SUMMARY

• Possess extensive experience in insurance, consulting, pharmaceutical and brokerage/financial industries.
• Consistently made significant contributions to meet corporate goals for business growth and profitability.
• Created, implemented, and managed Cash Management Accounts systems.
• Background in analysis, development and delivery of high - performance technology solutions.
• Readily adapt to new technology via education and implementation experience.
• Maintain a consultative approach in business-to-business environments.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills in communications wif all levels.
• Personal strengths include excellent work ethic, persistency and strong organizational skills.
• Motivated and hardworking, wif the ability to adapt and work wif tight deadlines.
• Highly skilled in troubleshooting, debugging and problem analysis.
• Equally comfortable and effective in both team member and team leader situations.
• Technology used: COBOL, COBOL-II, IMS DB/DC, Z/OS, IBM Datavase 2 (DB2), CICS, TSO/SPF, Endevor, FileAid, OPC/A, CA11, VSAM, Panvalet, JCL, SyncSort, IBM Utilities, BMC Utilities, ZEKE, TMON, CA-DataVantage
• Responsible Business Analysis.
• Responsible for Information Gathering for creation of Business Requirement Document. Responsible for creating QA test cases and UAT test cases and completion of these test Cases.
• Responsible for Production Support on a 24/7 schedule.
• me am a Team player wif an ability to effectively work wif peers and colleagues.
• me am detail oriented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• COBOL
• COBOL-II
• IMS DB/DC
• Z/OS
• IBM Datavase 2 (DB2)
• CICS
• TSO/SPF
• Endevor
• FileAid
• OPC/A
• CA11
• VSAM
• Panvalet
• JCL
• SyncSort
• IBM Utilities
• BMC Utilities
• ZEKE
• TMON
• CA-DataVantage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis of enhancements to the current Retirement Systems.
• Wrote programs in COBOL using VSAM and IMS and Endevor and DB2 databases. Did unit testing, QA testing, UA testing and implementation into Production.
• Wrote CICS programs.
• The mainframe systems utilized: Z/OS
• Involved in Production Support.

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Involved in COBOL programming using Endevor and IMS and DB2 databases.
• Conducted unit testing and integration testing for implementation of various states,
• The tests were to make sure dat the system will work as required in Business Requirements.
• Participated in Business Requirements.
• Participating in the project for SPS data to convert the existing NDM transmissions between Z/OS and Z/VM systems into FTP.
• Involved on the Print project. Created DB2 tables for testing purposes.
• Worked wif BMC and IBM DB2 Utilities to Unload and Load DB2 tables.
• Involved in Business Analysis on the project.
• Responsible for Information gathering for Business requirements document for Financial Application.
• Responsible for creating QA test case and UAT Test cases.
• Responsible for a successful execution of these test cases.
• Utilized CA-DataVantage to retrieve, update and insert IMS segments.
• Worked in Production Support capacity to resolve production Abends.
• Worked on the Print System

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Production Support Analyst and QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Production Support Analyst and QA Analyst. Work involved debugging all Production
• Abends, ensuring program efficiency. Worked wif BMC Utilities, FTP and NDM.
• All work was done in Z/OS, DB2, COBOL, JCL, Procs, Endevor.
• Worked wif OPC job scheduler. Business Analysis.
• Duties included resolution of program failures in a Production environment. Talking to the programmer community both onshore and offshore. Suggested and implemented the changes required for the daily processing to continue.
• Duties also included as Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst working wif the Systems and User community at Confidential / Confidential to ensure dat the Business requirements are satisfied before the software is implemented in Production.

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Worked at Confidential in the Global Wealth Management department.
• Work includes analysis, design and implementing of enhancements to the system.
• Did the business analysis.
• Work is done in Z/OS, COBOL, CICS and IMS and VSAM.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked at Confidential in the Global Wealth Management department.
• Work includes analysis, design and implementing of enhancements to the system.
• Work is done in Z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2 and IMS.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Medicare Part D Prescription Plan System for Centers (MARx) for Medicare & Medicaid System (CMS). Working on the coding, testing and implementing of various programs in the system including, but not limited to, dis-enrollments.
• Work executed in COBOL III, DB2, Z/OS, CICS and MQ Series and XPEDITER and VSAM.
• Presently working to write new CLISTs and REXX procedures and to modify existing ones.
• Created Batch JCL, PROCs and Run decks utilizing the methology.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan on ‘SSN Elimination Project’.
• Project entailed the removal of SSN (Social Security Number) from all references of the members for security reasons and to stop Identity Theft.
• Analyzed and designed changes to existing system and determined the need for additional programs to the system

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Confidential Project to convert company-wide Name and Address IMS Database to DB2.
• The data was on IMS database, and VSAM files. The project required heavy interface wif the user, in this case the CIDS (Customer Information Distribution) System.
• System interfaced wif many other systems wifin the company. It was responsible for new account opening and maintaining all relevant data regarding the account. The database contained approximately 10 million accounts, divided into Business, Retail and Retirement accounts.
• Conversion involved creation of a dozen (12) tables.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Mutual Funds systems wif heavy interface wif the user community.
• Was responsible for the maintenance and enhancements of the system in batch and online (CICS) environments.
• Worked on the CMA (Cash Management Accounts) system. Totally responsible for Phase me of the system while Phase II was being developed. Also programmed various other modules.
• While in CMA Systems, worked on the programming required for New Account opening and other feature selections such as Visa, Funds, Checks, FTS (Funds Transfer) and DDS (Direct Deposit). Managed a team of 4 programmers.
• Reduced the number of client letters produced through the system which resulted in appreciable cost saving to the company.
• Provided system support 24/7, involving 50% programming and 50% managing.
• Designed a weekly tracking report of CMA clients for management to determine client base and client activity.
• Migrated the Global Performance System from Panvalet to Endevor. System tested, and regression tested the entire system and successfully implemented the system in Production.
• Involved in the analysis, design and enhancement of the global performance system, which is used to track the performance of the financial analysts of the company.
• Utilized COBOL2, CICS, IMS, DB2, OS/JCL, VSAM, PANVALET, and ENDEVOR.
• Involved wif Business Analysis and Design in partnership wif the end users, me.e., the various Business Departments of the firm.
• Conducted face-to-face interviews wif the client(s) and reviewed their requests. Delivery dates were discussed and negotiated (if the project would take longer than anticipated by the clients).
• Provided detailed design of the request (project) and delivered to the client and more meetings were scheduled until an agreement was reached on the design.
• Delegated work to my direct reports. Users were involved in the ‘User Acceptance Testing’, and upon their satisfaction, the project was implemented.