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Summary:
Over 15 years experience in IT consulting
• business development
• managing delivery
• multi-location teams
• complex technical environments
• recruiting project teams
• assessing complex legacy environments
A highly motivated IT professional with effective communication and leadership skills. Types of projects
managed: language migration, data conversion, system wide field expansion, production support and
outsourcing.
Project Management:
• Over ten (10) years of experience in managing multi-person development and implementation
teams with various backgrounds.
• Routinely work with teams that consist of members working remotely throughout the U.S.,
Canada and India.
• Project management responsibilities include estimating projects, creating bids and proposals,
determining staffing requirements, managing and controlling project activities, monitoring and
controlling project cost, assessing training needs, arranging, conducting and organizing training
sessions,, conducting risk management and change management throughout the project lifecycle,
effectively communicating project status to all project stakeholders and adhering to CMMI or
ISO 9001 procedures throughout the project life cycle.
• Expertise lies in supporting multiple concurrent projects, both large and small on MVS or VSE,
Assembler, COBOL, DB/2, Microsoft .Net, Java, Oracle and legacy integration. Project teams
managed range from 5 to 35 people.
Education:
Professional Experience:
• Project Lead for Vantage annuity processing system, lead multiple concurrent projects involving
onshore and offshore partners, prepare project documents for CMM, and communicate with
business to provide status.
• Responsible for project planning, development of service strategies, and technical support
• Gathered and documented Business, System, Application Process, and Infrastructure environment
requirements. Streamlined the project activities to orient them on the process structure followed
by the merged organization.
• Provided guidance to project teams in order to align them with the software development process
framework defined for the merged organization.
• Conducted onsite integration, and application deployment on Mainframe. Conducted random
onsite quality reviews of source code for COBOL programs, DB2 scripts.
• Efficiently created integration solution to integrate Legacy Systems.
• Followed the complete SDLC Life cycle for any change request.
Technical Team Lead/ Senior Consultant, CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants,
Inc. (6/95 to 10/05)
• Interacted with functional consultants, technical architects, and senior management of clients to
prepare requirements specifications and functional specifications documents incorporating use
cases – context diagrams, use case diagrams using Unified Modeling Language (UML) and
Rational Unified Process (RUP) with Rational Rose.
• Prepared effort and schedule estimates and budgets, project charter and statement of work while
onsite, and obtained contract sign-offs for offshore project execution and delivery.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information and
information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Coordinated with delivery teams at onsite as well as offshore for project execution and tracking.
Provided guidance and leadership to technical resources, monitored onsite activities. Conducted
onsite integration, and application deployment
• Effectively training, motivating and mentoring onsite and offshore junior managers, engineers,
developers and technicians.
• Did project planning and estimation of effort required for studies and sub-projects.
• Guided the development of a vendor management program to include vendor assessment
practices, work inventory tracking, results acceptance analysis, service level agreements and
warranty enforcement practices.
• Lead the team which helped make strategic decisions in releasing time-sensitive, customer driven
implementations, which would ultimately determine the revenue of the company.
• Actively involved in solving code fixes and managed releases into production / deployment.
• Led Software Quality Assurance Review meetings for Continuous Improvement team.
• Successfully managed expectations of client stakeholders, and offshore teams. Consistently
ensured successful delivery of many projects on-time, on-budget, with good quality and agreed
scope. Obtained customer sign-offs and project closure. Followed the complete SDLC Life cycle
methodology.
• As a technical team lead involved in development of projects based on .Net, Oracle, SQL Server,
legacy systems, COBOL, DB2, VB, ASP, etc
Government ERP:
Travel to client sites across the southeast to implement and troubleshoot ERP systems, implement data
conversions from mainframe to Oracle 9i, and develop custom reports in Business Objects/Crystal
Reports.
Technical Environment: Java, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, OLEDB, Business Objects/Crystal Reports.
AIG Outsourcing:
Pre-sales support including proposal preparation and presentation for Microsoft.Net solutions and
Sharepoint technologies. Prototyped beta release of BizTalk for proposal to medical software systems
firm (HIPAA). Implemented Sharepoint for document collaboration for outsourcing team. Management
of Outsourcing team and client relationship, support of UPS system for AIG, coordination with customer
offsite personnel in India, completion of program fixes, extraction of source code for MicroFocus
Revolve repository. Support and enhancement of VB Problem Reporting System.
Technical Environment: Microsoft.Net, Microsoft Sharepoint, Visual Basic, SQL Server 2000, MVS
COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, DB2.
4x4x4 Projects:
Project manager for a critical update to 5 million line COBOL/CICS/DB2/IMS insurance policy
processing system. In the first phase managed analysis activities with CGI’s reengineering facility in
Canada. In the second phase, estimated, bid, prepared project plan, organized, and leads the activities of
the development team and maintained ongoing contact with the customer project director including
meeting client CMM documentation requirements.
Technical Environment: IBM OS/390, MicroFocus COBOL, Visual Basic, DB2, Microsoft Project
AIG Outsourcing:
Creation of new COBOL CICS program for capturing coverage option data for rating of new commercial
property options including DB2 support. Creation of SQL stored procedures, Access reports, COBOL
extract program and JCL for display of insurance policy form legacy data on the mainframe. Change
existing COBOL CICS programs.
Technical Environment: IBM OS/390, MicroFocus COBOL, DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project
Web Services:
Design and implementation of auto insurance data rating system in Microsoft VB .Net, creation of XML
string to call legacy C++ rating tool as a Web Service. Redesigned Visual Studio ASP based system to
VB .Net including parsing of XML strings with Document Object Model.
Technical Environment: Microsoft.Net, VB.Net, C++, SQL Server 2000
AIG Outsourcing:
As a senior consultant in the outsourcing group, led projects, participated in fact finding for sales support,
led Y2K audit, made program changes and supported internal Microsoft Access problem reporting system
in VB.
Y2K Remediation:
As Technical Project Leader for Y2K modifications of legacy insurance policy processing system for
Fortune 50 client, prepared project plan, assisted in pricing, contract specifications, interviewing and
recruiting of staff. Worked with customer data center personnel to set up mainframe environment,
maintained project plan and work assignments for technical staff, and assisted technical staff with
programming questions.
AIG Outsourcing:
As a senior consultant in the outsourcing group, developed problem reporting and workflow system in
Microsoft Access, traveled to potential customer sites to gather requirements and analyze existing
systems for outsourcing bids, conducted on-site classroom training and program maintenance for multiple
customers, installed insurance policy printing PC interface for insurance agencies and modeled new
client/server transaction processing system for insurance policies. Performed on-site consulting at various
client sites utilizing COBOL, MVS and DB/2 technologies. Responsible for hands on development of
Mainframe systems focused on full life cycle development, enhancements and system architecture.
• Development of a web-based Visual Basic.Net auto insurance rating system, inception phase
analysis, legacy integration and development for an insurance web-based rating application for a
mid-tier insurance company.
• Over 15 years experience working with large COBOL/CICS/DB2 applications.
• Responsibilities range from writing new programs to building and managing project teams.
Software installation at client sites, training of client staff. on-site consulting services at client
sites across the United States.
• Familiar with most development tools utilized on OS/390 and VSE mainframes, Microsoft .Net,
MicroFocus tools and COBOL in .Net
Technical Skills:
COBOL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, IDMS, MVS, VSE, MicroFocus, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Visio, MS
Visual Studio.NET, MS Visual Basic .Net, XML, SQL Server, MS Access, MS Sharepoint, Web
Services, , Oracle, SQL Server