OBJECTIVE

• To obtain the position as Sr or Lead Programmer or Architect in the DFW area.

SUMMARY

• Technical Specialist/Lead Architect for 4 years, corporate architecture team, directing and mentoring multiple teams.
• 25 years of mainframe development and production support experience for various applications.
• 15 years of analysis experience partnering with customers to discover and deploy solutions for business opportunities.
• Designated Subject Matter Expert on multiple applications and products

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM Mainframe OS - 390-Z/OS JCL - JES2/JES3 TSO/ISPF Dialog IMS - CICS COBOL II Pro-COB VSAM SAS ORACLE ADASQL AbendAid Natural/ADABAS EasyTrieve TELON FileAid/
• Xpediter IDCAMS IBM Utilities DB2 DFHSM
• Endevor SDSF/ISF FTP/NDM PDSMAN
• HP-UX MicroFocus COBOL UNIX
• MS Word MS Excel MS Project Doors(requirement tracking) PW Workbench VISIO
• TOAD PVCS NetExpress Seibel PLSQL+

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Software Engineer/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage software engineering teams and perform forecasting and analysis.
• Onsite manager for 50 applications outsourced to India for production support - partnered with outsourcing manager to get training and teammembers up to speed as quickly as possible.
• Managed up to 40 applications including required to fly and required to operate applications
• Partnering with Business in Analyzing Business needs, Coding, and Developing for Aircraft Maintenance Applications
• Drove resolution to discover undocumented business rules and procedures.
• Tech Lead for Required to Fly application - on-call support;
• Performance tuning of application to reduce CPU cycles consumed - identified long running programs and I would then analyze and re-engineer the programs to reduce runtime and cpu cycles consumed. Through these efforts the company was able to postpone a hardware upgrade by almost 24 months.
• Identified various future issues (including key constraints, max thresholds etc) with the applications and helped to resolve
• Completed many proof of concept projects to determine viability of making various production changes or software purchases
• Assisted in production evaluation and worked with DBAs to determine best fit of new software utilities
• Met with vendors to review product enhancements and new software - worked to improve product stability and prioritize our Southwest tickets with the vendors
• Helped create a more flexible coding environment to allow for multiple concurrent projects - allowing for parallel streams of work with minimum overhead

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided significant coding and debug assistance to resolve critical issues.
• Was on team that provided 24x7 on-call rotation support on Maitenance Application - Natural/ADABAS - IBM Utilities
• Required to Fly application
• Problem tracking and resolution
• Created process to publish mainframe reports to make available through IE explorer
• Drove resolution to discover undocumented business rules and procedures.
• Assisted in creating process to make standardize production change process
• Facilitated and standardized the logon process across all environments
• Worked with DBAs to implement standardized backup and catastrophic recovery plans
• Assisted System Engineers in identifying production job roadblocks and system turning options
• Worked with other specialist on the team to better utilize system resources for optimum efficiency

Confidential

Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• Direct input to Director and Chief technology officer to the design and development of components and overall design.
• Listening, analyzing and understanding business issues
• Provided design suggestions and recommendations to assist with risk mitigation and project planning.
• Provided significant coding and debug assistance to resolve critical issues.
• Problem tracking and resolution

Confidential, Irving, TX

Tech Spec I/Supervisor/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Strategic planning, forcasting and impact analysis. High Level Approach analysis.
• Provided proof of concept for proposed architectual solutions
• Lead Analyst and team lead for multiple concurrent projects.
• Subject Matter Expert for Corporate Order Entry System for Core products.
• Leading up to 5 team/25 people on major projects, supervising 3 to 5 people.
• Set team objectives, goals; reviewed with senior mgmt.
• George Washington Univ - PMO training.