SUMMARY:

• 15 years of experience as an accomplished application developer, including 15 years in mainframe environments using structured development methodologies analyzing customer needs, designing new or modifying existing systems on projects that supported company - wide revenue initiatives with aggressive deadlines, for multiple Confidential 500 companies
• Ability and willingness to be flexible in assignments and enjoy the challenge of digging in and learning application systems while performing analysis, coding and testing of upgrades during Y2k transition projects.
• Very dedicated team player with excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills, interfacing well with management, colleagues and customers.
• Prioritized and worked with multiple assigned tasks simultaneously within a fast-paced environment while remaining attentive to detail.
• Positions have included and combined roles of Sales Representative, Consultant, Project Manager, Application Developer, Senior Programmer / Analyst, production support, subject matter expert and mentor.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Driver

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Transport cars to and from wash location

New Car Sales Consultant

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• New Car Sales Consultant, certified in Volkswagen Products

Direct Sales and Retention Sales Representative

Confidential, Farmers Branch, TX

Responsibilities:

• Utilized a consultative approach in an effort to present the value of Confidential products and services over the phone and in person with the purpose of retaining core products and customers
• Sold Confidential products and services to existing customers Won customers back from competitive service providers

Corporate Sales Support / Regional Sales

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Prepared RFP proposals to prospective customers including school districts and municipalities
• Generated electricity sales contracts and present to customers for signature
• Created weekly reports on ERCOT non-siebel sales margins and weekly sales data Input company information into Siebel pricing system for deal setup
• Presented product and pricing options to customers
• Contacted renewal customers and obtained Letter of Authorization to initiate pricing Initiated sales to cold call prospects and determined next electricity contract start date

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a mainframe team in a large integration and implementation project incorporating new software design of a direct marketing enhancement to the customer welcome notification and card mailer packages.
• Developed, executed, and maintained mainframe project plans
• Led and participated in technical design sessions including design of DB2 data warehouse databases
• Developed and documented the mainframe systems functional specifications based on discussions and decisions reached in technical design meetings for COBOL, DB2, & JCL applications
• Assembled the Conceptual Functional Specification design document for three technology areas including the Front-End (web interface), mainframe, and data warehouse application systems based on business and technical requirements for the project.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Administrator and Coordinator for multiple technology initiatives in the Confidential.
• Managed, administered, and coordinated three projects.
• Developed request for proposals and prepared business case and ROI analysis
• Created Visio diagrams of business process flows
• Developed, executed, and maintained project plans
• Designed and implemented a process for determining which technology initiatives would become projects
• Prioritized and assigned project stake holders, team members, and responsibilities Determined project scope and deliverables
• Project document creation, organization, and LAN management
• Prepared and distributed meeting notes and minutes

Independent Consultant

Confidential, Lakeland, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Defined and analyzed the Publix software portfolio for store numbers, which were expanding from 3 to 5 digits
• Assembled, evaluated, and explained analysis results
• Discussed and formulated strategies for converting, testing, and implementing the changes with minimal disruption and downtime to the production systems

Confidential, Irving, TX

Project Manager and Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Developed enterprise application definitions for organizations, loaded and analyzed COBOL, CICS, DB2, Easytrieve, and JCL components for each application.
• Completed date impact analysis and estimated conversion costs and project duration based on analysis results.
• Utilized problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills to resolve resource conflicts and technical issues to keep critical projects on schedule.
• Assisted in the design and maintenance of a Microsoft Access database to assign and track progress of team member assignments and workload.
• Created and tracked project progress and resource allocations to a Microsoft Project plan.
• Generated weekly status reports which identified issues and tracked team progress.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supervised the design/construction for add - on work in the Journal Entry subsystem.
• TPR (test problem resolution) Team Leader over five Confidential subsystems in which 60 system problems were identified and resolved in a four-month period.
• Provided client support and interface on five Confidential subsystems including Check Input, Checkwrite, Contracts, Division of Ownership, and Electronic Data Interface.
• Estimated and led the design and construction of an enhancement to the Journal Entry subsystem while training and mentoring a staff consultant in becoming the back-up and subsystem expert.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, programming, testing, and implementation of COBOL and JCL on MVS mainframe systems.