PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Project Manager of development initiatives. Scope of responsibility includes all phases of the software development life cycle from information gathering to delivery into production. Responsible for ownership / participation in the entire project lifecycle (Estimation, Requirements, Design, Construction, Testing, Delivery, and Product Warranty).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL, COBOL2, FORTRAN, BASIC, DYL280, VSAM, MVS JCL, EARL C+ and C++

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Application Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended requirement sessions and created functional approach documents based on the business requirements.
• Managed and worked closely with Development and QA Resources during coding and testing phases to ensure quality and timely work is performed.
• Monitored and worked closely with the business sponsors in order to provide an useful product and a good customer experience.
• Reviewed and ensured that the project management processes and procedures were followed to deliver a quality product in a timely manner to the production environment.
• Provided project statuses to management teams and business sponsors.
• Served as the Application Release Coordinator by managing tasks associated with moving application code for multiple projects throughout the development life cycle.
• Functioned as a Project Manager and Business Analyst on the My Verizon and ancillary applications.
• Monitored and assigned code defect tickets (using Quality Center software) to development resources during testing and production warranty support phases.

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Development Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the initial phases of the project lifecycle.
• Managed development resources assigned to my projects.
• Scheduled weekly development status calls to update resources on project - related news and obtain statuses from development resources.
• Provided a development sub-plan (using Microsoft Project) and a weekly sub-plan status report to the Project Management team.
• Reviewed all requirements, functional and technical documentation for accuracy.
• Scheduled and facilitated all joint application design, functional, technical and code review discussions.
• Gathered data needed to complete the Final Estimate of development work tied to the project.
• Tracked development resource hours charged and percentage of work completed throughout the project.
• Coordinated with other sub-plan owners and vendors as needed.
• Ensured that all functional business requirements were met by development team.
• Monitored and assigned code defect tickets (using Remedy software) to development resources during testing and production warranty support phases.

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Design Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the creation of and approved all functional business requirements.
• Supervised the Design team resources that worked on the functional design documentation.
• Oversaw the creation of all Functional, Technical and Interface Agreement documents.
• Proofread all design documents for accuracy.
• Distributed all design documents to impacted groups for review and to gain approvals.
• Scheduled and facilitated all meetings used to review design documents.
• Authored Functional and Technical design documents when needed.

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote code to perform specific functions in the telecommunications industry.
• Authored code to perform call rating and customer billing calculations.
• Produced customer billing statement layouts.
• Created and executed test plans to check the validity / accuracy of the code.
• Checked code into and out of development environments and staging areas.

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