Professional Profile

Highly motivated IT professional with several years of technical experience. A broad understanding of computer hardware and software, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, support, developing a variety of software applications, experience in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle including analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance of existing systems. Awarded three Special Service Awards for Customer Support from NASA.

Professional Experience

Confidential

• Independently evaluated system impacts and produced technical requirement specifications from provided functional specifications.
• Served as the Lead Analyst on the ISEM contract to NASA headquarters.
• Customized COTS for several NASA projects.
• Performed Project Lead Analyst Project Management duties which included reviewing the project status with the customer and other direct customer interface.
• Served as a Senior Technical Lead Analyst who managed and produced project deliverables which included: applications, schedules, requirements, design documents, test plans, test scripts and conducting various research studies.
• Single-handedly developed an agency-wide web application Master Buy Plan utilizing Cold Fusion and Oracle.
• Provided technical analysis and prototyping models to managers, project managers, and business users.
• Assisting in the definition and validation of functional and technical requirements.
• Working with business units, analysts, and project managers to provide expert technical solutions that support long-term strategy.
• Staying abreast of changes in technology, and providing guidance around software solutions.
• Working closely with network engineers and technology teams on deployment of software solutions
• Adhere to sound standards and practices during all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Collaborates with functional users to test and confirm data integrity.
• Performed acceptance testing and program implementation for assigned systems and/or projects.

Confidential

• Functioned as the key member in the conversion from the COBOL legacy system to SAP, used MS Access and SQL for data manipulation, transformed data from MS Excel to MS Access and vice versa transformed data from extracted format to loadable format.
• Responsible for mapping from COBOL legacy systems to develop transformation rules and validation rules worked withfunctional users to document data scenarios that needed to be tested for each interface conversion.
• Designed conversion reconciliation and tested approaches for interfaces and conversion programs participated in the design and development of appropriate reconciliation programs.
• Assisted with MOCK conversion and GO-Live planning and execution work.
• Performed Y2K modifications on existing COBOL financial software.
• Analyzed, designed, developed, implemented and tested multiple financial systems using MS Access with VBA code.
• Acted as the Lead Developer in a team that provided full Lifecycle software development and utilized SQL and MS Access with VBA code and other software and database application development tools
• Project Lead on upgrading and converting all MS Access applications.
• Provided program wide consultation and support to developers of MS Access with VBA code applications.
• Served as a Senior Technical Lead Analyst who managed and produced project deliverables which included: applications, schedules, requirements, design documents, test plans, test scripts and conducting various research studies.

Confidential

• Supported a Credit Loss Project by creating extract programs to access mainframe and PC data. The data is used to prepare a monthly credit loss schedule for the business support team to submit to the Control Management Reporting group.
• Utilized COBOL and SAS to extract information from MIDAS, a CICS on-line system.
• After the extracts were completed the Detailed Reporting Information DRI system was updated using Clipper and Dbase IV.
• Cable and Wireless
• Supported a Traffic System that tracks incoming and outgoing calls by customer. Performed ad hoc file updating to reflect the current discount structures using COBOL and DB2.
• Supported a Tax Consolidation Project by converting data from VSAM files To ADABAS. Responsible for replacing ADAMINT commands with ADABAS logic.
• Worked on the Electronic Data Interchange EDI project to move the client's billing system to a paperless exchange of information.
• Responsible for the analysis, programming and documentation of programs that dealt with the different types of media used to exchange data. These programs were written in ADABAS, COBOL and Natural.

Confidential

• Responsible for the analysis, design, development, implementation and production support for the Traffic Reporting System TRS , using COBOL and VSAM.
• Supported a Growth Rate System that performed call estimations, modified and maintained programs using SAS and COBOL. In addition, utilized the case tool DESIGN-AID as the basis for the standard methodology for developing the system.
• Responsibilities also included formulating test plans, JCL and controls for validating, tracking, summarizing and reporting on a high volume of call records for the different products offered by MCI.
• Responsible for the design and development of the Project Tracking System, using COBOL, CICS and VSAM. Performed all phases of a project life cycle.
• Solely responsible for developing copybooks and catalogued procedure libraries for the entire project.
• US Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Responsible for the programming, help desk support, troubleshooting and user training in a classroom for the Automated Correspondence Online Response Network ACORN . This administrative correspondence tracking system resided on UNISYS using COBOL on a DMS/1100 database.