Summary

Specialty Skills

• Program and Project Management, Application Modernization, Mainframe Architectures, Replatforming, Language Migration
• Professional Experience: Senior Manager, Confidential
• Prepared the estimate, solution design and lead the program to replatform mainframe applications to Micro Focus on Windows in an extremely complex mainframe environment with multiple client silos including building the Migration Services onshore and offshore project teams, leading the replatforming effort, managing multiple vendors and resources.
• Built the onshore and offshore project teams
• Established credibility with the client and key client resources
• Managed multiple client and vendor application support resources

Resources Distribution

Confidential

• Successfully delivered project and enabled client to support their mainframe Assembler legacy system into the future alleviating near term retirement risk.
• From creating proposals through delivery led project to convert mainframe Assembler programs to COBOL including recruiting of project team of over 20 developers with expert mainframe Assembler, COBOL and CICS skills.
• Researched, recommended and implemented all tools for project management, application testing, and code development. In absence of client processes, led implementation of all internal processes for build, test and deploy.

UK Public Service

Confidential

• Led weekly multi vendor workshops to gather ideas for cost savings and future roadmap.
• Performed analysis of mainframe performance data and engine utilization enabling quick wins for cost savings and also areas of opportunity for workload balancing. Prepared roadmap for replatforming existing applications and SAP databases enabling savings up to 75 of existing spend.

Project Lead,

Confidential

• Project Lead for Vantage annuity processing system, leading multiple concurrent projects involving onshore and offshore partners, preparing project documents for CMMi, and communicating with business stakeholders.
• Responsible for project planning, development of service strategies, and technical support
• Gathered and documented Business, System, Application Process, and Infrastructure environment requirements. Streamlined the project activities to orient them on the process structure followed by the merged organization.
• Provided guidance to project teams in order to align them with the software development process framework defined for the merged organization.
• Conducted onsite integration, and application deployment on Mainframe. Conducted random onsite quality reviews of source code for COBOL programs, DB2 scripts.
• Efficiently created integration solution to integrate Legacy Systems.
• Followed the complete SDLC Life cycle for any change request.
• Project Lead/ Senior Consultant, Confidential Interacted with functional consultants, technical architects, and senior management of clients to prepare requirements specifications and functional specifications documents incorporating use cases context diagrams, use case diagrams using Unified Modeling Language UML and Rational Unified Process RUP with Rational Rose.
• Prepared effort and schedule estimates and budgets, project charter and statement of work while onsite, and obtained contract sign-offs for offshore project execution and delivery.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Coordinated with delivery teams at onsite as well as offshore for project execution and tracking. Provided guidance and leadership to technical resources, monitored onsite activities. Conducted onsite integration, and application deployment
• Effectively training, motivating and mentoring onsite and offshore junior managers, engineers, developers and technicians.
• Did project planning and estimation of effort required for studies and sub-projects.
• Lead the team which helped make strategic decisions in releasing time-sensitive, customer driven implementations, which would ultimately determine the revenue of the company.
• Actively involved in solving code fixes and managed releases into production / deployment.
• Led Software Quality Assurance Review meetings for Continuous Improvement team.
• Successfully managed expectations of client stakeholders, and offshore teams. Consistently ensured successful delivery of many projects on-time, on-budget, with good quality and agreed scope. Obtained customer sign-offs and project closure. Followed the complete SDLC Life cycle methodology.
• As a technical team lead involved in development of projects based on .Net, Oracle, SQL Server, legacy systems, COBOL, DB2, VB, ASP, etc
• Outsourced and Onsite projects implemented while at CGI: Government ERP
• Travel to client sites across the southeast to implement and troubleshoot ERP systems, implement data conversions from mainframe to Oracle, and develop custom reports in Business Objects/Crystal Reports.
• Technical Environment: Java, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, OLEDB, Business Objects/Crystal Reports.
• AIG Outsourcing
• Pre-sales support including proposal preparation and presentation for Microsoft.Net solutions and Sharepoint technologies. Prototyped beta release of BizTalk for proposal to medical software systems firm HIPAA . Implemented Sharepoint for document collaboration for outsourcing team. Management of Outsourcing team and client relationship, support of UPS system for AIG, coordination with customer offsite personnel in India, completion of program fixes, extraction of source code for MicroFocus Revolve repository. Support and enhancement of VB Problem Reporting System.
• Technical Environment: Microsoft.Net, Microsoft Sharepoint, Visual Basic, SQL Server 2000, MVS COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, DB2.
• 4x4x4 Projects
• Project manager for a critical update to 5 million line COBOL/CICS/DB2/IMS insurance policy processing system. In the first phase managed analysis activities with CGI's reengineering facility in Canada. In the second phase, estimated, bid, prepared project plan, organized, and leads the activities of the development team and maintained ongoing contact with the customer project director including meeting client CMM documentation requirements.
• Technical Environment: IBM OS/390, MicroFocus COBOL, Visual Basic, DB2, Microsoft Project
• AIG Outsourcing:
• Creation of new COBOL CICS program for capturing coverage option data for rating of new commercial property options including DB2 support. Creation of SQL stored procedures, Access reports, COBOL extract program and JCL for display of insurance policy form legacy data on the mainframe. Change existing COBOL CICS programs.
• Technical Environment: IBM OS/390, MicroFocus COBOL, DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project
• Web Services:
• Design and implementation of auto insurance data rating system in Microsoft VB .Net, creation of XML string to call legacy C rating tool as a Web Service. Redesigned Visual Studio ASP based system to VB .Net including parsing of XML strings with Document Object Model.
• Technical Environment: Microsoft.Net, VB.Net, C , SQL Server 2000
• Georgia Farm Bureau:
• As a Developer and Mentor for APPGEN, a web based personal lines auto insurance quote system, designed and developed VB components to interface with legacy rating system, created ASP pages and designed the interface to ISO automobile data to provide symbol lookup. Host Integration Server was used to interface with mainframe. Mentored and trained customer personnel in all aspects of the project.
• Technical Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio, VB, XML, ASP, Microsoft Access, Host Integration Server, IBM OS/390, MicroFocus Net Express
• Property One Enhancement:
• As Project Manager for an enhancement to Fortune 50 insurance company's policy processing system, planned, organized, and lead the activities of the conversion team and maintained ongoing contact with the customer project director.
• Technical Environment: IBM OS/390, MicroFocus COBOL, VB, DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project
• AIG Outsourcing:
• As a senior consultant in the outsourcing group, led projects, participated in fact finding for sales support, led Y2K audit, made program changes and supported internal Microsoft Access problem reporting system in VB.
• Y2K Remediation:
• As Technical Project Leader for Y2K modifications of legacy insurance policy processing system for Fortune 50 client, prepared project plan, assisted in pricing, contract specifications, interviewing and recruiting of staff. Worked with customer data center personnel to set up mainframe environment, maintained project plan and work assignments for technical staff, and assisted technical staff with programming questions.
• AIG Outsourcing:
• As a senior consultant in the outsourcing group, developed problem reporting and workflow system in Microsoft Access, traveled to potential customer sites to gather requirements and analyze existing systems for outsourcing bids, conducted on-site classroom training and program maintenance for multiple customers, installed insurance policy printing PC interface for insurance agencies and modeled new client/server transaction processing system for insurance policies. Performed on-site consulting at various client sites utilizing COBOL, MVS and DB/2 technologies. Responsible for hands on development of Mainframe systems focused on full life cycle development, enhancements and system architecture.