Senior Mainframe Programmer Analyst

JOHN MARTINO

** ******** **** *, ********, NJ ***05 Cell: 732-***-**** Email: *******@*****.***

MAINFRAME TECHNICAL LEAD ~ SENIOR IT DEVELOPER ~ ANALYST

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Accomplished Senior Technology Professional with an exceptional record executing complex and high profile programs while propelling operational growth and profitability. Skilled in developing and implementing innovative technical solutions for the financial, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications industry. Demonstrated expertise in driving and managing major projects, programs, and initiatives from planning through tactical execution. Talented in mentoring, guiding, and leading teams. Outstanding ability to develop and enforce policies and procedures.

Core Competencies

Technology Planning

IBM Mainframe Environment

Operations Management

Risk Management

Business Intelligence

Application Development

Product/Program Management

Software Development Life Cycle

Process Improvement

Database Management

Team Leadership

Project Scheduling

RECENT EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

VERIZON WIRELESS, Basking Ridge, NJ 10/2023 – 12/2025

A leader in the wireless service provider industry

Senior Programmer Analyst

Performed in senior developer role for the mainframe online and batch transaction order processing VISION CST system. Contributions and achievements focusing in the Device Protection code base spanning full development life cycle activities from grooming calls in requirements discussions with our business partners as SME, creating program specifications, coding, unit testing, deployment, and post-implementation activities.

Enhancements and new development written on IBM mainframe utilizing Cobol, DB2, and CICS.

MEDSIGN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, West Palm Beach, FL 03/2023 – 10/2023

A Telehealth Solutions Company

Systems Analyst

Participated as an analyst for the client interface of the corporate telehealth portal platform. Key contributions included analysis and design of maintenance and enhancements to the remote patient monitoring device application, the patient profile and personal health record system, and the device manager application. The system is written in Cobol and DB2.

BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON/PERSHING, Woodland Park, NJ 04/2022 – 03/2023

A Global Asset Management Institution

Senior Programmer Analyst

As a member of the ETL client services team, participated in the conversions of external financial institutions client retirement IRA and 401K data into BNYM standard formats, and subsequent DB2 database loads. Specific responsibilities included the development of extraction Cobol modules for the ingestion and preparation of external raw data files, the coding of the transform modules for conversion of key elements and the formatting into load process standards. Was responsible for developing and executing the many JCL jobs involved in a full client conversion in the Development and Production environments. The ETL platform is written on IBM mainframe utilizing Cobol, DB2, and JCL.

VERIZON WIRELESS, Piscataway, NJ 08/2010 – 12/2021

A leader in the wireless service provider industry

Senior Programmer Analyst and LTA

Contributed as a Technical Lead and senior programmer analyst in the Customer Support and Pricing System with key accomplishments in the company’s core online transaction order processing applications. Enhancements and new development written on IBM mainframe utilizing Cobol, DB2, and CICS.

Key Achievements:

Redesigned the corporate Random Order Number Generator by replacing the formulaic equations with a new algorithm that reduced the duplicates experienced on a first attempt to produce a unique order number from 80% to 26% and reduced the number of re-tries by 88%.

Wrote the technical design as a co-lead and also developed a major enhancement for the company’s create order process. The project improved the success rate of processing orders by allowing for the first time, multi-NPA-NXX line requests containing partial errors received from front-end applications by giving mainframe back-end systems the ability to successfully order complete other existing lines within the same request.

As the technical lead, designed a solution for the elimination of 1 year contract offers on all devices for specific customer types on equipment upgrades and new activations. Interfaced with front-end applications and coordinated with other overlapping mainframe projects throughout the full development life-cycle. Wrote program specifications, supervised coding and testing, and performed all administrative responsibilities in managing the project to implementation.

Designed, managed, and implemented multitude of online and batch business and internal projects to market that required effective lead and technical skills, utilizing collaborative agile methodologies.

UBS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC/PAINE WEBBER., Weehawken, NJ 12/2002 – 07/2010

An international wealth management company with investments in loan products and brokerage.

Team Lead and Senior Programmer Analyst, UBS

Selected to provide technical leadership and management of company core technology and mainframe infrastructure in a dynamic brokerage online transaction environment. Analyzed business needs and communicated with stakeholders to obtain business requirements, develop scope of work, and create technical and program specs. Performed design and code walk-throughs, reviewed project test plans, and coordinated work assignments. Provided direction and motivation to staff members, ensuring peak performance and maintaining high quality standards, while meeting all business objectives on time and within budget. Managed all aspects of the software development life cycle for all core IBM mainframe applications and reporting modules, utilizing Cobol, DB2, CICS, and VSAM.

Key Achievements:

Led large scale initiative to ensure compliance with FDIC regulation to include pennies in interest charges for the Margin Interest System. Efforts included the design of solution which bypassed core processing saving the company $250K in resources and delivering under the FDIC three-month deadline.

Spearheaded the design and implementation of critical banking products IBM DB2 database, which holds sensitive data for client RegU and RegT loans and supports online client inquiry site. Project completed ahead of schedule and under budget.

Developed a comprehensive mapping of the Margin Interest System for job, proc step, and module level in effort to improve run time efficiency. Efforts included identifying cause of high consumption of CPU usage, providing 45 minute reduction in batch cycle production.

Implemented the first ever Business Objects reporting platform to provide lending and finance business partners access to the Banking Products Data Mart in effort to perform adhoc analysis and performance reporting.

Recommended solution to resolve system issue which would now allow extra digit during climbing interest rates. Solution was successfully implemented within the eight-hour deadline without any disruption to client services.

Directed a firm-wide initiative to migrate all software on UBS Weehawken Lending Batch, Websphere Application, and Database servers to new offsite location.

SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION, Union, NJ 10/2000 – 12/2002

A global research-based pharmaceutical company

Senior Programmer / Analyst (Contract)

Charged with performing all enhancements and support for Pharmaceutical Medicaid Rebates System, providing claims, disputes, and resolutions from federal and state programs through CICS interface. Responsible for all aspects of coding, testing, and delivering of CICS application, written in COBOL II and utilized CICS 4.1.

Key Achievements:

As the sole resource on two major releases, developed and implemented sweeping enhancements to approximately 25% of the system’s functionality and the addition of 15 new state programs to the Medicaid Rebates System.

Conducted a complete array of performance tuning activities in conjunction with DBA and data modeler to system’s Cobol CICS host modules embedded SQL, VSAM code.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Bachelor of Science, Marketing

Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

Chubb Institute

Parsippany, NJ

TECHNOLOGIES

Hardware: IBM z15, IBM 9672 R46, ES 9000, 3090, 3084, 3083, 3033, AMDAHL 5860, IBM PC/PENTIUM

Software: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V6.1, DB2 V12.1, QMF, SPUFI, Stored Procedures, MQSeries, CICS, SQL/DS, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, Microfocus Cobol, MS/ACCESS, TSO, ISPF 7.3 OS/JCL, EZTRIEVE, DYL280, Xpeditor, Intertest, Business Objects, Oracle 10G, SQL Server, Actuate, Unix Scripts, Autosys, Websphere 7.0, Crystal Reports, Enterprise Data Warehouse, ETL, Toad, Changeman, Endevor, Team Track, MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio

OS: IBM z/OS 2.5, OS/390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, VM/CMS, VM/XA, DOS/VSE, Windows 7/NT/XP

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