Manager System

Senior programmer analyst with twenty years of extensive COBOL and CICS experience plus six years of IBM Webshpere MQ system administration in UNIX and Windows platform. Mainframe skills include COBOL, CICS, MQ, JCL, MERVA, DB2 and VSAM

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

IBM 370, UNIX HP, UNIX Sun Solaris, Windows XP, VAX 11/780, CICS, DB2/SQL, VSAM, SPUFI, QMF, TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS, IBM Webshpere MQSeries V7.0, MERVA API, INTERTEST, XPEDITER/TSO, JCL, MVS/OS, PANVALET, ENDEVOR, SYNCSORT, EZTRIEVE, PROEDIT, CHANGEMAN, MICROSOFT WORD, EXCEL, Visio 4.0.

LANGUAGES

COBOL, COBOL II, UNIX script, C, C++, VISUAL BASIC 4.0, PASCAL, ASSEMBLY.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Brown Brothers Harriman, Jersey City, NJ 10/10 to 01/12

Consultant

Participate in the design, programming and maintenance of a Brokerage firm Account Master system. The system operates in a batch and on-line environment utilizing IBM terminals.

Specific responsibilities included:

Build a CICS screen to allow users to add/change/delete a foreign currency account that is maintained at a foreign Bank.

Convert client appraisal’s mailing addresses and email addresses from Microsoft Access to mainframe DB2 tables. Send Change of address confirms to clients after mailing address and email address is changed on CICS screen.

Download Code1Plus software from website. Apply vendor master file to upload in mainframe in a quarterly manner.

Compare update timestamp to eliminate asynchronous update problem. Display asynchronous messages on CICS screen instead of CICS ABEND or changes overlay by another business user.

Decommission Account Master VSAM file. Create DB2 called modules for application programs to retrieve account information.

Create reports to send email alert to business users when NOSTRO field is not populated on the Money Transfer screen to eliminate failing trade.

Enhance the ability to maintain Banking Interest Facility offset accounts. Remove restriction of client account for add and change function.

Mitigate the risk associated with Corporate Action not being notified of an account being re-activated or custody service added to an existing account.

Expand CICS screens from 8 services to accommodate with 15 services to reopen or terminate account.

Apply HP Quality Center to track defect of application programs. Create test scripts to ensure the correct functionality is performed and the exception scenario is handled properly.

Nomura Securities International, Piscataway, NJ 09/09 to 04/10

Consultant

IBM Websphere MQ and CICS system programmer provided enterprise technical infrastructure support for the mainframe, Windows, and UNIX platforms. Specific responsibilities included:

Migrate MQ V6 to V7. Create queue manager for workload balancing production high volume messages.

Evaluate IBM and BMC MQ monitor. Provide software comparison reports for manager to make decision.

Configure VTAM APPLID to connect to CICS regions between LPARs running on different operation system.

Order and download PTFs to fix MQ and CICS system problems.

Configure MQ page sets to allocate multiple disks automatically.

APF authorized on system parameter library for MQ and CICS software.

Write COBOL program to create control cards to delete MQ archived datasets.

Work closely with the RACF Engineering group to come design and implement RACF Profiles and rules based upon the ACID’s and Profiles set up in Top Secret.

Utilizing SMF data, we are able to determine the appropriate users and access levels to the profiles defined in the MQ RACF classes.

Assist the RACF engineering group by setting up jobs to compare profiles for datasets and CICS transactions

Performed software problem diagnosis and resolution. Tuned and optimized message throughout.

Brown Brothers Harriman, Jersey City, NJ 10/08 to 12/08

Consultant

Participate in the design, programming and maintenance of a Brokerage firm Messaging Infrastructure and Reference Data system. The system operates in a batch and on-line environment utilizing IBM terminals.

Specific responsibilities included:

Design, code and test MERVA routing tables. Handle OFAC scan for account transfer. Fetch DB2 table to produce email alerts to business users in a timely manner.

Design, code and implement MERVA online inquiry. Limit text search to one day’s span. Generate warning message when text search without enough qualifying fields.

Design user tool. Create CICS screen to allow business users to query SWIFT message tag 20. Display MERVA queues which reference number matching with SW20 in DB2 table.

Remove SORT work DDs. Apply a control card to allocate disk space dynamically to eliminate space problem. Replace E TAPE to B TAPE to reduce I/O time of VSAM files.

JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY 10/06 to 08/08

Senior Programmer Analyst

A Senior Programmer Analyst with solid experience in the development of business applications in a COBOL/CICS/DB2/JCL/VSAM/MQSeries environment and interface with UNIX system.

Participate in the design, programming and maintenance of a Brokerage firm securities lending system. The system operates in a batch and on-line environment utilizing IBM terminals/UNIX PC. Specific responsibilities included:

Design, code and test international non-custody project. Work with third parties custodians to eliminate DTCC charges.

Design, code and implement EQUILENT and LOANET marks to market activities. Transmit mark up and mark down prices to UNIX server for reconciliation.

Build US dollar and British pond foreign exchange rate. Provide consistent exchange rate to bank internal sub-systems.

Query daily market prices from data warehouse and Bloomberg price feeds to capture the latest price for securities lending processing.

Process SWIFT/EuroClear confirmation/settlement instructions with MQSeries/MERVA API utilities to handle delivery/receive information with local markets/banks/foreign depository companies.

PERSHING, a Division of Bank of New York, Florham Park, NJ 04/01 to 10/06

IBM Websphere MQ System Administrator

IBM Websphere MQ System Administrator provided enterprise technical infrastructure support for the mainframe, Windows, and UNIX platforms. Specific responsibilities included:

Installed and maintained of IBM Websphere MQ, Websphere Broker Integration Message Broker and its monitoring tools. Centralized Candle monitor to apply a HUB in mainframe. Distributed Candle agent URL to enable a web browser.

Configured MQ clustering among mainframe and UNIX servers to round robin. Provided high availability.

Performed software problem diagnosis and resolution. Tuned and optimized message throughout.

Deployed message brokers in Windows servers. Increased configuration manager memory heap to allow multiple tasks execution.

Fixed message sets/flows deployment problem by deleting outstanding deploy in configuration manager DB2 table.

Coordinate with network and firewall to configure MQ channel connection.

PERSHING Division of CSFB, Florham Park, NJ 10/96 to 03/2001

Senior Programmer Analyst

A Senior Programmer Analyst with solid experience in the development of business applications in a COBOL II/CICS/DB2/JCL/VSAM/MQSeries environment and interface with UNIX system.

Participate in the design, programming and maintenance of a Brokerage firm trade processing system. The system operates in a batch and on-line environment utilizing IBM terminals/UNIX PC. Specific responsibilities included:

Design, code and test Credit View system. Invoked margin call alert to list customers below/hit credit line limit.

Capture journal entry to generate cash balance in bookkeeping record.

Coordinate the testing of the mainframe interfaces on the Corporate Action project. Chair the weekly testing meeting and generate meeting minutes. Complete the coding and testing of the Officer feed between the REORG system and XSP for Corporate Action Phase II enhancement.

Make the necessary mainframe changes to support the GLOSSHV server upgrades.

Process SWIFT/EuroClear confirmation/settlement instructions with MQSeries/MERVA API utilities to handle incoming/outgoing trading information with local markets/banks/foreign depository companies.

Retrieve/send cash balance and stock balance activities from DTC mail box through LU6.2 to feed backend bookkeeping and cash journal systems in 15 minutes basic.

Maintain Lifecycle Driver to handle agency trades/principal trades/client free trades and foreign exchange trades for Pershing correspondents clearing business.

Create the repair Queue subsystem within trade processing system to display error information on the screen and allow user to make any necessary corrections in a real time manner.

Design and maintain an intra-day background task to clean up the trades with account/CUSIP/edit problems.

Create FTP control cards using FTP put/get/append command to transfer mainframe trading files to HP machine to navigate UNIX system for GUI front end processing.

Create UNIX scripts to set up Maestro job schedule to keep PC job stream in sync with mainframe CA7 job schedule.

ADP Brokerage Service Group, Jersey City, NJ 01/95 to 10/96

Participate in the design, programming and maintenance of a Brokerage firm REORG system. The system operates in a batch and on-line environment utilizing IBM terminals.

Specific responsibilities included:

Exercise Corporate Action based on each of REORG types (Tender, Merger, Stock Split/Name Change, Liquidation etc.) to process announcement, position and activity records.

Add logic to handle multi-currency conversion in foreign security trading, dividend and interest payment.

Write CICS programs to prevent system resources being accessed by unauthorized users.

Interim accounting/sub-accounting/oversubscription: captures and posts throughout the life cycle of the REORG.

Merrill Lynch Contractor, Somerset, NJ 04/94 to 12/94

Participate in the design, programming and maintenance of a financial system. The system operates in a batch and on-line environment utilizing IBM terminals.

Specific responsibilities included:

Trading activity reports (daily/weekly/monthly).

Visa interchange transaction; respond customer’s requirement with credit/debit documents.

Front end and back end audit control reports.

Refine account payable and account receivable programming utilities with CorpCal and Amdate.

Production support for daily/weekly/monthly jobs.

AT&T Contractor, Somerset, NJ 10/91 to 03/94

Participate in the design, programming and maintenance of a Billing system. The system operates in a batch environment utilizing IBM terminals located statewide for update, query and data report.

Specific responsibilities included:

Received account information from local telephone exchange company, converted it to AT&T standard format.

Competent in coordinating users, vendors and computer operations in resolving production problems and setting up test environment.

Troubleshooting, maintaining and testing COBOL modules utilizing XPEDITER/TSO facility.

EDUCATION

Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, M.S., Computer Science, 1991

Tung-Hai University, Taiwan, M.A., History, 1985

Tung-Hai University, Taiwan, B.A., History, 1981

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