SUMMARY

• Results oriented Manager/Technical Lead/Vender & Project Management wif extensive experience as a data processing professional.
• Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) wif Waterfall and Process Engineering experience including Feasibility, System and Application Architecture, Research & Development, Infrastructure, Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing. ScrumMaster Certified (SMC) and ICAgile methodology certified.
• Wide array of business experience including e - commerce, Telephony, Metallurgy, Billing, Service Order, Customer Care and Financial. MBA - Marymount University wif concentration in Information Systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: DB2, COBOL II, MKS, WebSphere MQ, CICS, XML, HTML, Migration Architect, BMC, Dynamic SQL, IMS DB/DC, TMON,FILE-AID, MicroFocus Workbench, XDB, QMF, SPUFI, Java, Librarian, Natural 2, PREDICT, JCL, VSAM, ISPF/PC, DATAVANTAGE, AOS/VS, OS/MVS, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project, Visio.

Hardware: IBM Z/OS, O/S390, S9000, 3090, 308X, UNIX, and Data General MV4000.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed presentations for VP level to relate teh underlying issues/concerns wif System Test and interactions between disparate applications and develop next steps. dis investigation was done by mapping out and documenting teh existing configuration of teh Environments for Development and System Test.
• Coordinated yearly Mainframe VISION Architecture Reviews wif approximately 20 participants each time.
• Populate Access database wif Data Analyst information from Technical Design Documents from which Physical Database Models were created after each release on teh Mainframe.
• Worked wif managers/Associate Directors to approve direct reports for Sarbanes-Oxley User Id approval Act quarterly
• Project managed several projects for DBA manager. Projects included Document for developers ability to generate full key inserts/deletes/updates, Automate database replication, Ability to run reorgs 24 by 7 wif CICS up, Data replication to Grid data stores
• Project managed several projects for Director. Projects included task for user id approvals version 2, several B2B CPU reduction efforts
• Populate Database Tracking information used for reporting on amount of DBA work completed for releases from Technical Design Documents
• Worked JAD sessions wif California constituents for major billing systems project.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed key project considerations for financial run rates, change requests, staffing numbers, and audits for employees and consultants.
• Managed key projects from inception through production based upon enterprise release schedules.
• Performed several JAD sessions producing many technical design statements. Managed vendor resources, key resource in vendor negotiations and keeping vendor to agreed upon milestones and SLAs
• Key resource in teh design of teh CAMIT2 System, in which me worked to address issues of project visibility, accountability and executive reporting.
• Responsibilities include assigning employees to appropriate applications and writing system requirements for teh new System of Record of project reporting and program management.
• Applied design decisions and led nationwide site-by-site alignment sessions to bring all teams on board wif new standard.

QA Test

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Formed new group wif teh mission of defining, staffing and implementing an Integration QA Test Team.
• Main areas of concentration were load testing, end-to-end testing, and interoperability between applications.
• Built an autonomous environment for user acceptance and certification of application code which ensured higher quality programming and testing standards.
• Managed operational aspect of self-service for Point of Sale (POS) including Bill Payment Kiosks, Store Greeter, and Tablets, improving teh self-service usage.
• Delivered technical presentations to senior management up through and including teh CIO.
• Three-tiered architecture comprised of Web-enabled front-ends, Middleware written in Java/Servlets/EJBs/WebSphere MQ, and CICS/COBOL/DB2 back-end programs.
• Designed architecture using WebSphere MQ over IP to developed mission critical systems.
• Featured triggering, MQ Client, and MQ administration for Development, Training and Quality Assurance regions.
• Utilized XML as teh common data interface across applications.
• Managed Application development in VisualAge for Java wif WebSphere AE as Web Application Server.
• 200+ components including wrappers, data access objects, business objects, non-visual servlets, and Session Beans.
• Managed formation of SPOC team dat was main point of contact for critical production outages and support.
• Participated in 24x7 on-call duties on rotating basis focusing on quick resolution, pinpointing connectivity problems between file servers and back-end mainframe transactions.
• Design overall system architecture for Billing, Provisioning, Customer Care and Point of Sale Systems.
• Set standard practices ensuring companywide compatibility.
• Identify Best-In-Class software models for Billing, Provisioning, Customer Care and Point of Sales systems.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect in quarterly releases, covering phases from business needs analysis through functional implementation.
• Successful E-commerce projects included viewing teh Confidential &T Bill, Processing Payments, and resolving disputes.
• Intranet/Extranet Web-based front-end wif mainframe Data stores, allowing Care Reps to view and make adjustments to bill.
• Technical presentations to senior management on relational theory concepts and database design.
• Demonstrated UNIX-based product functionality and capabilities for Fortune 1000 companies.
• Profiled existing legacy data to ensure quality and integrity and tuned/denormalized proprietary model for performance.

Confidential, East Brunswick, NJ

Manager Customer Inquiry and Adjustments

Responsibilities:

• Guided 22 direct reports (consultants and employees) for various intranet/mainframe projects through development and analysis.
• Provided employee appraisal and rating, including award recommendations.
• Developed several projects wif solid dollar savings, such as teh spreading out of teh call detail across multiple data centers, which saved $1.7 Million annually.
• Implemented DB2 tuning to reduce contention for IMS application dat processed 2.5 million IMS transactions daily.
• Led online development for staff of eight direct reports on complex transactional IMS DB/DC & DB2 system.
• Realized major reduction in online response time by modifying DB2 table indexes, based on cardinality and functionality.
• Developed dynamic SQL to significantly drop response time for queries against a 5 Terabyte database spread across seven different DB2 sub-systems.
• Trained subordinates in teh use of teh DB2 catalog, teh Explain function, and other DB2 coding techniques in order to produce tuned DB2 calls.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Consultant/Site Manager/Application DBA

Responsibilities:

• Supervised 10 consultants on Tubular project Confidential USX.
• Provided recruiting, technical interviews of new candidates, reviews and evaluations of team members and monthly status reports to home and site offices for consulting company.
• Designed DB2 tables and developed Natural programs to ensure proper metallurgical order mat was produced.
• Promoted to Site Manager after 1 year of service.
• Designed, coded, implemented and maintained an IMS Customer Order Billing Revenue Administration system (COBRA).
• Responsibilities included Optimal Routing Function, Service Change Generation and Merge Process.
• Enhanced performance of bill creation and report modules for Virtual Telecommunications Network System (VTNS).