John P. Picinic
Brookhaven, GA *****
***********@*****.***
RELEVENT EXPERIENCE
Twenty years of experience in various areas of Systems Analysis and Software Development. Ability to gather and document requirements. Ability to interact with all levels of upper management. Excellent inter-personal and communication skills in dealing with the end user community. Experience with complete system life cycles from initial concept to ongoing maintenance.
SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE
AS400, COBOL, CL, SQL, DB2, RPG IV, Visual Studio, VB 6.0, Excel, MS Access, XML
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Delta Life Insurance Company 04/2013 – Present Atlanta, GA Programmer Analyst
Report directly to the President. Main responsibilities include the review and analysis of legacy systems. Recent accomplishments include automating systems and processes such as Credit, Payroll, and Reserves. Work on modernizing all company systems such as Payroll, Underwriting, Claims, Reserves and Rating systems.
MAG Mutual Insurance Company 07/2011 – 03/2013 Atlanta, GA Systems Analyst
Responsibilities include the gathering, analyzing and submission of periodic operational, financial and statistical
information to reporting entities (NCCI, NCRB, ISO, CMS, PIAA and reinsurers). Maintain & develop programs to create data extracts required for submissions to external reporting entities and for internal user requests. Maintain integrity and accuracy of data extracts and submissions, staying in compliance with each reporting entities quality requirements and guidelines.
Columbia Insurance Group 01/2007 – 07/2011 Atlanta, GA Programmer Analyst
Responsible for the analysis and programming of a variety of new development projects along with statistical and regulatory reporting requests such as ISO, NCCI and NCRB. Involved in all phases of a project with interaction at a variety of user levels.
Clerk of the Circuit Court 06/2006 – 12/2006 Tampa, FL Programmer
Responsible for maintaining existing Financial Accounting Management Information System. Create and modify programs to satisfy various management and user requests. Respond to production problems and implement modifications where necessary.
Preserver Group Inc. 05/2002 – 05/2004 Paramus, NJ Programmer Analyst
Primarily responsible for the analysis and programming of internal management requests along with statistical and regulatory reporting requests. Knowledge of AS400 files structures; Windows, Excel, and MS Access were required when transporting data to other systems. Involved in all phases of a project with interaction at a variety of user and management levels.
Interstate Insurance Group 09/1998 – 10/2001 Jersey City, NJ Programmer Analyst
Responsibilities in this position include the analysis and implementation of various internal and external user requests utilizing physical and logical file designs, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word and Rumba Extract File Transfer programs. Project Leadership duties included the enhancement and automation of the Direct Bill system, analysis and implementation of various state reporting programs and the extracting and preparation of policy data for inclusion on company’s web site.
Household International 02/1985 – 07/1998 Bridgewater, NJ Sr. Programmer Analyst
Involved in all phases of a Software Development Life Cycle from creation of user requirement documents through system testing and version control. Responsibilities ranged from user interaction, project planning, preparation of detailed specifications, program design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, quality assurance review and technical leadership on complex projects.
EDUCATION
University of Phoenix
BS in Business / Information Systems – GPA: 3.78
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Master Certificate in Client/Server VB/ASP Developer
Life Office Management Association, Inc.
Associate Life Management Institute
American Institute for Chartered Casualty Underwriters
Associate in General Insurance
American Institute for Chartered Casualty Underwriters
Completed courses:
CPCU 510 – Foundations of Risk Management, Insurance, and Professionalism
CPCU 520 – Insurance Operations
CPCU 530 – Business Law for Insurance Professionals
CPCU 540 – Finance and Accounting for Insurance Professionals