SUMMARY

• Accomplished IT professional with extensive experience across a notable range of industries, including Brokerage, Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications, and Pharmaceutical among others. Excelled at developing solutions/components/strategies that produced high quality deliverables.
• Breadth of experience includes System, Data and Business Analysis; Feasibility Studies; Logical/Physical Applications/Database Design; System Implementation, Acceptance testing, Quality Assurance, Surveys and Technical Support. User focused, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Productive in both team - based and self-managed projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, DB2, SQL, DB2 UDB, SPUFI, QMF, DB2 Utilities, PLATINUM, FILE - AID for DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, SQLServer, CICS, MQ Series, MVS/TSO/ISPF/JCL, VSAM, SYNCSORT, SYNCJOIN, FILE-AID, Confidential Utilities, CHANGEMAN, LIBRARIAN, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, CA7, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, VIASOFT, FileAid, INSYNC, NDM, RSA Encryption Tool, Control M, MS Office Suite, MS VISIO, ESSBASE, XML, QlikView, HARDWARE: Confidential Mainframe, Confidential PC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Mainframe Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead solutions provider and developer for Name & Address and MSD systems
• Responsible for implementing regulatory mandated FDID processing across multiple institutional customers
• In charge of performance optimization of critical system functions, assuring timely data feeds transfer to client companies for Name & Address and Master Securities applications
• Modified and enhanced Name & Address systems, as well as created new modules in order to accommodate new customers onboarding

Environment: DB2, TSO/ISPF/JCL, Cobol LE, Stored Procedures, Confidential /CA Utilities

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Mainframe Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Solely responsible for converting, supporting and maintaining Turbo Tax applications suite.
• Performed complete system analysis, created catalog of elements, detailed documentation and flow charts
• Personally designed, developed, modified and implemented fifty seven (57) system’s elements including programs, stored procedures, jobs, procs, Confidential and DB2 utilities
• Created and employed system-wide algorithm for assuring incoming data integrity and consistency
• Successfully put into operation an automated Turbo Tax Purge Process eliminating obsolete historical data
• Built auxiliary processes transforming an input data into a fixed format for the ease of troubleshooting and analysis
• Created a set of applications to synchronize production and UAT environments
• Maintained and modified UAT databases according to user’s requests
• Onboarding Prime Brokerage accounts into existing Retail Portfolio platform
• Enabled processing of new Institutional Client accounts by modifying multiple system’s elements
• Provided end users with the ability to request 1099B tax information via online API
• Conversion of data source from an obsolete source to NACS database
• Analyzed, modified, tested, and implemented impacted components in close corroboration with a front end

Environment: DB2, TSO/ISPF/JCL, Cobol LE, Stored Procedures, Confidential /CA Utilities

Confidential, Orangeburg, New York

Senior Software Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for modifications and enhancement of Collection and Debt Recovery processes.
• Analyzed and modified system elements for transition from VSAM to DB2 environment
• Designed and built temporary jobs for the pre-implementation’s data migration
• Performed analysis of data files dependencies and compiled cross- job lists

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant for conversion of Global Margin System in order to accommodate a new major bank client
• Systemized requirements to system modifications based on client’s documentation
• Designed a high level process flow, as well as detailed specifications for a new marginability process
• Developed an automatic securities release driver for marginability system
• Build and successfully tested marginability system batch modules

Confidential, Liberty Corner, NJ

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Galaxy /Xuber project - transition of core company system from mainframe to a server based platform (SQL Server)
• Designed and developed conversion, transformation, and migration procedures consisting of various mainframe job streams and data transfer modules
• Built separate processes for extracting and transferring mainframe data to a server based Data Warehouse
• Developed a methodology for data reconciliation using advanced mainframe reporting facilities
• Constructed automated routines for creating server database objects and populating them with transmitted data
• Created intermediate staging databases necessary for data analysis, manipulation, and mapping
• Responsible for data validation procedures consisting of multiple mainframe, as well as server elements and processes
• Get off Mainframe project - conversion of Reinsurance system to a server based emulated MVS environment (MicroFocus Cobol)
• Performed complex system analysis to identify and estimate the scope of efforts necessary to migrate multi-region system’s elements to a server
• Designed and developed multi-step data conversion and migration procedures for different regions
• Built migration procedures for system’s elements transition, including mass-compiling and staging
• Converted and modified more than 300 existing system’s elements to comply with the new system requirements

Confidential, Software Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Selected as part of an elite team assigned to develop a high visibility Verizon Friends and Family initiative.
• Interfaced with front-end and middleware teams during the project design and development. Analyzed, inventoried and documented existing API modules; created data/system Visio flowcharts
• As lead developer, built a Combined Accounts Inter-Instance Reassign system, enabling transfer or aggregation of separate customer accounts under one major account server-based data encryption tool to safeguard customer data
• Successfully implemented processes that significantly improved customer experience and eliminated costly manual adjustments.
• Solely developed over sixty system elements and pioneered the implementation of batch file encryption processes for the CST team
• Coordinated development and testing between DBA, File Transfer, Unix, and QA groups