SUMMARY:

• Providing 16+ Years Supporting Technical Operations in Diverse Financial Environments Demonstrated
• Ability to Execute Projects, with Millions of Dollars at Stake, amidst Extremely Tight Deadlines

AREAS OF STRENGTH & KNOWLEDGE:

• Systems Implementation
• Network Administration
• Applications Development
• Disaster Recovery
• Systems Auditing
• Systems Security
• Quality Control
• Technical Troubleshooting
• Client/Server Architecture
• Software Configuration
• Software Development
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Enterprise Release Testing
• Customer Technical Support
• Remote Systems Access
• User Request Feasibility
• Vendor Negotiations
• Vendor Management
• Technology Rightsizing
• Document Imaging
• Technical Training
• Expense Control
• Data Management
• Mergers/Acquisitions
• Saturn Automated Testing
• Clearcase Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Programmer Analyst

Technical environment includes: OS/2, ZEKE, ZORS, CA VIEW, SAR/ODS, OS/MVS, MICR8000, Lotus Notes, CHANGEMAN, WAAPASUT, Windows XP, COBOL, IBM Assembler, Easytrieve+, JCL, ABENDAID, and CPCS 3890 sorters and 7780 sorters (both used for document capture with imaging); sub applications comprise ORBS (Online Reconcilement and Balancing System), TCM (The Control Machine), Cash Letter Acceptance System (CLAS), Enhanced System Manager (ESM), CIPS (Conix Integrated Payment System) and EFP.

Responsibilities:

• Forecasted/logged hours and successfully function within 2% monthly margin of error; demonstrates ability to forecast and enter projects into production within expected time and budget parameters.
• Recognized with numerous peer awards as well as exceeding performance expectations during tenure; effectively carried out demanding on - call responsibilities and frequently sought by colleagues to resolve incidents with hard deadlines approaching, involving decisions concerning processing of hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Elevated to primary CPCS resource leading enterprise release testing (responsible for set up and support of test regions); testing comprises 6 test cycles including 3 for integrated system testing and 3 for user acceptance testing. Also contributed to test projects (including ICS and DDA applications) with other groups throughout organization.
• Developed offshore resource ability to assume CPCS responsibilities; also created documentation training offshore resources to submit CPCS regions for testing efforts.
• Operated as primary CPCS resource for numerous tasks in merger of Bank One and JPMorganChase; set up multiple CPCS regions for New York facility and tracked testing requirements and results; integrated major subsystems including EFP (electronic file transfers with the FED) and SUQ (reporting database fed by CPCS).
• Recipient of commendation from project leader
• I would like to commend Confidential Boe for his support of NDS testing
• Confidential has made himself available whenever we have needed him for support and defect resolution willingly made himself available to support the off-shore test team during "odd" hours of the day and weekend
• Confidential demonstrated his initiative and problem solving skills
• Confidential took ownership for the problems and efficiently rectified them with minimal impact
• I am glad he is on our team.”
• Trusted for systems knowledge and capabilities and regularly sought to determine feasibility of user programming requests; requires effective communication with end user (to develop technical requirements) and systems vendor to ultimately determine feasibility.
• Developed more than 15 CPCS test regions and several CPCS production regions for all sites; region locations .
• Converted Bedford, Texas and Columbus, Ohio production CPCS regions to CIPS; project comprised Imaged Enabled Balancing under ORBS in CPCS.
• Contributed to creation and set up of several numerous Image Cash Letters for files sent from CIPS CPCS function; enabled electronic and data image files transmission to other banks for reconciliation.
• Facilitated merge of several small to large CPCS regional processing centers; project included shutdown of CPCS regions and jobs of smaller sites as well as processing volume in remaining site.
• Saved organization $4,000 annually through elimination of unneeded programs; ultimately saved on expense required to maintain reports in SAR/ODS database; improved overall productivity and brought results before expectations by splitting processing for all 12 countrywide sites into 3 regional processes.
• Collaborate effectively with Confidential (provider of integrated consulting and software solutions) on problem resolution and development of Super Query product (CPCS mainframe application feeding server based reporting system, EiStats).
• Spearheaded installation of CPCS ORBS imaging reconcilement product, CIPS; also worked with imaging functions matching paper documents captured in check processing with images captured with 3890 sorters and 7780 sorters.
• Enabled enterprise groups to eliminate manual processes as new regional processing centers are brought on-line through development of several programs in Easytreive+; automated process updating cross reference master files with hundreds of tables (previously requiring update per table).

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Programmer Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and maintenance of Processing (CPCS) and Imaging Group Systems for 8 processing centers; technical environment included OS/2, ZORS, CAVIEW, SAR / ODS, OS/MVS, MICR8000, Lotus Notes, Windows XP, COBOL, Assembler, Easytrieve+, devices - CPCS 3890 sorters, 7780 sorters, ROSPROCS, and RPFs. led volume of projects comprising DDA, Savings, General Ledger, Central Proof, Mortgage Loans, Credit Card and Wire Transfer; worked with functions including ACLS (Cash Letters), Control Machine, ORBS and CPARS.
• Assisted with several bank consolidations and assumed responsibility for account cross referencing.