SUMMARY:

• Quality - driven, resourceful Management with IT Mainframe Developer including Business/Systems Analyst over 10+ yrs experience contributing to delivery of client/server solutions upon diverse organizations.
• Broad background spans application development, integration, testing, QA, or Agile/Waterfall methods with production support.
• Technical specialist with extensive business background, skilled at working with corporate leaders to bridge the gap between business objectives and technology capabilities.
• Energized by challenges & readily adapt to new technologies, projects, teams, systems with given tools.
• Proficient at building strong with positive relationships for key clients, organization management & end-users.
• Innovative & creative thinker, consistently able to solve problems that defy resolution by predecessors.
• Extensive work within development teams & performing high-level implementations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Leadership Business Analysis Systems Analysis Application Development Reporting Project Planning / Management SDLC Methodologies Six Sigma Methodologies Architectural Design Infrastructure Development Process Development / Improvements Programming Migration Relationship Building Documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Visual Basic 6.0 Visual C++ Oracle Java COBOL/COBOL II/COBOL III CICS VSAM DB2 OS/JCL REXX EASYTRIEVE PLUS Assembler Microfocus COBOL MS - SQL MS-DOS C/C++ MARKIV FORTRAN PASCAL

Databases: IMS/IDMS RDBMS MS Access

Platforms: Win10/8/7/VISTA/XP/2000/ME/NT/98/95 IBM 360/370/390/zOS Architecture 3090 Mainframe RS6000 AS/400 RPG/400 SQL/400 UNIX

Software: IBM Utilities MS Office Suite MS Project MS Visio MS Visual Studio PeopleSoft PowerBuilder Rational-ClearCase/ClearQuest/ObjectTechnology/RationalRose/UseCase TSO/ISPF MVS/XA UNIX AbendAid Adabas Blu Age Crystal Reports Endevor EZTrieve File-AID Informatica MQSeries Panvalet SyncSort Tesseract Test Director WinRunner Xpediter EDI ERP FTP JES QMF RUMBA SAP SAS SPUFI UML VSE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PA

Software Engineer / Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing SOA Management including design, develop, assemble, testing & integrating VMS software configurations including EDI extractions with UDB support.
• Conducting architectural enhancing specified SDLC method improvements including ERP Implementation.
• Creating architectural design including specified Batch SDLC enhancement(s) while configuring ERP Implementation(s).
• Architectural design, enhancing SOP's & SLA's including Project Management upon individual software configurations.
• Analyzing & managing project validations with development for legacy business solutions, including problem solving capacities with overall VMS & FTP capabilities.

Environment: OS/JCL, COBOL, VSAM, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, z/OS, Assembler, Endevor, File-AID, IMS, SyncSort, MS PowerPoint, MS Project

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performing immediate software changes & release maintenance within CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) upon Common Working File (CWF) systems including software development, testing, and implementation.
• Development of designed documents including code, unit testing, & debugging for new software or enhancements with existing software per SDLC procedures.
• Perform maintenance on existing software applications and contribute knowledge of business applications. Write/maintain programs according to specifications.
• Work with the technical and business staff to understand problems with software & resolution.

Environment: OS/JCL, COBOL/COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, REXX, z/OS, Assembler, Endevor, File-AID, IMS, MQ Series, MS PowerPoint, MS Project

Confidential, Media, PA

Software Engineer / Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed, modified & tested Hardware/Software configurations upon specified businesses & private facilities.
• Designed and implemented Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) applications upon Internal OS including external Clients.
• Created UAT plans including use cases for system validations and modifications.
• Improved key business areas including Six Sigma procedures for enhancing overall experiences.

Environment: OS/JCL, COBOL/COBOL II, VSAM, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, z/OS, AS/400, UNIX, Assembler, Easytrieve Plus, File-AID, SyncSort, MS PowerPoint, MS Project

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Programmer Analyst / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed, modified, configured & tested overall YTD 2011 dataset conversions. Managed and mentored QA upon overall projects including dial-up emulations with testing.
• Developed and deployed VMS production supports, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) with extractions, transforms and loads (ETL) standards.

Environment: OS/JCL, COBOL/COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, ADABAS, File-AID, IMS/IDMS, REXX, SyncSort, UNIX, MS SQL, MS Excel

Confidential, Media, Pennsylvania

Application Developer / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) applications upon Internal OS including external Clients.
• Architectural design, enhancing SOP’s & SLA’s including Project Management upon individual software configurations.
• Analyzing, managing & reporting project validations with development for legacy business solutions, including problem solving capacities with overall VMS & FTP capabilities.

Environment: OS/JCL, COBOL, VSAM, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, Assembler, File-AID/RDX, FTP, JES, QMF, RDBMS, SyncSort, MS Visio

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Application Developer / Senior Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed project validations with development of legacy business solutions for maintaining, enhancing, and creating assembler code structures, including problem solving capacities with VMS & FTP capabilities.
• Architectural design including archive/current dataset creations with program conversions, for allowing acceptance & filling of specified data being given.
• Effectively managed & maintained production support with job documentations for RUP, including conversions/enhancements, backups/exclusions/deletions, system efficiency, with UAT for additional QA.

Environment: OS/JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, REXX, Assembler, File-AID/RDX, Gentran, IMS/IDMS, MQ Series, Oracle, SyncSort, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

Confidential, Media, Pennsylvania

Application Developer / Senior Specialist: Business Analyst / System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Administered, developed, modified, & assembled on-call VMS production support with Team Management including applications configured with COBOL II, Microfocus COBOL, C++, & Visual Basic 6.0 programs for client/server environments.
• Infrastructure support and maintain systems analysis with BPMN, including CSF routines and being followed with SBU releases. Position included on call status when needed.
• Employed BPMN to determine appropriate architectural software to fill gaps in client and user needs.
• Developed and deployed VMS production supports, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and extract, transform and load (ETL) standards.
• Effectively enhanced IMS/IDMS including software configurations, while reviewing & improving SDLC operations for all.

Environment: OS/JCL, VSAM, DB2, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, z/OS, AS/400, UNIX, Assembler, E-Commerce, File-AID, SyncSort, Easytrieve Plus, MS PowerPoint, MS Project

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Senior Computer Systems Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Legacy software engineering environment including Medicare task order team with support for Office of Retirement & Survivors Insurance System (ORSIS) plus implementation with Medicare Modernization Act legislation.
• Analyzing SSA's Debt Management processes, including development with legacy business solutions for problems and/or validating solutions including VMS with FTP dataset reconfigurations.
• Providing reverse engineering activities including management with development for program/ subsystem/system documentations.

Environment: OS/JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, z/OS, AS400, ADABAS/Natural, UNIX, REXX, File-AID/RDX, SyncSort, MQ Series, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, Java

Confidential, Columbus, Georgia

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created/modified COBOL II programs including VSAM/DB2 datasets, and utilized Rational software utilities for creating test plans, scripts and methodologies.
• Turned a highly visible, project behind schedule into an on-time success by working closely with users, vendors and data warehousing team to finalize requirements and develop/test major enhancements when including interfaces.
• Consolidated and standardized multi-location IT operations and network infrastructure, increasing system availability.
• Improved software modifications for testing with reorganization testing phases developing effective processes, procedures & reporting documentations.

Environment: OS/JCL, CICS, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, SAS, z/OS, AS400, ADABAS/Natural, File-AID, MQ Series, CA-JobTrac, RACF, Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest, UAT, MS Excel