SUMMARY:

• As an Analyst/Specialist I have over twenty years of experience in the IT industry.
• I have been responsible for the overall analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of complete systems, as well as for project administration.
• As a Project Manager I am a facilitator, giving the support and tools to the team members in order to achieve the goals.
• I am also responsible for their performance, quality assurance and growth of the members of my team. Also working on with distributed teams all over the US, Europe (Spain, France) and in Asia (India and Philippines).
• I have been involved in the entire SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) performing business requirement analysis, program development and maintenance, software testing and quality assurance areas, some large and complex global projects.
• I have very good communication and negotiation skills, can adapt to new teams and new projects very quickly.
• I have experience working as a hands - on team member and critical thinker, who can quickly learn new systems and tools, develop useful expertise and produce significant contributions.
• I have worked on projects for Banking, Telecommunication and IT services companies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• AbendAid
• Expediter
• Changeman
• FileAid
• CA-7
• FileAid DB2
• Confidential
• Endevor
• Clipper
• QMF
• COBOL
• Smartest
• Control-M
• SQL
• DB2
• TSO/JCL
• BMC
• Lotus Worksheet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Mainframe Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and documenting, testing and creating the suggestions to the development team in order to migrate from Confidential DB to DB2 DB.
• To analyze, document, test and create suggestions depending on the testing performed to the development team to modify or to enhance the performance of the modified elements.
• Then present the results to the QA team and the client to get the approvals and promote to the Production environment of such elements.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, Confidential, FOCUS, CONTROL-M, SPUFI, DB Optim, File Master Plus, Microsoft Office

PLATFORM: IBM Mainframe

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Mainframe Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To document the different elements, provide a document that can be read by the BA’s and other team members for their translation into some other technology.

Environment: Notepad++, Microsoft Office

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Mainframe Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• To develop the modifications of programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the Bank.
• In order to do so, I need to interact with the users and not only modify the programs but to analyze and define the modifications and develop them.
• Sometimes I need to work with the users and along with them define the new procedures and subsystems to enhance the performance of the System and to fulfill the new necessities such as new reports and Confidential transactions most of them are for other services that the Bank wants to add to the new system.
• Other responsibilities were to define and develop the data migration and conversion from previous systems into the new Alnova Banking System, this migration can reside in QSAM or VSAM files or DB2 tables.
• Along with the previous activities I was responsible of work with the software factory in Mexico, I have to organize the job distribution, quality and testing.
• Once the software factory sent back their modified items, I reviewed the code, the evidence of the testing performed and if everything were according the standards I gathered all the approvals to promote from the previous environments all the way to the Production environment.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, Confidential, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QMF, QSAM & VSAM files, Alnova Banking System, Microsoft Office

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Mainframe Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• To develop the modifications of programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the Bank.
• In order to do so, I need to interact with the users and not only modify the programs but to analyze and define the modifications and develop them.
• Sometimes I need to work with the users and along with them define the new procedures and subsystems to enhance the performance of the System and to fulfill the new necessities such as new reports and Confidential transactions most of them are for other services that the Bank wants to add to the new system.
• Other responsibilities were to define and develop the data migration and conversion from previous systems into the new Alnova Banking System, this migration can reside in QSAM or VSAM files or DB2 tables.
• I have to work with teams in the different cities in the US and in Philippines and Spain, we have to coordinate the efforts in order to be able to install within the schedule.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, Confidential, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QMF, QSAM & VSAM files, Alnova Banking System, Microsoft Office

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Change control for 3 teams (IP Day 2, RCK & RSH) the teams were located all over the US and in India.
• Representation of Changes in the CABs (Change Advisory Boards) meetings.
• Approval and waivers request & follow-ups.
• Create reports to highlight the different releases status.
• Provide hands-on support to project teams integrating with testing standards, tools and processes.
• Perform testing for the teams streamlines.
• Create the test environment in the Development LPAR getting the components from the different Production LPARs. Such components were QSAM & VSAM files that needed to be created and transmitted in order to be able to perform the tests.
• Attend and participate in testing status meetings. Worked closely test coordinators from each application and team participating in the project for different phases. Ensured that scope, test resources and timeline of test phases were met.
• Evaluate the testing results using DB2 (SPUFI, SQL & QMF).
• Follow up with the client and the developers for any several / minor project enhancement or new feature(s).

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CA-7, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office, MS Project.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Translation coordination (Spanish-English-Spanish) and supervision of the translating effort by the team.
• Peer review of the products released by the offshore team (India).
• Team hiring (contact outside suppliers) and introduction to the project & tools (mainframe tools) to the new team members.
• Coordination with the Client and other suppliers in order to improve the performance of the team and the quality of the deliveries.
• Attend and participate in the Client’s control status meetings.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, Confidential, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office, MS Project.

Confidential

Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

• To develop the users’ new requirements and support the actual system of the company.
• Project control and tracking.
• Manage and plan the resources in order to distribute the workload/requirements. The teams were located remotely.
• Quality assurance of the modified items.
• Assisting the project management process by identifying the customer requirements.
• Developed customization enhancements.
• Provided production support to several batch and online applications.
• Implementation and post implementation project issue /defects tracking and support.
• Develop multiple enhancement projects.
• In charge of analyzing, designing, developing and testing the modifications to fulfill the users’ requirements.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, Microsoft Office.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coaching and development of training courses (Mainframe Tools & Cobol introductions).

Environment: ISPF, Mainframe tools and debuggers (QMF, FileAid, FileAid DB2, Expediter, SPUFI), QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on support to project teams integrating with testing standards, tools and processes.
• Perform testing for the teams streamlines.
• Create the test environment in the Development LPAR getting the components from the different Production LPARs.
• Attend and participate in testing status meetings. Worked closely test coordinators from each application and team participating in the project for different phases. Ensured that scope, test resources and timeline of test phases were met.
• Evaluate the testing results using DB2 (SPUFI, SQL & QMF).

Environment: UNIX & Ultra edit.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisting the project management process by identifying the customer requirements. The team was located in Colorado.
• Developed customization enhancements, such enhancements were done in both batch and online programs which use DB2 tables or files (QSAM or VSAM).
• Provided production support to several batch and online applications.
• Implementation and post implementation project issue /defects tracking and support.
• Develop multiple enhancement projects, such enhancements were done in both batch and online programs which use DB2 tables or files (QSAM or VSAM).

Environment: COBOL, DB2, Endevor, Fileaid, Fileaid DB2, JCL, Confidential, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office.

Confidential

Project leader

Responsibilities:

• Create reports to highlight the different releases status.
• Provide hands-on support to project teams integrating with testing standards, tools and processes.
• Attend and participate in status meetings. Worked closely with test coordinators from each application and team participating in the project for different phases. Ensured that scope, test resources and timeline of test phases were met.
• Follow up with the client and the developers for any several / minor project enhancement or new feature(s). Customize the access of the transactions according to the new needs, this meant to change the access of the programs to the VSAM files or the DB2 tables.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, Confidential, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office.

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To prepare the written material and to give the course.

Environment: Microsoft Office, Altamira Banking System

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• On the first stages as a Programmer Jr. my role was to develop the modifications of programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the Bank.
• Later on as a Programmer Sr. my role change and I’d started to interact with the users and not only modify the programs but to analyze and define the modifications and develop them.
• On the final stage of my staying in Confidential my role was as an Analyst and my functions and responsibilities were co-working with the users and along with them define the new procedures and subsystems to enhance the performance of the System and to fulfill the new necessities such as new reports and Confidential transactions.
• Other responsibilities were to define and develop the data migration and conversion from previous systems into the new Altamira Banking System. The source of the data was on VSAM files and the result of the migration was either VSAM files or the data was migrated to DB2 tables.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, Confidential, FileAid, FileAid DB2, Altamira Banking System, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office