Bryan Morris Email & Phone Number

Evansville, Indiana, United States

Evansville, Indiana Area

Greater Denver Area

Role: Business AnalystPerformed Business Analyst responsibilities in the automotive finance industry by working closely with the client to define and document ongoing enhancements for non-retail applications and disseminate those requirements to the technical development team, DBAs and Quality Assurance team. • Captured and documented use cases, functional and non-functional requirements and business processes and delivering those artifacts for approval according to the clients’ deadlines and milestones.• Developed estimates and alternative solutions for client enhancements thereby maximizing the number of changes that could be completed and deployed within a given release. • Worked closely with the Quality Assurance team to ensure test defects associated with unit, integration, system and user acceptance testing were documented, tracked, prioritized and resolved prior to production deployment.Role: Application Developer | Technical Lead Designed, developed and tested mainframe changes for an automotive dealer cash management application called SmartCash that supported 5000+ users averaging $750 M per day. • Designed, developed, tested and reviewed mainframe program and JCL changes for the Data Center Consolidation project that resulted in the successful re-directing of FTP data to and from Integration Services. • Supported and maintained the data refresh of several testing environments including development, model and production support using a manual extract, transform and load process. • Tested, validated and resolved data replication issues between DB2 on the mainframe and Oracle on the distributive side to ensure data was accurate and remained in sync between the two databases.

Greater Denver Area

Role: Project ManagerPerformed the duties of a Project Manager overseeing minor enhancement and sustain projects across multiple non-retail applications. • Managed all maintenance and minor development activities for non-retail applications consisting of 1.21 million SLOC. Tracked and analyzed effort and size variances according to established metric procedures and developed corrective action plans when thresholds were exceeded.• Led the Automated Dealer Trade (ADT) development project which consisted of converting an intensive manual paper process into a fully automated process through the use of electronic transmissions and fax confirmations thereby eliminating most of a branch's involvement in approximately 620,000 dealer trades annually.• Performed the duties of a Change Control Board (CCB) member by approving and rejecting changes associated with non-retail applications.Role: Mainframe Programmer | Technical LeadDesigned, developed and tested release changes for a variety of non-retail applications while part of a 24/7 on call rotation group to support and maintain production service level agreements. • Mainframe Programmer that modified an existing application DB2 purge process to FTP and reload data from DB2 into Oracle as a way of keeping the databases in sync and optimizing system performance by eliminating excess data.• Implementation Release Coordinator with responsibilities for maintaining operator scripts, implementation schedules and fallback plans prior to and during implementation weekend in addition to ensuring action items were documented, logged and tracked to closure.• Technical Lead for GMAC disaster recover drills providing direction, oversight and instructions to various applications for the testing and modifying of Disaster Recovery Plans prior to, during and after the drill.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Associate In Applied Science, Data Processing

Associate In Applied Business Administration, Management