SUMMARY:

• IT professional (Programmer / Analyst / Consultant / Educator / Administrator) with experience in a wide variety of environments serving in technical, leadership, and management capacities, including Capability Maturity Model (CMM) practices, LDAP maintenance and processing, Anti Money Laundering (AML) initiatives, Securities and Exchange Commission Books and Records (SECBaR), Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), Consumer Privacy (Gramm/Leach/Bliley - GLB), Sarbanes/Oxley (SOX) compliance, Address Standardization, and National Change Of Address (NCOA).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: COBOL, CICS, Assembler (BAL), DB2/SQL/Triggers/Stored Procedures, VSAM, z/OS JCL/Utilities, MQ Interface, TSO, CYBERFUSION, CHANGEMAN, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, ABEND AID, FILE AID, Vendor Products: Platinum (DB2), FINALIST (Address), MM2010 (National Change Of Address)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Paramus NJ

Assistant to the General Manager (Management Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• When the need arose to care for an elderly family member who was suffering from (and eventually succumbed to) Alzheimer's Disease, I realized that I would not be able to devote the necessary time and attention required for a responsible IT position, and accepted a more flexible position as a management consultant.
• Applying experience gained from Joint Application Development effortsworked with individual group managers in an effort to efficiently coordinate activity between various departments,and served as an advisor on internal IT matters.
• Maintained and enhanced Mainframe skills by attending classes and seminars facilitated by presenters such as
• IBM and Themis, as well as participating in Mainframe discussion groups.
• Independent Project Develop and design a detailed project plan, project timeline estimates, DB2 table redefinitions, system specifications, COBOL program re-design specifications, z/OS JCL/PROC re-design specifications, and cost saving projections related to a current system in Production at a former client site, for presentation as a cost reduction proposal, with the intention of saving approximately $140,000 (annual) in CPU, DB2, and DASD costs.

Confidential, Bloomfield, NJ

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of a customized record keeping system for a sole-proprietor real estate enterprise, based on Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project applications.
• Created XML files for transfer to third party printing agency.

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Project Leader / Senior Analyst / Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation, with special emphasis on compliance with government regulation.
• Client Information Source (CIS): Senior lead member of a team responsible for maintaining Prudential’s central repository for client information including “sensitive” data (such as Name, Date Of Birth, SSN, etc)as well as information related to associated Prudential and Third party products in client portfolios.
• Worked closely with Customer Service to resolve client portfolio issues.
• Security and Exchange Commission Books and Records (SECBaR): In compliance with SEC regulationscreate and maintain a system to store and track client and account profile data.
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML): Develop and maintain a system to identify possible instances of illegal money laundering.
• External Business Partner Project Coordination: WCoordinated and worked closely with ouside business partners (such Bank Of New York (BNY) Mellon, Hartford, American Skandia, Liberty Mutual) on joint projects.
• Client LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol): Develop and maintain an LDAP interface used in conjunction with Prudential's internet client portal related to client Single-Signon (SSO) IDs.
• Capability Maturity Model Implementation (CMM): Key member of a team created to implement CMM practices, and initially achieve CMM Level 3 (Defined) status, while working towards Level 4 (Managed).
• MQ Messaging Interface: Develop and maintain mainframe/server data processing via MQ Messaging.
• COBOL modules in a CICS environment were constructed to be triggered by the queue manager.
• The data in the associated messages would be processed, with results formatted and returned to the queue manager as subsequent messages.
• Consumer Privacy (GLB): In compliance with State and Federal regulations, develop a system to maintain client privacy (Do Not Call, Do Not Mail, Do Not eMail) ps using data from various sources
• (Federal (FTC) and State feeds, Direct Marketing Association lists, as well as actual Prudential client requests).
• Data Privacy: Developed a process designed to identify and eliminate the presence of sensitive "Production" data in "non-Production" environments.
• Processing Cost Reduction: Identified and restructured inefficient programs and proceduresreducing department CPU costs by over $250,000 annually (recurring savings).
• Address Integrity: Utilizing (US Postal Service approved) vendor software, developed and maintained systems designed to insure all address data meet USPS standards.
• National Change Of Address (NCOA): Utilizing (US Postal Service approved) vendor softwaredeveloped and maintained a system which checked all client addresses against the USPS National Change Of Address (NCOA) database, and take action necessary to update the client address data on the company's central client address database tables
• Third Party Data Management: Develop and maintain systems to accept and process data from outside (Non-Prudential) sources (such as third-party business partners, and government entities).
• Assets Under Management (AUM): Develop a sub-system to track product purchasing trends of clients dealing with Confidential planners.
• Asset and Benefit Account Summary: Design, code and implement a system to provide clients with an annual consolidated view of their Prudential accounts.

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Third Party Check Verification: Reporting directly to the corporation controller, lead a team to develop a sub-system (utilizing MQ interface) to monitor, evaluate and report the results of a third party vendor’s point of sale check verification system.
• Utility Bill Accrual and A/P Interface: In an effort to reduce manual clerical activity, developed a system to automate utility bill accrual and to feed the resulting data directly into the client’s General Leger system.
• Warehouse/Shipping Tracking: Designed, developed, and implemented an on-line inquiry system for warehouse inventory and shipping data.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Development of a sub-system to identify (and automatically place into review) certain suspicious dealer warranty claims based upon certain pre-determined corporate guidelines.
• In an attempt to ease overnight batch processing, developed a system to process warranty claims transmitted from the dealers in a real-time on-line environment.
• Modify programs in various sub-systems in order to accommodate the conversion of several IMS databases to DB2.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full project life cycle for an advertising project tracking system which provided information on advertising projects from inception to completion for management planning and financial reporting purposes by maintaining data on budgets, vendor estimates, and actual expenditures in an attempt to provide a view of total financial exposure.ABC TV Commercial Scheduling: Responsible for coordinating the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of joint project between SONY and ABC Television. The application involved transmitting data entered in a CICS environment to a PC-based VCR tape library management system for the purpose of automating the scheduling of commercial messages on ABC Television across various broadcast markets.
• During a period of de-centralization, was responsible for converting corporate Salesforce, Pricing/Promotion, and Sales Order Data (from VSAM and IMS to DB2) for use in new systems developed for SONY's Business and Professional Products division. Also responsible for developing maintenance programs and procedures to apply updates from the new system to corporate VSAM and IMS data in order to maintain the integrity of both systems during a period of parallel processing.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Senior Consultant / Interviewer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded and implemented several programs integral to the Order Administration system, resulting in a more versatile order entry system, which included “smart” logic to identify duplicate item entries, and allow for flexible order editing.
• Performed extensive enhancements to the client’s Credit Control system, linking the Order Administration and Credit Control system more closely to give the client a more accurate view of the status of pending orders as well as more control over orders on credit review.

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Project Leader / Senior Programmer / Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Leader and technical advisor during full project development life cycle for a sophisticated warehouse
• Stock Locator / Material Management system from conception through production installation.
• Responsible for the creation of a new Materials Resource Planning (MRP) system.
• Supervised additional programmers during planning, coding, unit testing, and system integration test phases.
• Represented Order Management, Warehouse Management, and MRP system groups on the corporate MIS disaster recovery team.
• Responsible for interviewing and screening programmer / analyst applicants.

Confidential

Project Leader / Lead Analyst / Lead Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to direct General Foods IT staff (3 employes) in replacing “soon to be obsolete” IBM 51xx system with
• IBM System 36, and to convert existing systems (including “in house” payroll and check writing system) from BASIC to RPGII.
• Coding was developed in USA, and then implemented and tested in Celeya (GTO) Mexico.

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Department Chairman / Programmer / Instructor (Programming)

Responsibilities:

• Department chairman (Programming), supervising a staff of day and evening programming instructors (6 total).
• Scheduled classes, designed curriculum and examinations for courses in Introduction to Data Processing, Program Logic Design, BAL, BASIC, OS and DOS JCL and Utilities, COBOL, CICS, VM/CMS, and EXEC writing.
• Designed various on-line applications to aid instructors in tracking student grades and attendance history.
• Remained as night instructor from March 1987 through July 1988 while employed days at Hartz Mountain.

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Department Chairman / Programmer / Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Department chairman (Programming), supervising a staff of day and evening programming instructors (4 total).
• Scheduled classes, designed curriculum and examinations for courses in BASIC, COBOL (batch / on-line)RPGII (batch / online), OCL, and Utilities on IBM SYSTEM 34 and SYSTEM 36.
• Designed an on-line “Lead Tracking” system for the Admission department.

Confidential, Bloomfield, NJ

Computer Operator / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Served as part of a programming team responsible for designing, coding, and implementing new
• “in house” systems for Order Entry, Sales Tracking, Accounts Payable Check Writing, and Inventory Control.

Confidential, Bloomfield, NJ

Computer Operator / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• In charge of all operations work for an Assembler (BAL) based data processing services company.
• Maintained, enhanced, designed, developed, and coded programs as needed.