SUMMARY:

• SENIOR LEVEL IT professional with over twenty years of experience including sixteen plus years functioning as a project/team lead and senior systems analyst/developer.
• Strong design/development skills in both server and mainframe environments.
• Hands - on knowledge of diverse mainframe and server technologies.
• Industry experience in advertising, utilities, medical, manufacturing, education and financial.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential Westchester, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Senior Applications Analyst directly responsible for the support, enhancement, and upgrade of the Lawson Financial Suite (v9.0.1.9) which also includes the development and support of all inbound & outbound interfaces. Tied to the work on Lawson is managing and developing job streams and schedules to automate these interfaces using Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler. Also responsible for AR integration implementations with schools and bookstores for as part of the Follett EPAY tendering system.
• Responsibilities require presentations to the schools, heavy business interfacing to identify needs, clarifications of requirements and implementation coordination Key Technologies used: KSH scripting, SQL*Plus, PL-SQL, Oracle stored procedures, COBOL, PERL, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, CA Scheduler. Environment: AIX, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM VSE on z/OS.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Project & Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project & Team Lead directly responsible for the support, enhancement, and upgrade of an application portfolio containing 50+ corporate applications & interfaces, comprised of both USG-built and third party HR, financial, & manufacturing applications requiring close work with business owners and the coordination of multiple technical teams & vendors.
• Key Technologies used: SQL, stored procedures, DTS, SSIS, ASP, VBScript, ASP, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Windows 2003 administration, Crystal Reports, OPALIS Enterprise Scheduler, FTP Scripting, PGP, Cobol, OS-JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, ISPF/TSO, PAVALET, File AID. Environment: Window Server, IIS, SQL Server, Oracle,, MS Access, IBM MVS.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Consultant acting as Team Leader/Senior Applications Developer on several enhancement projects to in-house media & financial systems. The following describes two of the larger projects:
• Most recent project involved a 6-month effort to modify several financial systems to support 6 additional Business Units across all online and batch processing. Responsibilities included the creation of a complete online and batch testing environment, team training, change control & installation procedures, system testing, file and database cleanups & setups for new business units, hands-on coding and unit testing. Also responsible for testing and verifying UNITECH changes. Key technologies used: ADABAS/Natural, PLI, COBOL, OS/JCL, FTP, VSAM, DB2, Dylakor, CA7, CA11, CA Dispatch, UNITECH, File-AID, IBM Utilities, PANVALET and TSO/ISPF, CLIST.
• 4-month effort to automated payment of commercial talent. This included the in corporation of a vendor data feed into a legacy system, new tracking reports, new validation & load programs, and the creation of an online translation facility. Responsibilities included collection of requirements, specifications, database & report design, coding, unit testing, creation of a complete test environment, system testing, installation and documentation. Key technologies used: ADABAS/Natural, PLI, COBOL, OS/JCL, FTP, VSAM, Dylakor, CA7, CA11, CA Dispatch, UNITECH, File-AID, IBM Utilities, and TSO/ISPF.

Confidential, Niles, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Consultant acting as a Senior Applications Developer to create a cross-platform mainframe data-feed into an Interactive Voice Response System. Responsibilities included database and data-extract design, coding, unit & system testing, and installation. Coding was done using ADABAS/Natural, ADASTRIP, OS/JCL, various IBM Utilities and FTP.
• Also designed & coded reports, and created a support Report Request Facility as part of a large data conversion effort. Report Request Facility was coded an ISPF Dialog executed via REXX procedure. Reports were coded using ADABAS/Natural.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Consultant acting as Team Lead/Senior Applications Developer on several enhancement projects to in-house media-buying and human resource systems. Responsibilities covered client communications, spec creation, coding, test plans, test environment set-up, testing, installation and documentation.
• Most recent project was a four-month effort which involved the establishment of a data feed and web reports for sister advertising agency using FTP, ORACLE 8i, and COGNOS Impromptu Responsibilities included, data mapping, database design, report specifications, and testing.
• Handled client & project communications, and oversaw the work of DBA, and two Impromptu coders. Other projects required strong technical expertise in ADABAS, DB2, SQL, ADABAS/Natural, PLI, COBOL, OS/JCL, ISPF/TSO, File-AID, XCEL, FTP, CLISTs, Dylakor, Syncsort, CA7, CA11, and Unitech.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Consultant acting as Team Lead/Senior Applications Developer on large-scale Y2K project to ensure century date compliance of critical media buying systems.
• Responsibilities included planning, task management, impact analyses, specifications, hands-on coding, testing, training, testing procedures & infrastructure, and quality assurance.
• Systems encompass both IBM mainframe systems using ADABAS and VSAM with Natural, PL/I, COBOL, Dylakor, CLISTs as well as a UNIX based SYBASE System using POWERBUILDER and SQR.