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Resume:
Wessel (Johan) Vosloo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesseljohannesvosloo
Monroe, NY, 10950 *************@*****.***
Summary
Result-orientated and well rounded Information Technology professional, with extensive analyses, development and production support experience in the financial services industry. Proven expertise in all phases of the SDLC, with excellent analytical and organizational skills, on both mainframe and distributed platforms. Skilled in requirements gathering, data analyses and business analyses. Recognized for success incorporating user needs into cost-effective and user-friendly solutions, known for scalability and durability.
Technical Skills
Languages: Natural, JCL, SQL, Cobol
Databases: Adabas, DB2, VSAM
Software: TSO, MQ, MS Office, Sharepoint, Unix, Quality Center
Professional Experience
Morgan Stanley, New York, NY 2000 - 2016
Senior Programmer Analyst (2010 – 2016)
Managed six-person team providing analyses, development and production support to global Finance, Sub-ledger, Cost Allocations and Regulatory applications.
Automated and documented procedures for Quality Assurance of developed software.
Improved existing Journals, Positions and Balances processes and make them more efficient.
Maintained QA environments and used cases, for testing in support of monthly code releases.
Achieved significant cost savings by optimizing high MIPS and CPU usage mainframe processes.
Significantly reduced mainframe costs by analyzing and decommissioning close to a thousand legacy mainframe Journal creation and Positions and Balances processes.
Conducted data and impact analyses for replacing legacy data use with renovated data use, for over two hundred applications using Journals, Positions and Balances data.
Established, trained and managed mainframe Center of Excellence team, providing high quality analyses, development and production support for mainframe applications.
Analyzed, designed, developed and implemented secure, stable and efficient mainframe interfaces.
oJournals, Positions and Balances data interfaces to distributed platforms.
oAggregation interface with General Ledger, aggregating data for efficiency purposes.
oFiltering interfaces with renovated sub-ledger and reconciliation systems on the distributed platform, allowing for distributed processes to cope with data volume.
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IT Business Analyst (2006 – 2010)
Managed two-person team providing business analyses, development and production support to global Accounts Payable, Cost Allocations and Regulatory applications.
Established and managed knowledge sharing initiative.
Optimized long running batch jobs and make them more cost efficient.
Resolved long outstanding application specific bugs deemed unsolvable.
Eliminated regular occurring software issues by implementing permanent fixes.
Rolled out the use of Quality Center and the use of a request logging application.
Developed scripts for budgeting, data loads and reporting in the SQL Server environment.
Analyzed and documented mainframe applications for conversion to distributed platform.
Improved and stabilized external data transfer processes and application critical processes.
Reduced manual workload of users by automating processes, which led to improved control.
Conducted Business Analyses to incorporate Basel II into a distributed Regulatory application.
Designed and developed secure, stable and efficient mainframe interfaces with the General Ledger.
Conducted business, data and impact analyses for mainframe decommissions and conversion to distributed platform.
Significantly reduced cost of running multiple applications by integrating various mainframe and distributed Accounts Payable applications, and their data, into a single Accounts Payable application.
Programmer Analyst (2000 – 2006)
Managed two-person team providing analyses, development and production support to global Finance, Journals, Positions and Balances applications.
Trained global team on providing quality production support.
Analyzed data and solved complex production issues and breaks.
Reduced Batch abends to improve stability and reduce production support costs.
Automated ready for business checks and implemented alerting for supported applications.
Optimized and upgraded batch jobs to reduce delays and duration of batch stream processing.
Maintained QA environments and performed code reviews as part of Production Review Board.
Planned and executed disaster recovery events and partake in outage management and resolutions.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com), University of South Africa
Honors Bachelor of Science (B.Sc (Hons)), University of South Africa
Numerous certified Information Technology related courses at various institutions
Awards and Achievements
Morgan Stanley: First Choice award / Various team awards and nominations
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