SUMMARY

• Seasoned Information Technology professional with more than eighteen years of experience in the software development life cycle including requirements gathering, analyzing, designing, coding, testing, and deployment in banking and financial industry.
• Strong inmainframeapplications systems skills as COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, and VSAM used in online and batch processing at the full spectrum of development and production support with background in core banking experience in Deposits, Cards, Payments and Loans applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Excellent knowledge of software construction and programming
• Strong experience in Mainframe Development
• Proven ability to work in a high-pressure environment
• Exceptional presentation and organizational skills
• Sound problem solving and analytical skills
• Team leadership Self-motivator and initiator
• Able to work alone as well as a team member
• Excellent communication skills to work cohesively in a team environment and support user communities
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: OS/390, MVS/ESA - 15+ years UNIX - 2 years Windows, MS-DOS - 15+ years

Programming languages: COBOL/COBOL II, - 15+ years CICS/ESA, JCL - 6+ years Cobol Microfocus - 2+ years C, C++, Visual Basic, JAVA, HTML, XML - 2+ year

Database Management Systems: DB2 / SQL and SQL Procedures - 15+ years Oracle - 2+ years IMS, Microsoft Access - 1+ year

Mainframe Architectures: Altamira - 7+ years Alnova - 4+ years

Ancillary Skills: ISPF, Changeman, VSAM, FILE AID/MVS, QMF, Control M - 17+ years

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Birmingham AL

Senior programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Design and Implementation of the conversion process from Legacy Systems to Alnova platform of the Safe Box systems.
• Implementation of the whole Core Banking in BBVA Compass Bank, specifically in the Cards application area including the creation of all the Debit Cards External interfaces.
• Maintenance and ongoing support to the Alnova Debit Cards batch production processes and online Maintenance transactions.
• Work in specific projects as Credit and Debit Card Origination Processes, Debit Cards Embossing Process working hand to hand with EFT sources, Alnova Front-end windows redesign for Cards Operations and the addition of the NBA American Express Credit Cards to the current Origination process.
• Several sprints as developer leader in Agile and Kanban methodologies providing detailed technical designs to external software factories working in Processes improvements.
• Team leader of the Design area in CIF Release 2 project, validating and approving the detailed technical design documents of the team for the software factory used by BBVA Compass in U.S.
• Development and Implementation of several new functionalities as fees, balance inquiry and cash advance in Confidential point of sales terminals.
• Project leader of the project: Tracking of ISO messages for FAS module, using Vision Plus at Banorte Bank at Monterrey Mexico.
• Project Leader of NIPPER project, payments by cell phone in HP-UX platform that involves communications and development of messaging with several banks and mobile communication companies in FIMPE Mexico.
• Creation of business proposals of several projects in BBVA Bancomer

Confidential

Senior programmer

Responsibilities:

• Development, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance of electronic transfers, purchases and withdrawals transactions of Debit Cards in SIA-SAT platforms (MVS, AIX) in Confidential .
• Installation of the electronic payment system switch for the acquirer role using Point of Sales Terminals (POS) and enabling the connection to different issuer systems, such as Seguro Popular, Prosa, Bancomer, Banamex and American Express at Confidential . The application environment was HP-UX with Oracle and Cobol Microfocus.
• Project member in the installation of the Mobipay system (cellular phone payment infrastructure) in FIMPE. The global team was located in Madrid and Mexico City. Designed and implemented several user formation courses, for end-users, technical users and bank auditors.
• Maintenance and new enhancements to the projects: Floorplan that included car sales by Internet, Automated Clearing House and Foreign exchange for BBVA Puerto Rico at San Juan, P.R.
• Development and Maintenance in several projects at BBVA Bancomer using Altamira platform as the following ones: Traveler checks, Sale and Purchases transactions of currencies and remittances, Migration from Lotus Notes to NACAR platform of the Customer Claims module, Development of input interfaces and reports of the RAR module that evaluate the customer risk daily. Design and Development of the new PG module that validates credentials of business customer’s representatives using CCR methodology separating the Analysis, Design, Development and Test in several departments.
• Maintenance and production support of Risks and Unpaid accounts modules at BBVA, collaboration in the integration of BBVA Risks application with the Risks Bancomer Bank Systems. Development of several interfaces and programs in Loans module at BBVA.
• Creation of the interfaces between Loans and Accounting Santander bank areas, Design and development of several Reports and responsible of some production processes and interfaces at Banco Santander Mexicano.