Senior Developer Analyst
Resume:
John F. Coughlin
Jacksonville, FL 32223
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Environments: IBM Z/OS, HP-UNIX, LINUX, OS/MVS JCL, OS/MVS UTILITIES, DOS/VSE, VSAM, IDMS, CLEARCASE, MS ACCESS, ORACLE, SYBASE, UNI-SPF, LIBRARIAN, TSO ISPF, PANVALET, ROSCOE, ICCF, NACHA, INTERTEST, CMS, DB2, DEC OPENVMS, HUMMINGBIRD, VISUAL SOURCE SAFE, TELNET, TUN EMUL, EXCEED, SMARTTERM, CRYSTAL REPORTS 8.5, MF COBOL, ACUCOBOL, CICS COMMAND LEVEL, SYNCSORT, MFSORT, VISUAL BASIC 5.0, ACCESS 7.0, RAPIDSQL, OMNIPLAN, OMNIPLUS 5.2 and 5.5, IDX8, TIVOLI SCHEDULER, CLEARCASE, AGILE METHODOLOGY
Experience: VOYA FINANCIAL – 5/2004 to 1/2018 (13 years 9 mos)
Senior IT developer employee
Manage and develop major conversion of all Syncsort jobs to MFSORT environment, installing over 3000 jobs and modules,
saving IT eighty thousand dollars a year in licenses and fees.
To expedite testing, numerous Linux scripts were developed to populate testing jobs and to automate Clearcase migration. These scripts became department standard for testing environments.
Performed generic infrastructure design and development for all VOYA clients running in Omniplus 5.2 and Omniplus 5.5 401K Linux COBOL environments.
Delivered corporate-wide resolutions for all 401K clients’ IT department keeping COBOL OMNIPLUS Linux System operational across test thru production platforms.
Assisted Data Transmissions team for one year, creating, running and debugging scp, ftp and sftp linux scripts transmitting data to all VOYA clients. Coordinated and corrected NACHA files and layouts for transmission routing to CHASE Bank.
Coordinated and generated Linux Omniplus test environment for user diagnostic analysis. This task accelerated project turnaround for both waterfall and Agile environments.
Performed frontend analysis and subsequent report redesign of existing daily and monthly reports in accordance with new Patriot Act restrictions. This would greatly increase participant security.
Performed daily code reviews of IT department’s VSAM 401K COBOL modules prior to production implementation. Upon my review, modules would either move to production or go back to test regions for rewrite/update per documented code regulations.
Designed and implemented a batch VTRAN purge process freeing a tremendous amount of nightly cycle processing time corporate wide. This involved a purge and compress of VTRAN master files to roll off extraneous/outdated fileheaders. User research time was minimized and streamlined following purge.
Project leaders requested my services in an internal consultant capacity to resolve miscellaneous issues causing processing roadblocks. Required to analyze and quickly generate needed enhancements to meet approaching deadlines, where client teams might have missed production deadlline.
Manipulate OMNIPLUS 5.2 and 5.5 backup and restore job capabilities to select data by user-entered codes set in participant UDF area(s). This allowed client to transfer participants from plan to plan essentially purging/selecting records not required in newly generated plans. Essentially achieving a plan to plan transfer.
Redesigned and implemented backend system for Web frontend, reducing system response time enormously. This took place in newly generated data packets between OMNI frontend and beginning of cycle process.
Designed and implemented Corporate audit subsystem monitoring and reporting unusual participant activities thru Confirm subsystem. This would adhere to government dictated security.
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS – 7/2001 to 05/2004
Senior IT developer employee
Assumed sole responsibility for HP-UNIX Investment Portfolio system designed to calculate, process and report on Guaranteed Investment contracts as a Retirement Investment vehicle. Dealt directly with end-users and technical systems’ personnel on all system’s issues.
Performed Sybase table maintenance on a UNIX platform to service Crystal Reporting backend for financial forecasters.
Futures data was extracted from a DEC Alpha machine using OpenVMS and transmitted via ftp to the Sybase 11 ODBC database.
Designed a Corporate Actions daily transaction activity extract from DEC Alpha system to post onto UNIX Corporate Actions Oracle database.
Created Corporate Action reporting subsystem against database using Crystal Reports 8.5 with Oracle views.
CITISTREET LLC -- 4/95 to 7/2001 (6 yrs)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Converted Citistreet from VSAM OMNIPLAN onto HP-UNIX OMNIPLUS system.
Installed new 401k clients onto Omniplan IDX8 master file system. This involved all facets from functional specification analysis to production implementation.
Responsible for an individual 401K client’s development and maintenance. Worked one on one with the business analyst.
Performed maintenance on VB 5.0 Client Balance Monitoring system on an ORACLE 8.0 database with Crystal reporting backend structure.
Complete design thru implementation of numerous client payroll systems onto OMNIPLAN 401k system.
Designed, coded, tested and implemented CICS File Locator system using CICS 3.1, BMS and Intertest.
Designed, coded, tested and implemented 401k department’s first client/server application. Project was a confirm generator front-end written in VB 3.0 on an ACCESS 2.0 database.
FIRST DATA CORPORATION -- 3/93 to 4/95 (2yrs)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Lead individual on Transfer Agents Yearend Tax reporting system. This involved incorporating all funds specifications into clients’ current year’s VSAM/IDMS system.
Redesigned CDSC pricing for shareholder purchases into Smith Barney VSAM system. This required completely new discounted pricing.
Updated major logical history purge system to clean extraneous data off production mutual fund system.
BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN --3/91 to 3/93 (2yrs)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Converted DOS/VSE Global Custody System onto OS/MVS.
Designed and developed COBOL Global Custody client share tracking/reporting subsystem to be used by fund accounting management.
Developed CICS enhancement to BBH fund position subsystem using command-level code, BMS and Intertest.
Performed Corporate Actions system maintenance requested by end-users.
THE SHAREHOLDER SERVICES GROUP -- 9/87 to 4/91 (3yr 7mo)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Assigned Fund Group to monitor and resolve day-to-day processing problems on their IDMS/VSAM database system.
Designed, coded and implemented multiple fund and fund group system conversations both into and out of transfer agent.
Designed, coded and implemented the complete driver system to process all fund groups’ IRS tax forms.
Designed, coded and implemented daily activity extracting module for NSCC’s networking subsystem.
Redesigned a Broker Ledger reporting subsystem and a shareholder/dealer confirm reporting subsidy.
Using Strobe, redesigned major nightly cycle modules to execute efficiently, saving substantial time and money for all fund groups.
MAST INDUSTRIES -- 7/87 to 9/87 (3 mo)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Design, code, test and implement full-scale development billing and credit system. Modules were designed under ADSA and coded in 10.0 ADSO using Logical Record Facility. Development also included design thru implementation of IDMS-DC Cobol modules for invoice processing.
Converted existing Data General Master files to IBM IDMS database. Extensive use of Online-IDD and OLQ.
FIDELITY SYSTEMS -- 6/86 to 7/87 (1 yr 1mo)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Developed and implemented batch IDMS modules for Fidelity’s marketing subsystem. This involved prospect/lead management, duplicate prospect detection and prevention and their purge and archive database cleanup subsystem. Some ADSO prospect activity modules also required enhancements.
Performed COBOL maintenance on FBSI brokerage system. The majority of the maintenance was updating the VSAM master files to accept fractional share processing from the Mutual Fund system.
ADVANCED INFO MANAGEMENT (AIM) -- 11/85 to 6/86 (7mo)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Designed, coded, tested and implemented nightly cycle batch modules for Mutual Fund VSAM database.
Developed batch test cycle Procs
Designed, developed and implemented check processing subsystem fed by dividends, all distributions, refunds, SWPs and RPOs.
FIDELITY SYSTEMS --7/85 to 11/85 (4mo)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Designed, coded, tested and implemented the Fidelity First system’s front end using ADSO, OLM, Online IDD and DMLO.
NEW ENGLAND LIFE -- 11/84 to 7/85 (8mo)
Independent consultant Developer/Analyst
Designed, coded, tested and implemented structured COBOL modules for addition of new Universal Life Insurance billing system. UL system existed on large scale OS/MVS environment.
BRADFORD TRUST -- 7/82 to 11/84 (2yr 4mo)
Developer/Analyst employee
Designed, coded, tested and implemented structured COBOL and IDMS programs for conversation of VSAM mutual fund system onto new IDMS database.
Performed conversion analysis and research of existing system files.
Supervised and coordinated work of three contractors. Supervision involved work allocation, status and assistance with day to day problems.
FILENES -- 1/81 to 7/82 (1yr 6mo)
Developer/Analyst employee
Designed, coded, tested and implemented online inventory control system using ADSO, OLM, Online IDD and OLQ. IDMS database resided on IBM OS/MVS environment.
ALLYN and BACON PUBLISHERS -- 1/80 to 1/81 (1 yr)
Developer/Analyst employee
Coded, tested and implemented online inventory control modules in OS/MVS facility.
Updated and executed daily, monthly and yearend job stream procedures using wide variety of OS/MVS utilities.
BOSTON CITY HALL -- 1/79 to 1/80 (1yr)
Developer employee
Coded and tested COBOL programs for Motor Vehicle Excise, Real Estate, Payroll and Energy Conservation systems in OS/MVS environment against VSAM master files.
Education: Quincy College, Computer Science 1977 - 1979
Intentionally ended course prior to Associates degree to accept first job offer from Boston City Hall.
Clark University certificate program 1998 (8 months night school)
Visual Basic 3.0
Powerbuilder
Access 2.0
Oracle and Sybase
ALL REFERENCES WILL BE SUPPLIED IMMEDIATELY UPON REQUEST.
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