SUMMARY

Results oriented IT professional with diversified experience and expertise ranging from Mainframe Computer Programming t Sr. Level Project IT Management in both small and Fortune 500 Companies primarily in the Insurance and Financial industries. Proven ability t quickly identify, assess, learn and understand diversified Computer Software Systems and the business they drive. I have a thorough understanding of overall IT concepts both technical as well as administrative as they apply t any business or industry and I provide IT software and procedural solutions t satisfy company needs. My experience allows me t Identify key stakeholders and users, build positive relationships, bridge eliminate gaps between various departments and bring them together resulting in, harmonious collaboration t achieve joint effort IT software development project success. Strong written and verbal communications skills.

Overall Experience

Years of Mainframe applications programming as well as overall IT project management Leadership. Requirements gathering, technical analysis, spec writing, project estimates, mainframe program coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. Extensive experience working with both on and off-shore groups, internal systems users, technical support areas and external vendors such as IBM, LRS, CA, Compuware, etc . Als experience with project tracking and status reporting. Quite comfortable and accustomed t meeting with IT users, middle and upper management and external business partners such as New Business, QA, PMO, SOX, Tech Support, Production Control and Operations. Have utilized Matrix, AGILE, Waterfall, Keane and Lean Manufacturing SDLC Methodologies and I have lead multiple high dollar IT projects resources from inception through production implementation simultaneously. Hands On technical experience with LifeComm, Vantage, CK4, Life-70, CLOAS, and Cyberlife Insurance policy administrations systems. Can function as a Mainframe Programmer, Project Manager or Business Analyst. I love challenge and thrive on accepting and resolving the most visible and complex IT system problems of the organization. Kaplan College- Advanced Computer Programming, Columbus, OH and FLMI ACS Designations from the LOMA Institute.

Areas of Expertise:

• Mainframe Programming Problem Resolution - 15 Years hands on experience in Batch and Online Systems.
• Extensive mainframe programming experience with CICS, DB2, COBOL, IBM Assembler, TSO, VSAM, Expediter, Intertest, FileAid, Changeman, Endevor, Strobe, OS/MVS JCL Procs. Design Maintenance.
• Project Management 10 Years Hands on experience leading and managing IT projects and resources.
• Proven experience leading and managing multiple projects simultaneously using both AGILE and WATERFALL SDLC concepts. Created The Hook concept at Lincoln for LifeComm, installed Multi-Pass Turb enhancement
• Managed full SDLC projects with budgets ranging from 70K t over 5 million dollars and have managed Led mentored teams ranging from 5 t 18.
• Project time, resource dollar estimates, formal documentation, Corporate Communications.
• Senior Management Managed and led 3 separate IT departments, staff of 42, in 4 locations simultaneously
• Establishment, management disbursal of Multi- Million dollar IT departmental budgets utilizing Ariba.
• External Vendor negotiations IBM, Compuware, CA, etc , software evaluation purchase decisions, development of Project, Test and Implementation plans, infrastructure planning participation.
• Meetings and collaboration with internal and external Business Partners, QA, SOX, PMO, Auditing, etc.
• Managed Staff of 42, hire / fire decisions, mentoring, assessments, development, reviews, increases, education
• Participation in selection of Mainframe and Server software used and setting IT direction for the corporation.
• Industry Experience Includes:
• Life Insurance Health Insurance Casualty Insurance Credit Card Processing Banking
• Payroll Inventory Control Projections Feasibility Airline, Hotel, Car Reservation
• State Federal Tax System Conversions Vendor Software Dev Cost efficiency savings

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. It Systems Analyst Confidential

Mainframe Analysis, Programming, Problem Resolution, and support of the CLOAS Health Insurance Mainframe Admin System including State Partnership Mailings and New Product Implementations initiatives. Als management of the Production monthly software release for CLOAS and project management as well as daily meetings with internal and external Business Partners including users, BA's, QA / Model Office,etc. Requirements gathering, Project Estimates, and weekly status reporting. Daily MF coding, analysis, meetings and Project Mgmt. Mainframe COBOL, CICS, SQL Developer, ISPF/TSO, MS Office, Outlook.

Confidential

Project Leader. Primary responsibilities are with the Mainframe Sharp Health Administration System and include enhancements, problem resolution and production support. IBM OS/MVS JCL and Procs, COBOL, VSAM, ISPF/TSO, Endevor, Expediter. Lead and mentor a group of off shore mainframe developers. Heavy analysis, some Coding, abend and permanent problem solution. Regular meetings with staff, users and management.

Confidential

Various short term assignments designing, creating and maintaining individual small business Web Sites. Site development tasks include requirements gathering and analysis, Control Panel setup, web page and site designs, MYSQL databases, search engine setups, domain name acquisition and setups, E-Commerce as well as credit card machine setups t PayPal and various Bank Merchant services and providing IT consulting advice and recommendations

Confidential

Project Manager.

Primary responsibilities were with the conversion of Wachovia Bank Systems and Customers t Wells Fargo. Attended daily meetings t represent Wachovia Bill Pay team, gathered requirements and provided updates t upper management and staff as required around various events. Organized and communicated inf gathered at meetings as applicable t the team and external business partners. Established and maintained the team Task list and Project Plans on Share Point team site. Held weekly meetings with bill pay development team - reviewed data, program code, JCL as needed. Created, maintained and presented project plans for Bank Conversion events. Served as conduit of information from East, West and Fiserv. Mainframe, COBOL, TSO, Planview, Windows, Outlook, Etc.

Sr. Programmer Analyst / Project Manager

Company offers: Life Insurance, Annuities, Universal Life, Group Life, Auto, Health, Renters and Business Insurance. Mainframe environment includes Cobol, Assembler, CICS, TSO, OS/MVS JCL Procs, VSAM, some DB2, Smart Test, Intertest, Changeman, Windows, MS Office, etc. Daily responsibilities are in both the Cyberlife CK4 Insurance Admin Systems.

Dual Role. On some projects I code, test, perform analysis, problem resolution, production support, update documentation, etc full time while on others I managed the overall project and other assigned programmers from project inception through production implementation. Meet with and interview users, mentor, requirements gathering, spec writing, hands on programming, status reporting, production support and on call responsibilities. Both Agile Waterfall SDLC Concepts. Solved a number of system problems over 3 years old.

Promoted from LifeComm IT Manager Confidential

• Managed and technically led staff of 42 Mainframe Distributed computer professionals simultaneously in 4 different states with responsibilities in the Mainframe Distributed Programming areas as well as Production Control.
• Responsibilities included staff assessments development, project management, salary reviews, mentoring, staffing hire / fire decisions and IT budget management. Met daily with system users, off-shore group, Sr. Management, application areas, QA, SOX, PMO, vendors, internal and external auditors. Als heavy Infrastructure initiatives participation and strong Sr. Level participation in IT direction setting for the corporation. Spot Technical hands on coding and participation on large-scale projects. Technically led and participated in the successful implementation of 3 large Multi-Million dollar system conversions from acquired companies t LifeComm. ALC, COBOL, Assembler, DB2, CICS, OS/MVS JCL Procs, CA7, CA11, Ariba, Changeman. Windows, TSO, Expediter, File Aid, Easytrieve, Planview, MS Project, Visio, Excel.

LifeComm IT Manager

Promoted from Sr. Analyst / Project Leader t LifeComm IT Manager reporting t Exec AVP of IT

Technically assessed, mentored, managed and led a staff of 10 seasoned Assembler COBOL Mainframe computer programmers, some with over 25 years programming experience. Full responsibility for staff assessments, development, reviews, increases, hire / fire decisions, project estimates budget management, staff education, creation development of IT procedures and conflict resolution. LifeComm is comprised of over 10,000 very complex IBM Assembler COBOL programs and my daily responsibilities included problem resolution, enhancements and modifications t all 16 sub-systems as well as 24 x 7 last line on call defense production support for all LifeComm systems in production as well as multiple unit, system, QA, integration and regression batch and online test environments. Though a management role, I remained technical and periodically Performed 40 mainframe programming and 60 project Staff management tasks. Analyzed, designed, coded, tested programs as well as wrote formal specifications documentation for each change.

Confidential

Interfaced and met daily with all Business Units Upper Management including Policy Admin, Disaster Recovery, Accounting, QA, New Business, PM office, Underwriting Issue and Customer Service areas.

Installed Multi-Pass Turb Enhancement t LifeComm resulting in significant cost savings through faster cycle process time. Transactions that took multiple days before can now be done in a single day. Million savings.

Sr. Programmer Project Leader Confidential

Senior technical programming and leadership role participating in LifeComm batch and online system programming, coding, debugging, production support, enhancements, modifications, problem resolution, Als created Project and Test Plans including Program Unit, Systems, QA Integration and Regression Testing as well as, New product development and conversions of lines of business from acquired companies t Lincoln. Hands on Project management and programming. Coded in Assembler, COBOL, CICS, Windows, OS/MVS JCL Procs, VSAM, DB2, Changeman, Expediter, Intertest, Roscoe and TSO. 70 daily coding 30 AGILE, WATERFALL and Matrix SDLC Project Management. Performed research, negotiated purchase and led initiative t bring in and implement TS training at Lincoln.

Confidential State Of Project Manager

• Led a staff of 8 highly experienced mainframe technical programming consultants primarily responsible for the State of Ga. Corporate Tax Systems.
• Project Management and direction of staff along with 70 hands on coding. Assembler, COBOL, CICS, TSO, Windows, DB2, MS Project Manager, Visi other.
• Successfully converted the online CICS 1.4 Macr Level Corporate Tax system t CICS Command Level using COMET saving the state of GA over 2M and a full re-write of the corporate tax system. Designed developed approach and pseud code t d what the state had been told by other firms could not be done. State of Nebraska asked for the working code.
• Successfully designed, developed, coded and implemented Y2K Assembler and COBOL date modifications t the State of GA. Corporate Tax systems making them Y2K Compliant. Met all SLA's on time.
• Additional Experience upon request.

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

• 6 hats Managing Conflict Violence in the Workplace
• Effective Communications Planview Time Reporting Chronological Interviewing
• Anti Money Laundering Effective Time Management Strobe Concepts
• Keane Mgmt Techniques SDLC Methodologies Hyperion Budget Planning