Thomas Bridges

Little Elm, TX

Mobile – 214-***-****

Skill Set

COBOL programming Experience in a financial trust system – I have worked on Employee Benefits (401K programming), Tax (Wash Sales, Lot Processing, Amortization/Accretion) Corporate actions (Dividend processing, Pending Transactions)

IBM JCL & Procedure Language

CICS

SQL to read DB2 tables in COBOL programs

EZTRIEVE

Agile Methodology – 3 years of being part of an Agile Scrum team using Jira and Remedy

I have used Changeman and Endevor to create packages for production installs.

I have some MQ experience in setting up the Queues to trigger CICS background transactions

Transmissions using FTP & NDM including using CA7 virtual datasets to trigger the jobs

File Manager

File Aid

IBM Debugging tool

Expeditor Debugging Tool

CA7 scheduling – worked with the CA7 team to schedule jobs

Experience

Bank of America March 1988 to Present

VP, Software Engineer II

February 2020 to Present

Support the Corporate Actions team with any production issue & train my India Counterparts (15 new team members) in supporting the Corporate actions side of trust

Train the new team members on how the various processes they will be supporting in the Bank’s Trust system

Train the new team members in the Bank’s coding standards for Cobol Programming

Trained four of the new team members in coding EZTRIEVE

Support the new team members in any production issues to resolve them quickly

2016 to January 2020

Supported the Corporate Actions Team. This entails working with the line of business to determine the programming changes, making the coding changes, creating an Endevor package and testing the changes prior to installing them in production

Used Agile Methodology for the tracking and install of packages – This includes using Jira to Track the time spent on projects during sprints & Creating the Remedy tickets for package installation tracking

Worked extensively on the Dividend process to receive files via FTP to be processed against the trust system and create the correct pending transactions so the Dividends would be paid.

Worked on the 401K processes by adding a new plan and creating the necessary transactions for the 401K processing

2009 to 2016

Supported the Tax area of the Trust Dept – Major projects were working on the Wash Sales projects, Amortization & Accretion calculation routines, Tax Bridge processing and transmissions

Also worked on converting the Oil & Gas Monthly statements to use PFSS for printing.

1997 to 2009

Supported various areas of the Trust dept and worked on several projects converting other trust systems to the Banks trust system. Worked on the Y2K project to change the code to handle the date change.

1988 to 1997

Supported the Employee Benefits area – this was on a WANG midrange system – worked on projects for the in service withdrawals, allocation of Dividends to the plan participants, and made the tax changes as required.

Installed the operating system upgrades on the WANG machine as needed.

1983 to 1987

National FSI

Worked as a COBOL programmer on a WANG Midrange making enhancements as required on the Employee Record Keeping System

Graduated from Central Texas College in 1983 with an Associates degree in Computer Science

Awards and Recognition

Over the years I have received 4 platinum awards for going above and beyond in resolving production issues involving wash sales, tax bridge and 401K processing, and 3 silver awards for the successful install of major releases for cost basis, tax bridge, 401K changes, and Amortization and accretion changes

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