OBJECTIVE:

A Mainframe I.T. position utilizing my extensive analysis, development, technical, business, and communication skills.

SUMMARY:

25 years IT experience with large scale business applications on enterprise systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, TSO, JCL, IMS, MQ, XML, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, QMF, SPUFI, PLATINUM, BMC, VISIO, ETL, DATASTAGE, INFORMATICA, EASYTRIEVE, IBM DEBUG, FILE MANAGER, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, AGILE SCRUM

Industries: Brokerage, Finance, Insurance, Banking, Marketing, Healthcare, Telecom

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Mainframe Consultant

Systems: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, MQ, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES, TSO, ENDEVOR

Responsibilities:

• I provided analysis, development, implementation in support of the Broker Dealer Separation project, encompassing Trades, Settlements, Segregation, Regulatory, and Stock Record systems.
• Worked with operations group to optimize code and subsystems to reduce cost and improve efficiency.
• Accomplished analysis and development within an AGILE SCRUM environment.
• Worked closely with Front End teams to handshake and implement distributed applications.
• Mentored young programmers using my wealth of experience.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, MQ, TSO,CHANGEMAN
• Assisted on a team that led the effort to implement the migration of data from Confidential Landline to Confidential billing systems.
• Acted as the point person on team for migration implementation activities.
• Worked to resolve technical issues such as data gaps, new data calculations and generation, data redundancy, data masking.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Mainframe Consultant

Systems: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, MQ, TSO

Responsibilities:

• I created several new programs for rewrite of the scoring portion of the Confidential Teachers Exam system.
• Converted business requirements into technical specs, completed coding, testing and implementation.
• Currently working on subsystem that uses MQ to simulate near real time processing.
• Worked closely with outsourced system testing resources.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Mainframe Consultant

Systems: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, MQ, Stored Procs, TSO, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, VISIO

Responsibilities:

• I accomplished analysis, development, implementation and support of Single Broker Dealer, Trades, Settlements, Segregation, Regulatory, and Stock Record systems.
• Translated business requirements into technical specs.
• Finalized post - merger retirement of redundant systems.
• Conducted production support and enhancement releases.
• Worked with offshore resource team members.

Confidential, New York, NY

Mainframe Consultant

Systems: COBOL, DB2, Stored Procs, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IMS, TSO, CHANGEMAN, VISIO, Platinum, Fileaid

Responsibilities:

• Conducted analysis and development on combining trading systems of the old Confidential with the Confidential system.
• Developed and implemented data transformations and conversion applications.
• Accomplished coding, implementation, and support of equities, fixed income, trades and settlements.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Lead Mainframe Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• COBOL, DB2, Stored Procs, JCL, CICS, VSAM, TSO, ETL, CHANGEMAN, SAS, VISIO, INFORMATICA
• Performed analysis and development for the creation of a data warehouse and data mart for marketing team applications, utilizing Informatica ETL and SAS to facilitate data transformations.
• Development and delivery of the Financial Advisor Net New Money system, which provides daily performance and analytic data to Financial Advisors and their management.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• COBOL, DB2, TSO, JCL, CICS, VSAM, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, BMC, PLATINUM, VISIO, MS TOOLS
• Supported the conversion of Confidential processing from Confidential to outsourcer Confidential .
• Supported the mutual funds portfolio accounting system.
• Responsibilities included existing systems analysis, liaison with business units, project plan creation and updates, extensive program development, testing, and implementation.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• COBOL, DB2, Stored Procs, JCL, CICS, VSAM, TSO, CHANGEMAN, SAS
• Conducted analysis and development for the acquisition of the Piper Jaffray brokerage business.
• The focus of analysis and development was data conversion and integration, of existing Piper individual and institutional brokerage accounts into the Confidential system.

Confidential, Valley Forge, PA

Mainframe and Datastage ETL Consultant

Responsibilities:

• COBOL, DB2, Stored Procs, JCL, CICS, VSAM, TSO, ETL, SAS, VISIO, MS TOOLS, DATASTAGE, XML
• Accomplished major development on the Morningstar ETL IBM Datastage Confidential data system project.
• Designed and implemented ETL data transformations utilizing XML, Mainframe and DB2 data.
• Provided extensive analysis and support for the Confidential Portfolio Accounting system, including Net Asset Value calculations, tax lot processing, corporate actions, stock splits, and dividend processing.