Maria Cecilia Torrijos

Home Location Monroe, New York

Email Address acz2s6@r.postjobfree.com

Availability Immediate

Preferred Role Senior Software Engineering - Project Management, Team/Technical Leading

Senior Software Systems Engineer with 20+ years of Software Engineering/Development, Second Level Production Support, Data Mining, Project/Team/Technical Leading, IT Cost-Saving Strategy and Business/Application/Data Architectural Analysis/Research experience in Mainframe, then 10+ years in Desktop/Distributed platform with background on insurance, telecommunication, and financial industry.

Key Skills

Excellent

• Analysis (23 yrs) • Application Programming (23 yrs) • Architectural Analysis/Research/Recommendation (21 yrs) • CICS Command Level Programming (23 yrs) • CICS/ESA (23 yrs) • COBOL (23 yrs) • COBOL LE (6 yrs) • Computer Associates CA-Easytrieve Plus (13 yrs) • Data Mining (21 yrs) • DB2 (19 yrs) • Disaster Recovery Testing (4 yrs) • EDI (12 yrs) • Endevor (15 yrs) • Expediter (17 yrs) • Feasibility Studies (21 yrs) • FOCUS (12 yrs) • FTP (17 yrs) • HLI (10 yrs) • HTML (14 yrs) • Impact Analysis (23 yrs) • InstallShield (5 yrs) • JCL (23 yrs) • Maintenance (23 yrs) • Manage Conversion Priorities (1 yr) • Management Information System (23 yrs) • Microsoft Office (23 yrs) • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (3 yrs) • MQ (15 yrs) • MQ Series Application Programming & Design (14 yrs) • MVS (23 yrs) • PeopleSoft Billing (12 yrs) • Perform Production Support (23 yrs) • PowerBuilder (7 yrs) • Preparation Of Program Specification And Test Scripts (23 yrs) • Process Improvement (22 yrs) • Production Support (23 yrs) • Project Appraisal (16 yrs) • Project Management Using Waterfall/Iterative Methodology (4 yrs) • Property & Casualty Insurance Business Process/Analysis (12 yrs) • Quarterly Production Maintenance (4 yrs) • Quattro (3 yrs) • Requirement Gathering (22 yrs) • Research Experience (21 yrs) • Software Development (23 yrs) • Software Development Life Cycle (23 yrs) • Spreadsheets (23 yrs) • SQL (20 yrs) • Structured Systems Analysis (23 yrs) • Supervisory Development (1 yr) • Team Leading (21 yrs) • Technical Leading (15 yrs) • TSO (23 yrs) • User Acceptance Testing (23 yrs) • VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) (18 yrs) • Waterfall with Iterative Methodology (22 yrs) • WebLogic Enterprise Application Server (4 yrs) • XML (13 yrs) • XSLT (13 yrs)

Good

• Active Server Pages (4 yrs) • Ant (3 yrs) • Bank Reconciliations • Banking Business Analysis (4 yrs) • CA-INTERTEST • Candle Omegamon Xe • Channels & Containers (3 yrs) • Clarity Software (3 yrs) • Client/Server (17 yrs) • CLIST • Cognos Impromptu (1 yr) • COGNOS Transformers (1 yr) • Corel WordPerfect • IBM OS/2 • IBM WebSphere (8 yrs) • INSYNC (19 yrs) • Java (13 yrs) • Java 2 Enterprise Edition • JavaScript (6 yrs) • JDBC (12 yrs) • Microsoft Access/VBA (5 yrs) • Microsoft SQL Server (3 yrs) • Microsoft Visio (22 yrs) • Microsoft Visual Studio (4 yrs) • Microsoft Windows • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional • Microsoft Windows 7/8/9/10 • Microsoft Windows 8 • Microsoft Windows Vista • Model 204 (4 yrs) • MS Visual SourceSafe • Multimedia (23 yrs) • Negotiation Skills • ODBC (7 yrs) • Payroll • PC Hardware (23 yrs) • QMF (19 yrs) • RDZ • Risk Management • SAS System > SAS Statistical Package (1 yr) • Stored Procedures (15 yrs) • Strategic Planning (6 yrs) • Sybase (16 yrs) • TCP/IP (16 yrs) • Telecommunication Business Analysis (19 yrs) • UML/OMT (12 yrs) • Underwriting • VBScript (15 yrs) • Visual Basic (7 yrs) • Visual Basic 6 (5 yrs) • WebSphere MQ (3 yrs) • WebSphere Studio Application Developer • Win XP • XHTML

Average

• Assembler (10 yrs) • Computer Associates Unicenter CA-7 (11 yrs) • Enterprise Java Beans (3 yrs) • IBM Hardware (23 yrs) • Project Management using Agile Methodology (6 yrs) • Project Management using CCPM (6 yrs) • REXX (3 yrs) • Shell Scripting (1 yrs)

Basic

• Aldus Pagemaker • Java Swing • LAN/WAN • Networking • Oracle (3 yrs) • PeopleSoft EDI

Employment History

SENIOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS ENGINEER / SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Verizon Wireless : AGCY Experis Manpower Group

Warren County, New Jersey

May 2016 - Dec 2016

Technical/Team Lead performing Requirement Gathering, Analysis & Design, Feasibility Study, Data Mining, Development, Fine-Tuning, Testing, Troubleshooting, Deployment and Maintenance of the software application.

Provide design presentation, technical specification for offshore consultant, use cases, and other documentation.

Evaluate existing application’s functionalities and make recommendations for possible customizations and enhancements.

Manage conversion priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

IOT PROFILE CONVERSION

Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables/status updates on conversion. Provide business/technical research, data mining for each M2M Company Profile’s line of services and align their price plan, device types and their corresponding features based on the spreadsheet generated from migration analysis batch process. This modified spreadsheet is fed to an existing system that will align each MTN lines then migrate to M2M Workflow.

IOT ORDER FLOW CONVERSION AUTOMATION

Provide presentation on the design, analysis, feasibility study, data mining, technical specifications, coding, debugging, testing and documentations. The newly created application is composed of online JAVA programs writing to an Oracle Database mirroring Mainframe DB2 tables with different APIs to communicate in between layers. Afterwards there is a DB2/COBOL/BMC Unload/Syncsort batch process that picks up the M2M requests then proceed to do either of the following:

• Generate Migration Analysis and Bundle Recommendation spreadsheets sent via email and load data for online feed - Bundle Configuration.

• Generate Alignment of MTN Lines (Add/Drop of SFOs) and Reject Lines spreadsheets sent via email

• Run the Fix MTN Line Alignment feed to existing system to configure it by creating orders

• Migrate the Lines to the M2M Workflow

• Maintenance process

MACHINE TO MACHINE

Perform production support and streamlining of M2M with existing application to make it more robust and efficient.

Skills: CICS, COBOL, Channels and Containers, DB2, MQ, JCL, Stored Procedure, BMC Utility, Syncsort, MS Office, Clarity, DVS API, Xpediter, VISIT, Endevor, Technical/Team Leadership, Software Engineering/SDLC, Agile Methodology

SENIOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Verizon Wireless : AGCY Pyramid Consulting Inc.

Orangeburg, New York

Jan 2013 - Apr 2014

Provide technical specifications, design/analysis, mapping, coding and testing for the below applications.

ENTERPRISE TELEPHONE NUMBER INVENTORY SYSTEM

Provided presentation on parts of the application and fixing bugs on programs written in COBOL/CICS/Channels & Containers/DB2/MQ/XML programs. The system is used by customer-facing employees to obtain inventory for new activations, number change to support and grow the customer base, provides centralized system for FCC reporting and providing the VZW Gateway for Local Number Portability and business critical applications with high availability.

MACHINE TO MACHINE

Provided coding, testing and technical specification for the wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) technology written in COBOL/CICS/Channels & Containers/DB2/MQ/XML programs that enables businesses to electronically connect enterprise applications with remote machines.

• M2M Order Creation

• Bulk Cancellation

• Large Order Retrieval Process

• Order Status Call Back

• M2M Disconnect/Suspend/Reconnect

• Order Status Call Back – Order Failure

• M2M Identifier

• M2M Bulk Reassign

ORDER REWIRE

Provided analysis, data mapping and research of various level of search such as customer, MTN and processes based on the copybooks, programs then to the Oracle Datagrid.

Skills: CICS, COBOL, Channels and Containers, DB2, MQ, JCL, Stored Procedure, Software Engineering/SDLC, Agile Methodology

SOFTWARE ENGINEER II

Verisk Analytics

Jersey City, New Jersey

Apr 2001 - May 2012

Project/Technical/Team Lead on certain projects/applications, performing Software Engineering, Software Development Life Cycle, Second Level Production Support, Data Mining, Business & Application Architectural Analysis/Research.

Convert incoming insurance quarterly releases to business requirement and perform impact analysis/data mining then provide list of impacted modules, estimates/resources/plan of action/completion dates/high level technical specifications as proposal for business approval.

Prepare and present prototypes and new or enhanced applications process flow that sync up with the systems/software architectures and its scalability/portability with different hardware platforms until deployment. Perform fine-tuning and provide recommendation for process improvement and business enhancements.

Prepare technical specifications to IT consultants and offshore people.

Revise user business/operations manuals then train business users on new functionalities and certain data models of the online/batch applications.

Designated Technical Expert on certain vendor (CA/IBM) software packages by evaluating its functions to determine its usability/scalability in the IT department for management approval, preparing customization procedure, performing training sessions, and assistance, troubleshooting then working on solution/fix with system engineers and/or vendor tech experts.

Assigned as Technical/Application Representative during business, production support and/or systems engineer meetings, a Departments' Coordinator/Tester for Software/Hardware/Server upgrades, disaster recovery testing to ensure system availability and functionality.

Perform as IT Cost-Saving Idea Strategist and Presenter for Lunchbox Learning Programs across IT & Business Departments, and QA for RSI Sorts & Merges

Applications worked on are stated as follows:

• RSI Sorts & Merges

• Texas Delinquency Status Notice And Report/Billing/Eligibility

• Fidelity & Surety

• Commercial Statistic Plan Rates

• Universal Receipt And Acceptance System (UNIRA)

• Chargeback

• Finance Cubes/SIU Manager

• Space Web Forecast

• Corporate Communications Time Accounting

• Corporate Communications Expense Tracking

• Entitlement

• Common Ordering

• PDB

• GIRD/LMS

• Peoplesoft Back-End Process On Billing/Invoice And Time & Labor

• Fair Credit Reporting Act

• APLUS Auto

• Premium Audit Advisory Service

• Property Claims Services

• Engineering & Safety

• Passport

Skills: CICS, MQ, COBOL ENTERPRISE/LE/MVS/370, DB2/DB2 STORED PROCEDURE, JCL, VSAM, SAS, SYNCORT, FILEAID,, QMF, BMC UTILITIES, NDM, FTP, CA-1, CA-7, CA-11, JOB SCAN, CLIST, INSYNC, REXX, FOCUS, EASYTRIEVE+,, JOB SCAN, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, ENDEAVOR, UNIX, EZTEST VB6, VBA, ASP, JAVASCRIPT, VBSCRIPT, HTML, XML,, COGNOS POWERPLAY, OLAP & AUTOSYS BATCH FILES, J2EE, WEBSPHERE, JAVA, MS VISUAL SOURCESAFE, ANT DB2,, STORED PROCEDURE, M204, TABLEBASE, MS Access, VISIO, Project/Team Leadership, Project Management, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Technical Project Management, Software Engineering/SDLC, Waterfall with Iterative Methodology, CCPM, Lean Six Sigma

ANALYST/PROGRAMMER

Insurance Services Office:AGCY Computer Manpower USA, Inc.

Pearl River, New York

Nov 2000 - Apr 2001

Provided data mapping, application and data architecture research, revision, customization, development, testing and documentation on new application Passport and its customer and billing process being processed by PeopleSoft Billing/Invoice Application.

PASSPORT CUSTOMER & BILLING PROCESS

Perform on research, data mapping, revision and code new COBOL/DB2 batch programs to customize the new application Passport with existing interfacing systems and extract customer and billing data, also to create EDI files to be loaded to the server via FTP then processed by PeopleSoft Billing/Invoice Application. ISO Passport is a comprehensive, online service that delivers information critical to underwriting and other insurance-related decision making activities.

PEOPLESOFT BACK-END PROCESS ON BILLING/INVOICE AND TIME & LABOR

Perform on research, data mapping, revision and code new COBOL/DB2 batch programs to create customer and billing EDI files for existing applications like Unit Billing then load to the server via FTP then processed by PeopleSoft Billing/Invoice Application.

Skills: Data Mapping, Application & Data Architectural research on customization, COBOL/DB2, JCL, SDLC

ANALYST/PROGRAMMER

MCI Worldcom:AGCY Millennium Computer System, Inc., NYC

Rye Brook, New York

Nov 1998 - Oct 2000

Estimation, revision, development, coding, unit/systems/user acceptance testing, documentation, preparation of program specification and test scripts, test data, file layouts and implementation for the customization of the system. Also investigate and resolve production problems encountered by the system.

GLOBAL BILLING SYSTEM (GBS)

The mainframe/client-server application written in COBOL/CICS/DB2 that processes international and local prepaid/postpaid calling card transactions on a daily basis. Performed system conversion of the whole post-paid (hemisphere) subsystem to use DB2 tables instead of flat files. Handled both GBS on-line (PowerBuilder & CICS) and batch billing/invoicing. Eliminated redundant DB2 tables, monitored system performance and implemented fine-tuning as needed. Other projects include Credit Card Billing Suspension, Customer/Project Table Archival, Customer Account Deactivation and Distributor Designation Update.

INTERNATIONAL BILLING EXCHANGE (IBE) MONITORING SYSTEM

This mainframe/client-server system utilizes PowerBuilder and accesses mainframe COBOL/CICS/DB2 database tables via MDI gateway. It has inquiry facility for summary of calls received, accepted and sent by PTT and/or source, graphs and reports displaying volume trends. It also has update facility that maintains the “Threshold table”, “Currency Rate table” and other static data. Other projects include Argentina New Numbering Plan and Call Tag Transit Update.

ENHANCED SETTLEMENT SYSTEM (ENSET)

Provided adaptive and corrective maintenance for ENSET. Duties included loading/unloading of records to DB2 tables, backup/initialization of DB2 tables and sequential files, transit leg processing and report generation. Investigated and resolved production problems

Skills: COBOL/CICS/DB2/JCL/VSAM/POWERBUILDER, SDLC

ANALYST/PROGRAMMER

Citibank N.A.:AGCY A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd

Singapore, Singapore

Mar 1997 - Oct 1998

Estimation, revision, development, coding, unit/systems/user acceptance testing, documentation, redesigning, preparation of test scripts, test data, file layouts and implementation for the customization of the system. Also functioned as an on-call analyst to answer production problems encountered by the system, investigate and recommend solutions.

ADVANCED LOANS SYSTEM (ALS)

Performed maintenance, enhancement, customization and production support for COBOL/VSAM/SYSTEMATICS ALS. This package handles consumer loans like housing/auto/student loans, as well as securitization (e.g. inter-bank loans). Developed the Universal Workstation (UWS) interface to ALS. The workstation is a client-server system that links with the ALS mainframe side for customer account demographics, inquiry and update. Other projects include generations of Statements, conversion of Staff Personal Loans System.

ENHANCED CARDPAC SYSTEM (ECS)

Performed maintenance and enhancement on the system designed for Singapore and Hongkong Companies Projects written in COBOL/VSAM programs includes development and maintenance of Honours Card Smartcard project that stimulates spending of the cardholder in order to earn points, which is recorded in the chip of the card and the identity, personal, loyalty balance and bonus points incurred. The system also generates reports for verification purposes. Other projects are Bankard Inactive Reactivation Program, Relationship Pricing Repositioning,

NEW APPLICATION SYSTEM

Performed maintenance system designed for Singapore client. The new Application System written in COBOL/VSAM, serves the automatic screening. Credit card applicants are categorized by auto-calculated score point and it is possible to make systematic decision of rejected, accepted according to the point level table. This system also provides the internal/external negative information inquiry. And necessary label/letter and MIS for business information is generated.

Skills: COBOL/CICS/JCL/VSAM/SYSTEMATICS ALS, SDLC

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

Far East Bank & Trust Company

Makati City, Metro Manila

Jul 1994 - Feb 1997

Project leader managing 10 consultants and 2 employees with below mainframe applications. Performed Full Software Development Life Cycle, project appraisal, on-call analyst to answer user queries on problems/production problems encountered by the system, investigate and recommend solutions. Supervise and assist user trainings, technical representative on external client meetings.

AUTOMATIC DEBIT ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM - SYSTEMATICS INTERFACE

Worked on the development, maintenance and its interface with the Systematics package. The system is composed of 60% online CICS/VSAM programs that deals with institution and subscriber data entry, acknowledgment, reinstatement, browse options, and 40% batch COBOL/VSAM/TAPE programs that deals with file update such as batch-submitted online programs and report generation.

CURRENT/SAVINGS ACCOUNT DEBIT/CREDIT PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Worked on maintenance of two batch COBOL/VSAM/TAPE systems as well as their conversion/interfaces with the Systematics package. CASA maintains client’s accounts with transactions coming from the interfacing systems. It generates reports for reconciliation purposes and creates files as input to the interfacing systems. Other projects: FX & Peso Blocksheet System, Transaction Downloading, and BIR Collection and Bank Reconciliation System.

VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEM

Worked on the enhancements and maintenance of the online system written in CICS/VSAM programs, dealing with fund transfer and inquiries, account balance, requests such as enrollment, amendment of clients, and other transactions. The subsystems: Debit Bill Payment, FEB Payroll Accounts Auto-Enrollment

SSS CREDIT SYSTEM

Worked on the enhancements and maintenance of the system deals with the automatic crediting of pensions and benefits to the account of the SSS member. It has a batch COBOL/VSAM/TAPE facility to incorporate the automatic crediting and additional features for online inquiry on the system. Other projects: Privilege Check System.

Skills: COBOL/CICS/JCL/VSAM, Project/team leadership, Project Management, SDLC, Waterfall with Iterative Methodology

Education and Training History

Bachelor of Science Information and Computer Science

St. Paul College of Manila 1994

Dean's Lister

TRAINING/SEMINAR ATTENDED

Technical trainings are Native Stored Procedure, Clarity Software, Channels and Containers, IBM RDz and Data Studio Integration, New Model 204, Java Programming, Enterprise JavaBeans, EJB Programming with WSAD, J2EE Patterns, Websphere, Developing J2EE Applications Using Hibernate, Java Swing, Mastering Struts using WSAD V5.1, Java Swing & Java Web Start, Boot Camps, UML & Patterns. Others are PowerPlay OLAP Modeling for Series 7 V3 & Cognos 8 BI, PowerPlay Exploration and Report Building, MS VB6 Fundamentals, HTML& Javascript Fundamentals, VBScript, XML Fundamentals, PowerBuilder V9, Endeavor, MQ Series Application Programming & Design, DB2 Advance Features for Developers, DB2 DB for z/OS & OS/390 SQL & Application Programming, UNIX OS Fundamentals & Scripting, Strobe, Remedy Desktop Tools, CA-Intertest Training, ALS Systems Architecture Training, Systematics Systems Architecture, DB2 Concepts & Facilities, DB2 Application Programming, DB2 Advanced Application Programming, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, XPEDITER/CICS, TSO XPEDITER, VS Concepts and Facilities, MVS JCL Coding & Fundamentals, MVS Introduction to VSAM, VSAM Fundamentals, TSO/E Facilities, COBOL Programming, CICS Command Level Programming, Program Logic Formulation, Structured Systems Analysis, Systems Development Life Cycle, Assembler, Hardware and Software Configuration, VSAM Server, Quattro, Word Perfect, Multimedia, Pagemaker, Computer Networking

Non-technical trainings are Project Management Fundamentals, Requirement Training, Re-Evaluate Your Strategy Regularly, Security Directions 102, Leadership Skill Workshop, Stankard Process Improvement, High Performance Teams (DISC), Overview of ISO & Intro to PC Insurance, Negotiation Skills, Facilitating for Result, Supervisory Development Training, Business Writing, Introduction to Verizon Wireless

Programmer Trainee in Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and PAG-IBIG

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