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Mainfkrame Team Lead

Location:
Lewis Center, OH
Posted:
October 21, 2015

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Team Leadership ~Project Leadership ~ Analysis/Design/Development

Possess solid project and team leadership skills with the ability to identify requirements, allocate resources, and facilitate project/program delivery within timeline and scope.

Bring a results orientation to challenges and a sense of urgency to problem solving and issue resolution.

Highly skilled at analyzing scenarios and designing flexible and efficient solutions.

Excel at eliciting comprehensive functional requirements and creating accurate specifications that need little to no clarification for developers to perform their tasks.

Proven track record of working with end users to ensure a high level of comfort and satisfaction with the end product and subsequent support.

Personal Leave of Absence March 2013 - September 2015

I made the difficult decision to take a personal leave of absence and am now actively targeting opportunities to reenter the workforce. I am looking for a position that will utilizing my thirty years of experience in mainframe technology and perhaps allow me the opportunity to upgrade my skills by learning new PC technologies.

Modis, Columbus, OH April 2012 - March 2013

Team Lead, Client: Nationwide Insurance

Led team of both technical and business analysts in developing and implementing modifications to comply with new state regulations pertaining to insurance underwriting and rating in multiple states.

In under a year became department's Policy Rating SME entrusted with modifying complex COBOL programs and MS Excel spreadsheets to result in accurate policy rating.

JP Morgan Chase, Columbus, OH February 2004 - February 2011

Lead Programmer/Analyst

JP Morgan Chase, Columbus, OH November 2005-February 2011

Odyssey Consulting, Client: Banc One Services Corporation, Columbus, OH May 2004 - November 2005

Kendall & Davis Inc., Client: Banc One Services Corporation, Columbus, OH February 2004 - May 2004

In under a year became department SME as lead programmer/analyst on complete redesign of all departmental interfaces and calculations for DDA/TD statements, the coordinated efforts of which resulted in JP Morgan Chase being voted by customers as having the best DDA/TDA statements in the industry.

Led technical team in successful development and implementation of largest tri-annual release in department history, adding much needed functionality, automating two new sub-systems, and eliminating multiple production issues.

Was responsible for all aspects of SDLC for Bank Split project, dramatically decreasing bank processing time, which resulted in the consistent surpassing of SLAs for that bank.

Designed, programmed, and executed conversion processes to streamline business functions, resulting in reduced costs, increased efficiency, and consistent meeting of departmental SLAs.

Effectively trained off-shore personnel in departmental IST and UAT processes, freeing up senior resources for more in-depth development and maintenance assignments.

Skinner Consulting, Columbus, OH January 1992 - December 2003

Independent Consultant

Client: State of Ohio Department of Taxation, Columbus, OH June 2003 - December 2003

Analyzed, designed, developed, and coded backend system (consisting of SQL stored procedures and COBOL/DB2 programs) for innovative WEB-based School and Income Tax payment system.

Client: Bank One Services Corporation, Columbus, OH March 2003 - April 2003

Created and ran JCL to reformat and FTP mainframe files to PC server, updated disaster recovery documentation accordingly, and assisted with production support issues as needed.

Client: Bank One Services Corp., Columbus, OH January 2001 - October 2002

Designed, programmed, and executed conversion processes to streamline business functions, resulting in reduced costs, increased efficiency, and consistent meeting of departmental SLAs.

Ensured accurate and efficient processing by troubleshooting and correcting issues and providing effective 24/7 production support and maintenance.

Client: Bank One Services Corporation, Columbus, OH March 1996 - October 2000

Streamlined conversion process for 2 departments resulting in reduced conversion timelines, increased accuracy, and higher level of client satisfaction.

Created comprehensive documentation of RCV conversion process which later became affectionately known as the "RCV Bible."

Designed, programmed, and executed conversion processes to streamline business functions, resulting in reduced costs, increased efficiency, and consistent meeting of departmental SLAs.

Effectively trained and led 2 technical teams in programming and executing conversion processes.

Client: Checkfree Corporation, Columbus, OH April 1995 - February 1996

Perfomed entire SDLC process in creating new online Account Maintenance/Batch Entry system along with requested batch reporting programs, thereby automating previously manual processes which created time/cost savings for the department.

Client: Compuserve, Columbus, OH February 1995

Developed SQL stored procedures providing valuable information to enable customer support staff to more effectively serve their clients.

Client: Simon & Schuster, Columbus, OH October 1993 - December 1994

Began by designing and coding COBOL/DB2 sales reporting programs that enabled sales management to track quantities of product of sales on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual basis. Also created ad-hoc stored SQL procedures to provide needed information upon request.

Was quickly promoted to continuing with design and coding tasks and also leading team of 3 senior technical analysts in completing the batch reporting system on time and within budget.

February 1993-October 1993

Attended various informational seminars and performed research in order to position myself to start my own business as an independent consultant.

Client: Continental Insurance Corporation, Columbus, OH January 1992 - March 1992

Executed smooth development and support transition from seasoned team to new team located in New Jersey with no lapse in client satisfaction.

Bank One Services Corporation, Columbus, OH February 1992 - February 1993

Advisory Programmer Analyst

Ensured accurate and efficient ACH processing by troubleshooting and correcting recurring legacy issues and providing effective 24/7 production support and maintenance.

Created comprehensive documentation for legacy systems.

Continental Insurance Corporation, Columbus, OH November 1989 - December 1991

Project/Team Lead

Developed and implemented departmental standards for analysis, programming, testing, and documentation.

Led team of OSU student interns in entire SDLC process of creating new Personal Property Insurance system that automated and streamlined previously manual processes resulting in time/cost savings.

Greatly increased client satisfaction by leading team of OSU student interns in analysis, design, and complete rewrite of existing Ranch/Farm Policy system.

Led team of OSU student interns in entire SDLC process of creating new Personal Property Insurance system that automated and streamlined previously manual processes resulting in time/cost savings.

Created comprehensive test plan that resulted in system passing UAT on the first try with no defects.

Comtech Systems, Inc., Columbus, OH April 1988 - November 1989

Analyst/Programmer

Client: Continental Insurance Corporation, Columbus, OH April 1988 - February 1989

Client: Bank One Services Corporation, Columbus, OH April 1989 - November 1989

Please see above for achievements.

Platforms: IBM Mainframes, PCs

Operating Systems: z/OS, OS/MVS, Windows

File Architectures: VSAM, DB2, GDGs

Languages: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, SQL/SPUFI, CICS

Editors: TSO/ISPF, XEDIT, ELIPS/CA Librarian, ROSCOE

Mainframe: SORT/SYNCSORT, File Aid, Changeman, SDSF, IBM Debug, Expediter, Intertest

PC: MS Office, MS VISIO, MicroFocus Workbench

Lima Technical College (Rhodes Technical College), Lima OH January 1980 - March 1982

Associates degree in Data Processing, GPA 3.85/4.0.

Coursework Included

COBOL

BASIC

Assembler

Fortran

Systems Analysis and Design

RPG



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