Systems Engineer Resume Hoffman Estates, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

22 years of experience in all areas of the development cycle. Gathering requirements, creating specifications, coding, testing, implementing, and supporting systems. Have worked on HR and finance applications.Cobol, Assembler, CICS, DB2, VSAM.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

Took responsibility for the maintenance and support of various finance applications, some with little or no documentation. Made the documentation up - to-date. Maintained very low or zero abend rates for my applications. Was on pager support for the applications.
These systems were offshored, brought back in-house, and offshored again.
Implemented application changes and enhancements as requested by the business partners.
Created and executed test plans for finance systems’ contingency planning / disaster recovery.
Performed regular upgrades for 10 CICS TEST regions.
Mainframe SPOC for finance group: Tested finance application prior to mainframe upgrades for business continuity.
Ensured that finance applications were SOX and PCI compliant. For SOX compliance: verified with SOX auditors that data access, production JCL, file backups, testing documentation were compliant.
Obsoleted several finance applications that were no longer needed.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Processing of 1099K IRS tax requirement. Collect relevant sales data from the licensees and determine if a 1099K needs to be generated.
Back-end accounting: Allow licensed business to accept Sears & Kmart gift cards.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Created a DB2 mainframe application for the back-end reporting of damaged / returned inventory, to replace an obsolete Access application.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Back-end accounting: Change to collect and report fees for third-party credit cards used in licensed business establishments.
Created process to back up and purge old rows from DB2 tables.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Changed accounting entries to post to the Peoplesoft general ledger system, instead of the old in-house-written general ledger system. Also, feeds to the licensees were changed to originate from the Peoplesoft general ledger.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Gathered information from dozens of application owners to facilitate the conversion of those applications from the in-house-written general ledger system to the Peoplesoft general ledger.
Worked with offshore resources to transfer support responsibilities of the General Ledger and other finance applications from offshore to in-house. Helped develop best practices to insure business continuity of those applications. Created turnover documentation.

Confidential

Application Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

Was a finance system SPOC for the finance systems’ development & support offshore team.
Provided information about finance systems to internal auditors and D&T for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Performed RACF cleanup to maintain compliance.
Assisted in holiday stress testing for the sales tax CICS regions.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Learned finance systems - General Ledger, Cash Flow, Travel Expense, Check Printing, Zero Percent Financing, Store Discount Card, Purchase Orders, and Licensed Business Credit Settlement. (Cobol/APS Cobol/Assembler/VSAM/DB2 in CICS and batch environments). Assisted in the offshoring of these systems.

Confidential

Programmer Trainee through Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

10 years involvement in the full development life cycle of the profit sharing and pension systems, including the outsourcing of the systems. Cloning of the Sears profit sharing system to create an Allstate profit sharing system after the companies split. (Assembler VSAM in CICS and batch environments).