Resume of Project Manager

Title
Project Manager

Primary Skills
Mainframe Developer/Manager; 10+ Years in the Information Technology Industry

Location
US-GA-Rome (will consider relocating)

Posted
Feb-04-08

"10+ Years in the Information Technology Industry"


WORK EXPERIENCE

07/2007 - 12/2007 Project Manager
Macy's System Technology Group (MST) via SPI
Working on automation of mainframe-based Testing Tool
Attending team meetings
Managing 3+ offshore programmers who were based in Mysore, India
Preparing technical specifications for programmers
Gathering and interpreting the technical requirements of programming
needs
Testing changes via client/server-based application
Utilizing project management, COBOL, DB2, CICS, SQL, JCL and SDLC

11/2005 - 06/2007 Lead Mainframe Application Tester
CSC via Longhill Enterprises Baltimore, MD
Working on the MARx project as a mainframe-based application tester.
Primary responsibilities included:
Attending team meetings
Performing performance monitoring/volume stress testing with Operations
staff using Strobe application
Performing unit, regression, as well as system integration testing of
the mainframe-based COBOL CICS DB2 modules that were developed in order
to support the various aspects required for the MARx application
Testing various Maintenance Program Resolution (MPRs) as this testing
relates to mainframe-based modules
Testing various CRs (Change Requests) as this testing relates to
mainframe-based modules
Checking the MQ Series-based queues in order to assist with problem
resolution
Assisting other MARx-related resources with resolving technical issues
that may prevent them from testing application
Utilizing COBOL development, Mainframe COBOL II, DB2, SQL, MQ Series, BMC Tools and CICS applications
and/or tools

9/2004 -- 11/2005 Data Integration Specialist
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Rockville, MD
Working for the Testing Unit Division of the Department of Shared
Accountability (DSA). Primary responsibilities included:
Attending team meetings
Providing mainframe-based SPSS programming in order to support testing
activities required by Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE).
These activities included producing pretest and posttest roster and
score files for the 190+ schools located throughout MCPS district. These
tests include Maryland State Assessment (MSA) and High School Assessment
(HSA)
Initially developing and maintaining over 50+ MS Access Applications
that were used to assist with the day-to-day testing unit activities.
These activities included posted pretest, post test and final processing
of data related to MSA and HSA. Assisting with the data cleaning
activities associated with producing MSDE-based files Administrating any
required PC-based training to other staff members
Utilizing COBOL development, Mainframe COBOL, JCL, SQL, MS Access and CICS applications
and/or tools

11/2003 - 4/2004 Contractor
Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc. (PCCI) Boston, MA
Working for the client Verizon via subcontract with PCCI. Primary
responsibilities included:
Attending weekly conference calls
Being a team member of the National Service Order Provider (NSOP)
application team. My responsibilities included:
Identifying and documenting client requirements for all projects that
are impacted by NSOP
Creating and publishing General Design Documents
Creating and publishing Detailed Design Documents
Identifying any technical requirements for NSOP-impacting projects
Assisting with testing efforts prior to implementing applications into
production
Utilizing business analysis, the SDLC for all development work as well as project
management skills. Used some light MQ Series as well during analysis work.

6/2002 - 11/2003 Program Analyst
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Arlington, VA
Working for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) group of
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Primary responsibilities
included:
Serving as IT Technical Requirements Point Of Contact (POC) for
Aviation Department of TSA. Primary responsibilities included identifying both
business and IT requirements for all application-related projects for
department. Served as liaison between business and technical staff.
Serving as Mobile Screening Force (MSF) Operations Center Deputy
Director. Primary responsibilities included:
Assisting MSF Deployment Coordinators with any deployment-related
issues
Resolving any MSF-related issues
Assisting with strategic planning of future deployments of MSFs
Serving as Lead Technical Liaison for client/server-based application
that was responsible for displaying pertinent airport information via
graphical user interface image of United States map. This application was
also known as "click map"
Designing, analyzing, creating, modifying, and supporting efforts
responsible for the maintaining of "click map"-related data
Designing, analyzing, creating, modifying, and supporting efforts for
several Microsoft Access-based applications that were used to assist the
Human Resource staff with its adhoc reporting needs for the TSA
Airport Rollout project
Installing developed Microsoft Access-based application on necessary
staff members' desktop PCs
Serving as data expert program analyst
Utilizing Mainframe, UNIX, C, MQ Series, project management and SDLC

6/2001 - 12/2001 Systems Analyst Contractor
AAMVAnet, Inc. Arlington, VA
Worked for the Driver Systems Department of AAMVAnet, Inc. Primary
responsibilities included:
Analyzing and developing implementation guide over the Railroad Highway
Grade Crossing-related ACD Codes
Analyzing mainframe applications within the office and providing
support for both the mainframe-based CDLIS application and the data
transmission-related ACD Codes
Designing, developing and presenting several Microsoft Power Point
presentations to motor vehicle administrators throughout the U.S. and
Canadian provinces
Serving as primary point of contact for any ACD Code-related issues for
Driver Systems Department
Utilizing SDLC, Microsoft PowerPoint, project management, Yourdon and
PACBASE

2/2000 - 5/2001 Lead Software Engineer
Verizon Communications Arlington, VA
Worked in the Telecommunication Group Systems (TGS) Department as a
member of the core Service Express Production Support Team. Primary
responsibilities included:
Analyzing and working on application production repairs for the
ExpressTrak Client/Server GUI application; coded, tested, and implemented into
production repair changes
Serving as Application Performance Team Leader for the ExpressTrak
application
Analyzing and working on application performance related repairs that
were caused by Service Express CICS transactions that were taking too
long in returning user(s) responses; coded, tested, and implemented into
production repair changes
Analyzing and monitoring Service Express CICS transactions to ensure
they were successfully executing in the required time; identified
module(s) that caused performance problem, reported problems to team members
via weekly conference calls, and advised team members of repairs to
apply to problematic program modules
Analyzing and providing technical consultation to both employees as
well as clients located at other Verizon's Information Technology (IT)
departments located nationwide
Assisting other employees with technical-related questions over
ExpressTrak application
Leading a team of 1 - 5 Software Engineers
Utilizing COBOL Development, SDLC, Mainframe COBOL, C, UNIX, OS/390, MQ Series, JCL, DB2,
CICS, Omegamon, Platinum tools, SPUFI, QMF and project management

10/1997 - 7/1999 Computer Consultant
INNOVA Consulting Professionals, Inc. Valparaiso, IN
Provided technical consultation to clients:
National Steel [1997] Portage, IN
Southcorp Packaging USA [1997] Peotone, IL
Inland Steel [1997] East Chicago, IN
National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) [1997] Palos Hills, IL
Primary responsibilities included:
Analyzing and developing both a project proposal and project plan for
INNOVA Consulting Professionals, Inc.
Analyzing and assisting National Steel with the Y2K conversion of its
Modcomp Time and Attendance (T&A) system; reviewed, modified, tested,
and implemented Modcomp COBOL and FOCUS code; reviewed, modified, tested
and implemented associated Modcomp scripts; and attended staff status
meetings
Analyzing and assisting Southcorp Packaging USA with the Y2K conversion
of its Time and Attendance (T&A) and Accounts Payable (A/P)
applications; reviewed/modified/tested COBOL II code that was generated by the
Vantage 2000 software; modified and tested associated OS/390 jobstreams;
and attended staff status meetings
Analyzing and assisting Inland Steel's Outside Processing (OSP)
Department with the daily Electronic Data Transmission (EDI) transfer of
service orders to the various customers nationwide; ran several OS/390
jobstreams; modified, tested, and implemented several COBOL II CICS DB2
programs; created, modified, and implemented OSP CICS Screens using Mapper;
modified, tested, and implemented OS/390 jobstreams that contained SAS
programs, and attended staff status meetings
Analyzing and assisting NICB with the implementation of the
mainframe-based National Motor Vehicle Titling Information System (NMVTIS)
application; assisting with the installation of the Universal Network
Interface (UNI) network; served as resident UNI technical expert; coded,
tested, and implemented NMVTIS COBOL II CICS DB2 programs into production;
and attended staff status meetings
Utilizing COBOL Development, COBOL, DB2, CICS, SQL, JCL and SDLC

4/1997 - 9/1997 Lead Computer Consultant
InPower, Inc. San Francisco, CA
Provided functional and technical consultation to clients:
W.R. Grace Boca Raton, FL
Air Products Allenstown, PA
Alcoa Pittsburgh, PA
Primary responsibilities included:
Analyzing and assisting W.R. Grace with the conversion of its legacy
production human resource and payroll data into the integrated
client/server GUI InPower Human Resource/Payroll (InPower HR/Pay) application;
InPower HR/Pay is an integrated Graphical User Interface (GUI)
client/server application
Analyzing and assisting W.R. Grace with the testing of the migration
and conversion changes that were applied to InPower HR/Pay. Also,
analyzing and Assisting W.R. Grace with the modifying and testing of the
InPower HR/Pay Long Running Tasks (LRTs) UNIX scripts
Analyzing and assisting Air Products with decision making over which
InPower HR/Pay events were necessary to be retrofitted into the clients
in-house HR application. Also, analyzing and assisting Air Products with
decision making over which InPower HR/Pay LRTs UNIX scripts were
necessary to be retrofitted into the client's in-house HR application
Analyzing and assisting Alcoa with the installing of current version of
InPower HR/Pay. Also, analyzing and assisting Alcoa with the
retrofitting and testing of the client's customized GUI objects that were
applied to current version of InPower HR/Pay
Analyzing and assisting Alcoa with the testing of the retrofitted
changes that were applied to InPower HR/Pay LRT UNIX scripts
Serving as both functional and technical consultant leads for the
development of several Crystal Reports for the clients W.R. Grace and Alcoa
Serving as both functional and technical consultant leads for all
clients
Training clients' staff on usage of InPower HR/Pay application
Utilizing COBOL Development, COBOL, DB2, CICS, SQL, JCL and SDLC

11/1996 - 3/1997 Computer Consultant
Aerotek - Maxim Group Rolling Meadows, IL
Provided technical consultation to the clients:
Allstate Insurance [1997] Schaumburg, IL
Kraft General Foods [1996] Rolling Meadows, IL
Primary responsibilities included:
Analyzing and assisting Allstate Insurance with the performance
monitoring of its CICS DB2 COBOL II applications
Analyzing and assisting Kraft General Foods with the modifying,
testing, and implementing into production of several of the client's QWEST
Sales Forecasting Application programs; QWEST is a sales forecasting CICS
DB2 COBOL client/server application
Analyzing and assisting Kraft General Foods with the modifying,
testing, and implementing into production of several of the client's OS/390
Job Control Language (JCL) jobstreams
Utilizing COBOL Development, COBOL, DB2, CICS, SQL, JCL and SDLC

4/1995 - 10/1996 Lead Contract Programmer
CHC, Inc. Memphis, TN
Provided contract programming to the client International Paper (IP).
Primary responsibilities included:
Serving as Co-Conversion Team Leader; lead 3 programmers
Analyzing and assisting IP with the data capturing and storing of
employee job- and position-related data from IP's legacy AAP, HRIS as well
as standard and non-standard payroll systems into the InPower HR/Payroll
application
Assisting with the initial data loading of several of InPower
HR/Payroll's DB2 tables Assisted IP with the designing, developing, testing, and
implementing into production of InPower HR/Pay LRTs OS/390 jobstreams
Assisting IP with the designing, developing, testing, and implementing
into production of IP's data conversion OS/390 jobstreams
Analyzing and assisting IP with decision making over which interfaces
were necessary in order to convert the client's HR- and Payroll-related
data into InPower HR/Pay
Assisting IP with decision making over which interfaces were necessary
in order to convert the client's HR- and Payroll-related data into
InPower HR/Pay
Assisting IP with creating, modifying, testing, and implementing into
production changes that were applied to several existing InPower GUI
objects and associated MicroFocus COBOL programs
Assisting IP with creating, modifying, testing, and implementing into
production changes that were applied to several new and existing Crystal
Reports
Assisting IP with retrofitting of changes applied to customized GUI
objects to current version of InPower HR/Pay
Analyzing and assisting IP with interviewing/training new contract
programmers; assisting IP with the creating of technical specification
documents
Utilizing COBOL Development, Mainframe COBOL, DB2, InPower HR/Pay, client/server and CICS
applications and/or tools

7/1994 - 3/1995 Senior Applications Programmer
AutoZone, Inc. Memphis, TN
Member of Store Management System (SMS) team. Primary responsibilities
included:
Analyzing, executing, creating, modifying, testing, and implementing
into production daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly OS/390 JCL
jobstreams in order to complete the miscellaneous adhoc report requests
Analyzing, creating, testing, and implementing into production OS/390
JCL jobstreams that capture and store forecasted sales information from
any of the 1000+ store every fifteen minutes into DB2 tables
Analyzing and working on project that included rewriting/revising
existing batch DB2 SQL modules for the purpose of increasing performance
Executing, creating, modifying, testing, and implementing into
production daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly OS/390 JCL jobstreams
in order to complete the miscellaneous adhoc report requests
Creating, testing, and implementing into production OS/390 JCL
jobstreams that capture and store forecasted sales information from any of the
1000+ store every fifteen minutes into DB2 tables
Working on project that included rewriting/revising existing batch DB2
SQL modules for the purpose of increasing performance
Assisting employees with technical-related issues
Utilizing COBOL Development, Mainframe COBOL II, DB2 and CICS applications and/or tools

6/1992 - 6/1994 Senior Applications Programmer
Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
Member of SWAT (Superior Workers Against Time) team. Primary
responsibilities included:
Executing, creating, modifying, testing, and implementing into
production OS/390 JCL jobstreams; these jobstreams assist the Management
Information (MI) Department of Purdue University with day-to-day data
processing needs
Creating, modifying, testing, and implementing into production batch
and on-line COBOL programs
Utilizing and designing applications via Excelerator application
Maintaining both Continuing Education and Parking Facilities
Department's CICS applications
Creating, testing, and implementing into production a remote printing
process where various department's equipment and supplies requisition
orders requested by the regional campus located in Hammond, IN were made
available to this campus real time via TCP/IP; solution consisted of
file transferring the electronic copies of these orders remotely to the
laser printers located at the Purdue University Calumet campus
Assisting several of the MI staff members with technical questions
Utilizing COBOL Development, Mainframe COBOL II, VSAM, and CICS applications and/or tools

5/1990 - 5/1992 Technical Support Intern
Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
Assisted various administrative and clerical staff members by providing
help with their presentations. Primary responsibilities included:
Making copies of presentation materials
Navigating through various screens of animated IBM Slide Show
presentations
Capturing meeting minutes from presentations/meetings; these
presentations were delivered to other university-wide and occasionally statewide
Purdue University staff members
Administering PC-based training courses entitled 'Introduction to
Microcomputers (10)', 'DOS Fundamentals' (15), 'Lotus Graphics' (10),
Introduction to Lotus 123'(25) as well as 'Lotus 123 Release 2.2 New
Features' (5) to Purdue University's administrative and clerical staff located
locally and statewide; taught over 250+ students. The numbers contained
within the parenthesis () represent the total number of times I was
instructor.

3/1987 - 5/1987 Co-op
Jaymar Ruby Michigan City, IN
Participated in six-week high school co-operative education program.
Primary responsibilities included:
Assisting computer operators with their daily tasks; this tasks include
maintaining tape libraries, loading/unloading of magnetic tapes unto
tape drives when OS/390 JCL jobstreams request
Operating and maintaining page printers; maintenance tasks include
load/unloading of paper, and changing of print cartridges
Routing hard copy output of mainframe jobs to programmers output bins

EDUCATION

3/2002 Oracle and JAVA Training
Rockwell University Vienna, VA

5/1992 Bachelor's Degree
Purdue University West Lafayette, IN

SKILLS PROFICIENCY

Available upon request

REFERENCES

Available upon request

Certifications
See above


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