Albert B. Cassius
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
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Seeking Business Analyst position where I can use my Financial Services and expertise and hands-on experience working in technology groups of all sizes. Solid professional who mentors, motivates and drives complex projects to completion. Knowledgeable in PMO, SDLC, SQL and Q/A concepts. Fluent in multiple languages to assist in global solutions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bloomberg L. P. / Precision Global Consulting - New York, New York April 2016 – Current
Implementation Consultant – Web Services - SFTP
Migrate over 600 clients to new security certificates.
Migrate clients to new MQ based certificates.
Migrate clients from FTP to SFTP and upgrade password strength.
Lloyds Bank Group / SLS - New York, New York June 2015 – November 2015
Consultant – Senior Technical Specialist – Q/A - UAT
Implement verification of Swift yearly update.
Hands on Swift Alliance and Swift Gateway Administration on Windows Server 2008.
Actimize, FircoSoft Filter upgrades and verification. Support IBM Websphere and MQ upgrades.
Analyze business functionality and document ways in which processes could be improved.
Deutsche Bank / TATA Consulting Services / IDC Tech - New Jersey October 2014 – June 2015
Consultant – Project Manager – Quality Assurance / UAT Remediation
Collect, Analyze and Identify technical gaps in test environments
Work with the IT teams, external interface providers to implement the book of work
Test environment availability of application and related upstream / downstream application
Data provisioning optimization (data refresh, data subsetting, database testing)
Compliance to testing standards (MTS, access control and data security)
Work with clients, vendors and other stake holders to achieve successful completion of project
McGraw-Hill / WIPRO / IT-Scient - New Jersey June 2014 – August 2014
Consultant – Project Manager – Data Center Infrastructure
Hands on scheduling and implementation of a DNS migration project with over 2000 end points.
Define and implement scope, schedule, cost datacenter migration of windows, linux and VMware servers
Work with clients, vendors and other stake holders to achieve successful completion of project
Avada Software New Jersey February 2014 – March 2014
Product Specialist - Middleware
Provide L2 customer support and their Use Cases to verify QA and / or Production issues.
SME for Avada products including industry leader middleware application “Infrared 360”.
Review and test new features including automation of test scenarios.
Work with customer and their Use Cases to verify QA and / or Production issues.
Citigroup Warren, New Jersey April 2005 – May 2012
VP, Senior Technology Specialist – Project Manager / Business Analyst - SWIFT
Responsible for maintaining and enhancing a vendor based AIX / Oracle / MQ SWIFT interface that was used by all of Citigroup including Money Transfer and F/X with our 5 member team. Real-Time processing handled over a million messages per day. Vendor supplied a Websphere based front-end that was used by operations and ad-hoc support.
Provided 24 x 7 support, escalation and post-mortem analysis on an as needed basis.
Perform business analysis with partners for all necessary changes to system.
Participated in various Disaster Recovery scenarios and multiple data center migrations.
Responsible for entire project lifecycle including communicating with partners; requirements definition, business analysis, design, assigning staff to implement, QA testing, production deployment and to post-implementation reviews as per PMO guidelines using Planview. This included on-shore and off-shore resource allocation and budgeting. Also included VMS to AIX migration.
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Deutsche Bank New York, New York
Technology Officer – Money Transfer Customer Service
Responsible for maintaining, enhancing a VAX based Money Transfer Customer Service System. Batch processing time shortened from 10 hours to 5 hours so that 2,500+ worldwide users could have earlier access. MQ subsystems were migrated several times. Also included VMS to Solaris migration.
24 x 7 L2 and L3 support for Solaris and VMS environments.
Data was processed from real-time feeds from Money Transfer, FED, CHIPS, SWIFT and TELEX and cross referenced, then extracted to UNIX for backend processing and VB front end.
System contained other subsystems for adjustments, compensations and fee billing.
Participated in various Disaster Recovery scenarios including our actual recovery on 9/11.
Maintained and enhanced Operator Run-book and other documentation. Ran full QA and UAT.
Perrier / SOFT Inc., New York, New York
Consultant – Lead Programmer – Consumer Products
Responsible for maintaining, enhancing a VAX based Import System.
Responsible for new interface with an NT communication front end and Year 2000 Compliance.
Performed Business Analysis of domestic and international partners.
AXA / Equitable Insurance Co. New York, New York
Lead Programmer - Insurance
Lead a team whose responsibilities included maintaining and enhancing a Small Pension System.
System contained all necessary subsystems including: Client Maintenance, Participant Maintenance, Loan Maintenance, Unit Value Maintenance and Fixed Interest Maintenance.
PLATFORMS
IBM, HP, and SUN UNIX, HP Alpha and VAX, Linux, MAC, IOS, Windows Servers 2003 and 2008 and AS/400.
BASIC, DIBOL, DBL, C, COBOL, DATATRIEVE, DECFORMS, DCL, Tomcat, UNIX; VMS, VMware
Visual Basic, FORTRAN, RPG; Assembly languages for DG, DEC and BAL; Aperture; Selenium; PMO, SDLC,
Windows, MS Project, Powerpoint, Excel, Visio, SQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, PC-DOS, Sharepoint, Planview, Remedy
Swift, Websphere, MQ, TCP/IP, SFTP, FTP, DECnet, HP Quality Center, Test Director and Web Services
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - College of the City of New York
Additional courses in Visual Basic, Solaris, C programming, SDLC and AML Concepts