SUMMARY:

• Strong experience in system analyses and design, QA, and trouble shutting in various financial and scientific applications through full project life cycle, including writing business functional specifications, business and system analysis, design, development, programming, testing, implementation, maintenance, enhancements, and production support.
• Possess outstanding analytical and designer skills in data structuring, database and data processing design with emphases on batch and on - line processing using RDBMS and/or file-based applications for optimal reliability, performance, and user friendliness.
• Hold in technical contest from Mellon Bank and 2 patents on invention from Russia.
• Provided unexpected or unusual problem solving approaches rendering application survival via work around CICS deadly bug, application optimization under system constrains improving performance by 20%, project development time reduction of up to 90%, etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: MVS/XA, VM, OS/390, z/OS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IDCAMS, DB2 with stored procedures, ADR/DATACOM/DB, VSAMTransparency, IMS, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, SYNCSORT, JCL utilities, MQ Series, MQSI, IBMAD, InterTest, Xpeditor, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, Platinum, SMS, Control-M, CA-7, OPC, ENDEVOR, ChangeMan, Docutext, CEDF, ABARS, MicroFocus Cobol/CICS, Rumba, Aviva, MS Word, Excel, Access.

LANGUAGES: COBOL-2, COBOL, PL/1, SQL, Easytrieve, C, Visual Basic, FORTRAN, ALGOL.

HARDWARE: IBM mainframe, HP1000, DEC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Application Development Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated and made valuable contributions to various projects, including significant improvements in performance via better VSAM file handling, data structuring, NDM, FTP, and MQ messaging, enhancements to processing by client server UNIX applications.
• Provided essential UAT / QA and worldwide Securities Finance end-user support; utilized PL/1, COBOL-2, DATACOM, DB2, VSAM, OPC, MQ Series, NDM, FTP.
• Resolved several technical issues in CICS, which sometimes caused on-line system prolonged unavailability of Securities Finance application.
• Improved schedules and application performance and reliability of DML - the core Securities Lending application.
• Corrected SFT Deutsche Bank conversion procedure, so the conversion became possible.
• Designed processes to provide data delivery from mainframe DML application to Unix-based Securities Lending Enterprise (SLE) Applications. Extensive testing.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in design and development of XML-enabled B2B front-end views, created business functional specifications for CICS / DB2 WEB-initiated transactions and batch reports for Compliance and Control Application. Designed DB2 stored procedures.
• Participated in design and development of Annuity Commission Processing System using COBOL-2, VSAM, DB2, CICS. Utilizing system development methodology (SDM) defined business functional specifications for various enhancement projects for Annuity Processing System with batch and CICS processing utilizing DB2 and VSAM, interacting with outside data sources (NSCC) and institutional clients via FTP, NDM. Utilized light MS Word and Excel programming. Provided support to Fidelity inside users and users from client Insurance Companies. Supported extensive system and QA testing. Ensured disaster recovery using ABARS. Provided production support.

Confidential

Consultant SSA

Responsibilities:

• Working directly with end-users in USA, Australia, and England provided production support, maintenance, design and development of enhancements to the existing mainframe-based P/A-system and application for data interchange between mainframe and UNIX-based client reporting system with data formatting for MS EXCEL and WORD using macros.
• Participated in conversion project from European multi-currencies to single EURO currency.
• Managed reallocation project for MVS / VM-shared VSAM files.
• Created non-GDG-based 10-year-capacity archiving/retrieval application.
• Proposed VSAM files redefinition that released 22% extra space, thus removing for approximately 3 years threat of 4Gig limit on VSAM-addressable space for ISL application.
• Taught classes in CICS, JCL, VSAM, COBOL using Microfocus COBOL.
• Proposed VSAM files allocation changes, which improved by 20% to 25% both space utilization and performance for both sequential and random accesses.
• Discovered a random bug in a new CICS version and created a common fix to 70 programs to secure application stability and reliability;
• Proposed key principles to solution of Y2K problem eliminating 50% of work;
• Designed business functional specifications and managed project of creation user-friendly on-line (CICS) customer-editing application for performance system to expand Sunguard’s PRF4 application capabilities to satisfy combined MB/BSDTC Mellon Trust needs.
• Proposed fundamentals and managed project enhancing performance application to in corporate Great Britain industry classification in addition to the existed USA industry classification. Designed business functional specifications for international classification.
• Proposed alternative solution to a problem on performance application thus reducing the required amount of work by 90% and securing timeliness of 1994 year-end reporting.

Confidential

Senior programmer/analyst, ITD

Responsibilities:

• Improved DML application performance and reliability; implemented VSAM Transparency interface, converted International Securities Lending System (ISL) into multiregional; created OPC job schedules; supported end users; managed CICS and batch enhancements projects; prod support with PL/1, COBOL, VSAM, DATACOM; SYNCSORT, IDCAMS.