SUMMARY:

Senior Project Manager and Applications Analyst with experience collaborating with clients to produce timely and thorough software solutions for large - scale Financial, Portfolio Management, Order Management and HIPAA applications. Manager of collaborative teams to provide solutions to the customers. I am adept at soliciting and gathering information requirements, designing, testing and providing feedback and delivering results on both the mainframe as well as network platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM 3090, IBM PC’s, File Servers and Cisco Routers

Software: Mainframe - DB2 (V10), SQL Server, OS/MVS, VSAM, OS JCL, Expediter, MQ Series, TSO, JES, File-Aid, InterTest, Ideal, Datacom, IMS, IDMS, Changeman, Endevor, CLIST, REXX, Agile Technology. MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Project), Windows NT, Novell Netware 386

Languages: Mainframe - COBOL-II, CICS, EZTPLUS, Assembler, PC - Micro Focus COBOL, XGEN, Focus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Applications Developer/Technical Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert and Production Manager for mainframe support of an off shore staff of six developers whom I am mentoring for JCL, COBOL, Stored Procedures.
• Analysis, design and development of COBOL/DB2 programs to support claims processing and the Provider Network database. Designed, coded, tested and updated COBOL CICS/DB2, Stored Procedures and MQ programs.
• Extensive interaction with Data Modelers and DBAs to design and define new tables and Triggers.
• Enhanced legacy COBOL code to accommodate calls to Java layer for an API.
• Delivered results using Agile Technology. This provided cost savings due to the expedited time to delivery.
• Collaborated on cross application efforts with the various Claims engines to assure best use of data. This involved building relationships and being the resource who coordinated software updates installed during off hours.
• Extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of data to provide input to a new Fee Schedule application.
• Designed and developed COSMOS programs using XGEN, providing test cases, test plans and quality assurance.
• Technical Release Manager - collaborated with DB2, CICS technical personnel as well as development staff to define updates and new elements using MS Access. Fulfilled large scale enhancements under budget and on time.
• Supported an in-house application to manage and track the elements for software deliveries.

Confidential

Senior Applications Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote new COBOL/DB2 programs to interface with global shipping initiative.
• Updated CICS/DB2 programs.
• Updated and debugged a sub system for Order Analysis using Micro Focus COBOL.
• Designed new DB2 tables and collaborated with DBA’s. Designed shipping label with Zebra Designer Pro software.

Confidential

Sr. Applications Analyst

Responsibilities:

• for coding and testing updates for the Company Control application for statutory updates.
• Design work on the IDEAL DataCom conversion to CICS/COBOL/DB2, coordinating updates with Team India.
• Resolved production abends by debugging and correcting both Ideal and COBOL/DB2 programs.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Installed an Order Management and accounting solutions application using SQL Server, COBOL and .NET.
• Tested, enhanced, collaborated with software vendor and installed the Sales Force Automation software.
• Wrote new programs for Historical Inventory Analysis.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote new software using MQ Series, CICS, DB2 and COBOL-II to allow tracking of international shipments for U.S. Customs initiative. Used Expediter to debug batch programs and CEDF to debug the CICS programs.
• Provided production fixes to critical CICS and batch COBOL DB2 programs.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• HIPAA enhancements for Service Delivery applications using extensive SQL, MQ Series, CICS, DB2, Assembler, UNIX and VSAM. Extensive use of InterTest to address various coding errors on legacy COBOL DB2 programs.
• Wrote two new COBOL/CICS/DB2programs for Eligibility processing.
• Collaborated with Web developers to assure seamless processing with the mainframe Claims application.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all host enhancements for a Branch Automation application for Tellers and Customer Service Representatives. Coordinated the efforts of the SA and other developers to provide timely software releases.
• Designed new subsystem for Passbook functionality using MS Project to expedite an acquisition of a 26 branch bank.
• Managed a project for CSR and Teller incentives which encompassed 10 new CICS and 10 new batch programs. Used MS Project to track the deliverables.
• Enhanced Teller Reporting System to better track activity. This required writing ten new COBOL II DB2 programs, with extensive JCL modifications.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported a complex, high volume CICS and batch COBOL Order Entry system for a national Prescription Benefits Manager using VSAM and DB2.
• Extensive use of InterTest to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Supported an IDMS inventory application.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and developed an online and batch Order Entry system using CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS and COBOL.
• Debugged the applications using FileAID and InterTest.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• LAN Administrator, using Novell Netware, for a Portfolio Management System from Princeton Financial, updating enhancements and installing new releases. Designed and developed reports using Micro Focus for COBOL to provide analysis of an $8B portfolio. Extensive interface with customers. Authored a Cash Accounting System, using TELON.
• Supported in-house brokerage applications to provide profit and loss analysis.
• Other duties were to convert a Warehouse Tracking System from IDMS to DB2. This required analysis, development of a proposal, 24 CICS programs and 12 batch COBOL programs to inquire and update against 8 DB2 tables.