SUMMARY:

• My professional career of over 25 years has involved various diverse but related roles in IT Software Development and Programming.
• My duties and responsibilities have encompassed all aspects of Software Development Life - cycle.
• My work on several recent projects has focused on working with users and SMEs in gathering and understanding requirements for medium to large scale system enhancements. Based on requirements, I have worked on doing technical analysis of the system components that have been impacted by the requirements.
• During the analysis phase of a project, I work diligently on getting an overall understanding of the relations of all system components, the relationship between the various data structures in the system and the flow of data in the system.
• My duties and responsibilities have also entailed in providing various project deliverables. These include providing Requirement Traceability Matrix, putting together the Design and Design documents, writing Functional and Detail Specifications, putting together Test Plans with Test Cases, formulating a Data Matrix and drawing up plans for Implementation.
• In many of my projects, I have lead a team of 3 to 5 people in the role of Technical Lead including leading a team of offshore developers.
• In addition to my analytical skills, I also have very strong technical skills. My technical abilities include proficiency in all aspects of Mainframe Technology such as hands on technical work in COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS and TSO. In addition, on my last project, I have picked up some very strong technical skills and knowledge working with C# coding and SQL Server in the .NET framework. Some of my highlights and value-added activities on my most recent project Confidential the Confidential included designing and integrating components and data on both a .NET client server platform and a back-end Mainframe platform.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: COBOL, .NET C#, ASP Classic, SAS, Easytrieve

Databases: DB2, SQL Server, IMS DB/DC

Operating Systems: MVS, Z/OS, .NET

Utilities & Tools: JCL, DB2 Platinum Products, QMF, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, File Aide, Microsoft Project, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, IBM Data Studio, Control-M, Windows Scheduler.

Methodologies: SDM, Agile

Applications: Online and Batch COBOL programs, DB2 Stored Procedures, SQL Server Stored Procedures, Windows Applications, Web Applications, Web Services, WCF Services, XML filesFTP, Integrating Client Server Programs with Back end DB2 databases on MainframeSQL Queries, JCL utilities, EDI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Lead designer and Developer (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Subcontractor to a preferred vendor for the.
• Scope of work included providing major & critical enhancements to a retirement annuity processing system running on a Mainframe and Client Server (.NET) platform.
• Role included analysis of system components on Mainframe
• NET platforms, working with business analysts and SME in requirement gathering, writing functional and technical specificatons, programming in COBOL and Confidential #, testing, implementation and documentation.
• Technical skills entailed programming in COBOL on the Mainframe platform and Confidential # on the .
• NET platform. Extensively used DB2 and SQL Server database and associated utilities and tools.
• Used the AGILE methodology for the project.

Technical skills: C#, SQL Server, COBOL, DB2 JCL, IBM Data Studio, QMF, Endevor, Visual Studio, Management Studio, Webservice, WCF Services.

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Project Coordinator / Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed offshore team for Confidential that were assigned to Mainframe based system for
• Duties included managing and assigning day to day tasks to team members, tracking action items and issue resolving for team members, conducting weekly status meetings with team members, working with user clients for requirements gathering, mapping business requirements to technical requirements, system analysis and identifying impacted components, creating requirements tracibility matrix, wrting functional & technical specs, putting togather test plans with test data matrix, documenting implementation plans.
• Supervising and overseeing coding, testing and configuration management efforts of team members.

Technical skills: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS, Easytrieve

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Senior Programmer Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Invoicing and Accounts Receivable system.
• In addition to providing Production Support for this financial system worked on providing various AD Hoc reports for business users.
• Assigned as a technical team member for the Invoicing and Accounts Receivable applications for a Mainframe Upgrade project.
• Duties included requirements gathering, analysis, coding and testing.

Technical skills: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS, Easytrieve

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Senior Programmer Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Pension Letter Writing project Confidential.
• Identified and analysed components of a Pension System running on a mainframe platform.
• Coded programs to retrieve data for participants from VSAM files and provide this data to a web based application used by customer service for letter writing.
• Also worked on configuring MQSeries to pass data between the Mainframe and NT platform.
• Involved in analysis, coding and testing of this enhancement.

Technical skills: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, MQSeries.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Senior Programmer Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Credit Card Encryption project .
• Identified and analysed components of a financial system running on a mainframe platform that required to be updated as a result of migrating data from Single Des Encryption to Triple Des Encryption.
• Worked with project team members in designing changes and enhancements to the system.
• Wrote technical specs for modifications to the system.
• Coded & tested conversion programs to convert data to the new encryption protocol on an IMS database.
• Modified code to existing components to accommodate the new Triple Des Encryption and Decryption protocol.
• Identified unit & integration test cases. Built environment for system testing of batch JCL stream.
• Assisted in putting together system and regression test plans.
• Involved in planning implementation of changes into production.

Technical skills: COBOL, IMS, DB2, JCL, CICS, Fileaid, Xpeditor

Confidential

Programmer Analyst Advanced

Responsibilities:

• Supported batch activities for a benefits proprietary software for clients that included.
• Aligned to the Health & Welfare, Pension Benefits and 401K practices for these clients.
• Worked with both the 3x and 4x versions of the proprietary software.
• Duties included completing Ad Hoc requests, production support activities and change orders.
• Completed analysis and wrote specs for offshore development team.
• Attended Batch Team planning meetings, tracked ongoing tasks and assisted in planning resource capacity for upcoming tasks.

Technical skills: SAS, JCL, DB2 and SQL

Confidential

Onsite Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to work as an onsite analyst to liason between project team members and technical developers located Confidential an offsite location.
• Duties include understanding requirements for several medium to large enhancements for an Insurance Rating system.
• Provide estimates for development, testing and implementation of enhancements.
• Facilitate code and test walkthroughs.
• Oversee development and testing efforts conducted by offsite team members.
• Provide necessary research and analysis on information that may be required by development team.
• Assist in setting up test environments.
• Work with business and offsite developers to resolve defects identified during integration and system testing.
• Coordinate promotion of components to production environment using RMS and HP Service desk tools.
• Provide post implementation support. Use of SDM methodology during project life cycle.
• Coordinate several projects concurrently.

Technical skills: COBOL, JCL, FILEAID, IMS, DB2 and SQL.

Confidential

Technical Lead (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned Confidential to work on a major enhancement to a Rewards Tracking System.
• Duties included understanding the high level & detail design of the enhancement.
• Estimating time & resources needed for completing the project.
• Planning & assigning tasks to developers.
• Overseeing day-to-day development, testing & technical documentation efforts for the project.
• Tracking and resolving issues and defects.
• Working with lead tester to create test cases, test environment and test data.
• Providing ongoing status to the business sponsors and project manager for development, testing and implementation phases of the project.
• Writing implementation plan and overseeing post implementation monitoring & support for the system.
• Used SDM methodology during the life cycle of the project.

Technical skills: COBOL, JCL, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, SQL and CONTROL-M skills.

Confidential

Technical Lead Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned Confidential the to work on a major conversion project for a financial lending system distributed on Mainframe and Server platforms.
• Duties included analyzing batch feeds for various interfaces between sub-systems.
• Understanding existing functionality of the feeds and future enhancements.
• Writing functional specs for technical staff based on knowledge gained about the feeds from business users and review of technical components of the sub-systems.
• Reviewing technical design and making sure it adheres to specifications provided.
• Write test plans for system integration and user acceptance testing.
• Provide selection criteria for test data to testers.
• Verify test results against specifications.

Technical skills: COBOL and JCL.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst / Technical Lead (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned Confidential to work on a Mainframe Order Entry & Shipping system called OSCAR.
• Worked on several Medium Sized projects that introduced Business Critical Enhancements to the existing system.
• Duties included working with users, business analysts and subject matter experts in gathering high level & detailed requirements for the project, writing project plans and project schedules, setting up and conducting kickoff and weekly status meetings, documenting and tracking issues, designing and writing technical specs for the enhancements, coding, testing, writing implementation & conversion plans and releasing enhancements into production.

Technical skills: COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, SQL and JCL. Tools used include DB2 Platinum Products, SPUFI and Xpeditor.

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included overseeing the day-to-day maintenance and enhancement of the Customer Relations System.
• Managed daily production support activities and successfully lead a team of technical developers and testers in the implementation of several releases for the application.
• The position entailed being a liaison between the users of the system and the technical staff.
• Conducted user and team status meetings.
• Gathered requirements and put together project plans, test plans and project schedules.
• Involved in all phases of the project life cycle and managed issues related to the system.
• Coordinated and prioritized tasks amongst team members.
• Managed outside vendors who supported the core package for this three-tier client server application.
• Worked as the project lead on many small to medium sized projects that were related to the maintenance, quality assurance and performance of the system.
• Some of these projects included, establishing a test and training environment for the system, implementing utilities to manage data on production and test environments, upgrading printers and peripherals for the system, installing an auto error handler for the backend of the system, load testing and determining system capacity, completing all system and user documentation for the system including a Service Level Agreement for the users and a Disaster Recovery Plan for the system.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned Confidential to work on developing the back end of a Securities and Lending application.
• Assignment involved writing detailed Specs from high-level requirements. Designed queries that met requirements criteria.
• Developed COBOL programs using DB2 databases.
• Created test data and unit tested programs.

Technical skills: COBOL, DB2 and JCL. Tools used include DB2 Platinum Products, File aide, SPUFI and Xpeditor.

Confidential

Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned Confidential to work on enhancing an Accounts Receivable System to post payments to invoices for transactions received through EDI.
• Assignment included working with users and application experts to gather requirements in order to complete a Project Plan and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Used MS Project to complete Project Schedule.
• Wrote design documents, which included detailed Specs and Data Flow Diagrams.
• Assigned and monitored tasks of other team members.
• Scheduled and presented kickoff meetings and status meetings.
• Coordinated tasks and assignments among team members and users.
• Put together Systems Test plan, Acceptance Test Plan and implementation plans for the project.
• In addition to coordinating the project was also involved in coding some of the programs for the enhancement.

Technical skills: COBOL, DB2 and JCL.

Confidential

Development Support Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on creating a test plan for user acceptance testing for enhancements to the Invoicing System .
• Responsibilities included an analysis of the new requirements for the system.
• This included working with business users and developers in understanding the system, its interfaces and job flows.
• Building test cases and data matrixes for each requirement, identifying and creating test data for input files to the system, running queries against databases, loading and creating test data on databases, helped in identifying and building components to create separate acceptance testing environment, documented process and deliverables for acceptance testing.

Technical skills: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, and CICS. Tools used for this project included QMF, SPUFI, MS-ACCESS, FTP, VISIO AND EXCEL.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the EDI Implementation project Confidential.
• Responsibilities included doing a complete analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation of a system to process EDI transactions from a major customer.
• The analysis and design phase involved determining the business functionality of the system, the interfaces with other systems and creating flow charts to show data flow for the system.
• The development and testing phase involved coding, testing and implementing 4 COBOL programs from scratch.

Technical skills: COBOL, DB2, IMS and JCL.

Confidential, Orland Park, IL

Senior Programmer/System Tester (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned for the integration testing of the First Infinity Card Processing system Confidential.
• Worked closely with business users in analyzing and understanding the batch flow and functionality of the system.
• Building a batch schedule for the system using Control-M.
• This entailed having a good understanding of the functionality of each batch job and understanding dependencies for each batch job.
• Helped analyze and resolve any defects during the testing process.
• Also prepared data to be used as input for test purposes.

Technical skills: JCL, DB2, SQL and COBOL. Utilized tools such as FILEAID, SPUFI and QMF.

Confidential , Oakbrook, IL

Team lead (Consultant)

• Assigned to the Compliance project.
• Responsibilities included analysis, coding and testing of the Vehicle Maintenance System, Transportation System, Wage Rate/Payroll system and Rail Inventory Management System for Y2K compliance.
• Ascertained overall businesses flow and design of the systems and worked with the application group to determine all components of the systems.
• Duties also encompassed identifying all Y2K changes for the application, identifying and estimating tasks for the project and assigning specific tasks to various members of the project team.
• Reported weekly status for this project to the Project Manager.

Technical skills: COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, JCL, ORACLE, SQL, PL/SQL and DEVELEPOR/2000. Also utilized Micro Focus Revolve Softfactory 2000 tool for analysis of the systems.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Confidential. Was responsible for three sub systems within this billing system. These included the AEBS system, the HBOL system and the Large User system. These consisted of COBOL programs utilizing IMS databases. Was responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and any enhancements to the system.
• Worked on the 773 AREA CODE SPLIT project that enhanced the above systems to process the 773 area code. Responsibilities included analyzing the various programs in each system, identifying programs and changes to be made, writing specifications for changes, making coding changes, writing up unit test plans, system test plans. Conducting tests, analyzing and documenting test results.
• Assigned to year 2000 conversion project Confidential. Responsibilities include analyzing various systems for the year 2000. Worked with Confidential ’s subject matter expert in getting a thorough knowledge of the system and all the data flow within the system. This also included identifying all modules, source libraries, JCL libraries and any configuration management tools used for source control. The analysis also involved the use of VIASOFT’S ESTIMATE tool to identify lines of code and date related data items.

Confidential

Programmer/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supervised the activities of 10 sales representatives.
• Attended various trade shows and helped increased the sales and customer Confidential .
• Duties also included developing an overall quality assurance package for products being manufactured overseas and improving customer service.
• These duties included analyzing current operations and implementing solutions for conducting business more efficiently.
• Also automated and computerized all aspects of the business including order entry, invoicing, inventory management.
• Worked with an ORACLE database using PL/SQL and SQL PLUS to create various queries and reports.

Confidential

Programmer/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Programmer/Analyst for Confidential maintaining production legacy systems. Maintained and enhanced the Configuration System.
• The system includes various COBOL programs utilizing IMS databases, VSAM files, Dialog Manager and CLIST.
• Was responsible for resolving various production problems. Interfaced with users on various enhancements needed by the production system.
• Wrote up system requests for enhancements and estimating projects.
• For many changes to the Configuration System had to analyze production code because of a lack of up-to-date program documentation.
• This review provided the basis for writing program specifications from which changes were coded and tested.
• The testing function incorporated various testing tools such as BTS, DLT0, EXPEDITER and FILE-AID.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and supported various batch and on-line COBOL programs utilizing TSO, PANVALET, IMS DB/DC, CICS, OS/MVS JCL, and several IBM utilities.
• The systems worked on included a conversion project for an on-line customer order confirmation system moving from a Burroughs platform to an IBM platform.
• Wrote detailed specifications, coded and tested changes for the ASAP Customer/ASAP Link Bridge project.
• Also worked on the ORD consolidation project that included writing several programs using an IMS database from which information was extracted for consolidated reporting.