SUMMARY:

I am an experienced professional that has performed in a number of technical and managerial roles. I am a team and results oriented individual with an excellent balance of analytical and technical skills. My qualifications include a degree in Computer Science, and I possess strong collaborative, communication, and leadership skills. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a strong commitment to customer or client satisfaction through the successful implementation of software solutions that fulfill their business needs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

I have experience in using the following software development environments: z/OS, MVS, OS390, DOS/VSE, COBOL, ASSEMBLER (ALC), PL/1, FORTRAN, EZTRIEVE, REXX, JCL, VSAM, IDMS, IMS/DB/DC, DB2, SQL, MQ, CPSM, and CICS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a member of the Institutional Technology Group providing enhancements to existing processes and developing application solutions for the brokerage line of business.
• All development for the application is provided in COBOL, CICS, DB2, MAUI, and VSAM.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a member of the EDI Payables software support team.
• We provided customization of EDI payables processing software used by banks for EDI processing.
• My primary responsibilities are to code requested enhancements to the EDI payables software, which is based in COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM.
• This position required making enhancements and adding new functionality to the EDI base software that have been requested by the client.
• All modifications were made using mainframe COBOL.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a member of the Correspondence Archival and Retrieval Platform team.
• We provided correspondence support for all customer investment documents in an online web environment.
• Documents are presented in AFP, PDF, and HTML formats.
• My primary responsibilities were in support of the daily process of batch and online (CICS) correspondence retrieval.
• Additionally, I worked at user problem resolution and making functional enhancements to the processes using REXX, COBOL, DB2, and VSAM.
• The software for this project was developed in house as a custom application which was written using mainframe COBOL and REXX.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a member of the CWF support team for Medicare Part A and B claims processing.
• My primary responsibilities were in support of the daily process of batch and online (CICS) claims through six host sites with over one hundred satellites.
• Additionally, I worked at user problem resolution, software release installation, and making functional enhancements to the processing cycles using REXX, COBOL, and VSAM.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a member of the FSAT team, which supports the system acceptance test environments.
• We provide an online and batch test platform for brokerage application testers to do final testing in an environment that closely replicates the production environment.
• This position focused exclusively on testing application functionality in a stand - alone environment.
• We primarily did this using the batch scheduling tool ControlM to run our application tests.

Principal Systems Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for the support of CICS, MQ, and CPSM in a large high volume environment.
• My primary responsibilities included CICS and MQ table maintenance, CICS and MQ problem determination using IPCS, and CICS and MQ maintenance using SMPE.
• Additional responsibilities include supporting subordinate application systems of Abend-Aid, Recovery Plus, CAFC, Table Base, TMON, Intertest, and VSHARE.
• Support software was developed for the maintenance and operational functionality of the environment primarily using ASSEMBLER and REXX.
• All testing of installed products was performed using specific scripts to validate our installations and confirm application readiness.
• One of my major accomplishments was in the design and implementation of the CICS Delta Resync Process for the FSAT testing services group which synchronizes production environment changes with the Alpha and Shared CICS systems acceptance testing environments.
• This project required the development of a customized CSD extract process and programming to identify the additions, deletions, and changes that were made to the environment.
• Additional programs were developed to build the proper parameter decks to perform the updates to the test environments.
• This was developed using CICS utilities and COBOL II.
• I also was part of the team that set up the HR Access environments after Fidelity purchased that part of the company from IBM.
• My role was to build the MQ systems needed to interface with the IMS data base system that HR Access employs.
• This required a great deal of communication with the French and German development teams.

Confidential

Information Technology Specialist

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for the support of systems for Confidential in an outsource environment.
• My primary function was as a CICS Systems Programmer supporting CICS 3.3 in a multi-region configuration using ACF2 security.
• My primary responsibilities include CICS table maintenance, CICS problem determination using IPCS, and CICS maintenance using SMPE.
• Additional responsibilities included support for subordinate application systems of TOSS E-Mail, Intertest, Omegamon, CA-DADS, and MDI Gateway.
• Support software was developed for the maintenance and operational functionality of the environment primarily using ASSEMBLER.
• I also worked as an IMS and DB2 Database Administrator supporting the database needs for data warehouse and the insurance application areas.
• All testing of installed products was performed in conjunction with the application support groups using specific documented criteria to validate our installations and confirm application readiness.

Confidential

MIS Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• I managed a programming team in the development of customized software to transmit, receive, and process telemarketing solicitation and response data for insurance sales processing.
• The project was implemented using COBOL II and DB2 in a batch processing environment.
• Additional on-line functionality for special request processing and update capabilities was provided for in CICS using COBOL II and DB2.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I supported and made functional enhancements to the Confidential and Confidential MSA accounts payable system.
• My primary responsibility was to install and apply release upgrades and program fixes, as provided by the vendor, to the software using VSAM and DB2 data files.
• I worked closely with the accounts payable department in making functional enhancements to the original software based on their business requirements.
• A key functional enhancement was made to process closed payables and archive them to a custom designed DB2 database.
• This change significantly enhanced the processing speed of the online environment by relieving the VSAM file size requirements of the payables master file.
• Also, specific test plans were developed for the vendor software and all of the customization that was developed to ensure production readiness.