Senior Business Analyst with extensive experience in Information Technology. Past experience includes: designing, developing and implementing requirements and rules for commerce, insurance and financial transaction applications that populated, corrected and/or audited the primary data repository for policy administration, data warehousing, management reports and financial information which included claims, premium and accounts to general ledger in order to establish reliable basis for reserves, statistics and forecasting. A proven user interface and communicator with: end users, business management personnel and fellow IT workers including off-shore resources.

04/2011-present Confidential, US Division to the Marshfield Clinic, WI - Business Technical Analyst

• Interviewed system users of a legacy Healthcare Billing system that is being replaced by a QNXT Billing and Membership system and transcribed their primary business into a formal Business Requirements Document, BRD, for signoff so the technical developers could create the application module for that function.
• Conducted Business Requirements meeting with users, wrote the BRD and reviewed the user's feedback in order to achieve a clear, declarative, plain English declaration of those requirements for signoff while substituting the user's traditional hierarchal references to relational database language.

02/2001- 12/2010 Confidential, Princeton, NJ - Consultant

• Developed a Commutation sub system including the business and technical requirements as part of an analysis of what reserves could be released. This system was implemented as a set of interactive Microfocus screen functions that were defined by a protocol.
• Evaluated, developed and identified procedures that supported STUMPS (Statistical Underwriting Management System) an underwriting entry system that issued and renewed policies for claims and general ledger so that statistics could be audited for performance, forecasting and profit analysis.
• Acted as an internal liaison between business and IT administering system changes and enhancements for four international systems i.e. Australia, Brussels, London and Singapore
• Analyzed and wrote modules to convert currencies in STUMPS replaced by the Euro.
• Rewrote the STUMPS End-Of-Day and End-Of-Month processes in order to standardize these processes among the four branches.
• Developed a module for locking and unlocking Technical Accounts System (TAS) transactions. Expanded that module's use to include Cash Book and Suspense items.
• Conducted annual security audits for each of the production branches.
• Rewrote a Large Loss Report system module for two purposes. The first to list all claims by company. The second pass was an overview of those claims with 'soft' selection parameters.
• Converted an overlooked mainframe interface to UNIX in order to retire the contract.

Primary technology: UNIX, Micro-Focus COBOL, IQ, EXCEL, WORD, MS Access, Toad, DB2, ETL, Oracle, JCL, MQ, Tivoli, SQL-Plus, EZTrieve, Stored procedures, Wang emulation software, XML and Datastage

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pa. 1999-2000 Senior Design Analyst

• Audited transactions within Japan's reserves for the Commercial Property department.
• Restructured transactions for current active policies and re-executed them.
• Worked with Price Waterhouse while they conducted a third party audit of the project. Success on this project allowed ACE to depreciate over $60M over 30 Years.

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pa. Senior Applications Developer

• Software Developer for a securities management known commercially as, IAS (Investment Accounting System).
• Maintained and implemented customized system features for clients who included: the Bank Of New York, the New York State Employee\'s Retirement corp.(NYERS), Wells Fargo and the trust division of Provident National Bank (which became PNC).
• Member of team used after Uni-Coll's acquisition by SunGard as support for a system support contract to Continental Insurance in Christiana, Delaware.

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pa. Senior technical consultant

• Implemented changes to their IAS package from Confidential
• Employed as the site consultant trainer.

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pa. Application Developer

• Wrote and Implemented the Collection and Billing modules for the PAS project, their Policy Administration System.

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pa. Application Developer

• Participated in writing a Money Market Funds System for Shearson-Loeb.

Confidential, Cherry Hill, N.J. Senior technical consultant

• Project Lead to implement a Y2K solution.

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pa. Senior technical consultant

• Coding report modules for a reinsurance monitoring system using a DB2/SQL database.

Platforms: IBM Mainframe, System 3, AS/400, UNIX Servers, Windows.
LANGUAGES: COBOL, COBOL II and MicroFocus COBOL.
DATABASE: DB2/SQL, Oracle, SQL-plus, MS Access, IDMS, IDS1, and IDS2.
ONLINE: Command CICS, UNIX Screen Aps, ADS/O, and INTERCOMM.
ETL: XML, IBM Datastage Websphere.
EDITORS: TSO, Exceed,CMS, ROSCOE, VI and TSS.
LIBRARIES: ENDEVOR, LIBRARIAN, and PANVALET.
UTILITIES: Animator, INTERTEST, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, TOAD, SAS, SyncSort,
FILEAID, CULPRIT, IBM Utilities, PLATINUM Utilities for DB2,
FTP and DMLO, CA Scheduler, Tivoli, some SAP
INTERNET: HTML, XML, Javascript, CGI, FrontPage 2000, and StoreFront.
MICROSOFT: Visual Basic 6, CRYSTAL REPORTS, ACCESS, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
FOXPRO, DOS thru version 6.2, Office, WINDOWS, VISUAL Studio.