Established as a successful 29 year professional applications programmer analysts with a proven track record of expertise with mainframe mini and desktop programming and analysis primarily with IBM-3090 MVS-XA AS400 Tandem Data General and UNIX utilizing extensive knowledge in COBOL SAS SAP Business Objects SQL both Desk and Web versions with facilities such as ISPF JCL DB2 CICS FILEAID ISAM VSAM FTP and RJE within a 3-tiered enterprise architecture. Expert knowledge with Microsoft Office Applications suite with the ability to present and document work according to standards required. Excellent communications skills with an acute ability to listen attentively. Possess the unique ability think tactically with superior organizational skills with particular attention to detail. Superior written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate throughout all levels of the organization. A motivated self-starter with ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision and to manage multiple projects deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced ever changing and evolving work environment. Held the position of a Senior Programmer Analyst for the City of Chicago's Department of Finance Accounting and Financial Reporting Bureau which is responsible for the recording and reporting of all the city's financial transactions. The scope of my duties was to support the General Accounting Cost Control Debt Service Grants and Projects and Enterprise Funds divisions. This included monitoring the performance of the nightly data processing cycle troubleshooting and solving ad bends timely verifying accuracy of production reports ad hoc reporting solving end user problems and supervision of support staff. Also acted as the liaison with both MIS engineers and outside consulting services to support technical issues and enhancements. Performed as Senior Programmer Analyst in the conversion of an IBM-3090 MVS/XA mainframe financial system (CAPS-Chicago Accounting and Purchasing System) written in CICS COBOL to an UNIX Oracle base financial system. Responsible for converting application code of all production programs and ad hoc reports to SAP Business Objects system for centralized and distributed subsystems. Worked with MIS engineers on the accuracy of standards and system code rewrite and the development of the Oracle universe. Created ETL data extractions utilizing SAS SQL and other 4GL tools to develop delimited data sets used in FTP uploads of data files as required and to provide audit reports to auditors and accounting personnel for verification of processes. Created system assurance protocols for monitoring and validating consistencies between the two systems. Also participated in acceptance testing and retraining of user community.

Highlights:

• Applications
• Business Requirements
• Coding
• Documentation
• Application Support
• code walk-through
• Computer Operations
• Distributed Systems