Leo Strauss

I am a highly motivated, versatile IT professional with a proven record successfully designing and implementing small to large-scale mainframe applications and client server-based systems. I am a skilled problem solver with many years of experience in systems design and programming. I have effective communication skills achieved through extensive experience working directly with users at all levels.

Skills

Tools

COBOL II, DB2, CICS, MQ Series, MVS/JCL, TSO/SPF, CMS, ISPF, VSAM, IDCAMS, SQL, REXX, IMS, EZTRIEVE, Assembler, CICS Tables, Cool:Gen, Intertest, Expediter, Librarian, Panvalet, ENDEVOR, SCLM, Microsoft Office, Project Workbench, Visual Basic, Powerbuilder, Business Objects, RDZ, CA-7, File-AID, CustomAR, CA Accounts Payable, FTP, CFI, BMC Utilities, MS Project, HTML, Oracle, Toad

Work History

QED National, NY 09/21 – 12/23

Client: Consolidated Edison/ Orange & Rockland Utilities, West Nyack, NY

Senior System Analyst

Served as Technical Designer, Developer, and Business Analyst.

Supported several systems (GAPP, GRID, MSP) that provided users and line people with information about customers.

Provided support in most areas of the above systems.

Supported batch and online programs.

Assisted and mentored other team members as needed.

Performed coding and provided support performed utilizing COBOL, DB2, CICS, Intertest, JCL, and Stored Procedures.

Collaborated with CORE conversion team supporting the above applications.

Attended meetings, performed coding, ran DB2 SQL queries, created test data, tested batch and online programs, and setup Production Implementation of COBOL programs, JCL, and Stored Procedures.

Verizon Wireless, Piscataway, NJ 07/19 – 01/21

Scadea/ Infosys – Contractor working as 1099 (Senior Systems Analyst)

Served as Technical lead, designer and developer, and business analyst.

Supported system that included eTNI (Enterprise Telephone Numbering Inventory) which kept an inventory of all cellular phone numbers.

Provided support in most areas of eTNI system.

Served as Subject Matter Expert that supported batch and online programs.

Assisted and mentored other team members as needed in COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, and JCL.

Supported conversion from Mainframe COBOL/DB2/CICS/MQ system to new Java system.

Served critical role in training conversion team in eTNI application.

Provided Production Support, running DB2 SQL queries, supplying test data positioning and setting up Production Implementation of COBOL programs, JCL, and NSP (Native Stored Procedures).

Verizon Wireless, Orangeburg, NY 03/03 – 12/17

MTS IV – Member of Technical Staff IV (Senior Programmer Analyst/ Systems Analyst)

Served as Technical lead, designer and developer, business analyst, and project manager of full SDLC.

Supported system that included eTNI (Enterprise Telephone Numbering Inventory) which kept an inventory of all cellular phone numbers.

Interfaced projects across multiple application areas.

Managed the QA and integration testing.

Performed API development and testing of hundreds of projects and saved thousands of man hours for users, eliminating repetitive manual work and fixed many existing issues.

Participated in online projects utilizing COBOL, DB2, CICS, and HTTP middleware interface.

Provided support in most areas of eTNI system spanning approximately 500 batch and online programs.

Developed numerous API’s, several serving over 1 billion requests per month.

Assisted and mentored other team members as needed in COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, and JCL.

Led Billing Systems conversions.

Served as Project Leader on the conversion of billing systems from entities acquired by Verizon Wireless.

Led many different conversions, interfacing with the internal billing systems and the acquired company’s staff to ensure correct mapping of the billing interfaces and successful conversions.

Utilized COBOL, DB2, JCL, and batch.

Owned the complex reconciliation process which interfaced with ten Billing systems and processes over 2 billion potential transactions weekly.

Served as project lead and performed the analysis and design on the IP V6 project that expanded the IP addresses from twelve (12) positions to thirty-two (32).

Identified and modified programs to accommodate increased column size and developed code to properly process IPV6 IP Addresses in addition to existing IP Addresses.

Sony Electronics, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 03/98 -- 08/02

Senior Business Applications Systems Analyst

Provided support and maintenance of major business systems for the Consumer Division.

Managed complete project life cycle, including interface with users, analysis, design, coding, production implementation, and post implementation support.

Simon & Schuster, Division of Viacom International, Old Tappan, NJ 1989 -- 1998

Senior Programmer Analyst

Provided support and maintenance of Corporate Financial Systems with emphasis on multi billion dollar credit and receivables process.

Participated in full project life-cycle from business analysis through programming and production implementation.

Chase Home Mortgage, Division of Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Montvale, NJ 1987 -- 1989

Senior Programmer Analyst

Performed analysis, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of computer systems, supporting all phases of the processing of home mortgages.

Performed development of functional business programming specifications and coding of programs utilizing COBOL and CICS.

Created production documentation.

Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., New York, NY 1981 -- 1987

Senior Programmer Analyst

Supported retail banking systems including the Savings, Money Market, Checkbook Re-order, and Bank Check systems.

Managed programming, testing, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of large scale banking systems.

Education

Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

M.B.A., Management Information Systems

City College of New York, NY

B.S.

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