Lead Consultant Resume Englewood, CO - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Results driven MVS Software Engineer / MVS Test Engineer with over 22 years of progressive accountability in the financial and payments industries.
Roles include COBOL Developer and COBOL QA Tester on simultaneous projects, including developing, testing, implementing, and documenting and maintaining COBOL, Easytrieve, and JCL code.
Assumed the following roles when completing many of my projects: Developer, QA Tester, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Systems Analyst, Job Scheduler, and Implementation Coordinator. Authored scores of Mainframe process documents.
Have 3 years of experience as an Onsite Coordinator for offshore development where I trained, mentored, and managed the work of offshore personnel in Chennai India. Authored numerous “How To” documents to aid in the transition of work to offshore partners.
Experienced in Waterfall and Agile development methodologies.
Excellent communicator/collaborator. Built trusted working relationships with a wide range of co - workers, both onshore and offshore, in a team environment.
Well organized, able to multi-task, prioritize workload, drive continuous improvement and compile and report project metrics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mainframe: COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, Endevor, File-Aid, Syncsort, ICETOOL, TSO-ISPF, Xpediter, NDM, FTP, ESP, CA7 (user)

Ancillary: Filezilla, WS-FTP Pro, MS Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook, Clarity, Mainframe Mobius Administration, BMC Remedy, ALM, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

COBOL coding/unit testing on assigned development projects.
COBOL coding/QA testing on a major data encryption project.
Mainframe manual QA testing of COBOL and JCL on major data encryption and business enhancement projects.
Designed mainframe automated compare scripts using COBOL/Easytrieve programs, JCL and Fileaid code to facilitate that automation.

Confidential

MVS Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Completed creating JCL, Programs, and Control Cards for over 400 new JOB s for the Falcon 6.4 upgrade.
Functional Analysis and Visio documentation of 35 Billing processes for an external audit of billing processes.
COBOL coding/unit testing of new billing lines through completion of UAT testing and implementation to production for two billing projects.
COBOL coding/unit testing on assigned development projects.

Confidential - Englewood, CO

Senior Mainframe Programmer Analyst - Project Lead

Responsibilities:

Project Lead for Regulatory year-end. Gather requirements, code, test, implement, and document all processes to produce original and corrected tax forms and IRS files. Coded, tested and implemented many process improvements.
Project Lead on fund mergers. Gather requirements, code, test, implement, and document the fund merger process. Trained, mentored and managed the work of offshore programmer/testers.
Agile team member on the 1099-B/Cost Basis Project to incorporate Cost Basis onto existing 1099-B form and IRS files. Designed the new 1099B cost basis correction process.
Transitioned year end responsibilities to offshore partners, HCL, in Chennai, India. Trained and mentored offshore personnel on all regulatory processes, maintained information flow between off-shore partners and in-house users, arranged status updates and unit tested all code returned from offshore programmers.
Coded and implemented improvements to numerous processes.
Coded hundreds of ad-hoc Easytrieve programs for user department research, unit testing, file verification, and bug fix research.