IVY BRITTON

Candidate Description

Motivated and driven IT Professional offering over ten years of hands-on

experience in designing, developing, implementing and testing mainframe

systems to automate business processes. Demonstrated capacity to contribute

to a successful delivery of full life cycle projects, on time and within

budget. Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize when

needed.

Technical Qualifications/Skills List

Qualifications

. Mainframe applications design, coding, tuning, documentation.

. Planned and defined system requirements. Designed programs and

developed code to support a broad range of business applications.

. Designed, developed, and integrated new code to match business

requirements and with a high degree of flexibility and

maintainability.

. Developed test case scenarios to evaluate program adequacy;

troubleshot systems in accordance with test results and user feedback.

Debugged systems prior to migration to the production environment and

as the applications run live.

. Enhanced various aspects of systems performance, including improving

performance of databases, maintenance and recommend workable

solutions.

. Experience in development, design, operational support, hand-on

implementation and configuration of infrastructure.

. Full SDLC.

Skills list

. Languages: COBOL, COBOLII

. Software: CICS, DB2, TERADATA,SQL,UDB, IMS, QMF, PROCs, VSAM, MQ

series,

. Operating Systems: MVS/XA, MVS/ESA, z/OS

. Hardware: IBM 30XX

. Tools: IBM Utilities, JCL, TSO/ISPF, REXX, CEDA/DADS, QA, Platinum,

ADS/O, CHANGEMAN, IDCAMS, IDMS, EASYTREIVE, FILE-AID, SYNCSORT, SOX,

EXPEDITER, FTP, CA7, Crystal Reports, Fastload, MLOAD, CASE tools,

STROBE, Data Warehousing, CONTROL-M, ZEKE, SHADOW DIRECT, ENDEAVOR,

PANVALET, VIASOFT, VIEW DIRECT, INTERTEST, DB2 CONNECT, DATACOM,

Agile, OMEGAMON, ROSCOE, ERWin, SharePoint, SDLC, SHAREPOINT

Business Qualifications/Skills List

Qualifications

. Participated in meetings with the user and technical communities to

provide information concerning project status, resolve problem issues,

and promote progress toward attainment of common goal.

. Strong organizational, analytical, time management and problem

solving skills.

. Skilled at performing multiple tasks simultaneously and changing focus

quickly as implementation and production needs change.

. Interfaced with different departments within the organization

regarding new deployments.

Skills list

. Experienced with MS Office tools: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and

Project.

Employment History

Sr. Programmer/Analyst (Consultant position)

5/2013 to 5/2014

Macy's Technology - Major Retailer, Alpharetta, Georgia

Participated in the new roll out for Foresight's daily data feed

from DC2. This project

provides Foresight with merchandizing data of all sales

transactions - including

confirmed reservations, shipments, cancellations, voids and

returns. Foresight

needs the data to determine the demand for each item of

merchandise at each fulfillment

locations. Contribution included writing Tec Spec, development,

testing and

implementation of new Batch DB2 systems. Used IBM 3390,COBOL II,

DB2, TERADATA,

SQL, MVS XPEDITER, ENDEAVOR, VSAM, FILEAID, CONTROL-M, IBM

Utilities.

Sr. Programmer/Analyst (Consultant position)

4/2012 to 10/2012

Macy's Technology - Major Retailer, Alpharetta, Georgia

Participated in the roll out of Macy's Customer Cloud C2.0 this

system provide the functionality to capture and store Receipts

Preferences for Customers at point of sale. It treats eReceipts as a

preference rather than an indicator on customer record and it

incorporates enhanced reporting. Contributions included design,

development, testing and implementation of new Batch DB2 and CICS

systems. Used IBM 3390, COBOL II, DB2, SQL, CICS, MVS/JCL, TERADATA,

SOX, XPEDITER, ENDEAVOR, VSAM, FILEAID, IBM Utilities.

Sr. Programmer/Analyst (Consultant)

1/2011 to 9/2011

Primerica - Largest Financial Service Marketing Firm, Duluth, GA

. Participated in a roll out of Primerica Financial Service Investment,

a new major marketing initiative design to increase sales revenue base

on sales of mutual funds. Contributions included design, development

and implementation of Batch DB2 systems.

. Wrote Batch programs utilizing an API module to retrieve

Mutual Fund data from a database for Daily processing.

. Participated in meetings with the users and Business Analysts to

exchange information concerning project status and issues. In

addition, I worked closely with the users to explain and translate

their needs into an actual workflow system.

. Participated in production support for nightly batch processes.

. Used IBM 3390, COBOL II, DB2, SQL, MVS/JCL, EASYTREIVE, XML, VSAM,

SDLC, MQ Series, SOX, AGILE, ENDEAVOR, FILEAID, IDMS, IBM Utilities,

STORED PROCEDURES, IPAC.

Sr. Programmer/Analyst (Consultant position) 06/2010

to 12/2010

Vanguard - Largest Mutual Fund Company, Malvern, PA

. In response to the firm's Cost Basis Legislation initiative, I served

as an integral member of a team charged with the development and

implementation of automated systems that derived cost basis data for

new unrealized gain/loss files from existing VSAM files and DB2

tables.

. Responded to other needs of the marketing groups by providing systems

analysis and participating in the development, enhancements, testing,

and implementation of the Mutual Fund Online Screens that writes and

retrieves daily transactions to and from a message queue.

. Provided timely responses to client requests and queries and resolve

client issues.

. Used IBM 3390, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, MVS/JCL, INTERTEST,

EASYTREIVE, XML, VSAM, SDLC, CRYSTAL REPORTS, AGILE, CEDA/DADS, MQ

SERIES, PANVALET, FILEAID, QMF, IDMS, CONNECT DIRECT, IBM Utilities,

STORED, PROCEDURES, XPEDITER, ZEKE.

Sr. Programmer/Analyst (Consultant position)

3/2008 to 12/2008

Macy's Technology - Major Retailer, Alpharetta, Georgia

. Due to Federated Stores reorganization, I served as an integral member

of a team charged with identifying and implementing company-wide

modifications to its mainframe systems, as it consolidates regional

divisions to reduce cost.

. Modified Copybooks, Process, JCLs, Batch and Online programs to

reflect company-wide changes.

. Analyzed and executed user's request changes and enhancements.

. Identified modules impacted by production issues and recommended code

remediation.

. Provided timely response to client's request for DB2 queries.

. Used COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, MVS/JCL, TERADATA, XPEDITER, ROSCOE,

VSAM, ADS/O, ENDEVOR, DATA-COM, SDLC, CEDA/DADS, FILEAID, IBM

UTILITIES, ZEKE, IDMS, SOX, INFOPAC, QMF, CONTROL-M, EASYTREIVE,

TSO/ISPF, INTERTEST, CONNECT DIRECT, PLATINUM, OMEGAMON, MICROSOFT

PROJECT VISIO.

Sr. Programmer/Analyst (Consultant position)

2005 to 2007

Georgia Department of Human Resources, Atlanta, Georgia

. Engaged in the analysis, development, enhancements, testing and

implementation of new and existing software for the State's Online and

Batch applications (SUCCESS). This system determines eligibility for

MEDICARE, TANF and FOOD STAMPS.

. Performed system analysis to ensure the feasibility of proposed new

programs or program modifications to support the implementation of

legislative mandates.

. Completed performance tuning and monitoring of production jobs.

Modified embedded SQL to improve CPU runtime.

. Participated in the definition, training, implementation and support

of system requirements and production support.

. Analyzed business requirements for Employee Services systems

translated requirements to program specifications. Developed and

implemented batch and online software for ESS system.

. Participated in production support.

. Identified customer requirements, developed test schedules, reviewed

test plans.

. Used COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, MVS/JCL, XPEDITER, EASYTREIVE, SDLC,

VSAM, QMF, IDMS, Mercury, VIEW DIRECT, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, INFOPAC,

REXX, CONNECT DIRECT, IMS, ENDEVOR, ADS/O, ERWin, SHAREPOINT,

MICROSOFT PROJECT, CONTROL-M, LIBRARIAN, IBM UTILITIES.

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

1995 to 2005

Merrill Lynch, Princeton- NJ

. Served as an integral member of a team charge with the development

and implementation of PME/Bloomberg Data Repository, an application

that provided real time message queuing to all users corporate-wide

with respect to securities transactions and market/price fluctuations.

. Engaged in the enhancements that significantly improve

accuracy of the firm's Security Pricing System.

. Ensured timely provision of financial market information to

users, analyzed, designed, tested and launched an application

that process and integrate external JJ Kenny Daily feed with

Merrill Lynch's Proprietary Global Security System.

. Participated in the conversion of IMS database to DB2

database. Wrote the program to extract and convert data from

IMS. Prepared Process to load data to DB2 tables Modified

programs, copybooks, PROCs and JCLs.

. Developed and implemented a system that used CICS to read and

process XML-based request message from message queue,

translated the request to DB2 calls, transformed the result

sets back to XML, and returned the XML back to output message

queues.

. Wrote new programs and modified existing programs to interface with

.NET web applications.

. Used COBOL II, CICS, DB2, SQL, MQSERIES, MVS/JCL, XPEDITER,

EASYTREIVE, SDLC, VSAM, IDMS, OMEGAMON, VIEW DIRECT, CHANGEMAN,

FILEAID, INFOPAC, DB2 CONNECT, IMS, ENDEVOR,

TSO/ISPF, PLATINUM, MICROSOFT PROJECT, CONTROL-M, STORED

PROCEDURES, REXX, PANVALET, IBM UTILITIES, ADS/O.

Education and Certifications

. Bachelor of Science, KEAN University, Union, NJ

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