ROBERT J. VALENTINE * Hidden Lane, Westbury, NY **590 ? (Cell) 516-
***-**** (Home) 516-***-**** email: ******.**********@*******.***
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
> IT professional with 25+ years of successful experience analyzing and
programming business systems.
> Proven track record of extensive experience and expertise in
programming in Mainframe environment technology.
> Design, develop, implement, maintain and modify IT systems to support
successful business processes.
> Highly experience in programming languages including: COBOLII, CICS,
JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL and other complex programs.
> Solid problem solving and analytical skills. Self-starter with strong
record of performance and work ethics.
> Leadership qualifications. Supervised and directed a group of IT
consultants. Managed teams.
> Team player. Maintain and develop collaborative working relationships
with colleagues and all levels of management.
> Strong record of achievement, advancing in challenging positions
throughout career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE/ CORE STRENGTHS
? Mainframe development ? Highly experienced in COBOLII, CICS, JCL,
VSAM, DB2, SQL ? Life cycle experience
? IT Consultant ? Programming and Design of Software Systems ?
Data base technology
? Strong financial background ? Creating, writing programs and
modifying existing programs ? Systems analysis
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Honeywell, Melville, NY
CONSULTANT 7/06 - 03/09
? Successfully implement CICS Online systems (mainly) and COBOLII batch
programs with DB2.
? Extensive use of a system, SUPERTABLE which eliminates hard coding in
programs.
? Applications include, Order Entry, Purchasing, Accounts Receivable
and Marketing.
? Self teaching of the Dot Nets.
Automatic Data Processing, Edgewood, NY 3/00 - 06/05
SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Investor Communications Services. Servicing of Shareholder and
Institutional Voting systems.
Responsibilities included:
? Support and design of Online Proxy-Plus System COBOLII, VSAM, CICS,
Z/OS.
? Extensive use of Microsoft Office products.
? Business specifications design of Audit system to monitor all
changes.
? Designed Business Specifications and development of Ballot and
Shareholder database define and load for business outside the
U.S. and Europe - DB2.
? Design of Business/Functional/Technical Specifications - CMM LEVEL 3
- project leader level, various assignments.
? Gathering and writing of Business specifications for CICS front end
applications effecting Europe Record date.
CONSULTING: 1996 - 2000
Keyspan Energy, Hicksville, NY 10/98 - 2/00
? In charge of supervising a group of consultants; achieved flawless
implementation of Y2K changes-
Employee Information System, Fixed Assets and AIM (COBOL, VSAM,
ISAM).
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY 9/97 - 10/98
? Perfect conversions of Financial Management System accounting package
to release 12 and Texas Commerce Bank General Ledger
system to SYSTEMATICS.
? COBOL 370 conversion, vanilla software from Systematics.
First Data Merchant Services, Melville, NY
1/97 - 9/97
? Installed software (TRANSCENTURY), implemented procedures, analyze
and make program changes using COBOLII, JCL, CICS,
VSAM and VIASOFT tools (building repositories, using queries, etc.)
for the year 2000 project.
Publishers Clearing House, Port Washington, NY
5/96 - 12/96
? Developed programs, procedures and queries (COBOLII, VSAM, DB2 for
the account identification project (3B2).
Chase Manhattan Bank, Garden City, NY
10/89 - 5/96
SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Responsibilities included:
? Updated SYBASE and POWERBUILDER platform with legacy data from the
Mainframe.
? Changes and creation of programs for an Automated Credit Application
System (ACAPS) that measured statistics relating to the
amount of loans and leases processed each day, generated by an online
queuing process.
? Creation of an Award winning EFT sub system (Direct Check) which
centralized direct debiting of delinquent customer accounts
(CICS).
? Developed and maintained an Automatic Clearing House system.
? Securitizations and system support of acquired financial entities.
? Member of Microfocus task team.
? Maintained Credit Application system.
Citibank/Citicorp, Huntington, NY
6/87 - 10/89
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Responsibilities included:
? Supported batch system (IBM Mainframe, COBOL 2.4) to update created
data from a DATAPOINT (front-end), process, reformat
and send back to front end.
? Modified and created new interactive programs for a Salary
Administration System (DATAPOINT, DATABUS).
? Supported TESSERACT software.
On-Site Energy Systems, Lake Success, NY
7/85 - 5/87
PROGRAMMER
Responsibilities included:
? Managed the Data Processing Department.
? System programming for entire company on a DATAPOINT system. Areas
included: Payroll, Order Entry, General Ledger,
Purchasing, A/R, A/P and Inventory.
Grumman Technical Services, Titusville, FL
2/84 - 7/85
COMPUTER OPERATOR
Responsibilities included:
? Rewrote DATABUS programs as COBOL.
? System backups and reformat routines, running payroll, printing
reports.
Local 32B-32J, SEIU, New York, NY
8/82 - 12/83
COMPUTER OPERATOR
Responsibilities included:
? Operator in an IBM System 34 environment.
? Data entry to support payment of dues for union members.
? Creation of OCL members (SORTS, Screens, DFU with RPGII) to aid
programmer.
TECHNICAL
SKILLS SUMMARY:
HARDWARE
IBM MAINFRAME, IBM SYSTEM 34, DATAPOINT.
SOFTWARE
MAINFRAME 2.0, Z/OS 3.3.1, COBOL 370, COBOLII, VSE/COBOL, CICS, SQL, DB2,
HTML, INTERTEST, XPEDITER, BMS, OCS, MICROFOCUS COBOL, VIASOFT, AMS,
SYSTEMATICS, ACH, GROUP1, ORACLE, RECX, SPUFI, QMF, PL1, RPG, DATABUS,
OS/MVS/JCL, XCOMM, DBASE, VISUAL BASIC, BDT, EASYTRIEVE, FILEAID, DITTO,
AFP, PDX, ENDEVOR, DOS JCL, PROXIMITY/MVS, TSO/ISPF, MANTISSA, MHTRAN,
DOCUTEXT, OS2, WINDOWS95, OCL, SDA, DIRECTORYNET, HOURGLASS 2000,
LIBRARIAN, PDX, ENDEAVOR, PANVALET, GEMINI, MHTRAN, DATACOM, SDLC, SAS,
KNOWLEDGE OF MQ SERIES, VB.NET.
EDUCATION
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Avtech, IT Audit training, November 2005.
Bachelor of Science, Finance, The College of Old Westbury, State University
of New York, Old Westbury, New York, 1994.
Associate in Applied Science, Data Processing, Nassau Community College,
Garden City, New York.
Certificate in Computer Operations, Grumman Data Systems Institute,
Woodbury, New York
REFERENCES: Furnished upon request.