SUMMARY

Valued asset to your company with over 25 years programming experience in the Financial Industry. My extensive IT experience and strong verbal and written communication skills make me an excellent choice for your organization.

T ECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cobol II, JCL 28 years Xpediter Batch 28 years TSO/ISPF 28 years VSAM 28 years FileAid 28 years CICS,BMS/GTB 20 years Xpediter CICS 20 years CA7 20 years
• RSD 20 years Endevor 16 years FTP, NDM 10 years ITSM Change Management 8 years MQSeries 8 years JIRA 8 years DB2/SQL 5 years Sungard Invest One software 15 years IDMS, IMS Infoman change management Intertest debugging Lotus Notes SharePoint document management Panvalet library management system HP Quality Center Test Director test management software Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 7 Microsoft Office suite Access, Communicator, Excel, Lynx, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Associate AVP

Confidential

Tech Lead for Business requested enhancement of an in-house accounting system PSA . This system will enable the tracking and reporting of transactions to handle master trust structures requiring unitized methodology. This process will improve productivity by eliminating the need for Ops to manually apply unitized algorithm using excel spreadsheets.

Technical Project Manager

• Analyzed user requirements
• Hosted weekly status meetings with technology staff
• Provided weekly meeting minutes to senior management
• Liaised with Business ops to get technical requirements for client reports
• Tech Lead for Client requested enhancement of an in-house accounting system PSA . This enhancement was essential for our Clients to accurately receive reporting of non-securities related cash transactions. Technical support was provided for several testing cycles across multiple project teams.

Technical Project Manager

• Setup of test region to facilitate receipt of transactions
• Provided technical representation at weekly status meetings
• Liaised with Project Manager and Business ops
• Extensive User Acceptance testing
• Tech Lead for major, client requested, large scale project Titan Cash STC . This project expanded over 200 transaction descriptions on the US Custody platform to improve client reporting for non-securities related cash transactions. The expansion of cash descriptions allowed the Business Ops to clearly track and report payments and fees that are paid to service providers. Followed various Project Management approaches such as Scheduling, Risk Management, and Execution Planning to ensure the successful implementation of the project.

Technical Project Manager

• Analyzed user requirements
• Setup of test region to facilitate processing transactions across several test cycles
• Hosted weekly status meetings and distributed meeting minutes to senior management
• Created technical requirements document
• Completed Cobol/CICS program changes
• Managed project schedule for 4 team members
• Liaised between Technology and Business Ops to ensure all requirements were met
• Provided extensive User Acceptance testing
• Ensured all phases of the project lifecycle were closely monitored to ensure flawless project execution and completion
• Responsible for detailed documentation and implementation
• Maintenance of major CICS online trade processing system WINS Thin Layer . This system provides the daily interface for thousands of trades between the UK based Investment Management and the US Based Invest One accounting system. Trades are now processed across 7 online regions. Managed the evolution of this system from custom code for individual clients to the design and implementation of standardized code for all clients across all regions. Successfully implemented several Business requested enhancements to meet Client need.
• Created detailed requirements documents DRD for various project enhancements
• Ensured that all business requirements BRD were covered on the technical requirements
• Analyzed user requirements and liaised with Business to create comprehensive technical requirements
• Created technical requirements document and completed program changes
• Responsible for detailed documentation and project implementation
• Created training document and provided cross training to various team members

Technical Officer

Confidential

• Responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of a CICS online trade processing system WINS Thin Layer . This system provides the daily interface for thousands of trades between the UK based Investment Management system and the US Based Invest One accounting system. Managed the growth of the system from processing trades for clients in one location to eventually processing trades for clients across 7 locations. Managed the evolution of this system from custom code for individual clients to the design and implementation of standardized coded for multiple clients.
• Created detailed requirements documents DRD for various project enhancements
• Ensured that all business requirements BRD were covered on the technical requirements
• Analyzed user requirements
• Created technical requirements document and completed program changes
• Responsible for detailed documentation and project implementation

Consultant

Confidential

• Worked on various projects to provide promotional interest rates to customers to increase customer credit card enrollment.
• Analyzed user requirements
• Coded required program changes
• Responsible for detailed documentation and project implementation

Consultant

Confidential

• Assigned to work on the creation of a new production region which replaced a third party accounting software with the Sungard Invest One accounting system.
• Analyzed user requirements
• Coded required program changes
• Coordinated User Acceptance testing
• Promoted Test Director defect changes into system test libraries
• Prepared documentation and setup for project implementation
• Developed the current accounting methodology for the existing transaction processing system to allow for a daily review of accounts and provide clients with more accurate data for start of day Transaction Mapping .
• Analyzed user requirements and created change documents
• Coded required program changes
• Coordinated User Acceptance testing
• Modified and implemented reconcilement software into production SSR . This product reconciled trade balances between the company's UK clients and an outside vendor. This benefited the Business Ops who were able to provide accurate trade reconciliation for clients.
• Analyzed user requirements
• Coded required program changes
• Coordinated User Acceptance testing
• Prepared documentation and setup for project implementation
• Developed the interface between the existing accounting system Transaction Mapping and the new security reference system GMRD which provided a centralized repository for providing opening and maintenance of securities within the bank. Different applications are provided real-time access to up to date security data.
• Analyzed user requirements
• Coded required program changes
• Provided extensive system testing
• Coordinated User Acceptance testing
• Prepared documentation and setup for project implementation
• Worked with the project team on the development and ongoing maintenance of a VSAM table driven, online trade processing system Transaction Mapping . Data feeds are sent from various core systems throughout the day and are evaluated by source, validated based on predetermined criteria for each type of transaction and converted into a series of standardized records for input to the Sungard Invest One accounting system.
• Analyzed user requirements
• Coded required program changes
• Setup of various job schedules
• Extensive system testing
• Coordinated User Acceptance testing and training
• Prepared documentation and setup for project implementation
• Assisted with several new release implementations of the Sungard Invest One accounting software. This required modifications to thousands of the bank's in-house modules to facilitate the Sungard software upgrade.
• Created detail specifications for enhancements to in-house programs
• Coded program changes
• Provider beeper support for production jobs