Project Analyst
Resume:
IRIS MEYER-GUTHMAN
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SUMMARY
IT professional with broad experience base in a wide range of
environments and roles. Strong commitment to quality results,
efficient, effective delivery and collaborative work ethic. Full
cycle project experience from scope definition, business process
documentation, analysis, requirements gathering, application
development, coding, quality assurance, test plan development, testing
co-ordination to mentoring. Excellent communication skills with a
broad range of enterprise wide partners at all levels of the
organization from business to technical. Demonstrated excellent time
management and organizational skills with attention to both detail and
high level issues. Long history of being adaptable 'quick learner'.
Ability to work well independently or in a team environment.
Experience with broad variety of development environments and standard
Microsoft office toolset.
TECHNICAL TOOLS SUMMARY:
IBM Mainframe, IBM PC, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS, Casegen,
TELON, VSAM, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, ACCESS, CA7, HP Quality Center, File-Aid
products, Dataxpert, Xpediter, Princeton Softech, Expediter, Endeavor,
Panvalet, NDM, MQ, UC, .
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Wells Fargo, 2010 - present, Technical / Business Analyst /
Consultant
Electronic Windows Test Team member coordinating business, QA and
application development areas testing, including communication and
documentation for Wells Fargo and Wachovia merger related projects for
the Commercial Electronic Office, Treasury Information Reporting
system. Responsible for identifying data and testing requirements for
quarterly release schedule and phased projects. Coordinate defect
investigation, resolution and communications.
RBC Wealth Management, 2007 - 2009, Application Developer Analyst /
Consultant
Formerly Dain Raucher. One B-D conversion to Broadridge, the Back
Office Retained Applications, Prospectus processing and Tax Reporting
teams system conversions. Participate in conversion life cycle from
documenting current processes to analysis, application development,
testing, implementation and maintenance. Developed mainframe data
transfer process going to and from UNIX server using Universal Command
and NDM / Connect Direct.
Travelers, Technical / Business Analyst, 2006 - 2007
Provided business analyst support for web based specialty insurance
application. Documented business processes, use case, requirements,
priorities, technical and financially feasible solutions, test
strategies and implementation plans. Work with internal business
partners to respond to changing needs and communicate with technical
partners to accomplish business goals.
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Saint Paul Travelers, Information Engineer, 2001 - 2006
Major new development projects and maintenance of Agency Billing
System. Online systems analyst development lead for major projects to
improved bill processing time and accuracy, receivables collection and
improve communications with agents. Full cycle systems analysis,
design, development and testing as part of (CBS) Agency Billing team.
Initiated and solely responsibility for database expansion project.
Responsibility for full systems shutdown and sun setting of most CBS
systems as the final step in conversion after merging St. Paul and
Travelers systems. St. Paul to Travelers system conversion team.
eFunds / Deluxe Corp, 1999 to 2000, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Major enhancements and maintenance to EFunds mainframe DB2, CICS
application. Responsible for analysis, coding and testing from
business requirements. Worked with data architect to develop highly
condensed and efficient DB2 ODS data manipulation. Developed shop
standard for 24x7 DB2 retry logic.
Saint Paul Co. 1997 to 1999, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Major enhancements and maintenance of Custom Markets system using
Telon and DB2. Responsible for majority of analysis, coding, testing,
documentation and implementation of departments Y2K project, including
system wide cleanup/upgrade. Extensive training of new employees.
Full responsibility for analysis, coding, testing and implementation
Custom Markets release of reinsurance interface with Corporate Data
Warehouse (FFS).
3M, 1996 to 1997, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Major enhancements and maintenance of HR benefits systems, primarily
the retirement processing area.
First Banks Systems, 1996, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Data Propagation team of Enterprise Database project converting Legacy
system's data to new DB2 data warehouse system for data warehouse
conversion project.
Fingerhut 1995, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Accounts Receivable Rewrite project, new DB2 system. Reviewed
analysis, updated specs, coded and tested programs and subroutines as
first coding work on daily AR maintenance to resolve design issues.
University of Minnesota, A. I. S. 1995, Programmer Analyst /
Consultant
Student Admissions Document Tracking project. Major enhancement,
analysis and coding in DB2 and IMS DB/DC to help existing team meet an
implementation date.
Saint Paul Co. 1993 to 1995, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Claims new development projects. ACE Import project: Extensive
analysis, coding and testing of batch processing of third party files
that duplicated online ACE claims cycle. Bulk Bill project: Analysis
and DB2 database design for online and batch process to receive ACE
claims information from outside vendors, thru EDI or files, create
claim and generate EFT payments.
3M, 1993, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Corporate Order Management System, Event Driven Data Exchange
conversion project on IBM mainframe using Telon, DB2 and IMS, to help
project meet testing and implementation dates.
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Dayton's Co. 1992 to 1993, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
New development using IMS and Telon. Pool Stock project guided buyers
in determining optimum stock for stores based on sales history.
Advance Shipment Notice project validated and updated order and
shipment information, as well as prepare for distribution, before
shipments arrive. Store Group Reporting project generated free format
two dimensional reports for buyers allowed reporting on a variable
number of stores using any of 35 possible calculations and comparison
on any of 10 criteria.
University of Minnesota, A. I. S. 1992, Programmer Analyst /
Consultant
Student Accounts Receivable (STARS) project. Coding and analysis
using DB2 and Telon to help existing team meet a conversion
implementation date.
Burlington Northern, 1991 to 1992, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Equipment Services area, Docket 300 project of AAR mandated changes.
Analysis for major rewrite of online system, batch database download
and reporting program, IMS database conversions and new historic
retrieval process. Provide analysis support for programmers, involved
extensive client interaction. Redesigned existing IMS databases.
Wrote COBOL programs and subprograms to convert master file to pre-EDI
segmented format.
Fortis, 1991, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Individual Life group. Coding and testing for MAGIC project IMS to
DB2 conversion.
Burlington Northern, 1991, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Equipment Event area of AS-IS corporate database IMS to DB2 conversion
project. Wrote batch COBOL programs and responsible for production
JCL, turnover and monitoring implementation of jobs.
3M, 1990 to 1991, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Financial area, Cost Allocation Transaction System (CATS) project. New
development using Telon, DB2 and IMS. Work included completing program
coding of large system with minimal specs. Responsible for unit
testing, developing test cases, system test coordination, debugging,
implementation and turnover problem resolution. Major rewrites of
large batch DB2 system for timesheet subsystem. Heavy user contact.
Burlington Northern, 1989 to 1990, Programmer Analyst / Consultant
Customer Accounting area, Enhanced Management Reporting, Cash
Application and Tickler (overdue bills) projects. three new
development sister projects, analysis, coding and implementation using
IMS and APS.
University of Minnesota, A. I. S., 1988 to 1989, Programmer Analyst
Technical lead on ID Card Validation project to provide new University-
wide ID Card with bar code validated from new DB2 database. Student
area's first DB2 / IMS / Telon project. Worked closely with DBA to
design DB2 database.
EDUCATION
M.I.S. Information Systems Analysis and Design, with distinction,
University of Minnesota.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota.
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