Data Software

Ricky M. Perkins

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IT PROFILE

I am a 25 year IT professional with expertise in gathering, analyzing and defining EFT business and functional requirements - creating process metrics with experience in optimizing and designing/re-engineering EFT process flows and technology solutions.

York Solutions (Medica) Dec 2020 – Present

EFT Migration Consultant (Contractor)

Analyze C:E environment and develop, coordinate and implement sFTP, FTPs process migration solutions away from CleoVLTrader to GlobalScape endpoint interface.

Job scheduling redeployment in Automic

Meet with and facilitate roadmap conversations with key stakeholders ensure proper expectations and deliverables

Beyond Medical solutions llc

Full service client on-boarding (CrushFTP solution)

National Surgical device asset (AssetPanda) and Filed Service/Patient Support Management

While at BeyondMedical I successfully I helped many client setup EFT procedures

Zillion Technologies (Assurant) May 2019 – March 2020

Senior EFT Migration Consultant (Contractor)

Analyze C:E environment and develop, coordinate and implement sFTP, NDM, FTPS process migration solutions to GlobalScape

Successfully migrated 2000 connections while also maintaining BAU processes

Meet with and facilitate roadmap conversations with key stakeholders ensure proper expectations and deliverables

AFFINION Group, Stamford, CT August 1997 – Dec 2018

Lead EFT Application Analyst

Identified, analyzed, and resolved daily production problems relating to the electronic transmission of files, resulting in greater throughput and customer satisfaction.

Oversee various POC initiatives for file transfers – AXWAY, CRUSHFTP, IBM SFG/SSP/B2B SI

Developed, built, supported, and monitored electronic file transfers using various communication protocols (Connect:Direct, NDM, Secure+, Connect:Enterprise, SFTP, FTP, FTPS, HTTPS, Async and Bisync) within 3 platforms (UNIX, NT, VMS).

Supported Treasury EFT wires totaling 10’s of millions of dollars per month to various financial institutions assuring funds are delivered on time.

Admin, Install and configured IBM Sterling Control Center for Enterprise deployment

Assisted business analysts in coding of JCL, NDM including netrc login transfers in support of production file transfers to/from a mainframe and VMS host environments.

Mid-level UNIX admin.

Served as a liaison and first point of contact between external customers/trading partners and internal Affinion Group lines of businesses in setting up, supporting, and troubleshooting electronic file transfers.

Served as eCommerce Team Coordinator for Disaster Contingency Program to ensure timely restoration of critical systems and applications in event of disaster.

Provide daily guidance and oversight to the EFT staff. This includes, but is not limited to, establishing priorities, development of schedules, delegation of work, monitoring of scheduled activities, make staffing recommendations based on projected workload, coordinate metric and monthly reporting.

Manage the availability and performance of the EFT hardware and software systems to ensure optimal performance, sufficient capacity and high uptime while making efficient use of the Company’s physical, financial and human resources.

Perform EFT equipment and software licensing audit to also include PCI and SOX compliancy.

Peoples United Bank, Bridgeport, CT June 2007 – Dec 2007

EFT Solutions Lead - Contractor

Lead the EFT development, POC’s, implementation and testing for Peoples United Bank’s core EFT banking conversion project. This work resulted in a complete success in securing all data transmissions with its internal/external business clients. The adopted transmission standardizations provided a redundant, reliable and scalable EFT environment, including PCI/SOX’s compliancy.

EDUCATION

Major Study - BA MIS, WCSU

CERTIFICATIONS

White Belt Six Sigma December 2010

deBono Six Thinking Hats January 2010

Unix Administration I, II, III, Global Knowledge Sept 2007

Linux Administration, New Horizon August 2008

Network Security, Global Knowledge March 2009

QUALIFICATIONS

20+ years of IT experience

4+ years of Unix Administration

1+ year of project management experience

1+ year firewall rule administration

10+ years Shell scripting (bash, ksh), DOS, XML, HTML, DCL, cURL, SED, AWK

15+ years in various flavors of EFT Software client applications

3+ years in analyzing data, gathering business requirement, designing process flows/Use cases, and creation of metrics

Enhances personal skills by taking web-based/off-site training courses

Proficient in MS Windows, Mac OS X, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), SharePoint, Remedy, Pulse, C:E, C:D, Inovis/GXS, Shell Scripting, PGP/GPG and SSL certificate management, Access

Experience in creating software documentation

Experience in Six Sigma Methodology, ITIL, Process Design/Flow

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pyramid Services, Danbury, CT May 1998 – August 1999

Coordinate all incoming and outgoing client data process conversions

Process client claims data using various DOS and Windows based conversion programs.

Manage all client data FTP and Async transmissions

Tally client financial data using Foxplus and FoxPro

Modify and Parse client output database structure as required using Data Junction.

Hughes Danbury Optical, Danbury, CT Sept 1989 – August 1997

Perform nightly backups.

Execute scheduled and Adhoc MRP jobs.

Perform 1st level Help Desk responsibilities

Monitor/Maintain and backup Novel, UNIX and Concurrent servers.

Windows 95 software installations.

Replace PC parts such as hard drives, floppies, video and controller cards, etc.

Received D.O.D clearance

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