OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a demanding position as Technical lead to contribute to company’s profitability by delivering enterprise solutions.

SUMMARY:

Extensive experience on software development life cycle using waterfall and Agile. Strong ability to drive minimum viable product (MVP) by engaging technical, business and QA teams early during the project life cycle. Proven ability to drive project goals by gathering and combining team consensus. Strong drive to simplify complex business ideas into simple technical solution using Lean - Agile.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Analyst

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Technical project lead/Mainframe/Hogan developer.
• Develop, document and present end to-end view of projects.
• Disseminate and coordinate work flow with offshore team. Identify dependencies within mainframe, mobile, middleware, and unix systems.
• Work with all stake holders to coordinate work progression to make sure parallel efforts complete within identified time frames. Work with Agile and water fall teams.
• Mainframe technologies including Hogan Umbrella, IMS, IMS HALDB, MQ series, Cobol, VSAM, Cobol 5.2, Easytrieve, IBM utilities, Endevor, Librarian, JCL, MSP (Mortgage Servicing Platform), API (application program interfaces), ALS (advance loan system), and CA7.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for enhancements and modifications for Global Replenishment System team. Team included produce owners, programmers, BA, and QA testers.
• Developers and QA team members were located on site and off shore.
• Coordinated work by meeting with entire team to make sure business users, business analyst, developers, and QA team understood business need in order to develop actionable user stories.
• Once work was underway, customer verification was done by demonstrating what was being built to our actual business users.
• That ensured that final product functioned as needed and value was added to business bottom line.
• Replenishment technical leader for Central America stores and DC integrations.
• Coordinated technical, vendor, and customer execution for Central America distribution center conversion. Conversions were executed by phase to make sure planning and execution was successful.
• Replenishment technical leader for Confidential . Traveled to Brazil during the fall of 2011. Purpose of trip was to simplify processes and establish interfaces to be used for new distribution centers and stores.
• Worked with third party consultants off-shore and near-shore to deliver integrations project.
• Replenishment technical leader for US Sam’s fresh to perpetual inventory project. Made several trips to local Sam’s club to make sure project demos work correctly for end users. Worked with business sponsors to make sure value was delivered to stake holders and users.
• For the US market, I lead effort to install warehouse replenishment system 7 days a week. This system provides faster turnaround on fast selling items. As a consequence on-stoke percentages and satisfied customers increases because they find what they want when they want it. Additionally, warehouse workload are spread out more evenly than before at the domestic distribution centers.
• Voted associate of the month 7 times by peers and management.

Environment: IBM mainframe, CA7, DB2, IMS DB/DC, Teradata, Cobol, Easytrive, SAS, Confidential, Confidential web services (using SOAP UI), UNIX, Data Stage, Java, Oracle with JDA software interaction

Consultant

Confidential, Las Vegas, Nevada

Responsibilities:

• Wrote specs and coded programs for new financial and debit/credit cards systems using Confidential, JCL, ECOBOL, and XML

Consultant

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, planned, coded, tested, documented, and installed migration changes to queries from DB2 to TERADATA using SQL, BTEQ, and Query man for .
• Accomplished successful installation ahead of the due date given by the client.
• Using SAS, produce statistical reports to compare DB2 and TERADATA files.
• After DB2-to-Teradata project was successfully installed, I was assigned to do coding, testing, installing, and supporting changes with EZTPLUS, IMS, COBOL 370, MVS JCL, INFOPAC, Confidential, Change man, Mainframe TAO (Totally Automated Office), and NDM for Financial Systems running on several LPARS.

Consultant

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Provided analysis and estimates for new projects on delivery, transport, and purchase of natural gas systems. Research, find solution, test, and implement changes to existing production problems reported by users.
• Work was done using MVS, JCL, COBOL, COBOL II, PL1, DB2, Spufi, Mqseries, EDI, Confidential, Intertest, Xpeditor, IDMS, FTP, and ChangeMan.
• Develop MQ series process to accomplish the following goals:
• Select and define customer transition
• Write transactions to a MQserieos que
• Read MQseries que
• Apply final updates to database based on each correct read and validation.
• Updates were applied based on business specified unit of work to assure data integrity.
• Provided 24-hour on call support.

Consultant

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Worked on detail specification documents for future release and enhancements to Merlin Banking om-line Support System for Nations Bank. Worked closely with project manager and business analyst to make sure document met business goals.
• Specifications were written to access IMS DB/DC databases using PAM, HOGAN, COBOL II and JCL. All reports were routed to INFOPAC.
• Participated on daily conference call with senior business analysts to gather and confirm business requirements. I wrote technical design and specifications for developers to code, test, and install enhancements using HOGAN SYSTEM.
• Identified system integration points and worked with developers, business analysts, and customers to make sure unit, system, and user acceptance testing was successful Additionally I made sure that test results mapped correctly to original requirements provided by customers.
• Research and found solutions to open incidents for current release of Merlin Banking Online Support System.
• Attended IMS DB/DC intensive course. Study subjects included read, add, delete, and insert records. Also covered were checkpoint restart, GSAM files, manual batch back out and IBA processing.

Consultant

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Write, code, test new financial applications for the Customer Account System using IDMS, COBOL II, Confidential, and batch with ENDEVOR as the installation control tool, TELON as the SCREEN painter for Confidential, and INTERTEST as the testing tool for Confidential .
• Work also involved research, analysis, and design solutions to current production problems.
• Reviewed Y2K changes applied to COBOL II batch jobs running on OS390.

Consultant

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Tested and enhanced DB2/ Confidential /COBOL II/VSAM region-to-region servicing program for Credit Card System.
• Coordinated and Tested connectivity between two Confidential regions running under MVS.
• Based on existing Credit Card system, designed high-level specifications to replace screens with a Confidential background system.

Consultant

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Set up parallel environment in DB2 for Customer Financial Statement application.
• Research, analyze, and design solutions for the production system in COBOL, COBOL II, and DB2 programs, Ran full life cycle tests to in corporate systems changes into production.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

Responsibilities:

• Designed, wrote, tested, installed, and supported retail application systems on IMS (CALL and EXEC), COBOL, COBOL II, Confidential, VSAM, TERADATA, SAS, Micro focus work bench and DB2 with JCL running on IBM ES/ under MVS operating system.
• Extensive maintenance to the batch and online applications using File Aid, TSO/ISPF, Librarian, Intertest, CEDF, and XPEDITOR.
• Prior to installation, review and approved changes to the production environment.
• Provided 24-hour on call support.
• Assigned to answer technical and procedural questions from new hires and contractors.