Lead Associate Resume Weehawken, New Jersey - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Senior IT professional with 18+ years of demonstrated experience in financial services.
Thorough understanding of quality technical solutions and proven ability to implement the proper balance of people, processes and technologies to improve analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of mainframe applications - with emphasis on wealth management applications.
Strong analytical, problem solving, and programming skills; in addition to exceptional proficiency in leveraging technology to support corporate goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE: IBM z/OS, OS/390, 3090, 308X, 370 Series

SOFTWARE: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2/SQL, IBM MQ Series, BMS, SPUFI, QMF, IBM Utilities, INTERTEST, XPEDITER, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, FILE-AID, STARTOOL, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, DYL-280 VISION, Control-D, SFTP, Microsoft Office

CONCEPTS: SDLC Development, ITIL Certified

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Weehawken, New Jersey

Lead Associate

Responsibilities:

Provided technical leadership for Confidential and all retirement account impacted applications.
Served as SPM for Confidential since 2014.
Led onshore and offshore teams to address and resolve operational core system issues in constantly-changing federal regulations environment.
Performed systems maintenance and enhancement to satisfy business area requests and comply with federal regulatory requirements.
Participated in business analysis, created the functional specifications for Retirement Services delivery team and assisted QA on converting the business rules to test cases.
This internal audit allowed business to examine the reconciliation report prior to client mailings and to troubleshoot any problem accounts.
Coordinated the installation of Qualified Plans Processing (QPP) rollout to Confidential .
The new QPP system was a central information repository and rules database for Qualified Plan account processing.
It replaced localized/non-standard rules that existed in several systems which required retirement-related processing information.
The universal QPP Access Module was designed for on-line, batch, and web-based platforms to be used in multiple disbursement systems such as Journal Automation, GJOW, MFGI, etc.
Oversaw the installation and support of Retirement Plans Annual Regulatory Releases.
Revised applications based on rules issued by the IRS at the end of each year for retirement accounts (annual IRS contribution limits, prior year contribution cut-off dates).
This allowed the firm to stay in compliance with federal regulatory requirements

Confidential, Weehawken, New Jersey

Sr. Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

Participated in the logical design of the new Retirement Plans History database to replace old production package based on VSAM files.
Worked closely with users on analysis and system design.
Major responsibilities also included design of Standard Database Access function modules to be incorporated in several Batch and CICS on-line programs and various VSAM extract files with corresponding data mapping for existing systems.
Achieved real time processing of IRS reportable transactions to accurately report client’s taxable activity for government reporting.
Mapped DB2 tables for data conversion and coded conversion modules to populate database using embedded SQL and Load Utility.
Provided effective troubleshooting and production support in high-pressure environment.
Developed a new 401Source Individual Account system.
As a project analyst created CICS maps for inquiry and update purposes. Participated in the development of a comprehensive reporting subsystem-utilizing DYL280.
Was involved in system parallel testing and troubleshooting.

Confidential, Roseland, New Jersey

Programmer - Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Using QMF and SPUFI queries to analyze a DB2 database.
Coding COBOL II/SQL batch report programs with embedded SQL, QMF, and PLATINUM utilities for control/verification purposes and VSAM extract files with corresponding data mapping for existing systems.
Creating JCL decks to run the batch report programs in testing mode.

Confidential, Somerset, New Jersey

Programmer-Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Participated in development and maintenance of the Revenue Database System, which accumulated account level revenue data to support National Sales by providing improved data for user-generated WEB reports.
Developed batch portion of the system which performed validation of input data, populated DB2 tables and VSAM files and produced the Activity reports, and verified new reports comparing outputs with production data.

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