SUMMARY:

Consistently, and successfully, managed projects for application development of small, medium sized, and large companies on various platforms ranging from mainframes to PC's to produce high quality software and systems, on time, and within budget. Successfully applies development background to Project Management. Specific skills include: project/program management (SDLC, AGILE), risk management, application development, support, system integration, testing, specification development and analysis, defect tracking, and monitoring. Experience with both in - house development projects and support as well as off-shore/outsourced projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES: C, Bash Shell, Cobol, JCL, REXX

DATABASE: SQL, MySQL, Access

ADMIN: Open Office, MS-Office (2003,2007,2010) Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc, Visio

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Mainframe (Z/OS, MVS), Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu), Windows (7, XP), MS-DOS, UNIX

OTHER: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SSH, XML, SOAP, MQSeries, AFP, Ivory (GT Software), Confidential (d2eVision,TerminalOne)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Project Manager, Durham, NC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for several concurrent projects to develop and deploy a web based portal that provided role based access and functionality to support clinical research projects.
• I developed and maintained the project plans, coordinated with other development teams, created staffing plans, budget estimates and financial reports, and ran weekly team meetings.
• Portal releases were at the $500K level of funding, with three (3) major releases per year.
• The system was hosted on platforms using Oracle Web Center (OWC) products.

Confidential

PM, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Managed the web enablement of an existing mainframe CICS COBOL system that handles the application, issuance, payment and production of driver's licenses for Confidential .
• Applied new functionality and interfaces into other new systems for secure enrollment, testing, credit card payment, etc.
• Current green screen operation needed to be maintained.
• The mainframe work was being done using resources from a local vendor.
• Introduced a third party tool that generated the web services connected to the mainframe via a secure Confidential connection. Interfaces to other subsystems, of the development, were through an Confidential (Enterprise Service Bus) which logged all message traffic for later analysis.

Confidential

Lead Programmer Analyst, Mahwah, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed the project and led the development of a document creation and delivery system of customized messages for global consumers via FAX/EMAIL/LETTER in any of 10 different languages.
• Document requests fed from DB2 data and other external sources.
• Mainframe application (C and COBOL) synthesized message content passed to Confidential product software for AFP to PDF conversion on Red Hat Linux server. Utilized XML and SOAP epackages for content delivery to vendor's email and fax services.
• Incorporated MySQL database for metadata and administration.
• Incorporated API interfaces with fax Vendor using Terminal One and Bash Shell scripts for both sending faxes and retrieving delivery status.
• Created all monitoring and control processes with automated recovery and alerting to support 24x7 service.
• Managed outsourced application hosted on HP servers using SQLServer database for processing and handling undelivered package contents (2nd generation).
• Heavily involved in requirements, functionality, QA, stress testing, data security, Class 1 & 2 Information, Encryption, Zone of Control issues.

Confidential

Independent Consultant, Mahwah, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Lead design consultant for redesign and conversion of existing FAX application.
• Totally created new interface to maximize throughput, add asynchronous monitoring ability, and process control. Added mainframe processing to convert AFP toTIFF images which were then encapsulated into packages to be sent to the fax vendor for delivery.
• Faxes prepared in any of eight (8) languages from mainframe DB2 database.
• Designed and implemented proprietary interfaces.
• Conducted feasibility study of adding e-mail delivery of Delivery Information messages
• Lead developer for high volume proactive notification system using the Fax media for subscribed customers relating package shipment information on scheduled deliveries.

Confidential

Project Lead, Rye Brook, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed the software development group consisting of software developers and production personnel with 8 full time staff members and 14 consultants and was responsible for some 20 concurrent projects.
• Developed a new distributed Order Entry System which captured order information locally and transmitted completed orders to super servers over a Wide Area Network.
• Managed the production side of the system handling literally millions of transactions, reconciliation, reporting, and customer acknowledgments.
• Developed Rapid Applications for small customer jobs requiring manipulation of mainframe data via a PC interface.
• Designed and coded a significant portion of Confidential ’s original commercial version of Proof Positive routines to compute and compare rate plans against actual costs for recommendations of cost minimization to the customer.
• Handled all customer interfaces, requirements development, and contacts for both internal Confidential groups and external customers. Used Rapid Application Development techniques for both requirements gathering and project assessments.
• Used CASE techniques for design documentation and reviews.

Confidential

VP of Development, New Haven, Connecticut

Responsibilities:

• As a founder and VP of Development, managed and led the development of the company’s CASE offering which included; instantiating the diagramming techniques into ICON DRUMS, developing a companion data dictionary, and creating a neutral interface to other data bases and back end processors.
• Managed the development team of the graphical editor, consisting of 6 developers, as well as designed and implemented the customizing tool in C. Led the design and development of open architecture tools by which Confidential products could be integrated with third party software. Responsible for localization of software for the Japanese marketplace which involved double byte enablement, national language standards, Kanji keyboards, and non- Confidential PC architectures.