SUMMARY

• Professional, dedicated, proven ability to balance complex & highly visible projects
• Exceptional lead, analytical, impact analysis, and organizational skills.
• A self starter, I enjoy and am extremely effective at mentoring less experienced staff
• Work harmoniously with technical and business personnel at all levels of an organization.
• Able to multi - task and produce high quality work within demanding deadlines.
• Proven ability to analyze, interpret, document and translate user business requirements into clear, effective technical requirements and create documentation to provide a solid basis for building or enhancing systems that exceed expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE: IBM Mainframe, IBM PC, IBM Compatible. Windows Workstation in LAN Environment.

DBMS/ACCESS: ADABAS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, ORACLE, ORACLE Data Integrator, IDMS, FOCUS, ACCESS, QSAM, MQ Series, FTP, Gentran, Sterling Integrator

METHODOLOGY: PREDICT, Ron Ross, LBMS, Method I, Waterfall, Agile

LANGUAGES: NATURAL 1 & 11, COBOL, CICS, CICS Webservices, SQL, MVS/OS JCL and PROCEDURES, IMS D/B, IMS D/C, DLI, BAL(Assembler), FOCUS, SAS, VB 6.0, PL1

SUPPORT TOOLS: MS Word, MS Project, Excel, Powerpoint, Project Manager, Visio, Method I, TSO/ISPF, Panvalet, Endevor, Changeman, Expediter, Abend-Aid, Playback, Platinum, File Aid, Sync-Sort, Visual Interdev, TELON, CA-7, CA-11, IBM Utilities, Standard IBM Utilities, Easytrieve (Classic and Plus), CA Utilities, Erwin, Crystal Reports, DYL280

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reverse Eligibility Support Takeover from offshore team during IBM bid to retain contract here in US.
• Primarily COBOL, CICS, DB2, TSO, JCL and internal proprietary software

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Consultant on SAP Implementation of TM to handle selection and assignment of carrier for Hot Mill and Cold Mill under specific conditions (Truck as Primary or Secondary Transportation method for goods) Remove existing functionality for Truck P& S, Hot & Cold Mill from the legacy system, while keeping responsibility for selection of carrier under Rail and Barge methods (only) within the legacy system.
• Legacy system: Mainframe, Primary technologies include ADABAS, Natural II, COBOL, IMS, IMS DC, JCL, interfacing with distributed systems primarily for check in and check out of vehicles.
• The implemented changes remove manifest creation and carrier allocation from the legacy system for Hot Mill/Cold Mill coils being shipped by Truck* (*Rail MOS where there is an assignment to truck for a certain length of time and certain weight limit also falls under the project).
• SAP TM is then responsible for manifest creation and selection of the most cost effective (truck) carrier.
• Analyzed Legacy processes to determine interface needs and to come up with options for the system to continue processing Barge & Rail for Hot Mill & Cold Mill, while still operating smoothly along with SAP TM and the new interfaces to and from SAP. Created functional and technical specs for all existing legacy programs, and outbound interface to SAP. During analysis, I uncovered several bugs within crucial legacy programs deemed severe enough to require immediate fixes. Responsible for analysis, design coding and implementation of the corrections to the legacy software.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with outside vendor & State business and technical staff to create the Business Specifications, Technical Specifications, and Cost Estimate for migrating from current use of Xerox's "EPPIC" software to a new version (the new version called GO"): This software was used to handle electronic processing of the state's Cash and Food Assistance benefits.
• Modifications to several major payment system processes: Created Business Specifications and Technical Specifications for the agency's Payment Processing; The work included both the final system involved in interfacing with financial institution(s) as well as all interfacing processes for the many state systems at all agencies requiring payment processing. Analysis and programming, primarily COBOL, IMS, IMS DC for selection on Report and Interface screens, as well as some batch processing with associated JCL and batch processes; created 20 new separate sub systems modules, and modified existing processes to accommodate
• Together with state business staff and benefit system Vendor staff, participated in re-engineering sessions for ELIAS Fiscal related sub-systems, followed by creation of Interface Specification Documents for each sub-system which included extensive data analysis and data mapping
• Primarily COBOL, CICS, IMS DC, VSAM, JCL, some ORACLE, ORACLE ETL, SQL Server, Easytrieve

Senior Agile Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all tasks associated with testing the "New Case and Individual Master" processes & associated interfaces, including analysis and data mapping between the new ELIAS distributed system and the mainframe system.
• Proposed data consolidation but with budget and time issues, though the proposals were praised as well thought out, there was not time or budget to implement
• Participated in sprint planning and planning revision for each change in project direction
• Member of the scrum team for each Finance related sprint
• In co-operation with the project owner and developers, defined/modified user stories, assigned points to each story, assisted in selection of the stories to be included in each sprint, developed detailed scenario and test criteria for the test cases associated to each story, and defined expected results.
• During each two week sprint, tested, validated and documented results, and re-tested fixes.
• Responsible for development of all user stories and associated test cases specific to the business areas using this new process, documented expected results, outlined the Cycle schedules for each test period (note - we did not formally use sprints for integration testing), and recommended, developed and implemented standard post-cycle validation procedures, including methods for using standard utilities and tools to semi-automate validation (no automated test tool was available).
• The testing I designed uncovered two major defects in the actual design (as opposed to incorrect functioning of planned design), which were missed in design review, development testing, and user acceptance testing as well as locating some very subtle defects with potential for far reaching impact to multiple crucial systems.