SUMMARY:

• Extensive and diversified professional with 22 years of experience in information systems, analysis, design, IT quality assurance, project analysis and design of financial data processing applications. Highly effective developer, analyst, and problem solver with expertise in participating in multiple projects concurrently. Comprehensive background in all phases of system development lifecycle. Proven record of delivering strong and sustainable results and successful execution of projects. Dedicated to process improvements, cost savings, and efficiency. Core competencies include:
• Mainframe application developmentApplication analysis
• Problem resolution & troubleshootingData analysis
• Process improvementDesign program specification
• Full system development lifecycleDesign test plans and test cases
• Requirements gatheringAgile development processing
• IT quality assurance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, ZOS/MVS JCL, Mainframe Utilities, IBM Data Studio, File - Aid, Star Tool, File Manager, Change Management, Endevor, Quality Center, FTP, Trace Master, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), JIRA, SPUFI, Comparex, Syncsort, Iceman, RDZ, IBM TIVOLI Workload Scheduler, Application Life Management (ALM)

Hardware: IBM 3090

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Jersey City, New Jersey

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting services to the Finance group
• Participated in the Merrill Lynch Proprietary Application (MLPA) pricing methodology project. This project identified and resolved the gaps that existed and build controls and governance around the pricing process per business and regulatory requirements
• Participated in the analysis, design, development, SBE (Specifications by Examples) creation, test plan creation, testing and successful implementation of the pricing project
• Successfully implemented several other production releases using the Agile methodology

Confidential - New Jersey

Mainframe Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the development and execution of the overall Quality Assurance strategy for the FA Compensation, Online Trading and other Mainframe applications
• Created and executed test cases while adhering to established software quality standards in general for measuring software quality
• Established relationships and responsibilities within QA and Development teams
• Communicated major status of projects to QA personnel and customer concerns to the QA Manager in a timely manner
• Evaluated quality of assigned projects and products that will be delivered
• Delivered weekly status reports and applied excellent escalation skills

Confidential - Jersey City, New Jersey

Consultant - Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting services to the Finance group
• Participated in the Broker Dealer Separation (BDS) project. This is the separation of Bank of America’s retail and institutional broker dealer activities.
• Created new and modified processes for both batch and online to accomplish the separation of the two entities.
• Participated in the analysis, design, coding, SBE (Specifications by Examples) creation, test plan creation, testing and implementation of BDS project
• Participated in the Agile development process - Sprint Planning, Daily standup, Retrospective
• Successfully implemented several production releases using the Agile methodology

Confidential, New Jersey

Consultant - Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting services to the Product Master group (PROM)
• Participated in the analysis, design, coding, test plan creation, and testing of the Bank Custody Globalization Project
• Created new processes and modified some existing processes to conform to the requirements of the Bank Custody Project

Confidential, New Jersey

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in the planning phase through implementation of the project.
• Categorized assets managed by the Financial Advisors.
• Participated in the application rewrite project for Net New Money, which included calculations of s to Financial Advisors, automated correction process, branch manager compensation, and commodity processing.
• Redesigned the Letter of Understanding application, which was used to establish a model of compensation to be offered to Financial Advisors from other established entities.
• Managed the FA Attestation s calculation project, which included calculating FA s based on assets.
• Participated in the design of new FA s in the Business Analysis screen, which enabled the monitoring of performance in terms of assets and s.
• Redesigned the QNR application for the Qualified New Relationship project, which used Marketing Household details to credit points to FAs.
• Worked on the Revenue Impact Measurement Project that enhanced the Value-Based Pricing application, which tracked changes in Financial Advisor pricing behavior and revenue impact.
• Maintained accountability for Auction Rate Project, Puerto Rico Taxability Project, Standard & Poor’s Advisory Partial Rating Update and SIRS Record Formatting Change Initiative, Firm-wide Wire Printing Elimination Project, and Estimated Annual Income Project.
• Spearheaded the development and implementation of various enhancements to the PRDB application, which resolved recurring production issues and stabilized the PRDB application.
• Delivered production support and monitored the Product and Pricing application.
• Participated in the development, testing, and implementation of the Reset Baseline Project, which was a rewrite of 12 legacy Visual Basic distributed applications to the standard JAVA application.
• Contributed to the Mutual Fund Security Number Expansion Project with multiple roles.
• Served as the Project Coordinator and Developer for the Account Transfer (ACAT) Project.
• Developed the Front-End application (using COBOL/ CICS, DB2) for the Retail Audit Modification Project, which was an internal audit requirement to have all trades approved by the appropriate managers before being transmitted to DTCC.
• Participated in the Cash Trade Project, which was a conversion of the manual Cash Trade Procedure to an automated process.
• Participated in the End-of-Day Cancels Project that prevented the transmission of cancelled trades to DTCC and saved time on the reclamation process of the trades.