CAREER SUMMARY

• IT professional with over twenty years of diverse experience in Banking, manufacturing and healthcare.
• Strong analytical, debugging, organizational and communication skills needed to work effectively in teams. Solid experience with application development, testing, vendor communications, customer/user support, incident resolution, staff training/coaching.

Key technical skills include:

Professional experience

Confidential

Contract position with Precision Systems

• Analysis of technical and functional requirements.
• Create test approach, test plans conditions from requirements
• Prepare, document and execute test scripts using Quality Center/HP ALM
• Test mainframe and online servicing applications
• Verify Tables applications migrated to Production

Confidential

Contract position with Hudson Professional Resources

• Analysis of technical and functional requirements.
• Perform thorough Integrated and User Acceptance Testing of AXIOM ERP system
• Lead meetings and communicate with business owners in accordance with Corporate Change Policy for changes in the Axiom environment
• Created documentation for Test Cases, Integration Testing User Acceptance Testing
• Identify any issues found in testing and provide accurate results to analysts for re-work

Confidential

Contract position

• Performed analysis of technical and functional requirements.
• Prepared, documented and executed test scripts for SIT using Quality Center.
• Reported software and functional defects using Quality Center.

Confidential

Independent Senior Representative

• Provide various financial services including, Financial Needs Analysis, Term Life, Long Term Care, Debt Credit Reports through Equifax, Mutual Fund Investments.

Confidential

QA Testing

• Project lead for creation, testing and deliverables of four parallel test environments. Organized several departments to deliver test environments to development staff.
• Wrote, maintained and executed Smoke tests daily Regression test scripts after each Production implementation using Quick Test Professional 9.2.
• Developed and executed test plans test cases for both manual automated testing.
• Have performed unit, functional, integrated, white box black box testing.
• Ran documented Disaster Recovery Testing for Version Control product.
• Interacted with users to understand their testing requirements for user acceptance testing.
• Documentation of testing errors in Quality Center.
• Part of team to re-write regression test scripts in QTP for online mortgage origination system.
• Well experienced in using SQL PL/SQL in Toad to extract data from Oracle for testing data, as well as creating modifying Tables, Views, Procedures Functions.
• Release Management
• Primary support of Version Control and Software Configuration Management for Builds and Deployment.
• Primary support and maintenance for Build and Deployment XML and Software Configuration Management using Harvest and Busy Bee deployment tool.
• Learned Build Release configuration while working with co-worker, eventually took over position from him.
• Maintained Build Release configuration files using XML.
• Checked Development Test environment builds release logs each morning to make sure they completed without errors.
• Researched problems in build releases referred to developers.

IT Developer

• Responsibilities included analysis, development and support of mortgage applications using several programming languages.
• Developed maintained VB Script, ASP, HTML and XML for web pages.
• Followed coding standards as all code went through code review.
• Created own test plans test data to make sure results conformed to the Business Requirements and functionality while maintaining coding standards.
• Performed integrated testing to ensure compatibility with all parts of code new and old.
• Analyzed and documented problems with existing code as well as new code to deliver best functionality.
• Worked with Business Analysts for business requirements functionality.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

• Maintained existing applications using COBOL CICS.
• Unit tested own development. Followed business requirements to code functionality.
• User acceptance testing performed to approve changes.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

• Responsible for developing manufacturing applications on mainframe, creating paperless project management system, demonstrating system and training staff.
• Developed maintained various manufacturing applications in COBOL CICS, including inventory application utilizing bar-codes for new warehousing project.
• Designed, developed and maintained Project Management application in Lotus Notes.
• Obtained training for several departments in MS WORD EXCEL. Researched training facilities and negotiated the best price for training packages, saving the company money.
• Unit tested own development. Followed business requirements. QA department tested application changes further.

Confidential

Cleveland's nonprofit, university-affiliated medical center and Level I Trauma Center.

Programmer/Analyst

• Developed and maintained batch reporting and on-line Medipac software for patient accounting system, and resolved production issues.
• Designed, tested and maintained COBOL applications.
• Rebuilt and tested flow of batch test system JCL and files for data integrity.
• Migrated all source code to a new library system and trained team members.
• Unit tested own development. Followed business requirements.
• User acceptance testing performed to approve changes.