SUMMARY:

• Over 30 years of Information Technology (IT) experience, including managing, scheduling and coding
• IT projects through the complete system development cycle; providing production technical expertise; hiring, and managing programmers and developers.
• Skill set also includes identifying scope and project costs, building key interfaces, as well as project budget management and designing Disaster Recovery Plans.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Mainframe: IBM running under z/OS operating system.
• Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Access
• Software and Utilities: COBOL II, COBOL III, CICS, Micro Focus COBOL, PL/SQL, SQR, Oracle Forms, Oracle Financials, Platinum SQL Ease and Plan Analyzer, Strobe, Changeman, PANVALET, Librarian, TSO, ISPF, OS/JCL, IDCAMS, Omegamon, Netman, Infopac, MTEXT, QMF, File - Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Intertest, Xpeditor, IBM Debug Tool, SPUFI, SharePoint, WordPerfect, Unix, FTP, Mercator, XML, SOAP Web Services, HTML, Citrix, VB.Net, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Office suite.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Programmer Analyst Technical

Responsibilities:

• Provide management direction and technical leadership for the development for all new systems and processes relating to the Driver’s License Information System, including end to end coordination and governance of System Development Life Cycle milestones.
• Serve as a liaison with the business community to define requirements and project scope to facilitate the development of Business and Functional Requirements Documentation along with Database design.
• Provide the lead technical expertise and manage the programming and analytical team responsible for designing, coding and testing to meet the requirements outlined by the Business and Functional Requirements. Design, write and create standards for interfaces using CICS Webservices.
• After design and coding work is complete for any new development, expertise is provided to create comprehensive test plans for Systems and Quality Assurance Testing and insight provided to complete documents to ensure accuracy of the job / user materials. A key job role is to provide support to existing systems to ensure prompt resolution to unexpected problems. Interview, hire, and train staff.
• Evaluate employees and perform annual performance appraisals.

Confidential

Owner/Partner

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, interview and hire contract programmer/analysts to work at various client sites based upon a keen understanding of unique business requirements. Managed day to day operations and budget for the company. Researched, obtained and administered a package of benefits for employees including health insurance and 401(k). Worked on major projects as a Consultant and Lead Project Coordinator for the Confidential, Confidential Inc, and Confidential Inc. Project details are listed below:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintain Oracle Forms based Time Keeping system; migrating from Novell Netware server to Citrix. Developed changes to the Time Keeping system to implement changes to overtime rules and pay policy rules as a result of the Confidential /Cyprus merger. Developed the scope and the time line for the project and gathered all the business requirements from business stakeholders.
• Responsible for the conversion of financial data from Oracle Enterprise Financials and Hyperion Financials systems to the MIMS system using Mercator, Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft Access residing on Unix and Windows NT environments.
• Responsibilities included the conversion of vendor data, general ledger, journal entries, purchase agreements, purchasing data, and asset costing data. Built interfaces between the MIMS system and several other systems using Mercator. This project was part of the Confidential merger with Cyprus Mining.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design and development of reports and interfaces for the Empac Materials and Maintenance Management Systems. Report writing using Impromptu and SQR. Interfaces written in SQR. Worked with production supervisors to gather requirements for the reports.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing development and technical staff.
• Lead the development of programming design and COBOL II, CICS, and DB2 standards used in the project. Lead the development team in the requirements gathering, database design, programming and testing. Made assignments and evaluated results. Designed and wrote on-line and batch programs for the Tax Accounting System.
• Assisted in the of tax system users.
• Assisted in the implementation and conversion of the tax system data. Worked on Y2K conversions of the UI Benefits Systems.
• Worked on analysis, design and programming VSAM to DB2 conversions for Employment Services Systems.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Consultant/Real Estate Investment Client/Server System

Responsibilities:

• Designed and wrote the majority of the server application for the Real Estate Investment client-server system using Micro Focus COBOL and Embedded SQL.
• Designed and wrote server application modules for the Mortgage Loan Management System. Ensured that server code was portable to run on Windows NT server using Microsoft SQL Server for the database. Designed DB2 and SQL Server tables.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Lead Programmer/Analyst, Customer Information System

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for support and systems modifications on the Andersen CIS system. Performance was improved on several processes by modification of embedded SQL and adding or changing predicates to gain a better access path; in many instances cutting run times by up to 50 percent.
• Designed enhancements to the Bank Autodraft System. Researched and resolved problems in the cash system. Resolved billing problems including system not billing customers for their final gas debits. Coded program to identify customers that needed to be rerouted as a result of office closings.
• Enhanced on-line programs to meet user needs. All work was performed in a COBOL, CICS, and DB2 environment.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA,

Programmer/Analyst Principal

Responsibilities:

• Project Leader for the design, coding, and implementation of the new UI Charge System (on-line and batch). Lead Analyst for the design, coding, and implementation of the Extended Unemployment Compensation Payments system and the project to automate the payment process.
• Lead Analyst on the maintenance and enhancements of the Payments, Overpayments, Statistics, and Interstate Claims systems. Wrote the Payments Process for the Disaster Unemployment Assistance System. All work was performed in a COBOL, CICS, VSAM, and DB2 environment.

Confidential, Doraville, GA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Program design and testing using Fortran and FMS. Worked in operations and technical support. Hardware
• Digital VAX 8530, VAX 8250; Software: VAX/VMS, Digital Command Language. Wrote Menu System for Computer Operations.
• Enhanced Customer Ad Accounting System. Promoted to Software Engineer I.