PROFILE:

• Extensive background in analysis, design, development, implementation, and post - implementation evaluation of IT projects.
• Significant experience gathering requirements, sizing and estimating projects, designing technical solutions, writing specifications, creating effective test plans, handling critical situations, implementing performance tuning and optimization features, and providing production support.
• Proficient in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology on both Legacy and Hybrid applications. Hands-on experience with traditional Waterfall, as well as with the Agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

CICS, COBOL II, DB2, Stored Procedures, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, MQSeries/WebSphere, BMC Utilities, XML, Data Studio, Mainframe Express (MFE), JCL, z/OS, VSAM, IDMS, IMS, TOTAL, LU6.2, Intertest, TraceMaster, InSync, TSO, Fileaid, Abend-Aid, JCL, Syncsort, Endevor, InfoBus, SWIFT, NDM, FTP, TMON, Informatica (ETL), Easytrieve, Librarian, Panvalet, CA7, Visual Basic (.NET), HTML, C++, Visio, MS Access, Word, Excel, MS Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed software to create various extracts for the firm’s collaboration with an outside vendor whose platform will better manage its dental provider database.
• Analyzed and modified numerous programs on the effort to generate reimbursement notifications daily, rather than on a weekly basis.
• Fixed numerous programs to discontinue using IMS databases, and instead use DB2 databases.
• This was a COBOL, IMS, DB2, SQL, JCL.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted analysis on the firm's individual annuity application to handle the customization of Confidential 's Vantage and WMA annuity platforms.
• Analyzed, developed, and remediated functionality for various issues in the application including income payouts, death benefits, mortality tables, IRA conversions, beneficiary changes, and contract surrenders.
• Conducted research on legacy code to identify coding changes for customizations and defect fixes.
• Developed, tested, and implemented these changes, and handled numerous ad hoc requirements, as well.
• Collaborated with the business analysts and the UAT teams to ensure the correctness of developed functionality.
• This was a COBOL, DB2, SQL, JCL, Hybrid-IT, and Java front-end.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Some duties include monitoring the health of the production environment, troubleshooting failures in a timely manner, and keeping management informed.
• Analyzed legacy code to understand numerous defects and provide the effective solutions for fixing them.
• Researched batch job-streams and online stored procedures to uncover design flaws and provide effective solutions to improve through-put and minimize run-times to ensure that SLA’s were met.
• This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQ series, JCL, VSAM, Hybrid-IT, and PowerBuilder front-end.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented the requirements for various features of the firm’s websites.
• Designed and developed technical solutions to facilitate the storage and retrieval of web content via communication interfaces with the middleware
• Developed numerous DB2 stored procedures, with special emphasis on performance, to support large-scale, high-volume, transaction processing.
• This was a COBOL, DB2, MQ series, SQL, JCL, Hybrid-IT, and Java front-end.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the various accounting and legal entities involved in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, to help ensure an orderly unwind and a smooth bankruptcy resolution.
• Collaborated with the business users and other stakeholders to define and document the requirements necessary for the Confidential integration.
• This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQ series, IDMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented the requirements for the initiative to upload treasury security information from the LAN to the mainframe.
• Developed detailed specifications and managed the efforts of the offshore team in the project’s development and delivery.
• Supported the firm’s fixed income trading application.
• Analyzed and developed functionality to book trades, produce confirms, and update the stock record.
• This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQ series, IDMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented the requirements for the firm’s web delivery of mutual fund statement history.
• Designed and developed numerous DB2 stored-procedures, and batch jobs, to support the warehousing and inquiry access to statement history.
• This was a COBOL, DB2, SQL, JCL, VSAM, Hybrid-IT, and VB.Net front-end.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed functionality to provide customers with the ability to view pending dividend and interest payments.
• This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQ series, IMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Lehman Brothers (Technical Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all phases of the development of the firm's foreign Futures and Options application.
• This project allowed the bank to “Process by Region” the trading activity in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan.
• Gathered and documented the business requirements and provided management with pertinent and timely status reports.
• Analyzed, designed, and developed the omnibus account reconciliation to proof the money and position balances for the firm’s acquisition of Neuberger Berman.
• Developed numerous DB2 Stored Procedures, executing under Workload Manager, to facilitate the delivery of fixed income security information to the Visual Basic front-end.
• Wrote an online sub-system to route reclaims to DTC via a LU6.2 link; In addition, developed a batch process to send DK-confirms, via NDM, to DTC
• This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQ series, IDMS, and Visual Basic front-end.

Confidential, Jersey City

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported the firm's Global Custody and Trust Accounting application.
• As team leader on some initiatives, was responsible for project planning, coordinating deliverables, and status reporting.
• Wrote or maintained programs which process receive/deliver instructions to and from DTC and settled banking transactions via a LU6.2 link to BONY.
• Increased transaction efficiency by developing routines to minimizing the number of fail trades.
• This was a COBOL, CICS, JCL, IDMS, and VSAM environment.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed edits, validations, price-choosing algorithms for pricing feeds from JJ-Kenney, IDSI, Muller, S&P, Bloomberg, and Reuters.
• Designed a fail-safe feature, based on error tolerances, to ensure accuracy of prices and to prevent erroneous prices from appearing on the customer statements.
• This was a COBOL, CICS, IDMS, and VSAM environment.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted analysis on the firm’s Advanced Order Processing (AOP) application, which handled all of the firm’s equity and options orders.
• Devised various strategies and methods to increase transaction throughput and improve online system response.
• Other duties include capacity planning, batch optimization, and disaster recovery planning.
• This was a COBOL, IMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.