SUMMARY:

• Possess extensive experience in insurance, consulting, pharmaceutical and brokerage/financial industries.
• Consistently made significant contributions to meet corporate goals for business growth and profitability.
• Created, implemented, and managed Cash Management Accounts systems.
• Background in analysis, development and delivery of high - performance technology solutions.
• Readily adapt to new technology via and implementation experience.
• Maintain a consultative approach in business-to-business environments.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills in communications with all levels.
• Personal strengths include excellent work ethic, persistency and strong organizational skills.
• Motivated and hardworking, with the ability to adapt and work with tight deadlines.
• Highly skilled in troubleshooting, debugging and problem analysis.
• Equally comfortable and effective in both team member and team leader situations.
• Business Analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology used: COBOL, COBOL-II, IMS DB/DC, DB2, CICS, TSO/SPF, Endevor, FileAid, OPC/A, CA11, VSAM, Panvalet, JCL, SyncSort, IBM Utilities, BMC Utilities.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in COBOL programming using IMS and DB2 databases.
• Conducted unit testing and integration testing for implementation of various statesThe tests were to make sure that the system will work as required in Business Requirements.
• Participated in Business Requirements.
• Involved on the Print project. Created DB2 tables for testing purposes.
• Worked with BMC and IBM DB2 Utilities to Unload and Load DB2 tables.
• Involved in Business Analysis on the project.

Confidential

Production Support Analyst and QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work involved debugging all Production
• Abends, ensuring program efficiency. Worked with BMC Utilities, FTP and NDM.
• All work was done in DB2, COBOL, JCL, Procs, Endevor.
• Worked with OPC job scheduler.
• Duties included resolution of program failures in a Production environment.
• Talking to the programmer community both onshore and offshore.
• Suggested and implemented the changes required for the daily processing to continue.

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Work includes analysis, design and implementing of enhancements to the system.
• Did the business analysis.
• Work is done in COBOL, CICS and IMS.

Confidential, Hopewell, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Work includes analysis, design and implementing of enhancements to the system.
• Work is done in COBOL, CICS, DB2 and IMS.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working on the coding, testing and implementing of various programs in the system including, but not limited to, dis-enrollments.
• Work executed in COBOL III, DB2, CICS and MQ Series and XPEDITER.
• Presently working to write new CLISTs and REXX procedures and to modify existing ones.
• Created Batch JCL, PROCs and Run decks utilizing the methology.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project entailed the removal of SSN (Social Security Number) from all s of the members for security reasons and to stop Identity Theft.
• Analyzed and designed changes to existing system and determined the need for additional programs to the system

Confidential, Edison, New Jersey

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The data was on IMS database, and VSAM files.
• The project required heavy interface with the user, in this case the CIDS (Customer Information Distribution) System.
• System interfaced with a large number of other systems within the company.
• It was responsible for new account opening and maintaining all relevant data regarding the account.
• The database contained approximately 10 million accounts, divided into Business, Retail and Retirement accounts.
• Conversion involved creation of a dozen (12) tables.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Senior Programmer Analyst; Project Manager; Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for the maintenance and enhancements of the system in batch and online (CICS) environments.
• Worked on the Confidential (Cash Management Accounts) system.
• Totally responsible for Phase I of the system while Phase II was being developed.
• Also programmed various other modules.
• While in Confidential Systems, worked on the programming required for New Account opening and other feature selections.
• Managed a team of 4 programmers.
• Reduced the number of client letters produced through the system which resulted in appreciable cost saving to the company.
• Provided system support 24/7, involving 50% programming and 50% managing.
• Designed a weekly tracking report of Confidential clients for management to determine client base and client activity.
• Migrated the Global Performance System from Panvalet to Endevor. System tested and regression tested the entire system and successfully implemented the system in Production.
• Involved in the analysis, design and enhancement of the global performance system, which is used to track the performance of the financial analysts of the company.
• Utilized COBOL2, CICS, IMS, DB2, OS/JCL, VSAM, PANVALET, and ENDEVOR.
• Involved with Business Analysis and Design in partnership with the end users, i.e., the various Business Departments of the firm.
• Conducted face-to-face interviews with the client(s) and reviewed their requests.
• Delivery dates were discussed and negotiated (if the project would take longer than anticipated by the clients).
• Provided detailed design of the request (project) and delivered to the client and more meetings were scheduled until an agreement was reached on the design.
• Delegated work to my direct reports.
• Users were involved in the ‘User Acceptance Testing’, and upon their satisfaction, the project was implemented.

Confidential, New York, NY

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included modifying, redesigning and enhancing the MSA Accounts Receivable Package to use IMS database.
• Wrote programs which use MSA A/R databases for Management Reports.
• Designed compensation system which produced statistical reports on the performance of Travel Agents that were used by management and coded, tested and implemented this system.
• Worked on enhancements, new development and maintenance of other systems.
• Wrote new programs for a Loss Reporting System from the specs given by the Analyst.
• All work done in COBOL.