STEIDBERGER (“Steve”) AUSTIN

***-*** ***** *****, ********: 732-***-****

Queens, NY 11434 __ E-mail: ac2ewn@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Systems Analyst / Technical Lead

PROFILE

Extensive background in analysis, design, development, implementation, and post-implementation evaluation of IT projects.

Significant experience gathering requirements, sizing and estimating projects, designing technical solutions, writing specifications, creating effective test plans, handling critical situations, implementing performance tuning and optimization features, and providing production support.

Proficient in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology on both Legacy and Hybrid applications. Hands-on experience with traditional Waterfall, as well as with the Agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

CICS, COBOL II, DB2, Stored Procedures, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, MQSeries/WebSphere, BMC Utilities, XML, Data Studio, Mainframe Express (MFE), JCL, z/OS, VSAM, IDMS, IMS, TOTAL, LU6.2, Intertest, TSO, Fileaid, Abend-Aid, JCL, Syncsort, Endeavor, InfoBus, SWIFT, NDM, FTP, TMON, Informatica (ETL), Easytrieve, Librarian, Panvalet, CA7, Visual Basic (.NET), HTML, C++, Pascal, Visio, MS Access, Word, Excel, MS Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

12/14 to 05/17 – AXA Equitable (Senior Systems Analyst) (Secaucus, NJ)

Conducted analysis on the firm's individual annuity application, which represented a customization of CSC's Vantage, and Wealth Management Accelerator (WMA) platforms.

Researched through multi-millions of lines of legacy code, and hundreds of files and tables, to identify coding changes for customizations and defect fixes. Developed, tested, and implemented these changes, along with numerous ad hoc requirements. Collaborated with the business analysts and the UAT teams to ensure the correctness of developed functionality.

This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, JCL, VSAM, and Java front-end.

12/13 to 08/14 – Credit Suisse (Senior Systems Analyst) (Morrisville, NC)

Some duties include monitoring the health of the production environment, troubleshooting failures in a timely manner, and keeping management informed.

Analyzed legacy code to understand numerous defects and provide the effective solutions for fixing them.

Researched batch job-streams and online stored procedures to uncover design flaws and provide effective solutions to improve through-put and minimize run-times to ensure that SLA’s were met.

This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQseries, JCL, VSAM, and PowerBuilder front-end.

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01/12 to 08/13 – Vanguard Group (Senior Systems Analyst) (Malvern, PA)

Analyzed and documented the requirements for various features of the firm’s websites.

Designed and developed technical solutions to facilitate the storage and retrieval of web content via communication interfaces with the middleware

Developed numerous DB2 stored procedures, with special emphasis on performance, to support large-scale, high-volume, transaction processing.

This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, MQseries, SQL, JCL, VSAM, and Java front-end.

04/09 to 07/10 – CGI Technology (Technical Lead) (Jersey City, NJ)

Provide support to the various accounting and legal entities involved in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, to help ensure an orderly unwind and a smooth bankruptcy resolution.

Collaborated with the business users and other stakeholders to define and document the requirements necessary for the Barclays integration.

This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQseries, IDMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

07/07 to 03/09 – Barclays Capital (Technical Lead) (Jersey City, NJ)

Gathered and documented the requirements for the initiative to upload treasury security information from the LAN to the mainframe. Developed detailed specifications and managed the efforts of the offshore team in the project’s development and delivery.

Supported the firm’s fixed income trading application. Analyzed and developed functionality to book trades, produce confirms, and update the stock record.

This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQ series, IDMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

07/06 to 06/07 – Prudential Financial (Senior Systems Analyst) (Newark, NJ)

Analyzed and documented the requirements for the firm’s web delivery of mutual fund statement history.

Designed and developed numerous DB2 stored-procedures, and batch jobs, to support the warehousing and inquiry access to statement history.

This was a COBOL, DB2, SQL, MQseries, JCL, VSAM, and Visual Basic front-end.

03/06 to 06/06 – Merrill Lynch (Senior Systems Analyst) (Princeton, NJ)

Developed functionality to provide customers with the ability to view pending dividend and interest payments.

This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQseries, IMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

04/98 to 11/05 – Lehman Brothers (Technical Lead) (Jersey City, NJ)

Participated in all phases of the development of the firm's foreign Futures and Options application. This project allowed the bank to “Process by Region” the trading activity in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan. Gathered and documented the business requirements and provided management with pertinent and timely status reports.

Analyzed, designed, and developed the omnibus account reconciliation to proof the money and position balances for the firm’s acquisition of Neuberger Berman.

Developed numerous DB2 Stored Procedures, executing under Workload Manager, to facilitate the delivery of fixed income security information to the Visual Basic front-end.

Wrote an online sub-system to route reclaims to DTC via a LU6.2 link; In addition, developed a batch process to send DK-confirms, via NDM, to DTC

This was COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQseries, IDMS, and Visual Basic front-end.

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06/95 to 04/98 – Brown Brothers Harriman (Senior Systems Analyst) (Jersey City)

Supported the firm's Global Custody application.

As team leader on some initiatives, was responsible for project planning, coordinating deliverables, and status reporting.

Wrote or maintained programs which handled receive/deliver instructions to and from DTC, and handled Fed settlements via a LU6.2 link to BONY.

Increased transaction efficiency by developing routines to minimizing the number of fail trades.

This was a COBOL, CICS, JCL, IDMS, and VSAM environment.

09/91 to 06/95 – Smith Barney (Senior Systems Analyst) (New Yory City, NY)

Developed edits, validations, price-choosing algorithms for pricing feeds from JJ-Kenney, IDSI, Muller, S&P, Bloomberg, and Reuters.

Designed a fail-safe feature, based on error tolerances, to ensure accuracy of prices and to prevent erroneous prices from appearing on the customer statements.

This was a COBOL, CICS, IDMS, and VSAM environment.

08/90 to 06/91 – Merrill Lynch (Senior Systems Analyst) (New York City, NY)

Conducted analysis on the firm’s Advanced Order Processing (AOP) application, which handled all of the firm’s equity and options orders.

Devised various strategies and methods to increase transaction throughput and improve online system response.

Other duties include capacity planning, batch optimization, and disaster recovery planning.

This was a COBOL, IMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

01/90 to 08/90 – Deutsche Bank (Systems Analyst) (Jersey City, NJ)

Supported the Global Custody application, which was the focal point of the firm’s international banking operation.

This was a COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, JCL, and VSAM environment.

03/89 to 01/90 – Bristol Myers Squibb (Programmer Analyst) (East Brunswick, NJ)

Developed a major enhancement to the “Inventory Management System” to track the ingredients which went into the manufacturing of various pharmaceutical products.

This was a COBOL, CICS, TOTAL, and VSAM environment.

05/84 to 03/89 – Merrill Lynch (Programmer Analyst) (New York City, NY)

Maintained and supported the application that handled the back-office functions for the firm’s equity, index, and currency options trading.

Wrote, tested, and implemented numerous programs to book option trades, and handle exercises and assignments.

This was a COBOL, IMS, JCL, and VSAM environment.

EDUCATION

B.Sc., Computer Science, minor Mathematics Saint Peter’s University

MBA/MIS Saint Peter’s University

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