• More than 20 years of experience in systems analysis/design and application programming/development with demonstrated success in producing positive results.
• Reliable, motivated, and results-oriented professional who can effectively work independently and within a team creates clear and concise documentation and is a skilled communicator with the ability to train team members.
• Seasoned mainframe programmer with expertise in managing projects from inception to completion on time and within budget.
• Technical proficiency in IBM mainframe: COBOL, Easytrieve Plus, JCL, ISPF, DB2/SQL, SPUFI, QMF, Oracle, VSAM, CICS, IDMS, ChangeMan, Endevor, CA7, OPC, IBM Utilities, File-AID, NDM, INFOPAC, SDLC and DMAIC, as well as Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Office applications.
• Experienced in treasury management applications: Account Reconciliation Check Draft Processing Savings Items Processing Due To/From Banks Endpoint Analysis Check Processing Control System CPCS Self-Funding Services Funds Transfer Interface Combined Statement Processing Retail, Wholesale, and Municipal Lockbox Consolidated Government Allotment System Escrow Management Services Account Analysis and Electronic Data Interchange EDI .

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Consultant, Applications Programming

• Developed and maintained solutions, including diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, and tools, for business applications. Performed testing, enhancements, quality control, and problem resolution as needed. Utilized new technologies in design, development, and implementation of complex applications. Served as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource provided technical direction and system architecture. Collaborated with external programmers on project completion and delivery. Acted as team leader on projects as needed.
• Assigned several special projects for high-valued clients involving format conversions and value replacement processes.
• Built EDI to Lockbox interface and managed all aspects of project, serving as both project lead and developer. Project involved migration of clients from one midrange platform to another via the mainframe and data file restructures.
• Took on additional role as interim Application Manager, which included executing risk and compliance deliverables, reporting on team and project status to senior management, leading team meetings, participating in management and operations meetings, performing estimation tasks, and approving timesheets.
• Restructured and automated major calculation program, enabling product rollout in 21 additional states.
• Served as technical lead on a field-expansion project that involved hundreds of application component changes across multiple LPARs and many DB2 table conversions.
• Expanded and automated setup of more than 70 billing services and codes for more than 55,000 accounts, resulting in annual net realized benefit of 2.9 million.
• Primary contact for the Escrow disaster recovery exercise: completed all required deliverables on time produced a step-by-step instruction document on how to conduct the testing for the DR exercise mentored junior consultant on the process.
• Senior Analyst, Applications Programming 2004 to 2006
• Developed, tested, maintained, debugged, and provided problem resolution for mainframe business software applications. Participated in multiple project phases, with focus on quality control, including project completion. Provided guidance to junior associates as needed.
• Served as both project lead and developer in creating and installing a new Escrow positive-pay web-frontend interface involving COBOL/DB2 and data delivery to multiple account-reconciliation platforms in accordance with all phases of the Six Sigma DMAIC define, measure, analyze, improve, and control process. Facilitated meetings with all Business Partners Operations, Product and Tech throughout entire project. Utilized VISIO, Excel, Word and PowerPoint to create documents for training and documentation purposes.
• Participated in yearly disaster recovery exercises and created technical recovery and business continuity documents for various applications.
• Applications Development Analyst II 2001 to 2004
• Analyzed and designed technical solutions in accordance with business requirements and strategies. Participated in end-to-end project life cycles, including design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance according to deadlines and within budget. Recommended new applications and development of new or reuse of existing code. Evaluated applications for quality assurance and performance.
• Various projects include work on system upgrades, NACHA rule changes and BAI Code formats.
• Led largest merger-transition initiatives for applications involving mainframe migration, account renumbering, ABA collapse, monthly billing, controlled disbursement, prior-day reporting, and client-specific processes.
• Implemented scheduling changes to automate a manual prior-day reporting process to improve accuracy of meeting service-level agreements for high-valued clients.
• Managed several offshore consultants and their work: created and presented material for knowledge transfer sessions on various application processes wrote specification documents for handoff of work and peer reviewed the results.
• Systems Staff Specialist 1997 to 2001
• Completed major and critical project assignments in research, analysis, design, development and implementation. Define procedures to resolve complex problems. Provide guidance to other project staff.
• Supported new Retail Lockbox customer implementations and developed standards.
• NACHA changes to support new SEC codes.
• Supported Bank Boston merger work involving divestiture projects and International midrange to mainframe conversions.
• Project Lead on Y2K remediation project supervised associates in effort to interrogate and test all programs and processes to ensure application was Y2K compliant.
• Trained junior associates.

Senior Programmer Analyst II 1993 to 1997

• Analyzed business requirements and application systems. Designed and wrote program specifications, coded, tested and debugged programs implemented solutions and provided functional and technical support on the proper use of end-user hardware/software. Acted as team leader on projects.
• Project lead on NatWest conversion of clients to a new DB2 platform. Supervised several consultants who assisted with all the required development and testing.
• Supervised consultants on the following customer work: creation of new input/output files and reports, recreations of customer data, report changes and master file updates, conversion of master file records into transactions, client profile setups/changes, new NDM transmissions, data transmission changes, Infopac/report changes, special test requests and problem research.