Tom's InformationLocation: EAST NORWICH, NYTitle: SalesExperience: 12+ yearsWilling to Relocate: NoWilling to Travel: No TravelCareer Level: IntermediateWork Status: U.S. CitizenMember Since: 2011-01-01 Helpful Links

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Thomas LoCascio

600 Pine Hollow Rd. 5-2B, East Norwich, New York 11732

Cell 516-***-**** • abpkvc@r.postjobfree.com

Experienced IT Professional

Insightful, results driven IT consultant with notable success directing a broad range of corporate IT initiatives while planning, analyzing, and implementing solutions in support business objectives. Outstanding project and team leader; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project based efforts while managing, motivating, and building teams.

Over twenty years as a Mainframe consultant functioning as Senior P/A and Team Leader at the nation’s top

Hospital, Educational and Financial institutions

Solid experience in COBOL II, CICS, IDMS, ADS/O, DB2, JAVA

Experienced in Database Design and Warehousing, ETL, and Data Mining, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Industry experience includes Hospital, Brokerage, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Education

Technical Proficiencies

Hardware: IBM Mainframe, PC, MAC

Operating Systems: OS/VS, VM, MVS, MAC/OS, Windows

Software Tools: TSO/ISPF, OS/JCL, Procs, Clists, LU6.2, FTP, and Utilities

PC Software: MS Word, Access, Excel, Power Point, Open Office Suite, MS Project

Languages: COBOL II, CICS, IDMS, ADS/O, DB2, JAVA, Assembler, RPG, Fortran, BASIC

Graduate of Hofstra University's Hospital Information Technology Program, including courses in:

Security, Privacy, and Regulations; Data Warehousing; Controls and Quality; Informatics; Web 2.0

IT INTERNSHIP AT NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTILIZING ALLSCRIPTS products including Sunrise Acute Care upgrade to 5.5 for Meaningful Use Stage 1.

Provided Activation support during Go Live helping end users troubleshoot the application and assisted in Command Center

During activation: validated and assisted in troubleshoot Citrix log ins on the workstations.

Provided user support during downtime.

Participated in Activation and project management calls and planning meetings.

Hands on testing of the application.

Assisted with Helpdesk calls.

Attended Sunrise Clinical Analytics operations training.

Professional Experience

TOVEN COMPUTER SERVICES, INC. - INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT 1979 – PRESENT

Provided Consulting Services for numerous clients utilizing expertise in Mainframe Technology, Integration and Development of System Enhancements.

Provided Managerial Support and Team Leadership. Reported Project Status to Senior Management.

Help maintain adherence to Projected Target Dates and Milestones.

Various Consulting Projects

Developed and maintained numerous websites and databases for private clients.

Launched multiple-page websites for private label retail companies, charitable organizations and local fitness centers. Extensive use of Yahoo! Site Builder and MS Publisher, FTP.

The following are the accounts I provided consulting services for:

FIRST DATA MERCHANT SERVICES - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Back-office credit card processing

Position included producing reports as per clients' requests

COBOL Batch and CICS

MERRILL-LYNCH – SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Managed modifications to OS JCL and Procs

Assured results integrity

Led Team which developed methodology to replace flat file processing with batch and CICS program

SOLOMON SMITH BARNEY – SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Analyzed mainstream programs and job streams in a re-engineering effort to shorten processing cycle

Identified redundant processing and processing bottlenecks

Developed recommendations for system efficiency enhancements

Developed Run Books to document the new job streams

CHASE MELLON SHAREHOLDER SERVICES - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Developed, implemented and documented programs for a Stock Transfer Restriction System in COBOL2, IDMS batch environment

ITT WORLD COMMUNICATIONS - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Liaison between IT and HR to Designed IDMS Database

Wrote program specifications for programmers

AIR EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Y2K Team

Verified changes to Production Online and Batch Systems

IDMS Batch and ADS/O

PRUDENTIAL RELOCATION SERVICES - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Implemented major modifications to the Home Sale and Relocation Systems

QA Tested all related programs

IDMS ADS/O team

NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Year 2000 Compliance

CICS, COBOL II, IDMS Batch, IDMS DC, and IDMS ADS/O, JCL, Job Streams, Procs, and Clists

G.E CAPITAL FUNDING - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Developed Dunning Letter Processing

IDMS ADS/O, IDMS Batch, IDMS/DC, COBOL II

LEHMAN BROTHERS – SENIOR CONSULTANT

Instrumental in the development of the Global Systems Help Desk Analyst which Supported Domestic and International traders and end-users

Interviewed candidates for Help Desk Positions

AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS - SENIOR ANALYST

Analyzed and thoroughly documented the current HR Benefits IDMS System in preparation for conversion to ADABASE/Natural

Documentation included Program Functionality and all JCL, Procs, Job Streams and Run Books

CITICORP - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Member of team responsible for conversion of financial transaction clearing

ADS/O, IDMS batch and COBOL II

Senior member of a team developing an on-line credit card application system

CICS/IDMS

Data Carve-out based on detailed specifications. Results were passed to SAS team for reporting

IDMS ADS/O, IDMS batch

International Travelers Checks Processing life-cycle tracking. Mutli-Database design which utilized LU6.2 technology

GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO. – SENIOR CONSULTANT

International Systems Division

Programs were written in CICS/IDMS

Free form data steam conversion to form letters

Analyzed, coded and documented programs and JCL procedures for various financial projects

Responsible for conducting classes to instruct Burroughs programmers in IBM Cobol II and OS JCL

NYC BOARD OF EDUCATION - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Designed and developed personnel request system to assigned instructors to students

CICS/VSAM, COBOL II

SLOAN –KETTERING HOSPITAL – PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Wrote programs, from detailed specifications, for a Cancer Research Tracking Database. This system tracked tumors and their treatments

IDMS, ADS/O

BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD – PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Responsible for coding and testing Batch COBOL Programs in Validation sub-system of New Member Application process

NASSAU (WINTHROP) HOSPITAL – PROGRAMMER

Maintained Batch COBOL programs in all areas of Hospital IT

Designed, coded, tested, and documented new Batch COBOL programs

Education and Affiliations

Hofstra University – Hospital Information Technology

Queens College School of General Studies

Certification-ACE Personal Trainer

First Degree Black Belt in Karate

United States Marine Corps

Member East Norwich Board of Elections

New York State Licensed Life, Health, and Accident Insurance Agent

New York State Licensed Real Estate Agent

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