Harry Fukuda
Email: *********@********.***
Address: ** ********* ******
City: Calumet City
State: IL
Zip: 60409
Country: USA
Phone: 708-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: $70,000
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Harry D. Fukuda
31 Elizabeth Street
Calumet City, IL 60409-5212
Professional Profile
IT professional with 20+ years of experience seeking to leverage extensive experience in application development, maintenance, testing and production support. Experience includes business and technical requirements gathering, analysis, planning, development, testing, and implementation of large and small scale projects. Recent projects involved providing the direction and guidance to on-shore and off-shore resources. Industry experience: health care, banking, finance, utilities & energy and heavy manufacturing.
Employer History
06/1994 06/2009 International Business Machines Corporation
Performed application development, testing and production support for numerous projects in the energy & utilities, health care insurance and banking & finance industries. Roles and responsibilities varied across assignments, from sole support to technical lead - responsible for the direction and activities of on-shore and off-shore resources.
9/2008 6/2009 NiSource CIS Testing Support
Project Description: As a Senior Tester for the Customer Information System, performed system testing and validation for enhancement and development changes, coordinating the clients user acceptance testing and the efforts of the development team. Responsibilities included: creation of and review of test case documentation, the management and prioritization of assignments for a team of 10 on-shore and off-shore resources and scheduling and tracking project elements through the implementation release process.
11/2006 12/2007 Regence Blue Shield NPI Phase 2 Release
Project Description: As the technical lead for the claims processing application, directed the project to implement changes to meet the federal National Provider Identifier mandate. Responsible for the planning and coordination of the work of eight on-shore and off-shore resources. Led the efforts responsible for the creation and management of the project documentation. The project deliverables were implemented on schedule and within budget, meeting aggressive project dates.
05/2006 10/2006 LaSalle Bank Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
Project Description: Coordinated the efforts to create detailed application recovery plans for 17 Finance and Risk applications, integrating the inputs of the application support teams, infrastructure support and business clients. Managed the establishment of the recovery environments for each of the applications, performing full recovery tests validating the recovery plans. This effort closed an audit exposure for the applications and the bank.
06/2001 04/2006 Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield EDI Support Team
Project Description: Performed application development and enhancements for: Professional, Institutional and Dental claims (837P, I & D transactions), Claims Status Requests and Replies (276 & 277), Enrollments (834), Payments and Remittances (820 & 835), from initial analysis, estimates, coding, all phases of testing all the way through the implementation. Responsibilities included on-call production support. Developed an automated system to create form letters, replacing a manual system. The effort enabled the application to produce more and different letters, shortening the development cycle for subsequent letters and providing the users more control of the system.
09/2000 06/2001 IBM HIPAA National Practice
Project Description: Performed transaction gap analysis of the clients systems, documenting and reporting the results. Led the team that developed the project issues tracking database for the practice and several other productivity tools.
06/1994 09/2000 Bank of America Various Projects
Project Description: Led the account and ID security team, defining and managing user IDs and accounts for several applications. As part of the merger team during a bank acquisition, coordinated the conversion and testing of several applications as well as the shutdown of another. The conversion and merger project was completed successfully, consolidating and reorganizing several banking units.
11/1993 06/1994 Indecon
Performed application development on several online screens and batch report processes for a loan security application at a national bank.
12/1992 02/1993 Software Architects
Responsible for the analysis, design and development of a financial reporting application for a national union pension plan. The application automated several manual processes.
04/1992 08/1992 Analytech
Created and tested several online screens for a mainframe scheduling and tracking application at a regional energy & utility provider.
06/1988 03/1992 Computer People
Performed both application development and production support at a national steel manufacturer for raw materials handling, inventory, scheduling and production applications. Developed on boarding materials and procedures for new employees, allowing for a faster transition into the support team.
Education
BS in Computer Science, from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Summary
Areas of Expertise
Project Domains: Application Development and Support, Systems Integration, Vendor
Package Support, Application Disaster Recovery
Industries: Banking, Health Care, Utilities & Energy, Chemicals & Petroleum, Heavy
Manufacturing
Databases: DB2, VSAM
Languages: COBOL, Assembler, CICS, SQL
Operating Systems: MVS, Windows (Vista, XP)
Development Tools: JCL, QMF, Xpediter, Fileaid, Comparex, Endevor, Librarian, Panvalet,
MVS/IBM Utilities, FTP
Applications: Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase, Microsoft Office
References available upon request