SUMMARY:

• Solutions - focused and analytical professional with 20 years of technical and coding experience.
• Proven history of success executing implementation, configuration, and maintenance solutions for corporate information systems.
• Adept at identifying and leading innovative strategies that reduce redundancy, improve accuracy and efficiency, and deliver organizational competitiveness.
• Expertise in Financial Services industry including Brokerage, Insurance, and Retirement for on-line and batch business applications.
• Accomplished communicator and leader skilled in building and strengthening relationships across functions to drive cohesive, strategic operations. Core strengths include the following:
• Expert programmer and coder with experience in full lifecycle application development focused on issue resolution, production support, and process improvement.
• Success developing, analyzing, and executing technical design solutions in a team environment or independently.
• Skilled leader and trainer with a track record of directing multiple tasks effectively to ensure on target completion of all deliverables.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM 3090, Z/OS

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, Unix, Windows

Databases: DB2, IDMS, MSSQL, VSAM

Languages: COBOL MVS/LE, COBOL II, MICROFOCUS Cobol, CICS Command, JCL, SQL

Software: CICS Command Level, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, INTERTEST, XPEDITER, CHANGEMAN, CEDF, FILE-AID, DATA EXPERT, MVS/UTILITIES, DB2 UTILITIES, API, COBOL STORED PROCEDURES, SQL STORED PROCEDURES, MQ-SERIES, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, SAS,COMPAREX, FTP, SFTP, NDM, MS Office, MS Access, MS Outlook, MS Visio, VB, Informatica

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project leader/Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and analyzed System Development Life Cycle documentation, ensuring requirements are achieved.
• Devised and executed development of 401K(FKY) restructuring project, streamlining application process, reducing the cost of onboarding a new vendor by 90%.
• Analyzed and optimized DB2 components, contributing to a significant reduction in MIPS CPU usage.
• Designed and developed a novel approach using CICS interfaces to eliminate manual feed adjustments and simplified feed monitoring.
• Led and oversaw on-boarding of all participated 401K(FKY) Alliance partners to the new restructured platform in a very short time.
• Conducted Peer code reviews that suggest the best way so that the product is stable and is implemented with the best performance and efficiency.
• Performed Knowledge transfer session for Production support Team.
• Fully was responsible for decommissioning the old 401K (FKY) platform.

Technology: COBOL LE, DB2, COBOL Store Procedures, File-Aid, CICS, VSAM, JCL, NDM, SFTP, Microsoft Access, MSSQL, VB, Informatica, UNIX

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed fully automated self-directed retirement account platform that supports Confidential plans, coordinating construction and installment of mainframe components.
• Administered job flow, JCL, and program analysis, delegating tasks to the offshore team members and documenting the progress.
• Provided leadership and direction to junior programmers and conducted group meetings, educating staff members on the application batch process.
• Supported and maintained Custom Statement Formatter (CSF) processing modules on Confidential platform.
• Transmitted AFP data files to Confidential platform via NDM process, loading to OnDemand reporting system for storing historical data.
• Facilitated 24/7 production support and participated in Disaster Recovery test, evaluating production problems and resolving issues.

Technology: COBOL LE, DB2, COBOL Store Procedures, File-Aid, CICS, VSAM, JCL, NDM, SFTP

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Drove analysis, design, development, and implementation of TREX batch process, performing systematic reconciliations based on user-defined rules.
• Served as liaison with DB2 support and TI teams, translating business requirements into programming specifications.
• Modified JCL streams and job execution schedule, taking job dependencies changes into consideration.
• Provided 24x7 coverage resolving problems and fully involved in interaction with business clients in finding a root cause for different production problems.

Technology: COBOL LE, File-Aid, DB2, COBOL Store Procedures, SQL Store Procedures, VSAM, JCL, MQ- Series.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led design and development of batch process for Web and Order Entry, providing technical expertise to DB2 team.
• Coded new batch programs and provided compliance to new Order Entry Process, generating 500 new order entries in a month.
• Wrote development and UAT test scripts, collaborating with users to identify and resolve problems.

Technology: COBOL LE, DB2, File-Aid, COBOL Store Procedures, VSAM, JCL, NDM.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and executed a system to migrate approximately 5,400 Vista accounts, delivering all positions and cash from the converting accounts and closing them.
• Performed unit, integrated, parallel, and system testing, contributing to system performance tuning, troubleshooting, and Year 2000 Certifications.
• Provided continuous coverage and production support, resolving issues and contributing to Disaster Recovery test.

Technology: COBOL, DYL280, JCL, File-Aid, MVS, NDM.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Redesign and enhancement of existing programs.
• Production support and troubleshooting.
• Created necessary test data to test changes and verify the results.
• Performed analysis, rewrite, parallel testing and successful implementation of numerous batch and on-line programs which utilized VSAM structure and converted them into the Relational Database.

Technology: COBOL II, File-Aid, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, MQ Series, IDMS.