Manager Developer

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: IBM AS***/ ISERIES, S38, S36, S34, Mainframe, experience with PCs/Laptops, Scanners and Printers, Installation of Sound Cards, Hard Drives, Video Cards, Network Card [Ethernet and Wireless] and Routers

Languages: RPGII, RPGIII, RPGLE, RPGLESQL, FREE RPG, CLP, COBOL, SQL, SYNON/COOL2E, AS400 QUERY, FTP, HTML

Software: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office Suite, Query, Acrobat Reader, Adobe Photoshop Elements, SalesForce.com, BPCS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TCS (Tata Consulting Services), INDIA 11/2014 – Present

As a Senior Developer for Tata (a global consulting company), provide AS400/ ISeries, RPG and SYNON management and development expertise to various clients.

CLIENT: KENDRED HEALTHCARE, ATLANTA, GA 07/2019 – Present

Senior Developer/Analyst, Consultant

Working on knowledge transfer from existing IT team to TCS team with the purpose of TCS taking over Day to Day maintenance and support. Support performed in all versions of RPG and CLP source code on ISeries.

Technical lead on all KT (knowledge transfer) sessions. Manage 1 on shore and 2 off shore Developers.

Will be responsible for hands on managing of AS400 support and maintenance.

CLIENT: NEW YORK LIFE, NEW YORK, NY 01/2019 – 07/2019

Senior Developer/Analyst, Consultant

Performed Reverse Engineering of 20 year old existing AS400 Legacy system that was being migrated to Oracle environment

Helped identify all files required for migration

Researched and analyzed how each file is used, updated, deleted, or added to throughout entire system so logic could be duplicated identically on target system.

Worked closely with offshore forward engineering team to assist with their construction of new system in Oracle.

CLIENT: HUMANA INSURANCE, TAMPA FL 06/2018 – 12/2018

Senior Developer/Analyst, Consultant

Performed system modifications and updates using all versions of RPG and CLP

Responsible for fixing any bugs reported by users. All work performed in RPG and CLP

CLIENT: RESORTQUEST by WYNDHAM VACATION, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL 07/2016 – 05/2018

Senior Developer/Analyst, Consultant

Responsible for analyzing ISeries system with the goal of cleaning up wasted DASD.

Trained incoming System Administrator on system and procedures.

Analyzed Change Management processes; client’s change management had no structure for many years. Attempted to clean up source and objects so that 1 primary location was used to store all production source and objects across Production and Development systems. Reported all findings and suggested plans to Senior VP.

Responsible for clean-up, stream lining, documenting and running year end & 1099 processing.

Developed strong, confident relationships with Client.

Performed system modifications and updates.

Responsible for fixing any bugs reported by users. All work performed in RPG and CLP.

CLIENT: CVS, RICHARDSON, TX 11/2015 – 05/2016

Senior Developer/Analyst, Consultant

Responsible for design, estimate and development of a new process that needed to be integrated into existing legacy system on AS400 system.

Performed all steps in SDLC for entire project. Performed all tasked related to a CMMI Level 3 project.

CLIENT: TOYS R US, WAYNE, NJ 07/2015 – 09/2015

Senior Developer/Analyst, Consultant

Responsible for enhancements and support of existing legacy AS400 system.

All work performed using SYNON, all versions of RPG, CLP, and Screen Design (DDS) on ISeries.

Worked as Test Lead for international project to allow Toys R Us to ship e-commerce orders directly from a store rather than a warehouse.

Worked as a Technical Lead on project to automate the resource scheduling.

Worked on Run Time Improvement project to speed up weekly job.

Worked with on shore and off shore teams.

CLIENT: JOHN WILEY AND SONS, SOMMERSET, NJ 01/2015 – 07/2015

Senior Developer/Analyst, Consultant

Responsible for enhancements and support of existing legacy AS400 system.

All work performed using SYNON, all versions of RPG, CLP, and Screen Design (DDS) on ISeries.

Assisted with design and enhancements of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) system that interacted with AS400.

Documented client’s RFID system. Created training materials and trained User community in RFID system.

Assisted in the evaluation of the AS400 operating system from 7.0 – 7.2.

WESTERN UNION, MONTVALE, NJ 04/2012 – 10/2014

Technical Manager/Project Manager

Managed a team of 5 -7 onshore and offshore Developers.

Developed, designed, and built Salesforce Template through MS Word Mail Merge.

Worked directly with Senior VP in Database design and reporting development status.

Redesigned legacy AS400 DB.

Managed a legacy Agent Enrollment system.

Rewrote the existing Agent Enrollment system from AS400 platform onto Saleforce.com.

Interacted with user community to gather requirements, report status, and demo new Agent Enrollment system.

Performed system admin functions for SalesForce.com.

CVS CAREMARK (Via Galaxy Solutions), RICHARDSON, TX 08/2010 - 04/2012

Technical Manager/Lead/ PM/Architect/DB/Senior Developer, Consultant

Consolidated 4 Prescription Benefit Managing (PBM) systems across 3 different platforms into an existing AS400 system. All development performed using all versions of RPG, SYNON, and CLP. Work performed on ISeries

Hands on technical manager; performed requirements gathering by meeting with client and researching existing systems.

Built, developed and maintained relations between client and Galaxy.

Acquired knowledge and skills of the client’s procedures, policies and operations.

Educated and trained company staff in client’s procedures, polices, and operations.

Identify user requirements to work as architect to help team design new Adjudication system.

Responsible for the design, development, and complete project life cycle for new PBM adjudication system.

Managed several technical people during the design and development phase of consolidation project.

Reported project status and milestones to Management team.

Worked on Capacity Planning to assist client in decision to upgrade existing AS400 environment.

All work performed using CMMI Level 3 methodology.

ALLIANCE BERNSTEIN, NEW YORK, NY 05/2010 – 08/2010

Analyst/Developer, Consultant

Initially hired to locate and correct a bug in a small RPG mainframe reporting system.

Requested to stay on and re-write the RPG reporting system in COBOL.

Performed initial analysis, design, programming, documentation, testing and implementation.

Managed and trained 1 Developer, and reported directly to Senior Manager and VP with weekly status reports.

HP (formerly Electronic Data Systems), MONTVALE, NJ 03/2003 – 07/2010

Project Leader/DBA/Senior Systems Analyst

Worked as a Project Leader managing teams with EDS/HP and client staff using all tools associated with a CMMI Level 2 certified environment.

Performed DBA role for multiple teams on account.

Managed Developers in all phases of System Life cycle.

Worked as the Lead Engineer responsible for Activity Transaction Data Base that controlled the transferring and settling of over $200,000,000 per day.

Responsible for 24/7 On-call support.

Maintained and enhanced Batch Transaction Settlement and Online systems, including Inquiry, Error Correction and Transaction Adjustments to back-office accounting system for the Western Union account on ISeries interfacing with mainframe.

Performed all Database functions across all Business Systems (Settlement, Accounting, General Ledger, Report Distribution).

Worked with all stages of complete System Life Cycle from initial analysis and design through requirements definition, system design, programming, documentation, testing and implementation.

Was solely responsible for the design, development enhancements and maintenance of a Compliance Monitoring System reporting US and Canada retail activity. The purpose of the Compliance Monitoring System was for filing suspicious Money Transfer activity with the US Government to comply with Government regulations.

All work performed in SYNON/COOL2E, all versions of RPG, COBOL, CLP, FTP.

Managed and performed Disaster Recovery Training exercises.

TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM, NEW YORK, NY 03/2001 – 10/2002

Senior Systems Analyst

Performed ongoing maintenance and development for Legacy Retirement System.

Responsible for all development and enhancements performed using SYNON/COOL2E and RPG/400 and CLP.

ARKAY COMPUTER CONSULTANTS, OAKLAND, NJ 03/1997 – 03/2001

Lead Designer/Developer, In-house Trainer

Lead Designer and Developer of inquiry/maintenance system for a NYC Brokerage firm which dealt with clients whose minimum investment was $1,000,000.

Responsibilities included the design, development and testing of warehousing, accounting, and billing report generation.

Performed system analysis, design, development, testing and implementation for numerous clients.

Conducted training classes for in-house consultants on SYNON/ COOL2E.

Assisted in AS/400 operating system upgrades and maintenance.

Project Leader on numerous projects, reported directly to Client Project Manager.

All work performed in SYNON/COOL2E, all versions of RPG, CLP.

Modified and implemented an Insurance Policy issuance and administration application for TIAA-CREF.

ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, PARAMUS, NJ 01/1996 – 03/1997

Systems Engineer

Responsible for Activity Transaction database that controlled the transferring and settling of over $100,000,000 per day.

Responsible for maintenance and enhancements of Transaction Settlement and Online systems including Inquiry, Error Correction and Transaction Adjustments to back-office accounting system for the Western Union account.

LIZ CLAIBORNE, NORTH BERGEN, NJ 01/1990 – 01/1996

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities included system analysis, design, acceptance testing and problem solving.

Part of a team that developed an international business system.

Performed analysis design, documentation, programming, testing and implementation for the International system.

Developed in-house training tools that were used to teach other programmers SYNON.

Responsible for the modification and enhancements for the following applications: Order Entry, Production Inventory, Invoice Batching, Manifest Billing and Receiving.

SYSTEMS SOFTWARE ASSOCIATES, RUTHERFORD, NJ 01/1986 – 01/1990

Systems Analyst

As part of a team, developed a new Payroll module for BPCS.

Performed client data conversion to AS400/ISeries from various environments such as S34, S36 & S38.

Created methodology used to migrate System 34, 36 & 38 to AS400/ISeries. Methodology became company standard.

Set up work station networks on PC’s to communicate with AS400/ISeries.

Member of an on-site Client Services team responsible for analysis, customization, and implementation of enhancements to BPCS.

Performed installation and client training of BPCS.

Performed in-house maintenance and upgrades of AS400/ISeries.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER, PARAMUS, NJ 12/1989 – 06/1991 & 06/1994 – 06/1995

Senior Instructor

Conducted classes in RPGIII, DDS and CLP.

Assisted in the transition from a Mainframe to AS400/ISeries for classroom development and assisted in Operating System upgrades.

Solely responsible for creating new course curriculum for RPGIII college credited classes.

Created processes to be used by other RPG instructors that setup up class environments for each new class.

Educated fellow instructors on OS/400, RPG/III, CLP and DDS.

Implemented Computer Security System on AS400/ISeries.

EDUCATION

Bergen Community College - Computer Science and Accounting classes

Computer Learning Center

Computer Programming certificate. Graduated with 4.0 GPA

Studied RPG, COBOL, & Assembler

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