Michael Trager

**** ****** *****

The Villages, Fl. 32162

770-***-****

ac2rn4@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

**** – 1987

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana

JOB HISTORY

Dec. 2015 – Oct. 2016

Infosys – Worked as a Project Manager for a major financial services firm in a government mandated project where the client is putting together a data warehouse project to fulfill the request. This initiative is a very large project and the data warehouse is a key component. Co-managed a large onshore/offshore development team that was responsible for building a data warehouse. initiated and maintained the plan that accommodates a very aggressive timeline. Kept all stakeholders well informed of the progress and managed any hurdles that are encountered. I coordinated efforts across many teams and individuals to ensure all tasks are completed on time and meet the proposed requirements.

Dec. 1992 – Dec. 2014

Verizon Business – Worked as Program Manager and all phases of testing for order entry system that is Verizon’s end state architecture. This system is a very large integration into a single end to end (quote to bill) system. Additionally, I provided level of efforts and ongoing input and direction for monthly and quarterly releases, which generally included 15 to 20 different projects. Developed and executed test plans (unit, system, integrated, and UAT) for each and every release along with resource management and execution of all test plans.

Successfully implemented 5 major & 6 minor releases per year

Reduced program errors release over release by 20%

Resource manager for over 40 people including India developers

Completed PMP/PMI online training

Worked as Program Manager/ Development Manager in International Billing with offices in London, England and Frankfurt, Germany. Customized off-the-shelf software to establish and maintain International billing systems. Program managed very large project that was implemented successfully and on time that converted database from Sybase to Oracle and upgraded from single server to multiple server for enhanced throughput of data.

Improved billing system that was 3 months behind in generating invoices to on-time invoices

Decommissioned 3 redundant billing systems

Development Manager for International Billing of voice traffic calls

Worked as a team lead and then development manager for Special Customer Arrangements COBOL/DB2/CICS system that accumulated, parsed, and reformatted billing records. Designed, developed, implemented and maintained over 18 terra-byte system that served as a re-biller. The system was designed to give full control over to user community to manage each customer’s specific data needs.

Decommissioned 7 re-biller systems into one (still operating after 14 years)

Development manager of over 30 people for 8 years

May 1989 – Oct. 1992

Dowell Schlumberger – Oilfield Services – Developed COBOL/DB2/CICS system to update and keep track of all oil rigs in Gulf Coast. Developed a COBOL/DB2/CICS system for random drug testing and drug testing results. Developed COBOL/DB2/CICS incident reporting system used by the field technicians.

Decreased field incidents by 5% by combining incident tracking with training & drug testing

Sep. 1987 – May 1989

Anderson Greenwood – Entry level programmer for specialty valve manufacturer. Primary focus was developing COBOL/CICS reports for the manufacturing job floor, including machine routing, inventory, re-work.

Reduced inventory of re-work valves (leftover pieces from other valves) by over $500,000

Improved routing of valves across shop floor by 15%

TOOLSET

Project Management, Test Management, All phases of test execution, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office, HP Quality Center, Resource Management, Agile; Scrum, Iterative & Waterfall Methodologies, IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Eztrieve+, JCL, File Manager, Endevor, File Aid, CA7, ABEND-Aid

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