EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential is a Technical Project Manager having over twenty (30) years experience with large information system implementations including over fifteen (15) years of project management experience. This includes team building, requirements definition, proposal preparation, system architecture, and eternal vendor supervision. He has planned, coordinated, and managed the integration/customization of commercial off - the-shelf (COTS) products and Content Management System (CMS) development and maintenance. He is familiar with and uses methods consistent with PMI, CMM, and IEEE standards. Develops requirements, configuration, risk, quality assurance, and project planning documents in accordance with SAFe Agile and CMM Level3 standards. This approach consistently yields clear, complete work plans, work products, stakeholder reports, application and system documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Jira, IBM Rational Toolset, SharePoint, MS Teams, Skype, Webex

Open Systems: J2SE 1.8, J2EE, JSP, JSON, CVS/GitHub, Apache/Tomcat/IIS, Eclipse, NetBeans, Oracle, SQL Server, SSIS, Elixir/DesignPro, TOAD, HTML/XML, MQ Series, HTTP, TCP/IP, JDBC/ODBC, HIPAA, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visual Studio, SFTP, SSH, Windows 10, SharePoint, Jenkins, Linux.

IBM Mainframe Platform: COBOL, MVS, JCL, Natural/ADABAS, ISPF, TSO, VSAM, Endevor, File-Aid, DB2, CICS, JES2/JES3, Syncsort, Predict, N2O, SAS, IBM zOS, Unix System Services, DYL260/280 (VISION Results), Control-M, CA7 toolset.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support to the Financial Management and Debt Collection systems for the VA Debt Management Center contract. Develop and maintain Project, Requirements, and Configuration Management Plans as well as Risk Assessment, Quality Assurance, and Project Planning documents in accordance with CMM Level 3 and SAFe Agile standards. Provide regular updates to stakeholders. Communicate with external vendors to obtain application details for COTS products and implement cost effective methods for Rest API information exchange.
• Estimate levels of effort required for proposed projects and provide recommendations for alternative software/methods as needed. Create Test Plans and Procedures for new and existing processes and communicate issues to stakeholders as appropriate. Provide direction to developers as necessary to resolve issues related to batch and online development and production processing. Maintain the website by deploying web archive (war) releases for content management (CMS) and project delivery release management.
• Create configuration and risk management plans. Communicate with executives and developers with MS Teams and Skype to analyze, design, implement, and document project requests based on requirement specifications. Track project development using Jira, IBM Rational Toolset, and SharePoint. Utilize SSIS to integrate and customize data transformations.

Technical environment:

Open Systems/COTS: Apache/Tomcat/IIS, Eclipse, J2SE 1.8, J2EE, JSP, JSON, CVS/GitHub, NetBeans, MS SQL Server, TOAD, HTML/XML, JDBC/ODBC Connectivity, SFTP/SSH, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Visual Studio, Windows 10, Jenkins, SharePoint

IBM z/OS: COBOL, MVS JCL, Natural/ADABAS, ISPF, TSO, VSAM, SAS, Endevor, JES2/JES3, Syncsort, File-Aid, DYL280 (VISION Results), CA7, Design Pro, Xerox Forms, CA7 toolset

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Unemployment Benefits System, modernized stakeholder reporting and quality assurance
• Performed analysis, design, and wrote program specifications for NATURAL/CONSTRUCT.
• Designed, coded, and tested production programs using COBOL, NATURAL, DB2, VSAM, and File-Aid.

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Senior Sales Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implement messaging queues using COTS, OracleDB, IBM MQSeries, Java, and COM APIs.
• Implement business processes to facilitate creation of new sales engineering team. Design complex data transformation solutions for potential customers.
• Develop cross-platform customer business models and data warehouse implementation.
• Demonstrate vendor integration models via WEBEX conferences.
• Research legacy system and recommend vendor integration points.
• Design process flows for vendor conversion of legacy systems.
• Performance tune processes to obtain maximum throughput.
• Consult with executive administration to improve business processes.

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Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded, tested, and performance tuned online and batch programs.
• Designed and implemented interfaces for SAS, HRIS, and USPS systems
• Utilized Natural Programming Language, COBOL, JCL, DB2 and SQL.
• Performed analysis and remediation for Y2K compliance and quality assurance delivery
• Created and revised system test plans and reports for stakeholders and vendors.

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Senior Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Utilized NATURAL/ADABAS, COBOL, JCL, SAS, and QSAM/VSAM Coordinated development of Case Initiation, Establishment, Enforcement, Paternity.
• Supervised, trained, and managed 7 staff and contractor analysts.
• Supervised vendor performance and provided timely feedback to project stakeholders.
• Developed project schedules, timelines, milestones, and measurement techniques.
• Consulted with clients and vendors to determine their needs and priorities.
• Resolved conflicting project goals and revised estimates.
• Created and revised system test and implementation plans.
• Demonstrated effective leadership and encouraged team concepts.
• Developed and implemented quality assurance initiatives.
• Designed, coded, and tested online, batch, EDI, and SAS processing systems.
• Performance tuned system using alternative processing and functional procedures.
• Complex statewide system for over 2000 users and 1 million cases.

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Technical Team Lead - Conversion/Interfaces

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented transfer of data from 16 legacy systems.
• Designed interface requirements for external agencies.
• Demonstrated effective leadership and encouraged team concepts.
• Supervised, trained, and managed 3 staff and contractor analysts, scheduled work hours, resolved conflicts, evaluated performance.
• Statewide client/server foster care system.

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Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, tested, and installed modifications to online and batch processes.
• Documented proposed changes to the existing system and determined their immediate and long-term effects.
• Statewide insurance and benefits system.

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Conversion Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and created relational database in an object-oriented environment.
• Convert proprietary application using migration CASE tool. Vendor client/server actuarial system.

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Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coded, tested, and maintained production online and batch processing.
• Documented existing processes, proposed changes, and created detailed test scenarios.
• Provided technical assistance and guidance to team members.
• Assisted vendors and users with technical and functional problems and suggested effective solutions for accomplishing their objectives.
• Federal real estate management system utilizing COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL.

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Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and system tested online and batch processing using Natural/ADABAS.
• Evaluated user requirements and provided technical consultation. Identified errors, diagnosed causes, and proposed solutions.
• Provided technical assistance and guidance to team members and vendors. Created and updated system documentation.