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Kevin Strutz

**** * **** ******, *********, WI **081

Home: 920-***-**** Cell: 920-***-****

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Summary

Systems architect offering more than 18 years of experience in the IT and years of experience in

management. Interested in being part of a team to accomplish their goals in a successful and growing

company.

Highlights

Project management Working on existing system to provide

Analytical enhancements.

Dependable Working directly on application / technical

Self-starter problem identification and resolution,

Team player including off-shift and weekend support

Customer-oriented functions.

Results-oriented Designing and implementing processes, or

Organized process improvements, to aid in development

and support.

Experience

Acuity Insurance January 1995 to May 2013

Systems Architect

Sheboygan, WI

• Maintain mainframe legacy systems using TSO, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, SQL, EDI, XML and

Lotus Notes in a property/casualty insurance company.

• Collaborated with Marketing, Accounting, Actuarial, and Business Systems team members to design

and develop new product concepts including creating internal reports for various departments within

the company and sending out data to external insurance bureaus.

• Responsible for the entire life cycle of a project including planning, coding, testing, documenting and

implementing new systems and changes to existing ones.

• Created time estimates for proposed projects as well as writing general and technical specifications.

• Attended walkthroughs including verifying that programs match the specs.

• Coordinated with QA testers for end-to-end unit testing and post-production testing.

• Many years of experience as project lead and training junior members on the team.

• Assigned work to team members following up on their progress through conversations and status

reports and directing them on how to accomplish project goals without disrupting production work

flow.

• Peer tested and reviewed code for other team members.

• Created status reports to communicate progress on projects and problem resolutions.

• Did various tasks to assist the team lead.

• Worked on researching and solving problem resolutions.

Education

Wisconsin Lutheran College

Bachelor of Science: Mathematics

Milwaukee, WI, USA

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Information Systems. In four years,

graduated Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.43

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