SUMMARY:

• Over twenty years of IT experience in the Brokerage, Banking and Healthcare Industries: Project Leadership, SDLC Process Methodology, Systems Analysis and Design, DB2 Performance Tuning, Systems Re - engineering, System Documentation, Change Management Documentation, System Flows, Programming, Test Script preparation, Unit/Systems testing, End-to-End testing, Pilot testing, UAT coordination, business client and end-user interface, client walk through and system reviews. Self-motivated, fast learner adapts quickly to new hardware and software environments, able to work independently or with project teams, excellent communication skills, very organized and analytical, strong commitment to quality

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Z/OS
• SQL
• OS/MVS
• MVS/ESA
• CICS (COMMAND LEVEL)
• COBOL
• COBOL-2
• ADABASE
• DB2
• IMS
• TSO/ISPF
• OS/JCL
• VSAM
• PANVALET
• MQ Series
• XML
• LIBRARIAN
• ENDEAVOR
• TESTCOB
• VOLLIE
• OS/UTILITIES
• INTERTEST
• CEDF
• CECI
• TMON
• AADF
• OMEGAMON
• DB2 Stored Procedures
• MQ Series
• Microsoft SharePoint
• MS Office
• Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

System Application Architect/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead to coordinate activities of fifteen person team, geographically dispersed domestically and offshore to deliver business enhancements to applications. Teams consisted of business leads, designers, developers, testers, and production support.
• Responsible for applications. providing and writing the technical solutions based on the requirements in the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) for the Core Eligibility, DOD and POLAR applications which leveraged the capabilities of DB2, XML and MQ Series. In my role, I was responsible for working with the FRD writer to provide a Technical Solution and documents for enhancements and new requirements to the current Eligibility, DOD and POLAR
• The Eligibility application is used to collect and maintain Eligibility information provided by Clients to identify the membership base for claims processing purposes. The Eligibility area also is also responsible for ensuring Patient Profile Transfers, Prior Authorization, Open Refills and External Claims are loaded successfully into the various Medco data repositories.
• The Eligibility application is used to process Eligibility information provided specifically for the DOD Client to identify the membership base for claims processing purposes. The Eligibility area also is also responsible for ensuring Patient Profile Transfers, Prior Authorization, Open Refills and External Claims are loaded successfully into the various Medco data repositories.
• POLAR:
• A state-of-the-art system and operational capability that supports the business with the following:
• A real-time person-centric view of the following individual's data:
• Demographic Information
• Geographic Information
• Medical Conditions and Drug Allergies
• Preferences
• E-Mail Addresses
• Mandatory Communication Tracking
• HIPAA Privacy Consent and Authorizations
• The single and authoritative source of an individual's data across the enterprise
• Individuals can be rolled up into a membership or family unit
• The real-time assignment of a unique AGN (artificially generated number)
• Greater depth and breadth of high quality and accurate information
• Populates Information Warehouse for decision support analyses and reporting
• Improved operational efficiencies
• Eliminates duplicate data sources
• Responsible for implementing 16 major enhancements to the DOD to allow for processing a member's claim information. DOD provides the capability to allow a member enrolled in the Depart of Defense system to have their claims adjudicated through an online process which utilized DB2 and MQ. All transactions occurred in real time. The portal also provided for allowing members to browse their history online through a GUI front end. The online process leveraged checking a member's information to see if OHI information was available in which claims should be adjudicated in lieu of using the member's enrollment information through the DOD application.
• Responsible for major enhancements to the Polar application for providing the capability of viewing Household information either collectively or through each qualified Brand ID. This revision enabled the application to be able to drill down within the Household and only see a particular member’s information for a given Brand ID as opposed to being able to see across all Brand IDs if they were different within the Household.
• Responsible for enhancing the Trigger process which allowed the Eligibility application the capability of adjusting a member’s Health information in the event that additional Health coverage has been added or removed for a given member.
• Responsible for creating an automated Database Purge and Archive process which provided the Eligibility application the capability to run scheduled purges against the most heavily populated tables to shave off and archive important information for optimal performance across the database.
• Responsible for the enhancement to the electronic scripts file creation and load process which allowed pharmacies the ability to fill prescriptions electronically using the patient’s latest information.

Confidential,New York, N.Y.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• esponsible for the maintenance and enhancements for the Cactus Money Movement Application utilizing CICS/DB2.
• Responsible for the maintenance and enhancements of a Compliance Application utilizing CICS/DB2.
• Provided major enhancements to the confirmation application to enhance the reporting of Firm Capacity on the customer confirmation.
• Developed new data entry, data verification and update transactions for a real-time environment that permitted standing instructions of confirmation legends.
• Additional responsibilities include providing ad-hoc reporting for SEC requests.

Confidential, New York, N.Y.

Team Lead for the Development Team Company IT

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a team of 12 people maintaining and enhancing the anti-money laundering application. This application performs surveillance for suspicious trade activity across the different business units within Morgan Stanley.
• Responsible for application design of AML Re-architecture and overall design for the existing application.
• Responsible for design and code reviews and enforcing standards within the AML application.
• Lead designer and developer responsible for creating a common data access layer for Web and mainframe applications. Techniques involved modularized code callable via both remote DB2 Stored Procedures calls and direct mainframe calls.
• Responsible for data access for enterprise data used by 20+ applications. Data included customer/account, position/balance, security master, Patriot Act and house holding data.
• Established standards for DB2 Stored Procedure development. These standards were reviewed by IBM for best practices and adopted widely among the application development groups.
• Worked closely with Application teams on functionality, design, and performance tuning of APIs.
• Developed web site utilizing the Microsoft SharePoint software product to publish organization reference material.
• Collected business requirements from user groups and wrote program specifications for development staff for data retrieval and update.
• Responsible for optimal performance of the DB2 Stored Procedures used by the application groups. Worked closely with the DBA Support Group.
• Utilized MQ Series with CICS transaction processing for system monitoring processes
• Provided production support.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing systems testing for JAVA based Instant Messaging Application through a Graphic User Interface and provides documented results back to the development team with all defects and changes clearly specified.
• Provided design recommendations to developers for improvements to the flow and performance of the system.
• Responsible for review of business/system requirements to determine functionality needed, Identify test conditions to be utilized, Prepare test scripts, Prepare test cases, Execute unit testing of various development modules, Executes system testing of related modules, Complete systems integration testing, Provide testing signoff as appropriate.

Confidential, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Independent Contractor

• Responsible for the maintenance and enhancements of a Letter of Credit application which allows for the buying and selling of goods purchased with credit based on the customers standing within the bank.
• Supported Letter of Credit online application using CICS command level COBOL / COBOL II accessing an IMS database.
• Implemented enhancements to all phases of the Letter of Credit application from the Initial Issuance process through Release Execution.
• Additional responsibilities included programming for the Customer Account Number Conversion from the Chase Banking system to the Chemical Banking system as part of the corporate merger.

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Independent Contractor

• Responsible for the maintenance and enhancements of Margins, Options, Clearing, Derivatives and Banking applications using CICS command level with Cobol/Cobol2, VSAM and DB2.
• Responsible for numerous enhancements as part of a major conversion process.
• Supported a real time banking application using distributed transaction processing.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded and implemented an on-line payroll application utilizing CICS command level with VSAM.
• Developed new data entry, data verification and update transactions for a real-time environment that tracked employee time usage and project activity.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis and development of major on-line enhancements and modifications to a real-time Image Processing application that tracks the back office movement of Securities. This application receives securities from branch offices and scans them to match the front and back of each certificate.
• Implemented enhancements that greatly reduced the number of manual entries needed to verify certificates.
• Responsible for producing a permanent image of each certificate, along with all supporting documents, onto optical disks for on-line retrieval purposes. All work was done using CICS command level.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Developed a new on-line facility that utilized the distributed transaction processing capability of CICS for the CMA Authorization system. This facility allowed other business application areas of the firm to process authorization requests through the CMA (Cash Management) application.
• Implemented numerous enhancements to the real time online system that improved processing for authorization of VISA transactions, ATM transactions, and Check Book Accounts and Branch Office transactions for CMA customers.
• Programmed improvements for transactions that provided account status editing and fund availability information.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Leader, developed a Bond Fund Retail Trading sub-system utilizing CICS and VSAM. Duties included analysis, design, coding, systems testing through implementation.
• Responsible for major on-line enhancements and modifications for a real-time Bond Fund Trading system, which included development of interfaces to an Order Processing system to obtain current order processing information for use by the Bond Fund applications.
• Supported development for a major Store and Forward component of the Bond Fund Trading System. Implemented key enhancements to this component for processing store and forward orders (buys, sells, swaps. etc) received from multiple interfacing applications.
• Enhanced application concurrency transaction processing to prevent lost updates and such possibly undesirable effects as unrepeatable reads and access to uncommitted data.
• Assisted with the testing for implementation upgrades from CICS rel. 1.7 to CICS rel. 2.1, along with all modifications to support the optimizing facility of LSR.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of an on-line Claims Invoice System utilizing CICS command level in a CICS/ADABASE environment. Accessed the database via use of ADAMINTS.
• Developed inquiry and update capability in addition to providing text functioning capability to allow users to track previous application events taken.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of an on-line Trades Processing system. This system utilized an ADABASE database with access accomplished through the use of ADAMINTS. Responsibilities included design, coding, testing and implementation of system initialization processing.
• Developed an on-line processing application for trade entry, trade correction, trade verification and trade inquiry.
• Developed an online Table Maintenance application sub-system for an Accounting Management system utilizing CICS and ADABASE.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of standards and guidelines for CICS applications.
• Served as an internal consultant to the various application groups to provide both support and technical assistance for the design and implementation of new and existing online applications.
• Responsible for developing universal service APIs to help expedite the programming efforts of application development groups using CICS command level COBOL.

Systems Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the Commodities Trading system. Applications supported included: customer account profile reporting, weekly trial balance processing, customer purchase and sales statements and monthly customer activity statements.
• Responsible for designing and developing a Customer Risk application utilizing CICS/VSAM. This system provided for credit checking of new customers and existing customers to verify the existence of any unsecured debts in the market either in their name or with an alias.
• Additional duties included flow chart preparation, documentation, testing, and debugging and report preparation.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of a Sales Analysis Support system. This system provided record keeping for monthly and yearly sales dividend information, as well as comparisons of current year sales vs. previous year sales.
• Generated periodic reports relating to sales personnel, such as number of sales, sales amount totals and sale items.
• General duties included flow chart preparation, documentation, testing debugging and report preparation.