Foster Evans Reese

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Southbury, Ct. 06488 acy60u@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY An accomplished Sr. Software Developer and Consultant with over 25 years of information technology experience. Extensive background and expertise in programming, research, analysis, testing, implementation, debugging, training and user relations. Excellent organizational and communication skills. Sharp problem solving & analytical skills which includes consistently applying the best practices and honoring all commitments. Capable of delivering sound results under tight timeframes.

DESIGNATIONS FLMI - Fellow, Life Management Institute with Distinction (life insurance).

EXPERIENCE Software Consultant, Confidential,

Windsor, Ct. 03/2010 – 08/2011

Vantage One Fund Expansion for Fortune 500 insurance company.

Project involved increasing policyholder financial choices from 20 funds

to 99. Assisted in conversion to running Vantage-One system on a UNIX

platform. Responsible for the analysis, design and programming of

Wealth Management System

ITS Application Developer, Selective Insurance,

Glastonbury, CT 11/2008 – 09/2009

Member of ITS Personal Lines team. Team was responsible for modifications to Selective’s SelectPlus property/causualty back-end system. SelectPlus extensively uses Cobol, DB2 and SQL.

Consultant/Designer, Systems Source Consulting,

Dallas, Texas 01/2008 – 10/2008

Vantage-One consulting for Jackson National Life, Lansing, Mi. Worked

as a developer identifying modifications required in base Vantage-One

system. Helped Business/User research new product requirements,

developed technical specifications, designing and implementing the new

functionalities for the product.

Technical Consultant/Designer, Modis Consulting.

Meriden, Ct 11/2006 – 12/2007

Vantage-One consulting for Lincoln Financial Group (11/2006 – 08/2007) and Phoenix Life Insurance (08/2007 – 12/2007).

Senior Consultant, Computer Sciences Corporation.

East Hartford, Ct. 4/1989-4/2006

Consultant on a solution-based customer services team. Responsibilities included design, installation and maintenance of CSC Vantage-One software. Assisted with pre-sales and post-sales activities and sales support. Conducted software presentations and classroom training for Vantage-One clients. Consultant and lead technician on conversions of non-CSC systems and older CSC systems to latest version of CSC systems.

Team lead of staff responsible for on-site installation and POC (Proof of Concept) of CSC Vantage-One and/or Performance Plus mainframe components for the following companies: AETNA, AEGON, Lincoln Financial Group, Conseco.

Member of CSC’s on-site team responsible for demonstration and education of Vantage-one software and facts gathering leading to enhancements and conversions of CSC software for the following companies: AETNA, MassMutual, State Farm, CIGNA, Phoenix Life, State Farm, Penn Mutual Life.

Principal Application Developer for MassMutuals printed annuity documents using Vantage One data. System based extensively on Easytrieve and Compuset. Reduce print policy page errors from 30 percent to 2. Developed system upgrade from antiquated file system to VSAM.

Application development using CSC’s proprietary object-oriented language, GraphTalk. Provided planning and oversight of the GraphTalk and Oracle upgrades that were necessary on the client's production and development environments.

Various assignments included modifing corrupted data in VSAM and DB2 database tables, coordinator of programming and testing with offshore support

Knowledgeable in a plethora insurance, financial and banking products.

Knowledgeable of Vantage-One Universal Life, Annuity, DSS, Performance Plus products.

Expertise in COBOL(including Micro-Focus & Object-Oriented Programming knowledge), SQL, DB2, VSAM, TSO, IBM Utilities, JCL, CICS, IDMS, FileAid, Abendaid, Easytrieve, Compuset Syncsort, Endeavor and MF MidTier.

Programmer/Analyst, Travelers Insurance.

Hartford, Ct. 8/1983-4/1989

Member of Vantage-One Universal Life and Policy Pages team. Systems written in COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL and assembler.

Lead programmer for conversion and maintenance of investment system which interfaced with Connecticut Bank and Trust.

Member of On-line team responsible for development and maintenance of CICS.

Programmer/Analyst, Cigna Insurance.

Bloomfield, Ct. 1/1982-8/1983

Member of Individual Insurance systems reports team

SKILLS Vantage-One, COBOL, COBOL II, IBM Mainframe, Micro Focus COBOL, SQL, DB2, CICS, Easytrieve, Compuset, Endeavor, TSO, ISPF, FileAid, Xpediter, Intertest, AbendAid, VSAM, OS/390, JCL, SDSF, SPUFI, Rumba, SyncSort, MVS, Net Express, MFE, Microsoft Office – Word and Excel. Graphtalk(CSC proprietary lauguage similar to JAVA)

EDUCATION Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts 1977- 1981

BA Major: Communications Degrees. Minor: Political Sciences

OTHER Assistant Manager/Salesperson, Patti’s Party Place

Southbury, Ct. 09/2011 – 03/2015

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