Experience

Job Seeker

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Highly skilled developer seeking fulltime or contract position

  • Aug 2014 - Present



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Analyst

  • Apr 2002 - Jun 2012

  Senior Analyst for Compass, the AT&T POS system for online and brick and mortar retail systems.  Summary of Accomplishments Retool in house POS System(Compass) to handle mobile inventory processes. Developed and supported batch processes for AT&T Mobility Welcome Kits. Led enhancements to Compass batch processes to be SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) compliant. Led enhancements and support of batch processes for PLU(pricing). Developed and supported batch jobs for exchanging data between AT&T and other relevant stakeholders. Created tracking reports that kept upper management informed during highly visible rollouts such as iPhone. Involved in tax related updates and processes. Involved in development of new replacement back office credit card processing. Headed up the project for batch processes of implementing debit card processing. Led the Compass batch process piece for AT&T Mobile agent returns system. Created a system of file management on UNIX servers. Created a custom UNIX routine to turn date listings into Julian dates. Created robust monitoring processes to identify and appropriately respond to all error scenarios of Compass batch processes. Developer for new Compass batch processes and streamlined job runtimes and efficiency for all Compass batch processes to accommodate exponential growth. Updated all UNIX batch file transfer processes to handle encryption and secure file transfer such as sftp. Customized all file transfer processes to company standard, NDM or Direct Connect. Produced a UNIX job template in which all developers could update file transfer processes by use of external parameters eliminating complex versioning. Main point of contact for converting Compass batch processes to Oracle applications.  Sole developer and production support for Compass batch processes until sunset. Documented Compass batch processing instructions, flows, file layouts, designs, and table descriptions.

• Technical Architect

  • Mar 1999 - Mar 2002

  Offered a position with SBMS as a Technical Architect. Involved in 100% defect free conversion of Macrocell markets from legacy mainframe to Telegence, the new company wide client server based billing system. With input from QA team, development team, markets, audit and management; tasked with developing an in house SDLC tool we called MOE (Model Office Environment). This was in addition to the tool we had developed for change management. Our success was in quantifying post production defects and on time delivery, which became almost non-existent with the use of MOE. Teamed up with technical architects from other systems in designing the integration of best practices between disparate groups in the company, as the business moved forward. During this time SBMS was reinvented and chose the name Cingular Wireless. The next 10 years would prove to be quite challenging as the mobile business grew at an exponential rate and became the “cash cow” for SBC. Tools/Environment: Mainframe MVS, FileAid, GDG, Windows, MS Office Languages: COBOL, JCL



NationsBank

• Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Production Support Analyst

  • Feb 1997 - Mar 1999

  Intern then offered a fulltime programmer position.  Only student in the Texas Rehab Mainframe Training Program to be offered a position.  Member of Production Support team for Mainframe Batch Reporting System.  Tools/Environment: Mainframe MVS, FileAid, GDG, Windows, MS Office  Languages: COBOL, JCL Intern then offered a fulltime programmer position.  Only student in the Texas Rehab Mainframe Training Program to be offered a position.  Member of Production Support team for Mainframe Batch Reporting System.  Tools/Environment: Mainframe MVS, FileAid, GDG, Windows, MS Office  Languages: COBOL, JCL



Systemware Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Support

  • May 1997 - Feb 1999

  Production Support MacroCell, an SBMS (Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems) MVS Mainframe Billing System for the Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York markets until it was to be converted to a client server based in house billing system in six months. It was used for an additional 4 years. Offered 2 positions, one was low key, basic; the other was in the fast moving cellular phone arena for a billing system that was out of control and offered a challenge. I chose the latter.  Served as member of billing and invoicing team that developed an in house tool for change management. This resulted in an increase of about 80% production issue resolution, from 60% clean to 99+ % clean. This tool was used by QA team, tool developer, enhancement developers, audit, market team and production support.  Y2K Project- Worked with developers and QA to address the Y2K requirements and testing.  Created change management templates for different teams to use in enhancement life cycle.  Created documentation of system flow and all programs which at the time did not exist.  Tools/Environment: Mainframe MVS, FileAid, GDG, Windows, MS Office  Languages: COBOL, JCL