DEVERA KELLOGG

**** *. **** **. ***. *** ( Chicago, Illinois 60615 ( 773-***-**** (

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SUMMARY

. Demonstrated skills in clarifying business and technical

requirements, designing process and system improvements to increase

productivity and reduce costs.

. Extensive experience communicating with business leaders in the

successful implementation of major releases.

. Responsible for coordinating conversion of Supervisor online/batch

system from DB2 database environment to VSAM.

. Designed, coded, tested and maintained numerous on-line screens,

batch processes, utilizing PACBASE, COBOL II, CICS, EZTRIEVE, JCL,

TSO, ISPF, VISIO and File-aid with DB2 and sequential file

structures.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

HARDWARE: IBM MAINFRAME

SOFTWARE: System Life Cycle Methodology, VISIO, DB2 - SQL, SPUFI, MS

Office Suite, Microsoft Project, IBM Debugging tools and

utilities, PACBASE, COBOL, CICS, EZTRIEVE, ENDEVOR, IMS,

JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, PANVALET, FILEAID,

DATAXPERT, EXPEDITER, Change Management, HP Quality

Center..

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June 2002 - Dec. 2009

JP MORGAN CHASE & CO., Chicago, IL

Application Analyst/Developer

. Performed business/technical design, development and testing of

technology solutions that met stated business and system functional

requirements and adhered to coding best practices and architecture

standards that resulted in successful implementations.

. Translated business needs for multiple business group applications

(i.e., ALS, CORE, CRM, IDDA, SBS) by utilizing cost effective

technical solutions and System Life Cycle for major releases and

project requests. Provided on-call production support on a 24 x 7

basis.

. Designed, coded, tested and maintained numerous batch processes, on-

line screens, utilizing JCL, TSO, ISPF, PACBASE, COBOL II, CICS,

EZTRIEVE, VISIO and File-aid with DB2 and sequential file

structures.

. Created plans for multiple projects including estimating costs,

timelines and allocating systems support resources.

. Presented project plans to senior leaders and led initiatives

insuring tasks were completed on time and within budget.

. Developed business flow charts in VISIO; developed and maintained

code.

. Created and executed regression test scripts to ensure upgrades

were working as designed.

July 1996 - Dec. 2001

GENERAL ELECTRIC FINANCIAL ASSURANCE, Schaumburg, IL

Consultant/Project Leader

. Defined project, technical and summary specifications, test plans,

data conversion process and implementation plans to clients and

programmers.

. Utilized structured methodology to design and implement the Credit

Specialist Reporting System. This entailed using intricate

algorithms to track new and renewed enrollment sales activity of

the Credit Security Plan (CSP that supported company initiatives to

generate revenue. This project produced ad-hoc, weekly, monthly and

year-to-date reports, utilizing EZTRIEVE, SPUFI; accessing data

structures: DB2, VSAM, and sequential files. These reports were

used by the Sr. Vice President and store managers. For batch

processes, ENDEVOR was used for change management; file-aid for

data manipulation and expeditor for testing.

. Developed and maintained In-store system, used to manage

promotional campaigns and incentives resulting in an increase of

company revenues by 3%. Created and maintained numerous on-line

screens, procedures in JES2/JES3 environment utilizing JCL, TSO,

ISPF, PACBASE, COBOL II, CICS, EZTRIEVE, VISIO and File-aid with

VSAM and sequential file structures.

. Coordinated conversion of Supervisor online/batch system from DB2

database environment to VSAM. PACBASE CASE tool was used for

business/technical design.

. Managed un-bundle insurance codes project. Responsibilities

included: gathering requirements, design, and overseeing staff,

utilized Six Sigma methodologies and writing test scripts.

. Resolved critical production problems with 24 hours of incident.

Performed root cause analysis and developed resolutions to prevent

reoccurrence.

June 1990 - July 1996

ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS (EDS), Downers Grove, IL

Systems Engineer

. CNA Account- Implementation manager for claims systems conversion

project.

. Responsibilities included: planning, directing, and monitoring

project activities; system design, preparation of system

performance reports, system integration testing with process

controls.

. Chicago Parking Account- Developed and implemented Backlog ticket

project which generated one quarter of a million dollars in revenue

for the City of Chicago.

. Facilitated weekly meetings.

. GMAC Account -Team leader of Diary Collection project.

Responsibilities included design of IMS database and the

development of data dictionary and data model.

EDUCATION

. Northern Illinois University - B.A. in Liberal Arts

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