Summary

IT professional with over fifteen years of experience. Experienced in all phases of the project life cycle. Involved in the design, development, maintenance, and support of batch and on-line back-office brokerage, customer, accounting, auditing, and fee systems as well as inventory, procurement and back order systems. Accustomed to communicating to a broad spectrum of customers from Senior Executives to Administrative Assistants.

Confdiential, East Lansing, MI 2012 – Present
Employee And Consultant – Technical Lead
Sub-contracted full-time to John Deere (Moline, Illinois) to support a package of John Deere application
systems that span a gamut of critical business processes. These IT systems include a home-grown
Security Tracking and Navigation System, Security Reporting System, several Manufacturing Systems,
Tax Reporting System, Wage Development System, and Ordering Systems. All systems are considered
Enterprise systems accessed globally. I am the sole U.S. Technical Lead and daytime support in our IBM team with 3 other members working in India and all of us are working remotely.
(COBOL, DB2, SQL, SAS, IMS DB/DC, Z/OS JCL, Batch, VSAM, ESP, Quality Center, Kayako,
Mastermind, File-AID DB2, Microsoft Office, PANVALET)

Confdiential, Red Bank, NJ 2007-2011
CONSULTANT AND TREASURER
Member of the Board of the New Jersey Friends of Clearwater. Responsibilities include maintaining all accounts payable and receivable systems as well as dealing directly with our clientele regarding all financial transactions. (CICS, DB2, VSAM, COBOL).

Confdiential, Stamford, CT 2006-2007
CONSULTANT
Accounting and Customer Services
Member of the team responsible for the migration of the Stamford Cash Accounting System to the Zurich Global Cash Utility System. Provided oversight, analyses, strategies, ad-hoc research reports, special bridge software, designs, and documentation as part of my responsibilities for this project. Because of the complexities surrounding this project and because of my extensive knowledge of the Stamford Cash Accounting System, my role in this project also included teaching and guiding both the Swiss and Stamford members of the team. (CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, COBOL, JCL, MVS Batch, Quality Center).

Confdiential, Edgewood, NY 2005-2006
CONSULTANT
CUSTOMER EMAIL/EFAILURE NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS
In charge of E*TRADE’s (ADP’s biggest e-notification customer) Trade Confirmation, Statement Notification, 1099/1099-Correction Notification, and 5498/5498-Correction Notification email systems. Responsible for making the monthly changes to the HTML templates that produce these email notifications and for the daily maintenance of the mainframe systems supporting E*TRADE e-notifications. Also support the e-notification systems of other ADP customers, i.e. UBS, ADP Clearing, Neuberger Berman, and Lehman. (HTML, CICS, VSAM, COBOL, JCL, MVS Batch). Creating new e-delivery systems for AG Edwards at the time of my departure.

Confdiential, New York, NY 2000-2004
CONSULTANT
CUSTOMERACCOUNT SYSTEM – BANK ONE MERGER PROJECT

• Provided the analyses, design, and coding, testing, and implementation support to both bridge and integrate data between 4 different Customer Information computer systems, the Customer Account System (JP Morgan Chase), the Customer Information System (Bank One), the GES Credit Customer System (JP Morgan Chase), and the Client Central System (JP Morgan Chase). Responsibilities included writing special MIS, bridge, and conversion software to integrate these 4 customer systems as part of the Bank One merger with JP Morgan Chase. Also supported the decommissioning of the Customer Account System. (CICS, IMS, SQL, COBOL, JCL, MVS Batch) and implementation of the new Client Central System (Oracle, UNIX).

NDS ACCOUNT SYSTEM

• Provided the analyses, design, and coding, testing, and implementation support for the NDS (DDA) GID Project, an enhancement that allows accounting roles to be assigned to responsible bank employees and to expand the Bank Organization database by integrating new data coming from the HR systems (CICS, IMS, DB2, SQL, COBOL, JCL, MVS Batch).
• Provided hands-on programming and analysis support of both enhancements to the Customer Account System and the special integration work required merging J.P. Morgan data into the Chase Customer Account System (CICS, VSAM, IMS, SQL, COBOL, JCL, MVS Batch). Also, created new batch interface

Systems, interfacing with other bank client server systems and packages such as Siebel.

Confdiential, New York, NY 1989-2000
Senior Technical Specialist and Project Manager (Employee)
Accounting and Customer Services and Private Banking Information Technology

• Led the maintenance team in providing 24/7 support for a number of critical banking systems because of my expertise in these systems. These included the General Ledger system, the Cash Accounting system (including the DDA system), the Cash Statement system, the Overnight Investment System, the Daily Cash Transactions Tracking system, the Cash Interest Processing and Interest Adjustments system, and the Transaction Fees billing system.

• Devoted last four months with the bank to the development of a new sophisticated International Client Reporting statement system for Private Banking (COBOL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, Oracle8I).
• Led a team in the design, development, and implementation of a new kind of consolidated bank statement for the Private Banking clients who maintained overnight investment accounts. The success of this project allowed the bank officers to better retain old customers and attract new customers (COBOL, DB2, IMS, CICS, VSAM, JCL).
• Designed, developed, and successfully implemented new interest processing enhancements for both commercial and private banking accounts that allowed bank officers to negotiate and customize interest rates at the account level (COBOL, IMS, CICS, JCL).
• Led a group of consultants in the design, development, and implementation of special programs that allowed for the smooth transfer to Cash Accounting and Statement systems of over 5,000 Latin American clients bought from Chase (COBOL, IMS, CICS, VSAM, JCL). The success of this project allowed Private Banking to significantly increase both their assets and profits.
• Led team in the upgrade of the bank’s account history system to meet the requirements of the bank’s controllers. This project allowed controllers to improve their corporate MIS systems (COBOL, IMS, CICS, VSAM, JCL)
• Project leader of the Cash team of 3 employees and 2 consultants involved in the expansion of the bank’s general ledger code numbers from 3 digits to 5 digits (involved complex conversions and extensive programming changes). This project allowed the bank to better track its assets and liabilities and met the needs of the rapidly expanding bank business (COBOL, IMS, CICS, VSAM, JCL).
• Project leader who designed, developed, and successfully implemented a new fee system for commercial banking that allowed the bank officers to customize fees at the customer level and automate fees charged monthly. The implementation of this system saved the bank millions of dollars in labor costs and the new customization features allowed the commercial bankers to quintuple fee profits (COBOL, DB2, IMS, CICS, VSAM, JCL). Maintenance Projects
• Led the integration of UBS Warburg’s U.S. General Ledger system with UBS Warburg’s Global General Ledger system. The success of this project allowed UBS Warburg to expand its general ledger capabilities in the U.S.A. and to add new Canadian general ledger capabilities (COBOL, DB2, IMS, CICS, JCL).
• In charge of consultants responsible for the testing and certification of the bank’s back-office accounting and reporting systems as Y2K ready. The success of this project allowed the bank to continue business as usual from the first day of January going forward with no interruptions (COBOL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS, JCL).
• Project leader of the Cash team that successfully split the accounting systems between Stamford and New York when the investment and commercial divisions of the bank moved to Stamford. This allowed Private Banking to continue with business as usual in New York and maintain customer satisfaction (COBOL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS, JCL).

IBM Mainframes, PC Work Stations, HP, IBM PC’s and Laptops

HTML, COBOL MVS, COBOL2, COBOL3, SQL/DB2, SPUFI, IMS DB/DC, DLI
CICS/VS – Command Level, VSAM, Windows, LAN, Z/OS JCL + Utilities, NDM, FTP
TSO/ISPF, Rhumba, OpenUp, Changeman, Endevor, Panvalet, Librarian
LOTUS Notes, FOCUS, Microsoft Office Suite, File-Aid, Expediter, Intertest

EDUCATION

Master of Science Degree
Bachelor of Science Degree