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SUMMARY:

  • Over twenty years of management, consulting, project management and systems development experience in the Financial, Manufacturing, Distribution, State & Local Government, Insurance and IT Application Development Industries.
  • He has proven communication, presentation, and management skills in end - user consulting, strategic planning, project management, and systems development on a number of multi-platform and multi-national projects.
  • Developed project plans and assumed responsibility for project profit and loss.
  • Managed project plans exceeding 10,000 tasks.
  • Full life cycle exposure and expertise.
  • Manage cost budget to allocate overall cost estimate to individual tasks.
  • Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication wif stakeholders at multiple levels.
  • Manage project Risk Identification, quantification and subsequent mitigation.
  • Delivery-focused, results-orientated, driven, flexible, and a team player.
  • Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues wif emphasis on SDLC.
  • Managed 10 to 15 technical resources as well as authored Work BreakDown Structure (WBS).
  • Tracked software customization, defects and issues via the use of SDLC.
  • Coach, mentor and lead personnel wifin a technical team environment.
  • Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current project.
  • Accountable for creation of required artifacts to obtain project approval, tracking and signoff for all gate checks and ensure project gate checks and quality reviews are passed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IBM: 30XX, OS/MVS-XA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, Assembler, COBOLII, PL/I, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, IMS, VSAM, REXX, RACF, Vanguard, zSecure, CARLA, SyncSort, CLIST, DATACOM, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, IBM/FILE MANAGER,CA7, MQ Series, OPC, NDM, ENDEVOR, CONTROL-M, ESP, Top Secret and Fidelity GN, Websphere

WINDOWS: Server 2003/2008/2012, Dot Net Server and Dot Net Architecture, C++, Visual Basic, Sourcesafe, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Access, Active Directory, Excel, Project, Word, PowerPoint, MQ Series, VB6, SQL Server 2003/2008/2012, ASP, ActiveX, IIS, HTML/DHTML, XML, COM, COM+, DCOM, MSMQ, MTS Oracle, Toad, Squirrel, JSP, Java Beans, JavaScriptIdentity Access Management (IAM):

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

RACF Security Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Remove Surrogate Submit from RACF Emergency 911 groups
  • Remove direct production update from RACF Emergency 911 groups
  • Remove Surrogate Submit from RACF production groups

Environment: zos/MVS, MQSeries, CA VANGUARD, RACF, CICS, VSAM, Assembler, TSO/ISPF, Oracle Identity Manager (IDM), MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) MS Project, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Complete application Risk Assessments
  • Implement solutions to Governance Minder based on findings from Risk Assessments
  • Design and implement Role-Based access.
  • RBAC approach utilizing Waterfall
  • Introduce one-role: one-Model-ID application provisioning structure.
  • Improve Business and Security processes for Provisioning.
  • Improve operational efficiency by reducing provisioning costs associated to FTEs and Security services.
  • Simplify Role-Based, Model-ID Interfaces and Design.
  • Simplified Auditing of Roles and Users
  • Produce Operational efficiencies reducing the workloads for the: Information Asset Officers, Business Managers, Provisioning Teams
  • Manage stakeholders on monthly basis.

Environment: zos/MVS, MQSeries, RACF, CICS, VSAM, Assembler, TSO/ISPF, CA Identity Manager (IDM), CA Governance Minder (GM), MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) MS Project, EPLC

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

RACF Security Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Complete Risk Assessments for RACF and Oracle Identity Manager
  • Implement solutions to Oracle Identity Manger based on findings from Risk Assessments
  • Design and implement Role-Based access two Mainframe SysPlexes.
  • Design in-house, global Role-Based Access Menu for IDM Entitlements.
  • Improve Role-Based Views of individual User-Access rights.
  • Streamlining RACF groups to represent access to a single application.
  • Improve least-privilege access for provisioning.
  • Reduce duplicity regarding User Access for all applications.
  • Reduce RACF structure to a single source for each application.
  • Introduce one-role: one-Model-ID application provisioning structure.
  • Improve Business and Security processes for Provisioning.
  • Improve operational efficiency by reducing provisioning costs associated to FTEs and Security services.
  • Simplify Role-Based, Model-ID and RACF Interfaces and Design.
  • Simplified Auditing of Roles and Users
  • Produce Operational efficiencies reducing the workloads for the: Information Asset Officers, Business Managers, Provisioning Teams
  • Manage stakeholders on monthly basis.

Environment: zos/MVS, MQSeries, RACF, Vanguard, CICS, VSAM, Assembler, TSO/ISPF, Oracle Identity Manager (IDM), MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) MS Project, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Project Manager / Docushare

Responsibilities:

  • Enterprise-wide desktop application migration project for Docushare
  • Managed desktop application project to mitigate risk and regulatory compliance related issues
  • Developed plan for Docushare User Attestation to SailPoint migration for all Confidential branch and Back Office Locations.
  • Manage stakeholders on monthly basis.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Project Manager responsible for managing SOW deliverables for an Accenture Team conducting a study -using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - to research, document and define the phases, projects and budgets necessary to accommodate vendor selection, software and hardware acquisition; and install and migrate 800+ applications to an IAM and RBAC environment over a 5 year period. SOW deliverables included:
  • Conducted Stakeholder Workshops to define and facilitate future provisioning processes
  • Produced Current State analysis of the current provisioning processes
  • Produced IAM Solution BluePrint of the desired IAM and RBAC environment
  • Produced IAM Roadmap of the 5 year plan of phases and projects to get to the Blueprint environment
  • Produced IAM ROI of the 5 year plan of budgets, costs and returns
  • Produced Business Case to accommodate funding for the initial IAM phase
  • Manage stakeholders on monthly basis.

Environment: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) MS Project, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Business Analyst Consultant and Technical Project Manager as part of Analysis Team responsible for providing a current-state analysis project - using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - to research, document and define the efforts necessary to deliver a home-grown ISPF/TSO C-based application from the mainframe to Open Systems Oracle environment. The Client, a major provider of credit data, has over 4,000 client-centric promotions to be moved from the mainframe application using C code to be converted, tested and moved into Open Systems production on the Oracle system. Manage stakeholders on monthly basis.

Environment: zos/MVS, MQSeries, RACF, CICS, ENDEVOR, VSAM, Assembler and C code, TSO/ISPF, Oracle, Squirrel, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) MS Project, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Confidential, East Providence, RI

Technical Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Managed technical resources as well as authored Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Present weekly reports on the current program.
  • Produced project status reports and resolved day-to-day issues wif emphasis on SDLC
  • Information Security (InfoSEC) Business Analyst Consultant and Technical Project Manager as part of Analysis Team responsible for providing a current-state analysis project to research and define the efforts necessary to deliver a role-based access control, RBAC, governance model for the Top Secret to bring access security into regulatory compliance wif Federal Government’s GLBA act.
  • The Top Secret model, currently, is Department-based access. The project deliverable is to re-configure the Top Secret Database to an Application-based access model to comply wif the Roll-Based Access Control model.

Confidential, East Providence, RI

Technical Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Managed technical resources as well as authored Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
  • Manage project Risk Identification, quantification and subsequent mitigation
  • Tracked software customization, defects and issues via the use of SDLC.
  • Developed cost budget to allocate overall cost estimate to individual tasks.
  • Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication wif stakeholders at multiple levels.
  • Produced project status reports and resolved day-to-day issues wif emphasis on SDLC
  • Information Security (InfoSEC)
  • Business Analyst Consultant and Technical Project Manager as part of Analysis Team responsible for providing a current-state analysis project to research and define the efforts necessary to deliver a role-based access control, RBAC, governance model for the Top Secret and GN environment and to bring FIS/GN access security into regulatory compliance wif Federal Government’s GLBA act.
  • The final deliverable of the project was to provide the security information for the governance model to SailPoint IdentityIQ.
  • Top Secret provides a combination of mainframe host autantication and high-level authorization. GN, a proprietary CICS Banking application solution, developed by Fidelity Information System (FIS) provides application authorization for key CICS banking systems.
  • SailPoint IdentityIQ provides identity access management (IAM) - visibility into and control over user access to sensitive applications and data while streamlining the access request and delivery process - to mitigate risk, reduce IT costs and ensure compliance wif corporate governance.
  • The analysis was designated to identify the current-state GN access model and allow definition of the resource level needed to complete the full redesign of the GN access architecture The current implementation does not comply wif the Bank’s Information Security policies for user access control.
  • The final analysis and resolution would include steps to bring the GN applications into regulatory compliance wif the Federal Government GLBA act.
  • The analysis comprised the following:
  • Defining the SORs and Tars wifin the GN environment as well as bisecting (defining) applications and transactions associated wif the SORs and TARs.
  • Remediation of the SORs and TARs: eliminating unused and obsolete applications and transactions
  • Conducting a user survey of first-line managers to determine necessary employee access to GN resources and applications.
  • Providing a planned approach to SOR and TAR remediation plan wif accompanying Testing and Production Implementation Plans.
  • Provide quarterly and on-demand Identity Access Management (IAM) and User Entitlement Reporting (UER) information to SailPoint IdentityIQ for Corporate provisioning governance.
  • Manage stakeholders on monthly basis.

Environment: zos/MVS, MQSeries, Top Secret, FIS/GN, CICS, ENDEVOR, VSAM, Assembler and Cobol II, TSO/ISPF, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), MS Project, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst / PMI

Responsibilities:

  • Managed 10 to 15 technical resources as well as authored Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
  • Managed Project plan exceeding 10,000 tasks.
  • Tracked software customization, defects and issues via the use of SDLC.
  • Present weekly Dashboard reports on the current program.
  • Monitored project activities and advised staff of issues due to resource availability.
  • Business Consultant and Technical Project Manager as part of Application Team responsible for testing and verifying the latest versions of DML, the in-house developed Securities Lending application, using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Securities lending is an investment management product whereby participants generate a fee for temporarily transferring idle securities by one party (the lender) to another (the borrower). The borrower is obliged to return equivalent securities to the lender, either on demand, or at the end of any agreed term. For the period of the loan, the lender is secured by acceptable assets delivered by the borrower to the lender as collateral. DML manages the securities Loan transaction between the lender and borrower including the Broker interface and Securities Ownership Transfer at the DTC.
  • Responsibilities include reviewing Business Functional Specifications (BFS) and Technical Application Designs (TAD) and subsequently developing Project Plans, managing Test Plan documents for each release of the Securities Lending application, including developing business test cases, executing and documenting the results of the test cases.
  • Test Cases utilize the Aviva automated VB Scripts which drive the test engine and glean test data from the CICS test Region into an Access Database application which verifies the DML Securities Lending client data and builds EXCEL workbooks and Access reports wif the DML Data and verified test results.

Environment: CICS, MVS, ChangeMan, DataCom Database, VSAM, Assembler, PL/I and Cobol II batch TSO/ISPF and Oracle databases, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), MS Project, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Confidential

Business Analyst

  • Client Server and Mainframe Business Consultant participating wif the Fund Proxy Campaign Management Unit providing mailing and tabulating of beneficial owner proxies; data analysis and interpretation of key performance metrics.
  • Team is responsible for conversion of the client fund proxy information and providing mailing, processing and tabulation of proxy voting on behalf of the client. Reconfigured and augmented the MS Access data engine which was key to the client data input and conversion process.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Client Server and Mainframe Business Consultant participating wif the Commercial Cash Management Business Unit.
  • Provide Decision Support to the Commercial Cash Management Product Managers. Duties include assisting Product Managers wif business process definition, data analysis and interpretation of key performance metrics. Team is responsible for conversion of the client billing system of an acquired mid western bank into the Confidential Billing System.
  • Reverse Engineered (re-engineer) the acquired bank’s billing system in order to document the business processes, data architecture and to define and integrate the acquired bank’s client base into the Confidential billing system wifin the constraints defined by the business. Determined and managed the client list for each of the four phases of conversion, by geographic location and product line of business.
  • In conjunction wif the Cash Management Business Unit and QA group, developed an overall System Test Plan Document and provided to the QA group the data model and test data required for each of the four conversion test phases.
  • Participated wif the Business Unit and QA group to execute and validate each phase of the Test Plan prior to the Production implementation of that phase. Provided analysis and follow up problem tracking and resolution for both the QA testing and the Production implementation of each phase.
  • Created individual Access databases and EXCEL spreadsheets for each facet of the conversion effort:
  • Conversion Summary population database and spreadsheets using specified criteria for conversion planners and management
  • Conversion Detail population and data for conversion personnel who validated all conversion populations and conversion activities
  • First and Second level Customer Support groups providing pre-conversion and post-conversion environmental snapshots to assist customers through conversion issues.
  • Automated Standalone databases scheduled daily mainframe imports in csv and EXCEL formats. Stored Procedures (queries) generated user reports and/or detail data from these imports. Finally, Reports and detailed data were exported to EXCEL and Word wif emails being generated to individual uses indicating report and spreadsheet deliveries.

Environment: VSAM, CICS, MVS, ENDEVOR, Cobol II, MS Access (97 & 2003), SQL Server. Extensive mainframe to SQL Server data modeling for Extract, Translate and Load (ETL) of incoming data, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Consultant as part of Development Team responsible for Private Portfolio Services Production Development, Support and Client Service Requests requiring post production maintenance, as well as special client portfolio processing.

Environment: CICS, MVS, ENDEVOR, Cobol II/DB2, DB2, SQL batch and real-time production using SPUFI and CICS, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst / PMI

Responsibilities:

  • Client Server Consultant Developing Fund Administration Workstation (FAW) and IRS/SEC regulatory compliance application from MS Access/VBA to Web-Based, Global Enterprise Application (VB, SQL Server 2000, ASP, ActiveX, Java, IIS, Interdev, HTML/DHTML, XML, XML data Islands) and (COM, COM+, DCOM, MSMQ, MTS, HIS), designing COM components for large numbers of concurrent users.
  • Responsibilities included design, development, testing and implementation of all data import projects from OS/MVS mainframe and Oracle Databases to the SQL Server 2000 FAW application. Design and development for FAW and IRS/SEC Compliance applications involved extensive design and review sessions wif both the business groups and Corporate Action groups.
  • Testing involved working wif the QA Project Manager to define Business Case analysis, Quality Assurance Test Plan development, Test Case development, test data Extract, Translate and Load (ETL) from mainframe and Oracle applications, execution of the test plan as well as the identification and resolution of outstanding testing issues.
  • Implementation of each project application to insure the accuracy of the Business processes and IRS/SEC rules. Identification, logging, tracking and resolution of all production implementation issues to include retrofitting QA test cases for regression testing in the future.
  • Designed and Developed SQL Server 2000 interface using MSMQ and XML to accommodate real-time transaction processing from mainframe to the FAW application.
  • Designed and Developed SQL Server 2000 to Oracle interface using Visual Basic and Stored Procedures to facilitate IRS/SEC Compliance data transfer from the Oracle-based Compliance Application to the FAW application.
  • Designed and Developed SQL Server 2000 interface using FTP / Network Data Mover (NDM) and Data Transformation Services (DTS) to accommodate overnight Batch transaction processing from mainframe to the FAW application.

Environment: Mainframe Environment is MVS, Assembler, Cobol II, PL/I, Datacom, Data Expert, MQ Series, Fileaid, Changeman, OPC, NDM, TSO/ISPF, CICS, SyncSort, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Confidential, Quincy, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Consultant responsible for converting and upgrading the current Depositor
  • Trust Company (DTC) interface to a CICS/LU6.2/APPC link. dis Securities
  • Management and Control system (SMAC) connects to DTC for settlement of Mutual Fund trades.
  • Client Service Team Consultant for the AMEX SPDRS effort. Responsible for designing and implementing internal ‘bank mandated changes’ to support the backbone of client requested processing at the bank.
  • Analysis through implementation of high visibility client fund projects including Electronic Trade Processing, Position processing, Trade Reconciliation and overall Portfolio Management. Member of the team responsible for client transmissions using the SWIFT format.

Environment: Mainframe Environment is MVS, Assembler, Cobol II, PL/I, Datacom, Data Expert, MQ Series, Fileaid, Changeman, OPC, NDM, TSO/ISPF, CICS, SyncSort

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