SUMMARY:

• An enthusiastic, achievement - oriented, hard working, Software Developer with 22 years application development experience.
• Client-server experience includes Oracle and Sybase database environments, PL/SQL, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, Web Applications, COM+, SQL, SQR, MS Visual C++, HTML, XML and FTP. Mainframe-programming experience is in a Legacy System using Assembler, COBOL, Easel, Easytrieve, DB2, CICS and JCL.
• Mid-Range programming experience has been achieved using RPG, Synon, Embedded SQL, Showcase Query Tool, SQL/DB2, MKS Implementor.
• In addition to these skills I offer Service Now Incident Management Software and MS Outlook for email.
• Strengths include excellent analytical skills and proven problem solving skills.
• Often noted as being technically adept and able to leap seamlessly between software platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Oracle, PL/SQL, Sybase, SQL, PowerBuilder V 6.5, Visual Scribe, BRIO, SQR, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Assembly Language, COBOL, PL1, Easel, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve Plus, MS Access, JCL, PVCS, Excel, VB Script, HTML, Javascript, XML, FTP, Windows 98 / NT, Unix, Unix Scripting, COM+, DB2, RPG, Synon, Showcase Query Tool, SQL/DB2
• Higher Ed / Development, Property and Casualty Insurance, Life Insurance, Manufacturing, Real Estate

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Member of ISO / Development team that creates and maintains reports for donor / gift analysis, that condenses millions of rows of data into usefully insightful reports.
• Create actionable insights by developing reports and ad-hoc analyses targeted to answer key business or operational questions.
• Identify data quality deficits and develop automated solutions to improve the data in collaboration with business and technology colleagues.
• Design / Architect defect corrections and system enhancements and provide estimates for the work effort
• Provide technical support for the Ellucian Advance Web Front End
• Partner with key stakeholders to identify information needs for the Development staff
• Act as change coordinator for program moves from test environments to production
• Software technologies used include Oracle / PL SQL, PL SQL Developer, Advance Donor Management by Ellucian, ASP, HTML, Javascript and Crystal Reports

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Member of the Production Support Team, which supports the proprietary TronWeb Policy Administration System for property and casualty insurance.
• Provide support for interfaces with other companies and internal web applications such as AFE (agent interface), B2C (client interface), and MAC (web based internal policy maintenance)
• Design / architect defect corrections and system enhancements.
• As a developer, maintained a high rate of production fixes while simultaneously maintaining a very low rate of defective fixes using self-designed thorough testing strategies.
• Act as module lead for specified modules supported by the Production Support Team, monitoring 15 - 50 fix requests at any one given time, which were fixed by the vendor.
• Review analysis, code fix, testing and design delivered by developers as solutions to production defects
• Chair meetings daily to discuss status of incidents worked on by developers
• Track the status of incidents from the time of assignment to closure
• Work successfully with the vendor to maintain a low number of open incidents

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Member of the Treasury and Billing Team, which supports Mid-Range Treasury and Billing programs Design / architect defect corrections and small project enhancements
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions
• Provide estimates for effort to code small project enhancements
• Act as Tech Lead on small projects
• Develop and maintain Mid-Range programs that use RPG, SYNON, SQL/DB2 or Visual Basic
• Responsible for on-call support of nightly batch programs on a rotation basis
• Participate in a project to enhance a packaged client server system to allow it to correctly maintain specified blocks of business that were previously being maintained on a mid-range system.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Member of same team as when with Confidential, but also taking on small to medium system enhancements and small enhancement project work.
• Design / architect defect corrections and system enhancements in Billing and Collections systems.
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions to help produce requirement document and statement of work.
• Responsible for maintenance support of multiple Billing and Collections systems in multiple platforms.
• Coordinate and create Endeavor packages for production moves for the Billing and Collections maintenance team.
• Technical review of the work products of peers to verify that they conform to specified requirements amd documentation is complete.
• Develop and maintain Mainframe systems that may use DB 2 and are written in Assembler, COBOL and JCL.
• Develop and maintain Client Server systems and Mainframe Front Ends written in Visual Basic, Sybase, SQL and using DB2.
• Responsible for on-call support of nightly batch programs.
• Coordination of small projects and testing efforts.
• Voluntary participation in Bravo rewards panel that identifies and rewards employees for their performance.

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of a 5 person team created to provide baseline support Billing & Collections systems at Confidential .
• Design / architect defect corrections and system enhancements in Billing and Collections systems.
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions to help produce requirement document and statement of work.
• Responsible for maintenance support of multiple Billing and Collections systems in multiple platforms.
• Coordinate and create Endeavor packages for production moves for the Billing and Collections maintenance team.
• Technical review of the work products of peers to verify that they conform to specified requirements amd documentation is complete.
• Develop and maintain Mainframe systems that may use DB 2 and are written in Assembler, COBOL and JCL.
• Develop and maintain Client Server systems and Mainframe Front Ends written in Visual Basic, Sybase, SQL and using DB2.
• Responsible for on-call support of nightly batch programs.
• Coordination of small baseline projects and testing efforts.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design / architect defect corrections and system enhancements in Insurance, Document Production and G/L systems.
• Create detailed specifications and work estimates for software development.
• Lead in the development of defect corrections and system enhancements, and co-ordinate resources.
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions to help produce requirement document and statement of work.
• Successfully lead and coordinate the development of defect corrections, system enhancements and medium to large projects.
• Responsible for scheduling the production implementation of defect corrections and enhancements.
• Technical review of the work products of junior developers to verify that they conform to specified requirements.
• Develop and maintain Mainframe systems written in Easel, Oracle SQL, Assembler, COBOL, PL1 and JCL.
• Develop and maintain Client Server systems written in PowerBuilder, C++, Oracle / Sybase, SQL, PL/SQL, SQR, Korn Shell Script.
• Participated in a project to move a block of business from the mainframe and from a client server system to a different client server system.
• Systems supported include Admin, G/L and Correspondence.
• Responsible for on-call support of nightly batch programs.
• Act as build engineer for two different client servers systems.
• Volunteer support of company intranet pages

Confidential

Application Developer, Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided discretionary and maintenance support for mainframe systems written in Assembly, COBOL, JCL PL/1, Easytrieve, and Easel.
• Provided discretionary and maintenance support for a PC based client server system, in a Sybase environment, using PowerBuilder, C++, SQR and SQL.
• Participated in functional and design walk-through for discretionary and maintenance assignments.
• Responsible for maintenance and update of several Mainframe VSAM files.
• Designed solutions and provided detailed technical specifications for enhancement and maintenance changes to software systems.
• Provided estimates for discretionary and maintenance updates to software systems.
• Worked on multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Communicated openly with team members regarding the impact of updates to software systems.
• Mentored less experienced colleagues.
• Conducted thorough and detailed unit test, maintaining records of testing performed.
• Used professional structured methods, standards and techniques in the development and specification of system requirements and external system design specifications.
• Analyzed requirements and feasibility for system enhancements.
• Communicated with business analysts to clarify requirement descriptions, and advise to start testing.
• Produced reports and system extracts according to business specifications using Visual Scribe SQR.
• Debugged problems involving insurance calculations, mainframe CICS system, mainframe front-end system (ESL), and a PC Based Client Server system.
• Successfully participated in a project to move a block of business held on the mainframe to another company via interface flat files.
• Participate in a project to enhance a packaged client server system to allow it to correctly maintain specified blocks of business that were previously being held on the mainframe.