Michael Early ** Willis Ave

Cornwall on Hudson

N.Y. 12520

845-***-****

ac9nop@r.postjobfree.com

Education:

B.A. Fordham University

Certificate in Data Processing N.Y.U

Certificate in Web Page Design - Marist Cyberskills Inst

Experience:

Over 25 years experience in areas of System Analysis Design and programming.

I have worked as an Employee and as a Consultant in the Brokerage (Prudential Securities,

Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Paine Webber), Health Care (H.I.P, Merck) and Retail Service

(Saks Fifth Ave, Mercedes Benz) Industries.

I have had increasing levels of responsibility in Project Analysis/Design/Coding

QA and team supervision. I have full life cycle experience in multiple projects in a

wide spectrum of industries. My work has included a heavy emphasis on CICS on-line

development as well as DB2/SQL, and IMS database processing.

Assets:

I have experience working in several different Industries each with unique standards and

protocols. I have been able to produce in all situations and under difficult time constraints.

I have the work experience and flexibility to adapt to new situations. I look forward to

learning new skills and meeting new challenges.

Skills:

Cobol-II, IMS,DB2,SQL

Unix, Informix

VSAM,OS-JCL,CICS,TSO/ISPF

BMS,SYNCSORT,

Xpediter,Changeman,Intertest,

IBM DeBUG,

Classroom work on:

HTML,XML,CSS,

ASP,JavaScript,Flash,Dreamweaver,

Web Page Design

FrontPage

TCP/IP,FTP,Network Topologies,

EXCEL

Work Experience:

Express Scripts 06/2013 - 09/2013 Technical Lead

* Express Scripts recently bought out Medco and is in the process of merging

their IT prescription claims development/delivery system.

* Responsible for Functional and Technical design documents on several projects

that were handed off to the offshore development teams.

* Coordinated with offshore teams and Business Users to resolve any functional or technical

Design and DB2/Cobol coding questions.

* Involved with testing all specified deliverables to ensure project met all design specifications

* Held daily status meetings with Business Users and Offshore teams to monitor

progress and ensure meeting project delivery dates.

* Major skills used: COBOL,CICS,VSAM,DB2/SQL,OS/JCL/EXCEL/MS Project

.

Emblem Health Insurance 03/2007 – 12/2010 Technical Project Leader

This company was result of a merger of 2 Health Care agencies, H.I.P. and GHI.

I was invited back to this company because of my former employment at H.I.P.

* Responsible for new project development from inception thru to project promotion

and follow up.

* Part of a team that worked on a major integration of another Health care

claims processing systems,(GHI), into HIP’s claims processing system. Helped resolve claims

processing integration problems, DB2 logic to Cobol-2, and acted as the IT claims department’s

representative during weekly departmental meetings.

* Organized meetings with Business Partners at Emblem to clarify project parameters and

expectations.

* Wrote Functional and Technical design documents for multiple projects that were used

as guides for programmers in writing the Cobol code for these projects.

* Coded and tested major segments of claims processing upgrades.

* Met with Quality Assurance team and Business Partners to review the design documents

to ensure all aspects of the projects could be delivered in a timely and efficient schedule.

* Supervised several in-house Analysts and other Analysts working in a remote location

and created Project Schedules with milestone dates in order to track project status.

* Coordinated new claims updates with the Data Warehouse group, to help maintain

that DB2/SQL database.

* I was a technical resource for other Analysts working on other projects to help explain

how Claims were processed from the entry of a claim into the system to the payment

of that claim. Also helped to resolve Cobol coding issues with Production Support group.

* Major skills used: CICS,VSAM,DB2/SQL Xpediter, BMS,OS/JCL/EXCEL/MS Project

COBOL-2

UBS 2/2005 - 3/2007

* Enhanced Bank Deposits System – COBOL/DB2/SQL

Met with Users, performed analysis and coding enhancements to production

programs that process Client Account movement from Tier to Tier.

* Client Statement System – COBOL/DB2/SQL system

Enhancements to the Clients Statements

Adding a new features on the Account Statement that is sent to UBS clients.

* Meet with Users to determine and define program enhancements

* Develop Test Plans/Program specifications

* Skills used : DB2/SQL,MQ,CICS,VSAM,OS/JCL/COBOL/Changeman/EXCEL

Manager - Cezar Muzones

Prudential Securities 1/1998 - 4/2004 Mutual Funds Department

* Y2K compliance programming issues.

* Worked on large, complex COBOL Batch and Online Trading systems

revising online screens to include new fields / creating additional

online screens to incorporate new data / revising processing logic

to meet new standards.

* Scheduled meetings with Users to review wish list enhancements,

performed the program and system analysis and presented results to management

along with time and degree of difficulty estimates.

* I was recommended to other areas within Prudential after completion

of work on Mutual Fund projects.

* Responsible for all QA testing on affected trading program modifications,

i.e. regression testing, creating test data, reviewing results and obtaining signoffs.

* Skills used: SQL, DB2, IMS,CICS,VSAM, Xpediter, Synsort, BMS, Changeman,

COBOL,OS/JCL

Morgan Stanley 6/1997 - 12/1998 Mutual Funds Department

* Supervised Jr. programmers (2). Reviewed all programming changes and

was available for any technical problems/advice.

* Provided Batch and Online programming technical support for several project

managers.

* Responsible for correcting a key trading program problem resulting from

an undocumented previous revision.

* Performed QA testing on all affected trading programs, Batch on Online.

* Skills used: SQL, DB2,SQL,VSAM, Xpediter, Syncsort, BMS, OS/JCL,COBOL

E.T.C. Data Services 09/1995 - 06/1997

* Improved Batch Production run cycle by 50%.

* Assisted in System migration from Cobol to Unix/Informix platform

* Sent to school to learn Informix, then returned to start converting

several batch programs to Informix.

* Designed/Coded major tax reporting program for a prospective new client.

I was given responsibility to code and test within a two week period.

Client supplied the test data and the new tax report was returned to client

for review. Client approved the reports and E.T.C. had a new client.

* Skills used: Cobol-II,UNIX,Informix, OS/JCL/COBOL

H.I.P. 10/1993 - 09/1995

* Part of team responsible for new Medical Claim Software package.

H.I.P. was using an outside vendor to process claims, they deceided

to purchase the software and integrate it into the current claims processing

cycle. At the same time, the team was responsible for adding a new

feature involving the elimination of multiple claim inputs and using a

new universal input claim form.

* Responsible for designing and testing new online screens, coding new

batch medical claim reports, creating new OS/JCL procs and procedures.

* I had worked at H.I.P. 2 years prior and was brought back again

to assist with this new project.

* Skills used: IMS, VSAM, CICS, Xpediter, Syncsort, BMS, OS/JCL

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