INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL
Information technology professional with experience as a Project Manager with extensive qualifications in all facets of project life cycle development from initial feasibility analysis and conceptual design through documentation, implementation and user training. Recognized for attention to detail, strong communication skills and the ability to consistently see projects to completion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY 10/2007 - present
Project Manager
Managed a project team of 3 through the entire development cycle from initial needs assessment through specification, development, quality review and implementation. Provided ongoing support as a liaison between the business side and the service development team.

• Managed the web and backend deliverables for recycling the invalid suspended city agency charges for DOF processing. Which increased NYC revenue up to $5,000,000 per year. (Excel/Visio/DB2/SQL/Spufi)
• Prepared project scheduling with resource allocation & managed the web and backend deliverables for the P.I.L.O.T (Payments In Lieu Of Taxes) commercial property development tax incentive program. (Excel/Visio/Java/Mainframe technologies)
• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows and requirements for commercial tax exemptions and abatements. (DB2/SQL/Spufi)
• Coordinated and managed the setup of a secure LDAP server to monitor customer logins across multiple platforms for agency charges.
• Managed project deliverables on SSA (Search Software America) software for DOF database expansions.
• Conducted analysis and prepared designs for enterprise level Service Orientated Architecture concepts.
• Synchronized data between SQL server and DB2 databases for Statements of Accounts on a quarterly basis by utilizing DB utilities. (DB2/SQL/Spufi)

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ 09/1998 - 08/2007
Project Manager / Business Analyst - Diversified Financial Products (UBS 2004 - 2007)
Developed and coordinated communication/knowledge sharing between different groups (both business and technology) throughout the firm, as well as managed relationships between those groups on all related subject matters.

• Facilitated and coordinated meetings with department management for collection of business requirements.
• Clarified and prioritized all requirements in order to ensure the critical features in any new system are not missed.
• Prepared specifications for New Financial Advisor (NFA) system requirements based on new firm compensation plan. NFA system consisted of backend mainframe components and front-end distributed technologies. (Excel/Visio/MS-Project)
• Conducted meetings with development team to discuss timeline milestones for each development phase and resource availability. (MS-Outlook/PowerPoint)
• Reviewed use cases and other technical documents with IT project staff to ensure business requirements are adequately reflected in Business Requirement Specifications.
• Written functionality test plans for each enhancement phase of the existing NFA and FA Teams systems, and coordinated the execution of the test plans to business unit requirements. (DB2/SQL/Spufi)
• Provided implementation support by assisting in final testing and conducting system checkout during rollout.
• Prepared SAS reports on FA training and performance for senior management as well as FA development throughout the entire program. (SAS/COBOL II/DB2)

Senior Programmer Analyst - Product Reference Database (UBS 1998 - 2004)
Responsible for the analysis, design and development of new and maintenance of existing applications to service the requirements of the business side of an enterprise. Provided ongoing support to firm wide development teams by establishing access contracts for secure database access.

• Conducted full analysis, development and implementation of Stored Procedures access contracts for firm wide access into the PRDB (Product Reference Database). (DB2/COBOL/CICS).
• Developed and implemented DB2/COBOL Stored Procedures (RSP) for the Sarbanes Oxley firm initiative.
• Performed analysis, development and implementation of credit ratings from credit rating agencies to product database. Purpose was to find an alternative method to receive credit ratings data in a cost saving method for the firm.
• Provide ongoing production support for batch and online processes (DB2/COBOL/CICS).
• Developed of the Collaterized Debtsystem. System is part of the initiative to eliminate the GLOSSARYfiles by populating the PRDBdatabases with the Collaterized Debt securities and to bringing the Collaterized Debt securities to the front end (DB2/COBOL/CICS/JAVA).
• Conducted analysis and development of the CSCconversion process. Prepared a series of jobs to read the correspondents files and compare correspondents securities to the former Paine Webber GLOSSARY file. Additional responsibilities with CSCincluded the full analysis and user interface for the automation process of CSC.

Confidential, New York, NY 09/1997 - 07/1998
Consultant Programmer Analyst - Claims Application
Consultant programmer analyst responsible for identifying, analyzing, developing and implementing business applications to fulfill the business enterprise needs. Responsible for system maintenance and production on call support.

• Involved in full maintenance of the Excess Claims System (ECS)application, including preparation of system documentation\'s, specifications and test plans for QA
• Designed, developed and tested Remote StoredProcedures(RSP), which extracted the necessary DB2 data based on the parameters received from the distributed applications.
• Participated in the implementation and testing of Closed Claims Synchronization (CCS)project, keeping claims in sync Between Loss ManagementSystem (LMS backend) and SQL Server(front-end) by updating the prepared DB2 views by closing or opening claims on the selected symbols.
• Assisted QA in Y2K testing

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
HARDWARE: IBM OS370, OS390, IBM PC
SOFTWARE: MS-Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), VISIO 3.2, MS-Project
CICS (Command level), STORED PROCEDURES, OS/MVS/JCL, XPEDITER, CHANGEMAN, FILE AID, STARTOOL, MQ-series, PhotoImpact. Basecamp, Bugzilla
LANGUAGES: COBOL, COBOL II, SAS, PHP
DATABASE: DB2/SQL, SPUFI, QMF, VSAM, Oracle 10g, MySQL CERTIFICATIONS: COBOL II , DB2 Programming, CompTia Project+ (in progress)

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

B.S. Business

Continuing Education - Business Analysis methods and skills

Completed SAS Fundamentals Workshop

Professional certification in Computer Programming / Information Systems

Associates of Applied Science in Marketing