OBJECTIVE:

• I would like to work in the consulting arena and use my analysis, design and development skills in a project role.

SUMMARY:

• My strengths are in communications, setting and achieving goals, the analysis of requirements and problems and developing solutions that meet the customer’s need in a timely and cost effective manner.
• I have a track record for being able to establish a rapport with users and a personal commitment to the delivery of assigned tasks and the success of the team, as a whole.
• I am an IT Professional with over thirty eight years of experience and a proven track record in developing mainframe applications from analysis and design to delivery and support in every role from developer to project manager. For the last twenty six years I have worked as a consultant providing services to clients in the US and abroad. For the last sixteen years I have worked with and managed teams that include foreign nationals, on - shore and off-shore in the development of software solutions on a number of platforms.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and implementation of IBM mainframe components in support of the Store Project Tool (an in-house developed application for tracking sales and delivery of custom home interior (kitchens and bathrooms) and exterior (roofing, gutters, etc.) projects. These components included extracts to feed weekly reporting and employee compensation as well as interfaces to external service vendors to synchronize employee and location information.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and implementation of enhancements to the existing Confidential ’s Financial Applications; primarily Accounts Payable. Initially in support of the installation of PeopleSoft AP 8.4 and later, in support of the use of PeopleSoft 8.9 for expansion into international markets. The Confidential ’s financial systems are a series of “home-grown” and purchased applications that receive invoice information from a number of manual and automated processes. My role in these changes was to identify the points in the existing batch processes where these invoices could be intercepted and interfaced to PeopleSoft applications.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, development, implementation and support of the Duke FMIS FIA (Financial Management Information Systems File Interface Architecture). The FIA consists of Mainframe programs that use DB2 to validate chartfield and data that is being input to PeopleSoft. The File Interface Architecture provides a controlled method for feeding financial applications information (AP, AR, GL, budget data, etc.) from existing applications to PeopleSoft Financial applications. The source of this data can be files prepared by Mainframe and Workstation applications and from Excel Spreadsheets.
• In addition to the programs and processes that reformat, validate and track application data coming through the FIA, I have developed callable programs and DB2 Stored procedures that may be used by other applications, Mainframe batch and CICS as well as Workstation applications, to validate chartfield information prior to submitting to PeopleSoft.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, development and implementation of multitasking software to run on an MVS/ESA System in the support of IBM Finance Industry products for Check Image processing.
• Responsible for the definition and implementation of “turn-key” customization for required enhancements to IBM banking systems. The locations of these efforts were London, England, Stuttgart, Germany and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and delivery of several new releases of banking software packages under contract for IBM. This effort included involvement with the client in the definition of requirements, development of the proposal (specifications) and management of the design and development of the product up to and including delivery of the product. In several cases, support included installation assistance in client locations in Ecuador, the Philippines, West Germany and in London, England.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided customer and installation planning assistance for the products that Confidential & Confidential developed for IBM.

Confidential

Project Manager - Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and delivery of a banking software package under contract with IBM. This effort included involvement with the client in the definition of requirements, development of the proposal and the management of the design and development of the product up to and including delivery of the product.

Confidential

Manager of Technical Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the direction of all Systems Software implementation and support. Managed the department during a conversion from VS1 to OS/MVS - JES2. Also, responsible for providing technical direction, and advice for other areas within Data Processing.

Confidential

Manager of Deposit Application

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of maintenance and development activities for all Deposit Systems and the management, and development of those personnel who supported these systems.

Confidential

Programming Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the supervision of analysis and programming efforts in the conversion to the WCG DDA package. Also, trained DP Operations staff and project programming staff in the use of VSAM Files and security procedures.

Confidential

Senior Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis, design, coding and testing of ATM Settlement jobstream. Also, responsible for the design and coding of a Debit Card mass issue and the ATM Balance File Load jobstream.

Confidential

Computer Program Designer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the technical support of the Program Management System (PMS), a system that provided an orderly and controlled method for the testing and installation of production programs. Also, developed and implemented computer programs that used SMF data for performance analysis on individual job and system levels. Provided maintenance and support for existing jobs in the SMF jobstream.