SUMMARY

• A hardworking responsible computer consultant with progressive analysis, design, programming, testing leadership experience on the AS/400 the mainframe platforms in prescription benefit managmement, retail merchandise POS , telecommunications, money-transfer, banking the insurance industries. Also knowledgeable in ecommerce programming, website design, PC based languages including SAP R/3 and various operating systems. Excellent written, interpersonal teaching skills.
• SKILL SUMMARY HARDWARE / OPERATING SYSTEMS: AS/400s, IBM 3090s, JES2/3, UNIX, PC WINDOWS , OS/DOS. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES / SOFTWARE PACKAGES: COOL2E/SYNON, COBOL, COBOL II, VISUAL BASIC 5.0, 6.0, RPG, PL/I, HTML, JAVA 1.3, JAVASCRIPT, APL, SAP R/3 ABAP, PHP/MySQL DATABASE: IDMS / ADSO / OLM / OLQ / DMLO, SQL, IMS, CICS, DB2, JDBC, ACCESS ORACLE PL/SQL. REPORT WRITER: SYNON REPORT FILE FUNCTIONS, AS/400 QUERY, SQL, CRYSTAL REPORTS, CULPRIT, MARKIV, RAMIS.

SOFTWARE / UTILITIES:

• CL, ALDON, HAWK-EYE, IMPLEMENTER, JOB MANAGER, LIBRARIAN, EXPEDITER, ISPF/TSO/JCL/ACF2, SYNCSORT, VSAM, PANVALET, CLISTS, VISIO, MICROSOFT OFFICE, FRONTPAGE, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 7.0 PRIMIERE, DREAMWEAVER MX, DOS, OUTLOOK.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Tech-Lead

• Tech lead worked on the RxClaim application in the healthcare industry one of the largest pharmacy / prescription benefit plan application in the country.
• Responsible for conversion of clients from mainframe to the AS/400 SYNON/COBOL/RPG/SQL application with program enhancements where required, using company standards and procedures with Aldon as a change management tool. Often experience on both the mainframe software and AS/400 software was required to do good analysis.
• Managed a team of developers, business analysts with interface with the QA team, end users and business managers.
• Worked on technical design documents AADD using BRD,FRD , impact analysis, estimation, scheduling, code development, pseudo code, test plans, installation production support including regression tests and Triage support.
• Also interfaced with the off-shore team UK team to ensure round the clock program development.

Confidential

• Did freelance work in database design, programming and application support. Learning SAP R/3 architecture, administration, Basis, ABAP Programming with MM material management and SD sales distribution modules. Website design using PHP/MySQL.

Confidential

• Worked on the retail merchandise application system data integrity team. AS/400 application using SYNON, RPG, CL and other related tools. Was involved in researching problems in the areas of Point of Sale, Cost issues, and other related areas. Responsible for research, coding, testing, implementation using company procedures and support, using AS/400 SYNON 6.2 with RPG, CL, Queries, implementer, DB Visualizer and FTP.

Confidential

• Worked as a licensed teacher for all grades, taught various subjects. Was also doing freelance work as website designer using Dreamweaver and Photoshop package. Was also involved in making documentary films using ADOBE primiere editing package and professional photography. Also did freelance data base design, programming and consulting.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst /Associate Consultant

• Worked on a conversion of files project for CBR Point application release 5.0 to 8.0 using AS/400 SYNON CL, Queries, Cobol programs and parallel cycle running and testing. Resolved problems promptly that were being discovered during testing and reviews. Also did database administrative work for Lawrenceville office.
• Successfully completed over 225 SYNON/COOL 2E, COBOL enhancements on the BPO project that required upgrading of the accounts receivable PMSC casualty and property insurance Point software from 4.0 to 8.0 release. Was responsible for capacity planning, analysis, design, coding, unit testing and implementation. Project also required delegation of responsibilities to 2 more programmers, their supervision and helping them with technical issues.
• Successfully completed for several clients including MCA Motor Club of America , Rutgers Insurance, various online SYNON/COBOL II, enhancements Point 5.0 in accurate and on timely basis, meeting all quality product goals.
• Trained PMSC programmers in SYNON at countrywide locations for which I received special recognition. Was helping the NJ account programmers with SYNON related queries and was acting as their mentor.

Confidential

• Successfully completed many enhancements on the Financial Systems restructure project of Western Union W.U. . Used Case tools for Analysis and Design. Platform: AS/400 COBOL III with SQL, queries CL. Also Used SYNON for online screen generation reporting, FASTPATH for security , SILVERRUN for Data Modeling .
• Successfully completed several enhancements on the Sales and Marketing System applications. The applications were both batch and online using COBOL / IDMS / ADSO / OLM / OLQ / DMLO / SQL / Clists on IBM OS/MVS 3090s.

Confidential

Successfully completed several enhancements on the Easylink billing system for W.U Corp. Project required conversion to IDMS / ADSO/SYNON / OLM / OLQ / DMLO / VSAM, CICS programs from batch COBOL applications.

Confidential

Successfully completed all assigned enhancements on the accounts billing and reporting system and the payroll system. Applications were large-scale batch in COBOL/IMS/RPG/RAMIS on an IBM mainframe using TSO. Heavy user contact.

Confidential

Worked on banking mortgage projects using Pl/1 CULPRIT report writer packages. Also worked on a Sales and Marketing project in COBOL in IBM DOS/370 environment.