Mainframe Developer
Resume:
Mauricio Tonix
Mobile: 205-***-****
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Skype: mauricio.tonix
Linkedin: mauricio-tonix-2a814793
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
As an Analyst/Specialist I have over twenty years of experience in the IT industry. I have been responsible for the overall analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of complete systems, as well as for project administration.
As a Project Manager I am a facilitator, giving the support and tools to the team members in order to achieve the goals. I am also responsible for their performance, quality assurance and growth of the members of my team. Also working on with distributed teams all over the US, Europe (Spain, France) and in Asia (India and Philippines).
I have been involved in the entire SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) performing business requirement analysis, program development and maintenance, software testing and quality assurance areas, some large and complex global projects.
I have very good communication and negotiation skills, can adapt to new teams and new projects very quickly. I have experience working as a hands-on team member and critical thinker, who can quickly learn new systems and tools, develop useful expertise and produce significant contributions.
I have worked on projects for Banking, Insurance, Telecommunication and IT services companies.
JOB EXPERIENCE:
Project at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama
September 2019 to date
Mainframe Developer – Birmingham, AL.
Functions: Analyzing, designing, developing and supporting different systems related to Flexible Analytics team.
PROJECT (1)
Development and installation of the multiple requests from different users.
Description: To develop and install multiple requests from the users and updates of the current system such as improve the performance and add a new process for the input of a new clients, this process included the transmission of the information sent by the client and the format and validation of such information to load the DB2 tables.
Responsibilities: To develop the modifications of JCLs, queries and programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the user. In order to do so, I had to interact with the users to analyze and define the modifications and develop them. And, to closely work with the users to test and to validate the results of the changes and to generate all the deliverables associated with them.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office
Platform: IBM Mainframe
Work Team: 20 Analysts.
Project at Santander
June 2018 to July 2019
Mainframe Analyst – Boston, MA.
Functions: Analyzing, designing, developing and supporting different systems related to Documentary Payments.
PROJECT (1)
Installation of the Partenon Banking System
Description: To install the Depositary Payments module of the Partenon Banking System and help with the migration from the previous system to this new Partenon Module and to take care of the maintenance and evolution of it.
Responsibilities: To develop the modifications of programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the Bank. In order to do so, I need to interact with the users and not only modify the programs but to analyze and define the modifications and develop them. And also to closely work with the software factory, sending the new requirements of changes generated along with the user and to test and validate such deliverables.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QMF, QSAM & VSAM files, Partenon Banking System, Microsoft Office
Platform: IBM Mainframe
Work Team: 4 Analysts.
Project at Northern Trust
March 2018 to May 2018
Mainframe Analyst – Chicago, IL.
Functions: Analyzing and documenting, testing and creating the suggestions to the development team in order to migrate from IMS DB to DB2 DB.
PROJECT (1)
Migration from IMS DB to DB2 DB.
Description: To analyze, document, test and create suggestions to the development team (working offshore) to migrate the current system from IMS DB to DB2 DB. We have to make sure that we are not losing any information during this migration while getting the best access to the information in order to avoid any impacts in the performance of the system.
Responsibilities: To analyze, document, test and create suggestions depending on the testing performed to the development team to modify or to enhance the performance of the modified elements. Then present the results to the QA team and the client to get the approvals and promote to the Production environment of such elements.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS, FOCUS, CONTROL-M, SPUFI, DB Optim, File Master Plus, Microsoft Office
Platform: IBM Mainframe
Work Team: 6 Analysts.
Project at PHEAA (Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency)
September 2017 to December 2017
Mainframe Analyst – Dallas, TX.
Functions: Analyzing and documenting different systems.
PROJECT (1)
Documenting the PHEAA System.
Description: To document the different items (JCLs and programs batch & online, with or without SQL code embedded) that is part of the PHEAA Legacy system.
Responsibilities: To document the different elements, provide a document that can be read by the BA’s and other team members for their translation into some other technology.
Tools: Notepad++, Microsoft Office
Platform: Windows
Project at BBVA Compass
May 2014 to June 2017
Mainframe Analyst/Tester – Birmingham, AL.
Functions: Analyzing, designing, developing and supporting different systems.
PROJECT (2)
Installation of the Alnova Banking System
Description: To install the Alnova Banking System and help with the migration from the previous system to this new Alnova System and to take care of the maintenance and evolution of it. The module that I was assigned is ARP/PP (Account Reconciliation & Positive Payments) from May 2014 to June 2017.
Responsibilities: To develop the modifications of programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the Bank. In order to do so, I need to interact with the users and not only modify the programs but to analyze and define the modifications and develop them. Sometimes I need to work with the users and along with them define the new procedures and subsystems to enhance the performance of the System and to fulfill the new necessities such as new reports and CICS transactions most of them are for other services that the Bank wants to add to the new system. Other responsibilities were to define and develop the data migration and conversion from previous systems into the new Alnova Banking System, this migration can reside in QSAM or VSAM files or DB2 tables. Along with the previous activities I was responsible of work with the software factory in Mexico, I have to organize the job distribution, quality and testing. Once the software factory sent back their modified items, I reviewed the code, the evidence of the testing performed and if everything were according the standards I gathered all the approvals to promoted from the previous environments all the way to the Production environment.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QMF, QSAM & VSAM files, Alnova Banking System, Microsoft Office
Platform: IBM Mainframe
Work Team: 6 Analysts.
Project at BBVA Compass
May 2012 to April 2014
Mainframe Analyst/Tester – Birmingham, AL.
Functions: Analyzing, designing, developing and supporting different systems.
PROJECT (1)
Installation of the Alnova Banking System
Description: To install the Alnova Banking System and help with the migration from the previous system to this new Alnova System and to take care of the maintenance and evolution of it. The modules that I was assigned are Corporate Tables & Architecture where I worked from May 2012 to August 2013. From August 2013 to April 2014 I was assigned to the Loans module where I developed reports for the Dealers subsystem.
Responsibilities: To develop the modifications of programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the Bank. In order to do so, I need to interact with the users and not only modify the programs but to analyze and define the modifications and develop them. Sometimes I need to work with the users and along with them define the new procedures and subsystems to enhance the performance of the System and to fulfill the new necessities such as new reports and CICS transactions most of them are for other services that the Bank wants to add to the new system. Other responsibilities were to define and develop the data migration and conversion from previous systems into the new Alnova Banking System, this migration can reside in QSAM or VSAM files or DB2 tables. I have to work with teams in the different cities in the US and in Philippines and Spain, we have to coordinate the efforts in order to be able to install within the schedule.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, EXPEDITER, FILEAID, QMF, QSAM & VSAM files, Alnova Banking System, Microsoft Office
Platform: IBM Mainframe
Work Team: 4 Analysts.
Project at Bank of America and BBVA Spain
September 2007 - May 2012
Project Manager – Monterrey, Mexico / Madrid, Spain.
Functions: Manage a team and interact with the client/users.
PROJECT (1)
August 2008 – May 2012
Maintenance and support of Bank of America’s TST – IP Day 2 Reporting subsystem.
Description: To develop the users’ new requirements and support the actual system of the company.
Responsibilities: In charge of client interfacing and to manage and control the different releases to the system among the teams involved to avoid any negative consequences.
●Change control for 3 teams (IP Day 2, RCK & RSH) the teams were located all over the US and in India.
●Representation of Changes in the CABs (Change Advisory Boards) meetings.
●Approval and waivers request & follow-ups.
●Create reports to highlight the different releases status.
●Provide hands-on support to project teams integrating with testing standards, tools and processes.
●Perform testing for the teams streamlines.
●Create the test environment in the Development LPAR getting the components from the different Production LPARs. Such components were QSAM & VSAM files that needed to be created and transmitted in order to be able to perform the tests.
●Attend and participate in testing status meetings. Worked closely test coordinators from each application and team participating in the project for different phases. Ensured that scope, test resources and timeline of test phases were met.
●Evaluate the testing results using DB2 (SPUFI, SQL & QMF).
●Follow up with the client and the developers for any several / minor project enhancement or new feature(s).
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CA-7, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office, MS Project.
Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.
Work Team: 4 Programmer Analysts and 3 Software Engineers.
PROJECT (2)
September 2007 to July 2008
Maintenance and support of BBVA Spain software factory.
Description: To develop the users’ new requirements and support the actual system of the company.
Responsibilities: In charge of client interfacing, invoicing and translating the clients’ requirements.
●Translation coordination (Spanish-English-Spanish) and supervision of the translating effort by the team.
●Peer review of the products released by the offshore team (India).
●Team hiring (contact outside suppliers) and introduction to the project & tools (mainframe tools) to the new team members.
●Coordination with the Client and other suppliers in order to improve the performance of the team and the quality of the deliveries.
●Attend and participate in the Client’s control status meetings.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office, MS Project.
Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.
Work Team: 3 Programmer Analysts and 15 Software Engineers.
Project at Verizon, Western Union and MCI/WorldCom
May 2002 - December 2006
Systems Specialist – Juarez, Mexico / El Paso, TX.
Functions: Analyzing, designing, developing and supporting different systems.
PROJECT (1)
June 2006 to December 2006
Maintenance and support of Western Union Financial Controls Subsystem.
Description: To develop the users’ new requirements and support the actual system of the company.
●Project control and tracking.
●Manage and plan the resources in order to distribute the workload/requirements. The teams were located remotely.
●Quality assurance of the modified items.
●Assisting the project management process by identifying the customer requirements.
●Developed customization enhancements.
●Provided production support to several batch and online applications.
●Implementation and post implementation project issue /defects tracking and support.
●Develop multiple enhancement projects.
Responsibilities: In charge of analyzing, designing, developing and testing the modifications to fulfill the users’ requirements.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, Microsoft Office.
Platform: AS400, Windows NT.
Work Team: 1 Systems Specialist.
PROJECT (2)
September 2005 to May 2006
Introduction to the Mainframe
Description: To prepare and give an Introductory course to the IBM’s Mainframe Environment and Tools.
Responsibilities: To lecture about the IBM’s Mainframe environment and to support the users during their day to day activities.
●Coaching and development of training courses (Mainframe Tools & Cobol introductions).
Tools: ISPF, Mainframe tools and debuggers (QMF, FileAid, FileAid DB2, Expediter, SPUFI), QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office
Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT
Work Team: 1 Systems Specialist.
PROJECT (3)
May 2004 to August 2005
Testing of Verizon Wireless new developments.
Description: To facilitate the testing of the new developments to certify they are bugs free and do not harm the actual processing.
Responsibilities: In charge of analyzing, designing and developing the testing scripts to prevent malfunctions of the new releases.
●Provide hands-on support to project teams integrating with testing standards, tools and processes.
●Perform testing for the teams streamlines.
●Create the test environment in the Development LPAR getting the components from the different Production LPARs.
●Attend and participate in Testing status meetings. Worked closely test coordinators from each application and team participating in the project for different phases. Ensured that scope, test resources and timeline of test phases were met.
●Evaluate the testing results using DB2 (SPUFI, SQL & QMF).
Tools: UNIX & Ultraedit.
Platform: UNIX, Windows NT.
Work Team: 1 Systems Specialist and 3 analysts.
PROJECT (4)
May 2002 to May 2004
Maintenance and support of MCI/Worldcom RMS Subsystem (Billing).
Description: To develop the users’ new requirements and support the actual system of the company.
Responsibilities: In charge of analyzing, designing, developing and testing the modifications to fulfill the users’ requirements.
●Assisting the project management process by identifying the customer requirements. The team was located in Colorado.
●Developed customization enhancements, such enhancements were done in both batch and online programs which use DB2 tables or files (QSAM or VSAM).
●Provided production support to several batch and online applications.
●Implementation and post implementation project issue /defects tracking and support.
●Develop multiple enhancement projects, such enhancements were done in both batch and online programs which use DB2 tables or files (QSAM or VSAM).
Tools: COBOL, DB2, Endevor, Fileaid, Fileaid DB2, JCL, CICS, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office.
Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.
Work Team: 1 Systems Specialist.
Project at Cetelem
January 2001 - April 2002
Project leader – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Functions: Analyzing, designing, developing and managing the installation of the SICLID system (Loans management system).
PROJECT
January 2001 to April 2002
Installation of SICLID system in Cetelem Argentina.
Description: To install the upgrade of the software version that manages the Loans system of the company.
Responsibilities: In charge to manage the development team, also analyzing, designing and developing the modifications to fulfill the customization and installation of the system. Also to define de policies and methodology to use during the project.
●Create reports to highlight the different releases status.
●Provide hands-on support to project teams integrating with testing standards, tools and processes.
●Attend and participate in status meetings. Worked closely with test coordinators from each application and team participating in the project for different phases. Ensured that scope, test resources and timeline of test phases were met.
●Follow up with the client and the developers for any several / minor project enhancement or new feature(s). Customize the access of the transactions according to the new needs, this meant to change the access of the programs to the VSAM files or the DB2 tables.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office.
Platform: IBM Mainframe, Windows NT.
Work Team: 1 Project Leader, 3 Analyst/Programmers Sr., 3 Programmers.
Project at BBVA Bancomer
September 2000 - December 2000
Analyst – Mexico City, Mexico.
Functions: To prepare and give a course.
PROJECT
September 2000 to December 2000
Introduction to the Altamira Banking System
Description: To prepare and give an Introductory course to the Altamira Banking System
Responsibilities: To prepare the written material and to give the course.
Tools: Microsoft Office, Altamira Banking System
Platform: Windows NT
Work Team: 1 Analyst
Project at BanCrecer, BanCrecen, BanOro, BBVA Provincial (Venezuela)
August 1994 - May 2000
Analyst – Mexico City, Mexico / Caracas, Venezuela.
Functions: Analyze, Define, Develop and Support the Altamira Banking System.
PROJECT
August 1994 to May 2000
Installation of the Altamira Banking System
Description: To install the Altamira Banking System in different Banks and to take care of the maintenance and evolution of it. The modules that I was assigned were Clients, Corporate Tables & Architecture. Eventually I helped with some projects for Accounting and the Foreign module.
●I got in charge of the 3 modules for 3 different Banks Bancrecer, BanOro and Bancrecen (a Bank from Costa Rica). Later on I help in the migration and consolidation from BanOro to Bancrecer, the migration was successful and it was accomplished within the scheduled dates.
●Then I was assigned to help with the installation of the system for Banco Provincial in Venezuela, I was assigned to help with the same modules (Clients, Corporate Tables & Architecture) and finally I was assigned in BBVA Mexico just before the fusion with Bancomer, I was assigned to help the Accounting & Report creation efforts.
Responsibilities:
●On the first stages as a Programmer Jr. my role was to develop the modifications of programs to customize them to fulfill the necessities of the Bank.
●Later on as a Programmer Sr. my role change and I’d started to interact with the users and not only modify the programs but to analyze and define the modifications and develop them.
●On the final stage of my staying in AC my role was as an Analyst and my functions and responsibilities were co-working with the users and along with them define the new procedures and subsystems to enhance the performance of the System and to fulfill the new necessities such as new reports and CICS transactions.
●Other responsibilities were to define and develop the data migration and conversion from previous systems into the new Altamira Banking System. The source of the data was on VSAM files and the result of the migration was either VSAM files or the data was migrated to DB2 tables.
Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, FileAid, FileAid DB2, Altamira Banking System, QSAM & VSAM files, Microsoft Office
Platform: IBM Mainframe
Work Team: 1 Analyst, 2 Programmer Sr., 2 Programmer Jr.
Project at Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Ecatepec
May 1993 - April 1994
Programmer – Ecatepec, Mexico.
Functions: To Analyze, Design and develop.
PROJECT
May 1993 to April 1994
Automatization of internal processes (Budget/Inventory).
Description: To define, design and develop a system to manage and update the information of the goods and supplies of the School.
Responsibilities: Create a system, which keeps track of the inventory and helps to define a better way to spend the budget. Training the personnel in the use of the new tool and support it.
Tools: Lotus Worksheet, Clipper
Platform: IBM PC
Work Team: 1 Programmer.
LANGUAGES:
Spanish: Native. English: 95% written, 95% read, 95% spoken. Other: French: 10% written, 10% read, 10% spoken.
COURSES & CONFERENCES:
Attended:
Application design using DB2 (1997)
DB2 Overview (November, 2002)
English (at Interlingua) (1995-1996)
Introduction to SQL part 1 (December, 2002)
Business Negotiation (1999)
Introduction to SQL part 2 (January, 2003)
Data Analysis (March, 2003)
AbendAid workshop (2013)
Data Modeling (February, 2003)
Given:
Budget/Inventory system
Training of Mainframe tools
Altamira Banking System Introduction
DB2 Introduction and workshop
SKILLS
Skill
Years of Experience
Skill
Years of Experience
AbendAid
4
Expediter
8
Changeman
6
FileAid
10
CA-7
2
FileAid DB2
10
CICS
10
Endevor
2
Clipper
2
QMF
16
COBOL
16
Smartest
8
Control-M
6
SQL
16
DB2
16
TSO/JCL
16
BMC
3
Lotus Worksheet
2
EDUCATION:
Bachelor Degree
Computer Science (Graduated)
Instituto Tecnológico de Tlalnepantla - 1988-1992
SKILLS/BEHAVIORS:
Areas of Strength
●Communication/Verbal & Written
●Leadership/Mentoring
●Organization Skills
●Positive Attitude
●Motivation/Self & Others
●Time Management
●Analytical knowledge
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