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Norwood, Massachusetts, United States

● Deliver monthly payroll files for over 35,000 Active employees and 15,000 Retiree participantsensuring the accuracy of all medical, life insurance, and spending account deductions.● Facilitate a weekly client meeting to review eRooms and work orders in order to respond timely toparticipant payroll inquiries.● Set up payment plans for participants with large arrears returning from leave of absences or identifiedpast due deductions.● Adjust payroll file schedule, per client requirements, keeping to service level agreements.● Process weekly carrier files including medical, COBRA, Direct Bill, and HSA files.● Gather requirements from the client and work with the developers to implement file changes forproblem resolution and client enhancements.

Secaucus, New Jersey, United States

● Created and maintained vendor file business requirements documentation for ongoing client and newimplementations.● Met with clients to gather file specifications to meet changing business demands.● Prepared business requirement documents with proper file layouts and mapping.● Ensured off-shore developers programmed, tested, and scheduled file implementations.● Researched and responded to client data issues and concerns

Secaucus, New Jersey, United States

● Reviewed Benefit Commencement Packages and setup pensions on internal systems and trust site.● QA approved manual pension calculations. Created and mailed manual commencement packages toparticipants.● Managed and QA’d offshore pension processing staff input of pension information internally.● Created and maintained client reconciliation and funding reports per client specific requirements.● Ensured monthly pension payroll processing was accurate, complete, transmitted and approved attrust.● Responded to client and auditor reporting requests.● Gathered quarterly pension statistics and presented them for review in client meetings.● Trained client liaisons on proprietary systems and client payer’s trust site

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

● Updated and maintained client requirements according to comprehensive analysis specifications.● Designed, updated, and delivered unit, integration, regression, and acceptance test plans andevaluated the results of test execution.● Analyzed and implemented system configuration changes to meet client requirements.● Analyzed issues/defects and documented root cause to help debug system configuration to determineif source of error was the test data, test plan, or configuration.● Created and ensured proper test data for client internal and external acceptance testing.

Manasquan, New Jersey, United States

● Managed and operated a 3-unit casual dining themed restaurant chain, including a team of 4 managersand 7 supervisors.● Oversaw staff hiring, training, adherence to policies and codes, scheduling, ordering, and payroll.● Responsible for sales, menu development, advertising budget, cash controls, store cleanliness, andservice.● Compiled weekly profit and loss statements, quarterly budget reports, and yearly projections.● Developed marketing plans including radio and newspaper advertisements and coordination withlocal charities and businesses.

Warren, New Jersey, United States

Managed a team of 7 systems programmers and 4 storage administrators providing support for the z/OSoperating system, mainframe DASD and Tape environment.● Installed, maintained, and QA’d system software for one data center, consisting of 5 images.● Provided 24x7 support for business partners, including business continuation off-site tests;coordinated, scheduled and communicated Operating System release testing and implementationamong Infrastructure and aligned IT areas.● Developed QA process within Technical Services groups and helped create and adhere to ChangeManagement guidelines to minimize risk to the business partners.● Responsible for risk assessment and facilitation of weekly Technical Services Change Managementand weekend planning meetings.● Served as the Mainframe representative at the Application Performance and Stability weeklymeetings.● Provided incident management for mainframe environment during critical situations includingfacilitation of work group solutions, vendor interaction, and post mortem documentation.● Developed technical and personal staff training plans, including formal classes and cross training.

Roseland, New Jersey, United States

Managed a team of 10 systems programmers providing centralized support for the OS/390 operatingsystem, automated operations and OS/390 UNIX Services.● Installed, maintained and QA’d system software for three data centers, consisting of 28 images.● Provided 24x7 support for business partners, including business continuation off-site tests.● Exploited newer technologies including Parallel Sysplex, Lotus Domino Server, Web Server and Java.● Developed technical and personal staff training plans.

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

● Team member for client data conversion of 15,000 participants from legacy system to Total BenefitsAdministration (TBA) system.● Client team member responsible for coordinating problem diagnosis and system maintenance.● Delivered ad-hoc reporting of Total Benefits system.● Coordinated electronic communication between client, payroll company and benefit carrier.● Scheduled batch and setup resources, including master client schedule and contingency planning.

Manasquan, New Jersey

● Managed themed restaurant overseeing staff hiring, training, adherence to policies and codes,scheduling, ordering, payroll and weekly Profit and Loss statements.● Responsible for sales, menu development, advertising budget, cash controls, store cleanliness andservice.● Compiled weekly profit and loss statements, quarterly budget reports and yearly projections.

Roseland, New Jersey, United States

Supervised a team of six systems programmers.● Coordinated system software installations and maintenance on six MVS images, including 2 CMCs,and 6 local and 13 remote NCPs.● Performed quality assurance testing for enterprise mainframe system software. Scheduled areacoverage and backup support.● Composed staff's annual performance reviews. Developed personal and technical development plansfor programmers, including cross training, classes and seminars.● Worked directly with business unit representatives to coordinate customer requirements.