William P. Ringel
Vernon, NJ 07462
Home: 973-***-****
Cell: 1-201-***-**** E-mail: **************@*****.***
SUMMARY
Dynamic former Chubb Insurance Senior Programmer Analyst, with extensive
experience in the Information Technology profession, Most recently worked
in the Retail Industry, previously worked for a global Property/Casualty
insurance company. Heavy involvement with the technical, systems and
business analysis processes.
TECHNOLOGIES
Hardware: Large scale IBM mainframes, IBM compatible PC's, IBM Midrange
Servers.
Software:
OS/390, Windows, VSE,
Cobol, Fortran, Focus, TSO, ISPF, JCL, Panvalet,
Utilities, DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS, SDF, Fileaid/Abendaid
Suite, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Micro Focus Mainframe
Express, MQ Series
.
Professional History
Big M Inc. Totowa, NJ 2001 - 5/2010
Senior Programmer Analyst
Provided program development and support for Big M. Inc. which is involved
in Women's retail apparel. Worked with the Lead Business Analyst on
enhancements / new systems as requested by the user community.
. Became adept in the use of CICS.
. Provided programming support to all current production systems as needed.
Computer Aid Inc. - M&M Mars, Hackettstown, NJ 2000
Programmer Analyst - Consultant
Provided development and implementation support for M&M Mars' Customer
Incentive Program.
. Worked with the Lead Technical Analyst and Business Analyst in
enhancements required to support the CIP program that provides tracking
and reporting of marketing and advertising funds that M&M Mars' provides
to vendors of their products.
. The automation of these processes will eliminate several thousand manual
entries per month.
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, Warren, NJ 1999
Technical Analyst
Provided programming and trouble shooting support for the mainframe data
store for the Commercial Underwriting Workstation, identified and corrected
problems relating to data currency and data integrity. Created programs to
assure that data was current and designed and implemented application
fixes. Maintained all developer and business analyst workstations at
required specifications while supporting all non-standard application
programming needs
. Identified and defined requirements for correcting incomplete and
inaccurate data from source systems. Rejects dropped from between 50 and
100 per week to 3 or less per week.
William P. Ringel
E-mail: **************@*****.***
. Provided technical input and expertise to Batch ABEND Task Force, which
helped them reduce abends and improve throughput.
. Participated in the corporate roll-out of the new client/server strategy,
which included replacing existing hardware and a large amount of existing
software.
. This project had a 100 million dollar a year budget.
Senior Programmer Analyst
Responsibilities included assuring data quality for multiple corporate
systems and processes. Increased knowledge of all technologies utilized
within area. Provided design and system documentation of various systems.
. Rewrote outdated application utilizing new approved Client/Server
technology, which allowed the reallocation of 50 percent of the staff to
other job functions.
. Committee Chairman for implementation, usage and environment definitions
for Micro Focus COBOL Workbench. Provided a 3:1 increase in productivity
over previous methods of debugging.
. Lead Programmer on retrofitting vendor package that performed name and
address matching and verification. Led to the identification of an
additional 45,000 duplicate entries of insured's.
Programmer Analyst
Assisted in design, review, coding, integration testing and implementation
of online and batch IMS based system. Became familiar with the
technologies that were being utilized.
. Successfully implemented major OLTP application.
. Responsible for finding, documenting and implementing changes for
numerous problems and user enhancements which increased system
reliability and usability.
. Provided technical expertise to peers on utilization of Focus, a 4GL
language. Served as a gateway for all Focus programs being implemented
in the production environment.
Programmer
Programmer Trainee
Computer Operations
Professional Associations - Microsoft TechNet and Microsoft Developer
Network
Self-learning VB 2010, SQL Server 2008, Office 2010, CRM and Office
integration
Cambridge who's Who Registry of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneur
- VIP status
EDUCATION
Sussex County Community College, Newton NJ, 12 Credit hours, Visual Basic,
Database Design, Java. Member of the Dean's List
Chubb Institute of Computer Technology, Short Hills, NJ,
Programming - Attended at management's request - Attained a 98.5 average.
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA,
USAF ROTC, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Community Leadership
Isshinryu Karate - NJMAA
Sensei Marvin Carmona - 7th Don