PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Extensive background in planning, developing, and managing projects, people, schedules, and priorities.
• Results oriented, strategic thinker, highly analytical with record of increasing application performance and reducing costs - -excellent with both technical and business matters.
• Provides oversight and guidance to technical teams in managing Mainframe application and product delivery.
• Develops and implements strategy to enhance the efficiency of Mainframe processes and systems.
• Over 20 years experience with multiple computer languages. Thirteen years of supervisory and management experience including three years in Information Systems management positions.
• Experience includes manufacturing, foreign-trade zones, insurance rating, credit card processing, auto loan and collection systems, Basel II, purchasing, inventory control, accounts payable, and budgeting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, CLIST, DMS, IMS DB/DC, CICS, QLP, REXX, RPG, SQL, SAS, CA-Easytrieve, MVS JCL, UNIX, and Visual Basic

Databases: DB2, Access, Oracle, IMS

Software: PL/SQL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, Xpediter, MS Office, Control-M, CA-7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Basel Mainframe Application Architect/ Technical Lead

Confidential, Mettawa, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed technical team by providing guidance, training, and oversight on multiple concurrent projects.
• Served as Mainframe liaison to business teams. Managed oversight of priority projects through delivery.
• Championed the implementation of a system to expedite delivery of compliance production changes in minimum time, ensuring that solutions were aligned to long-term strategies. Standardized processing and delivery.
• Developed complex segmentation logic, ensuring optimized capital reserves to offset loan risk ratings.
• Led a cross-functional technical team in the implementation of a server-based, data quality application. Included daily involvement with eight technology and business teams and other teams on a frequent basis.
• Led team of four onshore individuals and six offshore contractors during discovery, design, build and implementation of a retail card services reengineering effort. Designed changes in Card Retail Services processes to ensure quick turnaround on business requirements and implementations.
• Presented proposals, concepts, and project information via MS Office products such as Visio and PowerPoint.

Senior Analyst/ Technical Lead

Confidential, CO

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of Mainframe developers in the delivery of high quality products to Business customers.
• Managed a major vendor upgrade to application and back-end processing, ensuring that all in-house applications were modified to communicate with new vendor processes. Served as primary point-of-contact to vendor throughout implementation of upgrade. Ensured all critical issues were resolved prior to implementation.
• Coordinated implementation of upgrade; directed software installs across enterprise servers, implemented Mainframe code, and validated database structure changes.
• Designed, developed and implemented a customer account archival and de-archival system to replace vendor processing tool that did not meet company performance requirements.
• Performance tuned high cost/long run time applications. Reduced costs in excess of $27K per month in 2006 and $40K per month in 2007. Reduced nightly critical path time by 100 minutes during 2007.
• Reduced unit man-hours required to support test systems. Designed applications to refresh test systems with production data. Reduced total test system build time from multiple people/days to one person/two-hours.
• Planned and managed mid-tier server virtualization, saving over $15,000 a month in server CPU costs.
• Coordinated all aspects of the creation of new collection test environments to include mainframe DB2 environments and mid-tier application server environments.
• Learned, trained, and coached. Learned new processes assigned to unit, documented methods and procedures, and instructed co-workers until they were confident of their responsibilities.
• Known for providing total Business satisfaction. Discussed projects in business terms--learned processes based on their workflow. Implemented major projects with functionality exceeding Business requirements, ahead of schedule, under budget, and defect free.

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Lincoln, NE

Responsibilities:

• Performance tuned high cost, daily jobs. Evaluated system processing and restructured existing SQL; saved in excess of $5500 in monthly CPU cost on two jobs.
• Analyzed source code and identified issues dealing with incorrect and inefficient coding.
• Prepared training documentation to educate others analysts.
• Communicated with Business Analysts to create short lead-time, business critical reports. Processing identified erroneous business actions and gathered statistical data for government reporting.

Senior Programmer/ Analyst

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Served as Senior Lead on a conversion of 750K Auto loans from an AS/400 based system to a third party vendor collection system. Managed complete system support of vendor system to include new development, batch processing, and daily maintenance.
• Developed tested and implemented conversion applications and job flows to load all active and historical account information into the new collection system.
• Developed conversion flows of approximately 50 multiple step jobs for conversion of data from legacy to new system. Planned, designed, and sequenced batch flow that completed the conversion during a 48-hour window.
• Designed and implemented interfaces between the A/R system, the external vendor systems and a 350 DB2 table vendor collection system. These interfaces handled loading of new accounts, transaction data, demographic detail and third party imported data.
• Planned, implemented, and managed a batch flow consisting of 220 vendor jobs and 260 local requirements. Analyzed processes and programs, formulated action plans and coordinated changes -- reduced a 10-hour batch flow to 6.5 hours during first 30 days after implementation.
• Reengineered processes and redesigned existing applications to streamline processing and improve database performance, resulting in a reduction of $10,000 in monthly CPU costs.

Senior Programmer/ Analyst

Confidential, Salinas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded team for migration of COBOL applications from LU 6.2 to MQ Series protocol.
• Converted 36 programs used by 4000 customer service representatives and three front-end systems.
• Improved productivity by developing procedures to standardize application code. Increased stability and maintainability of applications that processed over 40 million monthly transactions.
• Coordinated between Visual Basic front-end analysts and backend developers on performance enhancement projects. Evaluated front-end application and recommended performance improvements--reduced initial response time from 11 seconds to six seconds and eventually to 2.5 seconds.
• Designed efficiency into all products. Developed system to allow business logic to be maintained in a limited number of programs yet provide each front-end system only minimum required data. Method reduced network bandwidth and response time to front-ends. Adopted as a standard within other mainframe groups.
• Analyzed code modifications required during acquisition and conversion of other credit card portfolios. Identified changes, created technical documentation, developed test criteria, and evaluated unit test results.

Senior System Engineer

Confidential, Normal, IL

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned the Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) mainframe system. Simplified complex system processes; reduced batch-processed jobs by 35 percent, DASD and tape storage by 75 percent, and printed output by 36,000 pages per month. Developed inventory audit processing--reduced erroneous assets processed through FTZ system by 14 million units for accounting year 1998 to 1999, saving thousands of dollars in duty payments.
• Designed and developed a system to accurately manage and report vehicle parts sequentially delivered and installed--eliminated overpayments to suppliers.
• Managed and maintained the Vehicle Service Parts System. Conducted in-depth analysis of the system, eliminated redundant, outdated processing, and corrected erroneous logic--reduced nightly job flow processing time by 33 percent. Eliminated a three-year backlog of system work requests in twelve months while implementing other new, multi-organizational projects ahead of schedule.
• Led development efforts on the Manufacturing Expense Reporting System design and implementation; brought expense reporting to managers\' desktops. Performed roles of analyst, trainer, coach, project leader, and DBA.

Programmer/ Analyst

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed a test environment using DMS and REXX to allow multiple analysts to simultaneous test insurance batch flows--reduced test to production turnaround times by days.
• Problem coordinator responsible for software problem analysis, software code analysis, and immediate software fixes. Communicated software instructional assistance to five business areas.
• Key analyst/developer on Homeowners Protection Class Rating Project-computed homeowner policy discounts based on complicated DB2 based rules for each state.
• Analyzed, developed, and maintained batch and on-line Fire Rating mainframe applications.