Mainframe Consultant / Cards Technical Expert Resume
Birmingham, AL
SUMMARY:
- Experienced technical Team Leader with 19+ years of experience in Mainframe Software Development. In - depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and implementation. Extensive and diversified experience with Batch and Online processes, system analysis and data maintenance. Strong background in financial institutions. International experience.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Technology and Tools: - IBM Z/OS | Fujitsu MPS-EX -COBOL | PL1 | Easytrieve | Rexx -DB2 | SQL | Stored Procedures -CICS -JCL | VSAM | QMF | ChMan | Control-M | Xpediter | Connect Direct | File-Aid -MicroFocus Mainframe Express | Jira | Clear2pay Personal Skills -Project Management / Systems Analysis -Consistent work within Banking Industry -Computer Literacy / Troubleshooting -Information Systems / Fraud Examination -Software quality practices -Supervisory / Skills -Analytical Skills -Team work -Responsibility -Leadership Languages -Spanish (Native) -English (Professional working proficiency)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Mainframe Consultant / Cards Technical Expert
Confidential, Birmingham AL
Responsibilities:
- Study of previous Legacy systems (Cobol/CICS/DB2) and data models.
- Detection of gaps and definition of solutions and improvements in the new processes.
- Technical and Functional documents preparation.
- Off-shore Software Factory Management. Test cases support and validation using Waterfall methodology.
- Provide program analysis to develop and maintain software modules to the Alnova “Vanilla” version.
- Provide risk assessment analysis.
- Provide production processes support advice.
- Implementation of the Debit Cards Authorization Center module. Maintenance and software upgrade according to Visa DPS enhancements and new cards operations necessities.
- Debit Card POS and ATM real-time transactions analysis, maintenance and defect solutions during the networks messages interchange. Using the ISO format from VISA DPS and STAR networks.
- Software s with VISA DPS.
- Implementation and support of Debit Cards fraud prevention validations.
- Maintenance and software defects solution enforcement using Agile SCRUM and Agile Kanban methodologies combined with JIRA tracking tool.
- IT and UAT data maintenance support to be used by the TQS area for new projects testing.
Project Leader
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Study of the Loan system (Cobol/CICS/DB2) and data models. Scope of project. Overview of the situation. Scope of the conceptual model. Involve affected groups.
- Project time frames definition and resources effort to conform a developer’s team.
- Technical and Functional documents preparation.
Software Quality Assurance Auditor
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Study of the current software components to find codification deficiencies.
- Implementation of components naming standards, templates and codification practices guidelines.
- Environment deployment procedures definition.
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analysis, development and maintenance of current Batch software components. Addition of new application requirements. Unit and Integration component testing.
Project Leader
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Requirements recollection within the different stakeholders.
- Delegating work duties to the developers.
- Software components project planning / tracking.
- Worked closely with the software development team to adopt best practices.
- Review of technical definitions, test cases and deployment plans documents.
- Coached and mentored junior developers.
- Supervised software quality and user acceptance testing on the software components.
Debit Cards Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analysis, development and maintenance of debit cards interface between the CTB core baking and the SAT Confidential Payments system.
- Batch support Analyst
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analysis, development and maintenance of current Batch and Online software components and the addition of new application requirements. Unit and Integration component testing.
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Developed business requirements, technical and functional documents for components development, data migration and new processes implementation for the new platform project. Modules involved: Scoring, Clearing house and Payment methods.
Software Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analysis, development and maintenance of current Batch and Online software components. Addition of new application requirements. Unit and Integration component testing.
- Responsible of the Microfocus Mainframe Express PC development environment management, for the use of the Software Factory’s new projects.
- Helped to the Software factory in the recruitment and selection process for new developers.
- Provide Microfocus Mainframe express tool support.
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analysis, development and maintenance of current Batch and Online software components. Addition of new application requirements. Unit and Integration component testing.
- Analysis and development of Batch components for a Retirement savings data migration processes. The original application was in a Unix distributed system and it was migrated to the S/390.
- Coached and mentored junior developers involved in other projects.
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Production support analyst level 1. 24x7.
- Immediate resolution of any production execution issue, supporting the COATS (Customer Orders Analysis and Tracking System) and the ORDP (Order Processing) applications.
- Preparation of weekly status report and performance metrics.
- Maintenance of Batch programs and data files based upon the user request or production resolution fix.
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analysis, development and maintenance of Batch and Online data extraction components. Addition of new application requirements. Unit and Integration component testing.
- Analysis and development of stored procedures to extract sales data and feed Intranet databases.
Jr. Programmer Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Y2K Online and Batch components maintenance.
- Analysis, development and maintenance of Batch and Online software components. Addition of new application requirements. Unit and Integration component testing.
Jr. Programmer Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analysis, development and maintenance of an integral software application to manage unit car sales, customer data administration, auto-parts shop inventorying and payments reconciliation. The system was developed using Clipper.
- Novell Netware Network administrator.
- Provide Microsoft Office support.