INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST

Solution oriented Information Technology professional with strong management and technical experience supporting diverse business functions. Solid performer with considerable hands-on experience and an excellent reputation leading teams in mission critical application development and new implementations. An ideal candidate for a senior technical or leadership role in any IT organization.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

• Managing/Motivating Software Development Project Teams, Budget Planning, and Resource Allocation
• Finalizing Project Specifications, Directing Tasks, Tracking/Reporting Progress, and Change Management
• Defining, Documenting, Presenting, and Implementing Global, National, and Local Business Requirements
• Enforcing SDLC standards, Crafting and Executing System/Integration/Product Verification Test Scripts
• Expert at communicating with colleagues, customers, third-party vendors, and executive management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• CICS, COBOL, DB2/SQL, IMS, VSAM, IDCAMS, SPUFI, JCL, SDF II, zOS, MVS, TSO/ISPF
• WebSphere MQ, ProTerm, Hiperstation, File-Aid, Xpediter, Intertest, CA-Easytrieve, ChangeMan
• Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, NDM, FTP, TCP/IP, HTML, Control-M, REXX
• BMC Utilities, CA-Unicenter Platinum, CompareX, SyncSort, $AVERS, Librarian, Tivoli InfoMan

PROFESSIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Confidential,Paramus, NJ October 2007 – present
Consultant

• Quickly learned the package tracking and notification business in order to provide analytical and technical mainframe support for the Customer Technology group with their semi-annual Enterprise Releases and Production Support requirements.
• Designed, coded, tested, and implemented new COBOL/DB2 Stored Procedures used by Internet customers for package pickup scheduling, which saved gasoline utilization costs for the company with 20,000 customers, while helping the company reach its goal to promote its success in becoming more environmental-friendly.
• Developed a new COBOL/CICS/DB2 application which creates test delivery data for the package tracking system, in order to supply sufficient test data without needing support from the delivery application team.
• Investigated and repaired ABEND and program runaway conditions occurring in the mainframe package tracking system accessed by customers from other mainframe, client/server, and Internet systems.
• Enhanced existing batch jobs to send warning e-mails when they processed empty input files, and upgraded programs to perform remote DB2 database access per DB2 Version 9 protocol standards.
• Participated in code reviews, recommended solutions to make programs more efficient at using resources, and developed stress test scripts, for software being developed.

Confidential,Park Ridge, NJ December 2000 – August 2007
Systems Manager

• Managed data conversion and mainframe interface development for efforts for 2 SAP/R3 implementations. This multi-year SOAR (Sales/Order management/AR) project replaced a legacy mainframe ERP, Billing, Invoicing, and Accounts Receivables and ancillary systems with the new SAP/R3 environment at Sony.

Confidential,Park Ridge, NJ (continued) December 2000 – August 2007

• Managed and led effort to retire many legacy mainframe systems once the SAP/R3 implementation finished. Over 2800 modules, including almost 400 CICS modules, multiple CICS regions, 1700 other modules, and 700 batch jobs were deactivated without any impact to the business community, after the SAP system went live. Most IMS databases, and many DB2 tables, were archived and retired as part of this effort.
• Initiated a project that freed significant DASD storage and reduced number of active CICS regions needed by 50%. Removed mainframe flat files and tapes from legacy systems, by auditing and directing support team in archiving & deleting information no longer needed due to success of new SAP environment.
• Trained and led multiple outsource mainframe production support teams, consolidating these teams’ efforts and improving productivity. Instituted new standards for these teams in New Jersey, San Diego, and India. Proposed and implemented upgrades to Sony’s Change Control and Incident Management Procedures.
• Led application team that was responsible for developing and testing new mainframe interfaces built for the user community between legacy systems and environments utilizing Oracle and client server applications.
• Responsible for leading code reviews, and for developing system and QA testing environments and plans.
• Participated as the mainframe specialist on cross-functional IT team tasked with improving existing SDLC and SDM standards, and Change Management. New corporate-wide procedures were implemented based on the team’s recommendations.
• Managed team which developed process to convert mainframe data which did initial load to the SAP BW (Business Warehouse) environment, and then followed that effort with the development and enhancements of the various interfaces into the BW environment of legacy transactional and master data changes.
• Technically supported SAP APO implementation efforts, including converting mainframe production data, and QA testing of this data, for use in the SAP Business Warehouse / Supply Chain environment.

Confidential,Franklin Lakes, NJ March 2000 – December 2000
Project Manager

• Managed resources that developed mainframe modules consolidating data from transactional and customer systems into a patient information DB2 data warehouse, accessible via web pages on their intranet.

Confidential,Woodcliff Lake NJ April 1998 – March 2000 Consultant

• Audited, reviewed, and recommended mainframe system software upgrades, so that BMW was at the proper maintenance level for Year 2000 support for IBM and other mainframe software vendors
• Reviewed and recommended new test and productivity tools purchased by BMW, so that BMW had the tools needed to do the testing required to prove due diligence was achieved for their CDC project.
• Assisted technical services group with DASD/Tape upgrades, and CICS system table entries needed to make their mainframe environment more efficient and compliant to recommended Y2K standards.
• Provided necessary training and functional expertise to testers and coders utilizing the recommended CDC tools. Created baseline files and databases for Year 2000 compliance testing. Wrote procedures on how to “age”, backup, and restore test files from current production files.
• Moderated weekly Year 2000 meeting to resolve problems between applications and tech support teams.

Confidential,Woodcliff Lake NJ November 1992 – April 1998
Applications Manager (1992-1994) / Systems Manager (1994-1998)

• Technically analyzed and designed improvements to the batch network of the Legacy mainframe systems, enabling the Order Management and Sales/Invoicing systems to handle much greater business volume with less down time for CICS systems. EDI was utilized as a new source of order & invoice processing. System availability improved by 50%. These enhancements led to a significant volume increase of orders received, fulfilled, and shipped in timely manner, and augmented customer satisfaction both internally and externally.
• Led mainframe team assigned in 1997 to initial Y2K requirements gathering, analysis, and project planning.

Confidential,Woodcliff Lake NJ (continued) November 1992 – April 1998

• Managed team that created new Quality Assurance CICS regions, and their supporting batch environments. These new regions provided application teams with a QA and System Test environments which simulated actual production CICS and batch environments in scope and data (with copies of production VSAM, IMS, and DB2 databases).
• Managed many conversion efforts which upgraded software and databases to recommended support levels.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Degree.