SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years experience in developing, integrating, and in certain situations, planning and managing Information Technology applications for financial, distribution, and retail channels
• Business and end - user requirements, business and technical design, communicating business needs to it staff, hands on application development, and strong adherence to quality assurance standards. strong technical written communication skills, including the ability to convey complex it and industry specific information clearly. deadline driven.
• pay attention to detail. excel in team and individual work settings.
• 2 years of Project Management and 17 years of Project Lead experience, and multiple years of lead system analysis and design
• Compliance process adhered to using Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
• Six-Sigma Methodology training and experience (SDLC)

SKILLS:

• Confidential MAINFRAME All Series except AS/400 hp UNIX
• Changeman
• Test Director
• MVS JCL
• SPF/PC
• CSP
• Intertest
• Panvalet
• TSO/ISPF
• DSS
• Librarian
• Platinum
• World Wide Chain Store
• EDI
• Life70
• QMF
• VANTAGE
• FileAid
• Endevor
• EXPEDITER
• Apptune
• APS
• Peoplesoft Financials
• BETA
• Quality Center
• MFE
• SQL Explorer
• Confidential
• NDM
• MVS/XA/ESA OS/390 Z/OS DOS/VSE CICS/VS UNIX MQSeries WINDOWS
• Confidential MQSeries
• DB2 TERADATA VSAM IMS MS ACCESS
• COBOL
• MICROFOCUS COBOL
• SQL
• SQR
• COBOL II
• CICS COMMAND LEVEL
• DYL280
• PL1
• ASSEMBLER

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

DB2 Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Code and test modifications to DB2 Stored Procedures that are used in conjunction with vendor anti-fraud software Actimize.
• The skilIs for this assignment are Confidential Enterprise COBOL, DB2, Endevor, MFE ( Confidential ) and SQL Explorer.
• Design, code and test brokerage batch processes using the VTA transactions from the BETA system for subsequent daily processing.
• The skills used for this assignment are Confidential Unload utilities, Easytrieve and SORT.
• Prepared all design specifications ( Confidential ) and test case documents in accordance with the client’s standards.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Hogan brokerage system enhancements from a coding/testing perspective.
• Assisted the brokerage business team in research and analysis in solving various processing issues.
• The technological skills involved with the projects are COBOL II, DB2, JCL, and Endevor.
• Prepared functional specifications (FSD) and test plan documents in accordance with each change request and assisted the test team with performing all required test phases.
• Cross platform file transfers accomplished with NDM and DB2 loads and unloads with Confidential .

Confidential, Miami, FL

Technical Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the business requirements development and technical design of the conversion to Confidential .
• Assisted offshore with analysis and design requirements in modifying the current application systems using COBOL II, DB2, JCL, and NDM ( Confidential ) scripts.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Technical Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the DB2 tables design and technical approach in conversion and interface of the Confidential and Confidential Brokerage Systems.
• I had a substantial involvement with the appropriation of data files to various systems such as Hogan, Datawarehouse, and other internal application systems.
• The technological skills involved with the projects are COBOL II, CICS, DB2, MQ, JCL, and Changeman.
• Prepared test plans and used Quality Center to track and document test results and status.
• As part of the most recent initiative, I made a significant change to the Brokerage system that greatly enhanced the efficiency of the .net services.
• Cross platform file transfers accomplished with NDM and DB2 loads and unloads with Confidential .

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Bus/Tech/Sys Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in the HLD and LLD formulation of the various system feeds aforementioned.
• I composed our CIT and SIT plans for the conversions.
• I was also responsible for the reporting of all conversion statistics and integrity.
• The technical skills involved with the projects are COBOL II, CICS, DB2, MQ, JCL, and Changeman.
• Additionally, I participated in the business requirements planning and development (BRD), working closely with the business teams and assisting in formulating technical solutions to address the requirements. Six Sigma methodology utilized for all project planning and development.
• Compiled test plans and used Quality Center to track and document test results and status.
• Cross platform file transfers accomplished with NDM and FTP. DB2 loads and unloads accomplished with Confidential .

Confidential, Salisbury, NC

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, code and test applications for Distribution and Warehouse Inventory applications using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, and MQ.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for designing, coding, and testing applications for Confidential Applications using PL1, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, and MQ. EDI information is processed 24/7 for shipping vessels worldwide.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, code and test applications for a Merchandise Planning Project.
• Skills that are used for this project are COBOL II, CICS, and DB2. TEST DIRECTOR utilized to form the test planning.

Confidential, Wilkesboro, NC

Lead Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the design, development, and implementation of a Competitor Intelligence System.
• Formulated all data entities for the purpose of creating a LDM (Logical Data Model) and a PDM (Physical Data Model).
• The new database design was DB2 with many interfaces developed for subsequent load to TERADATA counterpart tables.
• Design, coded and tested Pricing System applications using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, and VSAM.
• Developed and documented the business and technical designs which were used to develop all new applications.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, coded and tested CICS/MQ Online Viewer programs for Commercial Business Customers using COBOL II, CICS, DB2, MQ and Changeman.
• All new development.
• Developed the Functional and Technical Design documents used to complete the application development.

Confidential, Wilkesboro, NC

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, code and test Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing applications using DB2, TERADATA, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, and VSAM.
• New development is approximately 60% of the tasks.
• Used TERADATA utilities MLOAD, FLOAD, and BTEQ to perform database update tasks.
• Also rewrote 2 applications in CICS Command Level COBOL, original versions of the programs were created using COOLGEN.