Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Established professional offering comprehensive Information Technology experience.
Skilled in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle, a technical leader and senior application programmer/analyst dedicated to project success with proven achievement of on - time and on-budget application and system delivery to fulfill business requirements and challenges. Experienced and adept in data and system analysis and the documentation and reporting of such.
Excellent with complex coding, testing, and trouble-shooting of applications and production support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQ, EDI, VSAM, Agile
IBM Mainframe (z/OS: TSO/ISPF, OS/JCL and Utilities; File-Aid, Comparex, Syncsort, Xpediter, Endevor); IBM Websphere

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

Involved in the exhaustive preliminary BDS project analysis for the trade processing domains, which included identification of inbound/outbound data sources and isolation and identification of entity-specific system pressure points within the production-live code base; heavy SQL and Endevor tools utilized to assist in the analysis automation and documentation
Participated in the build-out of QA environments (JCL/PROC turnover, scheduling, and preliminary testing) in support of BDS development efforts and anticipated user acceptance testing
Analyzed, modified, and tested CICS/SQL and COBOL/SQL programs for the entity separation within an Error Allocation Management system; compiled extensive unit test scenarios and documentation in support and review of the changes with the impacted business units
Analyzed, coded, and tested the entity separation for a fixed-income securities Real-Time Trade Matching (RTTM) application between in-house Clearing and the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) using COBOL/SQL, CICS/SQL, and VSAM, MQ and DB2

Confidential

IBM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Worked as a member of the RNM QA Team
This project was for the Medco and Confidential merger
Analyzed and modified Cobol programs and associated jobs for Corporate Initiative to replace the TMF (Table Management Facility) tables with new DB2 tables
Coded new modules to access DB2 tables and tuned queries for maximum performance.
Coded and tested driver modules to unit test validation process
Coded updates to JCL
Unit and system tested programs and jobs
Created Business Requirement Document (BRD)
Updated system documentation to reflect revised processing
All programming was performed in Cobol/DB2
Easytrieve was used for date extraction and reporting
Extensive QA testing of GUI Pega front end screens and Mainframe streams
Worked in QA creating test scripts in ALM, tested Mainframe applications
Also worked in the Command Center on Benefit production issues

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

Served as a member of the Broadridge Conversions Department
Primary responsibilities included: Meeting with Users to facilitate their specific needs for conversion processing
Formulated detailed specifications for the Broadridge conversion department to allow for programming to process client data
Skills utilized were: Cobol, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, and Easytrieve

Confidential, NEW YORK CITY

EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Worked on the Employee Retirement System to convert VSAM COBOL II to DB2 COBOL II
The work consisted of testing and converting over 250 VSAM modules to DB2
Performed extensive test setups and runs of all jobs to facilitate the conversion effort
The Mac Kinney Systems File compare tool was used to ensure all output data met quality control standards
Performed before and after comparisons of production input to match output after conversion:This entailed extensive Quality assurance reviews to meet NYCERS standards