TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Seventeen years' experience in information technology for banking applications.
• CICS, TSO, MVS/JCL, COBOL, ROSCOE, CA7, File-AID, Data Expert, Multsess, Job Scan, Panvalet, Endevor-C1, Librarian, Easytrieve Plus, Changeman, Syncsort, VSAM, IDCAMS, OPC, CA1, SAR, InfoPac, SAVRS, batch and CICS Intertest, CSF, HTML, Dream Weaver, DMS, NDM, FTP, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft project, Abend-Aid, Strobe, SDSF, XPEDITER, CMM, SDLC, SSP, SQL, DB2, Visual Studio .NET.VB, Java, Selenium, Eclipse

EXPERIENCE REVIEW:

Confidential

Consultant with Sapphire/Became an employee

• Test Engineer on day 2 applications exceptions processing. Write automated tests to ensure
• screens have accurate information using Selenium with Java utilizing Agile programming
• methodologies with two week sprints working directly with two scrum teams.
• Technical leader for TEBS application. Responsible for all mainframe activities.
• Created 3 new banks and tested new feeds from ULZ, Proof corrections, Vault, OSI, ATM, and
• General Ledger. Participated in Pipeline integrated testing using Quality Center to write extensive test scripts.
• Technical Leader of offshore group Level-3 production support.
• Member of technical team rewriting Credit Card Return Mail Application using VB.NET

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Team Leader for the Empire Project. I was in charge of corporate tax payments and revenue accounting. I worked directly with the Office of tax policy to ensure accurate and timely reporting. I managed a small team of 2 consultants and 1 state employee.

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Programmer Analyst Consultant for ACH system.

• Worked on a dedicated project team on LOB sponsored projects for the year. These projects inlcluded pre-funding accounts directly into another application via CICS transactions that are batch submitted yearly Nacha Compliance rule changes and non-paper check processing.
• Support ACH production system in an on-call rotation. Projects used agile methodologies.

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Client: General Electric

Technical Consultant

• Support legacy financial applications during People soft conversion of Employee Pension System. Oversee On-shore/off-shore group for production cycles and helpdesk tickets.
• Supported Pension team for Corporate pension statements, making changes to the legacy COBOL calculator programs of benefits and projected retirement supplied by an outside vendor who utilizes Pearl code.
• Support ACOM Payroll Client server system for disaster recovery practices this application
• utilizes mainframe, access database and FTP.

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Senior Analyst

• Combined Statement application Design, develop and maintain an in-house statement engine with a direct link into Metavonte software. The engine is a COBOL based
• system that draws data from numerous feeding applications in including Deposits, Time Deposit, ATM, WIRE, and Mortgage among others. Metavonte is an assembler package that assists in screen painting and formatting physical statements.
• Technical Lead for Fleet/Bank of America Deposits merger. My main initiatives were to ensure customer transactions for all weekend activity to be memoposted and hard posted once conversion files became available on the surviving deposits system. This process also converted float. Was also responsible for an early transaction routing system project for 25 applications who converted early.

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• Assisted in the development of project plans, requirements documents, test documents, design documents, computer code, and conducted various phases of testing for numerous major projects. I am well versed in all aspects of CMM level three processes, documentation, and quality review.
• Senior Technical Lead for a major initiative in the Fleet and Bank of Boston merger, at the time the world's largest bank merger, called the Black Box. This initiative took feeds from forty-five application systems, in several different mediums and reformatted their inputs to an output that the surviving Deposit application could read. This output also included the proper cross-bank general ledger entries and reports for daily balancing. We also included a pre-acceptance system that
• would create control totals to balance against prior to the accepting feed was taken for quality
• assurance. Total deposits entered into this system on a daily basis ranged up to 11 billion dollars.
• Senior Technical Lead for bank divestitures of branch accounts after acquiring Bank of Boston, Summit Bank, and Shawmut banks that included thousands of branches and millions of accounts. This process was a multiple phase project entailing account identification, regulatory reporting, complex data mapping to purchasing systems and final coding, testing and implementation.
• Senior Technical Lead for numerous smaller projects 300 900k in size, which produces in excess of 5 million in new revenues. These initiatives included FOCUS, Mass Market Optimization, and ATM fee.
• Worked with in a Global workforce environment responsible for the day-to-day 'lights on' activity with multi-site onshore and offshore technical resources providing 24x7 maintenance and production support. Tasks performed in this capacity included on-call support for numerous applications including Deposits with over 25 million accounts, Fee Management, Credit Line, and FAMA. My responsibilities included associate development of junior level programmer analysts and technical guidance for project leaders and project managers. I have created common business functions, to be called by other applications areas that created CICS routines for common routines
• using one area for business logic that included available balance, on-line balance, ATM statement, memo-posting, and rates of interest. Line of Business personnel frequently calls me for idea generation and brainstorming for future product development.
• Served as Senior Technical Lead that developed and wrote a key CICS module integrating with an internet MQUEUE to our mainframe DB2 backend. This project was for an upgrade to IBM Websphere Customer Relations System as part of a 10 million dollar project.

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• Participated as a programmer analyst for the Shawmut and Natwest acquisition conversion projects. This project consisted of converting over 2,000,000 accounts on the Fleet Deposit database. This required extensive product mapping, data mapping, coding, and integrated testing with over 150 applications, conversion of existing banking business products and the development new products into Fleet. IT also included new implementing feeing structures, created interfaces to new applications and development of business and regulatory reporting.
• Senior Programmer serving for a major Fleet initiative called FOCUS 94-95 for The Demand Deposits Application. This project includes dealing directly with the users to modify both batch and online programs in an effort to make major improvements in efficiencies to existing software. As a result of this project our team improved nightly posting times by 40 , improved maintenance problem log time by 80 .

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Senior Programmer

Responsible for the design, code, and implement CICS command level programs for the corporate cost accounting and budget system at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Installed new releases of Management Data Corporation Software for financial systems. Enhanced my leadership skills by overseeing projects and implementing maintenance requests.

Programmer

Performed numerous file conversions for Blue Cross plans across their footprint for a claims processing database application. Developed programs for a Claims Tracking System for participating providers, utilizing advanced VSAM access techniques.

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Programmer/Analyst

Designed and developed CICS command level online inquiry system for the Installment Loan Application at a large area bank. Assisted in the installation of American Management Systems Software for online/ real time Collection Management application.