SUMMARY:

• Dynamic technical expertise with a stellar track record
• 15+ years of channeling innovation and successInventive information technology professional with proven expertise in mainframe development, requirement, and analysis.
• Solid aptitude for generating company - wide success and cross-team collaboration through effective people skills.
• Extensive knowledge of project management, programing problems resolution, application development, and business analysis.
• Skilled at client service applications, functional specifications translation, and software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Project Management / Distributed Systems / Systems Analysis / Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution
• Data Management / User Training and Support

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Software: Primavera, Microsoft Office Products, VSAM, Xpediter, FileAid, Abendaid, MQ

Programming Languages: COBOL, IMS DB/DC, SQL, DB2, QMF, ISPF/TSO, JCL, Assembler

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Mesa, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Hold accountability for the production of estimates, test plan, and test cases based on BRD and participation from developers.
• Determine the projects that were eligible to move to the production phase.
• Adeptly conduct test cases in QA environment and derive pass or fail outcomes.
• Effectively liaise with Business Analysts and developers to ascertain specific testing needs and their validity.

Sr. Systems Engineer/ Programmer

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded and executed complex configuration management and a plethora of batch job scheduling activities within the mainframe, as well as, other systems
• Played a critical role in JAD sessions with Sr. Business Analyst and Developer to gather information on technical issues.
• Proficiently utilized COBOL IMS DB/DC to perform chief rewrite of mainframe system in order to track maintenance and engineering of aircraft.
• Expertly wrote technical specifications, which helped to determine clients’ technical requirements.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Effectively reviewed and approved analysis of incidents and modifications originating from off shore teams.
• Ensured that documentation and verification were up-to-date, through continuous revision.
• Efficiently prepared GAP analysis for seven projects.
• Continuously tested cases for UAT in order to ensure that all business requirements were met.

Mainframe Systems Analyst/ Data Analyst

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Technical Scope: BA, SDA, DB2, QMF, COBOL, SQL, DB2, MFS, JCL, Endeavor, CA7

Responsibilities:

• Effectively automated manual processes using QMF and COBOL programs for reporting to federal agencies.
• Provided extensive monitoring of the progress of multiple projects, which ensured that SDLC milestones and all code/test reviews were conducted on time and approved.
• Developed test transactions to identify, isolate, and drive solutions for various issues encountered during development stages and among software applications.
• Provided critical support for dealer orders and build scheduling for a major domestic automobile manufacturer.
• Proficiently used GAP analysis to successfully conduct product testing and established processes to determine how to extract and populate application data via SQL, QMF and other DB2 tools.
• Efficiently provided support to a team of two Data Technicians.
• Supported System Design Architects by coding changes to COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, QMF and MFS programs to test proposed changes for performance and stress testing.

Senior Technical Analyst

Confidential, Collierville, TN

Technical Scope: JAD, COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2, Endeavor, XML Schemas, MQ, IMS, MPP, ASN.1Orchestrated requirements for customers’ system and worked with downstream systems, through JAD sessions.

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership to application development team and directed the development of technical requirements from offshore teams.
• Spearheaded the Code Diving project that documented every CHEERS program by Visio diagrams and Word documents.
• Nominated and inducted into the FedEx IT Hall of Fame for outstanding work in 2004.
• Coordinated with mainframe and over 35 different work groups to expand segment on IMS database.
• Instrumental in enabling the capacity to store five additional credit cards, on IMS database, which entailed the development of business requirements, system requirements, and technical specifications.
• Significantly contributed to reduction of transaction time by 33%, through Revenue Desktop implementation.

Systems Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Technical Scope: IDMS, IMS, COBOL, MQ, VS COBOL, COBOL II, JCL

Responsibilities:

• Converted several IDMS databases from IDMS to IMS when FedEx purchased Flying Tigers after 18 months of negotiations.
• Directed a successful project in 2000, which entailed reporting project timeline, updates, and status to the client’s Project Manager and oversaw 12 contractors.
• Streamlined customer experiences, which increased efficiency and quality of service, as part of the Online Account Registration team project.
• Lent support to project that reengineered customers’ system from mainframe to client/server platform and developed real time transaction updates via MQ.
• Innovatively designed and implemented a process, which extracted revenue data from the DB2 database for processing and information updating to the IMS customer database.
• Expertly converted VS COBOL programs to COBOL II and JCL modifications, which entailed the development of complex specifications for year 2000 conversions.