Senior Computer Systems Analyst with 20+ years doing analysis, design, development and maintenance of systems running on IBM mainframes for applications in Finance and Telecom. Leveraging skill as Systems Analyst in translating Business Requirements Documents (BRD) written by Business Analysts to Computer System Design (CSD) for programmers to execute, now looking into becoming a Business Analyst to write excellent BRDs that will be very clear to Systems Analysts and will cut turnaround time on BRDs and CSDs sign-offs by more than 50%. Reduced companies cost to run online transactions and batch processes by re-designing programs in a way that accelerated processing and decreased expensive mainframe CPU usage by approximately 85%. Excellent communication and client facing skills. Highly regarded by both business analysts and programmers for Computer System Design documents that not only present creative and efficient system designs but are also very clearly understood even by non-technical persons. Led meetings with business analysts, managers and systems analysts from other application teams to communicate features expected of the system and how technical group will develop those features that will provide timely information to traders and internal client support teams. Expert on SWIFT messages which are highly secured means of communication between financial institutions. Enabled company to be compliant with SWIFT Network standards and requirements of global trading markets. Managed and mentored three to eight programmers located in Boston, Poland, Mexico and India to develop efficient programs that would fulfill clients’ business requirements. Facilitated problem resolutions between multiple system groups preventing significant delays in system testing and as well as in production processing.
Listed skills include Swift Messages, Performance Tuning, Cobol2/Cics/Db2, Pli, and 8 others.