SUMMARY:

• A self - motivated professional having 34+ years progressive experience ranging from Programmer Analyst to Project Leader.
• Excellent design, project management skills using various softwares.
• An organized time manager who prides himself to meet expected delivery dates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE/OPERATING SYSTEMS: IBM Mainframes, AS400, IBM PC's and Compatibles

LANGUAGES/SOFTWARE: PDS Payroll Application, WORKDAY Financial and HR Systems, Agile, Confluence, JIRA, ITIL, SOAP, COBOL, COBOL II, CICS, DB2/SQL, TELON TSO/SPF, C, SQL Server, Foxpro, VSAM, IMS, IDMS, Eastrieve Plus, FOCUS, Visual Basic, DOS/VSE, MVS, JCL, RPG3, Panvalet, PANAPT, Paradox, Lotus 123, WordPerfect, Mantissa Report Distribution Products, Magic, Roscoe, Sybase, Stratus, MS Word, ACCESS, Excel, C++, NATURAL, ADABAS, OLAP, ColdFusion, MQSERIES, Sybase, Cyberlife, P+,INTEGRAL and Assembler

Application Experience: Accounting, Annuities, Workday Financial and HR installs and upgrades, Mutual Funds, Check Reconciliation, Payroll, Banking, Personnel, Asset Management, Inventory, Financials, Distribution, Quality Assurance, Publishing, Sales & Marketing, Data warehousing, Banking, and Mainframe Connectivity Architecture.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work on various Cyberlife and P+ Assignment.
• Adding skip file logic to several jobs.
• Work on supporting the Workday application, worked on numerous upgrades.
• Work on Lean Conversion
• Member of the Confidential Athletic Club.
• Work on MCAS project
• Work on various Performance Team as lead developer and leader on expanding our fund number expansion from 3 digits to 5.
• Updating and testing approximately 2000+ COBOL modules.

Confidential

Project lead

Responsibilities:

• Write 5 Webservice programs to transmit data to Workday.
• Assist in configuring the CICS environments in order to have Webservices communicate to Workday.
• Set up implementation schedule for going live with Workday
• Work on 2 Workday updates.
• Work on establishing several platforms for creating Workday environments.
• Work with Accounting department coordinating Workday updates and schedules.
• Supporting PDS Payroll/HRIS Application
• Work on PDS conversion team on converting the 40 year legacy Payroll/HRIS system to PDS.
• Coordinate setting up Batch programs and JCL.
• Setting up FTP of data from Confidential to PDS.
• Work on all annual system updates to PDS.
• Train people on using several PDS updates.
• Create tax reporting.
• Prepare for Open Enrollment.
• Work on annual W2 processing.
• Other HRIS functions with PDS.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work on Confidential Bookkeeping Systems.
• Work on a software replacement committee.
• Worked on 10 major software upgrades and lead technical analyst on three-system enhancement.
• Work on several client conversions.
• Served on committee to reduce testing costs and problems.

Confidential

Consultant/Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and Enhance batch and online changes to Automated Teller System.

Confidential

Senior Technical Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Install INFOPAC upgrade.
• Convert FOCUS to WEBFOCUS 4.13
• Work on Masterpiece Upgrade Conversion for Purchase Order, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable

Confidential

Consultant/Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop a GUI (Graphical User Interface) using ColdFusion, for Confidential ’s Open Enrollment.
• Project Leader and lead analyst for HR/Personal Systems.
• Integral 9.5.10 release.
• Provide Foxpro support for several users
• On a team to review SQL Server
• Lead and supervisor 7 junior programmers and analysts.
• Managed the successful completion of 2 product upgrades.
• Worked on employee reviews and evaluation.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Data warehousing project using COBOLII, DB2, and VSAM.
• Create files for Voice Response Unit (VRU), Automatic Teller Machine(ATM), and Teller, which would be downloaded to a Data warehouse on a UNIX platform.
• Created over 20 programs in DB2, COBOLII, CLIST, and EASYTRIEVE PLUS.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on an Y2K project on Mellon's accounting system.
• Provide analysis and project leadership in coordinating programs and programmers.
• Changed over 150 online and batch programs in order to get them Y2K compliant.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Mainframe-to-Mainframe, Mainframe-to-UNIX and Mainframe-to-Stratus.
• Assisted on converting Year 2000 applications.
• Assisted in creating a logging program to store transaction, in case of line overload, or line interruptions.
• Assisted in research and documenting DCA Open Server.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide senior analysis for DOS to MVS conversion.
• Provide system analysis for developing specifications and enhancements to new Sun Life product lines(Regatta Gold, Regatta old New York and Regatta Classic)
• As Project Leader, implemented Sun Life of New York's EFT Check Reconciliation and Annuity Systems; developed and enhanced 30+ CICS and COBOL programs.
• Designed and implemented a Group Capital Annuity Reporting System using FOCUS; trained Sun Life personnel to use new System.
• Developed 15+ CICS, COBOL and FOCUS programs; modified and Enhanced JCL job streams.
• Coordinated and converted Sun Life's mainframe to a client/server interfaces; wrote appropriate COBOL programs to assist file-transferring procedures.

Confidential

Information Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Converted the current Asset Management to the Walker Asset Management System.
• Created and implemented a pilot program to convert the employment application form from hard copy to a PC based Visual Basic form.
• Recognized for consistently meeting budget and deadline expectations.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented Custom Publishing projects; created 20+ DB2/COBOL/CICS programs.
• Developed and implemented a pilot TELON projects; converted old DOS/VSE systems to DB2/COBOL/CICS/TELON.
• Provided enhancements and supported warehouse interface system.
• Make sure the Confidential Distribution Centers (Indianapolis) AS400 inventory system was in sync with Addison-Wesley's corporate mainframe (Reading).
• Make enhancement with the AS400 system using RPG3.
• Worked on a DOS to MVS conversion project, converted VSAM to DB2, changed JCL job streams; rewrote former and wrote new applicable programs.