Manager Project Mainframe Developer

Experience Summary:

Senior mainframe application developer, team leader, architect with 20+ years experience in application development

Recent IT experience in brokerage, securities, banking, credit card

Managed on shore/off shore staff and contractors

Deep knowledge in project documentation

Good exposure to Agile

Extensive knowledge in requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, test plans, testing, code migration

Bulk of experience is in mainframe technology, DB2, COBOL, Stored Proc’s, batch, CICS

In depth knowledge of mainframes, data, ZOS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SORT, utilities, CICS, MQ, DB2, XML, FTP, NDM

Fidelity Investments (TPA vendor)

Senior Mainframe Developer -- September 2015

March 2016

Reason for leaving: Reduction in force

Coded complex batch/CICS processes on mainframe/multi-platform for mutual fund products encompassing allocation, reallocation, audit reporting, fee and variance calculations

DB2, VSAM, COBOL, SAS, MQ, SORT, CA7, Share Point, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Intertest, FILEAID, BMC, NDM, AXWAY

Documented test cases and assisted quality assurance testers with data preparation and validation

Analyzed and created JCL to load and sanitize confidential data from production databases to test environments

Built and executed ENDEVOR migration packages from development to Quality Assurance and Pre-Production environments

Unemployed by choice

Traveled and furniture refinishing.

Bank of America (Genesis10 vendor)

Senior Mainframe Developer -- Jan 2013 - June 2014

Dec 2010 - May 2012

Reason for leaving: 18 month contract term limits

Coded complex batch processes on mainframe/multi-platform to consolidate/create DB2 repository used by credit card collection client server and web applications

DB2, VSAM, COBOL, SAS, MQ, SORT, CA7, SoftBase Checkpoint Facility, Share Point, Clarity, HP Quality Center, Expeditor, IBM Debugger, Fileaid, BMC, IBM File Manager

Collaborated with lines of business, application SME’s to discover requirements and design

Prepared project design, impact, data mapping, estimate, test plan, implementation plan (day 0, day 1, 2, etc.)

Participated in postmortem discussions

ENDEVOR used for test and production migrations

Two 18 month telecommute contracts

Unemployed bad market

July 2010 to November 2010

Unemployed by choice

Traveled and remodeled home. -- June 2009 to June 2010

JPMorgan Chase Worldwide Securities Services

VP, Project Manager, Senior Tech Officer -- May 2000 to May 2009

Reason for leaving: reduction in force

Managed a team of (7-14) on shore/off shore staff and contractors to develop and modify extremely complex securities financial applications

Lead developer in coordinating projects with US/UK application SME’s on implementations involving major financial systems

Project documentation and estimates

Tracked project budget burn rate and reported status

Researched internal & external vendor applications for data mapping, provided test plan documentation and project status

Responsible for a queue of 35-40 small to large technology projects that interfaced with various hardware platforms, vendors and external services

Extensive interaction with many levels of technical and internal/external business partners

Application manager responsible for the consolidation of DDA banking transactions, domestic/global security trades, security loans and client data from multiple platforms

Accountable for Securities Custodian DB2 repository used by mainframe, BI, client server and internet reporting applications

Coded and modified 100’s of COBOL/CICS DB2 programs

DB2, VSAM, COBOL, CICS, SORT, MQ, XML, INTERTEST, CA7, SWIFT

ENDEVOR used for unit, user acceptance and production migrations

HP Quality Center was used for defect tracking

Republic Insurance and Argo Data

Independent contractor -- March 1998 to April 2000

Reason for leaving: Completed contracts

Corrected programming defects in 100+ COBOL batch data consolidation and report programs for Republic and validated test results with business

Client requested ARGO to change mortgage C++ application from VSAM to COBOL/CICS DB2

Redesigned mortgage application to use COBOL/CICS

Modeled mortgage data to conform to DB2 relational database

Coded COBOL/CICS programs and tested with client server staff

Prepared and executed test to emulate transaction processing using CICS LU6.2

Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter Retail Brokerage

AVP Development Lead -- May 1986 to February 1998

Reason for leaving: Jobs relocated to NY

Designed and developed client server & mainframe brokerage applications

Coordinated design & development with international product business clients in NY and IT staff

Security market reference data and security pricing SME

CICS LU 6.2 used to send SWIFT format wire transfers to CITIBANK

Used a MQ like product (GRAPEVINE) to seamlessly step security transactions to multi-platform application systems

NDM and LU 6.2 connections used to access security reference data directly from vendors and store in VSAM files and DB2 tables

Lead developer for team of seven programmer/analysts

DB2, VSAM, COBOL, CICS, SORT, MQ, XML, INTERTEST, VB, CA7

SKILLS:

SDLC, CMM, Project Management, Share Point, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Clarity, ZOS, MVS, MQ, DB2, DB2 Connect, DATASTAGE, VSAM, IMS, DLI, SWIFT, NDM, XML, ETL, FTP, CA7, ControlM, CICS, ALC, SORT/MERGE, COBOL, REALIA COBOL, Visual Basic, TSO, ROSCOE, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, RDS, SAR, CAV, RMDS, XPEDITER, Abend Aid, IBM Debugger, IBM FILE MANAGER, INTERTEST, FILEAID, SMART TS, RELATIVITY, STROBE, Project Lead, Application Developer, MS Word, Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, Team builder, project initiation, planning, negotiation, testing, control, scope, requirements gathering, change management, problem solving, coaching, mentoring, production support, project management, integration, life cycle, business needs, business processes, service level agreements, planning sessions, process flows, train, coordinate, security, resolve issues, supervise staff, evaluate business proposals, feasibility, Mainframe, client server, web interfaces, Municipal and state agency, Power & Water Billing, Commodity Trading systems, Healthcare hospital billing, Medicare/Medicaid, restricted access control, Physician/Clinic Scheduling, Insurance

EDUCATION:

Dallas Baptist University - Business Economics

Technical and management classes

Member Program Management Institute

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