PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• As an Analyst/Specialist I have over eighteen 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.
• 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.

SKILLS:

• CICS
• COBOL
• DB2
• Changeman
• Smartest
• TSO/JCL
• QMF
• FileAid
• FileAid DB2
• Expediter
• Control-M
• Clipper
• Lotus Worksheet

JOB EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, USA

Mainframe Analyst

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 CICS 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.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QMF, Alnova Banking System, Microsoft Office

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Change control for 3 teams (IP Day 2, RCK & RSH).
• 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.
• 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).

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CA-7, Microsoft Office, MS Project.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.

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.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, Microsoft Office, MS Project.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.

Work Team: 3 Programmer Analysts and 15 Software Engineers.

Confidential, Mexico

Systems Specialist.

Tools: ISPF, Mainframe tools and debuggers (QMF, FileAid, FileAid DB2, Expediter, SPUFI), Microsoft Office

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT

Responsibilities:

• In charge of analyzing, designing and developing the testing scripts to prevent malfunctions of the new releases.
• Provide hands-on support to project teams integreting 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).

Tools: UNIX & Ultraedit.

Platform: UNIX, Windows NT.

Responsibilities: In charge of analyzing, designing, developing and testing the modifications to fulfill the users’ requirements.

• 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.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, Endevor, Fileaid, Fileaid DB2, JCL, CICS, Microsoft Office.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.

Confidential

Project leader

Responsibilities:

• In charge to manage the development team, also analyzing, designing and developing the modifications to fulfill the customization and installation of the system. Also to define de policies and methodology to use during the project.
• 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).

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, Microsoft Office.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.

Confidential

Analyst.

Responsibilities: To prepare the written material and to give the course.

Tools: Microsoft Office, Altamira Banking System

Platform: Windows NT

Work Team: 1 Analyst

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 AC 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 CICS transactions.
• Other responsibilities were to define and develop the data migration and conversion from previous systems into the new Altamira Banking System.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, FileAid, FileAid DB2, Altamira Banking System, Microsoft Office

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Work Team: 1 Analyst, 2 Programmer Sr., 2 Programmer Jr.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities: Create a system, which keeps track of the inventory and helps to define a better way to spend the budget. Training the personnel in the use of the new tool and support it.

Tools: Lotus Worksheet, Clipper

Platform: IBM PC

Work Team: 1 Programmer.