Systems Engineer Resume Profile Estates, IL - Hire IT People

Summary of Qualifications

22 years of experience in all areas of the mainframe development cycle. Gathering requirements, creating specifications, coding, testing, implementing, and supporting systems. Have worked on HR and finance applications.Cobol, Assembler, CICS, DB2, VSAM.

Work Experience

Confidential

Finance applications

Provided support and maintenance for the General Ledger system. This was an Assembler/Cobol written system utilizing VSAM files. CICS and batch environments. The batch jobs were demanded by the business partners using a Dialog Manager front end. The Dialog built execute JCL for jobs to be run immediately or for nightly processing. Converted version control of the General Ledger system elements from Changeman to Endevor.
Took responsibility for the maintenance and support of various other finance applications, some with little or no documentation. Made the documentation up-to-date. Maintained very low or zero abend rates for my applications. Was on pager support for the applications.
The finance systems were offshored, brought back in-house, and offshored again.
Implemented application changes and enhancements as requested by the business partners.
Created and executed test plans for finance systems' contingency planning / disaster recovery.
Performed regular upgrades for 10 CICS TEST regions.
Mainframe SPOC for finance group: Tested finance application prior to mainframe upgrades for business continuity.
Ensured that finance applications were SOX and PCI compliant. For SOX compliance: verified with SOX auditors that data access, production JCL, file backups, testing documentation were compliant.
Obsoleted several finance applications that were no longer needed.

Systems Engineer

Licensed business credit card settlement system:

Processing of 1099K IRS tax requirement. Collect relevant sales data from the licensees and determine if a 1099K needs to be generated.
Back-end accounting: Allow licensed business to accept Sears Kmart gift cards.
General ledger system:
Assist onshore and offshore resources to migrate the general ledger system from the mainframe to the Peoplesoft ledger system.
Other:
Conversion of numerous finance systems from Changeman to Endevor version control.
Off shoring:
Worked with offshore teams to transfer development and support responsibilities of finance systems to them.

Systems Engineer

Conversion of input credit data from mainframe Heartland feed to a Sears-written server-based feed.
Other:
Created a DB2 mainframe application for the back-end reporting of damaged / returned inventory, to replace an obsolete Access application.

Systems Engineer

Licensed business credit card settlement system:

Back-end accounting: Change to collect and report fees for third-party credit cards used in licensed business establishments.
Created process to back up and purge old rows from DB2 tables.

Systems Engineer

Licensed business credit card settlement system:
Changed accounting entries to post to the Peoplesoft general ledger system, instead of the old in-house-written general ledger system. Also, feeds to the licensees were changed to originate from the Peoplesoft general ledger.
Purchase Order system:
Updated to feed Peoplesoft for accounting entries.

Systems Engineer

Moved finance system feeds from mainframe SNDM to Sterling FTP.
Gathered information from dozens of application owners to facilitate the conversion of those applications from the in-house-written general ledger system to the Peoplesoft general ledger.
Worked with offshore resources to transfer support responsibilities of the General Ledger and other finance applications from offshore to in-house. Helped develop best practices to insure business continuity of those applications. Created turnover documentation.

Application Operations Specialist

Was a finance system SPOC for the finance systems' development support offshore team.
Provided information about finance systems to internal auditors and D T for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Performed RACF cleanup to maintain compliance.
Assisted in holiday stress testing for the sales tax CICS regions.
Assisted in performing Taxware updates. Ran the disaster recovery test for sales tax.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Learned finance systems - General Ledger, Cash Flow, Travel Expense, Check Printing, Zero Percent Financing, Store Discount Card, Purchase Orders, and Licensed Business Credit Settlement. Cobol/APS Cobol/Assembler/VSAM/DB2 in CICS and batch environments . Assisted in the offshoring of these systems.

Programmer Trainee through Senior Programmer Analyst

10 years involvement in the full development life cycle of the profit sharing and pension systems, including the outsourcing of the systems. Cloning of the Sears profit sharing system to create an Allstate profit sharing system after the companies split. Assembler VSAM in CICS and batch environments .

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