CURRICULUM VITAE

Abdusamed Sherif

***-**** ******* ** ***: 416-***-****

SCARBOROUGH, ON

M1P 3B8

Position Description Sr. Programmer Analyst

Profile A highly innovative, highly technical and strong analytical individual with intelligent ability to manage multiple priorities and team player with progressive experience in application development and support in airlines, retail and insurance businesses. Organized, detail and result oriented, deeply focused on excellent user service and meets tight schedules. He has proven track record of accomplishments in systems development, testing and implementation.

Demonstrated strength in:

Full lifecycle development

Requirements Collection

Process Design and Development

Testing and Implementation

Strong oral and written communication skills

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Strong ability to work independently and in team

Positive attitude and strong work ethic

Language English

Education Diploma in Accounting - Commercial College, Addis Ababa

Certificate Basic System and Cobol Coding - Ethiopian Airlines

Professional Development Training and Certificates:

Principles of accounting - R.S.A. London

OS JCL & Utilities

CICS/MVS Programming

DB2 an Extended Overview

Structured Testing

Structured Analysis

JAD Session and Data Analysis Workshop

Data Dictionary Workshop

Quality Circle Membership/Leadership courses

TELON Batch and Online

NETRON

CURRICULUM VITAE

Abdusamed Sherif

910-1385 Midland Av Tel: 416-***-****

SCARBOROUGH, ON

M1P 3B8

Professional Experience

Project 1

Hudson Bay Company October 1999 - December 2012

Sr. Technical Analyst / Programmer Analyst (159 months)

HR and Payroll System

This is payroll, associate administrative, benefit and progress tracking system. Integrates employee absence, vacations, sick time and time worked by individual associates with the payroll system for proper cost analysis. Calculates payroll, taxes and other deductions and transmits the bi-weekly and semi-monthly payroll run results to the banks for direct deposit to individual associate accounts.

Enrolls associates in life, health and dental insurances, other benefits like associate credit card system, and communicates with Human Resources departments, insurance companies and credit card companies. Keeps track of each associate annual rating, courses taken and progress and reports to corporate human resources and individual cost centers.

HR, payroll, benefits, taxes and third party interfaces including legislative interfaces

1.1Worked on HR and Payroll System on COBOL, DB2, and CICS in an IBM mainframe environment. The project was for enhancing existing functionalities for the modules;

1.2Conducted all phases of the systems development life cycle including systems analysis, project design, development, and testing and maintenance for the various financial systems, and applications;

1.3Gathered, validated and documented business and technical requirements for the various systems. Analyzed requirements and assessed feasibility of various technologies and design options to finalize functional design requirements and technical specifications;

1.4Worked with business team members and the IT development team to help solidify requirements and develop technical specifications for system design, development, testing and implementation;

1.5Analyzed, designed and developed system components, interface and operational environment using File Aid, ENDEVOUR, CICS, COBOL and DB2 in an IBM mainframe environment;

1.6Implemented quality assurance standards to be used during the implementation phase, designed programs and presented program designs, and wrote modules and procedures following the standard Systems Development Life Cycles;

1.7Performed system analysis, programming, testing and implementation using the following tools: TSO, JCL, File Aid, SPUFI;

1.8Supported systems in test and production environments; did complex problem resolution / debugging and resolved existing bugs and assigned bugs using bug tracker;

1.9Prepared the system for production releases and coordinated all changes with impacted partners;

1.10Participated in JAD sessions and performed pre-implementation QA;

1.11Liaised with Human Resources and Payroll departments and other business partners;

1.12Worked closely with DBA, CICS Support, PRODUCTION CONTROL, INTRANET GROUP and other I.S groups;

1.13Provided training to new and junior staff;

1.14Participated in employee recruiting interview;

1.15Participated in testing and implementing process of a large third party Payroll and HR benefits product;

1.16Provided on-call support outside working hours;

1.17Handled emergency work requests and incident reports;

1.18Automated interface to intranet of approved short period absence control system;

1.19Performed periodic testing and implementing of third party tax packages and updated tax tables;

1.20Rewrote the annual bonus process as required by Corporate Human Resources Department;

1.21Developed associate credit card system;

1.22Worked with credit card providers and Human Resources in regards to associate credit card system;

1.23Wrote test cases, developed test script and conducted end to end test with the credit card company;

1.24Worked on adding new insurance plans and removing old ones;

1.25Updated bonus tables and monitored the run;

1.26Updated required tables and monitored year end runs;

1.27Participated in the large scale conversion of monthly payroll system into semi-monthly process;

1.28Automated several batch and online new applications related to associates benefits and ADMIN;

1.29Created SDLC project documentation, test script and conducted UAT;

1.30Made pay adjustments due to legislation change, union agreement and employee appraisal;

1.31Handled incident reports and produced ad hoc reports as required;

Project 2

Imperial Life Insurance Company October 1998 – December 1998

Senior Programmer Analyst / Consultant (3 months)

Desjardins Laurentian Life Group

Produced daily report on new and existing enrollments to user departments and invoices to the clients.

2.1Supported automated Insurance Systems

2.2Maintained COBOL batch programs

2.3Provided on-call service

2.4Produced ad hoc reports as required by the user

2.5Provided day support and on-call services

2.6Worked in Hudson Bay Company from September 1996 to September 1998 before moving to Desjardin Laurentian Life Group

2.7Also worked in Ethiopian Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines in Airline Revenue Accounting Systems before coming to Canada

CURRICULUM VITAE

Abdusamed Sherif

910-1385 Midland Av Tel: 416-***-****

SCARBOROUGH, ON

M1P 3B8

Technical Skills

COBOL

TSO

CICS

JES3

EASYTRIEVE

JCL

SQL/QMF

SMRJMR

SYNCSORT

IDCAMS

DFSORT

ESP

ENDEVOUR

Clear Case

File Aid

ABENDAID

QMF

BMC

TELON

OTHER IBM UTILITIES

ZOS/MVS

Data Base/Access:

DB2/VSAM/ISAM/QSAM

Applications:

Airline Revenue Accounting System

Retail Business

Payroll/Benefits/ADMIN System.

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