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IT Professional with over 15 years experience in account management, project management and technical development. Expertise encompasses analysis of project goals/objectives, detailed project planning and implementation, assessing and managing potential risks, allocating and directing resources, monitoring and controlling costs, and assuring timely project completion in compliance with contract specifications. A successful account manager and facilitator with highly developed analytical and technical abilities, a strong client focus, and the innate ability to lead teams and drive the successful delivery of complex projects.
Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access database, Microsoft Excel, Visio, CICS, DB2/SQL, IMS DB/DC, QMF, SPUFI, BTS, MFS, SDF, PL/I, COBOL II VS II, C, OS/JCL, TSO/SPF, MVS/XA, OS/MVS, OS/DOS.
Complete life cycle experience in defining scope and providing critical leadership to project planning, tracking, and completion, assuring timely delivery of commitments.
Project Manager, 03/2000 to 04/2002
Responsible as a team lead for a project management office being set up to manage our client’s implementation of OSS/BSS systems which included Performance Monitoring and Reporting, Trouble Ticketing, Asset and Inventory Management and Correlation Engine systems. Managed an internal team to analyze corporate communications and policies. Developed essential vendor relationships and created strategic infrastructure to conduct integration testing.
Managed a re-architecture of a one-tier client server system into a three-tier Web based system. The client server system utilized FoxPro for its GUI presentation, business objects and back end. The Web based system utilized ASP, Java script and HTML for its Web based front end with the business objects converted to COM objects and Oracle databases for its back end.
Directed a reengineering effort to replace existing IMS screens with GUI front end. This process employed client/server architecture where the database access and business rules application remained on the mainframe devoting the processing of input data to the client. The GUI front end was written in C and the API was written in PL/I.
Project Manager, 07/93 to 03/00
Developed and designed a migration and conversions methodology for a single state single service provider to merge a multi-state multi-service provider into their environment. The merge was from an IMS DB/DC environment written in Cobol II to a DB2 DBMS CICS environment also written in Cobol II. This effort consisted of: data mapping, analysis of application(s) functionality, access paths optimization for conversion to DB2, working with the database administrator for the new DB2 environment, application conversion approaches, merging functionality’s, developing SLA’s with the users for synchronization of data between data centers, developing and implementing full life cycle testing scenarios, coding, testing, and implementation.
Managed IT tool division providing solutions and support permitting field professionals of 30 branches of an international information technology organization in assisting their clients in achieving tangible results from their IT investments.
Managed a complete life cycle guiding the client/server development of a Data Warehouse environment. Employing Metadata Tool for the emerging software technology to visually store business information, create a business information directory, and automate the administration of the information stored in the data warehouse.
Directed due diligence processes resulting with complete inventory of systems components, identification of trouble areas, recommendations for code standardization and process time effective coding techniques. Incorporated user-friendly error processing into existing systems and online administrative processes featuring data manipulation designed to correct erroneous data.
Guided development of the first transitional product release from client to an outsourced environment for PAC Bell (Pacific Bell Telephone Company), completing all project phases within the prescribed four-month timeframe.
Directed a telephone number conversion project for Southern New England Telephone (SNET) encompassing file and database conversions and migrations as well as implementation of program changes and production support.
Directed a ten-member team charged with providing technical expertise for a production system SOP (Service Order Processing) for NYNEX.
Systems Engineer, 1991 to 1993
Designed, coded and implemented contract drivers, which served as a communication vehicle between several external systems and stored data. Designed, coded and implemented Database accessors, which were written to retrieve, store and update data. Responsibilities included Logical and Physical Database design, formal external design reviews and production support. System was written in PL/I, using DB2/SQL IMS DC, running under OS/MVS.
Senior Analyst, 1986 to 1991
Designed coded and implemented Tracking System, designed for Corporate Accounting Department, to monitor incurred management costs. Responsibilities included writing check point/restart logic for existing modules and error processing routines to prevent abends. System was written in PL/I and IMS DB/DC, running under OS/MVS.
Participated in defining and converting MODEL 204 files into sequential files. Wrote informative reports about the contents of the files using MODEL 204 user language.
Designed coded and implemented Tracking System, designed for Corporate Accounting Department, to monitor incurred management costs. Responsibilities included writing check point/restart logic for existing modules and error processing routines to prevent abends. System was written in PL/I and IMS DB/DC, running under OS/MVS.
As a member of a System Control Group to a Telephone Switching Processing System (TSPS) participated in defining and converting MODEL 204 files into sequential files. Wrote informative reports about the contents of the files using MODEL 204 user language.
Programmer, 1985 to 1986
As a member of a Retail Inventory Financial System group designed, coded and implemented on-line Quantities tracking system. Responsibilities included defining database layouts, system monitoring, system recovery and production support.
System was written in PL/I and CICS, running under OS/MVS.
Programmer 1984 to 1985
Developed an on-line automated collection system for outstanding accounts. The project included design of IMS databases and MFS screens as well as troubleshooting in testing and production phases and production support.
Programmer, 1982 to 1984
Provided critical participation in the requirements planning, design, development, and implementation phases of a menu-driven international banking system written in PL/I and COBOL, using DB2/SQL and CICS, and operating under OS/MVS.
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn New York
Major: Computer Science and Information Systems.
Courses completed: Power Builder, Client Server Architecture, C Programming Language
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