SUMMARY

• Senior Developer and Business Analyst who leverages my technical and financial expertise to develop, implement and maintain data processing solutions that are efficient and TEMPeffective solutions for keyed business objectives.
• Programmer with a broad background in Information Technology in various roles and; expertise in solo, team as well as department - wide initiatives.
• Extensive collaboration with team members, business units, business partners and/or external vendors.Strong knowledge of teh Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies, proficient in industry standards and emerging software practices.

Core Competencies

• Extensive experience with all aspects of in-house developed systems.
• Deep understanding of retail, Banking and Payroll application systems.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Adept in time and task management.
• Provide innovative solutions by thinking outside teh box.
• Go a step beyond to assure project completion.
• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.
• Equally productive on solo projects or as part of a team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Flexible when faced with changing priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Products: MVS/ESA, VS Cobol II, IBM MQ Series, SQL, JCL/Proc, Easytrieve, CICS, Control-M, CA7, TSO/ISPF, IBM Utilities, DB2, IMS, Access, Microsoft Word, MS Visio, Stored Procedures, Microsoft Excel, MFT(Managed File Transfer) Systems OS/390, MVS, Windows, MS/DOS, SQL Server Hardware IBM Mainframe S390, SQL Server Databases DB2, Datacom, Oracle, SQL Server Languages Cobol, CICS, JCL, SQL System Tools / Technologies VSAM, ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File AID, QMF, Intertest, Endeavor, ISPW, Xpeditor, BMC, Platinum tool for DB2, Batch/Online debug, Agile/Waterfall, SDLC /GitHub /Service Now.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Quality(QA)

Responsibilities:

• Research and conduct mapping process activities to simplify and align mainframe jobs, procedures and applications to teh new modernized systems.
• Modify and update large-scale mainframe jobs, procedures and applications in modernization process to prepare them for several upcoming mock runs.
• Maintained and enhanced existing complex system, including on-line and batch programs using COBOL, CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2 and distributed systems / web services.
• Manage projects, write programs, and update JCL using mainframe COBOL / IMS / SQL / CICS / FILE MANAGER / EZTRIEVE/Code 1
• Develop and write programs to convert files to be used in conversion jobs/applications.
• Perform mock runs of new and improved systems including executing jobs and monitoring results for issues and error reporting.
• Experience in coding mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM
• Enhance and convert existing system, including on-line and batch programs using COBOL, CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2, FILE MANAGER and EZTRIEVE
• Perform root cause analysis of defects and provide solutions to prevent repeat occurrence.
• Participate in team meetings to discuss project direction and resolve issues.
• Responsible for changing JCL and Procs.
• Improved program performance by completing testing, bug fixes and adding functionality.
• Quality (QA), checking changes made by junior Analyst before moving changes to Production.
• Assisted QA team, performing functional testing, ensuring test results met defined acceptance and business objectives.
• Engaged in customer satisfaction activities, managing and advising support resources on client reported issues requiring data analyses and / or client-specific configuration / workflow root cause analyses.
• Supported QA testing by providing documentation, program testing results, system flows and setup testing data in accordance with project requirements

Confidential - Johns Creek, GA

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with teh Business Analysts and users in understanding business specifications and transforming them into technical solutions.
• Provided support during system testing and user stress testing.
• Developed new programs, maintained and provided support using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Datacom and CICS, Control-M, Jira, IBM Utilities, JCL, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, and Intertest.
• Following corporate and regulatory policy standards, Implemented programs into production; using Endeavor and ISPW, ensuring versioning of code, staying in compliance with corporate and regulatory
• Devise impact analysis for requirements changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Prepared Technical Specifications based on teh existing functionality and requirements.
• Conducted JAD (Joint Application Development) to review business documents with teams of business end users, application developers and technical analysts.
• Prepared test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Provided support during system testing and user stress testing. Conducted functional design document reviews, unit test case reviews, system test case reviews, and provided feedback.
• Reviewed test results to validate that they were according to plan.
• Performed Peer reviews and logged any issues and track them until they were closed.
• Prepared turnover elements check lists to make teh turnover process seamless.
• Reported status and was responsible for teh final project delivery
• Set up processes to be followed by Offshore while supplying them with transfer information.
• Knowledge Transfer to teh offshore team with business functionality