ALBERT MALDONADO
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Summary
Albert Maldonado is a well spoken IT Professional with over 15 years of
Financial industry experience working in Production Support Roles. Albert
is an expert in File Transmissions for Private and Public Sector entities
with experience leading both User and Technical Teams. He has brings with
him 15 years experience in mainframe JCL, ReXX Coding, UNIX Scripting. He
has expertise on projects using using PGP, FTP, sFTP, FTPs, AS2, HTTP, and
HTTPS.
Professional Qualifications
. 15+ years of experience in Mainframe, JCL, TSO and other IBM utilities
applying systems development lifecycle methodology
. Strong technical background with approximately 15+ years of Production
Support and solid project experience in SQL, PL, SQL, UNIX,SHELL
SCRIPTING, PERL SCRIPTING, FTP, SFTP FTP,NDM, and HTTP protocols.
. Expert in providing production support, documentation and analysis, with
strong knowledge and hands - on in a Mainframe and application
development tools like Change-Man, file-aid and OS utilities.
. Exceptional organization skills consistently recognized by colleagues for
exceptional talents in needs analysis and problem resolution in fast
paced environment.
. Strong Technology skills including client connectivity, OMS, DMA,
algorithmic trading, smart order routing, program trading applications
and exchange connectivity.
Technical Skills
Hardware: IBM Mainframe ZSERIES, Personal Computers, Unix Servers, Secure
Servers, HP Printers, Dell PC workstations, Secure Server, Storage systems
ATL and VTS
Software: Integral Payroll Systems, Dun and Bradstreet/Software MSA
Payroll VSAM (Sequential and Random access), MS Management, MS Project,
PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio, Access
Operating systems: HP-UX 11.0, AIX 4.3.3 and 5.2, Solaris 2.6 and 2.7,
Linux RH-9, RH EL 2., Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000/ME/XP/VISTA/OS390Z/OS
Networking: LAN, Ethernet, Token Ring, Remote Access, Terminal Servers,
Modems, FTP, NDM TCP/IP, SNA, Citrix
Languages: COBOL2, COBOL3, CICS, SAS, JAVA
Databases: DB2 (SPUFFY), VSAM (Sequential and Random access), Visio,
Access, BODI.SYBASE
Application Software: ISPF/TSO Expediter, Debugger, File Aid, CEDF, SDSF,
IBM Debug, SQL, Change man, File-Aid, OS Utilities, Star Tools, CA-
Dispatch, OPC,SAR,DLY260,FTP, Telnet, Citrix, Heavy MVS JCL, Axway
Tumbleweed/Tumbleweed Secure Client, SYNSORT,ADSO, Cobol,Automate, Jobtrac,
Cyberfusion, AS2, Securecard,QualityCenter Application Software: CA7, CA11,
CA-VIEW, CA-SPOOL, CONTROL-M, REMEDY, CICS, JES2, JCL, TSO, IMS, DB2, MVS,
HP OPENVIEW, SYSVIEW, AGILE, LOTUS NOTES, MIM/GRS, WORD, EXCEL AND OUTLOOK
CA-Dispatch, Wepshere
Work Experience
HVHC Optical
01-06-14 Current
711 Troy Sachendler Road, Latham New York
Senior Data Engineer
. Expert in multiple infrastructure technologies. Responsible for the
ongoing operational excellence of the HVHC technology environment.
Responsibilities include the development, design and maintenance of
inbound data processing and outbound data processing, using the tools
within the Davisvision business.
. Essential Responsibilities: Design, develop, implement, maintain,
analyze and understand the implications of all inbound and outbound
data transmissions, automation and system monitoring tools with
customers and partners.
. Identify, analyze and communicate reoccurring problems and develop
remediation plans.
. Review and enhance documentation for troubleshooting and resolution
procedures for all levels of support.
. Maintain compliance and reporting for all inbound/outbound data
transmissions with customers and partners..
. Meet with business stakeholders and other technical team members to
gather and analyze engineering requirements.
. Work independently as well as within a collaborative team.
. Provide on call 24/7 support for critical situations.
UBS Financial Services, Weehawken, NJ
July 2012 - July 2013
Lead Production Support Specialist
. Provided Production Support for all transmissions FTP SFTP
FTP,NDM,HTTP protocols for UNIX and M/F systems
. Team leader in dismantling old legacy FTP transmissions to new secure
FTP drop box server using Tumbleweed secure client.
. Strong Experience and knowledge of supporting in unix or Linux
Enviornments and ITIL problem Management.
. Provided ITIL aligned process compliance with dedicated workflows for
both ITIL incident management and ITIL problem Management.
. Led Team in analyzing and designing internal/external interfaces to
create new internal firm database from PeopleSoft and ADP fields
. Involved in trading systems and expert in file transmissions for
private and public sector entities Experience leading both user and
technical teams to implement business process enhancements based upon
requirements and best practices.
. Promoted extensibility reusability in application design coding.
Strong emphasis placed on reusing existing frameworks where possible
or developing reusable components.
. Manage a team of six technicians and four operators
. Adept in coding batch COBOL programs, reconstructing VSAM files, Flat
files Etc: Access, VSAM, SQL, Stored Procedures, PeopleSoft and ADP
files database with more than 10 years of experience.
. Development of COBOL II interface programs extract reports per
functional requirements provided by end users and outside vendors
. Prepared test plans and performed test scripts to validate software
correctness for performance
CITIGroup, Jersey City, NJ
July 2010 - March 2011
Lead Production Support Specialist Shift Supervisor (Contractor)
. Attended Release management meetings twice daily to scope for changes
from any outside application that may have an impact on
Securities/Options and IMS Accounts / Products.
. Daily update of ISG wellness log. Shows current status of applications
to other teams within CITI
. Controlling production emergencies and critical path situations by
maintaining a state of readiness and having all program ABENDS report
directly to me to ensure proper identification of the problem before
any programmer or manager is called for support.
. Provide technical assistance to OP-TECHS when debugging abnormal job
ABENDS paying special attention to critical path job applications and
transmissions that run in UNIX and mainframe platforms.
. Coordinator of early morning meetings with overseas team in India to
discuss shift Activities/ Production outages and on-going projects
. Experienced Sybase developer with expertise in Stored Procedures,
Triggers, Views, Cursors, Indexes Tables and Temporary tables.
. Strong in Sybase query optimization and tuning update statistics
UBS Financial Services, Weehawken, NJ
June 1998 - January 2009
Lead Production Support Specialist Shift-Supervisor
. Development support, production support, and design review in a
complex environments
. Managed a team of five technicians and two operators
. Supervised a team of 8 in monitoring and resolving all applications
outages with strong emphasis on critical path applications in
Mainframe and Distrusted platforms.
. Specialized in customization, interfaces, extensions etc
. Build and maintain SQL scripts index's and complex queries for data
analysis and extraction
. Design and test internal and external fie transmissions using
SFTP/FTP/NDM Protocols
. Design and coded in SQL- Used SPUFFY utilities to run inquiries
. Worked with client to identify and concur business and technical
requirements
. Troubleshooting batch and online applications using Expediter,
Debugger and OS utilities
. Prepare test plans and test scripts using Change-man and File-Aid
utilities for validating of software for correctness and performance.
. Provide technical assistance to OP-TECHS when debugging abnormal job
ABENDS paying special attention to critical path job applications and
transmissions
. Assisted in project management and planning efforts for design and
deployment of PeopleSoft applications and upgrades
. Designed, developed, tested, document and deploy People Tools,
PeopleSoft Internet architecture and related components.
. Met with developers to tune SQL queries using SQL profiler
. Updated shell scripts for PeopleSoft SQL interface for Mainframe
environment
Lerner New York, New York, NY
1991 - 1998
Programmer Analyst
. Reinstalled and Maintained Dun & Bradstreet Payroll/Personnel HR-E
System to current releases.
. User Support for Payroll & Human Resources.
. Production support DBS HR: E Payroll/Personnel System, DCI, IE (40,000
Associates). Weekly Payroll Checks, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly
Processing.
. Maintain the DBS Taxing Subsystem and test all tax source changes on a
timely basis.
. Maintain all DBS Bulletin source updates.
. Regulatory Reporting: Quarterly Tapes and Forms, Federal W2 Forms and
tapes, Federal State Tapes.
. Internet expert Insight - For retrieval of taxes, source updates,
Federal W2, State forms
. Direct Contact to DBS Support Line for trouble shooting program
problems.
. Development of In-house COBOL II, IE and Eztrieve for extracts labels,
discount cards, reports and transactions.
. Support In-House systems for Stock Purchase Plan, Insurance, General
Ledger, Accounts Payable and other Financial Systems using Cobol II
and CICS.
. Home Access to Lerner New York using Advantis
Education
City College of New York - Computer Science Program