Richard B. Jackson
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Professional Profile
A Project Leader with extensive data processing experience including
designing, programming and implementing strategic systems and tools for
direct marketing and reporting. Highly motivated, flexible, goal
orientated team player. Strengths include organizational ability, the
aptitude to quickly learn new skills, the ability to do detail orientated
work and to work independently, and communicate technical issues
effectively to individuals with a variety of skill levels.
Technical Skills
Software:
COBOL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, Base SAS, SAS/DB2, OS/MVS JCL and Utilities,
SyncSort, File-Aid, Embarcadero Rapid SQL, CONNECT:Direct (NDM)for MVS and
UNIX, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), PGP, WS_FTP Pro, SSH, TCP/IP, Endevor,
ChangeMan, CVS, Librarian, Vi Editor, Kornshell, UNIX, MS Office Products
(e.g. Excel, Word)
Environments:
UNIX, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, Windows, OS/390, VM/CMS.
Professional Experience
Accenture, White Plains, NY
Technical Architect, AT&T IT AO Services Unit, Internet Data Warehouse &
Reporting
February 2009 - April 2010
Functioned as an on-shore Team Lead and subject matter expert for offshore
development and test teams when the ATT Internet Data Warehouse application
was outsourced to Accenture. Worked collaboratively with other team
members from different disciplines, backgrounds, and skill levels to
organize and direct complex work efforts.
. Analyze business requirements and work requests, and determine
possible impact to internal reporting applications.
. Document the data processing solution and the high level application
and program design, and develop and test the program code.
. Lead the offshore team and set direction for coding, testing, and
implementation, which lead to a problem free product ready for
implementation ahead of schedule.
. Act as functional and technical subject matter expert for the Internet
Data Warehouse applications and point of contact for the offshore
development teams.
SBC/AT&T, White Plains, NY
Technical Architect, Internet Service & Long Distance Solutions, Internet
Data Warehouse & Reporting
January 2004 - January 2009
As a Project Leader, or as a team member, analyzed business requirements,
and documented the data processing solution. Designed, developed and
implemented reports and data feeds for both internal and external
applications based on demographic, billing, products and usage information.
. Convert and reconcile analyses, feeds and reports from MVS mainframe
and UNIX Oracle SQL queries to DB2 SQL queries for the first phase of
CRM implementation when Prodigy was bought by SBC/ATT.
. Create list of clients targeted for special customer care billing
notification, direct marketing campaigns and promotions.
. Rapidly addressed urgent client requests for adhoc one and two day
turnaround file generation for external fulfillment, and USP and email
mass mailings.
. Contributed to and/or authored Solution Approach, Technical
Requirements, High Level Design, Interface Agreements, Detail Design,
testing, and implementation project lifecycle documents.
. Served as project lifecycle process Subject Matter Expert for Internet
Data Warehouse application teams.
. Create Unix Kornshell scripts to automate adhoc, daily, weekly and
monthly production processes.
Prodigy Communications Corp., White Plains, NY
Senior Programmer/Analyst, Internet Data Warehouse & Reporting
June 1989 - December 2003
Project Leader that analyzed business requirements, documented the data
processing solution, authored the application and program designs,
developed, and implemented the code on the IBM mainframe (MVS).
. Designed, coded and implemented the collection and reporting of
millions of url records per day for webhost client sites, and revenue
reporting for Web advertising on the Prodigy Internet Service.
. Responsible for day to day support of client reporting and billing,
proxy collecting and reporting, advertising reports, revenue and
royalty reporting, and shopping orders resulting in a 99.9% on time
delivery.
. Developed, coded and implemented the collection and reporting data
feeds of member internet download products such as WINSOCK, NETSCAPE,
CYBERPATROL, and GAMES on MVS, which accelerated the delivery of data
to the client contract billing systems for royalty payments.
. Was a team member that developed, coded and installed an order
fulfillment system on RS/6000 using COBOL II, DB2/6000 for AIX.
. Achieved 50% and 75% reduction in computer CPU time by recoding the
Newspaper and Provider reporting application programs allowing
delivery of the reports by 8AM.
. Lead projects, designed, coded, tested and implement data feeds from
Internet Data Warehouse to Enterprise Data Warehouse, Finance System,
and outside vendors.
Military Service
U.S. MARINE CORPS - Honorably Discharged
Education
Iona College - New Rochelle, NY - BA, History