SUMMARY

• IT professional with over fifteen years of project management, architecture, design, application development experience with a heavy exposure to insurance including healthcare, life and annuities and all phases of SDLC. Experience with Cobol, DB2, SQL, SOA, data warehousing, Web and Desktop.
• Experienced in all phases of SDLC and JAD. Familiar with Java, Oracle, Pega, and Websphere. Easy grasp of new technologies and excellent communication and negotiation skills. Certified IBM DB2 Specialist, UDB V7. TOGAF 9 training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web/Desktop: ORACLE 8i (DBA training - 96 classroom hours),DB2 UDB Certification JAVAScript, JAVA 2 (college course), Visual Basic 5.0 (college course), HTML, XML, Websphere, LDAP, Micro Focus COBOL, REALIA COBOL, WINDOWS NT & 95, DOS, MS ACCESS, PEGA Systems,SOA, MS Project, PVCS, KINTANA, UML 2.0., FTP, SFTP, LDAP and MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, Planview and Clarity.

Mainframe: COBOL II, DB2, SQL, DB2 Stored Procedures, IMS DB/DC, DL/I, CICS, QMF, SPUFI, SOA, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, IMS-TEST, IMS-EXPERT,OS/MVS, JCL, IBM MQ Series, VANTAGE - ONE, and ALS II.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and rollout of a new program to ensure that adequate system operating controls had been addressed for all 2013 Healthcare Reform projects .
• Developed a detailed understanding of the 15 different IT projects to ascertain their current status and potential for future production issues based on number of new application interfaces and efforts to develop proper system operating controls
• Negotiated with domain program and project managers to develop an audit plan that would identify high risk interfaces for their projects while also addressing their tight resources and funding problems.
• Created a 15 point questionnaire that each project completed to certify their efforts at providing for adequate system operating controls for all 2013 Healthcare Reform projects.

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completed training classes for Requirements Solution Analysis (RSA). RSA is a methodology for analysis of business requirements and definition of high level technology solutioning.
• Worked with project managers, solution and business architects to schedule a series of Solution Summary Document (SSD) review sessions with the business community.
• Healthcare Reform / Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( PPACA) initiative: Participated in business requirements review sessions for claims processing and claims constituent services.

Confidential

Solution Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Web based data integration project for Confidential ’s new Retirement Services system. Researched an out-of-the-box, data mapping - data transformation and managed file transfer solution for the project. Environment included multi-layer server configuration, with application running on a Linux box, utilizing, LDAP, SOA, and Axeway for MFT.
• Identified, interviewed and evaluated 15 B2B data mapping software vendors and made final recommendation to the Executive Steering Committee
• Worked closely with the business staff and the business architects to define the high level and detailed functional business requirements, non-function requirements and process maps
• Established the foundation architecture, created the Architecture Vision document, Architecture Definition document which defines the logical, component, and solution architecture and associated technical diagrams: logical overview, component diagram, solution diagram, sequence diagrams and deployment diagram.
• Established technical and business requirements for the vendor proof of technology process
• Developed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for architecture portion of project.
• Participated in SOA governance for new service requests as member of Architectural Review Process

Confidential

Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior Application Architect for Confidential 's Billing and Banking domain, responsibilities include project initiation, business impact and technical analysis, creation of logical application architecture documents, maintenance of detailed and high level architecture models, and overall health assessment for a portfolio of 11 end-state and 10 legacy applications.
• Completed LAA documentation for the following projects: Type of Rate Code Expansion, Lean PDL, Financial Roadmap, HIPAA 5010 and CodeRunner Per Participant, Healthcare Reform and ICD-10 Conversion and other Helathcare Reform (PPACA) projects.
• Developed an Architecture Roadmap for the Billing & Banking domain and incorporated many of the items into the release schedule for 2011. The roadmap is used as a “living document” and is referenced periodically to allow the projects to include critical but small enhancements and service requests in each delivery release which saves money for the business.
• Organized and coordinated an Enterprise wide interest for TOGAF training at Confidential .
• Initiated and lead effort to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 for Billing & Banking domain by identifying and resolving situations where routine ad hoc updates to production data bases were being performed as part of project design. Held Sarbanes-Oxley awareness classes to help staff understand how the law affects what they do on a daily basis.
• Identified and sunsetted an end-state application that wasn’t being used by the business saving future development costs for the ASG.
• TOGAF 9 training.

Lead Designer - Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing the application software design for large scale projects in COBOL, MVS, Visual Basic, DB2, SQL.
• Developed design for Flexible Fee Administration project for CARBS system, which included new mainframe processing, DB2 tables, VB screens, voucher changes, and multiple system interfaces. This project allowed the business to automatically bill through the client’s bank account and was delivered under an abbreviated development life cycle and with a low rate of defects
• Additionally, made several contributions to the Architecture group including initiation of a “Best Practices” process for the BB&R ASG, a presentation for restart processing for long running Mainframe jobs, and a COBOL coding “Best Practices” article for the BB&R Newsletter.

Confidential - Middletown, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for architecture, design and development associated with Confidential Strategic Desktop, Sys Admin System - a Web based vehicle for the support and maintenance of 40 Confidential Strategic Desktop database tables.
• Supervised 5 developers for this 3 year effort. Java, Websphere, DB2 Stored Procedures. Managed from project initiation in a multi phase implementation until closure. Defined Project scope and requirements gathering.
• Developed project plans for Sys Admin system to dovetail with the seven release per year schedule for Confidential Strategic Desktop system.
• Monitored project progress against the plan and budget using Planview. Experienced in all phases of SDLC.
• Negotiated with business and development staff to solve problematic issues in a timely manner
• Worked with development and production DBA to define new DB2 tables and populate development, quality assurance, and pre-production environments with viable test data.
• Managed external projects affecting Confidential Strategic Desktop Customer Service System (ASD) from inception to implementation including cost estimation, high level design, and quality assurance testing. Responsible for debugging and defect management for ASD System which is a multi-platform distributive client server system running in Unix on 10 Sun Solaris boxes developed using Pega Systems. Employs service oriented architecture (SOA) to access back-end databases using MQSeries and DB2 Connect to access Contact Event Database via DB2 stored procedures.
• Designed and programmed SOA business process logic into DB2 stored procedures for performance and scalability, negotiated SOA contracts.
• Created high and low level project estimates using MS Excel
• Completed 5 day Project Management class.
• Direct staff in debugging implementations of SOA services from ASD Pega Systems front end, reviewing XML for new service calls, and testing new Pega implementations of Enterprise level services.
• Technology used included COBOL, RBAC, and DB2 stored procedures, Data Power, client server environment, QMON, PEGA Systems, JavaScript, HTML, XML, WSDL, SOAP, Websphere 5.1.2.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management, technical design, programming and architecture support for Data Migrator, a DB2 eligibility data warehouse. Supervised 8 - 13 developers on various projects in a matrixed environment.
• Managed multiple complex projects simultaneously including a 3-part HIPAA client server project, Patriot Act Compliance, Quote and Billing Simplification (QBS), Special Projects, and Confidential Health Fund.
• Created project plans using MS Excel and monitored the plans to assure on time delivery for each software production implementation
• Assumed responsibility for Quality Billing System project midway through development and turned project around from code yellow (failing) to on time delivery within budget.
• Employed Waterfall methodology for SDLC, coordinated requirements analysis, development and testing phases of project.
• Developed excellent working relationship with business customers receiving letters of appreciation from five business partners and a $500 bonus from the Legal Compliance area. (DB2, SQL, Stored Procedures, COBOL, MVS, CICS, IBM MQ Series)
• Worked with business analyst to create COBOL/ DB2 API specifications for retrieval of data from DB2 data warehouse and passed the information through an IBM MQ to Visual Basic screen programs.