Objective: To obtain a position in your company which will allow me to utilize my strengths as a Mainframe Cobol Programmer. I am seeking a position in which I can utilize my years of experience and the ability to work with and lead a team of developers who all have a passion for their jobs and who understand and share the vision and goals of the company.
| Professional Experience Confidential IT Software Manager - Manager of 8 development resources made up of internal and vendor resources. Responsible for the management of developer resources on the Eagle/PACE application.
- Worked very closely with Business System Analyst, Product Managers and Project Managers
- Responsible for the implementation of a Prod Support team for the application. This allowed us to continue to work on the project portfolio and meet client deliverables and deadlines..
- Responsible for Project estimation across all groups and resource allocation across all projects. Responsible for the production implementation of all projects following the SDLC process.
IT Software Manager - Manager of 15 development resources made up of internal and vendor resources. Responsible for the management of developer resources on Mainframe Application Performance and Risk Analysis.
- Worked within the SDLC process, tailoring it to be a hybrid of Waterfall and Iterative processing to help meet the TIME-to-Market demands. Exposure to Agile processing
- Worked very closely with Business System Analyst, Product Managers and Project Managers
- Established the working relationship with consultant vendor to augment staff. Creation of a Production Support team to handle all production issues and allow us to maintain project momentum and meet all client deliverables.
- Responsible for cost saving of over 1 million in CPU reduction through Code rewrite, SQL query tuning and batch optimization.
- Reduced Batch processing cycles. Took batch cycle from 6 hours down to around 90 minutes through parallel processing. This allows system to meet all Client SLAs.
- Created a 24/6.5 real time cycle from a mainframe COBOL batch system.
- Responsible for project estimation, project implementation and resource allocation
- Ability to adapt and adjust to conflicting priorities and priority shifts.
Confidential IT Consultant - Analyze user needs Business Requirements and software requirements Functional Requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Determine system performance standards.
- Write, update, and maintain computer programs or software packages to handle specific jobs such as tracking inventory, storing or retrieving data, or controlling other equipment.
- Responsible to address and handle all Y2K issues prior to the the year 2000.
- Responsible for the conversion of vendor application into a home grown Performance and Risk Analytics COBOL application.
- Responsible for the conversion from a VSAM file system to a DB2 Database
- Responsible for the production support for all installations
Confidential IT Consultant - Worked on the Fideltity Brokerage System for Y2K compatability.
- Analyzed, tested and verified several functions to ensure proper handling of Y2K.
- Platforms included COBOL, DB2 CICS
Confidential IT Consultant - Responsible for the Technical Design and Support of a Fund Accounting System for European Client
- Responsibilities included cration of test plans coordination across various geopgrpahical locations.
- Support of user acceptance test
- Production Support 24/7
Confidential Programmer Analyst - Responsible for all phases of SDLC from requirements gathering through implementation.
- Worked as an individual contributor and also leads small tams on some projects.
- Technical advisor to junior level team members.
- Platforms included COBOL, DB2 CICS
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Strong Management Communication Skills. - Ability to motivate/challenge team members to think outside the box to get things done
- Strong analytical skills and very strong ability to debug and analyze any production issues in a timely manner. Ablity to offer up solutions both tactical and strategic. Strong Mainframe skills i.e. JCL, DB2, COBOL, SyncSort, VSAM, scheduling
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