SUMMARY

• Information technology professional with over 14 years of extensive computer programming experience with emphasis in the development and maintaining of banking, brokerage and financial applications,
• Analytical problem solver with an ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies.
• Perfect communication skills. Experienced in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle including analysis, coding, testing, debugging, implementation and production support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MVS /Z/OS, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA, COBOL, COBOLII, COBOL LE, Micro Focus COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, DB2 Stored Procedures, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Confidential - UTILITIES, FILE-AID, CHANGEMAN, CEDF, INTERTEST, EXPEDITER, SAS, SYNCSORT, BMS, SDLC, EASYTRIEVE, ENDEVOR, SDSF, FTP, MQ Series, VISIO, MS OFFICE, JIRA, BTMS, AS400

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, JERSEY CITY, NJ

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coding and installation of new COBOL II/CICS/DB2 programs.
• Unit and system testing of new and modified programs under upgraded test system environment for the latest release.
• Analysis and testing support of the existing systems with identifying the causes of on-line transaction abends, providing programmatic changes to prevent errors and improve efficiency.
• Interface with management and clients to gather business requirements and to develop and modify project documentation, flowcharts and technical specifications.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in new development and enhancements of the Corporate and Revenue System. Responsibilities include:
• Development, testing and installation into production COBOL II/CICS/DB2 modules for new batch and online systems.
• Production support coverage, research and resolution of the productions issues.
• Modification of various COBOL II/DB2/CICS applications to enhance functionality of the existing systems and to streamline production processing.
• Research and analysis of the existing process data flows, logical and functional design of testing procedures and data selection methodology

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in new development and installation of the Select Portfolios Performance System, major redesign of Open Period Performance Calculation and Inventory processing, maintenance and production support coverage of the existing batch and online processes. Responsibilities included:
• Development, testing and implementation into production environment new COBOL II/DB2 modules and DB2 Stored procedures for new Select Portfolios Inventory data.
• Heavy user interface including immediate response for validation of the production data and creating various verification and exceptional reports for business users using EASYTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, SAS, SQL, SPUFI and QMF.
• Design and implementation of new processes by utilizing rate transmission between different financial institutions in real-time MQ interface.
• Set up and execution integration test scripts with different business and technology groups to improve processing efficiencies and minimize potential risk that may impact the assigned projects.
• Establish cross- mapping for each attributes of the defined entities for existing Open Period Performance Calculation DB2 tables and new Select Portfolio files.
• Create required development and production documentation for different project types using System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Research and troubleshooting of the production problem, eliminate redundant procedures, reduce development cost, maintenance and production support coverage of the existing batch processes.
• Provide technical expertise and consistently deliver key initiatives to business users. Create systems technical specifications and flowcharts.

Confidential, NEW YORK, NY

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in development and maintenance of the Graduate Performance Assessment Ranking System and Financial Planning System. Responsibilities included:
• Development new COBOL II/DB2 update, select and report programs for GPA and FPL systems that accumulate and report all necessary information for financial planning area based on performance of individual financial advisors.
• Maintenance and production support of batch and on-line COBOL II /CICS programs to enhance functionality of existing Automated Trade Adjustment System.
• Participation in Year - 2000 conversion project for existing program complex.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in development of the UIT Rollover Trade Correction System and Reserve Share Compliance Subsystem. Responsibilities included:
• Coding, testing and implementation COBOL II/DB2 and COBOL II/CICS inquiry and update programs for Reserve Share 'Account Number Change' and "Account number Split' Correction facilities required for all initial public offering distribution of equity new issues.
• Design and testing new compliance reporting CICS screens using BMS that provide capability to capture correction criteria for particular account.
• Modification of existing applications to merge new Reserve Share automated process with Correction Compliance System