Senior COBOL Developer/Analyst

Muhammad Bashir Ahmad

Address: **** ******** ****., *********** *******, L5M 6W3, Canada (Tel: +1-905-***-****)

Present Contact: Riyadh +966-**-******* Email: *************@*******.***

OBJECTIVE:

Position, requiring versatile and extensive experience to perform as an IT Systems Analyst / Developer for business application systems.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Versatile experience of over fifteen years in Systems analysis, design and development for business application systems.

• Strong communicator and liaison that effectively partners with all levels of an organization to successfully reach project goals.

• Customer Needs Assessment and Production Support

• Team player with excellent inter-personal communication and presentation skills.

• Trouble shooting system problems faced or reported by the end users

• Used system development life cycle methodology and performed hands on construction in different environment.

• Analyzed, developed and implemented bank reconciliation, foreign exchange and human resources systems.

• Involved in maintenance and enhancement bank reconciliation, foreign exchange and human resources system.

• Involved with and participated in analyzing and developing telecommunication system.

SKILL SET:

Industry Exposure: Banking / Finance, Telecommunication, Inventory

Platforms: UNIX, IBM Mainframe ZOS/390, MS Windows XP,

Database/Access method: DB2, VSAM, Oracle, MS/SQL Server 2005.

GUI/Tools: Microsoft Office, MS Project

Languages: CICS, COBOL, SQL, PL-SQL, JAVA, HTML, VB/ASP.NET 2.0

Utilities: FTP, VISIO, TSO/ISPF, FILE-AID, CICS-ABEND-AID

Package: LEBS (Banking package)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Consultant Feb. 2008 - date

IT Matrix Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Production support and maintenance of Payment System (SWIFT / SARIE).

• Systems analysis and development of payment system

• Maintenance and Production support of BankTrade System of CSI (Vendor) for L/Cs and Bills.

Systems Analyst Oct. 2001 to Jan 2008

Ministry of Defense Computer Center Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Systems analysis and production support of Inventory system

• Designed, analyzed, developed and deployed Depot Shipping subsystem of Supply and Maintenance Inventory System (SMI) using SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) Methodology.

• Assignment includes analysis, Investigation, troubleshooting and Fixing Online and Batch programs. Unit and system integration testing using system development life cycle and documentation.

IT Analyst Mar 2000 - Sep. 2001

OAO Technology, Toronto, Canada

• Involved in analysis, development, and implementation and production support of Nissan auto vehicle project.

• Assignment includes analysis, Investigation, troubleshooting and Fixing Online and Batch programs. Unit and system integration testing using system development life cycle and documentation.

IT Consultant Apr 1998 - Feb. 2000

Bell Canada / CGI Telecom Information System and Services Inc., Toronto, Canada

• Involved in the development of 416 Overlay project (replacement of compressed NPA (Number Plan Area) by full NPA i.e. Increase from 7 digits to 10 digits Phone number)

• Involved in the development of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) application and resolved systems problems faced by the user community.

• Analyzed user requirements and developed reports from SOF Print (Service Order Feed), PIC/CARE (Primary Interchange Carrier/ Customer Account Record Exchange) System.

• Coordinated in the process of migration of Applications from PANVALET to CHANGEMAN environment.

• Provided support and coordinated for RACF in the test environment.

Sr. IT Analyst Jul 1997 - Mar 1998

Carlton Cards, Toronto, Canada

• Analyzed, developed and deployed a customized solution for Financial/Accounts using SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) methodology.

• Developed and deployed online inquiries to monitor profit variations.

• Converted and tested number of programs from VS COBOL to COBOL-II standard.

Systems Analyst Apr 1985 - Jun 1997

Al-Rajhi Banking and Inv. Corp., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• System analysis, developed and deployed Bank’s Reconciliation System using the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) Methodology as a Team lead.This was one of the major Application which went through different phases of development. Initially the application was running on System/36. I was deeply involved in all of the following Phases:

Conversion and re-engineering of the Application to Mainframe DOS/VSE-SP environment

Conversion from DOS/VSE-SP to MVS/ESA environment using COBOL-II

• Involved in design, development, and implementation of the following systems:

Foreign Exchange Dealing

Treasury Operation

• Enhanced and Maintained the following Systems for the Bank:

Cheques Entry, Repurchased Cheques, Stop Payments and Claims of Cheques,

Vouchers Entry, Dormant Accounts, Inter-branch Transactions,

Reconciliation of Transactions, Foreign Correspondent Banks Statement of Accounts.

• Maintained General Ledger Banking system package (LEBS).

SUMMARY OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS EXPERIENCE:

Banking and Finance:

Bank Trade (L/Cs and Bills), Payments (Local and Foreign currencies), Retail Banking, Credit banking (demand loan), Foreign Exchange dealing, Treasury Operation, Banks Reconciliation, Inter Branch Transactions, Cheques Entry, Repurchased cheques, Stop and Claims of Cheques, Vouchers Entry, Dormant Accounts, Foreign Correspondent Banks Statement of A/c Entry, Shares dealing, Vostro accounts, General Ledger

Telecommunication:

416 overlay project (replacement of compressed NPA (Number Plan Area) by full NPA)), CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) extract, Test environment Support and RACF Coordination, Selective SOF (Service Order Feed) print, PIC/CARE (Primary Interchange Carrier/ Customer Account Record Exchange) Extract

Inventory:

Depot Shipping subsystem of Supply and Maintenance Inventory System (SMI)

Administration:

Human Resources and payroll system

EDUCATION:

M.Sc. Applied Mathematics.

CERTIFICATION and TRAINING :

Institute of Business Administration, University of Karachi.

System Analysis and Designing

Introduction to Electronic Data Processing

Institute of Bankers in Pakistan (I.B.P.)

Diploma Associate of Institute of Bankers in Pakistan (DAIBP)

with distinction in Higher Accountancy

University of Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Certification of Basic and Advance Arabic Language Courses

I B M

DB2 for MVS

CICS

COBOL

TSO / ISPF

MVS concepts and facilities

MVS JCLS

NCR Corporation

Introduction to Programming

COBOL

IMOS-III

Other courses

Visual Basic 8.0

ASP.NET 2.0

JAVA

HTML

Oracle DBA

Saudi Computer Society Riyadh

Principals of EDP Auditing

Cooperative Application of CASE (CASE TOOL)

Jaraisy Computer Services Riyadh

INFORMIX (Open System) seminar

Al-Rajhi Banking and Inv. Corp. Riyadh

SWIFT and US funds transfer seminar

NATURAL Application Software (Demo from SOFTWARE AG.)

Y2K applications problems seminar

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Nationality: Canadian

Iqama status: Transferable

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