Analyst Human Resources

Christopher M Noruka

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Kansas City, MO, 64154

Tel : 816-***-**** (home) 816-***-****

(cell)

Email: abh2gx@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Senior Software Developer professional with extensive experience in all

phases of software development life cycle. Effective analysis, development

and implementation of various systems within manufacturing, insurance,

publishing and banking industries. Managed to achieve senior level in all

areas, also successfully completed all projects, meeting all expectations

as an individual contributor and a team leader. Core strengths in :

Application development and maintenance

Requirements analysis and Programs specifications

Change management

System integration and conversion

Mentoring junior programmers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages : Cobol, JCL, SAS, CICS, Easytrieve, WFL

Platforms : MVS/ESA OS/390, Z/OS, UNISYS, TS1/TS2,

TA2000

Databases : DB2, IDMS, DMSII, Datacom

File management : QSAM, VSAM

Development tools : TSO/ISPF, TSO, Abend-Aid, SPUFI, QMF, File Aid,

Expeditor, JHS, Endevor, CA7

Scheduling, IDCAMS.

MVS/JES2 Commands,SYNCSORT

Data transmission : FTP, NDM

PC Skills : Microsoft ( Outlook, EXCEL, Word), LOTUS

NOTES, VISIO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Software developer

Dec 2006 - Jun 2010

DST Systems Inc.

Performed various clients day to day duties include updating production

data using File-Aid, producing

ad-hoc reports as per client requests, transmitting data using NDM, on-call

duties every 8 weeks.

Developed and implemented Aged Check reinvesting process using

COBOL/DB/2JCL, eliminated manual process of aged checks, after

implementation the process was used by many of DST Clients. Perform

quarterly and annual processes that include Master and History purge,

Perform Fund merges, converting and de-converting clients, Migrating

accounts from one fund to another. All these processes are developed using

COBOL II /DB2/VSAM/JCL

Programmer Analyst - Lead

Oct 2003 - Dec 2006

TOTAL SYSTEMS Inc. (TSYS)

As a second shift support analyst for TOTAL ACCESS (data warehouse), I

supported UK banks, immediately after the introduction of this shift there

was a significant improvement in SLA. On top of that I was responsible for

setting up new clients, this involve writing programs to extract data from

the IMS and VSAM files, setup JCL to run these programs and transmitting

this data to the clients, most of the clients preferred loading data onto

DB2 tables and then setup SQL scripts on QMF and grant them access to their

tables.

MIS Analyst - Lead

Mar 1999 - Sep 2003

CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL SERVICES (IntelliMark / Technisource Consultant)

Worked for Direct marketing Center, day to day duties involve List

Processing, Address Standardization, Merge/purge, suppression against in-

house files like decease, fraud, prison addresses etc.

Develop and maintain various marketing and segmentation models using

specification

from the Statisticians. Developed prospect pool for Small Business which

resulted in the reduction of the solicitation process from 4 to 2 weeks

and an increase in mailing volumes.

Analyst Programmer

May 1998 - Feb 1999

OLD MUTUAL (Cape Town - South Africa)

Maintained and supported Loans and Annuities system doing on-call duties

once a month.

Analyst Programmer

May 1997 - Apr 1998

Reader's Digest (Cape Town - South Africa)

Developed and implemented an interface between a PC based payment system

and the mainframe, reduced payment processing and from 3 days to 1 day.

Support Canadian Sweepstake System.

Analyst Programmer

Oct 1995 - Apr 1997

Southern Life (Cape Town - South Africa)

Customize the Vantage Life Insurance System, worked closely with the Model

Office group that will identify and document the problem on an SPR,

programmer will then work from this SPR document and investigate the

problem, make code change recommendations, once approved will design a

solution, do unit testing and move the changes back to model office for

further testing..

Senior Programmer

Mar 1992 - Sep 1995

Pilkington Shatterproof (Port Elizabeth - South Africa)

This is my first data processing job, here I worked in a team of

approximately 20 members, and they were divided into three teams Financial, Manufacturing and Personnel or Human Resources. As a junior member of

the team I started off by doing development work for all these systems

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Commerce - Business Economics - University of Port Elizabeth,

South Africa - 1992

National Diploma Computer Data processing - Port Elizabeth Technikon

(completed two years)

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

Practical Project Management

Introduction to DB2

Database Administration / Programming for DB2

CICS Command Level Code

Introduction to SAS programming (I and II)

SAS System Programming Efficiences

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