Real-Time Software Engineer
Resume:
Greg Yankelevich
Brooklyn, NY, **228
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Professional Summary:
Highly experienced COBOL, CICS, and DB2 programmer with over 20 years of expertise in the
brokerage industry. Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining critical financial
applications, including investment funding systems, real-time balance and position calculations, and SMA/Fed call calculations.
Extensive experience in delivering efficient, scalable solutions in afast-paced environment, ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance as well as a high performance for high volume processes.
Conversion CICS applications from Monoplex to Sysplex.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of financial processes, trade systems, and industry standards.
Technical Skills:
● Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL
● Databases: DB2, VSAM
● Mainframe Tools: TSO/ISPF, Changeman, File-AID, Abend-AID, Xpeditor, CA-7
● Operating Systems: z/OS, MVS
● Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, SDLC
● Financial Services Knowledge: Equities, Fixed Income, Trade Settlements, Real-Time
Balances & Positions, Investment Funding, REGT Calculations
● Other Tools: MQ Series, FTP, NDM, IBM Utilities
Professional Experience:
Senior Software Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
11/21/2008 – Present
● Designed and implemented COBOL programs and Stored procedures for brokerage and investment funding applications, enabling real-time funding
● Developed CICS online screens and batch programs for real-time balances, memos and
positions, improving accuracy in managing customer portfolios.
● Collaborated with business analysts to design new systems for rent calculations and
investment portfolio analysis, automating key processes for enhanced efficiency.
● Tuned DB2 queries for large-scale data retrieval to ensure real-time updates and
optimized performance in balance and position tracking systems.
● Managed the full SDLC for complex applications, ensuring successful deployments and
minimal disruptions in production environments.
● Provided ongoing support for brokerage applications, utilizing Xpediter and Abend-AID
to troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues.
● Led development and migration projects for legacy systems, ensuring that applications
were up to date with regulatory requirements and business needs.
COBOL Programmer
Bear Stearns
11/21/1994 – 11/20/2008
● Built and maintained critical applications for real-time balance and position tracking in
brokerage systems, providing up-to-date financial information to customers and trading
desks.
● Developed COBOL and CICS programs and stored procedures to automate REGTcalculations
● Enhanced investment funding applications, ensuring proper allocation of funds across
various customer accounts based on real-time account balances.
● Worked closely with QA teams to define test cases for all application enhancements and
modifications, ensuring high quality and error-free delivery.
● Tuned SQL queries for DB2 databases to ensure optimal performance, especially for
large-scale portfolio data retrieval in real-time systems.
● Developed batch jobs to automate trade settlement and end-of-day processing, reducing
manual intervention and ensuring timely reporting.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Key Accomplishments
● Built automated recurring payment and journal system handling over 1.4 MM schedules
● Successfully built and implemented real-time position and balance tracking systems,
improving accuracy and reducing delays in trade processing.
● Developed a initial REGT calculation integrated into brokerage services
● Led a project to automate investment funding processes
● Developed recurring money movement system for brokerage accounts
● Improved system performance through DB2 query optimization, leading to a 30% faster
response time for real-time data retrieval.
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