Tania A. Combs

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Franklin, WI ****2

712-***-****

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OBJECTIVE:

Principal Technical Lead

RELATED CAPABILITIES:

Experience in Product and Project Management, Agile, JIRA, Epics, Features, User Stories, Dependency Management, Backlog Grooming, Roadmapping, JQL, JiraAlign, Story Pointing, Objectives, Impediment removal

Development in COBOL, COBOL II, QBasic, C++, Turbo Pascal, RPG, iAssembler, Crystal Reporting, ABAP, JCL, InfoSphere DataStage, ETL, PowerBuilder, SAS, PL1, CICS

Experience with MS-DOS, Visio, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Confluence, ACCESS, QMF for Windows, SQL, Host On Demand, EDI, Visual Source Safe, AIX(Unix OS), IBM Stored Procedure Builder, SOX(audit), TOAD (Tool for Oracle Application Developers), DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS, MVS, TSO, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT, BMSGT, AADF, SSRS, SSIS, Windows job scheduler management, PERL Scripting, Omegamon Interface Facility, Mobius Report Tool, BMC Remedy, Xpediter, DBDS, Worksoft Certify(testing automation), SDLC, SAP Netweaver, HP Quality Center, SQL Server Management Tool, Oracle SQL Developer, SAP TM, IBM WebSphere Message Broker(Integration Bus), Cronacle, PowerBuilder, SFTP, XML, MQ Series, QMF, RACF, BMC Remedy, JIRA, AGILE Methodology, DB Schema Design, Informatica Data Warehousing, z/OS, Front/Backend development concepts, OOP protocol, Leading both on and offshore teams, Gitlab, ServiceNow, Vendor RFP, MS Project, AWS Service Interfacing, Audit Controls, Control-M, Changeman, Power BI

Strong desire to troubleshoot and resolve issues

EDUCATION:

Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE 1998

B.S. Business Administration / Technical Studies GPA 3.7

Western Iowa Tech Community College, Sioux City, IA 1997

A.A.S. - Computer Programming GPA 3.9

A.A. - General Education GPA 4.0

Diploma - Software Technician

EMPLOYMENT:

Northwestern Mutual

Sep 2021 - Current

Sr Engineer

Responsible for system development in benefits department. 90% of my time is spent developing for the Retirement Benefits group. I also serve as the Risk Engineer and ensure our Actuary Department is following Audit Controls. In addition to the above responsibilities, I am serving as the department's Ambassador for performance recognition.

●Development in SAS and PL/1 on z/OS

●Ensure Audit and Security Control adherence for department

●Create JCL for batch processing of employee personnel records

●Ambassador for department's recognition software

●Maintenance of backend interfaces for quote system

●Scheduling of batch jobs in Control-M

●Merge request approval in Git for Retirement Benefits

●Peer reviewer for deployments

●CICS code promotion

●Utilization of Changeman for deployment

●Troubleshoot incidents in production

●ServiceNow tracking of asset configuration

●VSAM file processing

●Create generational files used in batch processing

●Change documentation of feature enhancements

Sep 2019 - Sep 2021

Product/Project Manager

Responsible for ensuring adoption of Agile practices. I served as a Scrum Master, leading all cadences and refinement activities. I work closely with leadership to create strategic alignment for products. I created communication plans to ensure consumer awareness and adoption. I would also hold lunch and learns for engineers to discuss anomalies and ensure adoption adherence.

●API Management project manager

●Mainframe Infrastructure product manager

●Agile Maturity maintaining epics and features

●Lead daily standup and retrospectives

●Scrum Master for team

●Lead refinement activities

●Ensure quality product delivery

●Presentation of project status

●Audit Closure for enterprise security

●Removing engineering blockers and coordination of resources

●Prepare Roadmap Strategies

●Alignment with cross product for dependencies

●Participate in customer alignment sessions

●Conduct alignment sessions with Enterprise Architecture

●Closely work with Enterprise Security for new development

●Coordinate integration testing

●Ensure adherence to the software development life cycle processes including coordinating activities with clients, system interface partners, and other project teams including testers, architects, developers, and database administrators

IBP / Tyson May 1997 – Sep 2019

SR Programmer / Analyst

Responsible for full SDLC lifecycle of Mainframe applications. I was responsible for system analysis, design, development, acceptance testing, deployment and system support. I worked closely with business leads to ensure zero down time and highly reliable systems.

●Subject matter expert and strong understanding of business acumen

●Translated business requirements into technology solutions

●Strong development skills in COBOL/DB2/CICS/JCL

●80% of time spent developing

●Extracted, transformed and loaded data for data warehousing

●Lead offshore and onshore teams to project completion

●Automation of test scripts

●Created Batch jobs and JCL technologies

●System documentation

●Collaborated with other team members to develop solutions

●Ensured all requirements were addressed for each component

●Actively participated in design and documentation

●Constructed, unit tested, and performed integration tests

●Requested for proposal of efforts to vendors

●Ensured RACF security standards

●Approved Disaster Recovery signoff by engineers

●Supported production operations by researching incidents, proposing and implementing corrective actions

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