Client's Spreadsheet Process for 1099 & 1042's Summary for QI Pool Account with US Beneficial Holders Project. IRS 1099 & 1042's File Tape Creation and Validation due to Changes in IRS Requirements.
• SMF Range Conversion Project. Creation of the 1099-DIV, 1099-INT and 1099-MISC Client Statement Project. In corporate 1099-INT Box 8/9 & 1099-MISC Transactions into the Confidential Batch processing Project. Existing Confidential System Enhancements required by the Corporate Action Department

Confidential

Purchasing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for purchasing, sourcing and distribution of supplies to different vendors, inventory control and cost and expense monitoring.
• Created an Inventory System using Microsoft Excel to monitor supplies consumption and ordering frequency.
• Also created spreadsheets to monitor the purchase of major supplies and equipment.

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include; analyzing, designing, and developing programs based on user requirements.
• Programs were developed and tested using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CA-JCL CHECK, IDCAMS, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2, SPUFI, MERVA SWIFT MESSAGING SYSTEM and FTP/NDM FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL.
• Conducting SIT/UAT/PRODUCTION testing.
• Preparing test cases and test plans, preparing JCL's, PROC's and Documentation's for implementation
• Involved in the developing, enhancements and production troubleshooting for the CAS system using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2 and SPUFI.
• Responsibilities include analyzing, designing and developing programs based on user requirements; enhancing programs, manual testing; preparing JCL's, PROC's and Documentation's for implementation.
• Conducting SIT/UAT/PRODUCTION testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the developing, enhancements and production troubleshooting for the Confidential system using COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2, IDCAMS and SPUFI.
• Major responsibilities include analyzing, designing and enhancements of programs to include additional products that will be required by the users; enhancing programs; manual testing; preparing JCL's, PROC's and Documentation's for implementation.
• Conducting SIT/UAT/PRODUCTION testing.
• Responsibilities include; analyzing, designing, and developing programs based on user requirements.
• Programs were developed and tested using COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, CA-JCL CHECK, SORT UTILITIES, IDCAMS, COMPAREX and FILEAID.
• Conducting SIT/UAT/PARALLEL PRODUCTION testing. Preparing JCL's, PROC's and Documentation's for implementation.
• Involved in the revision of Batch Jobs to cater for the MOBIUS System using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2 and SPUFI. Developed testing test cases and test plans, user and implementation to production.
• Use the DOCUMENT DIRECT 2.2 and VIEWDIRECT For MVS in the user . Conducting SIT/UAT/PARALLEL PRODUCTION testing.
• Involved in the enhancements, Y2K conversions and production troubleshooting of the FX system; Batch and Online programs using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, IMS,VSAM, JCL, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, IDCAMS, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2 and SPUFI.
• Developed testing test cases and test plans, user and implementation to production. Conducting SIT/UAT/PRODUCTION testing.
• Involved in the enhancements of the existing system to allow additional offices to be processed individually and all offices at the same time using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, CA-JCL CHECK, COMPAREX, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID FOR DB2 and SPUFI.
• Major responsibilities include analyzing, designing and enhancements of programs to include additional offices required by the users; enhancing programs; manual testing; preparing JCL's, PROC's and Documentation's for implementation

Confidential

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the modification of the client NX system (Exchange Rates - Systematics).
• The programs were developed and tested using COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SORT UTILITIES, IDCAMS, CA-JCL CHECK and COMPAREX utilizing the MVS/ESA operating system on the IBM mainframe 3090 machine.
• Responsibilities included preparing program specifications, coding, preparing test plan/test data, unit testing and product documentation's.
• Provided product support during the System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and implementation.
• Involved with the Year 2000 remediation project for the CitiRemitter and NX systems.

Confidential

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the development of the Client Material Management Software package which was developed in-house.
• Responsible for system analysis, preparing program specifications, coding and testing new and revised online and batch programs for user requirements using COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, JCL, IDCAMS, SORT UTILITIES, FILEAID and COMPAREX.
• Revised the existing programs and corrected errors and discrepancies.
• Conducting SIT/UAT/PRODUCTION testing.

Confidential

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in a re-invoicing project, a Sap - Gems Interface project and Gems maintenance and enhancement project.
• The projects ran on IBM 9221 model 170 and IBM 9121 model 260 machines using DOS/VSE operating system.
• Responsible for coding, preparing test cases and test plans, and debugging on-line and batch programs using COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, IDCAMS, JCL, CA-JCL SORT UTILITIES, CHECK and EASYTRIEVE PLUS 6.0.
• Additionally, responsible for revising the existing batch and on-line programs to correct errors and discrepancies.
• Conducting SIT/UAT/PRODUCTION testing