OBJECTIVE

I am seeking a position as a IT Position in a dynamic organization. I have excellent negotiation, writing, and communication skills.

SUMMARARIZED EXPERIENCE

• Over twenty years working in large organizations
• Over twenty years working with customer information
• Over twenty years working with Product Information
• Life Insurance Policies Term Life, Whole Life, Annuity
• Health Insurance Policies of Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Banking Products Checking, Savings, Money Market, Mutual Fund, Retirement Plans, Loan, Line of Credit, Mortgage, Credit Card, Stock
• Over fifteen years working with Account Information
• Over twenty years implementing change using a SDLC methodology i.e. VMODEL, 4Phases, Waterfall, Agile
• Over fifteen years of forecasting the cost of change at either a phase level or entire project
• Over seven years tracking the cost of change i.e. resource allocation, burn rate/variance
• Over seven years liaison between business and technology
• Over seven years of PM experience
• Over twelve years providing technical leadership
• Over twenty years of status reporting t all levels of management including at phase level or total project
• Over fifteen years of Data Analysis experience
• Eight years of DB2 experience and writing SQL queries i.e. IBM DB2, Oracle 10 11g, Sequel Server 2008
• Three years of IMS experience and IMS ETL experience using IBM FASTPATH batch utility t load data
• Fifteen years of VSAM and Sequential file experience
• Over fifteen years of IBM Mainframe experience
• Over Six years of Midrange experience
• Over Six years of IBM MQ Series Messaging experience
• Over Ten years of online processing experience
• Over Fifteen years of batch processing experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Department: Mortgage, Legacy Asset Services, Loss Mitigation

Environment : Midrange Citrix Server, Oracle 11g, Toad for Oracle, MQ Sequel Server 2008

Description: Managed vendor, Allan King, change requirements per project for Service By Others/Held for Investment and Service For Others application instances.

Key Responsibilities:

• Keep LOB partner Finance up t date on the status of the projects
• Manage projects using Waterfall SDLC
• Translated vendor requirements int business and functional Requirements
• Provided estimates on the required change
• Track the estimates submitted for the projects
• Point of contact for Quality Assurance and Development t clarify requirements and confirm test plan and scripts
• Interface with downstream technology partners for integrated testing acceptance
• Ensure LOB completes User Acceptance Testing
• Report Status on project milestones

Confidential

Environment IBM Mainframe IMS Database

Description: Managed release initiative and conversion projects for the Financial Authorization System tied t February Projects: Early Hold Release and Payroll Non Holds, and Decommission Military Bank

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage projects using Waterfall
• Create forecasts for all project work t be performed outlined by the requirements
• Track the submitted forecasts on a weekly basis for the project duration including post warranty period. The forecasts included burn rate or variance analysis
• Liaison with LOB t come up with business requirements t improve the hold process during deposits via ATM
• Coordinate and facilitate weekly work meetings t drive the change
• Attended broader workgroup/project meetings t report status on changes impacting FAST application
• Point of Contact t ensure all design documents were peer reviewed internally and externally
• Liaison with Quality Assurance team t get Test Plan and Scripts created and stored int HP Quality Center for System Integration Testing
• Point of Contact t ensure test environments were built out s testing could start. The general level of testing were unit, system integration, Stress or Performance, and user acceptance.
• Point of Contact t present turnover presentation t level 2 and level 3 support
• Point of Contact for implementation planning activities These activities were the creation of detail task schedule that outlined milestone tasks, dependent and successor tasks and detail tasks, service level agreement, and data usage agreement

Confidential

Environment: Midrange MQ Sequel Server, Oracle 10g, Toad for Oracle, Embarcadero

Description: Within Wholesale Information Services, build an Account Data-store reflective of all commercial accounts for active corporate accounts

Key Responsibilities:

• Hold ongoing frequent discussions with Senior Technology Managers from Treasury t get their team commitment t working on this initiative
• Create a business requirement document
• Create Logical Data Models show at high level the different categories of data in a table or file
• Create Physical Data Models - show the relationship between data in a table or file
• Point of Contact for presenting business requirement document t the broader project team
• Turnover BRD document t Technology for ETL development

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe and Midrange Web Services

Description: On behalf of the Collections partners, I oversaw technical changes t API Bankruptcy processing

Key Responsibilities:

• Provided Subject Matter Expertise t onshore technical team
• Lead design analysis by researching custom application
• Reviewed coding changes made by onshore/offshore
• Oversaw testing and implementation
• Participated in release weekend activities
• Participated in business certification testing
• Submitted forecast estimate of the technical changes t be made
• Tracked the forecast for the technical and implementation phases of the projects
• Reported status t upper management
• Created, Frozen, and Implemented Change Packages int Production
• Created code compares for code walkthroughs and code retrofit

Confidential

Environment: Midrange - Web Services

Description: On behalf of the Member and Supplier department of Premier Heather, the reports t be delivered were Negotiation History, Activation ID, Admin ID Report, Admin Report, and Activation ID by Member. Each report had Prompt Page, Tree Prompt with Search, Selection, Drop down list for pre-selection, Filters and text boxes for searching.

Key Responsibilities:

• Attend daily standup meeting t report status on existing assigned tasks and start new tasks
• Mark the board appropriately by placing green sticker on in-progress0 task, blue sticker on completed task, and red sticker on asks that are showstoppers
• Attend sprint planning t receive new stories entering the sprint, view dem performed by the developers for the LOB partners, and provide estimates t new stories entering the sprint

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Confidential

Web Services

Description: As a full-time employee, my job was t manage enterprise initiative projects that directly impacted our federated applications within Customer Information Solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use Waterfall methodology on the development projects
• Attend JAD sessions t listen and/or impact design requirements
• For enterprise release initiative, give feedback on business requirements during the define phase
• For non enterprise release initiatives, meet with LOB t gather business requirements during the define phase
• Manage all Mainframe and Web Services projects within a giving release initiative. The project combination was a mixture of development, test support and test only
• Provide periodic forecast estimates on all projects within the release
• Continuously update forecast estimates during the open window period with new offshore resources as they were added t the project
• Track burn rate or variance on a weekly basis
• Facilitate weekly project meetings
• Provide weekly status report on all projects tailored t specific stakeholders
• Point of Contact t interface with LOB, Architecture, Testing Center of Excellence, and other Technology Teams including DBAs, MQ, CICS, and Environment
• Point of Contact t ensure all design documents were completed, peer reviewed, and signoffs were collected
• Point of Contact t ensure Quality Assurance team was engaged at appropriate time
• Point of Contact t ensure all Test Plans and Test Scripts were loaded t HP Quality Center
• Point of Contact t ensure all defects opened in Quality Center were resolved before implementation. Otherwise a deferred defected needed release management approval
• Point of Contact t ensure all documentation was loaded t project folders
• Point of Contact t ensure Performance Testing questionnaire document was completed. If Performance testing was warranted, I ensured it was completed
• Point of Contact t ensure User Acceptance Testing was completed
• Point of Contact t ensure implementation activities, detail task list, data usage document, service level agreement documents, and presentation document for level 2 and level 3 support teams was completed.
• Point of Contact t drive install tasks on the implementation plan during release weekend
• Point of Contact t ensure Business Certification Testing was performed during release weekend activities
• Point of Contact for warranty period communication t upper management
• Point of Contact t provide daily application health check reports, covers API Processing, throughout the warranty period t upper management

Confidential

Description: Project was t convert RBC Legacy Applications that stored GL Account and Cost Center numbers t the format of PEOPLESOFT EGL GL and Cost Center numbers. ALL ninety 90 legacy applications within Consumer Bank were in Scope. The solution was an internal custom solution

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership t presenting a solution t upper management
• Point of Contact t creating presentation t present solution t upper management
• Provide thought leadership t gather technical requirements
• Point of Contact t execute technical solution, propagation algorithm, t gather requirements for each application in the consumer space
• Point of Contact t receive estimates from all applications SMEs impacted by the project
• Point of Contact t roll up estimates and pass t upper management for work approval
• Point of Contact t ensure all design documents were created, peer reviewed, and signed-off with each impacted application team
• Point of Contact t ensure Test Plan and Scripts were created for each impacted application team
• Point of Contact t ensure each impacted team resolved all open defects in HP Quality Center
• Point of Contact t ensure all documentation was loaded t project folders

Confidential

Environment: IBM Mainframe

Project s : Deposit Conversion Jack Henry Deposit t Fidelity IMPACS version 97.1

Description: Project was t convert RBC Legacy Applications that stored GL Account and Cost Center numbers t the format of PEOPLESOFT EGL GL and Cost Center numbers. ALL ninety 90 legacy applications within Consumer Bank were in Scope. The solution was an internal custom solution

Key Responsibilities

• Created project plan document outlining milestone and detail tasks
• Create conversion requirements document
• Received product mapping document from marketing
• Produced weekly status report t give update all stakeholders Deposit LOB, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Deposit Operations, and downstream application teams
• Prepared Testing plan and scripts for UNIT, SIT, and Dress Rehearsal
• Perform Balancing Activities by comparing incoming cash from Jack Henry Trial Balance Report after each SIT cycle
• Managed Quality Center defect t resolution
• Prepared production turn over documentation
• Loaded Documents t share drive for archival
• Prepared status reports for Sr. Management of deposit operations and external partners like marketing, operations, tax, audit, legal, and other partners

Confidential

Environment: IBM Mainframe COBOL/CICS/VSAM/MQ Series/ API/RPI

Applications: GN Architecture, Advance Loan Systems, IMPACS

Description: Implement change for Conversions, Enterprise Release Initiatives, Small Enhancements, and break fix

Projects: 9S LPAR Build, Above the Line, Move Money Engine, California MQ Interface and Tw State Character Expansion

Key Responsibilities

• Perform source code analysis
• Perform data analysis
• Provide input int business and functional requirements
• Created Low Level Design document
• Created Unit Test Plan and Scripts
• Forecasted work estimate t be done at lower levels through production install
• Updated application documentation
• Added new transaction codes t CICS regions
• Added new File PARMS DAG, DST, and Element t the Data Dictionary
• Added new Report and SORT PARMS t Data Dictionary
• Performed ABEND analysis on broken code
• Loaded new Dictionary PARMS int Core Memory SAPL, SADL
• Exported PARMS from development region t test regions
• Created source code compares for code retrofits and peer reviews before install
• Created new files Sequential, VSAM, GDG, and HIERARCHIAL files

Confidential

Environment IBM Mainframe COBOL/Teradata

Description: For merger and acquisition projects, interface with APTE Settlement t capture and load ATM pinned transaction data for marketing ad-hoc report queries

Projects: ATM Conversion and Transition projects impacting Corporate Data Warehouse

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform source code analysis
• Perform data analysis
• Provide input int business and functional requirements
• Created Low Level Design document
• Created Unit Test Plan and Scripts
• Forecasted work estimate t be done at lower levels through production install
• Updated application documentation
• Added new transaction codes t CICS regions
• Added new File PARMS DAG, DST, and Element t the Data Dictionary
• Added new Report and SORT PARMS t Data Dictionary
• Performed ABEND analysis on broken code
• Loaded new Dictionary PARMS int Core Memory SAPL, SADL
• Exported PARMS from development region t test regions
• Created source code compares for code retrofits and peer reviews before install
• Created new files Sequential, VSAM, GDG, and HIERARCHIAL files

Confidential

Environment IBM Midrange Series 36 Unix Operating Systems

Description: Develop date wrapper routines t translate date int compatible format t continue processing

Key Responsibilities:

• Performed source code analysis
• Performed data analysis on various file formats
• Created date wrapper routine
• Modified source code t call the wrapper routine
• Performed unit testing
• Created unit test scripts

Confidential

• Attend government meeting t get clarification on bid proposal
• Attend bid proposal sessions t listen for changes t the bid process
• For initiatives, meet with local, state, and federal government customers gather business requirements
• Respond t Federal Contract opportunities by completing bid packet information
• Create clarifying questions based upon technical requirements placed out t bid
• Prepare State of Work t be placed inside bid documentation
• Prepare Cost Estimate based upon resources needed and technical requirements
• Liaison between government agencies and our organization for projects in flight

Confidential

• Environment: IBM Mainframe COBOL/CICS/DB2
• Description Modify Membership Billing Applications
• Project Membership Billing and PGA Kiosk Quote

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform source code analysis
• Perform data analysis by writing SQL queries
• Provide input int business and functional requirements
• Created Low Level Design document
• Created Unit Test Plan and Scripts
• Forecasted work estimate t be done at lower levels through production install
• Updated application documentation
• Added new transaction codes t CICS regions
• Added new File PARMS DAG, DST, and Element t the Data Dictionary
• Added new Report and SORT PARMS t Data Dictionary
• Performed ABEND analysis on broken code
• Loaded new Dictionary PARMS int Core Memory SAPL, SADL
• Exported PARMS from development region t test regions
• Created source code compares for code retrofits and peer reviews before install
• Created new files Sequential, VSAM, and GDG files

Confidential

• Environment: IBM Mainframe COBOL/CICS/DB2
• Description Modify programs according t projects for Agency Operations
• Project Small Enhancement projects

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform source code analysis
• Perform data analysis by writing SQL queries
• Provide input int business and functional requirements
• Created Low Level Design document
• Created Unit Test Plan and Scripts
• Forecasted work estimate t be done at lower levels through production install
• Updated application documentation
• Added new transaction codes t CICS regions
• Added new batch Report
• Add new batch jobs t batch schedule
• Modify batch execution schedule by adding new dependent and successor jobs
• Performed ABEND analysis on broken code using ABEND-AID
• Add new PARMS from PARM library for batch JCL t execute
• Created source code compares for code retrofits and peer reviews before install
• Created new files Sequential, VSAM, and GDG files

Languages: Cobol, JCL, SQL, MQ Series, RPI, API, CICS, IBM Websphere, UML, COBOL, EZTRIEVE

Databases: IMS, DB2, MS Access, Oracle

OS: Windows XP, Windows 97-98, Windows 3.51, MVS OS, ZOS,

PM Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Outlook, Instant Communicator, Bridge-Line, Live Meeting, Clarity, TALEO, Supply Management And Reporting Tool SMART , Mercury Quality Center

Mainframe Software TSO, CHANGEMAN, File-Aid, FileD, OMEGAMON, Platinum, Query Management Facility