Senior Developer Resume
Harrisburg, PA
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.