SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Information Technology professional with experience in guiding teams, supporting in a team role or working independently through all software development phases on complex legacy applications.
• Adept at problem solving by leveraging experience guided by knowledge, excellent organization skills, and a persistent desire to develop clean technical solutions to software driven applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - Project Planning - Team Leadership - Cobol - CICS - IMS DB/DC - Hogan Confidential - DB2 - JCL - VSAM - GSAM - IDCAMS - Checkpoint/Restart (IMS) - File Aid - Eztrieve - Xpediter – Job Scheduling – Agile – Abend Resolution – Endevor – ChangeMan - Production Support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created technical detailed designs documents and presented to business and technical staff for approval to support business requirements supporting the changes needed for MasterCard. After design approval, each of the following were developed, thoroughly tested, and implemented into production.
• Receive new MC monetary input files (general and fee’s) into new jobs that flow in with other inbound monetary transactions. This included new JCL and job scheduling changes.
• Modification to existing process to now recognize when an account’s service charge type code changes to create a new file to send to Customer Information System with new limit code values. This involved a PCD map change, PCD 55500 entries for limit code values, new SDB’s, and JCL changes
• Created process to recognize a new account opening via the web to set the account up with the new MC required fields and update other in-house application DB2 tables.
• Built new PAS method(s) allowing in-house server applications to ask for and receive card limit amounts off of the mainframe.
• Learned and executed multiple versions of the Hogan Confidential batch test cycles front to back on a daily basis. These cycles are critical for business analysts to conduct test scenario’s needed in supporting a myriad of projects.
• Mentored three junior programmers transitioning from the military into the IT world by providing guidance and sharing experiences while running test cycles.
• Created a complete new batch test cycle environment to be used for validating and comparing before and after files to ensure quality before installation into production. This was a massive effort that included account selection, scrambling of data, refreshing all databases, building of execution jcl, procs and control cards, and then finally execution of the full batch cycle.

Confidential

Application Developer Lead, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Found wasteful VSAM cluster definitions, modifying them to avoid allocating thousands of unused cylinders. This saved thousands of dollars in monthly DASD costs.
• Redesigned monthly account process to run in key sequence reducing CPU execution time more that ½ the time.
• Created a plan to eliminate several hundred IMS batch processes that are no longer required which will save CPU and DASD savings.
• Determined what batch processes can move processing execution times to outside critical cost window to reduce high execution costs.

Confidential

Application Developer Lead, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of the project as being the workstream lead.
• Determined, assigned and communicated tasks for entire team giving the project a path to success.
• Performed analysis on Confidential legacy system creating the high level design from running under IMS to run with SQL accessing DB2 tables.
• Facilitated and reviewed all detailed designs approving or making changes to ensure the system changes met best practices.
• Coached on-shore and off-shore technicians on designing, developing, and problem resolution helping develop an excellent system.
• Ensured all aspects of SDLC were completed with quality assurance and documented progress and completion at each phase keeping management, cross systems, and business up to date
• Directed the installation of system changes into production by creating a detailed task plan and monitoring the plan thru completion.

Confidential

Application Developer Lead, Columbus, OH / Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the design, development, testing and installation of the complete re-write of the Confidential monetary posting and pre-post batch processes. This batch process posts trillions of dollars each night and was becoming so disorganized that changes were becoming very difficult to make causing serious concern due to the significance of the money involved. The process is now broken into multiple programs and is now very easy to understand and make changes.
• Worked independently on streamlining the 36-month history process to reduce complexity to save on future development timeframes and also reduce CPU costs.
• Participated in the project of changing the IMS account master full function database to be IMS HALDB – this allowed monetary posting to run in parallel threads thereby getting updated monetary account information to the business community. Processing now runs in six to ten minutes vs 35 to over two hours.

Confidential

Independent Consultant, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for an enhancement to Confidential called back-value processing which allowed Chase to merge tri-state processing into existing Confidential . This enabled tri-state processing to be eliminated saving the costs associated with processing a batch system.
• Designed and developed multiple-close processing which processes certain type of accounts based upon world regions. This helped international accounts post monetary transactions earlier or more specific to their region.
• Installed IMS DB/DC onto VSAM batch only Confidential system. This gave the business direct online capabilities to Confidential instead of accessing other systems to get account information.

Confidential

Independent Consultant, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Developed and installed changes to use new online screens
• Advised and administered rapid production support response
• Developed a process to reclassify accounts that caused the bank to be able to lower reserve requirements which then allowed the bank access the reclassified account’s money for investment purposes.
• Replaced an interface between Confidential and Analysis which existed on a separate mainframe. This required changes to SPS to write new formats of data strings, new programs written in Hogan, and various testing cycles.

Confidential

Lead Programmer Analyst, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plans, assigned tasks to team, and tracked tasks to completion for each country
• Provided technical direction and development support for enhancements, support changes, and installations

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Put on as primary on-call support after just two weeks starting which had a major influence in learning the application very quickly.
• In addition to production support, authored several designs on changes to the system and then developed and tested those changes ultimately installing into production.