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Manager Project / Application Support / COBOL programmer

Location:
NCR, Philippines
Posted:
September 19, 2015

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MICHAEL P. CABRERA

Phase * Block * Lot ** Sanca Camella Provence,

Malolos City, Bulacan 3000

Mobile number PH: (63-927-*******

Email address: acrkmg@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVES

To be able to work in a stable company for career advancement, professional growth, and financial stability

To obtain a challenging position in a company where I could contribute using my technical and management skills as Service Delivery Manager

EDUCATION

B.S. in Psychology Graduate, Our Lady of Fatima University, graduated in 2004

WORK EXPERIENCE

I’ve been inclined with Software/System Design, Development and Maintenance, and Vendor Management in 11 years of my working experience.

DBS Bank Ltd (Singapore) – June 2014 – June 2015

Inclined with DBS-IMEX System as a Senior Staff/Service Delivery Manager for system and infrastructure where I perform the following roles and responsibilities:

Responsible for all infrastructure/technical service delivery of IBG Technology, with a banking domain in trade and finance.

Partner with project manager for technical advisory and delivery as per project requirements.

Present and provide status reporting to project manager. This includes both project and enhancements.

Drive a continuous process improvement to enhance turnaround and efficiency for project deliverables.

Brief application stakeholders/operations with the details of the project plan and schedule.

Manage application stakeholders/operations during project UAT testing and production rollout.

Work closely with vendors and application team to resolve production tickets and development JIRA's (Incident and problem management)

Prepare and review with vendor and application team new change request raised for project fix, upgrade and releases. (Change Management)

Notable Projects Handled

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) Document server EOS Window 2003 – 2008 upgrade main task are design and manage/leads banks vendors on project deliveries.

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) Document server HA (high availability) and DR (disaster recovery) setup main task are design and manage/leads banks vendors on project deliveries.

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) server load balancing module main task are design and manage/leads banks vendors on project deliveries.

Environment/Software

ITIL, SDLC, CITRIX, AIX-UNIX, CICS, COBOL, SCRIPTS, ORACLE, SQL DEVELOPER, TIVOLI, SNA, WINSCP, Websphere (WAS), MQ, Webservices, SAN storage, Windows/Document Server- Wintel, Firewall, SAN/storage, VMware, VCS.

NCS -DBS (Singapore) – September 2011 – April 2014

Inclined with DBS-IMEX Application/System as a Senior Application Consultant where I perform the following roles and responsibilities:

System Administrator

Responsible for system/environment installations, maintenance and changes.

Installation of upgrade/update of TXSeries CICS versions.

Installation and maintenance of CTG (CICS transaction gateway)

Installation and maintenance of Micro Focus Server Express (development and runtime – both with license)

Installation and maintenance of CICS interface communications services (SNA, IP protocol (IPIC), MQ and Webservices)

Maintenance of Websphere (WAS) environment.

Maintenance of Cobol/batch interface thru Connect Direct (C:D).

Responsible in checking and requesting for Firewall opening between system interface and user locations.

Responsible in preparation of documents for SAN storage allocation request for application servers.

Responsible in setup/planning of HA and DR of application. Scope is (SFS, CICS, MQ, Connect direct, Websphere(WAS), document server –Wintel and Database- Oracle)

Application SIT, UAT and Production server upgrade development and implementation.

Production Support

Preparation of Change Request documents/attachments.

Primary support for all Change Request implemented by the application team (Infra, promotion and fixes.)

Attend to all issues encountered in Production.

Resolve problems in Production by performing root cause analysis and proposing fixes.

Send and follow up approvals prior to Installation

Analyst

Analyze requirements and prepare design documents

Perform impact analysis by searching all programs affected by the changes

Execute peer review when required

Analyze and prepare CR (change request) implementation plan in production environment.

Developer

Translate design documents into Cobol or CICS Program

Convert Mainframe Cobol or CICS Program into AIX programs.

Update/Modify the program to attend with the Change Request

Update/Modify/Make new program to add functionalities or validations with the program depending on the requirements

Tester

Prepare test data depending on test conditions created

Prepare Test Conditions, Test Expectations, and Actual Results Documentation

Execute Component Testing

Assist in Systems Test by running batch job streams

Prepare Scripts to be used in Systems Testing

Log issues that have inconsistent actual test results with the expected test results

Communicate with other teams/users for execution of different kinds of testing – User Acceptance Test, Assembly Test, Component Test

Other Tasks

Handles deployment of fixes from development region to SIT and UAT regions.

Support project/code implementation

Attend team meeting to discuss technical issues, lessons learned, and best practices

Do all necessary documentation during Analyze, Design, Test, Implementation, and Support

Notable Projects Handled

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) Macau Auto Loan Grading Application -

Involved in the System Analysis, Design and Development of batch programs to

extract records from IMEX database (table) to be passed to Finacle (core banking) for

load grading purposes..

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) SCF – Supply Chain Finance.

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) Server upgrade and migration.

IMEX6.5 HA (High availability) and DR (Disaster recovery) development and setup.

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) server upgrade/migration from P5 to P7 – main tasks are development and production implementation and support.

IMEX6.5 (DBS Bank) server load balancing module - main task are development and production implementation and support.

Environment

ITIL, SDLC, CITRIX, AIX-UNIX, CICS, COBOL, SCRIPTS, ORACLE, SQL DEVELOPER, TIVOLI, SNA, WINSCP, Websphere (WAS), MQ, Webservices, SAN storage, Document Server- Wintel.

Housing and Development Board (Singapore) – July 2007 – September 2011

Inclined with Housing Rental System as a Software Developer where I perform the following roles and responsibilities:

Analyst

Analyze requirements and prepare design documents

Resolve problems in Production by performing root cause analysis and proposing fixes

Perform impact analysis by searching all programs affected by the changes

Execute peer review when required

Developer

Translate design documents into Cobol or CICS Program

Update/Modify the program to attend with the Change Request

Update/Modify/Make new program to add functionalities or validations with the program depending on the requirements

Tester

Prepare test data depending on test conditions created

Prepare Test Conditions, Test Expectations, and Actual Results Documentation

Execute Component Testing

Assist in Systems Test by running batch job streams

Prepare JCLs to be used in Systems Testing

Log issues that have inconsistent actual test results with the expected test results

Communicate with other teams/users for execution of different kinds of testing – User Acceptance Test, Assembly Test, Component Test

Other Tasks

Send and follow up approvals prior to Installation

Support project/code implementation

Production support – attend to all issues encountered in Production

Attend team meeting to discuss technical issues, lessons learned, and best practices

Do all necessary documentation during Analyze, Design, Test, Implementation, and Support

Notable Projects Handled

Rental Management System Statement of Account (SOA) -

Involved in the System Analysis, Design and Development of batch programs to

extract records from RMS database (table) and involved interface files and process

the records according to HDB standards.

Developed batch programs for hardcopy and online reporting as well as housekeeping programs and back-up generation.

Worked directly with the System Administrator to facilitate User Acceptance Testing to comply with the requirements from all parties involved.

Rebates/Penalty/Rent Adjustments / GST Adjustments –

Involved in the System Analysis, development and maintenance of new and existing

batch and online programs based from user requirements.

System interface with Rental Management System –

Involved in the System Analysis, development and maintenance of new and existing

batch and online programs based from other HDB systems requirements.

Environment

SDLC, MVS/TSO/ISPF, MVS/JCL, COBOL-390, DB2/SQL, CICS, Changeman, VSAM, QSAM, CEEDUMP, SYNCSORT, JOBTRACK, SAS

Workgroup Consulting Inc. – May 2004 – May 2007

Client - Eastern Duty Free (EDF) Promotions Philippines, Inc)

Deployed in a bank client as a Software Developer and Administrative assistant where I perform the following roles and responsibilities:

Developer

Translate design documents into COBOL batch and DB2 Program

Code programs using COBOL,JCL,CICS and DB2 language syntax and standards

Update the program to meet the Change Request

Update and make old and new program to add functionalities or validations with the

program depending on the requirements

Analyze requirements and prepare design documents

Resolve problems in Production by performing root cause analysis and proposing

fixes

Perform impact analysis by searching all programs affected by the changes

Execute peer review when required

Prepare test data depending on test conditions created

Prepare Test Conditions, Test Expectations, and Actual Results Documentation

Execute Component Testing

Assist in Systems Test by running batch job streams

Prepare JCL’s to be used in Systems Testing

Log issues that have inconsistent actual test results with the expected test results

Communicate with other teams/users for execution of different kinds of testing – User

Acceptance Test, Assembly Test, Component Test

Send and follow up approvals prior to Installation

Support project/code implementation

Attend to all issues encountered in Production

Attend team meeting to discuss technical issues, lessons learned, and best practices

Do all necessary documentation during Analyze, Design, Test, Implementation, and

Support

Directly reporting to the head of the company.

Logs minutes of the meeting

Monitors and maintains office supplies usage and costs

Resolves queries/issues from other EDF offices

Processes telephone bills

Prepares Monthly Reports

Handles co-employee's concerns or requests (e.g. hardware problems)

Maintains manager's schedule

Makes appointment with the clients

Handles incoming and outgoing mails

Scans and electronically files paperwork (invoices)

Processes all forms of sponsorship and mini events

Provides over all assistance in the accomplishment of any other task assign

Environment

MVS/TSO/ISPF, MVS/JCL, COBOL-390, DB2/SQL, CICS, Changeman, VSAM, QSAM, CEEDUMP, SYNCSORT, JOBTRACK, SAS

TRAINING

Software Development Life Cycle. Mainframe Programming - TSO/ISPF, JCLs, DB2, Cobol Programming. Changeman. CICS Programming. Capability Maturity Model.

PERSONAL BACKGROUND

I was born on October 23, 1982 at Las Piñas, Manila A responsible person that gives a 100 percent effort in everything that he does. I consider myself as a fast-learner and a very sociable person.

Willing to be trained and work long hours. Good oral and written English communication and presentation skills. Team player.

PASSPORT NUMBER: EB2880209 which will expire on 01 July 2016.



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