SUMMARY:

• Application Developer with a background in Financial, Brokerage and Banking applications as well as Medical Health provider applications. Experience covers all aspects of the Project Life Cycle including System Analysis and Design.
• Design, develop, maintain, and support mainframe online and batch applications.
• Gather user requirements, perform impact analysis, and provide solutions for change requests.
• Perform analysis, coding, unit testing, volume testing, and implementation.
• Eager to master new and challenging business areas and technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEMS: z/OS, OS/390, MVS, VM/CMS, Windows XP, Windows 2K

SKILLS: TSO/ISPF, IBM UTILITIES, FILE - AID, SYNCSORT, ENDEVOR, COBOL II, MICROFOCUS COBOL, MVS JCL, VSAM, CICS, CSP, EASYTRIVE PLUS, DB2/SQL, IMS/DB, MQ Series, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, SPUFI, QMF, PROEDIT, PLATINUM PLAN ANALIZER, INTERTEST, VIASOFT, HTML, CA Scheduler, REXX, JAVASCRIPT, VBSCRIPT, ASP, MICROSOFT OFFICE, TableBASE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Programmer analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working on various MLPro applications. MLPro provides clearing and financing services to Market Makers, has its own clearing number at NSCC and DTC and maintains its own books and records. MLPro supports the entire trade lifecycle, from trade capture, figuration and clearing through to settlement, books and records.
• Participated in the development and implementation of the Lopr Option Position reporting OCC position greater 200 contracts
• In corporate Flex Option Processing into regular option reporting to automate some processing and reorganize the balancing reports to eliminate risk and unify the option process
• DTCC Supplemental Liquidity Feed Expiring Options a combined forecast of the monetary daily activity of stocks

Environment: COBOL2/MVS/JCL/CICS/DB2//MQSeries/VSAM/REXX/TableBASE

Sr. Programmer analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various Integrated Tape Processing (ITP) applications. ITP system processes claims for many different carriers on the daily, bi-weekly, monthly and on request frequencies.
• Developed and implemented new daily and bi-weekly cycles for United Health Group (UHG) carriers, including batch and on-line parts.
• Modified ITP on-line application with new reference file number for 'UHG SubClient VSAM' to update DB2 tables and various mainframe elements used to build JCL and Cobol needed to create new billing files.

Environment: COBOL2/MVS/JCL/CICS/DB2//MQSeries/TeraData/VBScript

Sr. Programmer analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various Banking (BNK) and Asset Management System (AMS) applications.
• Involved in maintenance and modification to Trade Affirmation System (TAS) and Security Movement and Control System (SMAC). On settlement date SMAC settles the trade with DTC and Federal Reserve then performs a daily unit proof by cusip with DTC and Fed. SMAC also performs all corporate action settlements received from DTC and Fed.
• Implemented on demand account balance inquiry and intraday posting for FEDWIRE System using Multi Region Operation between US Trust CICS and Metavante IMS regions.
• Modified existing Mainframe Dual Host (MDH) system interface between SMAC and Depository Trust Company (DTC) to use MQ’s instead of LU6.2.
• Developed and implemented new function to Money Instrument Real Time (MIRT). MIRT generates, and tracks money instruments such as CD’s, Repos, Commercial Papers, and Euro Dollars (EA) placement, the system interfaces with General Ledger, Asset Management and Banking Systems.
• Participated in development, testing and implementation of Loan Management Report System.
• Provided various analyses to Banking Applications for extracting necessary data from DB2 tables, VSAM and flat files and other sources and produce different ad-hoc reports per user request.
• Involved in design and development Key Performance Indicator Project to provide a mechanism to track and control mortgages from its origination to portfolio management.
• Involved in project plans for Vendor Consolidation project, participated in analyzing sources.
• Was heavily involved in logical and physical design of private banking data warehouse.
• Developed and implemented Suspicious Activity Reporting system for BSA (Bank Security Act) regulations. Implemented OFAC scanning using vendor-provided Keystone software and data bases (batch and on-line).
• Operation and production support (24/7).

Environment: COBOL2/MVS/JCL/CICS/CSP/DB2/IMS/MQSeries/REXX/HTML/JavaScript/VBScript

Sr. Programmer analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in maintenance and modification to Corporate Transfer Agency System (CTAS). CTAS process distribution of dividends, reinvestment, transfers, and redemption functionality.
• Responsibilities included various analysis and modification of the following on-line and batch modules: add issue, change reinvestment option, and cancellation of account.
• Participated in conversion of VSAM master files to DB2 tables, analyzed DB2 performance. Provided SQL commands that were used to update production table via SPUFI.
• Analyzed the impact of Y2K on the CTAS and provide inventory of risk and strategy for compliance. Prepared technical documentation using Excel, Power Point, and Visio software’s.
• Provided problem determination and guidance for staff programmers facing problems with CICS and DB2.
• Provide operation and production support.

Environment: COBOLII/MVS JCL/VSAM/CICS/CSP/DB2/IMS/Client Server components

Sr. Programmer analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed part of Mutual Fund Trading System (MFTS) including on-line and batch parts. On-line part modules such as order entry for new and existing accounts, exchange process, extract process, networking and de-networking request, cancellation of pending request, and changing of network level and pay option.
• Was involved in logical and physical design of DB2 tables based on referential integrity concept, analyzed explain outputs to tuning DB2 for better performance.
• Created process that performs the data extracting, cleansing, and reformatting of mutual funds historical transactions that would be loaded into the datamart (the initial load).
• Converted (rewrote) New Account Entry subsystem from Cross System Product to CICS.
• Remained on call 24 hours in support of the nightly production cycle of system, responsibilities included: checking the batch cycle; supervising job recovery and restarts; and fielding user’s calls.
• Created Procs and JCL for production and testing runs.

Environment: COBOLII/MVS JCL/VSAM/CICS/CSP/DB2