Sherry Ward

Email: abp4xd@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ******* ******* **

City: Jacksonville

State: FL

Zip: 32257

Country: USA

Phone: 904-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $124,000

Willing to Relocate

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SHERRY S WARD

4636 Sunbeam Station Court

Jacksonville, FL 32257

abp4xd@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 904-***-****

Professional Overview

I am an Information Technology professional with over 30 years in mainframe development and support in addition to conversion of mainframe systems to other platforms. My primary projects have been in the financial and human resource arenas of business.

I am seeking a position on an IT project.

*FUNCTIONAL ROLES: Analyst Package Software Installation

Software Support Testing and Process Reviewer

Information Expert Administrator

*TRAVEL: Willing to travel as required

*SECURITY: TS Security Clearance - DOD Granted 2008

*ENVIRONMENT: Z/OS

*HARDWARE: IBM/ Amdahl Mainframes

*LANGUAGES: Information Expert (IE), JCL, COBOL, Natural

*CERTIFICATIONS: Oracle8 SQL/PL/SQL (1/2001)

Oracle8 DBA Backup/Recovery (2/2001)

Oracle8 DBA Database Administration (4/2001)

*DATABASES: VSAM; ADABAS; Oracle;

*SOFTWARE: -Geac Series E Financial and Human Resource package software

-Federal Liaison Services (FLS), Oracle based product for paying Government taxes

Abend-Aid CA7 CICS Control-M DYL-280 File Aid FTP IBM Utilities JOBTRAC MS Office MS Outlook MVS Natural ROSCOE SAR Sort/Sync Sort SuperTracs TSO/ISPF/SDSF Version Merger Xpediter

*INDUSTRIES: Federal/State Govt Healthcare Petroleum Telecommunications Retail Manufacturing Credit card Banking

Sherry Ward Resume Continued -Professional Experience

*Drew VanRiper Financials - FBI Geac Specialist Aug 25,2009 - June 29, 2011

Reporting support for the General Ledger Unit of the FBI Finance Division. Responsible for modifying reports for account coding modification as well as general report writer for the staff. I also supported staff in Accounts Receivable Unit, Budget Execution and Travel and Transfer Payments Units.

*COMSO - FBI Geac Specialist

Information Expert (IE) Administrator. Back up for FMS Production Support and IE Administrator. The FMS system includes finance packages of Accounts Payable (AP), Budgetary Control (BC), Common Components (CC), Financial Control (FC), General Ledger (GL) and Purchasing (PS). Duties include responding to Operator Service Center tickets requesting assistance and Ad Hoc reporting requested by internal and external auditors, Finance Department and ITOD managers. Examples of these requests include PO reporting for annual audit; Interface to National Finance Center(NFC) for FICA deductions; Reporting for FMS security management; Modification of delivered IE programs. IE, Cobol, CICS, VSAM.

*IMTAS-FBI Analyst July 2005-Sept 2005

Analysis, documentation and system testing to upgrade the Support Vacancy function of the Applicant system. This is a 3 month project to re-engineer an existing ADABAS/NATURAL system and convert data from an ACCESS database position vacancy tracking system to the newly enhanced mainframe system.

*CAI, Inc - Hershey Company Geac Specialist July 2002-June 2005

Payroll support for The Hershey Company - 18 company payrolls which include weekly, bi-weekly and semi-monthly pay schedules for hourly and salaried employees. Duties include 24x7 production support; Analysis and design for a new manual check system; Analysis and design for a check reprint process; support user adhoc requests; Z/OS testing and liaison with third-party vendors. IE, Cobol, VSAM, EDI

*Ward Software Services, Inc Jan 2001-Jun 2002

Participated in the development of a number of Project proposals. Completed to certification Oracle 8 CBT Training for PL/SQL, Data Administration, and Backup and Recovery.

*Stanford University Geac Specialist Jun 2000 - Oct 2000 Medical Center (telecommuting)

Production support and program modifications for accounting systems of Accounts Payable (AP), Purchasing (PS) and General Ledger (GL). Duties included Analysis of system and recommendations for tuning; Training a new employee; Managing Year-end processing; Purge AP documents; Testing ADP interfaces; 24x7 support; Documentation; User training for application report writing; Report writing; Analysis and Retirement of Purchasing System. Cobol, CICS, IE, VSAM, EDI

Sherry Ward Resume Continued

*Department of Justice Geac Specialist - FBI Apr 1998 - Dec 1999

Member of the team assembled to migrate extensive client modifications to Cobol/VSAM Financial Software to Y2K versions. Cobol, CICS, IE, VB, VSAM.

Responsibilities included: Converted VS Cobol financial programs to Cobol II; Parallel testing Renovation of User IE programs

Testing and documentation of user-created VB Front ware to replace Brightview

Development and execution of DOJ required test scripts

for Year-End Roll-Over, AP, IE and Financial

Controller, the processing control system

QA Review team member

*Keane, Inc., Consultant Nov 1993 - Apr 1998

**Sun Oil Company Geac Specialist Jan. 1996 - Apr 1998

Production Support for Human Resource mainframe system; Responsibilities included: Converted the main system and the retirement support system from VS Cobol to Cobol II; Installed and supported FLS, an Oracle based software package.

Cobol, IE, SQL, VSAM, Oracle, DB2, ADABAS.

**Fleer-SkyBox (Marvel) Dec 1995 - Jan 1996

Miscellaneous Cobol support in a DEC-VAX environment.

**Branch, Banking & Trust (BB&T) May 1995 - Nov 1995

Provided technical support for the 12-member Acquisition Conversion team; Programmed the Customer Information file and the Account Cross-reference file conversions.

Cobol, VSAM.

**Steelcase, Inc., Geac Specialist May 1994 - Apr 1995

A member of the GEAC to SAP conversion team.

Responsibilities Included:

Analyzed and Developed production interfaces from Accounts Payable and Purchasing to SAP; Converted GL data; Production support for mainframe financial processing.

Cobol, IE, VSAM

**AT&T Nov 1993 - May 1994

Project Manager for a four-member team for the Force

Management System for the Human Resource Department. Cobol, DB2

Sherry Ward Resume Continued

*AT&T/Universal Card Service Geac Financial Analyst Jan 1993 - Nov 1993

Production support Cobol/VSAM financial system that also included an UNIX/Oracle interface system. Installed and maintained the employee credit card EDI system and provided support for the firm`s conversion from a mainframe system to Oracle Financials.

Cobol, IE, VSAM, Oracle, UNIX, EDI

*CWS Systems Geac (MSA) Consultant Sep 1991 - Jan 1993

**Keane, Inc./SkyBox Feb 1992 - Jan 1993

Production Support for financial systems. A member of the team responsible for a Cobol/VSAM GL and Cobol/Ideal/ Datacom Order Entry, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Systems. Analyzed the processes and Converted data from the GL system to a CODA/ VAX system. Cobol, IE, VSAM, Ideal/Datacom.

**Williams Bros. Pipeline Sep 1991 - Dec 1991

Completed installation of a new release of Geac`s programming language system, Information Expert (IE). Analyzed libraries for impact of conversion to the new release of AP and Purchasing. Cobol, VSAM, IE

*State of South Dakota 1968 - 1991

**Project Leader and Analyst/Programmer 1968 - 1971

Installed Geac (MSA) Financial products of AP, PS, GL, BC, IE and CC and analyzed and converted in-house systems to the new package. Supervised one to four persons and interfaces from over 20 government offices.

Cobol, IE, DYL-280, BAL, RPG, Natural, VSAM, ADABAS

**Other government assignments included:

Budget and Personnel Payroll - Supported Cobol/VSAM and Natural/ADABAS

finance and payroll systems;

Highway Patrol - Designed and programmed a Natural/ADABAS system to track

Hazardous Materials.

Water and Natural Resources - Designed, programmed and implemented a

NATURAL/ ADABAS Municipal Water Regulation and Bacteriological Monitoring System;

Utilities Comm. - Designed and Developed a truck and grain licensing system.

Motor Vehicle - Programmer vehicle licensing system.

*Education

**Draughons College, Oklahoma City, OK AA - Accounting

**Miscellaneous IT courses include HTML, SQL, C++, DB2, Unix, Oracle DBA course work, Oracle 11 Financial CBT courses.

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