SUMMARY:

• As an Analyst/Specialist I have over twenty 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 and coordinating with teams onshore and offshore.
• 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, Insurance, Telecommunication and IT services companies.
• Communication/Verbal & Written
• Leadership/Mentoring
• Organization Skills
• Positive Attitude
• Motivation/Self & Others
• Time Management
• Analytical knowledge

SKILL:

AbendAid4Expediter8

Changeman6FileAid10

CA: 72FileAid DB210

CICS10Endeavor2

Clipper2QMF16

COBOL16Smartest8

Control: M6SQL Server16

DB216TSO/JCL16

BMC3Lotus Worksheet2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• To develop the modifications of JCLs and COBOL programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the user.
• In order to do so, I had to interact with the users to test and to validate the results of the changes and to generate all the deliverables associated with them.
• The project is managed using Agile methodology with ceremonies on daily basis and all the related materials.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CONTROL-M, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• To develop the modifications of JCLs, queries and programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the user.
• In order to do so, I had to interact with the users to analyze and define the modifications and develop them.
• And, to closely work with the users to test and to validate the results of the changes and to generate all the deliverables associated with them.
• While assigned to this project we started the first steps of the migration from a Waterfall methodology to an Agile environment where we started migrating and generating the documentation in JIRA.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Confidential, Boston, MA

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.
• And also to closely work with the software factory, sending the new requirements of changes generated along with the user and to test and validate such deliverables.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QMF, QSAM & VSAM files, Partenon Banking System, Microsoft Office

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Mainframe Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To analyze, document, test and create suggestions depending on the testing performed to the development team to modify or to enhance the performance of the modified elements.
• Then present the results to the QA team and the client to get the approvals and promote to the Production environment of such elements.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS, FOCUS, CONTROL-M, SPUFI, DB Optim, File Master Plus, Microsoft Office

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Mainframe Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To document the different elements, provide a document that can be read by the BA’s and other team members for their translation into some other technology.
• Participate in the Scrum meetings to assess the progress in the assignments.

Tools: Notepad++, Microsoft Office

Platform: Windows

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Mainframe Analyst/Tester

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 Confidential, this migration can reside in QSAM or VSAM files or DB2 tables.
• Along with the previous activities I was responsible of work with the software factory in Mexico, I have to organize the job distribution, quality and testing. Once the software factory sent back their modified items, I reviewed the code, the evidence of the testing performed and if everything were according the standards I gathered all the approvals to promoted from the previous environments all the way to the Production environment. While assigned to this project we started the first steps of the migration from a Waterfall methodology to an Agile environment where we started migrating and generating the documentation in JIRA.

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

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Mainframe Analyst/Tester

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 Confidential, this migration can reside in QSAM or VSAM files or DB2 tables.
• I have to work with teams in the different cities in the US and in Philippines and Spain, we have to coordinate the efforts in order to be able to install within the schedule.

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

Platform: IBM Mainframe

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• 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 team’s streamlines.
• Create the test environment in the Development LPAR getting the components from the different Production LPARs. Such components were QSAM & VSAM files that needed to be created and transmitted in order to be able to perform the tests.
• 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, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office, MS Project.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• In charge of client interfacing, invoicing and translating the clients’ requirements.
• 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, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office, MS Project.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.

Confidential, El Paso, TX

Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

• In charge of analyzing, designing, developing and testing the modifications to fulfill the users’ requirements.
• Project control and tracking.
• Manage and plan the resources in order to distribute the workload/requirements. The teams were located remotely.
• Quality assurance of the modified items.
• 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, Microsoft Office.

Platform: AS400, Windows NT.

Systems Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• To lecture about the IBM’s Mainframe environment and to support the users during their day to day activities.
• Coaching and development of training courses (Mainframe Tools & Cobol introductions).

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

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT

Systems Specialist

Confidential

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 integrating with testing standards, tools and processes.
• Perform testing for the team’s 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.

Systems Specialist

Confidential

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. The team was located in Colorado.
• Developed customization enhancements, such enhancements were done in both batch and online programs which use DB2 tables or files (QSAM or VSAM).
• Provided production support to several batch and online applications.
• Implementation and post implementation project issue /defects tracking and support.
• Develop multiple enhancement projects, such enhancements were done in both batch and online programs which use DB2 tables or files (QSAM or VSAM).

Tools: COBOL, DB2, Endeavor, File aid, File aid DB2, JCL, CICS, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.

Systems Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 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). Customize the access of the transactions according to the new needs, this meant to change the access of the programs to the VSAM files or the DB2 tables.

Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office.

Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.