COBOL Programmer/Analyst

Nelson Ramos

*** **** ****** • Brooklyn, NY ****9

(H) 718-***-**** • (C) 917-***-**** • ******@*********.***

Systems Professional – Principal Consultant/Senior Programmer Analyst

Information Systems Professional with 29 years experience in the IT industry. Extensive background in all aspects of systems development life cycle, including design, analysis, coding, testing and implementation. Possesses in depth knowledge of the Global and New York financial markets. Successfully implemented complex development projects having progressively increasing scope and depth. Known for meticulous attention to both big-picture process and minute details.

Areas of Expertise

Application Development Tools: ADS/O, CA-InterTest (CICS debug/test), ISPF Dialog Manager, Microfocus COBOL Workbench, QMF/SPUFI, TSO/SPF

Application Package: GEAC, Peoplesoft

Databases / DB Tools: DB2, IMS, IDMS, FILEAID, JCLCheck, TSO/SDSF, SAR, VSAM, DMLO

Methodologies / Techniques: Client Server Framework, Client-Server Development Infrastructure Design, Packaged Software Selection and Implementation Framework, Productivity Management, Self Assessment, Testing (Unit, System, UAT)

Operating Systems: IBM OS/MVS/XA/E, MS DOS, MVS/JCL, Novell, Sun OS - Sun UNIX, VM/CMS, DOS/VSE, DOS/VSE JCL

Programming Languages: COBOL II, Java, MicroFocus Cobol, SQL, Assembler

Utilities / Command Languages: CA-PANVALET/ENDEVOR (Source Prog), COBOL II Debug, InterTest, Abendaid, MUMPS (Unix Compiler), Xedit (Test File Editing), LIBRARIAN (Change Control Facility), Job Entry System JES II/III, eclipse

Professional Experience

Keane, Inc. , New York, NY 04/1998-Present

Leading global consulting firm advises government and major business firms.

Started 11 year tenure with Keane as a programmer analyst dedicated to the Goldman Sachs account. Acquired steadily increasing breadth and depth of experience in application development of global Financial Accounting systems. Lead project consultant instrumental in winning a multi year outsourcing contract for the Financial General Ledger System. Client interaction at all management levels.

Principal Consultant – Senior Programmer Analyst at Goldman Sachs (04/1998 – Present)

Global Financial Services

• Responsible for the development, ongoing maintenance and support of global Financial applications.

• Rewrote many applications to ensure cost reductions between 50 to 75 percent in processing time. Create and deploy enhancements as required. Performed testing (unit, system, UAT) of application development and enhancements.

Interest Allocations Application (11/08-02/09)

• Developed and maintained the daily support for the firm wide application performing calculations and reporting on all customer interest allocations. Create and deploy enhancements as required.

• Developed and modified programs ensuring all client account hierarchies stay intact and allocations post correctly.

• Implement “look and feel” enhancements to reports generated for customer support representatives.

Firm wide Customer Financial Statements Application (10/07-10/08)

• Developed programs to generate daily statements for the user community to manage client accounts.

• Developed and modified programs to generate new monthly statements for external corporate clients, including multi-currency items.

Customer Accounting System, DBS Application for Global Investment Accounting and Financial Reporting application and the Analysis Trade Application. (01/00 – 09/07)

• Completed production, user, development and enhancement requests from the global user community.

• Problem resolution, team mentoring and training to turnover system to offshore support.

Year 2000 Code Remediation Project (04/98-01/00)

• Tested and certified all GS financial applications within the Global Financial Services division. Team Lead in completing baseline, regression and future date testing.

• Modified customer programs to interact with the new Year 2000 ready global accounting system.

Computer Aid, Inc. Scranton, PA 06/1997-03/1998

Short term out of state assignments demonstrating a strong ability to adapt to different customer requirements.

Prudential Securities - Year 2000 Readiness (01/98–03/98)

• Developed and tested all new applications under Year 2000 guidelines.

• Developed programs to present the percentage of quarterly employee contributions to various Investment funds (Mutual Funds, Stock and Bond funds).

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (09/97–12/97)

• Converted in-house applications from Honeywell programming language to COBOL II.

Blue Cross of NEPA (06/97–09/97)

• Developed various reports for customer distribution using SQL.

Independent Contractor, North East Region 07/1994-04/1996

Short term out of state assignments demonstrating a strong ability to adapt to different customer requirements.

SHS Computer Services (12/09 – 04/96)

• Customize RealWorld software programming in Microfocus COBOL

• Implemented, upgraded and performed support of customer site network infrastructure.

Smith Barney (07/94 – 12/95)

• Implement a 700 Node Novell network running Microsoft Office.

Swiss Bank Corporation, New York NY 08/1982-03/1994

Major International Investment Bank (merged with UBS)

Acquired steadily increasing breadth and depth of experience in application development and network engineering for the trading technology division of the firm.

Officer - Manager of Trading Technology, Systems Integration (10/87 – 03/94)

• Designed, implemented and supported FX front office position keeping system. Upgraded to meet straight through trading requirements.

• Upgraded and replaced live FX front office position keeping system with no disruptions to production.

• Implemented and supported a 250-300 node NeXT environment running office automation, front office analytic applications and global email.

• Designed, implemented and supported a 600 node Novell environment running Microsoft Windows office automation platform.

Senior Programmer Analyst (08/82 – 10/87)

• Developed financial products subsystem for settlement areas processing Capital Market Instruments.

• Developed program to extract accounting information to produce custom reports for settlement areas.

• Wrote emergency programs to expand the limitation of customer account numbers to interface with the firm accounting system.

• Developed asset management programs utilizing data from firm accounting system to provide Money Market and Foreign Exchange divisions with various reports.

• Produced inventory and maturity reports for all traded instruments.

• Identified all date dependencies in anticipation of Year 2000 and ensure accounting systems readiness. 

Education and Training

New York University, School of Continuing Education – New York NY

• Diploma in Computer Technology

• Certificate in Java Programming

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