SUMMARY:

• Knowledge of COBOL, CICS, DB2, SPUFI,QMF,Expediter, Endeavor, VSAM, File - Aid, OS/MVS ESA, Z/OS, OS Utilities, IDCAMS, Syncsort, JCL System 370/390, TSO, Store Procedures, Rdz, ChangeMan, Erwin Data Modeling, Confidential WorkFlow, TIBCO, WebSphere MQ Series, ADABAS, Eclipse/Data Studio.
• A highly motivated, trusted, talented, and conscientious IT professional with extensive experience delivering high quality solutions while fostering creativity on diversified technologies and financial applications. Over 8 years of experience leading and developing teams on various platforms.
• Experienced in managing, developing and supporting IT development and implementation of multiple projects throughout Project Life Cycle to support Java based Front-end Applications with excellent understanding front, middle, and back office trade flows.
• Interfaced with key settlement and reporting agencies including Fed Funds, Money Laundering and DTCC.
• Demonstrated success in solving and troubleshooting complex problems in high pressured environments under tight constraints
• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
• Solid systems design and project scoping
• Strong database and performance tuning skills
• Proven track record in delivering projects on time and within budget
• Adept at meeting any challenges around developing new systems or maintaining existing systems
• Skilled at bringing out the best in people through strong leadership, leading by example, encouraging the heart, and mentoring

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Mainframe/Lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Rewriting/consolidating a set of Stored Procedures in order to provide Key Performance Indexes (KPI) on a quarterly basis for new and buy/sell dealers as well as the KPI for the previous dealers. Stored Procedures were written using Eclipse /Data Studio.
• Part of Financial Advisor Compensation team providing Analytics support.
• Developed on-request ad-hoc reports for the Office of Business Management and implemented Policy changes to the existing Production systems.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Excel, Microsoft Word

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Mainframe/Lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the E-mail Renovation Project were all reports generated during the Batch cycle are being sent to users.
• The requirement was to change the server that facilitated the transmission to a Confidential server. Over 100 Jobs and Control cards need it to be changed.
• Perform SQL tuning for high consuming CPU and elapse time jobs by using an Incremental approach and new Indexes, with a reduction of 75% of CPU and Elapse Time.
• Developed new CICS/DB2 and Batch programs for multiple Change Request Forms within the Retirement application.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Excel, Microsoft Word

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Mainframe/Lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in production support of Claims Data History Load process (DHL).
• West DHL transmitted data containing all claim information based on particular extract criteria to Data On Boarding (DOB) system which triggered pre-edit jobs to verify eligibility, retrieved addition client profile, pharmacy and NDC information, loaded IW Point of Sales(POS) and CCR(Customer Service) databases.
• Analysis and reconciliation of claim reject, execution, setup ofon demand jobs to recycle the resolved claims.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Teradata, Excel, Microsoft Word.

Confidential

Mainframe/Lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and mentored team of mainframe programmers in-house and off-shore.
• Oversaw development and implementation of multiple projects throughout Project Life Cycle to support Java based Front-end Applications with middle and back office processing flows.
• Led all phases of project plan, including scoping, resource allocation, application design with overall screen performance being taken into consideration due to company’s SLA, milestones, Data Base Modeling, development coding, unit and system testing, QA and production implementation.
• Planned and coordinated system tasks and sub tasks to meet the multiple project timelines across different business areas.
• Managed change requests and analyze the impact to existing system, and developed a timeline for test development, QA testing, and production implementation.
• Moved tasks from foreground to background synchronous tasks, database tuning, and data archiving, resulting in significant cost savings for the online and batch processing.
• Converted Disbursements legacy system which facilitated transfer of funds from a Confidential account via a Fed wire, Check or Direct Deposit that was based on CICS screens to Java front end, with COBOL/DB2/CICS middle and back office processing flows. Resulted in 50% reduction on Entry and Submission times, instantaneous client data validation, straight thru processing and same day processing. Increased efficiency, minimized fraud and money laundering, integrated web based screen design with other Confidential applications and resulted in significant operational cost savings.
• Legacy payments instructions underwent a conversion to the new platform. Technologies used included: Cobol/DB2, Store Procedures, Batch, JCL,VSAM, TIBCO, CICS, WebSphere MQ. CICS, TIBCO and WebSphere MQ were also used for intraday payments from upstream systems and for downstream completion of transactions.
• ServiceWorks/Client Instruction scanned clients Letter of Authorization and Supporting Documents are being surfaced allowing the CSA to create or attach it to a future request eliminating the need of redundant stops for approvals.
• ServiceWorks/Star was used for completion of Ad-hoc requests between Branch and Home Office
• ServiceWorks/Deliver Free facilitated transfer of DTC eligible shares outside the firm and based on account conditions, one or more departments needed to approve the request. Based on the Routing rules Tibco engine directed the request to appropriate department. Heavy utilization of Store Procedures in communication with TIBCO engine.
• Cobra or Cost Bases Initiative triggered by new regulation were Tax lots needed to have cost bases applied and affected existing Journal Automation, allowing movement of cash and securities and Deliver Free application. Legacy PMIS was re-designed from CICS based screens to new Java based screens allowing users to update existing Realized and Un-Realized tax lots.
• Journal Automation facilitated transfer of assets between Confidential account, based on account conditions one or more departments needed to approve request. Based on the Routing rules Work Flow engine directed the request to appropriate department. CICS programs were used for the interface with Work Flow engine.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the programming efforts of re-writing the Billing System from COBOL-VSAM to COBOL 2-DB2...
• Developed system to support transfer of data from SYBASE database into DB2 tables using DB2 CONNECT.
• Developed, tested, and implemented re-labeled process of the Client Account database with appropriate labels based on systems housing telephone information (Auto Dialer, CDB/CRDB), ensuring front-end complies with the redesigned back-end database.
• Participated in new FDIC- SWEEP system to ensure eligible new accounts had un-invested cash deposited into FDIC-insured deposit account, modifying functions within the web-based front-end application that contained business rules for each of the many account types within Confidential PW.
• Performed coding, testing, and Production implementation of COBOL/DB2 batch Claim Reports.
• Analyzed and identified errors generated by Production running jobs error File, involving extracting the accounts, re-running of jobs in test environment and applying necessary coding changes to programs and moving them back into production.
• Performed analysis, development and maintenance of Vendor Loss Process to ensure that the Legacy system based on COBOL, CICS, JCL and DB2 could handle and process claims and transfers to and from different vendors.
• Involved in making enhancements with current Billing System requiring handling of multiple accounts and calculating fees for relationships based on Company breakpoints. Developed programs in COBOL, DB2 VSAM, and JCL.
• Participated as team member on a new Output Systems Project (COBOL, DB2, JCL, and FILEAID), a reengineering effort of all backend applications and systems to allow the input of unlimited occurrences of certain data and expanding field sizes.
• Identified, coded, and remediated trouble spots in the existing systems (COBOL, COBOL 2, CICS, DB2, VSAM)