Sales System
Resume:
BELACHEW MEKBIB
New Carrollton, MD 20784
Mobile: 240-***-****
Evening Phone: 301-***-****
Email: ******@*****.***
Country of Citizenship: United States of America
Contact Current Employer: Yes
POSITION SOUGHT
Software Engineer
EXPERIENCE SYNOPSIS
. Action-oriented and results focused professional offering 16 years of
experience in IT development
. Developed and delivered multiple applications that meet or exceed
business requirements
. Extensive system development life cycle experience
. Highly proficient in testing, debugging and performance tuning
. Build and maintain positive working relationships across business,
management and technical teams
RECOGNITION AND CERTIFICATIONS
. 2009 CIO 100 Award Winner, Marriott International Group Pricing
Optimizer - Project member
. Marriott International 2008 Value in Practice Award (VIP Award) -
Group Pricing Optimizer Enhancement for NYC
. 2005 CIO Grand Enterprise Value Award, Marriott International One
Yield System - Project member
. Software Engineering Practice Certified Professional 2003 - Learning
Tree International
TECHNICAL PROFILE
Applications Built and Supported:
Revenue Opportunity Measurement, Group Pricing Optimizer, Revenue
Planning Globalization, Single Group Data Source, One Yield System,
Total Hotel Calendar, Pricing Revenue Opportunity Module, Group
Forecasting, Offline Marketing New Inventory, Group Function Space,
Business Recovery Service, Demand Forecast System
Applications Interacted:
Marriott Automated Reservation System (MARSHA), Consolidated
Inventory, Next Generation System, Sales Reporting Warehouse, OPERA
Languages and Tools:
COBOL/DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, MVS/PROC and PROSE, SFTP, BMC Utilities,
SYNCSORT, WINDOWS, DB2SYCSORT, APPTUNE, FILE AID, TSO, ISPF, PDF, CA7,
MQ Series, IBM DB2 Development Center, IBM Data Studio
JAVA and Shell Scripting in progress
Operating Systems: Z/OS, WINDOWS, LINUX
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Marriott International -- Bethesda, MD
Senior Programmer Analyst: March 2003 to present
. Perform system development to create, enhance and maintain multiple
batch and online Revenue Management mainframe COBOL DB2 based
applications. Responsibilities across the entire standard development
lifecycle include requirements analysis, high level and detailed
design, development, unit testing, system testing, integration
testing, performance testing, deployment planning and execution, and
application monitoring and support.
. Project assignments include:
o Group Pricing Optimizer Time Zone Processing - Provide
properties with transient and group data, and system access in
local business time
o Group Pricing Optimizer Billing Eclipse Project - Switch from
period to month processing
o Revenue Planning Globalization - Convert currency to local or
selling currency and apply FX rate to Average Daily Rate (ADR)
and revenue for hotels with different local and selling
currencies
o Group Pricing Optimizer 2.0 Part 1 - Technology refresh to
provide targeted pricing and enhanced performance
o Conversion to Consolidated Inventory Release II - Convert Group
Pricing Optimizer primary data source from legacy property based
sales and catering system
o Retrofit and modify group data source for multiple legacy
Revenue Management functions
o Miscellaneous Group Pricing Optimizer Enhancements:
. Consolidate three stored procedures into one
. Performance tune SQL in Group Pricing Optimizer store
procedures to improve performance and reduce cost
. Interface Group Pricing Optimizer to Revenue Planning to
extract forecast data
. Create weekday and weekend rate range caps of recommended
rates for Events/Seasons
. Create group restriction functionality for Total Hotel
Calendar
o Design, develop, test and deploy Group Forecasting System
o Intraday Optimization - Update One Yield system forecasts and
recommendations with near real time Marriott Automated
Reservation System (MARSHA) data
o Revenue Planning - Automate and centralize transient, group and
catering projection data
o Recurring Event Update process - Create process to mitigate
impact of day of week shifts on the forecaster accuracy
o Room Category Conversion - Collapse hotel sleeping room data
spread over multiple room categories into a single room category
o Design and implement the first Business Recovery Service plan
for critical applications in Revenue Management Systems
Department
o Red Flag System - Create automated rate program audits to help
enforce hotel compliance with rate program rules
. Internal and External Interfaces
o Sales Reporting Warehouse interface to One Yield application -
Design interface
o Sales Reporting Warehouse interface to Group Pricing Optimizer -
Validate incoming data and format output for Group Pricing
Optimizer billing
o Competitive Rates - Design process to obtain competitor rates
from Travel Click Corporation data extract and store data in a
Marriott database
Programmer Analyst: January 2001 to March 2003
. Designed, developed, tested and deployed Revenue Opportunity
Measurement Report archive system
. Developed, enhanced, tested and maintained components of One Yield
System
Programmer: June 1999 to January 2001
. Developed, enhanced, tested and maintained components of One Yield
System
. Designed and conducted legacy system testing and remediation to
support Marriott International Y2K Project
IS Associate: May 1997 to June 1999
. Developed and tested Marriott Automated Reservation System (MARSHA)
Turndown extract process
. Monitored, enhanced and maintained Demand Forecast System
EDUCATION
. Master of Arts in Development Studies with specialization in Economic
Policy and Planning
Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
. Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
. Diploma in Computer Programming, Computer Learning Center, Alexandria,
Virginia
REFERENCES
. George O'Brien
Marriott International Inc.
Director - Information Resource
Phone: 301-***-****
Email: George.O'*****@********.***
. Michael Lardy
Marriott International Inc.
Director - Information Resource
Phone: 301-***-****
Email: *******.*****@********.***
. Ann Thiede
Marriott International Inc.
Manager - Information Resource
Phone: 301-***-****
Email: ***.******@********.***
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