PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

I am an Information Technology professional with over 25 years’ experience in Application Software Development working with various technologies, applications, and development teams. I possess the a bility to effectively communicate and manage relationships with multiple levels of management and cross - functional areas. I uphold a strong sense of ownership, proactive nature to identify potential problems and respond timely to technical emergencies for highly available systems. Technical leader with a proven record of developing and delivering technical solutions for a variety of strategic business initiatives.

EXPERTISE:

• Agile Application Development Software Testing & Debugging
• Technical Specification Writing Test Plans & Test Case Development
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) QA & UAT oversite
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Offshore Development Operations
• Release Management Team Building & Leadership

TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTED:

Mainframe/Legacy Technologies, IBM MVS, COBOL, DB2/SQL, DB2 Triggers, DataVantage, CICS, MQ Series, JCL, Xpeditor, VSAM, TSO/SPF, CLIST, Rational Application Developer (RAD), Websphere Application Server, Buildforge, Jenkins, FICO Blaze Rules, File-Aid, Syncsort, IBM PC’s and compatibles, Microsoft Windows Applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical design, development and support for these worldwide COBOL/IMS/DB2 applications used to manage account and policy information.
• These applications, available 23 hours a day, share a data repository containing account information of those having a business relationship with Confidential .
• Maintained support over 100 on-line data access/update screens, over 90 DB2 tables, 5 IMS databases and over 150 batch jobs.
• Coded enhancements and supported over 150 IMS and CICS service transactions.
• These reusable services utilize MQ technology which allow internal and external systems to access or update application data. Services were later incorporated into an Enterprise Service Bus allowing flexibility for utilization by other applications.
• Responsible for the creation and implementation of numerous CICS MQ services along with assisting in the creation of architecture standards for all CICS Services.
• This resulted in a standard for program reuse and quicker development. Provided primary support for CICS Xpediter usage for team developers.
• Contributed Java development for two MQ Java services, providing data retrieval and data update capabilities.
• Provided analysis and development for various integration projects in support of the merger between Confidential and ACE insurance companies.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Contributed Java development for the Confidential application.
• This Smalltalk/Java application provides quick access to customer information, underwriting documentation and policy history information.
• Maintained and performed JavaServer Faces development for a web-based interface to manage CSR skills and specialties.
• This facilitated the automated assignment of work orders to CSR’s in the Processing Centers.
• Played an integral role in WebSphere server migration upgrades for versions 7.0 and 8.5.
• Utilized FICO Blaze Advisor rule platform to define, manage and execute decision logic used by Confidential and 3 new Rules applications.
• Thousands of rules and rules unit test cases were developed utilizing Blaze as a business decision tool.
• Development changes completed for 15 Blaze Rules projects in Confidential .
• Work included the addition or changes to hundreds of rules and hundreds of rules unit test cases.
• Administered monthly release deployments for mainframe, Java WebSphere and Smalltalk components. Primary role as Builder/Release coordinator for Java application executable builds and deployments into test and production environments.
• Facilitated production release tasks necessary to ensure successful deployments of all deliverables. Gathered release information for deployment and back-out plans.
• Managed version control of deployed components and utilized deployment tools such as Build Forge and Jenkins.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Policy data is transmitted to National and State bureaus for rate and loss guidance.
• Performed automated corrections and re-submissions of missing policy information.
• Worked with the team on several substantial code enhancements and one major code rewrite to correct the existing data reporting problems.

Confidential

Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and executed feature/program test plans for GUI and IMS online environment.
• Performed application programming in PL/1.

Confidential

Project Lead/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with a project team to develop and maintain MVS/COBOL/DB2 applications for a new business long distance rating and billing system.
• Major processing included Account selection, Bill calculation and update customer Master File.
• Designed and programmed the message guiding process that utilizes 23 DB2 tables.

Developer/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior developer on this system that processes customer account information for Confidential & Confidential billers.
• Involved in the design and development of two major architectural enhancements, restructuring the Billing data store and migrating the IMS database processing to DB2.
• Worked with development team for Y2K feasibility, conversions and migration of existing programs.
• Responsible for applications that performed rating and message guiding for billing purposes.
• Maintained batch programs for monthly software releases and troubleshooting any production problems in a timely manner that would not affect billing cycles.
• Performed release coordination for the district and initial point of contact for release issues.