OBJECTIVE

A Mainframe Programmer/Analyst with over fifteen years of experience in analysis, software design, project management, software development life cycle (SDLC), software quality assurance, and business resumption is seeking a new position.

SUMMARY OF PROGRAMMER/ANALYST SKILLS

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

• Met with business analysts, subject matter experts to refine project requirements
• Performed system analysis
• Designed enhancements to meet project requirements
• Experienced in the determination of the cause of error conditions
• Designed new XML transactions

• Enhanced existing batch and online programs with COBOL, CICS, and DB2
• Created new batch and online programs with COBOL, CICS, and DB2
• Modified existing CICS screens

• Lead technical analyst for several projects with high visibility
• Reviewed the requirements of several projects
• Worked with business analysts, subject matter experts to refine the project requirements
• Created and maintained project plans, issue logs, check lists for many projects

• Created acceptance test cases and plans
• Executed acceptance tests
• Analyzed acceptance test results
• Reviewed acceptance test cases and plans
• Obtained User sign-offs

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, SPUFI, JCL, IBM UTILITIES, MAINFRAME, EXPEDITER, COMPAREX, FILEAID, ENDEAVOR, TSO, MQ, VISIO, SYNCSORT

TECHNICAL TRAINING
VISUAL STUDIO 2005 & 2008 VISUAL BASIC, C#, .NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, JAVA, SPRING, UNIX, C, OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS, MS ACCESS, MS PROJECT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Updating the website with current information and remove obsolete pages and content
• Met with employees to discuss changes to the current website
• Participated in discussions about the future of the website

• Maintain the website to keep the coaches up to date with current information.

• Analyzed, designed, coded and tested enhancements to batch and online COBOL programs
• Modified CICS screens
• Participated in requirements reviews with user community
• Created and maintained project checklists and issue logs
• Created unit test plans
• Created unit test cases
• Unit tested the enhancements
• Reviewed acceptance test cases
• Executed SQL Queries for acceptance test planning
• Executed acceptance tests for the Business Analyst
• Prepared acceptance test results for review
• Participated in project reviews
• Prepared project enhancements and documentation for release
• Updated various web pages of the department's internal and external web-sites
• Authored several project research documents
  (COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, HTML, and COMPAREX)

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA Contractor 2005
Monitored daily production activity.

• Assisted in developing and planning of the acceptance testing of vendor upgrades
• Executed acceptance testing of the vendor upgrades
• Interviewed key employees concerning the Bank compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley act
• Answered auditors questions about the Bank's procedures to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley act
• Reviewed and updated the department's procedures and processes documentation

• Designed, coded and tested enhancements to existing on-line, batch programs and XML transactions
• Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed a new XML transaction
• Designed, coded, tested and deployed a data correction tool
• Met with user community to review project requirements
• Reviewed acceptance test cases
• Executed acceptance testing
• Met with the Business Analysts to review the test results
• Coordinated the expansion of the Dunn and Bradstreet table
• Reduced the run-time of the monthly Dunn and Bradstreet load process by 5 hours
• Created a monthly electronic file transfer process, resulting in a savings of $100K per year
• Coordinated production deployments with interfacing applications
• Enhanced and maintained the application's Disaster recovery capability
• Provided On-call support
  (COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, COMPAREX, ENDEVOR, MQ, and XML)

Confidential, San Francisco, CA Senior Programmer/Analyst 1998 - 2000
Maintained and enhanced the bank's Card File system. The system issued ATM and check cards.

• Analyzed, designed, coded and tested application enhancements of various sizes
• Enhanced and maintained the application's business resumption capability
• Planned, set-up and executed Y2K certification tests
• Ensured the application was Y2K certified
• Provided on-site Y2K production support
• Supported the project to upgrade approximately 25,000 ATM cards
• Technical lead for conversion of Norwest Bill Pay customers
• Provided on-call production support
  (COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, IBM UTILITIES, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR and COMPAREX)

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA Consultant 1998 - 2001
Evaluated new COBOL products

Received a performance award from Confidential

Exitcertified: Java
Quick Start Intelligence: Visual Studio 2008 & 2005, Visual Basic, C#, and ASP.NET
In house training: Object Oriented Analysis, MS Access, MS Project U.C. Berkeley Extension: C, Visual Basic, and Unix
College of Marin: Visual Basic, HTML
B.S. Business Administration.