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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Looking for a challenging position that will best utilize my skills, enable professional growth, and to be an asset to your company. I have over 20 years Information Technology experience as Team Lead/Developer/Production Application Support in the Financial, Insurance and Utilities industries. Experience in client-server and web environments using Object Oriented methodologies. Knowledge in the design, development, and deployment of Object Oriented applications including Internet and Intranet. Knowledge in the design, development and deployment of stored procedures and triggers. Knowledge in JAVA, HTML, JavaScript, J2EE, PL/SQL and SQL

SKILLS SUMMARY, Years Experience, E Exposure Only

Hardware PC 20 , IBM 30XX 12

Operating Systems Microsoft WinNT 7 , Windows 2000 1 , Windows XP 10 , Windows 7 2

Languages Java 6 , J2EE 2 , JavaScript 5 , HTML 5 , PL/SQL 8 , SQL 16 , COBOL 12 , Visual Basic 2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0 9 , UDB 1 , XML 1 , C E , ASP E , MQ E , Crystal Reports/Enterprise E , C E

Frameworks Struts E , Spring E

Design Tools OOAD 4 , UML E , Rational Rose E , Enterprise Architect 1 , Agile Methodology 1

Development Tools Visual Caf 3 , WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 , IBM Visual Age for Java E , Visual Studio .NET 2003 E , Eclipse IDE for Java Development Helios 2 , Appian Process Modeler E

Office Tools Word 16 , Excel 14 , VISIO 4 , Microsoft Project 1

Databases DB2 9 , Oracle 10 , SQL-Server 8 , MS-ACCESS 1 , Sybase 1 , MySQL 1

Utilities PVCS 7 , WinZip 7 , SourceSafe 6 , Multi-Edit 3 , ChangeMan 2 , Xpediter 2 , Dimensions E , Subversion 1 , StarTeam 1 , Soap UI 1 , SQL Developer 2 , Toad for Oracle 4 , Toad for SQL Server 1 , PuTTY 1 , WinSCP 1 , Tectia SSH Terminal E ,Soap UI 2 , Rally E

Networks LAN 11

Servers NES 3 , NAS 3 , WebSphere Application Server 1 , WebLogic E , Windows Server 2008 2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

  • Application Summary: Bank of America has an application, Legal Automated Workflow System LAWS , which supports receiving, processing and maintaining legal orders for Bank of America. Legal Orders are fed into the LAWS and goes through a series of validations until there is a check for account status and balance to determine if the if the order can be met by the bank. Depending on the results, the order is either filled or returned.
  • Project Summary: The project involves developing the application using Appian, a third party development environment using the Agile methodology. Validations are done through web service calls to other application within the bank. The project is in its initial stages.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for developing the test process models and unit test data for the testing of the process models developed for each story. Attend chalk talks to discuss and dissect the story and make sure the test model cover all test cases. Work closely with QA team to ensure that they have the proper data to test in the upper level environments. Responsible for creating the mock service data and calls in Soap UI that will be used in the lower level environments for automated testing. Investigating issues with testing as needed.

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

  • Application Summary: Bank of America has an application, Mobile Remote Deposits MRD , which allows cell phone users to use an APP to deposit checks into their Commercial, Small Business, or Personal accounts by taking a picture of the front and back of the check and submitting it through the MRD Mobile App. MRD has certain criteria that must be met by each deposit. MRD uses two vendor applications to perform the criteria check and actually submit the deposit into the bank's internal banking systems. The vendor applications are Mitek and Passport. Mitek is SQL Server based and handles the mobile imaging of the deposit. Passport is Oracle based and handles deposit functionality.
  • Project Summary: The project involves supporting the Mobile Remote Deposits functionality in all aspects from analyzing new functionality and impact on current environment, testing, implementation of new releases, issue identification, working with vendors and other teams to resolve application issues and support user issues.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for following the on-boarding procedure and according to my experience, make changes and additions as needed. The applications are used by three different LOBs and each has certain customizations for their specific LOB, so there are different branding, configuration customizations, and SQL updates that have to be modified to meet each LOB's specifications. I was responsible for modifying the SQL scripts being used to update the DB for each application, creating DB validation documentation, and based on the SQL scripts we created, create Rollback scripts for use in case of issues with DB update portion of the install. Attend vendor status meeting to discuss current issues. Work with DBA and WAS teams to update the different test environments and test the application in those test environments. Use Soap UI to test the different Web Service Calls to the vendor application and start writing automated test scripts that could be run on a daily basis to help determine if there were any current issues in any of the environments.

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

Tools Utilized JAVA, Spring, Eclipse IDE for Java Development, StarTeam, SQL Developer, PuTTY, WinSCP

  • Application Summary: TIAA-CREF has a document composition service group DCS responsible for preparing documents that are stored electronically in the Mobius application and assembling them programmatically in preparation for distribution via email or regular mail. Additionally, each document prepared must be assigned to a task in EXP AG. EXP AG captures the distributed document and stores it internally to ensure that all aspects of the business process are captured and provides an audit trail through each task. Email processing was included via the Lyris third-party application in which templates were used and parameters were passed to assemble the email in either a text or html format and distributed to the participant.
  • Project Summary: The project initially involved supporting the Lyris application via service restarts, monitoring the test environment, modifying Lyris templates, and writing a Java-based Spring Framework JAXB Web Service Client application to delete lists based on the creation timestamp. The application interfaces with the Lyris API. It is configured through a properties file and run via an executable jar file. Additionally, the project included adding new functionality to the DCS application that would poll a directory for .trg files. For each .trg file, the associated .htm file would be used to gather information about a document request and, based on that data, use the EXP AG web service client to interface with the EXP AG API to create a new task or update an existing task with the appropriate document request information.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for developing, testing, and deploying modifications and enhancements to the Lyris list deletion web service client and the DCS EXP AG web service client which is used to add or update document request information in the EXP AG application. Responsible for supporting QA testing and researching Production issues as needed.

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

Tools Utilized RTVIEW, Eclipse IDE for Java Development, Subversion, MySQL, DBVisualizer, PuTTY, WinSCP

  • Application Summary: Wells Fargo has a group which develops dashboards for applications. The Dashboards are used by Management to ensure projects stay on schedule and on budget, used by the Business to ensure that application releases are on schedule and by the Application Support teams to ensure the Applications are running properly. Dashboards are accessed through the internet.
  • Project Summary: The project involves designing and developing Application dashboards using the RTView product. RTView is a Java based development tool that allows for the gathering of data, summarizing/formatting certain data and displaying the data. Additionally, RTView allows for the creation of alerts which will notify support groups via email or text message when certain conditions apply and need to be addressed and usually occurs before the application or users would have been affected and reported the situation. RTView also allows for the creation of custom functions written in Java to be implemented into the product.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for developing, testing and deploying modifications and enhancements to the WTPMO dashboard and designing, testing and implementing a custom function used to parse through log files searching for events that are input by the user.

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

Tools Utilized Windows Server 2003, Changeman, Toad, PL/SQL, SQL Server Management Studio, Cybermation ESP, Windows Server 2008, IIS

  • Application Summary: Support for Various Meter Reading Systems used to bring in Meter Reads and interface to the EDMS system. The Head End systems use Duke's Automated Metering Infrastructure to bring in the reads and store them in several Head End DBs. Some of the meters were Smart Meters and there were APIs used to enable or disable the meters as needed.
  • Project Summary: The project involved bringing in Third Party Meter Reading Systems that fit into the DUKE Automated Metering Infrastructure and working with the meter groups and the EDMS group to ensure that the data files containing that meter reads are created correctly and processed correctly by EDMS.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for working with Operations to get server specs required for each individual system, work with Security to create the AD groups needed and insure that the application is installed properly. Responsible for the support during the Analysis, Design, Implementation and Production support for TNS, Badger Read Center, Echelon's NES. Responsible for the access to servers and 24/7 support of the application. Worked with cross functional teams to identify performance issues.

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

Tools Utilized Windows Server 2003, Changeman, Toad, PL/SQL, SQL Server Management Studio, Cybermation ESP, Windows Server 2008

  • Application Summary: Energy Data Management System, EDMS, is a vendor application which takes Meter Reads gathered from various meter reading systems and performs various calculations based on usage, Commercial vs. Residential usage to produce a Billing Determinant that is fed into the Customer Billing Systems CBIS and CMS. These Billing Determinants are used by the billing systems to create the monthly bills for the customers.
  • Project Summary: The project involved bringing in a Third Party Meter Data Management application and customizing it to fit Duke's needs and also working with all the Head End Meter Reading applications to make sure that the reads data would be in a format that could be used by the MDM application.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for the analysis of the current head end systems and working with the business users to come up with the format of the meter read data and work with the vendor to ensure that the DBAs ensure that memory, OS, DBMS meet vendor specifications and support issues during the Design, Testing and implementation of the system. Responsible for application support for all Head End Applications. Responsible for coordination of all head end systems installations and upgrades, including running the data base DML update scripts, installation of actual software on servers, configuration of IIS for NES application, and working with the vendor and cross platform teams to determine cause of errors, fix when possible and report back to vendor when necessary. Monitoring of services on servers and researching issues on servers. Maintain a synchronization process from the Meter Tracking System to EDMS constructed by the use of Triggers, stored procedures and a schema built to contain the synchronization data.

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

Tools Utilized Java, J2EE, WSAD 5.x Visual Basic 6.0, TSO, COBOL, DB2, QMF, ChangeMan, Xpediter, Enterprise Architect

  • Application Summary: Large Customer and Billing Information System, CBIS, which was used for the entire customer billing and account tracking. Besides the Billing function, the application included functionality to request that services be added/removed, view customer Financial information like payment activity, make adjustments to bills, re-issue bills, view bills, track field work, and reporting information on several levels of summarization and detail. Duke merged with Cinergy and merged company decided on a common commercial application with any functionality not included to be developed in-house. Assigned Energy Data Management System team. Third party vendor Application Lodestar's Meter Data Management was selected to combine the Meter Data processing for both Cinergy and Duke Energy after the merger.
  • Project Summary: The project involved integrating a custom VB front end with a DB2 database. The application was being converted to a J2EE application and was using Web Services via C to connect to the existing COBOL layer which accessed the DB2 data base. The benefit of the project is to allow management to keep track of the main source of revenue for the entire company. The use of Web Services and C was to allow the front end to be changed without having to change the backend. Once the front end was finished, the back end was also going to be modified to JAVA. The commercial application has not been announced yet.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of enhancements and maintenance to the legacy system and J2EE system. Responsible for assisting other developers when necessary and completing work for the monthly project release schedule. Included researching business functionality and designing and implementing solutions while working with other developers and analysts to complete objectives. Ran benchmarking tests and wrote results summary based on the performance of Lodestar's Meter Data Management product. Once this was selected, participated in requirements sessions and identified all the data that was supplied from the application being replaced by MDM to the interface applications. The thought process was to replace the application but keep all the interface files consistent to reduce the amount of change necessary for the interfaced applications.

Confidential

Position Title Consultant/Developer Vice President

Tools Utilized VB6, VB4, Java, J2EE, HTML, JavaScript, Struts, PVCS

  • Application Summary: Large Commercial Risk Management suite of applications used to supply the risk rating of a customer used to assist in the loan approval process.
  • Project Summary: The project involved integrating a custom VB front end with a Sybase database. The application was in the beginning stages of being converted to a J2EE application. The benefit of the project is to allow Risk Rating information for a customer to be accessible to those involved in approving loans. This was one of the criteria used in the approval process. The conversion is going to allow access via the internet and rid the need for FAT client computer configurations and update a legacy application.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of enhancements and maintenance to the current system. Responsible for assisting other developers when necessary and completing work for the monthly project release schedule. Included researching business functionality and designing and implementing solutions while working with other developers and analysts to complete objectives. Analyze and design new J2EE application that would replicate some of the processing of the current system. Provide worldwide customer support for Struts application and VB application for clients. Provide support for existing Struts application.

Confidential

Position Title Contractor

Tools Utilized Visual Basic 6.0, TSO, COBOL, Java, J2EE, WSAD 5.x, DB2, QMF, ChangeMan, Xpediter, WAS 4.x, WAS5.x

  • Application Summary: Large Customer and Billing Information System, CBIS, which was used for the entire customer billing and account tracking. Besides the Billing function, the application included functionality to request that services be added/removed, view customer Financial information like payment activity, make adjustments to bills, re-issue bills, view bills, track field work, and reporting information on several levels of summarization and detail.
  • Project Summary: The project involved integrating a custom VB front end with a DB2 database. The application was in the beginning stages of being converted to a J2EE application. The benefit of the project is to allow management to keep track of the main source of revenue for the entire company. The conversion is going to free the client from having to convert the application each time the support of a version of VB was dropped.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of enhancements and maintenance to the current system. Responsible for assisting other developers when necessary and completing work for the monthly project release schedule. Included researching business functionality and designing and implementing solutions while working with other developers and analysts to complete objectives.

Confidential

Position Title Team Lead/Developer Assistant Vice President

Tools Utilized Java, J2EE, HTML, Javascript, Visual Caf , WSAD 4.03, NAS, NES, WebSphere, SQL Navigator, SQL Plus

  • Application Summary: Large online Credit Card reconciliation project called EAGLS, Electronic Account Government Ledger System which includes viewing of detailed and summary credit card transaction information. Also included were the ability to transfer accounts to different hierarchies, transfer transactions to different accounts allocate credits to specific debits, and reporting information on several levels of summarization and detail.
  • Project Summary: The project was a web based multi-tier system which involved integrating a custom front end with an Oracle database and included sending MQ messages to a third party service organization which handled the collecting of credit card transactions TSYS and was the data base of record. The benefit of the project was to allow management to keep track of credit card use and abuse throughout an entire company or government agency.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for design and implementation of the scheduler EJB/scheduler functionality used to schedule and execute various functions in separate threads. Responsible for the design and implementation of various functionalities including JSPs, servlets, javascript, Session Beans to retrieve and update the data base, PL/SQL stored procedures and html. Responsible for assigning individual assignments, meeting deadlines, resolving conflicts, weekly status reports, and mentoring junior level programmers. Responsible for the production support/enhancement of the Applogic version of EAGLS carried pager 24hrs. Responsible for participating in analysis of two existing EAGLS versions Government and Commercial and determining the design for a common code base. Responsible for supplying build team with the modified modules that were required for the new release. Responsible for interaction with QA team, Users, System Admins, and DBA team to identify and resolve any discrepancies throughout the various test and production environments.

Confidential

Position Title Consultant

Tools Utilized Java, HTML, Javascript, PL/SQL, Oracle, Visual Caf

  • Application Summary: Large online Credit Card reconciliation project called EAGLS which including viewing of detailed and summary credit card transaction information. Also included were the ability to transfer accounts to different hierarchies, transfer transactions to different accounts allocate credits to specific debits, and reporting information on several levels of summarization and detail.
  • Project Summary: The project was a web based multi-tier system which involved integrating a custom front end with an Oracle database and included sending MQ messages to a third party service organization which handled the collecting of credit card transactions TSYS and was the data base of record. The benefit of the project was to allow management to keep track of credit card use and abuse throughout an entire company or government agency.
  • Responsibility Summary: Responsible for modifying JAVA programs Applogics on the Business Layer to satisfy Business Requirements and Data Layer which involved the retrieval of data through Dynamic SQL and calls to Stored Procedures on an ORACLE database. Responsible for modifying HTML/DHTML pages with JAVA programs built on the NAS architecture. Responsible for modifying HTML/DHTML pages with JAVASCRIPT for client-side validation. Responsible for modifying PL/SQL Stored Procedures on ORACLE database per requirements. Responsible for using SQL Plus and SQL Navigator to modify and test stored procedures and run queries against the Oracle Database. Responsible for supporting Users and Testers during SIT and User Acceptance Testing.

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