Candidates About

Dedicated Senior Programmer/Analyst with significant record providing quality, solutions-oriented programming support and development in banking, telephony and tire industries. Most recently in the banking industry acquired 7 years of PROGRESS knowledge, which is a fourth generation language. Solidly credentialed and diversely experienced with comprehensive background in various programming language. Such as in the tire industry acquired 3 years of JAVA programming experience, which was a great opportunity to apply 2007 education received. COBOL is the most extensively used programming language; I have accumulated over 20 years’ experience. 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GBS Corporation, Youngstown, Ohio.                                                               2010 – Present

Credit Union Vertical Programmer

Obligated to support Sharetec Credit Union System and a multitude of banking business functions written in Progress, an OpenEdge Advanced Business Language and assist/train support staff in resolution of customer issues.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Deliver expert knowledge and PROGRESS programming for GBS Credit Union vertical product offerings, Vertical operating systems, databases and utilities to GBS Customers in an efficient and responsive manner.

·         Provide in-house classroom training on vertical products for GBS personnel.

·         Provide remote service and diagnostic assistance to customers through modem and web access.

·         Generate revenue through time and material services and ancillary sales of vertical products.

·         Create documentation for Customers/Support Staff on issue resolution and publish documentation for internal use.

GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY, Akron, Ohio.                                2007 – 2010

Application Development Consultant

Supported Goodyear Business Management System with COBOL written applications and project leading a multitude of point of sale business functions written in JAVA.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Develop, test and document work effort estimates and assumptions in the task using the S.M.A.R.T. Methodology: Specific – target a specific area for improvement.

                           Measurable – quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.

                           Achievable – state what results can realistically be achieved, given available resources.

                           Responsible – specify who will do it.

                           Time-related – specify when the result(s) can be achieved.

·         Continued support and maintenance of assigned functions as they are transitioned to use

·         Migrate requested COBOL POS applications to JAVA platform

·         Communicate and work in a project team environment

·         Providing insight to deliverables as required

·          

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Continued

WINDSTREAM CORPORATION (FORMERLY ALLTEL), Twinsburg, Ohio.           1997 - 2007

Senior Applications Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for telephony applications which supported cash, adjustment, delinquency functions.

·         Selected for pilot program in telecommuting, resulting in a 4-day weekly work-from-home practice for 8 years. 

FIRST PLACE BANK, Youngstown, Ohio                                                           1993 - 1997

Dollar Savings and Trust Company, Youngstown, Ohio.                                   1989 - 1993  

Programmer - Applications Programmer/Analyst

Developed and support financial applications for demand deposits, central information, accounts receivable, mortgages, and automated teller machines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Formulate logical statements of business problems and devise procedures for solving them through the use

      of electronic data processing systems and COBOL programming.

·         Maintained accurate, reliable records in development, test, maintenance and root cause analysis of information

       requirements.

·         Recognized for providing outstanding assistance to co-workers and clients to resolve critical production issues.

·         Managed solutions support for production problems 24 / 7 weekly.

·         Successful project responsibilities included installing releases and conversions from and to new systems.

EDUCATION

Associate Degree in Software and Programming, 2007 Graduate, ITT Technical Institute, Youngstown, Ohio

Associate Degree in Computer Technology, 1987 Graduate, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio

Committed to a philosophy of continued personal growth, therefore completed object-oriented JAVA, Visual Basic and C++ programming languages education, upholding a 4.0 grade point average.