SUMMARY:

• Comprehensive understanding of complex business and technology issues related to the design, development, documentation, testing, implementation and support of computer software.
• 24+ years’ of progressive professional experience with complex large scale systems having functioned as a programmer, senior programmer, team leader, trainer and data analyst.
• Self - starter who is a resource multiplier by being a mentor, solid communicator and who works hard to foster a positive team dynamic. Experienced working with H1B and offshore staff.
• A varied IT/Business career. Experience in retail, State Government, DOD, direct mail/marketing, accounting, manufacturing and banking domestic and international.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Reading, PA

Contract Senior Programmer /Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Senior programmer and team lead supporting Carpenter’s migration into a managed mainframe services environment provided by my employer.
• Lead a four person team responsible for transition and support of Carpenter’s mainframe systems/processes as stipulated by the Applications Managed Services (AMS) agreement.
• Responsible for the Knowledge Transfer (KT) necessary to support the forty seven mainframe applications currently in use at Carpenter. My team completed this massive task in nine weeks.
• Responsible for managing the Incident Ticket (IT) pipeline ensuring the correct assignment, classification and resolution of all IT’s reported to the Carpenter help desk for the AMS mainframe systems, conduct follow up on IT’s that did not meet the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Personally responsible for the support of and improvements to the Online Order Requirements System (OORS), Nondestructive Testing System (NDT), Online Scheduling Lineup System (OSLS), Melt accounting, Labor Accounting, payroll and time reporting applications used by Carpenter’s Reading Production and Maintenance (P&M) employees.
• Assisted in the creation of the SOW between Carpenter and my employer.

Confidential - Buffalo, NY.

Contract Senior Programmer Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Senior programmer supporting Confidential ’s Credit Data Warehouse (CDW), This COBOL, JAVA, DB2 application contains 1100+ online screens which access 100’s of DB2 tables; on the backend there are 3000+ COBOL, SAS, Sync Sort, Eztrieve and DB2 utilities keeping CDW data within 1 business cycle of the production environment and is used in determining credit limits, customer risk and overall risk mitigation.
• Designed, developed, tested, and implemented projects for CDW.
• Responsible for the mainframe Standard Interface File (SIF). The SIF is the CDW feed providing Product, Facility, Mitigant and Portfolio Customer data for reporting to the FSA (Financial Services Authority).
• Responsible for the timely creation and download of CDW data used to populate Oracle tables for use by Business Objects when creating a new or updating the current SAP BO universe used throughout Confidential .
• Provided production support and problem resolution for the CDW/Credit Risk System.
• Designed, developed, tested, and implemented projects for the Credit Risk System.
• Resident Endevor software SME. On Call for Endevor issues when a code release was moved into production.
• Mentored new contractors as they joined the Credit Risk team.

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Contract Business Systems Analyst/Data Migration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Researched and reviewed Confidential ’s legacy STARS application’s COBOL, CICS, DB2 code and associated JCL jobs and procedures to determine existing business rules and processes for Confidential ’s migration onto the SAP platform.
• Met with STARS users from multiple NAVY installations to research the CICS processes that were the front end to this large complex accounting system.
• Analyzed preload files ensuring data accuracy for the STARS data migrating onto SAP.
• Identified and resolved any defects for Confidential data migrating onto SAP also reconciling the USSGL.
• Assisted in functional validation, data cleansing and preparation of system cutover and full operational activities on the SAP platform.
• This complex undertaking was the USN’s supply system IT highest priority project for fiscal years 2011 and 2012.

Confidential

Contract Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I made changes, updates or enhancements as required by such a large worldwide operation, working problem research and resolution, system enhancements and providing advice/support for daily operations.
• Team member involved in the analysis, extraction, scrubbing and staging of data in support of the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (NERP) project. This involved creating complex COBOL, CICS, DB2 processes to assist in the staging of data from several commands/locations to support multiple COBOL, DB2 and JCL batch cycle testing versions, DB2 databases and CICS regions to support testing requirements.
• Team member involved in cost reduction effort for NAVSISA. This included researching batch run data, analyzing both online and batch processes with an eye out for any possible savings; worked with DISA to determine charged rates for all STARS batch and online processes. This resulted in significant savings for NAVSISA.
• I provided, support/mentoring to client staff in topics such as COBOL, CICS, Intertest, TSO and DB2.
• I performed (ETL) extract, transfer and load duties for data migrating from the NAVSUP mainframe to the Navy’s SAP/ERP platform for SPAWAR. The SPAWAR implementation was the first where legacy financial data was converted directly into ERP; the team was able to define and convert the data for loading into ERP. Prior US Navy ERP conversions did not convert legacy data; they started anew in ERP rather than make an attempt to understand their far flung legacy data.

Confidential

Contract Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Improved the processing speed and stability of the CORP TAX system by rewriting multiple SQL statements and standardizing error handling on the batch side.
• I improved the CORP TAX CICS screens on the front end with better SQL statements, tighter field editing, providing standardized clear language messages and proper field highlighting and cursor manipulation in all situations.
• Conducted COBOL for client’s staff; creating my own lesson plans Power Point presentation and handouts.
• Team member conducting research and requirements gathering into CORP TAX enhancement or replacement by a vendor supplied/maintained or possible COTS system.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I provide onsite and on call production support for client’s financial processing addressing everything from data errors to system abends to adhoc reporting requirements for the business.
• I implemented a process that downloaded problem reports generated on the mainframe would be imported into an excel front end I created providing quick, accurate system processing status and problem resolution in an easily shared PC based format.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I designed and implemented numerous COBOL,DB2, CICS programs and timed CICS background tasks using JCL jobs and procedures to process the many data queue are created by each store’s real time data uploads.
• I improved the efficiency of the Store Communication database processes to allow quicker access to communications data and statistics allowing for quicker, more accurate store replenishment reducing shipping costs and ensuring stores had the correct product mix mostly eliminating inventory being returned due to fulfillment errors.
• I supported the Rx pricing application, this PowerBuilder front end linked to an Oracle database provided real time statistics about and control of prescription pricing within Rite Aid stores nationwide.
• Responsible for the security manager’s incident database; this VB front end linked to an Access database provided accurate tracking of security incidents and the ability to easily share this data amongst Rite Aid’s security personal nationwide.
• Mentored ELSE’s, Entry Level Systems Engineers. These graduates of Rite Aid’s internal ELSE program then went on to fill programming positions within Rite Aid.