Senior System Analyst Resume
New Jersy, NJ
Qualifications Summary:
Highly skilled Application Development professional with 25 years of experience designing and developing cost effective business applications. Experienced in systems analysis, business analysis, application development and project management. Skills include business requirement gathering, documentation, cost effective solution design, technical design documentation, test planning and development team leadership. Experienced in all phases of the SDLC. Highly effective communicator, both written and verbal.
Skill set includes:
Inventory management
Order Processing
Accounting applications
Insurance claim processing
Software development tools
Development team leadership
Project management
Business Requirements gathering
Vendor relations
Application design tools
Technical Experience:
COBOL
TELON
CICS
DB2
IMS DB/DC
Oracle
Endevor
VSAM
Panvalet
Visual Source Safe
Xpeditor
Smartest
Intertst
VB.NET
Visual Source Safe
Team Foundation Server
Panvalet
Visio
Assembler
File-Aid
JCL
MQSeries
Microsoft Office products
Microsoft Project
Work Experience:
Senior System Analyst, Confidential,2000 through 2009
Responsible for applications concerning Claims processing including auto and property claims adjusting. Familiar with all insurance claims reporting agencies such as NICB and ISO. Thorough understanding of the P&C insurance industry.
- Led the design and construction of an application eliminating the need for vendor storage of over 1 million auto estimates per year, saving over $1.9 million per year in vendor payments for transmission and storage costs.
- Selected as technical consultant to the Claims Project Review Board. It was the responsibility of the PRB to determine the feasibility of all business requested project and to slot them into an appropriate code release. Responsible for high-level effort estimates, resource assignment and initial technical design.
- Selected to lead on-shore staff of 3 legacy systems analysts during the reengineering to VB.Net of the claims processing applications. Led off-shore development staff of 25 that was responsible for all legacy application enhancement and maintenance. Staffing prior to the re-engineering effort was 250.
- Selected as the systems analyst during a vendor selection for property claim estimation software. Participated in the business requirements gathering for the selection process. Developed the technical requirements for the selection process. Participated in the vendor site review. Participated in the cost benefit analysis of the conversion to a new vendor.
Primary expert for mainframe development tools, Smartest, Intertst, Endevor, Panvalet, Librarian, TELON, compilers, including two in-house developed development tools.
- Selected as the Lead technical consultant during an enterprise wide conversion of legacy applications to IBM language Environment requirements. Provided technical direction to the development staff for over 50 business application comprising 25,000+ programs written in all mainframe programming languages.
- Led a team of 4 whose primary responsibility was the development of an integrated mainframe development environment. The environment integration provided the organization with the ability to move application development activities to other global locations which produced significant cost savings in development staffing costs, standardization and process improvement and simplified management and control of a 13 data center processing environment.
Senior Mainframe Consultant/Consultant Manager, Confidential,
1994 through 2000
Responsible for providing clients with superior staff supplementation services in the area of development tool design and support. Responsible for the management of 5 staff consultants including client relations, performance reviews, salary administration and training requirements.
Senior Systems Analyst/Project Manager, Confidential,
1989 through 1994
Senior System Analyst responsible for warehousing systems focusing on inventory management and order processing. Lead teams of up to 5 developers in the maintenance and enhancement of the warehousing systems.
- Led the development of an interface between mainframe systems and hand held inventory management devices. This project eliminated the need for printed documents in the warehouse environment, which improved overall warehouse performance and lowered costs.
- Worked closely with Warehouse managers to improve warehouse personnel performance through automation of tasks and process improvement.
Senior Programmer/Analyst, Confidential,
1984 through 1989
Mainframe Programmer/Analyst responsible for inventory management, order processing and accounting applications.
- Designed and developed a supplier cross reference system that simplified the process of supplier relationship management.
- Assisted in the development of an interface between centralized mainframe and remote AS400 computers to provide more timely information and printing capabilities.
Education:
Business administration