OBJECTIVE

Seeking a Software Developer position to research, design and develop applications utilizing my extensive experience in structured analysis and design as well as comprehensive understanding of full Systems Development Life Cycle. As a resourceful software engineer, I have a history of successfully developing and implementing systems of various levels of complexity and architecture. With passion of problem identification and subsequent resolution, I have enhanced and supported existing systems to maintain high performance and efficiency of the applications and infrastructure components. I am self-starter who enjoys collaborative team work to create automated solutions for clients. My professional experience includes but not limited to strong knowledge and ability to work with mainframe technology:MVS/Cobol/JCL. As well as great skills in ETL/Ab Inito/Oracle/Teradate/Unix system development. These technical skills afford me a unique advantage to operate in both, mainframe and object oriented environments and have proven to be indispensable in the projects involving conversions and fusions of different technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND TOOLS

• IBM MVS(OS/390)
• OS/MVS JCL and Utilities
• COBOL
• Microfocus COBOL
• CICS
• CA Easytrieve
• TSO/ISPF
• XPEDITER
• SQL
• Ab Initio 1.14/3.1
• Panvalet
• ENDEVOR
• Tivoli/JSC
• Unix
• IBM Utility Suit
• VSAM
• PL/SQL
• CA Utilities
• FTP/WinSCP
• Teradata SQL Assistant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential. - Dallas, TX January 1998-September 2012
Senior Developer

Senior Developer in Payroll/HR/Benefits system support team. Provided round-the–clock support of four cycles per month payroll processing for 35,000 employees.

• Researched, designed, developed and installed various subsytems within Finance system using MVS/COBOL/JCL.
• Responsible for ensuring the execution of the payroll cycle. Provided support to the customer to ensure the availability, readiness and currency of all payroll essential data.
• Designed, developed and implemented a system for Employee Stock Option Purchase. To transfer, absorb and process the data from/ to Fidelity Investment Group. Provided ongoing support, enhancements and reporting in all aspects of the application.
• Provided support to internal customers in Benefit Department, HR, Occupational Health, Finance/GL areas of the Finance department. Designed and developed various programs with reporting capabilities in accordance with the customer requests.
• Designed, implemented and supported systems to interface with 3rd party vendors impacting the payroll processing.
• Ensured compliance with the state and federal requirement by applying quarterly upgrades.
• As a member of a team responsible for year-end processing, annual enrollment and other group efforts to maintain the lifecycle of payroll and benefit systems.
• Member of the award winning team involved in conversion of Tesseract package to SAP/ERP financial business solution.
• Involved in post-conversion archiving of all elements and components of Tessaract system. Building download files for Oracle and Teradata data bases.
• Participated in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle: Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Implementationusing Ab Initio 1.14/3.1, Testing and Installation, Issue resolution, Maintenance and Support, Client Interaction.
• Built graphs using various data sources: files, Oracle, Teradata, spreadsheets.
• Designed, developed and implemented various graphs to load primarily a financial data sourced from a SAP application.
• Build complete ETL solution using multiple component and utilities
• Graphs were design to transfer and reformat data using data mapping, lookup files to fulfill the customer requirements.
• As a member of the team involved in integration of data of AirTran airline acquired by Southwest Airline Co. Designed and implemented conversion systems of Personal, GL, and Airline data to the Standards established for local Oracle and Teradata Data Bases.
• Developed a system to store the information collected from on-board internet users.
• Developed graphs for various customized reports in accordance with customer requirements.
• Analysis and time estimation of pending projects.

Confidential- Dallas, TX 1993 - 1998
Senior Programmer Analyst, Property and Casualty Insurance

• Provided round-the-clock support and maintenance of PMSC Series II applications.
• Designed and developed programs to maintain the system and report customer required data, complying with department standards and project timelines.
• Regularly evaluated Production Policy Management System (PMS) Batch cycle processes and made recommendations and implementations to improve efficiency.
• Provided support to PMS application users experiencing system related issues and questions.
• Provided Y2K solution for the PMS/BCMS Series II systems. This included design, specifications and programming.
• Worked with Business Analysts in translating business requirements into high level designs.
• Worked with QA analysts to ensure proper test plans are developed.
• Designed, developed and implemented system interface to accept and process electronically transmitted payments into BCMS Series II application.

Confidential- Irving, TX 1988 - 1993
Senior Programmer Analyst, Property and Casualty Insurance

• Provided support and maintenance to Dun & Bradstreet payroll/HR package
• Designed and developed programs to report all financial data
• Developed a system in Microfocus COBOL to report and print personal Annual Enrollment letters to all the employees as an interface from D&B and PC application.
• Applied all ongoing upgrades to maintained state and federal compliancy.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BS in Civil Engineering

Certificate in Computer Programming

Professional Classes: Intro to ABAP programming, Intro level in Ab Initio Development, Intro to C++, Java for COBOL programmers.