SUMMARY

Highly successful IT professional with a broad analytical, technical and managerial background in the IT industry. Industry experience includes: Insurance, Banking, Consulting, Manufacturing, Engineering and Telecommunications. Application experience includes: Insurance Billing, Credit Risk Management, Data Warehousing, Information Security, Plant Logistics, Finance, Manufactured Product Tracking and Order Entry. Extensive experience in all phases of the project development life - cycle including: project planning, process improvement techniques, software package evaluation, system design, coding, defect tracking, change control, issue management and SSP. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and effective at dealing with managerial and technical personnel at all levels.

Hands-on experience in the design, development and management of large-scale development projects on Client Server, Mainframe and Distributed platforms. My strengths are my leadership and analytical skills, along with my solid understanding of both project management and CMM process methodologies. A team player with excellent verbal and written communications skills, very strong interpersonal skills and effective at interacting with the user community, management and technical personnel at all levels. A solid technical background and worked with both hierarchical and relational databases. Experience with performing AIX system administration.

TECHNICAL SKILLSMethodologies:  Software Development - SSP Process Six Sigma and CMM.

Databases : Oracle 11G, TERADATA, DB2, IMS DLI and VSAM

Languages : PL/SQL, COBOL II, CICS, C, IMS/DC, OS/JCL, Basic, SQL, PLI, SAS, UNIX Script and VB

Software & Tools: Toad for Oracle, Mercury Quality Center (Test Director), MQ Series, Actuate Web eReport, INFORMATICA, TERADATA, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Lotus notes, VISIO, TSO/ISPF, CA7, ZEKE, XPEDITOR, File-Aid, SAS, EASYTRIEVE, ENDEVOR and CHANGEMAN

Operating Systems: UNIX, OS/MVS, MS Windows 95/98/2000/NT

Protocols: IBM TCPIP sockets communication protocol, BARRONET and FTP

Hardware: IBM Mainframes, IBM RISC6000, IBM Series 1 Minicomputers, IBM PCs/Compatibles.PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

PROGRAMMER ANALTYS 

Confidential, Norfolk VA

Duties included:

• Develop CMMI documentation in support of the COST financial application.
• Perform software integration testing responsibilities for the COST application in support of the NAVSEA-SLE project.
• Convert the COST COBOL-PACBASE code to Oracle PL/SQL procedures and scripts for COBOL replacement batch re-engineering project.
• Generate the technical business requirements/analysis documentation for the MAT batch reengineering project.
• Convert the COBOL-PACBASE code to Oracle PL/SQL procedures and scripts for COBOL replacement.
• Developed the technical business requirement documents for the following MAT programs:
• COST-2-MAT Job Order Validation interface
• MS135 - Material Management daily History update program
• MS450- Calculate Material replenishment and update
• Converted several COBOL-PACBASE programs to PL/SQL in support of the batch reengineering project.
• Created the SRS/RTM and RVM CMMI documentation.
• Modified several PACBASE online Screens in support of the SLE project.

Information Systems Specialist 

Confidential, Richmond VA

Duties included:

• Lead the technical business requirements analysis for the Automated Standard Application for Payments System (ASAP) mainframe migration project. The IMS/DC Online and Batch mainframe system is to be re-engineered to operate in a distributed midrange environment.
• Provided the technical requirements analysis for ASAP large scale application migration project, and worked as liaison between application development and customer relationship department.
• Analyzed the IMS/DC online screens, programs and DB2 database model in order to acquire needed knowledge for achieving data analysis.
• Developed the technical requirements for the following ASAP-FBR support online processing: Update application Mode, Update Application Status, Update Application cutoff times, Maintenance of input end-points, Maintenance of output endpoints, ACH Cycle inquiry prompt, and Catalog of federal domestic assistance code.
• Developed the technical requirements for the following ASAP-FRB batch interfaces: Automated Clearinghouse - ACH, CA$HLINK, FEDWIRE and Integrated Accounting System - IAS.
• Developed the technical requirements for the following ASAP-FRB batch database update processes: Batch Account/Authorization Pre-edit, Batch Account Edit/Update, Batch Authorization Edit/Update, Batch Suspend Account, Monthly/Quarterly authorization renewals for 1031 accounts, Initiate payment requests from a schedule, Restore Rejected Payments, Process Warehoused authorizations and Payments and Receive and Log Account/Authorizations file.
• Software skills required for this ASAP current state analysis: COBOL/IMS DC, MVS COBOL II, ACH NACHA rules, FEDWIRE Interface Rules, MVS utilities, DB2 database utilities, and knowledge of JAVA.

Sub-Contract Programmer (DP Professionals)

Confidential, Columbia SC

Duties included:

• Resolve issues related to Health-Net data migration to BCBS financial DB2 databases.
• Design development/reviews, code walk-through, test plan development, test plan execution and implementation of the software development.
• 24 X 7 on call support for daily financial billing system.
• Developed the Outstanding Balances Delinquency (APS) report.

SR. ANLY APPS PROGRAMMING

Confidential ,Charlotte NC

Duties included:

• Identification and documentation of customer requirements.
• Presentation of proposal to customer.
• Programming estimates/ scope definition.
• Design development/reviews, code walk-through, test plan development, test plan execution and implementation of the conversion software.
• Version control of software releases.
• Issue resolution with the client.
• 24X7 on call support for the real-time IBM mainframe WEBSPHERE and batch COBOL OCE RISK Management system.Accomplishments include:
• Lead the OCE DB2 to TERADATA WAREHOUSE conversion project. Developed TERADATA BTEQ extracts to create input batch processing files.
• Developed OCE DB2 WEB based Actuate reports.
• Developed OCE credit exposure calculation and exception generation for commercial and small businesses account monitoring. Created COBOL DB2 batch programs process external load data to calculate any credit exposure by the Bank’s commercial small business customers.
• Lead developer for OCE Interface to California DDA account system. Created COBOL batch programs to load the OCE DB2 databases using the OCE standard interface.
• Rewrite of OARS CICS DB2 information security RACF and Top Secret online CICS USERID maintenance system.
• Lead the development for the PIMS interface to SHAW commercial loan DB2 DATAMART.
• Received bonuses for my performance.
• 24 X 7 on call support for the Risk Management systems.

Sub-Contract Programmer 

Confidential, Charlotte NC

 Duties in this role included:

• Supported the Y2K conversion for the PLI batch programs for the Catawba financial billing reporting system.
• 24 X 7 on call support for weekly and monthly MVS batch financial billing and reporting system.

Staff Programmer

Confidential ,Charlotte NC

 Duties in this role included:

• Lead application development programmer for COPICS Inventory Control, WIP tracking, and Routing modules.
• Managed several contractor development programmers.
• System administrator for AIX MINI stacker warehouse control system.
• 24 X 7 on call support for the AIX MINI stacker warehouse control system.
• 24 X 7 on call support for real-time CICS and batch COPICS IBM mainframe plant logistics system.
• Led the requirements, design and programming of an in-house developed Online Routing system. This CICS module worked in the COPICS environment to supply design specifications to the engineering group.
• Successful implementation of the COPICS to MINI stacker warehouse control system. Developed COPICS TCPIP sockets interface from CICS to AIX(COBOL and C).
• Successful implementation of the SAP to COPICS MRP interface.
• Successful implementation of the COPICS plant logistic system. COPICS is a real-time manufacturing logistic system which accomplished Material requirement planning, Inventory control and Shipping.
• Successful implementation of the SAP to COPICS MRP interface.
• Received several formal and informal awards.